Nondestructive Evaluation of Ageing Steel （无损评价老化钢）.pdfVIP

IV Conferencia Panamericana de END Buenos Aires – Octubre 2007 Nondestructive Evaluation of Ageing Steel Structures Iris Altpeter, Michael Kröning Fraunhofer Institute for Non-Destructive Testing IZFP Saarbrücken, 66123, Germany Telephone +49 (0) 681 / 9302 0 Telefax +49 (0) 681 / 9302 5901 iris.altpeter@izfp.fraunhofer.de, michael.kroening@izfp.fraunhofer.de João Gabriel H Ribeiro Centro de Avaliacao Nao Destrutiva CAND, Eletronuclear Praia de Itaoma CEP 23903-000, Angra dos Reis – RJ, Brazil Telephone +55 24 3362.9301 Telefax +55 24 3362.9790 greaves@eletronuclear.gov.br Abstract Usually, materials are inspected by nondestructive methods to detect and evaluate defects that may cause failure under the designed operation conditions. However, the structure may also fail due to uncertainties of material properties like strength or hardness, and may also suffer from unexpected degradation during operation. A reliable NDE technique for detecting the inception of failure during early stages of embrittlement is presently not available. For the characterization of material degradation phenomena, nondestructive methods that are sensitive to the microstructure of the material are required and useful. However, they must be applied in the field. The difference between Microscopy and NDE poses a challenge when dealing with the scanning of macroscopic objects. The presented results were t