Residual Stress and Critical Crack Size before and after Post-Weld Heat-Treatment

Residual Stress and Critical Crack Size before and after Post-Weld Heat-Treatment

M. Law, A. Paradowska, N. Hoye, P. Grace

Abstract. Post-weld heat-treatment (PWHT) is performed to reduce residual stress, but is not always possible to perform. The residual stresses on a thick section weld on a gas pipeline were determined before and after PWHT to assess residual stress and critical defect sizes.

Keywords
Welding, Neutrons, Residual Stress, PWHT

Published online 1/13/2017, 6 pages
Copyright © 2016 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA

Citation: M. Law, A. Paradowska, N. Hoye, P. Grace, ‘Residual Stress and Critical Crack Size before and after Post-Weld Heat-Treatment’, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 2, pp 603-608, 2017

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21741/9781945291173-102

The article was published as article 102 of the book Residual Stresses 2016

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