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RESIDUAL STRESS MEASUREMENT WORKSHOP

22nd – 25th September 2009

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. Starting at 10am on Tuesday 22nd September and finishing at 2pm on Friday 25th September 2009, the workshop 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.

Lectures will be given on the following topics:

• Background and aims of the workshop
• An overview of residual stress measurement techniques
• Contour method
• Deep hole drilling
• Incremental centre hole drilling
• Neutron diffraction
• Ring core
• Slitting method
• Synchrotron diffraction
• X-ray diffraction
• Applications
• Future needs and trends

There will be four “hands-on” laboratory demonstrations covering:

• Deep hole drilling
• Incremental centre hole drilling
• Ring core
• X-ray diffraction

A site visit to the ENGIN-X neutron diffractometer at the ISIS Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is also timetabled, which will include a presentation about the specific details of the ENGIN-X instrument, coupled with a “live” measurement designed to demonstrate experimental good practice.

Participants will be provided with a full set of bound lecture notes, and a cordial workshop dinner is also included.

Venue and Accommodation

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

The tour, demonstration and presentation of the ENGIN-X neutron diffractometer will take place on the afternoon of the second day of the workshop at the ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot.

Accommodation, included in the registration fee, will be provided in The Avon Gorge Hotel, situated a short distance away from the main workshop venue. This historic hotel offers unparalleled views of Brunel’s Grade One listed Clifton Suspension Bridge. The hotel is in a very central position, with Bristol City Centre within walking distance.

Transport will be provided between the hotel and the workshop venue, and is also provided for the visit to the ISIS facility.

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.

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Bookings now being taken. Please book early to reserve your place.

REGISTRATION:

Before 1st June 2009: £1400+VAT
On/after 1st June 2009: £1700+VAT

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CONTACT:

Ed Kingston
Tel: +44 (0) 117 9878015
Email: events@veqter.co.uk

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