• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.277-282
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• 2014

Recently, much attention has been paid to nonlinear ultrasonic technology as a potential tool to assess hidden damages that cannot be detected by conventional ultrasonic testing. One nonlinear ultrasonic technique is measurement of the resonance frequency shift, which is based on the hysteresis of the material elasticity. Sophisticated measurement of resonance frequency is required, because the change in resonance frequency is usually quite small. In this investigation, the nonlinear electromagnetic acoustic resonance (NEMAR) method was employed. The NEMAR method uses noncontact electromagnetic acoustic transducers (EMATs) in order to minimize the effect of the transducer on the frequency response of the object. Aluminum plate specimens that underwent three point bending fatigue were tested with a shear wave EMAT. The hysteretic nonlinear parameter ${\alpha}$, a key indicator of damage, was calculated from the resonance frequency shift at several levels of input voltage. The hysteretic nonlinear parameter of a damaged sample was compared to that of an intact one, showing a difference in the values.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.222-227
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• 2001

Nonlinear acoustic effect has been considered as an effective tool for the evaluation of material degradation. In this paper, the applicability of nonlinear acoustic effect to the evaluation of degradation of 2.25Cr-1Mo steel is investigated. Firstly, a number of 2.25Cr-1Mo steel samples were heat-treated, and their damage mechanism was examined. Secondly, Ultrasonic nonlinear parameter was measured. Nonlinear acoustic parameter was found to be clearly sensitive to the material degradation.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.243-246
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• 1998

집속음장의 고조파성분을 이용한 초음파영상의 특성을 해석하기 위해 집속된 가우스 음원에 직선 edge를 초점면 및 초점면의 전, 후방에 삽입하여 edge의 후방에서 생성되는 음장을 조사하였다. 계산에서는 그린함수의 간단화를 위해 Fresnel근사를 이용하였고, 실험에서는 성형전극을 형성시킨 1.9MHz 요면진동자에 의한 가우스분포의 음장을 갖는 초음파빔에 수직하게 edge를 삽입시켰다. 음장의 이론해석 및 실험결과, 초점면의 제2고조파의 빔형상을 제외하고는 계산치와 실험치가 잘 일치하고 있으며, 제2고조파의 공간 분해능이 기본파에 비해 높음을 알았다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.68-70
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 결절종을 추출하는 과정에서 비선형 퍼지 스트레칭 기법과 FCM 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하여 결절종을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 결절종 추출 방법은 비선형 형태의 퍼지 스트레칭 기법을 적용하여 명암 대비를 강조한 ROI 영역에 Monotone Cubic Spline기법과 FCM 기반 양자화 기법을 적용하여 Monotone Cubic Spline기법이 적용된 상단 부분을 분리한다. 분리된 상단 영역들에서 결절종이 명암도가 낮고 타원 형태를 가진다는 형태학적 특징을 이용하기 위해서 침식 기법을 적용하여 결절종의 후보 영역을 추출하고 8 방향 윤곽선 추적 알고리즘을 적용하여 잡음 영역을 제거한다. 잡음이 제거된 결절종 후보 영역에서 최종 결절종 영역을 추출하기 위해 라벨링 기법을 적용한다. 제안된 결절종 추출 방법의 성능을 분석하기 위해서 필립스 초음파 장비를 이용하여 20명 환자에서 획득한 20장의 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과 기존의 방법보다 TPR(Ture Positive Rate)이 높게 나타나는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.365-372
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• 1998

The method of measuring the nonlinear effect of ultrasonic waves is suggested as a new approach for the effective evaluation of material degradation. In sonic wave propagation, the existence of nonlinear effect can be demonstrated by the generation of higher order harmonic waves. So, at first, the mechanism of generating higher order harmonic components due to nonlinear effect was explained by using nonlinear elasticity. Next, we attempted to measure how much of the higher order harmonic component was generated in the degraded material. For this purpose, a measurement system mainly based on a high-powered nonlinear ultrasonic signal analysis system was constructed, and SS41 and SS45 specimen intentionally degraded by tensile load and fatigue load were tested. From the results, we confirmed that the measurement of nonlinear acoustic effect may be useful for the evaluation of material degradation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.362-368
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• 2012

The objective of this study is to image the harmonic wave generated by contact acoustic nonlinearity in obliquely incident ultrasonic wave for early detection of closed cracks. A closed crack has been simulated by contacting two aluminum block specimens producing solid-solid contact interfaces and then acoustic nonlinearity has been imaged with contact pressure. Sampling phased array(SPA) and synthetic aperture focusing technique(SAFT) are used for imaging techniques. The amplitude of the fundamental frequency decreased with appling pressure. But, the amplitude of second harmonic increased with pressure and was a maximum amplitude at the simulation point of closed crack. Then, the amplitude of second harmonic decreased. As a result, harmonic imaging of contact acoustic nonlinearity is possible and it is expected to be apply for early detection of initial cracks.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2017

A nonlinear ultrasonic parameter is defined by the ratio of displacement amplitude of the fundamental frequency component to that of the second-order harmonic frequency component. In this study, the ultrasonic displacement amplitude of an SUS316 specimen was measured via a piezo-electric-based method to identify the validity of piezo-electric detection method. For comparison, the ultrasonic displacement was also determined via a laser-based Fabry-Pérot interferometer. The experimental results for both measurements were in good agreement. Additionally, the stability of the repeated test results from the piezo-electric method exceeded that of the laser-interferometric method. This result indicated that the piezo-electric detection method can be utilized to measure a nonlinear ultrasonic parameter due to its excellent stability although it involves a complicated process.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.73-81
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• 1990

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.677-681
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• 2011

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.251-257
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• 2015

In ultrasonic nonlinear parameter measurement using the fast Fourier transform(FFT) of tone-burst signals, the side lobe and leakage on spectrum because of finite time and non-periodicity of signals makes it difficult to measure the harmonic magnitudes accurately. The window function made it possible to resolve this problem. In this study, the effect of the Hanning and Turkey window functions on the experimental measurement of nonlinear parameters was analyzed. In addition, the effect of changes in tone burst signal number with changes in the window function on the experimental measurement was analyzed. The result for both window functions were similar and showed that they enabled reliable nonlinear parameter measurement. However, in order to restore original signal amplitude, the amplitude compensation coefficient should be considered for each window function. On a separate note, the larger number of tone bursts was advantageous for stable nonlinear parameter measurement, but this effect was more advantageous in the case of the Hanning window than the Tukey window.