Investigating Fiber Lasers for Shipbuilding and Marine Construction

摘要

Currently, many ships are prefabricated as a number of individual sectional and modular construction units, and then assembled on the slipway partially in the water — Fig. 1. For the manufacturing of sectional and modular constructions of marine structures, the application of laser beam welding technology proves to be very favorable due to combined welding and cutting automation with the laser beam technique. Thus, productivity could be greatly improved with this technology compared with the arc welding method.