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How Does a Tube Laser Cutting Work ？
Tube laser cutting is a process used to cut and shape tubes or cylindrical objects with precision and speed. It involves the use of a laser beam that is directed onto the surface of the tube, which melts or vaporizes the material along a predetermined cutting path.
Tube Laser Cutting Work process
- Preparation: The process begins with the preparation of the tube. The tube is typically clamped or fixed in position to ensure stability during the cutting process. Some machines may have automated loading and unloading systems to handle the tubes.
Programming: The cutting path and other specifications are programmed into the laser cutting machine. This includes the desired dimensions, shapes, and any additional features required for the finished product.
Laser beam generation: The laser cutting machine generates a high-powered laser beam. The laser beam is created by exciting a laser medium, such as carbon dioxide (CO2) or fiber, with electrical energy. This energized medium amplifies the light, resulting in a highly concentrated laser beam.
Beam guidance: The laser beam is directed through a series of mirrors and lenses to focus it onto the surface of the tube. These optical components ensure that the laser beam remains precise and focused throughout the cutting process.
Cutting process: As the focused laser beam makes contact with the tube’s surface, it rapidly heats and melts or vaporizes the material along the predetermined cutting path. The high-energy laser beam provides enough heat to sever the material, creating a clean cut.
Motion control: Simultaneously, the laser cutting machine moves the tube along its axis and rotates it if necessary. This allows the laser beam to cut along the desired path and shape the tube as programmed.
Cooling and support: During the cutting process, a gas, such as nitrogen or compressed air, is typically used to cool the tube and blow away the molten material and debris. This helps to prevent excessive heat buildup and ensures a clean and precise cut.
Fiber Laser Tube Cutting Machine for Sale
The tube laser cutting machine is a laser cutting machine specially designed for tube cutting. It can cut round tubes, square tubes, oval tubes, rectangular tubes and irregular tubes. It is equipped with a special cutting operating system, which is simple to operate, high precision and professional. Strong, suitable for professional profile cutting, widely used in sports equipment, petroleum pipelines, chemical equipment and other industries.
Tube Fiber Laser Cutting Machine It is suitable for cutting carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, brass and alloy metal materials. With diameters ranging from 12 to 610 millimeters and pipe and profile lengths up to 14 meters, our system solutions offer the largest available selection for the flexible production of small and large series.
Tube Fiber Laser Cutting Machine 2D and 3D processing
The ability to choose between 2D and 3D laser cutting technology opens up the possibility of individually customized and precise cutting of parts in a very wide variety: tubes with round, square, and rectangular shapes as well as profiles with diverse open cross-sections (for example H, L, T, and U cross-sections). In addition to straight cutting edges, the 3D technology also enables bevel cuts up to 45 degrees. This versatility eliminates the need for costly milling, drilling, punching, or sawing processes.
What Are Metal Laser Cutters Used For?
Laser metal cutting machines are widely used in industrial manufacturing of metal fabrication, school education, small businesses, home business, small shop and home shop for sheet metal fabrication, aviation, spaceflight, electronics, electrical appliances, kitchenware, auto parts, subway parts, automobile, machinery, precision components, ships, metallurgical equipment, elevator, household appliances, metal signs, metal logos, metal tags, metal profiles, metal letters, metal words, metal arts, metal crafts, metal gifts, metal tool fabrication, metal foils, adornment, advertising and other metalworking industries.
Most organic and inorganic materials can be cut by laser. In the metal fabrication industry, which occupies a heavy weight in industrial manufacturing, many metal materials, regardless of their hardness, can be cut without deformation (using the most advanced laser metal cutter to cut the thickness of industrial steel is close to 20mm). Of course, for high-reflectivity materials such as gold, silver, copper and aluminum alloys, they are also good heat transfer conductors, so laser cutting is difficult or even impossible to cut (some difficult materials can be cut using pulsed laser beams, due to the extremely high peak power of the pulse wave, the absorption coefficient of the material to the beam will increase sharply instantly).
Metal laser cutters are available for stainless steel, carbon steel, tool steel, galvanized steel, spring steel, alloy, iron, aluminum, copper, brass, silver, gold, titanium, nickel, manganese, cobalt, chromium, lead and other metals.
Tube Fiber Laser Cutting Machine Features
► Can cut lines and holes with different diameters from different directions on the pipe and meet centrifugal and non-contrifugal vertical intersection condition for branch and main pipe axis;
► Can cut column crossed lines at the end of branch pipe, and meet centrifugal and non-contrifugal vertical intersection confition for branch and main pipe axis;
► Can cut inclined section at the end section of the pipe;
► Can cut branch pipe intersected with the main circular pipe;
► To realize angel groove face,square hole,waist-shaped holes cutting.
Take the oil industry for example, the main route of oil transport is the pipeline, and because of the characteristics of the oil itself, leading to the high quality requirements of the pipeline. While fiber laser cutting machine can achieve the pipes multi-angle precision processing to fulfil the oil transportation requirement.
Tube laser cutting machine meets the parts processing requirements of most industries, working accuracy is stable. At present, laser cutting machines have been widely used in electronics, electrical, mechanical hardware, new energy lithium, packaging, solar, LED, automotive and other industries.
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