Residual Stresses Measured In Quenched HSLA-100 Steel Plate.
- Michael B.
Residual stresses over the cross section of a 60.75 mm thick plate of HSLA-100 steel were measured using the contour method. HSLA-100 is a low carbon, copper precipitation hardened, High-Strength Low-Alloy steel used for naval ship hulls, armor, and containment vessels. The material was prepared by hot cross-rolling, Austenitizing at 900 C for 75 minutes and water quenching, and then tempering at 660 C for 200 minutes followed by another water quench. A cross-sectional map of residual stresses was measured using the contour method: (1) the specimen was carefully cut in two using wire electric discharge machining; (2) the contour of the cut surfaces were measured by using a Coordinate Measuring Machine; and (3) the residual stresses were determined from the measured contours using a 3-D elastic finite element (FE) model. The results showed a typical quenching stress distribution with peak compressive stress of about 165 MPa a few mm below the surface and tensile stress of 200 MPa in the center of the plate thickness. The stress magnitudes, at less than 30% of yield, are somewhat low for water-quenched steels, which is discussed. An FE analysis showed that edge effects in the measured stress map were shown to be consistent with relaxation from removing the test specimen from a larger plate.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 977953
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-05-1265; TRN: US201012%%835
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Submitted to: Proceedings of the 2005 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, June 7-9, 2005 Portland, OR, USA, paper number 52
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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