Measuring internal residual stress in Al-Cu alloy forgings by crack compliance method with optimized parameters

Abstract

Measuring the internal stress of Al alloy forgings accurately is critical for controlling the deformation during the subsequent machine process. In this work, the crack compliance method was used to calculate the internal residual stress of Al-Cu high strength alloys, and the effect of various model parameters of crack compliance method on the calculated precision was studied by combining the numerical simulation and experimental method. The results show that the precision first increased and then decreased with increasing the crack range. The decreased precision when using a high crack range was due to the strain fluctuation during the machining process, and the optimized crack range was 71% of the thickness of forgings. Low orders of Legendre polynomial can result in residual stress curve more smooth, while high orders led to the occurrence of distortion. The Tikhonov regularization method effectively suppressed the distortion of residual stress caused by the fluctuation of strain data, which significantly improved the precision. In addition, the crack compliance method with optimized parameters was used to measure the residual stress of Al-Cu alloy with different quenching methods. The calculated results demonstrated that the distribution of residual stress was obtained accurately.