機械的負荷によるレーザーピーニング残留応力の緩和挙動

Relaxation process of residual stress induced by laser peening

秋田 貢一; 宮下 大輔*; 竹田 和也*; 大谷 眞一*; 菖蒲 敬久  ; 佐野 健二*; 齋藤 利之*

Akita, Koichi; Miyashita, Daisuke*; Takeda, Kazuya*; Oya, Shinichi*; Shobu, Takahisa; Sano, Kenji*; Saito, Toshiyuki*

レーザーピーニング(LP)を施工したアルミニウム合金に引張及び圧縮負荷が作用した場合の表面圧縮残留応力緩和プロセスを検討した。残留応力は、X線,放射光,中性子によって実測し、併せて有限要素法解析も行った。明らかになった残留応力緩和プロセスは次の通りである。LP施工材に作用する引張負荷を増加していくと、表面層の圧縮残留応力に釣り合う形で存在する内部の引張残留応力領域がまず塑性変形する。また、圧縮負荷の場合は、表面直下の最大圧縮残留応力領域で塑性変形が開始する。このように内部が先に塑性変形して残留応力の再配分が発生するため、表面の降伏に先立って表面の圧縮残留応力が緩和する。

Relaxation process of surface compressive residual stress during tensile or compressive loading on a laser peened aluminum alloy was investigated. The residual stress was measured by X-ray, synchrotron and neutron diffractions and analyzed by a finite element method. The relaxation process clarified in this study was described as follows. When the tensile loading was increased, plastic deformation was occurred at the tensile residual stress region that existed inside of the material to be balanced with the surface compressive residual stress. On the other hand, when the compressive loading was applied, the plastic deformation was started at the maximum compressive residual stress region located just beneath the surface. Because the plastic deformation of the inside of the material induced the redistribution of the residual stress in the sample, the surface compressive residual stress was relaxed prior to the surface yielding.