The present disclosure relates to a device for inspecting defects present in an interior portion or a surface of a steel plate using a leakage magnetic flux.
Technologies for detecting defects in a steel plate may include an ultrasonic test, a magnetic flux leakage inspection, a magnetic particle inspection, an eddy-current inspection, an optical inspection method and the like.
Among these, a magnetic flux leakage inspection is a scheme of detecting a portion of magnetic flux leaked to the outside of a steel plate due to defects present in a steel plate when the steel plate is magnetized in a certain direction, using a magnetic sensor or a hall sensor. Such a magnetic flux leakage inspection may have superior performance in terms of the detection of crack defects occurring in a surface or below a surface layer of a ferromagnetic metal, and an example of an inspection device using the magnetic flux leakage described above is disclosed in Cited Document (Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2010-0076838).
Referring to
However, according to the Cited Document, the following limitations are present.
First, as illustrated in
Second, as illustrated in
Third, since defects present in a surface and an interior portion of the steel plate 10 may be simultaneously detected, it may be difficult to separately detect a surface defect and an interior defect or accurately determining a position of the interior defect may be unfeasible.
An aspect of the present disclosure provides a device for inspecting defects in a steel plate, the device being capable of accurately detecting defects in surfaces or in interior portions of the steel plate.
An aspect of the present disclosure also provides a device for inspecting defects in a steel plate, the device allowing for efficient maintenance and management thereof.
An aspect of the present disclosure also provides a device for inspecting defects in a steel plate, the device being capable of separately detecting a surface defect and an interior defect or accurately determining a position of the interior defect.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a defect inspection device for inspecting defects in a steel plate may include: a plurality of inspection units arranged in a width direction of the steel plate, wherein each of the plurality of inspection units includes a magnetizer including a first magnetized pole and a second magnetized pole corresponding to each other, and generating magnetic flux for magnetizing the steel plate in a direction inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a rolling direction of the steel plate; and a detector detecting a leakage magnetic flux leaked due to defects present in an interior portion or a surface of the steel plate, using the magnetic flux generated by the magnetizer.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the second magnetized pole may be spaced apart from the first magnetized pole by a predetermined distance and disposed to be parallel to the first magnetized pole, in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the first magnetized pole is inclined, and the first magnetized pole and the second magnetized pole may have the same length.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the first magnetized pole and the second magnetized pole may be inclined at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the rolling direction.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the plurality of inspection units may be provided in modular form such that the inspection units are individually detachable.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the magnetizer may have a permanent magnet and a yoke extended to both sides of the permanent magnet, and the first magnetized pole may be provided on one end of the yoke and a second magnetized pole may be provided on the other end of the yoke.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the permanent magnet may be a cylindrical permanent magnet.
The cylindrical permanent magnet may be provided in the magnetizer such that the cylindrical permanent magnet rotates about an axis of a cylinder extended in a length direction of the cylinder, and a magnitude of the magnetic flux induced in the yoke may be adjustable.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the plurality of inspection units may include upper inspection units disposed on an upper portion of the steel plate; and lower inspection units disposed on a lower portion of the steel plate.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the defect inspection device may further include a defect analyzer analyzing a defect position in a thickness direction of the steel plate, based on a phase and a magnitude of a signal measured by each of the upper inspection units and lower inspection units.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the detector may include a plurality of hall sensors, an interval between the hall sensors adjacent to each other being 60 μm or less.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, in the plurality of inspection units, the first and second magnetized poles may be disposed such that adjacent magnetized poles in the inspection units adjacent to each other are identical to each other.
According to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, two magnetized poles configuring a magnetizer have the same length, such that accurate defect detection may be enabled.
According to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, a plurality of inspection units are provided in modular form such that the inspection units are individually detachable. Thus, maintenance and management efficiency of an inspection device may be increased.
According to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, the inspection units are disposed on both upper and lower portions of the steel plate to detect a leakage magnetic flux, a surface defect and an interior defect may be separately detected and a position of the interior defect may be accurately determined.
Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure may, however, be exemplified in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the specific embodiments set forth herein. In the drawings, the shapes and dimensions of elements may be exaggerated for clarity, and the same reference numerals will be used throughout to designate the same or like elements.
Hereinafter, the inspection unit will be described in detail.
As illustrated in
By way of example, in a case in which N-pole and S-pole of the permanent magnet PM are vertically disposed, the lowest magnitude of magnetic flux is formed between the first magnetized pole 320c and the second magnetized pole 320d. In a case in which N-pole and S-pole of the permanent magnet PM are horizontally disposed, the highest magnitude of magnetic flux is formed between the first magnetized pole 320c and the second magnetized pole 320d. In addition, the first magnetized pole 320c and the second magnetized pole 320d may be disposed on an upper portion of the steel plate 10 in a direction inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a rolling direction, and a description thereof will be provided below with reference to
Further, the detector 320b may be disposed between the first magnetized pole 320c and the second magnetized pole 320d in the length direction of the cylindrical permanent magnet PM, while being spaced apart from the first magnetized pole 320c and the second magnetized pole 320d by predetermined distances. The detector 320b is provided to detect the leakage magnetic flux due to an interior or surface defect of the steel plate 10 and may include a magnetic sensor or a hall sensor. Further, the detector 320b may be an array formed of a plurality of hall elements and an interval L between adjacent hall sensors HS1 and HS2 may be 60 μm or less. According to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the interval between the adjacent hall sensors HS1 and HS2 may be significantly reduced, defect detection may be further precisely performed.
Moreover, according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the inspection units 320 may be provided in modular form and be individually detachable. In addition, the first magnetized pole 320c, the second magnetized pole 320d, the permanent magnet PM, and the detector 320b within each of the inspection units 320 may also be provided in modular form and the individual units may be separately detachable. The inspection device is provided in modular form as described above, maintenance and management efficiency of the inspection device may be increased.
Meanwhile,
According to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, as illustrated in reference numeral 410 of
Furthermore, depending on embodiments, as illustrated in reference numeral 420 of
Hereinafter, directions in which magnetized poles within the inspection units are disposed will be described in detail with reference to
As illustrated in
As described above, according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, two magnetized poles 320c and 320d configuring the magnetizer 320a have the same length, directions and degrees of intensity of magnetic flux formed in both ends of the magnetized poles 320c and 320d may be uniform, such that accurate defect detection may be enabled.
An operational principle of the inspection device according to the exemplary embodiment as described above will be explained.
Referring to
Next, the amplifier 330 may amplify the leakage magnetic flux detected in the inspection unit 320 at a predetermined ratio and then, transfer the amplified leakage magnetic flux to the defect detection unit 340. Finally, the defect detection unit 340 may detect the defects D in the steel plate 10 based on the leakage magnetic flux amplified by the amplifier 330.
Hereinafter, an inspection device and an operational principle thereof according to an exemplary embodiment will be described.
Referring to
Meanwhile, reference numeral 530 indicates an enlarged view of defects present in a thickness direction of the steel plate 10, in an upper view of
With regard to the respective defects D1 to D5, output signals from the upper inspection unit 320 and the lower inspection unit 520 are illustrated in
As illustrated in
On the contrary, in the case of the defect D5 formed in or adjacent to the lower surface of the steel plate 10, it can be seen that a phase of the output signal 541 from the lower inspection unit 520 is opposite to that of the output signal 540 from the upper inspection unit 320, and a magnitude of the output signal 541 from the lower inspection unit 520 is higher than that of the output signal 540 from the upper inspection unit 320. Thus, it can be seen that the defect D is formed in or adjacent to the lower surface of the steel plate 10.
On the other hand, in the case of the defect D3 formed in the central portion of the steel plate 10, it can be seen that the output signal 540 from the upper inspection unit 320 and the output signal 541 from the lower inspection unit 520 have the same degree of magnitude, but have opposite phases. Thus, it can be seen that the defect D is formed in the central portion of the steel plate 10.
As described above, the position of the defect D may be analyzed by comparing the phase and the magnitude of the output signal 540 from the upper inspection unit 320 with those of the output signal 541 from the lower inspection unit 520.
In addition to the graphical method described above, a defect position DP may be analyzed by calculating a defect function DF to which various factors are input, and a description thereof will be described with reference to
In
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the defect function DF may be calculated according to the following mathematical formula 1, based on several further factors in addition to the various factors described above.
DF=f(ΔM,A,S,Wf,L) [Mathematical Formula 1]
Here, DF denotes a defect function, ΔM denotes a difference in magnitudes of two output signals, A denotes an area of the output signal, S denotes a slope of a straight line formed by connecting a maximum value and a minimum value of the output signal, Wf denotes a defect type (an circle, an oval, a line or the like), and L denotes a value for compensating an interval between the detector and the steel plate.
The defect function DF to which the factors such as ΔM, A, S, Wf, and L are input may be variously implemented, and it is not limited thereto in the present disclosure.
However, hereinafter, the defect function DF to which only ΔM among the above-described factors such as ΔM, A, S, Wf, and L is input is calculated in
First, the defect detection unit 340 of
Thereafter, the defect detection unit 340 of
For example, in
As another example, in a case in which the difference ΔM (that is, the defect function DF) in magnitudes of the two output signals is 0 (when ΔM is 0, since the difference ΔM in magnitudes of the two output signals is the lowest, it may be previously confirmed that the defect D may be present in the center of the steel plate 10), it can be confirmed that the defect position DP is 1 and accordingly, the defect D is located in the point (the center) distant from the upper surface of the steel plate 10 by 0.6 mm.
In a case in which the difference ΔM in magnitudes of the two output signals ranges from 1 to 0, it may be analyzed that the defect D may be present in a certain point between the upper surface of the steel plate 10 and the center thereof (the point distant from the upper surface of the steel plate 10 by 0.6 mm)
As set forth above, according to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, the inspection units may be disposed on both upper and lower portions of the steel plate to detect a leakage magnetic flux, such that a surface defect and an interior defect may be separately detected and a position of the interior defect may be accurately determined.
While the present disclosure has been shown and described in connection with the embodiments and the drawings, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure as defined by the appended claims.
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