Thermal imaging of metals in a Kolsky-bar apparatus

Howard W. Yoon; Debasis Basak; Richard L. Rhorer; Eric Whitenton; Timothy J. Burns; Richard Fields; Lyle Levine

doi:10.1117/12.488111

1 April 2003 Thermal imaging of metals in a Kolsky-bar apparatus

Howard W. Yoon, Debasis Basak, Richard L. Rhorer, Eric Whitenton, Timothy J. Burns, Richard Fields, Lyle Levine

Proceedings Volume 5073, Thermosense XXV; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.488111
Event: AeroSense 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Since the modeling of machining processes relies on high-strain-rate, high-temperature material properties, NIST has built a split-Hopkinson (or Kolsky) bar to determine the stress-strain behavior of rapidly heated materials at high temperatures. Our Kolsky bar has been constructed in the NIST high current pulse-heating facility, which enables electrically heating the samples within ~ 100 milliseconds time duration, immediately before the mechanical impact in the bar. Due to the rapid heating, we avoid possible structural changes in the sample, and a stress-strain relationship can be determined at different temperatures for various test materials. We describe the design and the development of the resistively-heated Kolsky-bar apparatus. The incident and the transmitted bars are constructed of 1.5 m long, 15 mm diameter maraging steel, and a typical sample is a 4 mm-diameter, 2 mm-long cylinder of 1045 steel. The sample is placed between the bars and held by friction. The current is transmitted through the graphite-sleeve bushings of the two bars. The non-contact temperatures are measured using an InGaAs near-infrared micro-pyrometer (NIMPY) and an InSb focal-plane (320 by 256) array (thermal camera). The NIMPY and the thermal camera are both calibrated using a variable-temperature blackbody, and the thermodynamic temperature of the metal is determined using the emissivity determined from the measured infrared spectral reflectance of the metal. Thermal videos of the electrically-heated and the room-temperature impacts will be shown with 1 kHz frame rates, and the changes in the stress-strain curves with the temperature of the samples will be discussed.

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Howard W. Yoon, Debasis Basak, Richard L. Rhorer, Eric Whitenton, Timothy J. Burns, Richard Fields, and Lyle Levine "Thermal imaging of metals in a Kolsky-bar apparatus", Proc. SPIE 5073, Thermosense XXV, (1 April 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.488111

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