“…Residual stress evaluation (RSE) by grazing incidence diffraction has been described by several authors (Segmuller and Murakami, 1985;Van Acker et al, 1994;Wieder, 1995b;Fewster, 1996). We applied the method of our previous work (Zendehroud et al, 1993(Zendehroud et al, , 1995. The idea is to include as many as accessible reflections into the evaluation.…”