RESIA – Residual Stress Simulation for Integrity Assessment

Principal project objective

To develop the scientific platform for next generation quantitative modelling of residual stresses and associated integrity assessment for welded steel components and structures

RESIA is funded by the Research Council of Norway (“STORFORSK” Programme)

• Fundamental focus; competence building 
• International collaboration
• 19.6 MNOK (2.5 million Euro) for the four year period March 2005 – February 2009

Main tasks (Workpackages)

• Integrity assessment
• Finite element backbone
• Constitutive models
• Model validation and demonstration