Manufacturing residual stresses during the production of zirconium sheets

Abstract

The experimental-and-theoretical method of determining residual stresses in strip metal wares made of zirconium alloys, which manifest the transversal-isotropic properties after cold rolling, is investigated. The results show that considerable transverse and longitudinal residual stresses appear on the strip surface. The character of their distribution agrees qualitatively with the known regularities of the distribution of these quantities during rolling.