The application discloses a
metal and carbon
fiber reinforced thermoplastics (CFRTP)
laser connection method based on a five-axis
femtosecond laser reverse-docking self-locking
microstructure, and belongs to the technical field of heterogeneous material
laser connection. The method comprises the following steps: pretreating surfaces of
metal and CFRTP plates to be connected; adopting a five-axis linkage
femtosecond laser processing system, and synchronously forming a laser-induced periodic
surface structure on an inner wall of a groove by adjusting and controlling a
deflection angle of laser incident light relative to a normal line of a workpiece surface to prepare a reverse-docking self-locking
microstructure array with a
notch width smaller than the maximum width of a groove bottom on the surface of the
metal to be connected; overlapping and assembling the processed metal and the CFRTP plate and applying clamping pressure, and performing heat conduction laser connection with the metal side as a laser incident surface, so that a
resin matrix in the CFRTP is melted and filled into a widened area at the bottom of the reverse-docking self-locking
microstructure; after cooling and solidification, the resin forms an embedded body with a
large head and a small neck in the microstructure, thereby generating geometric limiting and anti-pulling-out effects along the normal direction of the connection interface. The method can improve the
tensile shear strength, anti-peeling performance and fatigue bearing stability of a metal-CFRTP connection joint, and is suitable for reliable connection of metal-composite materials in
aerospace lightweight structural parts.