This paper gives a survey of a project dealing with the invetigation of a manufacturing technique for the production of low distorted titanium structures. The aim was to find a technique to join a skin panel with stiffeners. Due to its concentrated energy input, laser welding is well known as a process causing low distortions (e.g. 1). Laser straightening has also been tried and tested. The combination and optimization of these two processes is described and proof is given for a manufacturing method avoiding angular distortions and local deformation on the outer side of the skin panel.
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