Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Petring
c/o Fraunhofer ILT
Steinbachstr. 15
52074 Aachen
Germany
Tel. +49 162 49 162 01
contact@calcut.de
www.calcut.de
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Track record of Dirk Petring and his team at ILT |
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1986 |
Establishment of the Cutting Group |
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1987 |
Oxide-free and burr-free laser beam fusion cutting of up to 6 mm stainless steel |
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1988 |
Theory and practical verification of power balance and absorption distribution |
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1988 |
Schlieren-diagnostic identification of supersonic effects within cut kerfs |
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1989 |
Oxide-free and burr-free laser beam fusion cutting of up to 15 mm stainless steel |
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1989 |
Promotion of the Cutting Group to the Department Cutting |
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1991 |
Laboratory prototype of a laser slitting line with 2 lasers and cutting heads (GEORG) |
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1991 |
Laser slitting of 0.27 mm thick electrical steel with 100 m/min (THYSSEN) |
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1991 |
Laser machining of steel cavities by Lasercaving (MAHO) |
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1993 |
Industrial laser beam fusion cutting up to 18mm stainless steel (THYSSEN) |
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1993 |
Completion of CALCut as steady-state 3D-model and simulation of laser cutting |
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1993 |
Submission of the doctoral thesis “Application oriented modelling of laser beam cutting for computer aided process optimization“ |
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1994 |
Invention of the Autonomous Nozzle |
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1995 |
Earning a PhD for his doctoral thesis |
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1996 |
Laser beam cutting and welding of steel plates at German shipyard (Blohm+Voss) |
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1996 |
Laser beam fusion cutting of 40 mm stainless steel plates for the ITER project |
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1996 |
Invention of laser process closed-loop control by modulation response signals |
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1998 |
Industrial pilot line of a laser slitting line with 8 lasers and cutting heads (GEORG) |
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1998 |
Expansion of the Department Cutting to the Department Cutting & Joining |
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1999 |
Deep penetration welding of steel with diode laser (DILAS) |
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2001 |
Laser-GMA butt-joint hybrid welding of 15 mm mild steel in a single pass |
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2002 |
Lloyd’s Register Certification laser-GMA hybrid welding stainless steel tubes (RIVIT) |
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2002 |
Invention closed-loop controlled synchronized modulation of laser-arc hybrid welding |
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2006 |
Industrial implementation of laser combi-head for cutting and welding (LASERFACT) |
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2008 |
Explanation of the thermodynamics of the oxidation reaction in laser-oxygen cutting |
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2008 |
High-speed cutting 1mm UHS steel with 4 kW fiber laser at 100 m/min (HONDA) |
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2010 |
Downsizing of the Department to the Group Macro-Joining & Cutting |
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2012 |
Clarification of peculiarities of the fiber laser cutting process |
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2013 |
Multi-pass scan strategy to minimize thermal damage in laser cutting of composites |
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2017 |
In-situ-visualization of multiple reflections on the cut flank during fiber laser cutting |
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2019 |
Invention of the laser cutting whistle |
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2023 |
Optical cutting process control via AI-inferencing with classification accuracy 0.98 |
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2023 |
Split-up and handover of the Group Macro-Joining & Cutting in two separate units |