... itself in the ASME JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS . 29 Aug 2001 30 June 2003 22 06 2004 laser beam effects bending melting solidification thermal stresses internal stresses stress-strain relations finite element analysis Laser bending (or laser forming) is a non...

... thermal stresses heat treatment boundary-elements methods thermoelasticity laser beam effects thermal expansion Theoretical and experimental investigations of laser heating of materials, and resulting thermal stresses, began to appear in the literature not long after the first working laser...