Two pass laser welding of TC4 Titanium alloy to 301L stainless steel via pure V interlayer

Pulsed laser welding of TC4 Titanium alloy to SUS301 L stainless steel with V sheet as interlayer was applied. V does not form any intermetallic compound with Ti and Fe. V is used as an interlayer for joining Titanium alloy and stainless steel that the laser successively focused near the Titanium alloy-V and V-stainless steel interfaces. In this way, only two weld zones and unmelted V interlayer can be produced, but also by microstructure of residual solid V interlayer situated between two separately formed weld zones. The unmelted V interlayer acted as a barrier to mixing of the two base materials. The unmelted part of V interlayer also acted as a diffusion barrier between Ti and Fe to avoid the Ti-Fe intermetallics. The tensile strength of joint was 587 MPa accordingly.