• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.40-47
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• 2000

To obtain the acoustic properties of dispersive polyurethane with high attenuation, through transmission method was applied by ultrasonic. In through transmission method, the sound velocity and attenuation coefficient of specimen were obtained by using Sachse's method which can be applied to small size specimen. But there is a problem when the reference signal is selected, so the result is not precise. The more precise acoustic properties of polyurethane was obtained when two specimens with different thickness were used. To predict the acoustic properties of low frequency range, the acoustic properties extended to the low frequency range were calculated by Kramers - Kronig relation. As a result, we studied on the relation between the sound velocity and the attenuation coefficient with frequency.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.409-414
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• 2013

In this work, corrosion of 304 stainless steel was evaluated by using acoustic emission(AE) technique. AE measurement system was set for detecting acoustic signal during accelerated corrosion test of the specimen. AE signal started to be detected after the time of pitting corrosion initiation was evaluated by anodic polarization curve. Pitting corrosion damage was confirmed by optical microscopic observation of the surface morphology. AE cumulative counts and amplitude according to corrosion time could be divided into three stages. These trends were discussed in relation with changing pitting corrosion mechanism. Feasibilities of AE technique for evaluation of corrosion damage and mechanism were suggested.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.455-458
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• 1998

초음파 산업분야에 널리 사용되고 있는 PZT 압전 세라믹 진동자의 경우 높은 품질계수로 인하여 대역폭이 좁고, 진동 시 두께방향 진동뿐만 아니라 횡방향 진동으로 인하여 초음파 신호를 분석하는데 여러 가지 어려움이 항상 존재하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 PZT 세라믹스와 고분자 재료인 Epoxy를 사용하여 1-3 접속도를 갖는 압전 복합재료를 제조하였다. 이를 이용하여 초음파 트랜스듀서를 제작하였고, 이에 대한 전기음향변환능률을 어드미턴스 loop를 측정하여 구하였다. 유전율, 공진 주파수 등을 포함한 기본적인 트랜스듀서의 파라메터들은 공진 부근에서 전기적인 임피던스로부터 측정하였다. 이러한 파라메터들을 적용하여 주파수에 대한 트랜스듀서의 성능을 평가하였다. Pulse-echo법을 이용하여 삽입손실율을 구하고 임펄스 반응을 통하여 주파수 대역폭에 대해서 측정하였다. 그 결과 어드미턴스 loop로부터 두께방향모드를 제외한 횡방향 모드는 거의 나타나지 않았다. 유전율은 5.25㎊m이었고, 공진주파수 1.65MHz에서 -8dB의 최소 손실이 발생하였다. 주파수대역폭은 -6dB에서 64%(Q ; 1.56)의 대역폭이 측정되었고 전기기계 결합계수는 0.54이고 전기기계변환능률은 52%, 기계음향변환능률은 31%로 측정되었다.

• Composites Research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-7
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• 2001

In this study, damage evaluation of glass fiber reinforced thermoplastic composites was investigated with acoustic emission method. Specimens of 1.7mm thickness laminate were made from PET and 7 layers o171ass fabrics. Notch and impact loading were added to the specimen and normal tensile test and tensile test with the dead load were carried out. AE signal was measured as the functions of notch ratio to the width0 and impact energy in order to find out the correlation between fracture mode and AE parameters. The result has shown that low amplitude of AE signal was due to the microcrack of matrix and its growth, whereas the amplitude in the mid range was the response to the delamination and interfacial separation. In the range of high amplitude above 90dB. the fracture of glass fabric was found. Tensile strength decreased with increasing notch ratio to the width and impact energy because of tile effect or delamination, the cracking of matrix and stress concentration. In proportion to the size of damaged area. AE signal showed its wider range of frequency and energy as well as increased number of hits.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.308-315
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• 2009

Because the attenuation of AE signal in composite materials is relatively higher than that of metallic materials, it is required to develop a damage assessment technique less affected by the attenuation property of composite materials in order to use AE sensing as a damage detection method. In the signal processing procedure, it is profitable to use the leading wave that arrives first because the leading wave is less influenced by the boundary conditions. Using wavelet transform, we investigated the frequency characteristics of impact induced AE signals focused on the leading wave in advance and chose the key factors to discriminate the damaged condition quantitatively. In this research, we established a damage assessment technique using the sharing percentage of the wavelet detail components of AE signal, and conducted a low-velocity impact test on composite laminates to confirm the feasibility of the proposed signal processing method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.251-260
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• 2001

Damage Profess of CFRP laminates under monotonic tensile test was characterized by the correlation between Acoustic Emission(AE) and Ultrasonic Test(UT). The amplitude distribution of AE signal from a specimens is an aid to the determination of the extent of the different fracture mechanism such as matrix crack, debonding, fiber pullout and fiber fracture as load is increased. In addtion, the characteristics of ultrasonic amplitude attenuation are useful lot analysis of the different type of fracture mechanism. Different orientation of carbon fiber reinforced plastic specimens were used to investigate the AE amplitude range and ultrasonic amplitude attenuation. Finally, loading-unloading tests were carried out to check Felicity effect. During the tests, ultrasonic amplitude attenuation was investigated at the same time and compared with AE parameters. The result showed that two parameters of both AE and UT could be effectively used for analysis of fracture mechanism in CFRP laminates.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.393-396
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 흡음 재료와 압전 재료를 부착시켜 넓은 대역에서 소음 저감을 향상 시키는 압전 지능패널(piezoelectric smart panel)을 구성한 후 이를 통하여 구조물로부터 복사되는 소음의 저감 성능을 실험적으로 고찰 하였다. 우선, 단빌 평판과 흡음 재료가 부학된 편판을 구성하여 소음 저감 성능을 즉정 하였다. 그리고 두 방법을 합성하여 광 대역에서의 소음을 저감 시키기 위해 흡음 재료와 압전 재료를 부착한 압전 지능패널을 이용하여 감지기로부터 측정된 신호를 적절한 부 이득(negative gain)을 거쳐 작동기에 되먹임 하였을 때의 소음 저감 성능을 측정 하고 앞의 두 결과와 비교하였다. 실험 결과로부터 수동적 방법과 능동적 방법을 복합적으로 구성한 압전 지능패널이 넓은 주파수 대역에서 소음을 저감 시킬 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Composites Research
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.1-12
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• 2005

Fracture behaviors of single-edge-notched monolithic aluminum plates and glass fiber/aluminum laminates under tensile loadings have been studied using acoustic emission(AE) monitoring. AE signals from monolithic aluminum could beclassified into two different types. For glass fiber/aluminum laminates, AE signals with high amplitude and long duration were additionally confirmed on FFT frequency analysis, which corresponded to macrocrack propagation and/or delamination. AE source location determined by signal arrival time showed the zone of fracture. On the basis of the above AE analysis and fracture observation, characteristic features of fracture processes of single-edge-notched glass fiber/aluminum laminates were elucidated according to different fiber ply orientations and fiber/aluminum lay-up ratios.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.12-21
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• 1995

The study was performed to study the effects of strain rate on acoustics emission( AE) during bulging test in corrosive environmentsynthetic sea water. The strain rates used were in the range $4 \times 10^{-6}S^{-1}$ to $1 \times 10^{-4} \times S^{-1}$ and the parameters used to evaluate AE signal characteristics were AE hit and amplitude. It can be observed that the cumulative AE hit and average amplitude during fracture process increase highly at decreasing strain rates while the equivalent fracture strain and the crack length of circumferencial direction become decrease. The peak point of AE signal characteristic parameters approach to the first half of test. When the average amplitude per unit equivalent fracture strain was above 20dB, it was definitly observed stress corrosion cracking phenomena. Additional, we knew that the AE test had the possibility to evaluate SCC susceptibility with various strain rates.

• 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.