TY - JOUR A1 - Cser, Adrienn A1 - Donner, Reik Volker A1 - Schwarz, Udo A1 - Otto, Andreas H. A1 - Geiger, M. A1 - Feudel, Ulrike T1 - Towards a better understanding of laser beam melt ablation using methods of statistical analysis N2 - Laser beam melt ablation, as a contact free machining process, offers several advantages compared to conventional processing mechanisms. Although the idea behind it is rather simple, the process has a major limitation: with increasing ablation rate surface quality of the workpiece processed declines rapidly. The structures observed show a clear dependence of the line energy. In dependence of this parameter several regimes of the process have been separated. These are clearly distinguishable as well in the surfaces obtained as in the signals gained by the measurement of the process emissions which is the observed quantity chosen. Y1 - 2002 SN - 88-87030-44-8 ER -