Numerical Simulation of Pulsed Laser Bending

The aim of this work is to develop an efficient method for computing pulsed laser bending. During pulsed laser bending, thousands of laser pulses are irradiated onto the target. Simulations of the thermomechanical effect and bending resulted from all the laser pulses would exceed the current computational capability. The method developed in this work requires only several laser pulses to be calculated. Therefore, the computation time is greatly reduced. Using the new method, it is also possible to increase the domain size of calculation and to choose dense meshes to obtain more accurate results. The new method is used to calculate pulsed laser bending of a thin stainless-steel plate. Results calculated for a domain with a reduced size are in good agreement with those obtained by computing all the laser pulses. In addition, experiments of pulsed laser bending are performed. It is found that experimental data and computational results are consistent. @DOI: 10.1115/1.1459070#