Abstract
A strain scanning method was applied to the stress measurement of austenitic stainless steel (SUS304L). The sizes of its gauge volume were a width of 2 mm and a height of 0.2mm, and the grain size of the specimen was 37 micrometers. Enough accuracy of the measured stress was not obtained due to the coarse grain of the specimen. To improve the coarse grain problem, three methods of oscillation were examined such as in-plane rotation, out-of-plane tilt and translation. The translation method can increase the number of the grains by changing the amplitude. For the translation method, the accurate measurement is possible if it is 10000 numbers or more of grains. However, the numbers of the grains by the other oscillations were not enough. For the translation method, a strict parallel between the specimen surface and the translation plane was necessary. It succeeded in adjusting the strict parallel. The residual stress distribution of the shot-peened austenitic stainless steel was measured by our method.
