激光辐照热力耦合问题的相似性

由量纲理论出发,分析了激光辐照热力耦合理论的无量纲化基本方程组。在一定的近似条件下,导出了激光辐照热力耦合问题的一般相似性准则,该相似准则不受与温度相关的材料特性的约束。在此基础上给出了强激光辐照充压圆柱壳体热力效应的缩比方法,并对一组实例进行了计算,得到了缩比模型与原型结果几乎完全相似的结论。理论分析与数值计算表明,激光辐照热力耦合问题在合理的近似下满足相似律。     

激光辐照下充压圆筒变形的相似律问题

以充压圆筒在强激光辐照下的变形与破坏响应为研究目标,首先利用相似分析方法,主要采用了方程分析法和量纲分析法,确定了相似准则。然后利用ANSYS有限元程序,模拟了三组几何和物理相似的大小模型。通过对计算结果的分析表明,满足相似准则的大小模型,在相应的时间和空间,相对的物理参量是一致的。     

激光辐照下充压圆筒变形的相似律问题

 以充压圆筒在强激光辐照下的变形与破坏响应为研究目标，首先利用相似分析方法，主要采用了方程分析法和量纲分析法，确定了相似准则。然后利用ANSYS有限元程序，模拟了三组几何和物理相似的大小模型。通过对计算结果的分析表明，满足相似准则的大小模型，在相应的时间和空间，相对的物理参量是一致的。     

不同材料参数薄板振动中的热力耦合效应

利用有限Hankel变换法,导出了周界等温-弹性支撑圆薄板在激光束辐照下的轴对称耦合热弹性弯曲振动近似解;针对具有不同弹性模量和热膨胀系数的薄板进行了热力耦合和非耦合弯曲振动的解析和有限元计算与分析。结果表明：热力耦合效应使薄板振动的振幅和周期都有所减小,其程度与材料的性能参数（如弹性模量和热膨胀系数等）密切相关,材料弹性模量和热膨胀系数越大,板振动中的热力耦合效应就越明显。     

不同材料参数薄板振动中的热力耦合效应

 利用有限Hankel变换法,导出了周界等温-弹性支撑圆薄板在激光束辐照下的轴对称耦合热弹性弯曲振动近似解;针对具有不同弹性模量和热膨胀系数的薄板进行了热力耦合和非耦合弯曲振动的解析和有限元计算与分析。结果表明：热力耦合效应使薄板振动的振幅和周期都有所减小,其程度与材料的性能参数（如弹性模量和热膨胀系数等）密切相关,材料弹性模量和热膨胀系数越大,板振动中的热力耦合效应就越明显。     

激光辐照高超声速舵面热力响应研究

建立了基于流固耦合的高超声速飞行器舵面结构在激光辐照下静气动弹性模型,流体控制方程为三维雷诺平均N-S方程,分别采用了中心格式和AUSM+up格式对粘性项和对流项进行空间离散,时间推进采用了高斯-塞德尔隐式推进方法,湍流粘性系数求解使用Menter SST模型。利用冯·卡门研究所高超风洞实验结果对模型进行了校核,预估了激光辐照对高超舵面的热力影响。结果表明,气动力/热计算模型与实验数据符合较好,能够准确模拟高超飞行器的热力参数,根据模型外推结果,激光在较低功率下加热高超飞行器舵面可能导致舵面材料弹性模量大大降低,继而发生弯曲发散而折断,高超飞行器可能因此发生气动失稳而坠毁。     

激光辐照高超声速舵面热力响应研究

建立了基于流固耦合的高超声速飞行器舵面结构在激光辐照下静气动弹性模型,流体控制方程为三维雷诺平均N-S方程,分别采用了中心格式和AUSM+up格式对粘性项和对流项进行空间离散,时间推进采用了高斯-塞德尔隐式推进方法,湍流粘性系数求解使用Menter SST模型。利用冯卡门研究所高超风洞实验结果对模型进行了校核,预估了激光辐照对高超舵面的热力影响。结果表明,气动力/热计算模型与实验数据符合较好,能够准确模拟高超飞行器的热力参数,根据模型外推结果,激光在较低功率下加热高超飞行器舵面可能导致舵面材料弹性模量大大降低,继而发生弯曲发散而折断,高超飞行器可能因此发生气动失稳而坠毁。     

激光辐照转动充压圆柱壳体热力学效应

 采用有限元计算方法对激光辐照下转动充压壳体的热力学问题进行了较为全面的数值计算，获得了激光辐照下转动内压圆柱壳壁上的温升、应力、应变、位移分布等物理图像，为进一步分析转动充压圆柱壳体在激光辐照下的破坏与失效奠定了基础。提出的解决数值计算中移动热流载荷问题的双时间步长法，可以有效提高计算效率，同时提高计算精度。研究结果表明：对于给定的壳体结构，其损伤阈值时间主要取决于靶面激光强度与壳体旋转频率；在辐照过程中，损伤最先出现在最初受激光辐照的区域。     

超声速流场条件下激光辐照耦合效应数值模拟

激光辐照结构物包含复杂的多物理场耦合问题,其存在流、热、固多种机制的耦合效应。结合计算流体力学(CFD)和有限元方法,对超声速条件下的激光辐照平板问题进行了热流固耦合分析。采用CFD方法得到平板附近流场分布,利用有限元方法计算平板的温度分布,并将二者结合起来实现流体和固体间的数据交互。理论分析确定了流场效应的最主要影响参数为来流马赫数与攻角。对于不同马赫数,激光区域在6 Ma条件下存在温度的谷值,小于等于6 Ma条件下主要体现为冷却效应,而6 Ma以上主要体现为气动加热效应。攻角增大会导致激光区流体质量流量的增加,使冷却效应更加明显。最后综合分析了流场气动加热和冷却两种效应的产生机制。     

超声速流场条件下激光辐照耦合效应数值模拟

激光辐照结构物包含复杂的多物理场耦合问题,其存在流、热、固多种机制的耦合效应。结合计算流体力学（CFD）和有限元方法,对超声速条件下的激光辐照平板问题进行了热流固耦合分析。采用CFD方法得到平板附近流场分布,利用有限元方法计算平板的温度分布,并将二者结合起来实现流体和固体间的数据交互。理论分析确定了流场效应的最主要影响参数为来流马赫数与攻角。对于不同马赫数,激光区域在6Ma条件下存在温度的谷值,小于等于6Ma条件下主要体现为冷却效应,而6Ma以上主要体现为气动加热效应。攻角增大会导致激光区流体质量流量的增加,使冷却效应更加明显。最后综合分析了流场气动加热和冷却两种效应的产生机制。     

Laser forming of a bowl shaped surface with a stationary laser beam

Despite a lot of research done in the field of laser forming, generation of a symmetric bowl shaped surface by this process is still a challenge mainly because only a portion of the sheet is momentarily deformed in this process, unlike conventional sheet metal forming like deep drawing where the entire blank undergoes forming simultaneously reducing asymmetry to a minimum. The motion of laser beam also makes the process asymmetric. To counter these limitations this work proposes a new approach for laser forming of a bowl shaped surface by irradiating the centre of a flat circular blank with a stationary laser beam. With high power lasers, power density sufficient for laser forming, can be availed at reasonably large spot sizes. This advantage is exploited in this technique. Effects of duration of laser irradiation and beam spot diameter on the amount of bending and asymmetry in the formed surface were investigated. Laser power was kept constant while varying irradiation time. While varying laser spot diameter laser power was chosen so as to keep the surface temperature nearly constant at just below melting. Experimental conditions promoted almost uniform heating through sheet thickness. The amount of bending increased with irradiation time and spot diameter. It was interesting to observe that blanks bent towards the laser beam for smaller laser beam diameters and the reverse happened for larger spot diameters (~10 times of the sheet thickness). Effect of spot diameter variation has been explained with the help of coupled thermal-structural finite element simulations.     

Ion implantation induced by Cu ablation at high laser fluence

High energy laser plasma-produced Cu ions have been implanted in silicon substrates placed at different distances and angles with respect to the normal to the surface of the ablated target. The implanted samples have been produced using the iodine high power Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS) using 438 nm wavelength irradiating in vacuum a Cu target. The high laser pulse energy (up to 230 J) and the short pulse duration (400 ps) produced a non-equilibrium plasma expanding mainly along the normal to the Cu target surface. Time-of-flight (TOF) technique was employed, through an electrostatic ion energy analyzer (IEA) placed along the target normal, in order to measure the ion energy, the ion charge state, the energy distribution and the charge state distribution. Ions had a Boltzmann energy distributions with an energy increasing with the charge state. At a laser fluence of the order of 6 × 10⁶ J/cm², the maximum ion energy was about 600 keV and the maximum charge state was about 27+.In order to investigate the implantation processes, Cu depth profiles have been performed with Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) of 1.5 MeV helium ions, Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) with 3 keV electron beam and 1 keV Ar sputtering ions in combination with scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Surface analysis results indicate that Cu ions are implanted within the first surface layers and that the ion penetration ranges are in agreement with the ion energy measured with IEA analysis.     

Effects analysis of ambient conditions on process of laser surface melting

In the process of laser surface melting (LSM), ambient conditions around the workpiece have important influences on the processing results. As an effective and feasible method for ambient changing, water-assisted approach can be expected to gain better results such as desired machining goals and reliable service performances. However, the effects of different water ambient on LSM process are needed to be further clarified. To this end, three 3-D transient process models in ambient dry air, water film and water are developed, respectively, using finite element method (FEM); the thermo-mechanical parameters, which depend on temperature, are taken into account and the complex physical essences are integrated. In experimental verification, these three LSM processes on mild steel Q235 are carried on and the computed results are in good agreement with respective measurements. Based on the proposed models, the transient temperature fields and residual stress distributions on workpieces are investigated. The numerical results suggest that the states of temperature and residual stress fields can be improved to different degrees using water film and water ambient.     

Carbon dendrite formation induced by pulsed laser irradiation

Porous carbon dendrite has been prepared by irradiating graphite targets with 532 nm, 10 ns laser pulses. The prepared samples were characterized by means of scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. The measurement results show that carbon dendrite structures with cluster diameter of 10 nm were obtained on the irradiated target surface in an inert gas atmosphere. The evolution of target surface morphology induced by different laser intensities was investigated. The formation mechanism of the dendrite structure has been discussed in detail. The laser intensity plays an important role in the formation of the nanostructures and there exists an optimum intensity to prepare the carbon dendrite.     

Modifications in silver-doped silicate glasses induced by ns laser beams

Glass layers for planar light waveguides prepared by Ag-Na ion exchange of different silicate glasses in molten salt baths are annealed and/or irradiated with a laser beam in the UV region, with different energy density values and total pulse numbers. The samples are mainly characterized by optical absorption spectroscopy, luminescence spectroscopy, and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry, in order to determine the role of irradiation parameters and of the host matrix structure in the aggregation phenomena. Photoluminescence spectroscopy gave information regarding the presence of Ag multimeric aggregates, the primal seeds for the growing (nano)crystals. The appearance of the plasmon resonance band in the optical absorption spectra proved the formation of Ag clusters and allowed the evolution steps of the clusterization process to be followed as a function of the energy deposited during the laser irradiation.     

A simplified cavity analysis for estimating energy coupling during laser ablation and drilling of solids — experiment

The theory for a general departure function, f, for laser-irradiated cavities was previously developed to estimate laser energy coupling to an opaque solid target as a function of heat transfer and the cavity shape and size. In this article, a specific form of f is calculated for ultraviolet (UV) laser ablation of copper (Cu) and aluminum (Al) targets. Methods are also given for calculating the geometric factor, a, and experimentally determining the heat transfer parameter, ν, which is shown for this form of f to be the intensity-dependent effective reflectivity of the material. Experimental results for different gauges of laser energy coupling with a solid target are given and compared to calculations of net absorbed energy based on f and the incident laser energy. Using the simplified cavity analysis, the results demonstrate that the experimental values for f fall within the limits predicted by the theory, and that energy coupling can be predicted to within a mean of 2% of experimental gauges. Neglecting the factors in f from calculations of energy coupling can lead to large errors for laser-irradiated cavities, establishing that both cavity shape and heat transfer should be simultaneously considered. In addition, a first-order sensitivity analysis based on f shows that the initial rate of change in material removal strongly increases with reflectivity, which can lead to runaway cavity formation for highly reflective materials.     

Irradiation effect of yttria-stabilized zirconia by high dose dual ion beam irradiation

Yttria-stabilized zirconia （YSZ） is irradiated with 2.0-MeV Au2＋ ions and 30-keV He＋ ions. Three types of He, Au, Au ＋ He （successively） ion irradiation are performed. The maximum damage level of a sequential dual ion beam implanted sample is smaller than single Au ion implanted sample. A comparable volume swelling is found in a sequential dual ion beam irradiated sample and it is also found in a single Au ion implanted sample. Both effects can be explained by the partial reorganization of the dislocation network into weakly damaged regions in the dual ion beam implanted YSZ. A vacancy-assisted helium trapping/diffusion mechanism in the dual ion beam irradiated condition is discussed. No phase transformation or amorphization behavior happens in all types of ion irradiated YSZ.