Until now, Ionoluminescence (IL) has been mainly exploited to detect impurities or defects inside materials, most of which, synthetic. This paper gives a summary on new applications of IL, going one step further by applying the technique to minerals, simulants…

The present work shows measurements of the Magnetic Barkhausen Noise (MBN) in commercial AISI/SAE 1045 and ASTM 36 steel deformed samples. The correlation between the MBN root mean square, Barkhausen signal profile and MBN power spectrum with the plastic deformation…