JP2013120082A - Ultrasonic flaw detection method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a flaw detection method capable of simultaneously detecting a surface flaw and an inner flaw of a solid round-bar steel.SOLUTION: A plurality of ultrasonic vibrators 3 capable of transmitting/receiving ultrasonic waves are arrayed so as to form a circular arc surface in a peripheral direction opposite to the outer periphery of a solid round-bar steel 1 arranged underwater, and an ultrasonic beam B is oscillated from a part of the ultrasonic vibrators 3 to the round-bar steel 1 to detect existence/non-existence of an inner flaw 11 of the round-bar steel 1 by a reflected wave R11 reflected from the inside of the round-bar steel 1 and received by the partial ultrasonic vibrator 3 and to detect existence/non-existence of a surface flaw 12 of the round-bar steel 1 by a reflected wave R12 of a surface wave S generated in the round-bar steel 1 and received by a part of another ultrasonic vibrator 3 excluding the partial ultrasonic vibrator 3.

Description

  The present invention relates to an ultrasonic flaw detection method, and more particularly to a flaw detection method capable of simultaneously detecting surface flaws and internal flaws of a round steel bar.

Patent Document 1 discloses a method for simultaneously detecting surface flaws and internal flaws. Here, the vertical probe is housed in the holder, and the transverse wave refraction angle is set to 70 ° to 80 °. Then, by generating a surface wave and a transverse wave at the same time and setting a detection gate for the reflected wave, the surface wave flaw detection and the transverse wave flaw detection are performed simultaneously.

JP 7-63731 A

  However, in the above conventional method, although it is possible to detect a circular pipe body such as an electric resistance steel pipe by utilizing the reflection of the transverse wave on the inner peripheral surface, the inspection of a solid round bar steel is actually There was a problem that it was difficult.

Therefore, the present invention solves such problems, and an object thereof is to provide a flaw detection method capable of simultaneously detecting a surface flaw and an internal flaw of a solid round steel bar.

In order to achieve the above object, in the first invention, a plurality of ultrasonic transducers (3) capable of receiving and oscillating ultrasonic waves facing the outer periphery of a solid round steel bar (1) disposed in water. Are arranged so as to form a circular arc surface in the circumferential direction, and an ultrasonic beam (B) is oscillated from a part of these ultrasonic transducers (3) toward the round steel bar (1), and the part of the ultrasonic waves The presence of internal flaws (11) in the round steel bar (1) is detected from the reflected wave (R11) from the inside of the round steel bar (1) received by the vibrator (3), and the above-mentioned part of the ultrasonic vibration Surface scratches on the round steel bar (1) from the reflected wave (R12) of the surface wave (S) generated on the round steel bar (1), which is received by some of the other ultrasonic transducers (3) excluding the child ( It is characterized by detecting the presence or absence of 12).

In the first aspect of the invention, the presence of internal flaws in the round bar steel by receiving the reflected wave from a part of the ultrasonic vibrators that oscillate the ultrasonic wave toward the solid round bar steel. The presence or absence of surface flaws in the round bar steel is detected by receiving reflected waves that can be detected and received by some of the ultrasonic transducers other than the ultrasonic transducers. Since surface flaws and internal flaws of a solid round steel bar can be detected simultaneously, a solid flaw detection of a solid round steel bar can be performed quickly.

In the second aspect of the invention, the ultrasonic wave (B) beam is oscillated while the region selected as the part of the ultrasonic transducers (3) is gradually moved from one end portion to the other end portion of the circular arc surface.

In the second aspect of the invention, since the ultrasonic (B) beam is oscillated while gradually moving from one end portion to the other end portion of the arcuate surface, the presence or absence of internal flaws in a wide range of the cross section to be inspected of the solid round bar Can be detected.

The reference numerals in the parentheses indicate the correspondence with specific means described in the embodiments described later.

  As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to detect a surface flaw and an internal flaw of a solid round bar steel at the same time, so that a rapid flaw detection of a solid round bar can be performed.

It is a schematic sectional drawing explaining the method of this invention. It is a wave form diagram of the reflected wave signal obtained with an ultrasonic transducer. It is a wave form diagram of the reflected wave signal obtained with an ultrasonic transducer. It is a schematic sectional drawing explaining the method of this invention. It is a schematic sectional drawing explaining the method of this invention.

The embodiment described below is merely an example, and various design improvements made by those skilled in the art without departing from the gist of the present invention are also included in the scope of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, the cross section of the inspection object of the solid round steel bar 1 is disposed in water with a known structure, and an internal flaw 11 and a surface flaw 12 are generated in the cross section of the inspection object. In an actual experiment, instead of the normal round steel bar 1, a material obtained by cutting it into a constant thickness is used. The internal flaw 11 is realized by forming a circular through hole with a drill or the like, and the surface flaw 12 is realized by forming a rectangular groove on the surface.

A phased array probe 2 is positioned outside the round bar 1. The phased array probe 2 has an inner side surface 21 facing the outer peripheral surface of the round bar steel 1 formed in an arc surface concentric with the round bar steel 1 in an angular range of about 60 degrees in the circumferential direction. A plurality of ultrasonic transducers 3 are provided adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction toward one outer peripheral surface.

The phased array probe 2 can excite any ultrasonic transducer 3 at any timing. Therefore, for example, an ultrasonic wave that converges toward the center O of the round steel bar 1 by exciting a predetermined number of ultrasonic transducers 3 in the X region in FIG. 1 at one end of the circular arc surface at a predetermined timing. The beam B can be oscillated. In actuality, six such phased array probes 2 are arranged at different positions in the circumferential direction so as to cover the entire circumference of the round steel bar 1.

As an example, a round steel bar (section to be inspected) 1 having a diameter of 60 mm is used, the water distance from the surface of the round steel bar 1 is 32.5 mm, and the radius of curvature of the inner surface 21 of the phased array probe 2 is 62. .5 mm, and 128 ultrasonic transmitters 3 having a frequency of 5 MHz are provided at a pitch of 0.5 mm. The internal scratch is a circle having a diameter of 0.3 mm, and the surface scratch is 0.1 mm wide and 0.1 mm deep.

In this embodiment, first, the ultrasonic transducer 3 in the X region of FIG. When the ultrasonic beam B is incident on the surface of the round steel bar 1, a reflected wave (echo) is generated, and then traverses the circular cross section of the round steel bar 1 and converges at its center O, and then the opposite round steel bar surface. Reflected at (bottom). On the other hand, since the ultrasonic wave is a spherical wave, there is a component that is largely inclined when entering the surface of the round bar steel 1, thereby generating a surface wave S on the surface of the round bar steel 1.

Here, in the present embodiment, among all the ultrasonic transducers 3 that receive the reflected wave, the ultrasonic transducer 3 in the X region that oscillates the ultrasonic beam and the other end of the arc surface that is remote from the X region. Attention is paid to the received signals of a predetermined number of ultrasonic transducers 3 in the Y region of FIG.

That is, in the vibration signal of the ultrasonic transducer 3 in the X region, when there is no internal flaw 11 in the passing range of the ultrasonic beam B in the round steel bar 1, only the surface echo and the bottom echo appear, but the internal flaw 11 If there is, a wound echo E11 is generated between the surface echo E1 and the bottom echo E2 by the reflected wave R11 from now on as shown in FIG. Therefore, when the scratch echo E11 is larger than a predetermined threshold, it can be determined that there is an internal scratch.

On the other hand, the vibration signal of the ultrasonic transducer 3 in the Y region shows only the surface echo and the bottom echo when there is no scratch 12 on the surface of the round steel bar 1. It is scattered by the surface flaw 12 to generate a reflected wave R12 (FIG. 1), and a flaw echo E12 is generated between the surface echo E3 and the bottom echo E4 as shown in FIG. Therefore, when the scratch echo E12 is larger than a predetermined threshold, it can be determined that there is a surface scratch. Note that since the ultrasonic waves are widely reflected and scattered, the ultrasonic transducer 3 in the Y region is not as large as that received by the ultrasonic transducer 3 in the X region, but the surface echo and the bottom echo are received. The

Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 4, the X region is gradually moved toward the center of the phased array probe 2 to excite a predetermined number of ultrasonic transducers 3 to oscillate an ultrasonic beam B. Is received by a predetermined number of ultrasonic transducers 3 in the X region and the Y region, respectively, and the presence or absence of the internal flaw 11 and the surface flaw 12 is determined. In FIG. 4, since there is no internal flaw in the path of the ultrasonic beam, the flaw echo E11 (FIG. 2) does not occur.

After moving the X region beyond the center of the phased array probe 2 to the opposite side, as shown in FIG. 5, a predetermined number of ultrasonic transducers 3 in the moved X region are excited to generate an ultrasonic beam. B is oscillated, and the reflected wave is received by the ultrasonic transducer in the X region to determine the presence or absence of the internal flaw 11, and the arcuate surface of the phased array probe 2 is replaced with the Y region as shown in FIG. The reflected waves are received by a predetermined number of ultrasonic transducers 3 in the Z region (in the present embodiment, the same range as the X region at the start of measurement) at one end of the surface to determine the presence or absence of the surface flaw 12. In FIG. 5, the reflected wave from the surface flaw 12 due to the surface wave S is hardly received.

Thereafter, in the other phased array probes 2 as well, the ultrasonic beam B is oscillated from the ultrasonic transducer 3 while gradually moving the X region in the same manner as described above, and the reflected waves E11 and E12 are transmitted as ultrasonic waves in the Y region or Z region. The vibrator 3 receives the vibration, and the presence or absence of the internal flaw 11 or the surface flaw 12 is determined over the entire cross section of the round steel bar 1 to be examined. In this way, according to the present embodiment, it is possible to reliably determine the presence or absence of internal flaws and surface flaws in a solid round bar steel by one-time oscillation of the ultrasonic beam from the ultrasonic transducer in the X region. .

In the above embodiment, how to set the number of ultrasonic transducers in the X region, the Y region, and the Z region is arbitrarily determined by design. Further, the Y region and the Z region are not necessarily set at the end of the inner surface (arc surface). Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the some ultrasonic transducer | vibrator was provided on the circular arc surface concentric with a round bar steel, the circular arc surface does not necessarily need to be concentric. Furthermore, the ultrasonic beam need not be focused at the center of the circular cross section of the round steel bar.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Round bar steel, 11 ... Internal flaw, 12 ... Surface flaw, 2 ... Phased array probe, 3 ... Ultrasonic transducer, B ... Ultrasonic beam, R11, R12 ... Reflected wave, S ... Surface wave.

Claims (2)

A plurality of ultrasonic transducers capable of receiving and oscillating ultrasonic echoes are arranged so as to form an arc surface in the circumferential direction facing the outer periphery of a solid round steel bar disposed in water. An ultrasonic beam is oscillated from a part toward the round bar steel, and the presence or absence of internal flaws in the round bar steel is detected from the reflected wave from the inside of the round bar steel received by the part of the ultrasonic vibrator. At the same time, the presence or absence of surface flaws in the round bar steel is detected from the reflected waves of the surface waves generated in the round bar steel that are received by some other ultrasonic vibrators excluding the some ultrasonic vibrators. An ultrasonic flaw detection method characterized by: The ultrasonic flaw detection method according to claim 1, wherein an ultrasonic beam is oscillated while the region selected as the part of the ultrasonic transducer is gradually moved from one end to the other end of the circular arc surface.

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