• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.163-171
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• 1998

Near/far field length and directivity of transducers were investigated for the improvement and evaluation of the detectability of flaws in a disc. The reference block is fabricated for the disc of stage 6 in Yonggwang unit 1. The near/far field and directivity of an ultrasonic transducer with the center frequency of 5MHz were calculated for the inspection of the disc. These values showed good agreements with the experimental results. In the system composed of a wedge and a disc, those are evaluated theoretically and experimentally for the specimen with the artificial flaws of the size 2mm and 4mm and an ultrasonic transducer with the center frequency 5MHz and diameter 0.5inch. The detectability of keyway-flaw and detectable region for inspection were evaluated by using both tangential $45^{\circ}$ and $90^{\circ}$ transducers located at the distance of 53mm and 75mm from the disc hub, respectively.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.101-106
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• 2020

This research is related to a development of the ultrasonic detector for an internal defect detection of various assembly part's welding zone. In this research, measurement S/Ws including system's motion control, S/W ultrasonic transmitter/receiver control, defect judgment standard setting, etc. have been designed for ultrasonic detection, and welding defects sample network, etc. were also designed for comparison between products in good condition and defective products. Through this kind of system, automatic detection function can be performed for the depth and the defect location of the assembly parts welding zone, and the system is able to make a judgment of internal defect detection which is used to be performed by an expert in the past.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.123-133
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• 2004

The evaluation standard method of weld zone in rails is not exhibited in case of the domestic and the outside about ultrasonic inspection method. therefore, practical affairs a mans on the ground know very little about evaluation method of pass and failure. This paper discuss about ultrasonic exploration of weld zone in railway rails to know practical affairs a mans that the first, "problem and improvement direction of domestic track construction specifications applied according to a place ordering" and the second, "the method applied of ultrasonic exploration test of weld zone in railway rails".

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.49-52
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 강자성체 물질을 사용하는 구조물들에 발생되는 결함을 와전류탐상을 이용하여 검출하기 위한 비파괴검사방법에 대하여 제시하였다. 와전류탐상은 전자기비파괴검사방법으로 초음파탐상법과 같은 방법에 비교하여 비접촉식이며 고속으로 검사가 가능하다는 장점이 있다. 본 연구에서 사용되는 매질인 강자성체의 경우 비자성체에 비하여 표피효과에 의한 침투깊이가 얇기 때문에 강자성체를 위한 주파수를 별도로 선정하여야 한다. 또한 고속으로 움직이는 경우 속도기전력에 의한 효과를 고려하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 와전류센서를 제작하여 실제 강자성체에 적용하는 경우 어떠한 특성을 나타내는가에 대하여 고찰하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.292-297
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• 2005

Steam generator of a nuclear power plant has important rolls for the heat transfer and the isolation of radioactive materials. So bursting of the steam generator tube is directly related to the accident of nuclear power plants. Incone1600 has been used for the steam generator tube material. The material shows non-magnetic and metallic properties, eddy current NDT method has been employed for defects detection. In this work, a differential type of eddy current probe was developed to improve resolution of defect detection. To verify properties of the developed differential type eddy current probe, we have made reference material with SUS304 which has similar magnetic and electrical properties of Inconel600. Using the developed differential type eddy current probe, we can detect defect size of 0.25 mm in diameter and 0.2 mm in depth (volume of $1{\times}10^{-3}\;mm^3$) with the reference material.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.75-80
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• 2003

In this paper, we designed add current scan system basically. Although NDT system using AC method in now days had problem with limit of detection rate and limit of device organization, in this paper, we made up these problem so that designed device smaller than system used, reduction of cost of system organization and precision of measuring crack. Also, AC leakage flux system had high accuracy about minute crack in the surface and advantage of designing system easily so that we designed system for concerning about crack of surface. Furthermore, it can be able to detect exact crack of reference in wide area by using DSP320C31 chip to reduce the time of measuring crack.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.483-489
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• 2016

The typical methods used for inspecting ferromagnetic pipes include the ultrasonic testing (UT) contact method and the following non-contact methods: magnetic flux leakage (MFL), electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMAT), and remote field eddy current testing (RFECT). Among these methods, the RFECT method has the advantage of being able to establish a system smaller than the diameter of a pipe. However, the method has several disadvantages as well, including different sensitivities and difficult-to-repair coil sensors which comprise its array system. Therefore, a giant magneto-resistance (GMR) sensor was applied to address these issues. The GMR sensor is small, easy to replace, and has uniform sensitivity. In this experiment, the GMR sensor was used to measure remote field and defect signal characteristics (in the axial and radial directions) in a ferromagnetic pipe. These characteristics were measured in an effort to investigate standard defects at changing depths within a pipe. The results show that the experiment successfully demonstrated the applicability of the GMR sensor to RFECT signal detection in ferromagnetic pipe.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 2017

In this paper, a magnetic flux leakage(MFL) based steel bar damage detection was first researched to quantify the signals from damages on the wire rope. Though many researches inspecting damages using a MFL method was proceeded until the present, the researches are at the level that diagnose whether damages are or not. This has limitation to take measures in accordance with the damage level. Thus, a MFL inspection system was modeled using a finite element analysis(FEM) program dealing with electromagnetism problems, and a steel bar specimen was adopted as a ferromagnetic object. Then, an experimental study was also carried out to verify the simulation results with a steel bar which has same damage conditions as the simulation. The MFL signals was nearly not affected by the increase of the inspection velocity, and the magnitudes of the signals are not identical according to the change of the defect width even the defects have same depth. On the basis of the analysis, the signal properties from the damages were extracted to classify the type of damages, and it could be confirmed that classification of damages using extracted signal properties is feasible.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.108-113
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• 2009

MFL(magnetic flux leakage) inspection is a general method of non-destructive evaluation(NDE) of underground gas pipelines. Pipelines are magnetized by permanent magnets when MFL PIG(pipeline inspection gauge) gets through them. If defects or corrosions exist in pipelines, effective thickness is changed and thus variation of leakage flux occurs. The leakage flux signals detected by hall-sensors are analyzed to characterize defect's geometries such as length, width, depth, and so on. This paper presents several methods for estimating defect's length using MFL signals and their performances are compared for real defects carved in KOGAS pipeline simulation facility. It is found that 80% and 90% of minimum values for axial and peak values for radial signals respectively show the best performance in the point of length estimation error.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.330-337
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• 2010

In this paper, 3-dimensional electromagnetic numerical analysis is performed about the eddy current(EC) array probe characteristic which is the next generation probe for accurate diagnosis of steam generator(SG) in nuclear power plants(NPPs). ASME(American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Standard and X-probe combo calibration standard tube are selected for acquisition of eddy current testing(ECT) signals and this result of compared with the real test signals for reasonability of result. Based on the analysis result of calibration standard tube, ECT signals that are about the defects of pitting, stress corrosion cracking(SCC), multiple SCC and wear is obtained. Material of specimen was Inconel 600 which is usually used for SG tubes in NPPs. The operation frequency of 300 kHz were used. The signal characteristics could be observed according to the various defects. The results in this paper can be helpful when the ECT signals from EC array probe are evaluated and analyzed.