Hybrid Welding of 45 mm High Strength Steel Sections

Physics Procedia 89 ( 2017 ) 11 – 22

1875-3892 © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the Nordic Laser Materials Processing Conference 2017 doi: 10.1016/j.phpro.2017.08.006

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