It is well known that shot-peer&g treatment increases the fatigue resistance of metals. It is considered that this effect is caused by compressive residual stresses arising in the treated surface. Usually the mean value of residual stress is taken into consideration to explain this phenomenon but the real residual stress state must be inhomogeneous due to the inhomogeneous character of deformat...

Zirconia-nickel functionally graded materials were obtained by powder metallurgy technique. The microstructure, residual stress, fracture toughness and Vickers hardness were investigated. Mixed-mode fracture response of YSZ /Ni functionally graded materials was examined utilizing the three point bending test and finite element method (Cosmos/M 2.7). The results show that the stress intensity fac...

Laser materials processing normally induces a certain residual stress distribution in the target material. Distributions favoring microcrack propagation lead to reduced fatigue life of the material. This paper investigates the feasibility of altering the stress field by using underwater shock waves in the micron scale. Shock pressure was computed and the stress analysis was conducted, in which ...

It is generally accepted that residual stresses present in welded joints alter the conditions for fracture initiation by contributing to the crack-driving force. In this study, it is shown that weld residual stresses also alter crack-tip constraint, affecting fracture in an additional way. The fracture behavior of two crack geometries, a large pressure shell and a small fracture specimen, both ...

A thin layer on the component surface can be found with high tensile residual stresses, due to turning operations, which can dangerously affect the fatigue performance of the component. In this paper an analytical approach is presented to reconstruct the residual stress field from a limited incomplete set of measurements. Airy stress function is used as the primary unknown to directly solve the...

Time-of-flight neutron diffraction, contour method, and surface hole drilling residual stress measurements were conducted at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) on a lab sized plate specimen (P4) from Phase 1 of the joint U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and Electric Power Research Institute Weld Residual Stress (NRC/EPRI WRS) program. The specimen was fabricated from a 304L stainless steel plate ...

Plastic deformation causes very small changes in the thermoelastic response of metallic materials; this variation of the thermoelastic constant has the potential to form the basis of a new non-destructive, non-contact, full-field technique for residual stress assessment that is quicker and cheaper than existing methods. The effect of plastic strain on the thermoelastic constant is presented as ...

Panels using solar power require high reliability, and the residual stress in the solar panel has an important effect on its reliability and lifetime. The finite element method was adopted to simulate the impacts of the rectangular solar panel encapsulation process parameters, such as the elastic modulus, the thickness of adhesive, and the curing temperature on the residual stress in the solar ...

Laser Shock Processing (LSP) is an innovative surface treatment technology. LSP can induce compress residual stress layer in the surface of metallic materials, which is used for improving the fatigue life. In this study, the propagation course of typical laser shock wave in material was analyzed according to the theory of plasticity dynamics and the theory of stress wave. The effects of laser s...