A laser-cladding process developed by Caterpillar Inc. to repair wear and damage to large axels on mining trucks is applicable to worn or damaged main shafts of wind turbines. At a recent O&M Summit, ...

New hard facing materials and corrosion-resistant alloys broaden the market for laser cladding services. Laser cladding, a type of laser surface alloying, is a process that precisely applies a uniform ...

Cladding is no stranger to the oil and gas industry. For years it has been one of the most widely used approaches to mitigate corrosion in subsea valves, tubulars, and other subsea components above ...

Abstract: Laser cladding is one of the state of the art technologies in metal coating that is found advantageous over conventional welding and repairing technologies due to its innovative ...

For years some cutting-edge fabrication technology has come out of the southern Appalachian foothills. In the 1990s you could travel about 10 miles south of Interstate 20, down a two-lane road through ...

Abstract: Laser cladding is a multiple-parameter-dependent process, and a feedback control is critical for the process stabilization. This paper presents a generalized predictive control strategy with ...