Patent GB-1165665-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Determination of Properties of Metallic Substances.
IPC: G06G7/68
Filed: 1968-05-16
Abstract: 1,165,665. Measuring properties of metals, electrically. CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES METALLURGIQUES. May 16, 1968 [May 18, 1967; Dec. 29, 1967; March 7, 19681, No. 23241/68. Heading G1N. In a process for determining the properties of steel, a test specimen is subjected to a tensile test in which the elongation (A), the load (F) and the variation in width are measured by appropriate detectors and the output signals from the detectors are fed into circuits for analogical calculation of the required properties. Elastic limit. To determine the elastic limit at a chosen value (x%) of the elongation (A), the output signal from the load detector (1, Fig. 2 not shown), is differentiated (2) with respect to time and the maximum value of this differential (3) is multiplied (4) with the output signal from the elongation detector and also with the value (x%) set on a potentiometer (7), the signals so formed being summed (6) and the sum compared (9) with the output of the load detector, a blocking circuit (10) being operated when the inputs to the comparator (9) are equal whereby an analogical memory (8) stores the output signal of the load detector when it is equal to the elastic limit at x% elongation. Instead of the differentiation, the gradient of the tensile curve may be set on a potentiometer (21, Fig. 4, not shown), the rest of the calculation being performed as above. In another process, the output signal from the load detector (36, Fig. 6, not shown), is stored in an analogical memory (35) when the elongation reaches a value (x%) set on a potentiometer (33). Upper and lower elastic limits. To determine the upper and lower elastic limits of the flattening range of the tensile curve, Fig. 7 (not shown), comparators (42, 46, Fig. 8, not shown), receiving each one input from the load detector and a second input from a respective analogical memory (43), (47) detect when the maximum and minimum values respectively occur and operate blocking circuits whereby these maximum and minimum values are retained in the memories (43), (47) respectively. If a maximum does not occur within a predetermined range of elongation, the circuit is arranged so that the memory (43) will store a zero value. Also, if a minimum does not occur within a predetermined range of elongation, the circuit is arranged so that the memory (47) will store the value of the load signal existing when the limit of the range is reached. Work hardening coefficient "n". The work (or strain) hardening coefficient n is calculated by generating signals representing the natural logarithm of the rational tensile stress (In #) and storing these signals in analogical memories (56, 64, 65 Fig. 9 not shown), when the elongation (A) reaches predetermined values (x 1 , x 2 , X 3 ) set on potentiometers (53), (60), (61) respectively, and then, by appropriate summing, forming the expression n = ¢[k2,1(ln# 2  - 1n# 1 ) + k 3,2 (ln# 3  - 1n# 2 )] where k 2,1  and k 3,2  are constants involving the deformation #. Alternatively, n may be calculated according to the formula where # is the rational elongation In (1+A), Fig. 10 (not shown). The signal representing the calculated value of n may be integrated and averaged. Maximum load and corresponding elongation. The output signals from the load and elongation detectors are stored in analogical memories (83), (86) respectively, Fig. 11 (not shown), and a blocking circuit (84) is operated to stop further entry into the memories when the load reaches its maximum value as determined by a comparator (82) receiving one input from the load detector (81) and a second input from the memory (83). Alternatively, the maximum load may be obtained by storing the value of the output signal from the load detector (92, Fig. 12, not shown), at that moment when the rational deformation e equals the work hardening coefficient n, as determined by a function generator (93) and a comparator (94). Coefficient of normal anisotropy or plastic deformation stress ratio "r". Processes for determining r at a given elongation (x%) and at maximum load are described with reference to Fig. 13 and 14 (not shown) and make use of the equation r = 1n1o - 1n1 / # + 1n1 - 1n1o where 1o and 1 are the width before and after testing.