Study of residual stresses in Ti-7Al using theory and experiments

•Deformation and resulting residual stresses were studied in a Ti-7Al alloy.•Crystal-scale modeling was combined with high energy X-ray diffraction (HEXD).•HEXD data was used to initialize the model microstructure and rate sensitivity.•Stress values and slip activities are determined at the grain and subgrain level.•Prismatic slip was dominant and accurate rate sensitivity was critical to modeling.