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A study has been made of the effects of shot peening and fatigue cycling on the residual macrostresses determined by X-ray methods in an austenitized and tempered AISI 4130 steel (150–170 ksi). The results show that the effect of shot peening is to produce a residual compressive macrostress layer 0.014-in. deep. The residual-stress profile (stress vs. depth) exhibits a small negative stress gradient at and near the surface and a large positive stress gradient in the interior. Stress relaxation (due to fatique cycling) which occurred early in the fatigue history of the specimen was found greater at the surface than in the subsurface layers. Stress gradients of the stress profile increased with continued cycling and varied with depth. A correlation appears to exist between stress relaxation and stress gradients at the surface.
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K. R. Evans was Research Engineer at the Boeing Company when paper was prepared; is now at Shell Development Co., Emeryville, Calif.
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Esquivel, A.L., Evans, K.R. X-ray diffraction study of residual macrostresses in shot-peened and fatiqued 4130 steel. Experimental Mechanics 8, 496–503 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02327126
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