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| # Title page | |||
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| author: | |||
| - 'Gerardo M. Chávez-Campos; Oscar D. Prieto; Enrique Reyes-Archundia; | |||
| Héctor Javier-Vergara; Octavio Vázquez-Gómez; José A. | |||
| Gutiérrez-Gnecchi' | |||
| bibliography: | |||
| - referenciasProtocoloPhD.bib | |||
| title: A new Approach to Measuring the Decarburization Depth using an | |||
| Image Segmentation Plugin | |||
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| Introduction | |||
| ============ | |||
| Now a days, the high-temperature steel products are crucial for | |||
| automotive, energy and aviation industries [@Lu2018]. This products | |||
| improve their final properties through a reheating operation [@Ta2018]. | |||
| The reheating operation is typically done on direct-fired furnaces where | |||
| steelworks gases are combusted with excess air | |||
| [@Young2016; @Korousic1996; @Gouveia2013]. | |||
| The high-temperature, gas atmosphere and steel's chemistry lead to | |||
| oxidation and decarburization of the steel | |||
| [@Gouveia2013; @Tao2014; @Young2016]. Specifically, the decarburization | |||
| is defined as the diffusion mechanism of the metal's carbon from the | |||
| inner to outer zone replacing the lost carbon during the redox | |||
| [@Young2016]; however, the decarburization becomes greater at | |||
| high-temperature [@Gouveia2013]. Therefore, a none controlled reheating | |||
| operation will produce material losses and depreciation on product | |||
| quality [@Liu2018Numerical]. Then, a common way to establish the final | |||
| product quality is by measuring the coating or decarburated layer | |||
| [@Liu2018Numerical; @Alvarenga2015; @Zhao2016a]. This has be done by | |||
| several methods and systems mainly validated by optical microscope (OM) | |||
| techniques [@Tao2014; @Suarez2008; @Zhao2016a]. Nevertheless, the | |||
| optical measurement-data were only based in few representative data; no | |||
| more than five measurements [@Chen2020]. | |||
| The E1077-01 "Standard Test Methods for Estimating the Depth of | |||
| Decarburization of Steel Specimens". Proposes to make a number of random | |||
| measurements around the specimen periphery, at randomly selected | |||
| locations. If statistical precision is required, it suggests considering | |||
| 95% of confident limits, mean and standard deviation; letting the number | |||
| of measurements open, according to the desired accuracy. Thus, the | |||
| present paper introduces a new approach to measure the decarburization | |||
| depth based on image processing analysis. | |||
| some text in the Readme file. | |||