Residual Stress 101

Residual Stress 101

Sunday, October 19 | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | 140F
Pre-conference Short Course

A broad, practical introduction to residual stresses for students, researchers and industrialists.

Topics Covered:

• Introduction
  • What are residual stresses?
  • How do they arise?
  • What do they do and why do we care?
    
    
• Practical Mechanics of Residual Stress
  • Stress, strain, elastic strain as applied to residual stress
  • What makes an admissible residual stress field and why does that matter?
  • Superposition and calculating deformations and changes in residual stress
    
    
• Residual Stress Measurement
  • Overview of common measurement techniques
  • Combining multiple methods
    
    
• Residual Stress Applications.
  • Accounting for residual stress in fatigue analysis
  • Engineered residual stress

Instructors:
Michael Prime, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Michael Hill, University of California, Davis
Andrew Payzant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Adrian DeWald, Hill Engineering
Seung-Yub Lee, Pratt & Whitney