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Residual Stress Measurement Workshop
22nd – 25th September 2008
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.
This 4 day workshop will enable
participants to become fully knowledgeable about the
main residual stress measurement techniques through a
series of lectures, laboratory demonstrations, facility
visits and in-depth discussions.
Acknowledged experts, leaders and
pioneers of residual stress measurement will provide the
basics, details and application “know how” of seven of
the most important and widely used techniques available
today. The applicability and usefulness of the
techniques in industrial problems will also be
considered.
Lectures will be given on the
following topics:
- Contour method and crack compliance
- Deep-hole drilling
- Incremental centre-hole drilling
- Magnetic methods
- Neutron diffraction
- Synchrotron diffraction
- X-ray diffraction
- Good practice and data collection
- Applications
- Future needs and trends
There will also be four “hands-on”
laboratory demonstrations covering: Deep-hole drilling,
Incremental centre-hole drilling, X-ray diffraction and
Magnetic methods. A site visit to the ENGIN-X neutron
diffractometer at ISIS is also timetabled with a “live”
measurement designed to demonstrate experimental good
practice.
The lectures
will take place at the University of Bristol with accommodation (included in the registration fee)
provided at The
Avon Gorge Hotel, overlooking Brunel’s Clifton
Suspension Bridge. For further information please
download the workshop flyer.
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