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A novel method for determining surface residual stress components and their directions in spherical indentation

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In this paper, a novel method is proposed to determine surface residual stress components and their directions based on the spherical indentation. To obtain the direction and the components of a uniaxial or biaxial residual stress, the relationship between the pile-up deformation around an indentation after unloading and the residual stress was firstly systematically studied and established by using numerical simulation. Through theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, we found that the position of the maximum residual stress is dependent on the maximum pile-up around an indentation after unloading. The direction and components of residual stress can be correctly determined by the unique relationship between pile-up after unloading and biaxial residual stress. This conclusion has been verified by the experiment results in the residual stress measurements of a welded specimen with spherical indentation and x-ray diffraction methods. Meanwhile, the influences of friction between the object surface and the indenter, the material hardening exponent of the specimen, and the elastic deformation upon the residual stress are discussed.

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This work was financially supported by the NSFC (Nos. 11272131, 11472114), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (No. 20110142110039), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, HUST: No. 2013KXYQ008.

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    Lei Shen, Yuming He, Dabiao Liu, Qiang Gong, Bo Zhang & Jian Lei

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Shen, L., He, Y., Liu, D. et al. A novel method for determining surface residual stress components and their directions in spherical indentation. Journal of Materials Research 30, 1078–1089 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2015.87

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