Development of Non-Destructive Inspection System for Grinding Burn - An Application of the Grinding Burn Detecting Technique to Evaluate Residual Stress

Abstract

This study was performed to develop a non-destructive inspection system to detect grinding burn, which is capable of quantitative 100% inspection inside a production line. An eddy current sensor, which has advantages of short inspection time and low cost, was used. It was shown that the grinding burn detection technique had been developed and is possible to detect grinding burn by using this technique, in the 1st report1) and the 2nd report2). In this report, we have attempted to apply the grinding burn detection technique to evaluate the residual stress of work piece surface. Residual stress of work piece surface is affected by both thermal and mechanical effects. It is shown that the residual stress is possibly evaluated in the case of the thermal effect is dominant.