Application of Laser-Burnishing Treatment for Improvement of Surface Layer Properties
Journal: InTech eBooks
Year: 2012

Laser Beam Machining (LBM) has been successfully applied for improvement of surface layer properties of machine elements. Some of laser treatments are based on melting of surface with a laser beam. Among them is laser hardening, as well as cladding and alloying. The results of broad scope research have shown that surface roughness of elements which underwent the laser melting is too high to apply the process without an additional abrasive machining, even at the optimum parameters of the laser tr