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BSSM RESIDUAL STRESS WORKSHOP
22nd September 2010 - Manchester University

Residual stress is one of the most common causes of catastrophic and unexpected failures in engineering components. Today, engineers are developing tools and strategies for managing detrimental residual stresses and for introducing beneficial ones across component scales ranging from microelectronics through to aero-engine assemblies. This workshop is aimed at anyone who would like to know more about measuring residual stress using diffraction techniques.
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VEQTER RESIDUAL STRESS MEASUREMENT WORKSHOP

Next one planned for September 2011

Aim and Scope

The importance of accurately accounting for residual stresses in component integrity assessments is well-known, and universally accepted. Equally, the need to validate numerical predictions of residual stress against high quality residual stress experimental data is now viewed as a necessity. The last few years has seen significant advances and developments being made in the techniques available to measure residual stress. This four-day workshop will enable participants to become fully knowledgeable about all of the main residual stress measurement techniques through a series of lectures, laboratory demonstrations, facility visits and in-depth discussions. Acknowledged experts, leaders and pioneers in residual stress measurement will provide the basics, details and application “know how” of eight of the most important and widely used techniques. The applicability and usefulness of the techniques in industrial problems will also be considered.

Programme and Format

The workshop is restricted to 30 delegates to ensure that core technical material may be delivered in a stimulating and lively environment. The workshop runs for 4 days, commencing at 10am on a Tuesday and finishes at 2pm on the Friday. It will be based around a series of 50-minute lectures provided by acknowledged experts, and laboratory demonstrations with no more than 8 participants in each lab.

Venue and Accommodation

The lectures and demonstrations will take place in the Queen’s Building at the University of Bristol.

Accommodation, included in the registration fee, will be provided at a local hotel, situated a short distance away from the main workshop venue.

Transport will be provided between the hotel and the workshop venue, and will also be provided for any day and evening activities.

City of Bristol

Bristol is situated in a pleasant part of the UK. It is close to the famous cities of Bath and Wells, and the beautiful countryside of the Cotswolds and the Mendips is within easy reach. Not too much further afield is South Wales and the South West peninsula of Devon and Cornwall. It’s easy to travel from other parts of the country to Bristol. Connections by road and rail are good, for example London is only an hour and a half by train or two hours by coach or car. Bristol also has its own airport with regular scheduled flights to other cities in the UK and Europe.