Micro-plastic deformation was produced on the surface of the laser cladding layer by micro-forging, thus cracks were healed in cladding layer; in order to reduce the thermal stress, preheating the substrate was needed to reduce the temperature gap between cladding layer and substrate. In this paper, temperature field by micro-forging on laser cladding Ni60 layer was simulated on software named DEFORM-2D. Compared the width of cracks, the results showed that reasonable and effective preheating temperature could e...
