TY - CONF A1 - Vollert, F. A1 - Dixneit, Jonny A1 - Gibmeier, J. ED - Marais, D. ED - Holden, T.M. ED - Venter, A.M. T1 - Effect of Residual Stress Relaxation due to Sample Extraction on the Detectability of Hot Crack Networks in LTT Welds by means of µCT N2 - Investigations on weldability often deal with hot cracking as one of the most prevalent failure mechanisms during weld fabrication. The modified varestraint transvarestraint hot cracking test (MVT) is well known to assess the hot cracking susceptibility of materials. The shortcoming of this approach is that the information is only from the very near surface region which inhibits access to the characteristic of the hot crack network in the bulk. Here, we report about an alternative approach to monitor the entire 3D hot crack network after welding by means of microfocus X-ray computer tomography (µCT). However, to provide sufficient high spatial resolution small samples must be sectioned from the MVT-welded joint. The sampling is accompanied by local relaxation of the residual stress distributions that are induced by welding, which can have an impact on the crack volumes prior to the sampling. The studies were carried out to investigate the hot cracking susceptibility of low transformation temperature filler materials (LTT). As high compression residual stresses up to -600 MPa in the area of the crack networks were determined by means of the contour method, stress relaxation caused by sectioning for µCT sample extraction can affect the detectability of the cracks later on. X-ray diffraction studies revealed surface residual stress relaxations up to about 400 MPa due to cutting. To investigate this effect, the specimens with hot cracks were subjected to a load test with known stress states. The results clearly show that local stress relaxations will have a strong impact on the volume images reconstructed from tomography analysis. This effect must be considered during hot crack assessment on basis of µCT data. T2 - 9th International Conference on Mechanical Stress Evaluation by Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation (MECA SENS 2017) CY - Skukuza Rest Camp, South Africa DA - 19.09.2017 KW - LTT Weld Filler Materials KW - µCT-analysis KW - Hot Cracks KW - Welding PY - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-456765 SN - 978-1-945291-66-1 SN - 2474-395X VL - 4 SP - 85 EP - 90 AN - OPUS4-45676 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -