TY - JOUR N2 - This paper presents results obtained from a laboratory investigation conducted on material from a pressure vessel after longterm operation in the oil refinery industry. The tested material contained structural defects which arose from improper heat treatment during steel plate manufacturing. Complex tensile tests with acoustic emission signal recording were conducted on both notched and unnotched specimens. The detailed analysis of different acoustic emission criteria allowed as to detect each stage of plastic deformation and microstructural damage processes after a long-term operation, and unused carbon steels during quasi-static axial tension testing. The acoustic emission activity, generated in the typical stages of material deformation, was correlated by microscopy observations during the tensile test. The results are to be used as the basis for new algorithms for the assessment of the structural condition of in-service pressure equipment. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/110143/PDF/AMM-2019-1-21-Lyasota.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/110143 PY - 2019 IS - No 1 EP - 151 DO - 10.24425/amm.2019.126230 KW - monitoring KW - low carbon steel KW - plastic deformation KW - acoustic emission KW - refinery industry A1 - Lyasota, I. A1 - Sarniak, Ł. A1 - Kustra, P. PB - Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of Polish Academy of Sciences PB - Committee of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy of Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol. 64 DA - 2019.03.14 T1 - Acoustic emission snalysis of the plastic deformation stages of degraded low-carbon steel after long-term operation in the oil refining and petrochemical processing SP - 143 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/110143 T2 - Archives of Metallurgy and Materials ER -