Professor
Steen's Laser Material Processing (3rd Edition) will be of
use as university or industrial course material for senior
undergraduate, graduate and non-degree technical training
in optoelectronics, laser processing and advanced manufacturing.
Practising engineers and technicians in these areas will also
find the book an authoritative source of information on the
rapidly expanding use of industrial lasers in material processing.
This
work presents the mechanics of the cleaning processes, experimental
results, and different applications, including laser cleaning
of art. It contains review articles by leading specialists
in laser cleaning who participated in the First International
Workshop on Laser Cleaning, held in Singapore in 2001.
This
text introduces the mathematics needed to formulate and exploit
the physical principles important to modelling various aspects
of laser material processing. The author shows readers how
to gain insight from the construction of simple models and
how these methods can be applied to laser welding, surface
treatment, drilling and cutting.
The purpose
of this book is to describe the huge variety of laser-surface
interaction mechanisms and to relate them to the analysis
and transformation of surfaces.
