Papers by Author: Jae Il Jang

Abstract: The weld joints in power-plant pipelines have long been considered important sites for safety and reliability assessment. In particular, the residual stress in pipeline weldments induced by the welding process must be evaluated accurately before and during service. This study reports an indentation technique for evaluating welding residual stress nondestructively. Indentation load-depth curves were found to shift with the magnitude and direction of the residual stress. Nevertheless, contact depths in the stress-free and stressed states were constant at a specific indentation load. This means that residual stress induces additional load to keep contact depth constant at the same load. By taking these phenomena into account, welding residual stress was obtained directly from the indentation load-depth curve. In addition, the results were compared with values from the conventional hole-drilling and saw-cutting methods.

Abstract: A theoretical model has been proposed to assess quantitative residual stress from a stress-induced shift in an indentation curve, but the assumption in this model of equibiaxial surface stress has obstructed its application to real structures in complex stress states. Thus we investigated the influence of non-equibiaxial surface stress on contact deformation through instrumented indentations of a biaxially strained steel plate in order to extend the model to a general surface stress by considering a ratio of two principal stresses.