• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.299-302
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 보 구조물의 응력 변화에 따른 구조역학적 임피던스의 특성을 분석하였다. 이를 위해 다음과 같은 연구가 수행되었다. 먼저 외팔보 형식의 알루미늄 보에 PZT센서와 strain gage를 부착하고, 하중을 단계적으로 증가시키면서 임피던스를 계측하였다. 다음으로 strain gage에서 계측된 변형률과 PZT로 부터 계측된 임피던스 사이의 관계를 분석하였다. 마지막으로 수치해석을 통해 변형률과 임피던스의 관계를 분석하여, 실험결과와 비교하였다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.315-318
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 구조물 연결부의 실시간 손상 검색을 통해 이상이 감지되었을 경우 자가치유까지 가능한 지능형 볼트접합부 시스템에 관한 실험적 연구결과가 제시되었다. 지능형 센서인 PZT센서의 전기-역학적 커플링 특성을 이용한 전기역학적 임피던스 기반의 구조물 건전성 평가 방법이 사용되었다. 전기역학적 임피던스의 측정을 통한 계측값을 베이스라인 값과 비교하는 손상 평가를 통해 구조물 볼트접합부의 볼트풀림 손상을 진단하고, 손상은 손상지수 RMSD를 통하여 정량화되었다. 볼트접합부의 손상이 감지되었을 경우 형상기억합금(SMA) 와셔에 부착되어있는 히팅 필름에 전원을 가함으로써 형상기억합금에 열을 가하고, 가열된 형상기억합금 와셔는 축방향으로 팽창을 함으로써 잃었던 볼트의 토크력을 회복시켜주었다. 실험 결과, 제안된 전기역학적 임피던스 기반의 구조물 건전성 평가기법과 형상기억합금 와셔 기반의 볼트접합부 자가치유 시스템의 성능 평가와 검증이 이루어졌다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.32-35
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• 2011

전기역학적 임피던스(electromechanical impedance)를 이용한 구조물 건전성 모니터링(structural health monitoring; SHM) 기술은 구조물의 주요 부재에 압전센서를 부착하여 이로부터 획득한 임피던스 신호의 변화를 관찰함으로써 구조물의 국부적 상태를 실시간으로 진단하는 것이다. 임피던스는 손상뿐만 아니라 외부 온도에도 민감하게 반응하기 때문에 구조물 진단 결과에 상당한 오차를 유발할 수 있으므로 이에 대한 보상을 수행해야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 온도변화가 임피던스 기반 진단 결과에 미치는 영향을 PZT 센서를 사용하여 실험적으로 연구하였다. 리액턴스(reactance)의 주성분 분석(Principal Component Analysis; PCA)을 통해 도출된 첫번째 주성분과 저항(resistance)으로부터 계산된 손상지수 사이의 관계를 분석함으로써, 온도변화에 의해 구별되지 않았던 손상을 보다 확연하게 구별 할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.6 s.52
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• pp.57-65
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• 2006

This paper presents hybrid structural damage monitoring system which performs both global damage assessment of structure and damage detection of local structural joints. Hybrid damage monitoring system is composed of vibration-based technique and electro/mechanic impedance technique. Vibration-based technique detects global characteristic change ot structure using modal characteristic change of structure, and electro/mechanical impedance technique detects damage existence of local structural joints using impedance change of PZT sensor. For the verification of the proposed hybrid monitoring system, a series of damage scenarios are designed to loosened bolts situations of the structural joints, and acceleration response and impedance response signatures are measured. The proposed hybrid monitoring system is implemented to monitor global damage-state and local damages in structural joints.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.183-184
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• 2016

This study investigated the evolution of electro-mechanical impedance (EMI) of piezoelectricity (PZT) sensor embedded in hydrating steel fiber reinforced mortar to determine the setting times of that. Penetration resistance test was also conducted in order to justify the valid of EMI sensing technique. As a result, the setting times of steel fiber reinforced mortar can be effectively monitored through the EMI sensing technique using PZT sensor.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.153-159
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• 2002

This paper deals with the measurement of the fluid viscosity by using the torsional vibration of a circular red excited by a torsional vibrator at one end. The effect of an adjacent viscous fluid on the torsional vibration of the rod has been studied theoretically and expressed in terms of the mechanical impedance. The theoretically-obtained trend that the mechanical impedance is proportional to the square root of the viscosity times the density of the fluid has been confirmed by the impedance measurement. The paper demonstrates that a torsionally-vibrating rod can be used as a sensor to measure the viscosity of a fluid.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.107-117
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• 2011

In this study, the effect of temperature-induced uncertainty to damage monitoring using acceleration-impedance response features is analyzed for presterssed concrete(PSC) girder bridges. Firstly, a damage monitoring algorithm using global and local vibration features is designed. As global and local features, acceleration and electro-mechanical impedance features are selected respectively. Secondly, the temperature effect on the acceleration and impedance features for a lab-scaled PSC girder is experimentally analyzed. From the experimental results, compensation models for temperature-acceleration features and temperature-impedance features are estimated. Finally, the feasibility of the acceleration-impedance-based damage monitoring technique using the compensation model is evaluated in the PSC girder for which a set of prestress-loss and flexural stiffness loss cases were dynamically tested.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.59-65
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• 2011

In structural health monitoring (SHM) using electro-mechanical impedance signatures, it is a critical issue for extremely large structures to extract the best damage diagnosis results, while minimizing unknown environmental effects, including temperature, humidity, and acoustic vibration. If the impedance signatures fluctuate because of these factors, these fluctuations should be eliminated because they might hide the characteristics of the host structural damages. This paper presents a long-term SHM technique under an unknown noisy environment for tidal current power plant structures. The obtained impedance signatures contained significant variations during the measurements, especially in the audio frequency range. To eliminate these variations, a continuous principal component analysis was applied, and the results were compared with the conventional approach using the RMSD (Root Mean Square Deviation) and CC (Cross-correlation Coefficient) damage indices. Finally, it was found that this approach could be effectively used for long-term SHM in noisy environments.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.561-564
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• 2004

방음벽의 상단모서리는 방음벽의 차음효과를 저하시키는 또 다른 허상음원으로 작용하며 이 현상은 저주파수 영역일수록 두드러지게 나타난다. 이 논문에서는 능동소음제어장치를 통해서 상단 모서리 표면의 음장을 최소화함으로써 표면임피던스의 변화를 통한 상단모서리 주변의 소리에너지의 역학과 원거리 음장에서의 효과를 고찰한다. 능동제어장치를 함유하는 상단모서리를 수학적으로 모델화하여 음장의 분포와 소리의 세기, 능동제어 효과에 영향을 미치는 조건들을 검토하였다. 수치해석적 연구를 통하여서 효과적으로 방음벽의 차음효과를 높이는 최적의 조건을 제시하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.629-636
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• 2011

This paper describes the smart structural system that uses smart materials for real-time monitoring and active control of bolted joints in steel structures. The impedance-based structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques, which utilize the electro-mechanical coupling property of piezoelectric materials, was used to detect loose bolts in bolted joints. By monitoring the measured electrical impedance and comparing it with the measured baseline, a bolt loosening damage was detected. The damage was evaluated quantitatively using the damage metrics in conductance signature with respect to the healthy states. When loosening damage was detected in the bolted joint, the external heater actuated the shape memory alloy (SMA) washer. Then the heated SMA washer expanded axially and adjusted the bolt tension to restore the lost torque. An experiment was conducted by integrating the piezoelectric-material-based SHM function and the SMA-based active control function on a bolted joint, after which the performance of thesmart self-healing joint system was investigated.