METHOD OF MEASURING HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION IN MEMBER AND DEVICE OF MEASURING HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION

摘要

An art of hydrogen concentration measurement in which the hydrogen concentration of any given location of an object to be measured can be nondestructively obtained is provided. The steps comprises: placing an electromagnetic ultrasonic sensor 2 in the proximity of, or on, the surface of an object to be measured 8, said electromagnetic ultrasonic sensor 2 generating a magnetic field in which the magnetic flux density changes at high frequency on the wall body of the object to be measured 8 and receiving a longitudinal ultrasonic wave whose vibration is deflecting in the direction parallel to the thickness direction and a transverse ultrasonic wave whose vibration is deflecting in the direction at an angle of substantially 90° with respect to said longitudinal direction; allowing the electromagnetic ultrasonic sensor 2 to generate a changing magnetic field so that the longitudinal ultrasonic wave and the transverse ultrasonic wave form a resonant state and receive the longitudinal ultrasonic wave and the transverse ultrasonic wave generated in the object to be measured 8; detecting the resonance frequencies of the longitudinal ultrasonic wave and the transverse ultrasonic wave; calculating a predetermined resonance property index using said resonance frequencies of the longitudinal ultrasonic wave and the transverse ultrasonic wave; and calculating the hydrogen concentration of the object to be measured 8 with reference to a reference material database 7 which stores the relation between the hydrogen concentration of a member with the same member specifications as those of said object to be measured and the resonance property index.