Quality control of the performance of mechanical components subjected to hardness processing is a topic of fundamental importance in the field of automotive. The lack of hardening, may cause failures with serious repercussions. The industry and the companies responsible for the hardening processes as well as for the quality control of the mechanical components are continuously seeking for improvements in the standard destructive tests performed by Vicker or Brinell durometers. In this paper a new methodology based on photothermal radiometry (PTR) is introduced for NDT of steel mechanical components for vehicles [1-4]. Such a methodology is useful for a fast nondestructive and noninvasive inspection of the hardness depth profiles, of the effective hardening depth, of possible lack of hardening. We describe here a PTR compact system, fully automatized with robotic arms to measure the hardness depth profile of S53CG steel samples. For the calibration of the system we have applied photothermal deflection technique to measure the thermal diffusivity of the S53CG steel, so to determine the hardness/thermal diffusivity anticorrelation curve. A thermal diffusivity changes from 13 x 10-6 m2/s (unhardened) to 9 x 10-6 m2/s (at 300 HV) has been found. Preliminary results show accurate hardness profile reconstructions in comparison with the hardness measurements by standard Vicker test.

Hardness depth profiling by photothermal radiometry of steel mechanical components in vehicles / DEL VECCHIO, Raffaello; Leahu, Grigore; Michele, Deni; Gabriele, Guerrini; Roberto, Biasion; Patrik, Moro; LI VOTI, Roberto. - vol.5:(2018), pp. 68-68. (Intervento presentato al convegno 62nd Course International School of Quantum Electronics tenutosi a Erice).

Hardness depth profiling by photothermal radiometry of steel mechanical components in vehicles

DEL VECCHIO, RAFFAELLO;Grigore Leahu;Roberto Li Voti
2018

Abstract

Quality control of the performance of mechanical components subjected to hardness processing is a topic of fundamental importance in the field of automotive. The lack of hardening, may cause failures with serious repercussions. The industry and the companies responsible for the hardening processes as well as for the quality control of the mechanical components are continuously seeking for improvements in the standard destructive tests performed by Vicker or Brinell durometers. In this paper a new methodology based on photothermal radiometry (PTR) is introduced for NDT of steel mechanical components for vehicles [1-4]. Such a methodology is useful for a fast nondestructive and noninvasive inspection of the hardness depth profiles, of the effective hardening depth, of possible lack of hardening. We describe here a PTR compact system, fully automatized with robotic arms to measure the hardness depth profile of S53CG steel samples. For the calibration of the system we have applied photothermal deflection technique to measure the thermal diffusivity of the S53CG steel, so to determine the hardness/thermal diffusivity anticorrelation curve. A thermal diffusivity changes from 13 x 10-6 m2/s (unhardened) to 9 x 10-6 m2/s (at 300 HV) has been found. Preliminary results show accurate hardness profile reconstructions in comparison with the hardness measurements by standard Vicker test.
2018
62nd Course International School of Quantum Electronics
Photoacoustics, Photothermal, Radiometry, Steel
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04b Atto di convegno in volume
Hardness depth profiling by photothermal radiometry of steel mechanical components in vehicles / DEL VECCHIO, Raffaello; Leahu, Grigore; Michele, Deni; Gabriele, Guerrini; Roberto, Biasion; Patrik, Moro; LI VOTI, Roberto. - vol.5:(2018), pp. 68-68. (Intervento presentato al convegno 62nd Course International School of Quantum Electronics tenutosi a Erice).
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