Residual stress continues to be important issues in shipbuilding. This paper demonstrates how the heat affected zone that results from welding could be identified nondestructively using MBN (magnetic Barkhausen noise...Residual stress continues to be important issues in shipbuilding. This paper demonstrates how the heat affected zone that results from welding could be identified nondestructively using MBN (magnetic Barkhausen noise) technique. A stress concentration region was created by placing a weld bead on a marine steel plate used in ship construction. MBN measurements were made on the back surface of the welded plate along the weld direction and perpendicular to it in a line that crosses the weld bead. The stress distribution as deduced from the MBN measurements was found to be anisotropic in the material of the heat affected zone. The heat induced anisotropy was completely eliminated by shot peening the HAZ material as revealed by MBN intensity. It was concluded that the directional MBN measurements could be used to characterize the induced anisotropy and hence assess the thermal residual stresses distribution near a localized stresses concentration regions imposed by welding.展开更多
文摘Residual stress continues to be important issues in shipbuilding. This paper demonstrates how the heat affected zone that results from welding could be identified nondestructively using MBN (magnetic Barkhausen noise) technique. A stress concentration region was created by placing a weld bead on a marine steel plate used in ship construction. MBN measurements were made on the back surface of the welded plate along the weld direction and perpendicular to it in a line that crosses the weld bead. The stress distribution as deduced from the MBN measurements was found to be anisotropic in the material of the heat affected zone. The heat induced anisotropy was completely eliminated by shot peening the HAZ material as revealed by MBN intensity. It was concluded that the directional MBN measurements could be used to characterize the induced anisotropy and hence assess the thermal residual stresses distribution near a localized stresses concentration regions imposed by welding.