Establishing a Hybrid Laser Lathing Technology

• Main Authors: Sivarao, Subramonian, S.THIRU,, CHITRAMBALAM, T., Joseph Sahaya Anand, Mariana , Yusof
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IDOSI Publications 2013
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/8590/1/25_WASJ_21.pdf; http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/8590/; http://www.wasj.org/

Traditional contact lathing is greatly challenged by the rapidly being developed super hard engineering materials. Being the earliest machining process, lathing operation captures 60 % of the total machining processes in most metal cutting industries. This paper reviews the literature related to the available technological solutions for non-contact laser lathing process. It also aims to establish a novel methodology to propose a hybrid non-contact lathing operation using a flatbed CO laser cutting machine.While exposing 2 the various techniques of laser lathing, preliminary empirical work conducted shows a promising future of hybridizing CO laser flat cutting into laser lathing process. The summary of this paper is expected to create a 2 leap in laser machining process towards developing a hybrid laser processing of materials involving transformation of 2D flat cutting into 3D laser turning to cater the market of precision machining.