Abstract: The base pipe of the bimetallic composite pipe is taken as the research object,and the digital image correlation (DIC) method and the blind hole method are combined,and used to measure its residual stress distribution law. The results show that the residual stresses in the circumferential and axial directions in the outer wall of the base pipe of the bimetallic composite pipe are tensile stresses. The maximum residual stresses in the circumferential and the axial directions are separately 252.68 MPa and 241.16 MPa;the standard deviations are 5.18 MPa and 4.54 MPa. The minimum residual stresses in the said two directions are seperately 105.56 MPa and 113.96 MPa;the standard deviations are 2.68 MPa and 3.41 MPa. It is proved that the residual stress of the outer wall of the base pipe of the bimetallic composite pipe can be measured accurately by means of using the DIC method together with the bind hole method so as to meet the requirement for the engineering measurement.