A Novel Objective Method for Steel Degradation Rate Evaluation
Justyna Kasińska, Paweł Malinowski, Piotr Matusiewicz, Włodzimierz Makieła, Leopold Barwicki, Dana Bolibruchova · 2024
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Description
Justyna Kasińska and co-authors present a non-destructive way to rate how steel microstructure degrades in service, in a methods paper from 2024. Power plant parts creep and wear at the grain level over long runs, and judging that wear guides safety calls. Cutting samples out for study is not always an option.
Their method presses a replica film onto the steel surface to copy its microstructure, then reads the copy with image analysis. Measures such as mean chord length and grain area from replicas matched those from cut specimens closely. The authors argue the replica route faithfully mirrors the real structure. They also flag visual methods and AI as the road ahead, with hurdles still to clear.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Justyna Kasińska, Paweł Malinowski, Piotr Matusiewicz, Włodzimierz Makieła, Leopold Barwicki, Dana Bolibruchova |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |