A thermal elastic-plastic stress analysis is carried out on steel fiber reinforced aluminum metal-matrix composite arch under uniform temperature distribution. The arch is fixed at both ends. The composite material is assumed to be strain hardening linearly. First yielding temperature, thermal residual stresses and the distribution of these stresses under thermal loading are investigated by usi...

In this research, the incremental slitting method was employed to determine throughthickness residual stress profile of a carbon/epoxy laminate. The method involves measuring strains at the back surface of the stressed specimen, while a narrow slit is cut by a CNC milling machine progressively from the top surface of the specimen. "Pulse Method" was selected as the computational approach for th...

Finite element analysis (FEA) and continuum mechanics techniques have been used to model the thermal residual stress distribution in bonded joints and assess the suitability of using two-dimensional (2D) analysis methods. The methods are first employed to investigate stresses in metal-epoxy bi-material strip samples. The change in curvature of two bi-material strip systems during heating and co...

The stability of compressive residual stresses and the stability of strain hardening states are seen to have high technical importance. For a laser beam welded AlMgSiCu-alloy, results of applied stress and residual stress relaxation at elevated temperatures 100<T<150°C are presented. These experiments prove the existence of back stresses. The level of these stresses can be estimated to be in th...

to achieve an excellent thermal-mechanical performance of cmcs, it is necessary to analyze and design the thickness of the multi-layered interphases for an optimized trs distribution. an optimization was performed with a new version of the particle swarm optimization, the bsg-starcraft radius pso linked to a finite element software.

Levels of residual stresses in partially crystallized Li2O±2SiO2 glass-ceramics were calculated for several crystallographic planes. The stresses were also determined by an X-ray di€raction method (XRD) using synchrotron radiation. The linear thermal expansion coecient (ahkl) of a fully crystallized, stress-free, powdered sample, was measured in situ using a hot-stage XRD technique. The therma...

Due to their aesthetic value and high compressive strength, dentists have recently employed ceramics for restoration materials. Among the ceramic materials, zirconia provides high toughness and crack resistant characteristics. Residual stresses develop in processing due to factors including grain anisotropy and thermal coefficient mismatch. In the present study, polychromatic X-ray (Laue) micro...

The goal of this study is investigating reduction of residual stresses from welding carbon steel plates through vibrationstress reliefmethod vs. thermal method. In order to carry out the required experimental tests, carbon steel plates were welded together under specific conditions as samples. Some of the samples were vibration stress relieved, some were thermal stress relieved while the rest r...