Using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment

Acoustic emission (AE) is now a well established technique for damage detection, quantification and location in large structures. It appears in its principle as a technique providing real time information about the origins and the importance of the degradation mechanisms inside the material. This pa...

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Main Author: Hrairi, Meftah
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Language:English
Published: Maney Publishing 2009
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description Acoustic emission (AE) is now a well established technique for damage detection, quantification and location in large structures. It appears in its principle as a technique providing real time information about the origins and the importance of the degradation mechanisms inside the material. This paper demonstrates the use of AE technique to monitor the structural damage using data obtained from a phenomenological study of hydrogen induced cracking of a low alloy steel pressure vessel. In addition to the feature extraction, correlation and clustering procedures applied to the AE signals, data were studied in time and frequency domain to characterise and to find out the relation between AE parameter and damage sources. Moreover, the characterisation of the corrosive mechanisms using the optical microscopy as well as the scanning electron microscopy was carried out. These identified corrosive mechanisms and the sources of generated AE signals were discussed.
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spelling iium-65392011-11-24T02:09:50Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/6539/ Using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment Hrairi, Meftah TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery Acoustic emission (AE) is now a well established technique for damage detection, quantification and location in large structures. It appears in its principle as a technique providing real time information about the origins and the importance of the degradation mechanisms inside the material. This paper demonstrates the use of AE technique to monitor the structural damage using data obtained from a phenomenological study of hydrogen induced cracking of a low alloy steel pressure vessel. In addition to the feature extraction, correlation and clustering procedures applied to the AE signals, data were studied in time and frequency domain to characterise and to find out the relation between AE parameter and damage sources. Moreover, the characterisation of the corrosive mechanisms using the optical microscopy as well as the scanning electron microscopy was carried out. These identified corrosive mechanisms and the sources of generated AE signals were discussed. Maney Publishing 2009-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/6539/2/cst253.pdf Hrairi, Meftah (2009) Using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment. Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology, 44 (4). pp. 251-260. ISSN 1743-2782 (O), 1478-422X (P) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/cest/2009/00000044/00000004/art00004 http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/174327808X303446
spellingShingle TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
Hrairi, Meftah
Using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment
title Using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment
title_full Using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment
title_fullStr Using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment
title_full_unstemmed Using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment
title_short Using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment
title_sort using acoustic emission and fractography to evaluate defects induced by corrosive environment
topic TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
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