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Stresses in a Dissimilar Metal Weld Pipe Butt Weld
Stress corrosion cracking is an important degradation mechanism that is threatening the structural integrity of pressurised water reactors throughout the world. AREVA has... -
Neutron Diffraction residual Stress Measurement in Cold Weld Repair Tubular J...
Grade 91 pipes and tubes have become a standard material for the design of new and refurbishment of existing Power Plants. Several major failures have been encountered after... -
Measurement of Stress Evolution during In-situ Heat Treatment of Dissimilar W...
This study aims to quantify the effect of post-weld heat treatment on residual stress in dissimar weld joints and to improve the avoidance of the in-service failure of weld... -
The Effect of Residual Stress Distribution on Creep Cracking Behaviour of Wel...
Fracture prediction of structures manufactured from high strength engineering steels is a high priority in key industries. In this work residual stress (RS) effects on creep... -
Effect of PWHT on Lattice Parameters of a Dissimilar Metal Butt Weld
Stress corrosion cracking is an important degradation mechanism that is threatening the structural integrity of pressurised water reactors throughout the world. Dissimilar weld... -
Neutron Diffraction Measurement of Residual Stress in the Seam Weld of an UOE...
Approved proposal under the ICRD Scheme Proposal ICRD0018 -
Interaction between Residual and Applied Stresses in Dissimilar Metal Welds
This proposal, that is part of the Bristol-Open University-ISIS long term programme, is to undertake a series of neutron diffraction experiments to gain an understanding of the... -
Demonstration of resistance to hydrogen embrittlement of dissimilar joints fo...
Approved proposal under the ICRD Scheme Proposal ICRD0014 -
Reduced Residual Stresses In Multipass Welds Using Low Transformation Tempera...
The aim of this experiment is to characterise the residual stresses that evolve as a multiple pass weld is built up, while exploiting transformation plasticity due to specially... -
In-Situ Residual Stress Measurement by Neutron Diffraction in Cold Weld Repai...
Grade 91 pipes and tubes have become a standard material for the design of new and refurbishment of existing Power Plants. Several major failures have been encountered after... -
Characterization of Weld Residual Strain/Stresses Distribution in Titanium We...
Titanium and its alloys have increasingly become a material of choice in high performance structures due to superior corrosion resistance and high strength to weight ratio for... -
Residual Stresses in Tekken Weld Specimen
Approved proposal under the ICRD Scheme Proposal ICRD0017 -
Texture and 3D strain pole figure measurement of engineering components by GEM
The proposed experiment is to measure texture and strain tensor for specimens made by Direct Laser Deposition (DLD) and Linear Friction Welding (LFW) techniques. The... -
Residual stress distributions and stress relaxation due to Post Weld Heat Tre...
UK power plants are following the worldwide trends in the power generating industry, in line with demands for increases in the efficiency of existing power plants and for...