TAILORWELD

TAILORed Energy Distributions for Laser WELDing

Coordinatore	EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR WELDING JOINING AND CUTTING AISBL    more  Organization address address: Av. Antoon Van Oss 1-4 city: BRUXELLES postcode: 1120 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Luisa Cognome: Coutinho Email: send email Telefono: +351 214211351
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Belgium [BE]
Totale costo	1˙672˙430 €
EC contributo	1˙285˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2013
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME-AG
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-11-01   -   2016-07-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	EUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR WELDING JOINING AND CUTTING AISBL  Organization address address: Av. Antoon Van Oss 1-4 city: BRUXELLES postcode: 1120 contact info Titolo: Prof. Nome: Luisa Cognome: Coutinho Email: send email Telefono: +351 214211351	BE (BRUXELLES)	coordinator	935˙045.00
2	TWI LIMITED  Organization address address: Granta Park, Great Abington city: CAMBRIDGE postcode: CB21 6AL contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Amanda Cognome: Beeson Email: send email Telefono: +44 1223899000	UK (CAMBRIDGE)	participant	63˙250.00
3	NEDERLANDSE INSTRUMENTEN COMPAGNIENEDINSCO BV  Organization address address: JAN VAN RIEBEECKWEG 5 city: VENLO postcode: 5928 LG contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Eric Cognome: Van Bokhoven Email: send email Telefono: +31 77 3558789 Fax: +31 77 3518787	NL (VENLO)	participant	60˙168.00
4	KARKKAINEN TERO KALEVI  Organization address address: VAHAKARANTIE 14-18 AS 11 city: HALIKKO postcode: 24800 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Tero Kalevi Cognome: Karkkainen Email: send email Telefono: +358 45 132 5088	FI (HALIKKO)	participant	49˙680.00
5	HOLO-OR LTD  Organization address address: EINSTEIN STREET 13 B city: NESS ZIONA postcode: 74036 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Michal Cognome: Shechter Email: send email Telefono: +972 89409687 Fax: 97289409606	IL (NESS ZIONA)	participant	47˙115.00
6	GRAHAM ENGINEERING LIMITED  Organization address address: EDWARD STREET UNIT 1A city: LANCASHIRE postcode: BB9 8SY contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Frank Cognome: Kelly Email: send email Telefono: +44 1282695121	UK (LANCASHIRE)	participant	37˙041.60
7	LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: University Campus, Porsoen city: LULEA postcode: SE97187 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Christina Cognome: Lundebring Email: send email Telefono: +46 920 493365 Fax: +46 920 492228	SE (LULEA)	participant	34˙618.00
8	VIP VERY IMPORTANT PRODUCTS MASCHINENVERTRIEBS GMBH  Organization address address: INDUSTRIESTRASSE 129 city: MUHLACKER postcode: 75417 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Alexander Cognome: Kuhn Email: send email Telefono: +49 7041959731 Fax: +49 7041959730	DE (MUHLACKER)	participant	34˙578.80
9	IMPACT CLEAN POWER TECHNOLOGY SA  Organization address address: UL MOKOTOWSKA 1 city: WARSZAWA postcode: 00 640 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Rafal Cognome: Weralski Email: send email Telefono: 48227586865 Fax: 48227596672	PL (WARSZAWA)	participant	23˙503.60

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Laser beam welding is a high-performance joining process that is rapidly growing; highlighted by the fact that the global market for laser welding equipment has grown 50% since 2004, and was worth €1.1 Billion in 2011. The market is expected to grow a further 6% in 2012, and approximately 50% of revenues are generated from sales to European manufacturers. The large increase in uptake observed since 2004 has primarily been driven by recent developments in solid-state laser technology leading to the commercial availability of fibre-delivered Yb-fibre, Yb:YAG disc and direct diode laser sources, which have resulted in improved capital cost and reduced operating costs. However, despite these cost reductions and potential benefits, the uptake of laser welding technology is still limited, especially amongst SMEs, for three related reasons: complexity, lack of flexibility, and difficulties in using lasers for ‘non-standard’ welds.

Most existing laser systems are fitted with either a standard process head or a 2D galvanometer scanner – both of which deliver a ‘standard’ Gaussian or ‘top-hat’ energy distribution to the work piece. However, this relatively simplistic energy distribution is not directly suitable for many applications and significant laser welding expertise is required in order to develop acceptable process parameters. Laser beam welding with a tailored energy distribution produced by a galvanometer beam scanner is possible, but this technology is not economically attractive. Diffractive optical elements are a robust, simple tool and are capable of producing (virtually) unlimited tailored energy distributions.

The aim of the TAILOR:WELD project is to develop and demonstrate an innovative laser welding system, that uses simple and robust diffractive optical elements, which will increase the flexibility and simplify the application of laser welding; removing the key barrier to entry for a large number of SME fabricators.'