SummaryTensioning is the saw prestressing procedure most commonly used in the forest products industry to increase the stability of thin circular saws. This procedure stiffens the saw blade by introducing favorable in-plane residual stresses either by local plastic deformation or by local heating. In industry today, rolling is the standard procedure for introducing such stresses.The first part of this paper is concerned with a method of tension evaluation. The method examined consists of measuring saw blade modal stiffness, and it correlates the elastic stiffness of the saw, which approximates the vibration modes, and the natural frequencies associated with these modes. The predictions of the saw frequency shift due to stiffness variations were found to agree closely with experimentally determined frequencies. The method thus offers a practical procedure for tension evaluation and could replace the currently used technique of measuring the light gap under a straightedge placed along the saw diameter.The second part of this paper theoretically analyzes the relationship between the rolling load and the resulting tensioning stresses. The procedure followed in the theoretical model determines the identation load by equating the external power of loading with the power of storing in the elastic zones and of internal dissipation in the plastic zone.The residual stresses obtained by superpositioning the stresses due to unloading were generally in good agreement with the experimentally determined tensioning stresses outside the rolled region. The theory developed can be very useful in predicting tensioning stresses for a given rolling load and roller geometry.
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