Nondestructive examination of recovery stage during annealing of a cold-rolled low-carbon steel using eddy current testing technique

Autor: Mehrdad Kashefi, Claire Davis, Sadegh Ghanei, Mohammad Mazinani, M. Seyfpour
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation. 33:165-174
ISSN: 1477-2671
1058-9759
DOI: 10.1080/10589759.2017.1409746
Popis: The recovery process in steel is usually investigated by conventional destructive tests that are expensive, time-consuming and also cumbersome. In this study, an alternative non-destructive test technique (based on eddy current testing) is used to characterise the recovery process during annealing of cold-rolled low-carbon steels. For assessing the reliability of eddy current results corresponding to different levels of recovery, X-ray line broadening analysis is also employed. It is shown that there is a strong relationship between eddy current outputs and the extent to which recovery occurs at different annealing temperatures. Accordingly, the non-destructive eddy current test technique represents the potential to be used as a reliable process for detection of the occurrence of recovery in the steel microstructure.
Databáze: OpenAIRE