Determination of the steel axial stresses in memory mode by the exponential law of magnetoelastic demagnetization

Magnetic and magnetoelastic methods of stress control are based on changes in the magnetic parameters of steel upon deformation. However, the magnetic properties of different steel grades, and even of the same grade in different heats may differ noticeably. The inhomogeneity of the magnetic and magnetoelastic properties of steel attributed to variations in the chemical composition, as well as in the modes of rolling and heating during manufacture affects the accuracy of stress control being a common disadvantage of magnetoelastic methods used for monitoring the stress-strain state of steel structures. The goal of the study is to consider the possibility of monitoring uniaxial mechanical stresses in steel structures in the «magnetoelastic memory» mode, based on H(σ) dependence of the strength of magnetic field of scattering local remanent magnetization of steel on the uniaxial stresses. The exponential function is shown to provide a satisfactory description of the experimental dependence of the strength of the magnetic field of scattering of the permanently magnetized 17G1S and 15KhSND steels on the stresses induced in steels by tension, compression, and impact. To improve the accuracy of the control, we propose to introduce the magnetoelastic sensitivity of steel (MSS) into the accepted form of the exponential dependence H(σ). A way to MSS determination not only on laboratory samples under ideal conditions, but directly on the construction under control (which reduces the errors of the control attributed to variations in the magnetic and magnetoelastic properties of steels) is considered. To implement the proposed procedure, prototypes of the devices for static and dynamic local loading of metal structure elements have been developed and manufactured. The devices have undergone a pilot test when monitoring the stress-strain state of the load-bearing beams of an automobile overpass. Using the developed devices, a local dosed loading with a hemispherical indenter was carried out through shock or static loading of a pre-magnetized region of the structure resulted in a decrease in the intensity of the magnetic field of scattering. A procedure for monitoring uniaxial stresses in steel structure elements by the method of magnetoelastic «memory» is proposed taking into account the measured magnetoelastic sensitivity of their material.

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