Reduction of residual stress in low alloy steel with magnetic treatment in different directions

Abstract

The behavior that different magnetic treatment directions induce various amounts of welding residual stress reductions in low alloy steel was studied. Reductions of 26%–28% in the longitudinal stress σ _x were obtained when low frequency alternating magnetic treatment was applied perpendicularly to the welding bead, whereas reductions of 20%–21% in σ _x were measured by using the same treatment parameters except that the field direction was applied parallel to the bead. It is proposed that different extent of stress reductions caused by the above two treatment directions is attributed primarily to the alteration of the energy absorbed by domains from the external magnetic field, which part of energy can arouse plastic deformation in microstructures by the motion of domain walls.

Keywords

magnetic treatment direction / magnetic domain / residual stress / spontaneous magnetization / micro plastic deformation

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