Inspection of the Strength Characteristics and Heat-Treatment Quality of Ferromagnetic Articles Based on Parameters of the Residual-Magnetization Hysteresis Loop upon Their Local Magnetization and Magnetization Reversal in a Pulsed Magnetic Field with a Variable Amplitude: II. Steel 60C2

Effects of the tempering temperature on specimens’ hardness and on the anomalous-hysteresis loop’s and the recovery curves’ parameters for residual magnetization are experimentally studied. Test specimens made of steel 60C2 intended for laminated springs were subject to local magnetization and magnetization reversal by a pulsed magnetic field with a variable amplitude. Parameters enabling tests of the hardness of steel within three ranges of the tempering-temperature variation (0–300, 300–600, and 0–600°C) are determined.__________Translated from Defektoskopiya, Vol. 41, No. 5, 2005, pp. 14–23.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Matyuk, Mel’gui, Pinchukov, Lyubarets.