The pressure sensing elements such as diaphragm, Bourdon tube and bellows are widely used as pressure or differential pressure transmitters. These sensors are conventionally improved in order to get high accuracy and high reliability. However the phenomenon under that the calibrated sensor drifts gradually is not researched enough because of difficulty to collect data.
The authors named the factors to accelerate drift as stress. High temperature, excessive input, repeating input, corrosion and erosion also can be stresses. Especially in the case of pressure sensing element the time itself is stress. Drift proceeds even if the sensor is set without actual use. It is due to the creep or after elastic effect that generates on the pressure sensing element.
In this paper the authors induced theoretical formula of stress relaxation based on the metal property theory, and proved it by means of experiment using 316 stainless steel strip which material is used for pressure sensing element over 90%. We observed frequency variance of self excited oscillation of stainless steel strip in order to measure small variance of stress precisely. We developed current transformer method in order to oscillate the tensile strip of non-magnetic material.
Chapter 2 of this paper is the hypothesis of stress relaxation. We made the model on which the dislocation rides over the barrier according to Einstein's solid body specific heat theory adding the modificaion by means of Debey's highest energy level. Thus the theoretical formula was presented. In chapter 3 experiment device and method is reported in detail. Chapter 4 is presentation of experiment data and discussion concerning the hypothesis. Experiment result was sufficient to prove the hypothesis. In chapter 5 mechanism of after elastic effect is discussed, and method of drift free plastic work is proposed.
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