JP5527077B2 - Specimen production method for nondestructive inspection - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a nondestructive inspection test body manufacturing method for manufacturing a test specimen for calibration by introducing a reference crack into the same metal material imitating an actual machine (non-destructive inspection) of an actual machine (part to be investigated). It is about.

  In actual equipment such as reactor piping, cracks due to fatigue or stress corrosion cracking may occur, and it is necessary to periodically check the presence of cracks and confirm safety. This inspection is performed by a nondestructive inspection in which the position and size of a crack are measured using ultrasonic waves or X-rays.

  In non-destructive inspection, test results are calibrated using a test specimen for detection capability verification (calibration) to eliminate the influence of measurement accuracy, resolution variations, temperature drift, etc. Is required.

  As a manufacturing method of this test body, an artificial defect is generally introduced into the same metal material that simulates an actual machine by electric discharge machining or machining.

  Even in electrical discharge machining that is said to be able to introduce relatively small artificial defects at present, the width of the crack to be introduced is equal to or greater than the thickness of the electrode, and the shape of the crack is open. On the other hand, cracks due to fatigue and stress corrosion cracking that occur in actual machines have almost no width.

  Therefore, in order to evaluate the detection capability with higher accuracy, a test body into which cracks due to fatigue or stress corrosion cracking that may occur in an actual machine are required is required.

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  However, when cracks due to fatigue or stress corrosion cracking are introduced, cracks may occur from places other than those assumed, and it is difficult to control the places where cracks occur. It was also difficult to control the crack size.

  For this reason, the test specimen was manufactured repeatedly until a crack of the assumed size was introduced at the assumed location in the past, so it took a long time to manufacture the test specimen, and a lot of manufacturing cost would be required. was there.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a test body manufacturing method for nondestructive inspection that can introduce a crack of an assumed size at an assumed location and is excellent in manufacturing yield of the test body.

The present invention created to achieve the above object is a non-destructive inspection in which a reference specimen is introduced into the same metal material imitating the actual machine to produce a test specimen for calibration in order to non-destructively inspect the actual machine. In the test body manufacturing method for the above, by masking a portion where the crack of the metal material is to be introduced and then performing a peening process on the surface of the metal material, residual compression is previously applied to the surface other than the portion where the crack of the metal material is to be introduced. Applying stress and removing the masking, then subjecting the metal material to a fatigue test or stress corrosion cracking test to introduce a reference crack at a location where the metal material is to be cracked for nondestructive inspection This is a test body manufacturing method.

  The masking may be the same size as the crack to be introduced.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the crack of the assumed size can be introduce | transduced into the assumed location and the test body manufacturing method for nondestructive inspection excellent in the manufacture yield of the test body can be provided.

It is the schematic which shows the test body for nondestructive inspection obtained by this invention. It is a figure explaining the test body manufacturing method for nondestructive inspection concerning the present invention.

  Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic view showing a test specimen for calibration obtained by a method for producing a test specimen for nondestructive inspection according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a test specimen production for obtaining the test specimen. It is a figure explaining a method.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a test specimen 1 for calibration obtained by the method for producing a test specimen for nondestructive inspection according to the present embodiment is used for nondestructive inspection of an actual machine, and the same metal material that simulates the actual machine In FIG. 2, a reference crack 3 is introduced at an assumed location A. Examples of the actual machine to be inspected include reactor piping.

  The test body manufacturing method for obtaining this test body 1 actively utilizes the property that cracks due to fatigue or stress corrosion cracking are unlikely to occur in a compressive stress field. A compressive residual stress is applied in advance to the surface B other than the location A to be introduced, and then the metal material 2 is subjected to a fatigue test or a stress corrosion cracking test, and the location A where the crack 3 of the metal material 2 is desired to be introduced This is a method of introducing a reference crack 3.

  Hereinafter, the test body manufacturing method will be specifically described according to the procedure.

  First, as shown in FIG. 2A, a location A where the crack 3 of the metal material 2 is to be introduced is selected. In this selection, it is preferable to select a location where cracks are likely to occur in the actual machine. For example, in an actual machine joined by welding, cracks are likely to occur in the vicinity of the welded portion where the tensile stress applied during welding remains, and this portion is selected as the location A. Further, when a fatigue crack is assumed, since the fatigue crack often occurs from the end portion of the test body 1, this portion is selected as the location A.

  Thereafter, as shown in FIG. 2B, masking M is applied to a portion A where the crack 3 of the metal material 2 is desired to be introduced. This masking M may be performed with, for example, an adhesive tape or a resin. At this time, the masking M is preferably the same size as the crack 3 to be introduced.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 2 (c), a peening process is performed on the surface B other than the portion A where the crack 3 of the metal material 2 is to be introduced, and a residual compressive stress is applied to the surface B. The peening process is preferably performed by, for example, shot peening, laser peening, ultrasonic peening or the like.

  When the peening process is finished, as shown in FIG. 2D, the masking M is removed, and the metal material 2 is subjected to a fatigue test or a stress corrosion cracking test to introduce a crack 3.

  By manufacturing the test body 1 in this way, the compressive residual stress is not introduced into the portion A where the crack 3 of the metal material 2 is to be introduced. Therefore, if the test stress and the test environment are constant, the masked portion M Therefore, crack 3 is preferentially generated. By doing in this way, it becomes possible to control the generation | occurrence | production position of the crack 3 freely, and the center part of the test body 1, an edge part, the welding part vicinity, or several adjacent cracks etc. can also be introduce | transduced. Further, if the size of the masking M is limited, the width of the crack 3 can be controlled to some extent.

  Conventionally, a large number of test specimens were prepared and repeated trial and error, and only the test specimen in which the crack 3 could be introduced as intended was adopted, whereas the test specimen for nondestructive inspection according to the present embodiment According to the production method, it is possible to introduce a crack of an assumed size into a certain assumed place, and to improve the production yield of the test body 1. Therefore, the cost for manufacturing the test body 1 can be greatly reduced.

  In actual nondestructive inspection, a plurality of test bodies having different sizes of the cracks 3 and the like are manufactured by the method of manufacturing a test body for nondestructive inspection, and the detection results obtained from the actual machine are calibrated with each test body. Thus, a crack can be detected with high accuracy.

1 Specimen 2 Metal material 3 Crack A Location where the crack is to be introduced B Surface M other than the location where the crack is to be introduced Masking

Claims (2)

In the non-destructive inspection test body manufacturing method for producing a test specimen for calibration by introducing a crack as a reference to the same metal material imitating the real machine in order to perform non-destructive inspection of the actual machine,
By applying a peening treatment to the surface of the metal material after masking the location where the metal material is to be cracked, a residual compressive stress is previously applied to the surface other than the location where the metal material is desired to be cracked, After the masking is removed, the metal material is subjected to a fatigue test or a stress corrosion cracking test, and a test specimen for nondestructive inspection is produced , wherein a reference crack is introduced at a position where the metal material is desired to be cracked. Method. The test body manufacturing method for non-destructive inspection according to claim 1, wherein the masking has the same size as a crack to be introduced.

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