The present disclosure relates to a calibration steel sheet and an inspection device used for sensor calibration, and a method of manufacturing a calibration steel sheet.
As a general hardness measurement method, a destructive method of measuring hardness strength according to the shape thereof by applying force with a specific load to the surface of the object to be measured is widely used. This method is a method of calculating the hardness value by measuring the shape of the section to be destroyed. However, in the case of a generally used steel plate, the length is several meters to several tens of meters, and the width is several meters, and in order to measure the hardness of the entire area of the steel sheet, it is practically impossible to measure the hardness of the entire section using related art methods.
As in Patent Document 1 or Patent Document 2, a technology has been developed to measure the characteristics of a steel sheet by generating eddy currents in the steel sheet through a coil to which AC power is applied without contact, but there is a problem in which accuracy is insufficient and the plate-like material cannot be measured quickly and accurately.
On the other hand, Patent Document 2 discloses the configurations in which an eddy current is generated in the steel sheet through a coil to which AC power is applied, a sensor for measuring the characteristics of the steel sheet is used while calibrating the sensitivity with a correction steel sheet installed, and the test piece is inserted or contains artificial defects caused by arc strikes. In the case of such a correction steel sheet, there may be a problem that it is insufficient to calibrate precise sensitivity.
An aspect of the present disclosure is to provide a calibration steel sheet for quickly and accurately calibrating sensitivity of a sensor in hardness measurement in which a sudden signal change does not occur, an inspection device including the same, and a method of manufacturing a calibration steel sheet.
In order to achieve the above object, the present disclosure provides the following calibration steel sheet, an inspection device including the same, and a method of manufacturing the calibration steel sheet.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a steel sheet for sensor calibration having a long side and a short side and used for calibration of a sensor includes a first portion having a first hardness and a second portion having a second hardness higher than the first hardness, wherein the first portion and the second portion are disposed in different positions in a short side direction, and the first portion and the second portion have a phase transformed from austenite grains of the same composition.
In an embodiment, the second portion may have a hardness higher than the first portion by 50 Hv or more, and the first portion and the second portion may be formed extending in a long side direction.
In an embodiment, the second portion may have a hardness of 250 Hv or more.
In an embodiment, the steel sheet for sensor calibration may include a third portion having the third hardness, wherein the third hardness may be greater than the first hardness and less than the second hardness, the third portion may be disposed in a different position to those of the first and second portions in the short side direction, and the third portion may have a phase transformed from austenite grains.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an electromagnetic inspection device capable of calibration, as an electromagnetic sensor calibration device, includes a sensor body including a plurality of electromagnetic sensors disposed in a width direction of a steel sheet to be measured; a moving unit connected to the sensor body and moving the sensor body; and a steel sheet for sensor calibration disposed in a different position to that of the steel sheet to be measured, wherein the steel sheet for sensor calibration is the steel sheet for sensor calibration described above, the steel sheet for sensor calibration has the same material and width as the steel sheet to be measured, and the moving unit is configured to have a moving distance equal to or greater than the width of the calibration steel sheet on the steel sheet for sensor calibration.
In an embodiment, a calibration unit connected to the plurality of electromagnetic sensors may be further included, wherein the calibration unit may calibrate the plurality of electromagnetic sensors based on a measurement value obtained by measuring the first portion and a measurement value obtained by measuring the second portion in the plurality of electromagnetic sensors.
In an embodiment, the calibration unit may perform calibration by converting the measured value measured by the electromagnetic sensor into hardness, the same as the hardness of the measured portion.
In an embodiment, the steel sheet to be measured and the steel sheet for sensor calibration may have the same length and thickness.
In an embodiment, a measurement area in which the steel sheet to be measured is disposed and a calibration area in which the steel sheet for sensor calibration is disposed may be disposed side by side.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method of manufacturing a calibration steel sheet, as a method of manufacturing a steel sheet for sensor calibration, includes a heating operation of heating the steel sheet in a heating furnace; a rolling operation of rolling a heated steel sheet with a rolling roll; and a cooling operation of cooling a rolled steel sheet, wherein in the cooling operation, the steel sheet includes a first portion and a second portion in different positions in a width direction of the steel sheet, and the cooling rates of the first portion and the second portion are different.
In an embodiment, in the cooling operation, an adjustment of the cooling rate may be performed by adjusting a cooling quantity of a corresponding portion.
In an embodiment, in the cooling operation, the cooling rate of the second portion may be higher than the first portion.
In an embodiment, in the cooling operation, the cooling rate may be controlled by adjusting an amount of cooling water supplied in a width direction and a longitudinal direction of the steel sheet.
Through the configuration, the present disclosure may provide a calibration steel sheet for calibrating the sensitivity of a sensor in hardness measurement in which a sudden signal change does not occur, an inspection device including the same, and a method of manufacturing a calibration steel sheet.
Hereinafter, detailed embodiments of the present disclosure will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The thick plate may be used as an oil pipe or gas pipe, and in this case, rigidity and sour resistance are required so that there are no problems caused by materials passing through the inside. Generally, Thermo-Mechanical Control Process Steel (TMCP) is used as a thick plate with rigidity and sour resistance.
In such a thick plate, in the case in which the hardness of the thick plate is high hardness (250 Hv) higher than the standard hardness of 200 Hv, hydrogen induced cracking (HIC) may occur in which such a high hardness portion reacts with H2S under high-pressure conditions to generate cracks and destroy the pipe. This content is also disclosed in “DNV-OS-F101 (Submarine Pipeline System)” or “API 5L Specification for Line Pipe”.
Therefore, it is necessary to accurately determine the hardness of the subsurface portion of the thick plate to prevent defects that may occur in the future. In particular, in the case of occurrence of an accident in a raw material transport pipe, complex problems such as an environmental pollution as well as human/material loss significantly occur, and thus, accurate hardness measurement is required for the entire area of high-strength, high-corrosion-resistant steel thick plate.
There may be several factors that cause high hardness in thick plates, but there are two well-known factors, carburization and local supercooling, and
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In the case of an electromagnetic inspection device, the electromagnetic inspection device is a device in which an electric field or magnetic field is applied to a steel plate, and a signal changed by the material characteristics of the steel plate is sensed, or an additional sensor is disposed to measure current/voltage/magnetic field strength and the like generated by the material characteristics of the steel plate, thereby inspecting characteristics of the steel plate.
Hardness is also a kind of material property, for example, when inspecting with an eddy current measuring device and when the hardness value increases, the measured signal value becomes smaller (an increase in energy loss) due to the characteristic that the width of the hysteresis curve increases in the B-H curve, and by using this, the hardness value of the material may be measured. However, since there are various factors affecting the signal to be measured, it is difficult to know whether the measured signal value is changed by hardness or by other factors such as residual stress, potential, and residual magnetization. This situation is the same even in the case of a leakage flux measuring device other than an eddy current measuring device.
On the other hand, in the case of an electromagnetic inspection device, measurement is performed through a plurality of sensors for rapid inspection. In the case of respective sensors, even if the same object is measured, since the sensing values are different, it is necessary to calibrate this, and at this time, the calibration work usually utilizes a material of which exact value is known.
Usually, a small sample of which the exact value is known is prepared, and the sensor passes through the sample to calibrate the measured signal value to a known value, and as mentioned above, the hardness of the sample is accurately known, but the information for other factors is not accurate, and therefore, it cannot be said that the conditions are the same as the measurement target, and this makes calibration difficult.
Alternatively, a high-hardness part is made by creating artificial defects in the steel sheet. In order to create a high-hardness part, the case of arcing—in which a material is melted and then solidified to form high hardness—is disclosed in Patent Document 1.
Therefore, in the case of simply constructing a calibration plate based on the hardness value, since calibration is performed based on defects that are different from actual defects, the signal value is affected by factors other than hardness, and thus, accurate measurement is not possible, and this makes inspection of defects due to local supercooling more difficult.
Although the present disclosure is described mainly on the eddy current inspection device in an embodiment, the electromagnetic inspection device is not limited to the eddy current inspection device and may be applied to various electromagnetic inspection devices.
The present disclosure provides a calibration steel sheet capable of calibrating an electromagnetic sensor to accurately measure a high-hardness steel plate with an electromagnetic sensor, and a method of manufacturing the same, and has the basic concept to create a local supercooling defect that is difficult to sense on a calibration steel sheet and to calibrate an electromagnetic sensor based thereon. In addition, the factor that may affect the signal value of the electromagnetic sensor in the calibration steel sheet is made the same as the steel sheet to be measured, such that the relationships between the reference value obtained by actual measurement and the signal value of the sensor are easily and quickly matched, thereby enabling rapid and accurate measurement without deviation between sensors.
After that, it is cooled in the cooling operation (S130), and the cooling state is illustrated in
When cooled by the equipment as illustrated in
In the case of the calibration steel sheet (CP) of the present disclosure, it is a steel sheet having a short side (width direction, X direction in
Respective regions have the same composition, but are cooled at different cooling rates, and therefore, the fractions of the phases transformed in the austenite grains are different from each other. The higher the higher hardness region is, the higher the bainite fraction may be, and the lower the lower hardness region is, the higher the ferrite fraction may be.
Since the calibration steel sheet (CP) of the present disclosure has different hardnesses in the width direction, a plurality of hardnesses required for calibration may be provided. In addition, since it is manufactured with the same composition and size as the steel sheet P to be measured, it may be magnetized/demagnetized in the same manner during magnetization or demagnetization. That is, in that the degree of magnetization/demagnetization does not vary due to the size, factors to be considered when measuring the steel sheet P to be measured and when measuring the calibration steel sheet CP may be reduced, and accurate calibration may be provided.
In addition, since the heating and rolling operations (S110 and S120) go through the same operations as the steel sheet P to be measure, the factors affecting magnetization in the heating and rolling operations (S110 and S120), for example, the residual stress corresponds to the same or at least to a similar level, and this guarantees that the magnitude of the signal that changes as the hardness changes in the calibration steel sheet (CP) may also be obtained equally in the steel sheet (P) to be measured.
It is advantageous for calibration to have a hardness difference of 50 Hv or more between the low hardness region (A) and the high hardness region (B or D), and it is desirable that the high hardness region (B or D) is 250 Hv or more with the possibility of hydrogen induced cracking (HIC) for accurate inspection after calibration.
It is also possible to have a medium hardness region (C) between the low hardness region (A) and the high hardness region (B or D), and accurate calibration may be possible by providing a plurality of different hardness regions (A, B, C, and D) including the medium hardness region (C) based on at least three points.
On the other hand,
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The sensor body 100 has a configuration in which the plurality of electromagnetic sensors 110 are arranged in a plurality of rows taken in the width direction (X direction) of the steel sheet. In this embodiment, the sensor array is configured to measure the width of the steel sheet at one time, but is not limited thereto, and it is also possible to measure while being moved in the width direction of the steel sheet by the moving unit.
The electromagnetic sensor 110 measures hardness using an electromagnetic method, and may be, for example, an eddy current measurement sensor or a leakage flux measurement sensor, and in this embodiment, is an eddy current measurement sensor as mentioned above.
The moving unit is configured to move the sensor body 100 in the X direction or in the X and Y directions while maintaining the same distance with respect to the surface of the steel plate, and may include a linear movement unit (not illustrated) for linearly moving the sensor body 100 between a support portion 130 and a guide bar 120 on both sides and the sensor body 100 and the guide bar 120. In the case of the moving unit, as long as horizontal movement is possible, various structures may be applied.
In the case of the electromagnetic inspection device 1 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the sensor body 100 is moved to a measurement area Z1 and a calibration area Z2 by the moving unit. The measurement area Z1 and the calibration area Z2 may be located side by side.
The calibration steel sheet CP is disposed in the calibration area Z2, and the steel sheet P to be measured may be supplied to and discharged from the measurement area Z1. When inspecting the steel sheet P to be measured in the measurement area Z1, the steel sheet P to be measured may be moved by a conveying unit such as a roller while the sensor body 100 is fixed. Alternatively, when the steel sheet P to be measured is supplied to the measurement area Z1, it is possible to inspect the steel sheet while the sensor body 100 is moved in the Y direction by the moving unit, and it is also possible to test by a combination of the two.
In this embodiment, in the case of the electromagnetic inspection device 1, in the calibration area Z2, the moving unit may move the sensor body 100 in the width direction at least as much as the width W of the steel sheet P to be measured or the calibration steel plate CP. Since the width of the calibration steel sheet CP is the same as the width W of the steel plate P to be measured, in order for all electromagnetic sensors 110 to inspect the entire regions of the calibration steel sheet (CP) in the width direction, the moving unit should move the sensor body 100 by at least the sum of the width of the calibration steel sheet CP and a maximum distance between the electromagnetic sensors. The maximum distance between the electromagnetic sensors means the distance between the electromagnetic sensors on both ends in the X direction. This appearance is illustrated in
In a case in which the calibration area (Z2) is the same as the measurement area (Z1), that is, even when the calibration steel sheet CP is supplied/discharged to the same area as the steel sheet P to be measured, the moving unit should measure while moving the sensor body in the width direction of the steel sheet by the sum of the width (W) and the maximum distance between the electromagnetic sensors. In this case, moving may mean relative motion.
The calibration method will be described later with reference to
As illustrated in
The calibration unit 140 connected to the electromagnetic sensor 110 selects a plurality of areas having different hardnesses. For example, as illustrated in
As mentioned above, the steel sheet including the region of high hardness, for example, 250 Hv by the sensor 110 is found by the electromagnetic inspection device 1, and after removing the high hardness region through an additional process or undergoing heat treatment to lower the hardness, it is supplied to consumers as a product. Therefore, it is possible to provide a thick plate material free from hydrogen-induced cracks.
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In the present disclosure, a calibration steel sheet may be manufactured by changing only the cooling operation in the actual manufacturing process, and in the case of utilizing this, there is no need to consider a number of factors, which is advantageous for continuously manufacturing and calibration steel sheets.
In the above, the embodiment of the present disclosure has been mainly described, but the present disclosure is not limited to the above embodiment and may be variously modified and implemented, of course.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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10-2020-0179341 | Dec 2020 | KR | national |
Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
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PCT/KR2021/018740 | 12/10/2021 | WO |