Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing (비파괴검사학회지)

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Study on Ultrasonic Transducer for Non-Destructive Evaluation of Highly Attenuative Material Using PMN-PT Single Crystal

PMN-PT 압전 단결정을 이용한 고감쇠 재료 비파괴 평가용 초음파 탐촉자 연구

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Abstract

Recently, a new class of single-crystal piezoelectric materials such as lead metanibobate doped with lead titanate (PMN-PT) has been synthesized and were found to further enhance the electro-mechanical coupling factor compared to piezo-ceramic materials. This paper describes fabrication and evaluation of PMN-PT single crystal ultrasonic transducers for contact measurement of stainless steel that is one of the highly attenuative materials. The design conditions for ultrasonic transducer such as front matching layer between test materials and piezo-material and backing materials were investigated based on the simulation results by KLM model. The PMN-PT single crystal ultrasonic transducers with centre frequencies at 1 and 2.25 MHz were fabricated and their performances were evaluated.

일반적으로 비파괴 검사용 초음파 탐촉자는 PZT를 이용한 압전소자가 많이 이용되어 왔다. 최근 압전특성이 PZT보다 크게 뛰어난 PMN-PT 압전 단결정 재료가 개발되어 초음파를 이용한 비파괴 평가 분야에 폭넓게 활용될 것으로 기대되고 있다. 본 연구는 PMN-PT를 이용하여 발전설비 고감쇠 재료의 비파괴 평가에 적합한 초음파 탐촉자를 개발하기 위하여 수행되었다. KLM 모델을 이용하여 초음파 탐촉자의 특성을 시뮬레이션 하였으며 이를 기반으로 하여 중심주파수 1 및 2.25 MHz PMN-PT 종파용 초음파 탐촉자를 제작하여 상용 초음파 탐촉자와 그 성능을 비교하였다.

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