25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-P3.5

MEASUREMENT OF RESIDUAL STRESSES IN ALUMINIUM ALLOY AEROSPACE COMPONENTS

X. Ficquet, C. E. Truman, E. Kingston, D. J. Smith
Univ. of Bristol, UK

Keywords: Residual stress measurement, deep hole drilling

The deep hole drilling technique for residual stress measurement is introduced as a practical and versatile technique for measuring through thickness residual stress distributions in aluminium alloy aerospace components. Details and recent developments of the technique are presented along with measurement details on an aluminium alloy plate.

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