Stress Evaluation at the Maximum Strained State by EBSD and Several Residual Stress Measurements for Plastic Deformed Austenitic Stainless Steel

This paper studies a method for obtaining the stress with plastic deformation by finding the plastic strain on U-bent specimens of austenitic stainless steel that have been subjected to large plastic deformation using the EBSD (Electron Backscatter Diffraction) method. The Mises stress calculated on the basis of the KAM of the EBSD shows good agreement with the stress that can be geometrically calculated from the U-bent specimens. In contrast, general methods for measuring residual stress on the basis of elastic strain produce residual stress measurement results that differ specimen by specimen. Thus, for true strain not less than 0.05, stress estimation based on the EBSD method produces better results than other general methods.