Abstract
Laser forming is a new process which utilizes the thermal stresses generated during laser scanning. The parameters to control the process are mainly laser power scale, beam diameter, scanning speed, and repetition number of scans. Stainless steel sheet is suitable for laser bending in thermal and mechanical properties of materials. This paper investigated the application of laser bending in stainless steel wire. Temperature gradient of steel wire by laser heating was small due to shape of wire, therefore the shape of the wire is not suitable for laser bending. From these experiments, steel wire could bend in shape of coil by laser beam using proper conditions of laser irradiation.
