Study on Magnesium Alloys Ignition Temperature Test System

The hardware system and software system of magnesium alloy ignition temperature test system were designed. The hardware system was composed of well type electric resistance furnace, temperature controller, thermocouple, data acquisition card and computer. The software developed by LabVIEW 8.5 could deal with data acquisition, dynamic display, experimental data storage and data analysis. The test result shows that the test system can acquire the temperature –time curve well. The method of determining ignition temperature was presented that could accurately determine the magnesium alloy ignition temperature.