**Acknowledgements**

The authors would like to thank the German Research Society for the financial support of research activities under grants Al 442/5-2, SCHM 746/71-2 and KI 1135/2-2.

Moreover, the authors would like to thank the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy for the financial support of research activities under grant 1501523.

illustrates the calibrated BEMI scan of pre-deformed sample of the high-strength steel, in which it shows the stress distributions of the sample in the scan area.

*Residual stress distribution in front of a crack tip in high-strength steel using BEMI calibrated by means of*

*RESTMAB. The overlaying sketch in dark gray shows the notch and crack [20].*

*Relation between measured residual stress and estimated residual stress with RESTMAB for high-strength*

*New Challenges in Residual Stress Measurements and Evaluation*

*(a) Micro-residual stress distributions measured with the calibrated BEMI using the RESTMAB for 1% predeformed sample. (b) Line scan extracted from the scan, in which it shows different orders of residual stresses*

*measured with the calibrated BEMI for high-strength steel [20].*

**Figure 19.**

*steel [20].*

**Figure 20.**

**Figure 21.**

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In another application, BEMI calibrated with RESTMAB was used to determine the stress distribution in front of a fatigue crack tip. **Figure 21** illustrates the stress
