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A method of monitoring the state of metal alloys during induction heating and control of the heating process utilizing the heating coil itself as a sensor is proposed, and its usefulness and effectiveness were experimentally investigated using aluminium A357 billets for the semi-solid metal (SSM) casting processes. The impedance of the coil containing the billet was continuously measured by the proposed method in the temperature range between room temperature and 700 °C. It was found that the reactance component of the impedance varied distinctively according to the billet state and could clearly monitor the deformation of the billet, while the resistance component increased with temperature, reflecting the variation of the resistivity of the billet which has strong correlation to the solid/liquid fraction of the billets. The measured impedance is very sensitive to the billet states such as temperature, deformation and solid/liquid fraction and could be used as a parameter to monitor and control the heating process for SSMs.

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