Residual Stresses, Distortion, and Fatigue.

Chapter 5 covers residual stresses, distortion, and fatigue of welds, including: Residual Stresses (development of residual stresses; calculation of residual stresses; stress relief by postweld heat treatment); Distortion (cause; remedies: reducing weld metal volume, welding alternately on either side of double-V joint, placing weld around neutral axis, presetting, prespringing and preheating); Fatigue (mechanism; fractography; S–N curves; effect of joint geometry, stress raisers and corrosion; remedies: shot pinning and reducing stress raisers); Case Studies; 24 Illustrations, 22 References, and 3 Exercise Problems [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]