Effect of Thermal Treatments on the Mechanical Properties Enhancement of High Reliability Metallic Materials by Laser Shock Processing

Abstract:

Laser shock processing (LSP) is increasingly applied as an effective technology for the improvement of metallic materials mechanical properties in different types of components as a means of enhancement of their fatigue life behavior. As reported in previous contributions by the authors, a main effect resulting from the application of the LSP technique consists on the generation of relatively deep compression residual stresses fields into metallic components allowing an improved mechanical behaviour, explicitly the life improvement of the treated specimens against wear, crack growth and stress corrosion cracking. Additional results accomplished by the authors in the line of practical development of the LSP technique at an experimental level (aiming its integral assessment from an interrelated theoretical and experimental point of view) are presented in this paper. Concretely, experimental results on the residual stress profiles and associated mechanical properties modification successfully reached in typical materials under different LSP irradiation conditions are presented. In this case, the specific behavior of a widely used material in high reliability components (especially in nuclear and biomedical applications) as AISI 316L is analyzed, the effect of possible “in-service” thermal conditions on the relaxation of the LSP effects being specifically characterized.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 783-786)
• Pages: 2376-2381
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.783-786.2376
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: José Luis Ocaña*, M. Díaz, J.A. Porro, L. Ruiz de Lara, C. Correa
• Keywords: Fatigue Life, Laser Shock Processing, Mechanical Property, Residual Stress, Thermal Treatment

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