• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.744-756
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• 2002

The transient acoustic fields formed by a 3.5 ㎒ curved linear array transducer which is commonly used in ultrasonic medical imaging system for diagnosis of abdomen are systematically analyzed to obtain new design parameters for the better acoustic image. In the analysis with an assumption of radiating waveform, element size, radius of curvature, amplitude apodization are considered as parameters giving constitutive relations with the fields. As simulation results, appropriate new parameters with the reduced curvature and elevation aperture and the apodization of Hamming window, which make an improved acoustic beam with lower side lobe levels than a conventional typical transducer, are obtained.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.385-388
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• 2002

현재 복부용 초음파 진단장치에 가장 일반적으로 사용 되고 있는 3.5MHz의 굴곡형 선형배열(curved linear array) 탐촉자에 대하여, 탐촉자 요소의 폭과 높이, 측 방향 및 높이 방향의 곡률 반경 둥의 구조적인 파라메터 변화가 음장에 미치는 영향을 시물레이션을 통하여 체계적으로 해석하였다. 시물레이션에 있어서, 탐촉자는 128개의 요소변환자 중 32개에 의해 초음파 빔을 형성하며, 매질 중에 방사된 파형은 코사인 포락선을 갖는 3주기의 펄스인 것으로 일정하게 가정하였다. 시뮬레이션의 결과, 탐촉자의 측 방향 및 높이 방향 곡률보다는 탐촉자 요소의 폭 및 개구높이가 음장에 더 많은 영향을 미치고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.120-127
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• 2015

In this paper, a linear-array transducer capable of overcoming the faults of a single element and phased array transducers with convex shape for non-destructive ultrasonic testing was designed and fabricated. A 5.5 MHz linear-array transducer was designed using the PiezoCAD program based on the KLM analysis and the PZFlex program based on the FEM analysis. A 2-2 composite structure was employed to achieve broad-band characteristics. A 128 element linear-array transducer was fabricated and its performance was compared with the simulation results. The center frequency of the fabricated transducer was 5.5 MHz and the -6 dB frequency bandwidth was 70 %. Thus, we expect that the designed transducer can provide an effective inner image of the test material during non-destructive ultrasonic testing.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.388-392
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• 2012

This study proposes a fully non-contact measurement method to assess acoustic nonlinearity of narrowband surface waves generated by a line-arrayed laser beam by using a laser-ultrasonic detector in the way of two-wave mixing (TWM) method. This method was applied to figure out a relationship between plastic deformation and nonlinearity characteristics of a plastically deformed aluminum specimens. The experimental results showed that the acoustic nonlinearity of the laser-generated surface wave increased proportionally to the level of tensile deformation. This tendency is in good agreement with the result of measurement by contact method with PZT-transducer.