• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.40-45
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• 2008

Immersion ultrasonic testing (UT) was used to determine elastic moduli of solid materials instead of the widely-used contact UT method. Conventionally, immersion UT is only used for determining the longitudinal wave speed. However, in this research, transverse wave speed was measured through finding transverse wave echoes caused by mode-conversion at material's boundary. Also, even in the cases when wave speeds could not be determined due to unknown thickness, Poisson's ratio was able to be calculated from the ratio of longitudinal and transverse wave speeds. This technique was verified for several materials, and it was found that higher accuracy was obtained by immersion UT method for materials either with relatively high wave speed or with relatively small Poisson's ratio. This technique thus will be suitable fur ceramics or high strength materials.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.20-30
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• 2010

In this paper, a new tomographic scan method with fixed installed detectors and rotating source from gamma projector was presented to diagnose the industrial plants which were impossible to be examined by conventional tomographic systems. Weight matrix calculation method which was suitable for volumetric detector and statistical iterative reconstruction method were applied for reconstructing the simulation and experimental data. Monte Carlo simulations had been performed for two kinds of phantoms. Lab scale experiment with a same condition as one of phantoms, had been carried out. Simulation results showed that reconstruction from photopeak counting measurement gave the better results than from the gross counting measurement although photopeak counting measurement had large statistical errors. Experimental data showed the similar result as Monte Carlo simulation. Those results appeared to be promising for industrial tomographic applications, especially for petrochemical industries.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.18-22
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• 2014

Residual stresses that occur during the welding process, are the main cause of failure and defects in welded structures. This paper, presents the use of an electronic processing laser speckle interferometer to measure the residual stress of a welded pipe for a nuclear power plant. A tensile testing machine was used to evaluate a welded pipe that failed in compression. The inform plane deformation and modulus of elasticity of the base metal and welds were measured using an interferometer. Varying the load on the welded pipe had a larger effect on the deformation of the base metal the other properties of the base metal and welds. The elastic moduli of the base metal and weld of the welded pipe were 202.46 and 212.14 GPa, respectively, the residual stress was measured to be 6.29 MPa.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.93-101
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• 2002

The quality of agricultural products is classified with various factors which are measured and determined by destructive and/or nondestructive method. NIR spectrum analysis method is used to determine internal qualities such as a brix and an acidity. CCD color camera is used to measure external quality like color and a size of fruit. Today, nondestructive methods are widely researched. The quality and the grade of fruit loaded into a cup automatically and measured in real time by camera and NIR system is determined by infernal and external factors. This paper proposes modified boundary tracking algorithm which detects the contour of fruit's color image and make chain code faster than conventional method. The chain code helps compute a size of fruit image and find multiple loading of a fruit in single cup or fruit between two cups. The designed classification system sorts a citrus at speed of 8 fruit/s, with evaluating a brix, an acidity and a size grade.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.43-49
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• 2017

The ancient paper document we chose as a case study for our research is "One Hundred Poets of the Tang Dynasty", which is housed in the Ryukoku University Library. The purpose of this research is to introduce a method to analyze the surface roughness and microstructure at a high resolution. In addition, we attempt to quantitatively measure the surface unevenness of the types and curve structure. We used a tridimensional digital microscopy as a non-contact and a non-destructive method to study ancient cultural paper. The information contained in the paper may be lost in the process of applying strong pressure to clean and lining or press. However, this microscopic measurement method can non-destructively analyze a large amount of data in old printed books. Moreover, it enables observing them directly with reflected light. Therefore, this method may be useful for collecting printed information remaining on the surface of the paper.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.207-212
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• 2004

Eddy current (EC) testing methods are widely used in a variety of applications including the inspection of steam generator tubes in nuclear power plants, aircraft parts and airframes. A key factor that affects the EC signal is lift-off which means the physical distance between a sensor and a specimen in the testing. In practice, it is difficult to keep track of the actual value of the lift -off during a specific experiment, simulation or testing in the field, which is essential for accurate interpretation of the signal to be used in the following steps. Hence it is necessary to have a scheme to render the EC signal invariant to the effects of lift-off in spite of the changes in the real world. This paper describes a new method for compensating EC signals for variations in lift-off by acquiring an invariance feature using a homomorphic operator and neural network techniques. The signals from various lift-offs are transformed to obtain a zero lift-off equivalent signal that can be subsequently used for defect characterization in the next step.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.95-104
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• 2009

This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between the dielectric constant and air void of asphalt concrete. Standard specimens that have air voids of various range $(0%{\sim}20%)$ were used to measure the dielectric constant using parallel plate method that measures low frequency dielectric constant. From the tests, dielectric constant of asphalt concrete was tend to decrease as the frequency was increased, and the decrement slope was varied with the types of asphalt binders. Dielectric constant was decreased linearly as air void was increased from zero to twenty percent. Consequently, the effect of temperature and moisture content on dielectric constants of asphalt concrete was evaluated to develop the standard curve between dielectric constant and air void of asphalt concrete. The standard curve developed in this study can be used to calibrate or develop the algorithm of non-destructive density gauge.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.24 no.3 s.192
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• pp.7-15
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.171-176
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• 1999

작물의 생육장해 진단은 식물체의 계측에 의해 수행되는데, 이러한 계측은 생육 중인 작물을 대상으로 할 경우, 작물의 잎이나 줄기의 비파괴적 생체(in-vivo)계측을 필요로 하며 비접촉이면 더욱 바람직하다. 그리고 식물체의 건강상태를 좀더 신속하고 정확히 파악하기 위해서는 가능한 다양한 항목을 측정 대상으로 하여 관찰하는 것이 요구될 뿐만 아니라 많은 경우 그 관찰은 미소한 생장반응 및 생장량을 측정하여야 하므로 상당히 높은 정확도의 전문 센서가 필요하다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.05b
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• pp.244-249
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• 1997

드럼 속의 폐기물 안에 포함되어있는 방사성 물질의 함량을 비파괴적으로 측정하는 방사성폐기물 핵종분석시스템을 개발하여 고리원자력발전소 제4폐기물 저장고에 설치하였다. 시스템은 그 기능에 따라 상위레벨과 하위레벨로 나누어지는데, 상위레벨인 중앙감시 및 제어시스템 Part에서 전체 시스템을 원활하게 운전되도록 감시 제어를 하고, 하위 레벨에서는 드럼을 운반하는데 사용하는 크레인 운전 Part, 측정위치에 올려진 드럼을 분석하는 핵종분석 Part, 드럼 핵종분석 결과를 회전하면서 드럼 표면에 인쇄하는 Ink-jet Printer Part 로 구분된다. 상위레벨의 제어실내 감시제어 PC는 하위레벨과 RS-232C 멀티포트를 사용하여 통신을 하는데, 드럼의 반입에서 반출까지의 전 과정은 자동화되어 운전된다.