TY - JFULL AU - Chansopheak Seang and Afia David Kouadri and Eric Ragneau PY - 2012/2/ TI - Optimization of Thermal and Discretization Parameters in Laser Welding Simulation Nd:YAG Applied for Shin Plate Transparent Mode Of DP600 T2 - International Journal of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering SP - 6 EP - 13 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/7823 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 61, 2012 N2 - Three dimensional analysis of thermal model in laser full penetration welding, Nd:YAG, by transparent mode DP600 alloy steel 1.25mm of thickness and gap of 0.1mm. Three models studied the influence of thermal dependent temperature properties, thermal independent temperature and the effect of peak value of specific heat at phase transformation temperature, AC1, on the transient temperature. Another seven models studied the influence of discretization, meshes on the temperature distribution in weld plate. It is shown that for the effects of thermal properties, the errors less 4% of maximum temperature in FZ and HAZ have identified. The minimum value of discretization are at least one third increment per radius for temporal discretization and the spatial discretization requires two elements per radius and four elements through thickness of the assembled plate, which therefore represent the minimum requirements of modeling for the laser welding in order to get minimum errors less than 5% compared to the fine mesh. ER -