Damage Assessment of Specimens Made of Steel 09G2S Exposed to Low-Cycle Fatigue with the Help of Acoustic Emission Monitoring Method

摘要

Cyclic impact of external parameters on the structure, such as the daily change of temperature, change of operating parameters (pressure, temperature, volumes of loaded raw material) may lead to the brittle fracture of the equipment material with fast propagation of the main crack. In view of this, there is a need to use the nondestructive test methods which allow determining the critical level of damage accumulation. The article considers the pattern of change in properties as a result of low-cyclic loading by studying the parameters of acoustic signal. Changes in acoustic emission (AE) parameters were measured in the process of uniaxial tension of specimens with different degrees of accumulated damage. Upon processing of these AE parameters, stages of damage accumulation in cyclic fatigue were determined. Thus, is was determined that acoustic-emission diagnostics is sensitive to the said changes and may be used for assessment of the damage degree of 09G2S steel specimens.