Abstract:
A method of producing continuously cast pieces of steel, using a method of measuring the solidified state of continuously cast pieces by means of a sensor placed out of contact with the cast piece, comprising the steps of measuring the solidified state of the cast piece along the casting direction, detecting the position of the crater end from the measured solidified state, and controlling at least one condition selected from the conditions consisting of casting speed and secondary cooling water quantity on the basis of the position of the detected crater end, wherein the method of measuring the solidified state of the cast piece comprises the steps of cooling the cast piece until the surface layer undergoes a-transformation, transmitting the transverse waves in electromagnetic ultrasonic waves to the cooled cast piece, receiving the signal after it has penetrated the cast piece, and determining the solidified state on the basis of the received signal.
Abstract:
A surface defect detection method according to the present invention is a method of optically detecting a surface defect of a steel product, and includes an irradiating step of irradiating illumination lights from different directions to an identical inspection target portion by using at least two distinguishable light sources; and a detecting step of acquiring images by reflection lights of the respective illumination lights and detecting a surface defect in the inspection target portion by performing difference processing between the acquired images. An incident angle of the illumination lights of the respective light sources are within a range of 60° to 82.5° relative to the inspection target portion.
Abstract:
To provide an ultrasonic flaw detection method, an ultrasonic flaw detection apparatus, and a pipe manufacturing method that can detect even dent flaws or shallow flaws in a lapped form arisen on inner surfaces of metallic pipes such as steel pipes, included are a wave memory 11 that acquires and holds waveform data of an echo signal when an ultrasonic probe 2, generating ultrasonic signals toward an inner surface B of a steel pipe 1, and the steel pipe 1 are moved relative to each other; a signal analyzing unit 12 that calculates a path length up to receiving an echo signal from the inner surface B and a change rate of the path length based on the waveform data held; and a flaw detector 13 that detects a flaw BW on the inner surface B based on the path length and the change rate of the path length.
Abstract:
A microstructure form of a welding area is quickly and accurately (or clearly) imaged in a nondestructive inspection. Specifically, while a cross section of a test object S orthogonal to a welding direction is being scanned with an ultrasonic beam B, a reflected signal from the inside of the test object is received. On the basis of the received reflected signal, the scanned cross section is imaged to inspect a microstructure of a welding area 2. In imaging the welding area, a reflected wave from the microstructure of the welding area is enhanced by subtracting a moving average waveform Ra at an average score m to remove a slowly varying component of the received signal, extracting the reflected signal from the microstructure of the welding area, and amplifying only the extracted reflected signal. Alternatively, a reflected wave from the microstructure of the welding area is enhanced by scanning a cross section of the test object orthogonal to the welding direction with a focused ultrasonic beam at a plurality of different positions in the welding direction, imaging the scanned cross sections on the basis of the resulting ultrasonic received signals, superimposing a plurality of images obtained by scanning at the plurality of positions in the welding direction, and retaining a maximal value of superimposed pixels.
Abstract:
Disclosed are an ultrasonic testing system and an ultrasonic testing technique for a pipe member capable of detecting minute flaws of several hundreds of microns or less located at positions in the wall thickness inside portion of a welded portion of a seam-welded pipe and the like without omission and further easily setting optimum conditions when the size of the pipe is changed. A transmitting beam, which is focused to the welded portion at an oblique angle, is transmitted using a part of the group of transducer elements of a linear array probe as a group of transducer elements for transmission, a receiving beam, which is focused at the focusing position of the transmitting beam at an oblique angle, is formed using the transducer elements of a portion different from the above group of transducer elements for transmission as a group of transducer elements for reception, and a flaw echo is received from the welded portion.
Title translation:VERFAHREN ZUROBERFLÄCHENPRÜFUNGVON STAHLROHREN,OBERFLÄCHENINSPEKTIONSVORRICHTUNG,HERSTELLUNGSSYSTEM,VERFAHREN ZUR SPEZIFIZIERUNG VON DEFEKTERZEUGENDEN STELLEN UND HERSTELLUNGSVERFAHREN
Abstract:
A control device 12 acquires a self-luminous image of a steel pipe captured when the steel pipe is hot, corrects the self-luminous image by uniformizing luminance variation in the circumferential direction of the self-luminous image, and detects a surface defect based on the corrected self-luminous image. The self-luminous image is preferably captured in a position behind a reducer. The diameter reduction rate applied by the reducer for the steel pipe is preferably equal to or greater than 110%. The luminance variation in the circumferential direction of the self-luminous image is uniformized by using a luminance distribution in the circumferential direction where the luminance in the longitudinal direction of the steel pipe is averaged. The luminance variation in the circumferential direction of the self-luminous image may be uniformized by using a difference in the luminance between a plurality of self-luminous images captured with the position in the longitudinal direction of the steel pipe changed.
Abstract:
A surface defect detecting method is a surface defect detecting method of optically detecting a surface defect of a steel pipe P, and includes an irradiation step of irradiating the same examination target part with illumination light beams L from different directions by using two distinguishable light sources 2a and 2b, and a detection step of obtaining images by reflected light beams of the respective illumination light beams L and detecting a surface defect in the examination target part by executing subtraction processing between the obtained images. Thereby, the surface defect is able to be accurately distinguished from scale or a harmless pattern.