Triaxial residual stresses in composite tube from austenitic stainless steel with welded ferritic steel cladding

Abstract

The triaxial residual stresses in a composite tube from an austenitic stainless steel with a welded ferritic steel cladding were measured by the time-of-flight neutron diffraction method on the POLDI instrument at the PSI SINQ neutron pulsed facility. The POLDI results are compared to the results obtained by the destructive turning out and ring core methods and theoretical predictions of calculations by the finite element method. Only for the tangential component of the stress tensor the semiquantitative agreement of the all used methods was observed. There was a clear discrepancy between the results of the different methods in the axial component. For the radial component all methods reveal quite small stresses, however, with some distinct differences in their distributions.