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Repair by welding overlay is a commonly used method mainly employed to rebuild piping systems suffering from intergranular stress corrosion cracking (IGSCC). It is desirable that the overlay welding technique, by attaching an overlay weld to the pipe and sustaining a heat sink of flowing water inside the pipe, induces a compressive residual stress at the inner surface of the welded pipe for prevention of IGSCC. A better understanding of the effect of a welding overlay repair on the residual stresses at the inner and outer surfaces of weld overlay is thus required. To obtain this understanding, it is necessary to investigate the distribution of residual stresses on the welded pipe.
In this study, the hole-drilling strain-gauge method was adopted to determine the residual stresses at the inner and outer surfaces of the weld overlay pipe. The incremental drilling technique was used on pipes with outside diameters of 267 mm. In addition, the Weld 3 code was applied to simulate the residual stress distribution for comparison and verification with the measured results.
The results obtained from the experimental and from the computational methods are in good agreement. The residual stress at the inner surface of the pipe is compressive with a magnitude approaching the yield stress of the material; that at the outer surface is tensile, also with a magnitude close to yield stress but smaller than the compressive stress. The experimental residual stress magnitude is generally greater than that from computation. This observation can be attributed to several factors including applied mechanics, temperature distribution, original residual stress, strain gauge location, mechanical grinding and the oxidation layer. 相似文献