• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.31-42
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• 1987

An ultrasonic pulse-echo diagnostic system for tissue characterization with the estimation of attenuation coefficients is developed and its performance has been examined by system implementation. The system divided into the ultrasonic generator, A/D converter, data communication, computer for signal processing. The methods for estimating the spatial distribution of acoustic attenuation coefficients using the moment analysis are proposed. The experimental results indicate the potential of the methods for tissue characterization.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.466-472
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• 2016

In this work, a medical linear array ultrasonic transducer working in the range of 20 MHz has been developed for high-resolution ultrasonic imaging. After devising the structure of the transducer suitable for the transmission of high-frequency waves, we optimized the dimension of constituent components. Then, the process to fabricate the transducer was developed to realize the designed structure, and a prototype of the transducer was fabricated and characterized. The center frequency of the fabricated transducer was measured to be 19 MHz, and the fractional bandwidth to be 84.5 %, and the standard deviation of the sensitivity over the entire channels to be 0.74 dB. These measurement results showed good agreement with design data, which confirmed the validity of the high frequency ultrasonic transducer structure developed in this work. It was confirmed that the developed transducer with new structure had wider frequency bandwidth and uniform sensitivity than a conventional 20 MHz transducer.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.398-403
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• 2011

When a crack exists under a residual stress, for example in welds, the crack can be closed and it shows non symmetric behavior for tension and compression. Ultrasonic detection method for those nonlinear cracks has been developed recently. The method uses the higher order harmonics generating at the crack surface. In this study, parameter study was carried out for the analysis of the harmonics generation at a nonlinear contact interface as a preliminary study for general 3-dimensional cracks. One-dimensional problem with simple bilinear behavior for the contacting surface was considered. The amplitude of second harmonic to the fundamental wave was obtained for various stiffness ratios, incident frequencies, and the contacting layer thicknesses.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.754-756
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• 2005

본 논문은 연속 초음파 영상에서 움직임 보상 시간 필터를 적용하여 영상의 품질을 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 비선형 광학 흐름 추정 방법을 이용하여 화소 단위의 움직임을 추정하고, 이를 바탕으로 시간적 재귀 필터링을 적용한다 화소 단위 움직임 벡터의 양이 작을 경우 필터링을 크게 하고, 움직임 벡터의 양이 클 경우 필터링을 작게 적용한다. 그 결과 프로브에 의한 전역적 움직임과 측정 대상물에 의한 국부적 움직임으로 발생되는 블러 현상을 극소화하고 잡음을 감소시켜 영상의 품질을 향상시켰다.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.56-64
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• 2021

Leakage due to deterioration and damage is one of the major causes of volume change by freezing and thawing, and it leads micro-cracking and surface scaling in concrete structures. The deterioration of damaged concrete accelerates with the chloride attack. Thus, in the detailed guidelines for facility performance evaluation (2020), the quality of cover concrete and the freeze-thaw (FT) repetition cycle were newly suggested for concrete durability assessment. The quality of cover concrete should be evaluated by the rebound hammer test and the FT repetition cycle should be also considered in the deterioration environmental assessment. This study suggested the application of fast dynamic based nonlinear ultrasound method to monitor initial micro-scale damage under freezing and thawing environment. Concrete specimens were fabricated with different water-cement ratios (40%, 60%) and air contents (1.5% and 3.0%). The compressive strength, rebound number, relative dynamic modulus, and nonlinear ultrasound were measured with different FT cycles. The scanning electron microscopy was also performed to investigate the micro-scale FT damage. As a result, both the rebound number and the relative dynamic modulus had difficulty to detect early damage but the proposed method showed a potential to detect initial micro-scale damage and predict the FT resistance performance of concrete.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.1971-1979
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• 1993

In this paper, a new method to estimate stress status in metal nondestructively by using nonlinear dependency of sound speed on stress is proposed. For the purpose, equivalent nonlinear elastic constants up to fourth-order are introduced and a new characteristic parameter given as a function of these constants is presented. And a concrete system to measure the characteristic parameter is constructed by electromagnetic pumping wave and ultrasonic probing wave system. Some experimental results for Al alloy showed that the estimation of stress status in metal is possible by the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.126-131
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to assess the condition of composites used in aircraft under varying temperature environment with ultrasound guided wave technique. Investigation of crucial influential factor on the composite health monitoring related to aircraft operational environments such as the number of thermal cycles and temperature deviation between ground level and flight altitude has been of a great concern for aircraft safety issue. In this study, ultrasonic guided wave health monitoring scheme is proposed to evaluate composite specimens damaged with the thermal fatigue simulating aircraft operational condition. Guided wave dispersion curves are used to select right modes which show a promising sensitivity to each different thermal fatigue damage level. The present approach can be also implemented as one of on-lines health monitoring tools for aircraft.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.664_665
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• 2009

초음파모터의 동작은 기본적으로 기계적인 마찰에 의지하기 때문에, 이를 해석하기 위해서는 복잡하고 비선형적인 접촉 메커니즘에 대한 고찰이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 타원형 접촉면 모델을 이용하여 이러한 접촉 메커니즘을 설명하고, 또한 회전자가 가하는 압력에 의해 발생하는 고정자의 변형도 고려하는 회전형 초음파 모터의 해석법을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1991.06a
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• pp.136-141
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• 1991

초음파 영상 진단기에서 영상의 질을 높이기 위해서는 넓은 범우에서 높은 측 방향 해상도가 요구된다. 측 방향 해상도는 변환기에 의해 발생되는 초음파 빔폭에 의해 좌우되는데 기존의 변환기는 초점 부근에서는 빔폭이 매우 좁으나 집속 범위가 제한되는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 넓은 범위에서 균일한 빔폭을 얻을 수 있는 새로운 형태의 변환기를 제안하고 변환기에 의한 음장 분포를 전산기 모의 실험을 통해 구하였으며 그 결과 초점 부근에서는 빔 폭이 기존의 변환기에 비해 다소 넓어지나 집속 범위가 기존의 변화기에 비해 넓어지는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06d
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• pp.13-17
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• 1998

집속음장이 고조파성분을 이용한 초음파영상의 특성을 해석하는 초기단계로서 음축에 수직하게 놓인 강체판의 직선 edge가 집속 가우스빔을 회절시킨다고 가정하고, edge의 전후에서 발생하는 제 2고조파를 고려해서 회절음장을 해석하였다. 계산에서는 그린함수의 간단화를 위해 , Fresnel 근사를 이용하였고 실험에서는 성형전극을 형성시킨 요면 압전진동자에 의한 1.9MHz 집속가우스음원에 의해 만들어지는 초음파 빔에 수직하게 edge을 삽입시켰다. 회절 edge 후방에서 음장을 관측한 결과, 제 2고조파의 빔형상을 제외하고는 계산치와 실험치가 잘 일치하고 있다.