Publisher Summary This chapter discusses that residual stress is defined as any stress that
would exist in a continuum body if all external loads were removed. Welding residual …

It is well known that residual stresses caused by weld repairs tend can be significantly
higher than those caused by initial fabrication welds due to severe restraint conditions …

Publisher Summary This chapter explains that welding distortion and residual stress have
remained major challenges in manufacturing. Extensive experimental efforts have been …

Creep-fatigue induced failures are often observed in engineering components operating
under high temperature and cyclic loading. Understanding the creep-fatigue damage …

Virtual fabrication technology (VFT) weld modeling software has been mainly used in thick-
structure welding simulation. Recently both US and European shipyards have shown strong …

Welding is widely used for construction of many structures. Since welding is a process using
locally given heat, residual stress is generated near the bead. Tensile residual stress …

This paper summarizes published methodologies of mitigating weld cracking by altering
thermal strain and stress distributions during welding with thermomechanical methods …

A catastrophic furnace roll failure was observed in a continuous hot dip line. The failure
occurred in the weld joining an end bell to a roll shell and resulted in the complete …

The use of bimetallic weld joints is widespread in thermal and nuclear energy generation. It
is evident from literature survey that the weld and ferritic steel HAZ region of bimetallic joints …

Cracks have been discovered in Inconel 82/182 bimetal welds at the hot leg to reactor
pressure vessel (RPV) nozzle welds at the VC Summer nuclear power plant in the United …