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On the measurement of residual stress in plastic pipes
Author(s) -
Clutton E. Q.,
Williams J. G.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.760351709
Subject(s) - residual stress , cylinder stress , materials science , isotropy , anisotropy , stress (linguistics) , strips , residual , composite material , ring (chemistry) , mechanics , structural engineering , optics , mathematics , physics , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry , algorithm , ultimate tensile strength , engineering
Recent work on the determination of residual stress in drawn pipes has revealed an error in previous methods used. Such pipes have residual stresses very different from those induced by melt extrusin during conventional pipe processing. In particular, it appears that there are considerable compressive stresses at the bore, and the hoop and axial values are not equal. In an attempt to measure these values, tests were performed on slit rings of varying length, and a pronounced dependence of ring overlap on length was observed. This was contrary to previous assumptions, and a corrected version of the analysis has been developed, which enables the true hoop and axial stresses to be determined by testing rings of various lengths. For isotropic pipes, it has been shown that hoop and axial stresses are roughly equal. Previous results obtained on thin pipe rings can now be corrected by multiplying by the factor 1/(1‐ v ). For anisotropic drawn pipes, a combination of rings and thin axial strips is used to determine the residual stresses. These pipes can show remarkably low stresses at the bore, which may play a significant part in determining their performance.