Fe analysis of residual stresses induced by spot welding of stainless steel type aisi 316

Abstract EN

Specimens of the as-received stainless steel type 316, according to AISI standard, in form of sheet with 1.5 mm thickness were first spot welded and thenshot peened to obtain the influence of shot peening process on the residual stresses induced by spot welding process.

X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) method was used to measure the residual stresses.

Also, a finite element method (FEM) was employed by ANSYS software version 11 to achieve the simulations for transient thermal analysis and residual stresses analysis in all cases.

In addition, the temperature dependency of materials properties was used to assess its effects on the final residual stress results.

A comparison showed a very good agreement between the experimental and the numerical results due to the total elimination of tensile residual stresses and creating the compressive type instead.