Inspection of reactor steel degradation by magnetic adaptive testing

Gábor Vértesy; Antal Gasparics; Ildikó Szenthe; Ferenc Gillemot; Inge Uytdenhouwen

doi:10.3390/ma12060963

Inspection of reactor steel degradation by magnetic adaptive testing

Gábor Vértesy, Antal Gasparics, Ildikó Szenthe, Ferenc Gillemot, Inge Uytdenhouwen

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Abstract

Degradation of nuclear pressure vessel steel materials, 15Kh2NMFA type and A508 Cl2 type (definition is given in the text) were investigated by a novel magnetic nondestructive testing method, so-called Magnetic Adaptive Testing (MAT), which is based on systematic measurement and evaluation of minor magnetic hysteresis loops. The measured samples were thermally treated by a special step cooling procedure, which generated structural changes in the material. It was found that this type of degradation can be easily followed by magnetic measurements. Charpy impact test were also performed and the results were compared with the magnetic parameters. In case of 15Kh2NMFA steel, a good, reliable and closely linear correlation was found between magnetic descriptors and transition temperature.

Original language	English
Article number	963
Number of pages	12
Journal	Materials
Volume	12
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12060963
State	Published - 22 Mar 2019

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