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Uncertainties in the Measurement of the Cleanliness of Steels

  • S. Stücklin

    Stephan Stücklin obtained his diploma in materials engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2001. An internship at Nippon Steel Corp. and a sales job at Nanosurf preceded his current position at Swiss Steel AG, where he is responsible for the metallography lab and the QM for the entire lab.
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Practical Metallography
From the journal Practical Metallography Volume 53 Issue 6

Abstract

Accredited metallography laboratories are required to estimate the uncertainty of the result of every test carried out. This presents a particular challenge in evaluating the cleanliness of a metal as usually a particle distribution – log-normal at best and represented by a tiny sample size – is truncated and split into discrete classes. Therefore, neither indirect (top-down) nor direct (bottom-up) methods succeed in estimating the uncertainty of cleanliness evaluations. For these reasons, such evaluations should be viewed through a process surveillance lens, particularly when discussing results or setting acceptance thresholds.

Kurzfassung

Akkreditierte Metallographielabors sind angehalten, für jede Prüfung die Messunsicherheit abzuschätzen und auf Anfrage anzugeben. Die Reinheitsgradprüfung stellt dabei eine Herausforderung dar, da im Normalfall eine bestenfalls log-normale Partikelverteilung abgeschnitten und diskretisiert wird. Zudem wird mit einer winzigen Stichprobe der Gesamtmenge gearbeitet. Daher lässt sich die Messunsicherheit der Reinheitsgradprüfung weder mit indirekten (top-down) noch direkten (bottom-up) Methoden abschätzen. Die Reinheitsgradprüfung hat dadurch eher den Charakter einer Prozesskontrolle, was bei der Diskussion von Prüfresultaten und der Festlegung von Grenzwerten mit in Betracht gezogen werden sollte.

About the author

S. Stücklin

Stephan Stücklin obtained his diploma in materials engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2001. An internship at Nippon Steel Corp. and a sales job at Nanosurf preceded his current position at Swiss Steel AG, where he is responsible for the metallography lab and the QM for the entire lab.

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Received: 2016-03-31
Accepted: 2016-04-21
Published Online: 2022-03-07

© 2016 Carl Hanser Verlag, München

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