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Background: While the contour method for residual stress assessment has developed rapidly, no published study documents its interlaboratory reproducibility. Objective: Here we report an initial reproducibility experiment focused on contour method data analysis and residual stress calculation. Methods: The experiment uses surface topography data from a physical process simulation of elastic-plastic beam bending. The simulation provides surface topography, for input to the contour method data analysis, as well as a known residual stress field with 130 MPa peak magnitude. To increase realism, noise and specific artifacts are added to the topography data. A group of participants received the topography data (without the known residual stress), independently analyzed the data, and submitted results as a two-dimensional residual stress field. Results: Analysis of submissions provides a group average residual stress field and the spatial distribution of reproducibility standard deviation. The group average residual stress agrees with the known stress in magnitude and spatial trend. The reproducibility standard deviation ranges from 2 to 54 MPa over the measurement plane, with an average of 5.4 MPa. Reproducibility standard deviation is smaller in the cross-section interior (≤ 5 MPa), modest near local extrema in the stress field (5 to 10 MPa), and larger near the cross-section boundaries (10 to 30 MPa). The largest values of reproducibility standard deviation (up to 54 MPa) occur in limited areas where artifacts had been added to the topography data; while some participants identified and removed these artifacts, some did not, leading to systematic differences that elevated the standard deviation.
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• SSC, MLS, TJS, and JBL report no potential conflicts of interest.
• CRD is a graduate student pursuing a doctorate under the guidance of MRH.
• MBP holds patent US6470756B1 on the contour method, from which modest royalties are received.
• JAO and MRH have separate economic interests in contour method measurements that derive from their employment by (JAO) or an ownership interest in (MRH, Hill Engineering, LLC of Rancho Cordova, CA, USA) a firm providing contour method measurements.
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D’Elia, C.R., Carlson, S.S., Stanfield, M.L. et al. Interlaboratory Reproducibility of Contour Method Data Analysis and Residual Stress Calculation. Exp Mech 60, 833–845 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-020-00599-0
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