A THREE-DIMENSIONAL THERMAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF LASER TRANSMISSION WELDING FOR LAP-JOINT

L.S. Mayboudi,∗ A.M. Birk,∗ G. Zak,∗ and P.J. Bates∗∗

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