Abstract
Laser transmission welding is growing day by day with an increase of the uses of thermoplastic materials. This article presents the effect of various process parameters on weld strength and weld seam width obtained. The transparent polycarbonate and black carbon filled PMMA, each of 2.8 mm thickness have been joined by using low power laser. Here, effect of wobble frequency and wobble width are studied along with other process parameters. It is observed that weld seam width much depends upon the wobble width and the effect of wobble frequency is minimum. It has been observed that laser beam wobbling provides the greater weld strength by enlargement of joint area. Moreover, Beam wobbling plays a significant role to achieve better weld strength and weld width. Response surface methodology has been used to model the laser welding process parameters and responses of welding through regression analysis. The results of ANOVA reveal that the models formed appropriately predict the responses within the range of process parameters. A confirmation experiment has also been conducted to validate the results. A multi objective optimization has been used to find the optimum solution by Particle swarm optimization technique.
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