A computational approach to thermomechanical fatigue life predictions of dissimilarly welded superheater tubes

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2012 in the subject Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, grade: cum laude (gut), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), course: Mechanical Engineering, language: English, abstract: The primary focus of this work is to investigate the influence of residual stresses on thermomechanical fatigue (TMF) life predictions. Both experimental and numerical met...