TY - JOUR A1 - Farajian, M. A1 - Barsoum, Z. A1 - Kromm, Arne T1 - Residual stress engineering in fatigue resistant welds JF - Materials science forum N2 - The developments in the field of residual stress determination during the last decades have contributed to a better understanding of the origins and sources of residual stresses in different engineering disciplines. The many investigations concerning the behavior of residual stresses under mechanical loading have also provided a solid foundation to clarify the important aspects of residual stresses and fatigue. The question that arises now is if this available body of knowledge is being used effectively in the field of welding technology to design and construct structures with better fatigue performances. In this paper the necessity of the development of the concept residual stress engineering for welds in which wanted residual stress states are tailored for specific cases by appropriate means will be discussed. The possibilities of the quantitative consideration of the benefits in the fatigue design codes will be presented in a practical example. KW - Welding KW - Residual stress KW - Fatigue KW - Fatigue improvement PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.768-769.613 SN - 0255-5476 VL - 768-769 SP - 613 EP - 619 PB - Trans Tech Publications CY - Aedermannsdorf, Switzerland AN - OPUS4-29707 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -