Rh. Leggatt et al., DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF THE DEEP HOLE METHOD FOR RESIDUAL-STRESS MEASUREMENT, Journal of strain analysis for engineering design, 31(3), 1996, pp. 177-186
The development of a deep hole method, based on earlier techniques, fo
r measuring the through-thickness distribution of residual stresses is
described. The distortion of a reference hole used in the method was
interpreted using analytical techniques to determine the residual stre
sses present. The accuracy of the method was investigated using a 100
mm deep plastically deformed ferritic steel rectangular bar. The stres
ses in the bar were determined by surface strain gauges. The axial res
idual stresses through the depth of the bar, measured by the deep hole
method, were found to be within +/- 35 MPa of the stresses determined
from the strain gauges in the central 80 mm of the bar.