Method for roughening surface of metal material by using laser shock forming technology and application thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12472584-B2
Application number	US-202017618150-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 13, 2020
Priority date	Oct 23, 2019
Publication date	Nov 18, 2025
Grant date	Nov 18, 2025

Abstract

A method for processing surfaces of metal materials, and to a method for roughening a surface of a metal material by using a laser shock forming technology and an application thereof. According to the method, based on a pulse-laser-induced force effect, a micron-imprint mold and a nano-imprint mold are first prepared, and then the molds are used as a template to present surface microstructures of the imprint molds on a surface of a to-be-processed material. The method is simple and efficient. In addition, compared with a conventional method, a micron-structures and nano-structures can be quantitatively prepared on a surface of a metal material, and the surface roughness and the preparation scope are accurate and controllable and can be pre-designed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for roughening a surface of a metal material by using a laser shock forming technology, comprising:
preparing a micron-imprint mold, comprising:
shocking a first abrasive paper by using the laser shock forming technology, and reprinting a micron-scale microstructure on a surface of the first abrasive paper to a surface of a material of a first imprint mold, to obtain the micron-imprint mold;
preparing a nano-imprint mold, comprising:
shocking a second abrasive paper by using the laser shock forming technology, and reprinting a nano-scale microstructure on a surface of the second abrasive paper to a surface of a material of a second imprint mold, to obtain the nano-imprint mold; wherein,
a mesh number of the surface of the first abrasive paper with the micron-scale microstructure is different from a mesh number of the surface of the second abrasive paper with the nano-scale microstructure; pre-processing the surface of the metal material, comprising:
carrying out a smooth treatment on the surface of the metal material;
wherein, the metal material is the same as materials of the micron-imprint mold and the nano-imprint mold; preparing the micron-scale microstructure on the surface of the metal material, comprising:
(a) placing the surface of the micron-imprint mold that has the micron-scale microstructure on the surface of the metal material; disposing an absorption layer material and a constraint layer material on a surface of the micron-imprint mold facing to an incident direction of a pulse laser;
(b) carrying out a single-pulse laser shocking treatment on an area to be processed on the surface of the metal material by using the laser shock forming technology, to reprint the micron-scale microstructure on the surface of the micron-imprint mold to the surface of the metal material; and
(c) carrying out a cleaning treatment on a reprinted surface of the metal material obtained from step (b), then obtaining a surface-micronized material; preparing the nano-scale microstructure on the surface of the metal material, comprising:
(d) paving a material capable of reducing a surface energy on a surface of the surface-micronized material with the micron-scale microstructure, placing the surface of the nano-imprint mold that has the nano-scale microstructure on the material capable of reducing the surface energy, disposing the absorption layer material and the constraint layer material on the surface of the nano-imprint mold facing to the incident direction of the pulse laser, repeating the single-pulse laser shocking treatment in the step (b) and the cleaning treatment in the step (c), then obtaining a surface-nano-micronized material having a low-surface-energy coating.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein preparing the micron-imprint mold comprises: using the first abrasive paper having the micron-scale microstructure as a base plate, superimposing the surface of the material of the first imprint mold with a surface of the base plate that has the micron-scale microstructure, disposing the absorption layer material and the constraint layer material on a surface of the first imprint mold facing to the incident direction of the pulse laser, and performing a shock imprinting by using the laser shock forming technology to reprint the micron-scale microstructure on the surface of the base plate to the surface of the material of the first imprint mold, then obtaining the micron-imprint mold.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the micron-scale microstructure on the surface of the micron-imprint mold and the nano-scale microstructure on the surface of the nano-imprint mold are reprinted by using the first abrasive paper and the second abrasive paper, to obtain a rough surface having a double-scale structure.

4 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the first abrasive paper used to reprint the micron-scale microstructure has a surface roughness being in a range of Ra0.5 to Ra1, and the second abrasive paper used to reprint the nano-scale microstructure has a surface roughness being not higher than Ra0.2.

5 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein preparing the nano-imprint mold comprises: using the second abrasive paper having the nano-scale microstructure as a base plate, superimposing the surface of the material of the second imprint mold with a surface of the base plate that has the nano-scale microstructure, disposing the absorption layer material and the constraint layer material on a surface of the second imprint mold facing to the incident direction of the pulse laser, and performing a shock imprinting by using the laser shock forming technology to reprint the nano-scale microstructure on the surface of the base plate to the surface of the material of the second imprint mold, then obtaining the nano-imprint mold.

6 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein a thickness of the metal material is greater than 0.5 mm, and a thickness of the micron-imprint mold or the nano-imprint mold is less than the thickness of the metal material.

7 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein an implementation process of the laser shock forming technology comprises;
performing one shocking by a laser after every movement by a mechanical arm forming a point-by-point processing mode.

8 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the smooth treatment comprises mechanical polishing or electrochemical polishing, and is required to be performed before roughing the surface of the metal material.

9 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the absorption layer material is a black paint or a black tape.

10 . A method of using a product prepared by the method according to claim 1 , comprising: wherein the product is used for anti-snow accumulation and anti-icing of an outdoor metal article, anti-fouling and anti-corrosion of a ship shell, and anti-adhesion and anti-blocking of an inner wall of an oil pipeline.

Assignees

• Univ Shandong

Inventors

• Lu Guoxin
• Ji Zhong
• Wang Diangang

Classifications

• B23K26/18

  using absorbing layers on the workpiece, e.g. for marking or protecting purposes · CPC title

• B23K26/356 Primary

  by shock processing · CPC title

• B23K26/0622

  by shaping pulses · CPC title

• B23K26/3584 Primary

  Increasing rugosity, i.e. roughening · CPC title

• B23K26/3568

  Modifying rugosity · CPC title