Seeking light and transparent bridge designs, engineers and architects have found an efficient and artistic way to fulfill their requirements: steel tubular bridges. Like any other welded structure, the joints of this kind of bridge suffer from high tensile weld residual stresses. Combined with high stress concentrations, tensile residual stress is a relevant factor in fatigue crack development...

Recently, it has been shown that shot-peened nickel-base superalloys exhibit an approximately 1% increase in apparent eddy current conductivity at high inspection frequencies, which can be exploited for nondestructive subsurface residual stress assessment. Unfortunately, microstructural inhomogeneity in certain as-forged and precipitation hardened nickel-base superalloys, like Waspaloy, can lea...

Experimental investigation and numerical simulation of the influence of the strain rate in laser forming are presented. To isolate and effectively study the strain rate effects, which are temperature dependent, a ‘‘constant peak temperature’’ method is developed with the aid of numerical modeling and solution. Under the condition of the constant peak temperature, the effects of strain rate on f...

In this paper we prove Carleman type estimates with two large parameters for general linear partial differential operators of second order. By using second large parameter we derive from results for scalar equations first Carleman estimates for dynamical Lamé system with residual stress. We apply these estimates to obtain a Hölder and Lipschitz stability estimates of continuation of solutions o...

Residual stress in an organ is defined as the stress that remains when all external loads are removed. Residual stress has generally been ignored in published papers on left ventricular wall stress. To take residual stress into account in the analysis of stress distributions in a beating heart, one must first measure the residual strain in the no-load state of the heart. Residual strains in equ...

Advanced artificial flaw manufacturing method has become available. The method produces true fatigue cracks, which are representative of most service-induced cracks. These cracks can be used to simulate behaviour of realistic cracks under service conditions. This paper introduces studies of the effects of different thermal loading cycles to crack opening and residual stress state as seen at the...

This paper reviews shearography and its applications for testing of composite structures. Shearography is a laser-based technique for fullfield measurement of surface deformation. Unlike holography, it does not require special vibration isolation; hence it can be employed in field/factory environments. The technique has already received considerable industrial acceptance for nondestructive test...

The aim of nuclear safeguards is to ensure that special nuclear material is used for peaceful purposes. Historically, nuclear material accounting (NMA) has provided the quantitative basis for monitoring for nuclear material loss or diversion, and process monitoring (PM) data is collected by the operator to monitor the process. PM data typically support NMA in various ways, often by providing a ...

Shot Peening process relies on multiple impacts of spherical media to a surface to achieve residual compressive stresses. This results in improved material characteristic.0utofthetwomethodd propeilingshotsforpeeningviz. Airless Shot Peening and Pneumatic Shot Peeningthis papercteals with essentials of centrifugal Blasting Machine and converting a centrifugal Airless Blast Machine to a Shot Peen...