Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited

Shoji Kushimoto

Kenji Nishikawa

Takashi Ishide

Shuho Tsubota

Takashi Akaba

Takahiro Ohta

Noriaki Sugimoto

A weld zone of T-piping and its neighborhood are efficiently laser-heated to remove residual stress. For this purpose, the weld zone of a T-piping () is irradiated and heated with a laser beam emitted from a laser head () to remove residual stress. At this time, a rotating travel cart () travels along a ring rail () to adjust the position of the laser head () in a &#x3b8;-direction, a vertical slide () slides to adjust the position of the laser head () in a Z-direction, a radial slide () slides to adjust the position of the laser head () in an L-direction, an arcuate piece slide () slides along an arcuate piece to adjust the &#x3b1;-direction of the laser head (), a laser head support portion () turns to adjust the &#x3b2;-direction of the laser head (), and oscillation adjusts the position of the laser head () in a &#x3b3;-direction.

Apparatus for improving residual stress of piping technical field

A residual stress improving apparatus for piping, which can heat an outer peripheral surface of piping to reduce (including eliminate) the residual stress of the piping is provided. The apparatus has a laser head portion, and circumferential direction moving mechanism composed of a ring rail and a rotational travel bogie. Further, the apparatus may adjust the reflection direction of laser light so that the laser light reflected by the outer peripheral surface of the piping does not return to the laser head, and adjust the delivery direction of the laser light so that the outer peripheral surface of the bending pipe portion located forwardly, in the pipe axis direction, of the laser head is irradiated with the laser light.

Residual stress improving apparatus for piping technical field

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Kobe, Japan

Shoji Kushimoto