1. Enhancement of Detection Stability for Cu, Cr and Mn in Steel by LIBS Coupled with Image Screening Methods.
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ZHENG Peichao, LIU Shaojian, WANG Jinmei, CHEN Guanghui, LI Gang, LIU Xufeng, TIAN Hongwu, DONG Darning, and GUO Lianbo
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The performance differences between high-quality special steel and low-end crude steel are mainly influenced by the types of constituent elements and their composition levels. Therefore, how to rapidly and accurately analyze the material composition is crucial for assessing the quality of steel products. Addressing the challenge of traditional methods in achieving rapid and accurate detection of steel alloy components, this paper adopted the laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) combined with plasma image information. It collected the characteristic spectral intensities of different elements and the plasma images generated through rapid acquisition, analyzed the correlation between them, and removed some invalid spectral data by extracting abnormal values from the image feature information, so as to show a high-precision analysis of the steel composition. This paper, by analyzing the influence of different experimental conditions such as delay time and laser energy on the characteristic spectral intensity of elements and their corresponding plasma images, not only demonstrated the correlation between plasma images and spectra, but also determined the optimal delay time and laser energy as 1 000 ns and 50 mJ based on local optimal values of image features. It further filtered out invalid spectral data based on the average threshold of image features. The results showed that after optimizing data through image filtering, the determination coefficients (R²) of each element spectral line calibration model improved from 0.978, 0.986, 0.957 and 0.935 to 0.995, 0.997, 0.968 and 0.957 respectively. Additionally, the relative standard deviation(RSD) of the predicted concentrations of unknown sample elements by the calibration curves decreased to about 50% of the RSD predicted by the original data. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of LIBS combined with image filtering methods can reduce errors in quantitative analysis and improve the accuracy of prediction results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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