This book provides complete coverage of the slitting method. It details new results in analysis, computation, and estimation and discusses different roles of residual stresses from the fracture mechanics perspective. It provides detailed formulations and examples of compliance functions, weighted least squares fit and convergence test in stress estimation, and computer programs to facilitate the implementation of the slitting method.

to Residual Stresses.- Elements of Measurement Using the Slitting Method.- Compliance Functions for Near-Surface Measurement: The Body Force Approach.- Compliance Functions for Through-Thickness Measurement: The LEFM Approach.- Compliance Functions for Through-Thickness Measurement: The FEM Approach.- Estimation of Residual Stresses.- Measurement of Through-Thickness Residual Stress.- Measurement of Axisymmetric Residual Stresses.- Estimation Using Initial Strains.- Residual Stresses and Fracture Mechanics.