Direct metal SLS processes use a high power laser beam to selectively fuse fully metallic powder to directly produce functional metal components or tooling. As a thermal dynamic process, it inevitably causes thermal stresses, stress-induced deformations and cracking. Understanding these is very important in controlling residual stresses and stress-induced deformations. In this research, the res...

The presence of the residual stresses in bone tissue has been noted and the authors have reported that there are residual stresses in bone tissue. The aim of our study is to measure the residual stress distribution in the cortical bone of the extremities of vertebrates and to describe the relationships with the osteon population density. The study used the rabbit limb bones (femur, tibia/fibula...

Residual stresses are one of the primary causes for failure parts or systems in metal additive manufacturing (AM), since they easily induce crack propagation and structural distortion. Although formation residual has been extensively studied, core factors steering their development AM have not completely uncovered. To date, several strategies based on reducing thermal gradients developed to mit...

Co-application of acoustoelasticity and optical interferometry to residual stress analysis is discussed. The underlying idea is to combine the advantages of both methods. Acoustoelasticity is capable of evaluating a residual stress absolutely but it is a single point measurement. Optical interferometry is able to measure deformation yielding two-dimensional, full-field data, but it is not suita...

Residual (locked-in) stresses in a structural material or component are those stresses that exist in the object without (and usually prior to) the application of any service or other external loads. Manufacturing processes are the most common causes of residual stress. Virtually all manufacturing and fabricating processes — casting, welding, machining, molding, heat treatment, etc. — introduce ...

Fatigue behavior of case hardened parts depend to a great extent on the type of residual stresses developed in the components. Topography and metallurgical effects were the two elements which contribute much to surface integrity. Micro hardness of the gas carburized (EN 33 and EN 36) and Induction hardened (AISI 1040 and AISI 6150) specimens obtained during experiments, showed that there was gr...

The influence of thermomechanical deformation on the residual stresses caused by quenching in bar shaped specimens of heat treatable steel 42CrMo4 has been investigated using a mechanical method for detemining the distribution of residual stresses of the first kind. The results obtained show that the residual stress distribution after quenching is dected by the strengthening and softening of th...