The aim of this study is to experimentally estimate the degradation of austenitic stainless steel;that is, residual plastic strain, martensitic transformation and fatigue damage at room and low temperatures, by using impedance method. In particular, the change of very small coil impedance was found at low temperature to correspond not only with plastic strain distribution but also with magnetization distribution, representing martensitic transformation. The fatigue test at low temperature showed an excellent correlation between impedance measurement and applied stress intensity along fatigue crack extension path. In addition, the impedance distribution agreed well with martesitic volume fraction estimated by X-ray diffraction method. Namely, in above two cases, it is revealed that the impedance method by this measuring system brings an accurate estimation of degradation of austenitic stainless steel with high resolution ability of location. Next, at room temperature, the coil impedance increased with increasing stress or strain and its change corresponded with the beginning and extension of plastic yielding. We conclude that this method can detect small amount of strain induced martensite even at room temperature.
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