The conference provides a key forum for scientists, students, and engineers interested in the prediction, evaluation, control, and application of residual stresses.
Equal emphasis is given to the measurement, modelling, and utilization of residual stress/strain data.
Both the scientific and engineering aspects of these topics, such as the influence of residual stress fields on distortion, material response to loading, damage initiation and propagation, component performance, life and failure, will be addressed.
Special attention is paid to method development and burning issues of great current interest, as, for example, stresses in nanosized systems, stress analysis using synchrotron radiation, multiscale approaches…
