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Advances in Acoustic Emission Testing of Metals and Alloys

A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2018) | Viewed by 7817

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Alexei Vinogradov

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Department of Engineering Design and Materials, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Interests: advanced materials; ultrafine grained and nano-structured materials; strength and ductility; deformation mechanisms; constitutive modelling; microstructure characterisation; fatigue; corrosion
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Prof. Antolino Gallego

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Department of Applied Physics, Building Engineering School, Campus Fuentenueva, University of Granada, 18072 Granada, Spain
Interests: physics and mechanics of plastic deformation and fracture; advanced materials; composites; wood; acoustic emission; signal processing
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Acoustic emission (AE) techniques have been successfully used as a non-destructive means for testing metallic materials and structures over the past 50 years. Driven by industrial demands, the AE technique has evolved as a powerful tool for integrity testing. With the advent of microelectronics, signal processing and information technologies, modern AE techniques have experienced rapid growth. In recent years, many publications have appeared, revisiting the classical topics of AE covering various aspects of foundations of AE phenomenon, understanding of which still leaves a lot to be desired.  This Special Issue of Metals provides a platform for communication and exchange between AE professionals on AE basics and applications. We seek contributions covering a wide range of subjects related to AE phenomenon in metallic materials during their plastic deformation, degradation and fracture. Types of materials can cover a wide range of model metals, recently emerged advanced alloys, structural alloys and steels, which are widely used in industry, off-shore structures, etc.  We seek advances in theoretical and modelling studies serving as guides for data analysis by laboratory experimentalists and in-field practitioners. Experiences with AE signal processing, proven for materials testing and characterization, are also welcomed.

This Special Issue is open to both original research articles and review articles covering all the relevant progress in these fields (though is not limited to the following):

  • Foundations of Acoustic Emission phenomenon
  • Acoustic Emission during fatigue
  • Applications of Acoustic Emission in fracture mechanics
  • Acoustic Emission during plastic deformation and fracture
  • Acoustic Emission during environmentally assisted degradation and fracture
Prof. Dr. Alexei Vinogradov
Prof. Antolino Gallego
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Keywords

  • acoustic emission
  • plastic deformation and fracture
  • signal processing
  • testing methods

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Characterization of Deformation Mechanisms in Mg Alloys by Advanced Acoustic Emission Methods
by Jan Čapek, Michal Knapek, Peter Minárik, Jan Dittrich and Kristián Máthis
Metals 2018, 8(8), 644; https://doi.org/10.3390/met8080644 - 16 Aug 2018
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Adaptive sequential k-means (ASK) analysis of acoustic emission (AE) data was used to analyze the sources of AE during compression of three AZ31 magnesium samples with different initial texture. The results were compared to the classical hit-based approach. Observation of the deformed microstructure [...] Read more.
Adaptive sequential k-means (ASK) analysis of acoustic emission (AE) data was used to analyze the sources of AE during compression of three AZ31 magnesium samples with different initial texture. The results were compared to the classical hit-based approach. Observation of the deformed microstructure shows that the ASK analysis can distinguish very well between the signal originating in deformation twinning and dislocation slip. Moreover, together with microstructural analysis, the ASK algorithm revealed another source of AE for one of the samples, which was shown to be the double twinning. Full article
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Acoustic Emissions during Structural Changes in Shape Memory Alloys
by Dezső László Beke, Lajos Daróczi, László Zoltán Tóth, Melinda Kalmárné Bolgár, Nora Mohareb Samy and Anikó Hudák
Metals 2019, 9(1), 58; https://doi.org/10.3390/met9010058 - 9 Jan 2019
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Structural changes (martensitic transformation, rearrangements of martensitic variants) in shape memory alloys have an intermittent character that is accompanied by the emission of different (thermal, acoustic, and magnetic) noises, which are fingerprints of the driven criticality, resulting in a damped power-law behaviour. We [...] Read more.
Structural changes (martensitic transformation, rearrangements of martensitic variants) in shape memory alloys have an intermittent character that is accompanied by the emission of different (thermal, acoustic, and magnetic) noises, which are fingerprints of the driven criticality, resulting in a damped power-law behaviour. We will illustrate what kinds of important information can be obtained on the structural changes in shape memory alloys. It was established that the power exponents of distributions of acoustic emission (AE) parameters (energy, amplitude, etc.), belonging to martensitic transformations, show quite a universal character and depend only on the symmetry of the martensite. However, we have shown that the asymmetry of the transformation (the exponents are different for the forward and reverse transformations) results in as large differences as those due to the martensite symmetry. We will also demonstrate how the recently introduced AE clustering method can help to identify the different contributions responsible for the asymmetry. The usefulness of the investigations of time correlations between the subsequent events and correlations between acoustic and magnetic noise events in ferromagnetic shape memory alloys will be demonstrated too. Finally, examples of acoustic and magnetic emissions during variant rearrangements (superplastic or superelastic behaviour) in the martensitic state will be described. Full article
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