It was developed a new technique for residual stress measurement, based on sectioning techniques, removing layers and on the blind-hole technique. This is a destructive technique, proposed for use on measurements of stresses generated by manufacturing processes. The technique consists in bonding strain gages in the sample, followed by the machining of long cuts next to the sensors. The cuts relieve stresses in due to the material removed and cause variations in the strain distribution existing in their vicinity. These changes in the strain fields are measured by the strain gages. For the mathematical formulation of the technique, the cuts were treated as ellipses, which allowed the use of equations described by Inglis to stress fields in the vicinity of the cuts. To evaluate and validate the equations and the proposed methodology experimental tests were applied to two tubular specimens made of steel pipes API 5L X60 and X46 UOE-SAW. Seeking to establish a consistent experimental procedure, the measurement results helped to analyze the influence of process variables such as the depth and the length of the cuts, distance of the cuts from the strain gages. Measurement results were compared against results determined with the application of the blind-hole technique, which is an already normalized and consolidated experimental technique to measure residual stresses. The results of the comparisons were satisfactory, supporting the validity of the assumptions for the analytical modeling and the quality of the experimental procedure established for the new technique.
Residual Stresses; Inglis Formulations; Elliptical Hole
