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I2P - Idea to print

2021-03-09 The I2P project has already made possible that LTU now has its first metal 3D printer and can thereby offer services to help companies get started with 3d printing in metal.

VR-project to investigate surface tension at high temperatures

2021-01-11 Within the group of Manufacturing systems engineering, the Starting grant from Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) of Joerg Volpp started in January 2021 where basic phenomena about surface tension of metals at high temperatures will be studied for 4 years.

In memory of Hans Engström

2020-04-17 Our former colleague Hans Engström has suddenly left us. We will remember Hans as a valued colleague and a great source of inspiration.

Studying the future of manufacturing

2020-03-30 The subject is so new that there is hardly any literature and the manufacturing industry is screaming for more knowledge. The students on the course "additive manufacturing" have been given a taste of the future.
– It has been very interesting to get a chance to discover something that the industr...

Focus on the future of manufacturing

2020-02-03 The newly started I2P project aims to help companies in the manufacturing industry in the Northern Calotte and northwestern Russia to convert to production via 3D printing.
–This is a whole new way of thinking about production, says Jan Frostevarg, project manager.

Rickard Olsson - New doctor in laser processing

2019-10-28 Rickard Olsson successfully defended his thesis "Analysis and Monitoring of Laser Welding and Surface Texturing" at his PhD dissertation on October 15, 2019. Opponent was Professor Michael Zäh, Technische Universität Munich, Germany.

EU-project will develop Additive Manufacturing

2019-05-06 The EIT RawMaterials funded innovation project SAMOA, led by Luleå University of Technology, aims to scale up the process chain of raw aluminium alloys from material efficient powder production, energy efficient laser and arc wire additive manufacturing to material recycling in order to reduce mater...

Tatiana Fedina and Adrien Da Silva, new PhD students.

2018-11-27 In November Tatiana Fedina and Adrien Da Silva started to work as Ph.D students in laser materials processing.
Tatiana will work in the SPAcEMAN project regarding sustainable powders for additive manufacturing and Adrien in the SAMOA project regarding laser additive manufacturing of aluminum using...

Luleå University of Technology extends collaboration with Höganäs

2018-06-05 Last Friday, a delegation from the company Höganäs AB visited Luleå University of Technology to discuss joint projects in additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing.
– Höganäs is a successful metal powder manufacturing company, and we are pleased to expand our collaboration with them, says ...

Handika Sandra Dewi - new laser PhD student

2018-05-09 Sandra is a new PhD student in Laser Materials Processing. She has started her research with laser surface hardening for improving fatigue life of crankshafts, which is parallel with the STIFFCRANK project.

Reshaped laser beam provides great benefits

2018-04-16 Laser welding is an excellent technique for making products lighter, stronger and more environmentally friendly. By reshaping the laser beam, the temperature can be customized, resulting in higher quality and a greatly reduced welding time. The results are now presented in a doctoral dissertation at...

Jesper Sundqvist - new doctor in laser processing

2018-04-11 Jesper Sundqvist successfully defended his dissertation "Aspect of heat flow in laser processing of metals" at the defence on April 11, 2018. Opponent was Prof. Andreas Otto, Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

The first in Sweden to receive the new ELW diploma in laser welding and laser hybrid welding.

2018-04-09 On the 7th of March, the first group of seven participants was examined in the new EWF course "Laser Welding and Laser Hybrid Welding".

Ramiz Saeed Matti Samarjy - new doctor in laser cutting

2018-01-23 Ramiz Saeed Matti Samarjy successfully defended his dissertation "Interaction Mechanisms for a Laser-induced Metallic Boiling Front" at the defence on November 9th, 2017. Opponent was Prof. Michael Schmidt, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

ÖVERLAG

2018-01-23 The project is a collaboration between Luleå University of Technology (LTU) and three world leading companies; Höganäs, Sandvik SMRT and SPH. The project aims at verifying excellent wear and impact properties for the newly developed cobalt free cladding powder called Rockit during laser cladding. Th...

Arctic collaboration in 3D-printing of metal products

2017-11-14 With the help of a new collaboration platform, partly web-based, companies in the Arctic region will be better at collaborating in 3D-printing of metal products. It is a manufacturing method that reduces environmental impact and manufacturing costs for companies. The collaboration is coordinated by ...

Jetro Pocorni - a new doctor in laser cutting and laser piercing

2017-10-16 Jetro Pocorni successfully defended his dissertation "Laser Cutting and Piercing: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation" at the defence on September 29th. Opponent was Prof. William O'Neill, University of Cambridge, UK.

STIFFCRANK

2017-10-16 LTU participates in STIFFCRANK, a European project to develop a new laser-based surface methodology for improved fatigue strength of crankshafts in the automotive industry

EWF Course in Laser Welding/Laser Hybrid Welding

2017-06-19 With start in December 2017 we provide an EWF course in Laser Welding and Laser Hybrid Welding. This course is for welding engineers, designers, production engineers, development engineers, and educators who want to gain knowledge of laser welding technologies for rational and efficient assembly. I...

Himani Siva Prasad - new laser scientist

2017-06-16 Himani is a PhD student researching Laser Additive Manufacturing processes since January 2017. She has been working with cold wire laser welding (project VarGa), and is currently working on Laser Material Deposition (project Agent3D). She has extensive experience using High Speed Imaging for analyzi...

Jörg Volpp - new laser scientist

2017-06-15 Jörg has joined the group as a laser scientist. He will start working on laser hardening in the STIFFCRANK project and direct metal deposition processes in the Agent3D project.

Stephanie Robertson new laser scientists

2016-12-19 Stephanie Robertson is working for some time as a Ph.D- student in laser materials processing. She's going to start with working in the EU-RFCS project OptoSteel where toughness for laser hybrid welded high-strength steel will be optimized

VarGa

2016-12-02 The main idea is to develop solutions for securing uniform weld joint geometry and weld properties despite the presence of joint gap variations and uncertainties in joint position by use of a non-intrusive sensor system integrated in the LBW-tool combined with appropriate in-process control of the f...

Jetro Pocorni received his licentiate degree

2016-01-19 Jetro Pocorni, received a licentiate degree in Laser Materials Processing with a thesis entitled “Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Laser Cutting Process” on Dec. 11 2015.

This thesis concerns experimental investigations of laser cutting with theoretical and practical discussions...

Jesper Sundqvist new laser licentiate

2015-12-08 Jesper Sundqvist received a Licentiate degree with a thesis entitled: ”Heat conduction effects during laser welding” on the 10th of November. The thesis main focus is heat flow during laser welding with tailored beam shapes and the resulting joint shapes and quality criteria, such as residual stress...

"Being very good at something gives satisfaction"

2015-12-03 Jetro Pocorni is a PhD-student in the research subject Manufacturing Systems Engineering at Luleå University of Technology. He conducts research on laser cutting and in this article he describes his research and how it is to adapt from a tropical climate to the winter in Luleå.

Sweden unique course in laser welding

2015-05-28 Luleå University of Technology has the leading national expertise in laser welding. One way to spread knowledge about the modern method is an appreciated specialty course in laser welding given to the industry and the academy since 2002.

Jetro Pocorni - ICALEO laureate

2015-05-04 Jetro Pocorni, PhD student at the Department, received at the ICALEO Conference in 2014 the price for second best publication and presentation among graduate students in the competition "ICALEO 2014 Student Paper Award Contest". The title of the publication is: "Differences in Cutting Efficiency Bet...

Javier Lamas - new laser licentiate

2015-04-14 Javier Lamas has completed a licentiate degree with a thesis entitled "Analysis of Hybrid Laser Welding Experiments". Javier Lama is PhD-student at the Department of Product and Production Development and is also working at the Centro Naval Tecnoloxico do Galego, Ferrol 15590 (A Coruña), Spain.

RobIn - Robust in-process joint finding

2015-01-20 "Robin - Robust In-process Joint Finding" is a collaboration between industry and universities / institutes in Sweden with the aim of developing seam finding and seam tracking in laser welding. The project focuses on the challenge of finding the joint whicht is barely visible to the naked eye. Thi...

Jonas Näsström new laser scientists

2014-11-10 Jonas Näsström is working for some time as a Ph.D- student in laser materials processing. The theme of his research is laser welding with filler wire, where he will work with the technology of laser welding with hot wire. Now he participates in the project "Hybro" -Safe Laser Hybrid Welding of Struc...

Faster welding without undercuts

2014-06-13 In a new doctoral thesis at Luleå University of Technology, researcher Jan Frostevarg describes how unwanted undercuts occur during welding. If undercuts can be avoided it will increase the fatigue properties of the product, and the welding speed can be improved.

Jan Frostevarg - new doctor in laser hybrid welding

2014-06-05 Jan Frostevarg successfully defended his dissertation, "The Morphology of Laser Arc Hybrid Welding" at the defense on 5 June. The opponent was Prof. Veli Kujanpää, VTT, Finland.

Workshop in Produktion2030 held in Luleå

2014-06-05 Produktion2030 is the name of a Strategic Innovation Program (SIP). The vision for this program is that Sweden in 2030 shall remain as one of the world's top countries for sustainable production.

LTU collaboration with Japanese welding gurus

2014-03-12 The research subject Manufacturing Systems Engineering at LTU has been visited by Dr. Yosuke Kawahito, assistant professor at the "Joining and Welding Research Institute" (JWRI) at Osaka University, and his colleagues, Masami Mizutani and Yousuke Uemura.

TailorWeld - new EU project

2014-02-26 The project TailorWeld - “Tailored Energy distributions for Laser Welding”, sponsored by the EC FP7 Research for the benefit of SME associations has started on November 1st 2013.

Differences are assets

2013-11-18 Division of Manufacturing Systems Engineering arranged together with Lapland Learning Centre and AB Centek a second seminar on Diversity / Equality / Integration in the project IndLas. This time in Kiruna on 8 November 2013. The aim was to give participants more knowledge about diversity and non-di...

NOLAMP 14 was a success

2013-09-18 The 14th Nordic Laser Materials Processing Conference, NOLAMP 14, is in Sweden arranged by LTU and this time the conference was held in Gothenburg on 26-28 augusti this year. The conference attracted 66 participants, half of which came from industry, and this was a success. There were more than 40 ...

Ingemar Eriksson-new doctor in laser materials processing

2013-06-25 Ingemar Eriksson, got his PhD-exam on June 5 with the thesis "High Speed Imaging Analysis of Laser Welding". In the thesis he presents a unique work, where for the first time it was possible to film the melting process at the keyhole front wall in laser welding and ha was able to analyze the f...

COLA - Coaxially Laser Assisted Cold Spray

2013-03-14

Minhaj Alam new PhD in laser technology

2012-12-17 Minhaj Alam successfully defended his thesis "Laser Welding and Cladding: The Effects of Defects on Fatigue Behavior" at the disputation the 7th December.

Three new laser scientists in place

2012-12-05 Three new PhD-students are now working at the department; Jesper Sundqvist, Jetro Pocorni and Ramiz Matti.

Researchers to laser materials processing

2012-05-25 Now we are looking for two curious and passionate people who want to work in our laser research as a graduate student. The workarea is laser cutting and laser welding.

EWF Special Course in Laser Welding/Laser Hybrid Welding

2012-05-14 With start in December 2017 we provide an EWF course in Laser Welding and Laser Hybrid Welding. This course is for welding engineers, designers, production engineers, development engineers, and educators who want to gain knowledge of laser welding technologies for rational and efficient assembly. It...

Laser welding strengthens Swedish engineering industry

2012-03-07 Swedish engineering industry will be more competitive by using new technologies such as laser welding, new IT solutions and new ways of working. Various successful opportunities to strengthen the manufacturing industry has been developed and tested by 20 Swedish and Finnish engineering company in co...