Calibration of a portable coercivity measurement instrument for assessing low-carbon steel

用于评估低碳钢的便携式矫顽力测量仪的校准

• 批准号: 10073793
• 金额: $ 3.33万
• 依托单位: MANCHESTER ADVANCED INTELLIGENT EQUIPMENT RESEARCH & INNOVATION CENTRE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10073793
• 关键词: Calibration; portable; coercivity; measurement; instrument

Our company, located in Manchester, specialises in developing electromagnetic non-destructive testing (NDT) products. In the last couple of years, we have successfully developed a novel coercivity meter, which features portability, fast measurement speed and minimal or null requirements for sample preparation - unique advantages for on-site non-destructive applications. The system has been commercialised, released to clients, and deployed in the field. We have found diverse applications across different industries and have been continuously growing our technical experience and customer engagement. As an example, client's feedback confirms large efficiency improvement on heat-treatment assessment after using our novel product. A process that used to require 5 to 6 staff engineers and 20 minutes is now reduced to 2 engineers and 2 minutes. Other applications include aging and fatigue detection of steel structures and cables, residual stress distribution and testing of finished products.Together with NPL, an experimental measurement setup has been devised to create a traceability chain for MAIERIC's reference samples. NPL will compare coercivity values determined on MAIERIC's reference standards to those determined on standard geometries. The DC magnetic properties of soft magnetic materials are typically determined using the permeameter method (outlined in BSI/IEC 60404-4). Current measurement standards are generally limited to well defined geometry. For a direct comparison NPL will modify and existing set-up to accommodate MAIERIC's smaller, non-standard geometries.Our target industries include power, traffic and developments, marine, aerospace, metallurgy, chemical and mining, with main applications on assessing working life, aging and fatigue of steel structures, critical components, machinery, etc., quality of finished products, metal sorting, in a wide sense, assessment of steel during all its service life. To be able to produce traceable measurements for each application means we can expand our market quickly. We are confident that solving our current issues of calibration and traceability will bring to MAIERIC substantial additional revenue. As well as increasing sales revenue, improve process efficiency for both us and clients to save costs -- hence realising significant financial gains and contributing to the technology and innovation ecosystem of the Manchester community.

我们的公司位于曼彻斯特，专门开发电磁非破坏性测试（NDT）产品。在过去的几年中，我们成功地开发了一种新型的强制仪，该仪表具有可移植性，快速测量速度以及样品制备的最小或无效要求 - 现场非破坏性应用的独特优势。该系统已被商业化，向客户发布并部署在现场。我们已经发现了不同行业的各种应用程序，并且一直在不断提高我们的技术经验和客户参与度。例如，使用我们的新产品后，客户的反馈证实了对热处理评估的效率大大提高。现在需要5到6名员工工程师和20分钟的过程减少到2个工程师和2分钟。其他应用包括对钢结构和电缆的衰老和疲劳检测，残留应力分布以及成品的测试。与NPL合作，已经设计了一种实验测量设置，为Maieric的参考样品创建了特性链。 NPL将比较Maieric的参考标准确定的施加性值与标准几何形状确定的标准。通常使用渗透器方法（在BSI/IEC 60404-4中概述）确定软磁性材料的直流磁性特性。当前的测量标准通常仅限于定义明确的几何形状。为了进行直接比较，NPL将修改和现有设置，以适应Maieric较小的，非标准的几何形状。我们的目标行业包括电力，交通和开发项目，海洋，航空航天，冶金，冶金，化学和采矿，以及评估工作寿命，衰老和疲劳的钢结构，重要组成部分，重要组件，机械，钢制的质量，均等的，均匀的产品，均匀的产品，均等的，均等的，均等。为了能够为每种应用进行可追溯的测量结果，这意味着我们可以迅速扩展市场。我们有信心解决我们当前的校准和可追溯性问题将带来大量的额外收入。除了增加销售收入，提高美国和客户节省成本的流程效率 - 因此实现了巨大的财务收益，并为曼彻斯特社区的技术和创新生态系统做出了贡献。