Laser Based Manufacturing

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of lasers as tools for advanced manufacturing, including laser cutting, drilling, welding, surface treatment, marking, laser-assisted additive manufacturing, microprocessing, nanoprocessing, modeling and optimization, machining and fabrication, along with case studies. The chapters provide a clear description of main topics with recent developments and advanced information.

• Provides the recent research and development in the field of laser based manufacturing
• Covers innovation in laser development technology, process mechanism, development of variants, and machine tools
• Discusses sustainability interventions in laser manufacturing and intelligent modeling and optimization of laser based processes
• Includes laser-based measurement and characterization of laser processed materials
• Covers laser for surface engineering, laser based additive manufacturing, and laser machining

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in manufacturing and materials engineering, as well as laser technologies.