Nondestructive Testing of Mechanical Properties of Rolled Steel (Review): 2. Testing of Ductile Properties

The results of the first studies that established a correlation between impact ductility and coercivity are considered in this review. The data of studies on the search for the factors that encourage or inhibit this correlation are analyzed. The methods based on estimation of the coercivity, which ensure increased reliability of nondestructive testing of rolled steel with a tendency toward brittle fracture, are discussed. The experimental data on nondestructive tests of impact ductility carried out using a sharp notch are analyzed.__________Translated from Defektoskopiya, Vol. 41, No. 5, 2005, pp. 53–76.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Bida.