Finite Element Modeling of the Technology of Multiple Laser Shock Processing of Materials Using the Eigenstrain Method

The laser shock processing (LSP) of material is an efficient modern technology of processing of metal materials, during which significant compressive residual stresses contributing to an increase in their strength and tribological and operational characteristics are generated in the subsurface area. The finite element modeling of the technology of multiple laser shock processing is carried out using the eigenstrain method. The level of the compressive residual stresses arising under LSP is determined. It is shown that the residual stresses on the surface of the VT-6 alloy grow from 510 to 830MPa with an increase in the number of pulses from 1 to 4, and the depth of the zone of the compressive residual stresses increases respectively from 1.26 mm after the first pulse to 1.60 mm after the fourth pulse.