Residual Stress and structural Integrity Studies using Thermography
Acronym: RESIST
Funding body: Innovate UK
Status: Completed
Residual Stress (RS) is attracting considerable attention in engineering because of its impact on part distortion, service performance and the costs associated with failures resulting from it. Currently RS assessment can be expensive, time consuming, destructive and may provide only single point data. In this project a new means of evaluating RS is proposed based on material and system models combined with data from a full-field, non-contact, non-destructive measurement technique. This approach will be particularly suited to large or expensive components, where material removal is undesirable and where contact is impossible.