Published 1996 | Version v1
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Welding residual stress improvement in internal components by water jet peening

  • 1. Hitachi Ltd., Ibaraki (Japan)

Description

Cavitations are generated when highly pressurized water is jetted in water. Surface residual stress is improved remarkably due to the peening effect of extremely high pressure caused by the collapse of cavitation bubbles. This technique is called water jet peening (WJP). WJP is expected to be an effective maintenance technique for the prevention of stress corrosion cracking caused by residual stress in various components of power generating plants. Various kinds of specimens were water jet peened to evaluate the fundamental characteristics of WJP and to select the most appropriate conditions for the residual stress improvement. Test results showed that WJP markedly improved the tensile residual stress caused by welding and grinding to the high compressive residual stress and seems to prevent the stress corrosion cracking

Additional details

Publishing Information

Publisher
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Imprint Place
New York, NY (United States)
ISBN
0-7918-1226-X
Imprint Title
ICONE-4: Proceedings. Volume 1 -- Part A: Basic technological advances
Imprint Pagination
534 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 471-477.

Conference

Title
ASME/JSME international conference on nuclear engineering.
Acronym
ICONE 4
Dates
10-13 Mar 1996.
Place
New Orleans, LA (United States).

Optional Information

Secondary number(s)
CONF-960306--.