• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.118-126
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• 2011

The characteristics of the responses obtained in thermosonic tests are investigated in this study to improve the performance of a thermosonic test system. Thermosonic tests are conducted with an acoustic horn with high power capability to investigate the characteristics of the vibration produced in turbine blades with complex geometry. The influences of the excitation signal that is input to the horn and the coupling methods between a clamp and the acoustic horn on the characteristics of the vibration excited in a component are presented. As a result, an excitation method with a fast narrow band chirp test (sweep test) and a stud coupling is proposed as an excitation method for thermosonic testing. This method can be applied to different types of turbine blades and also to other components.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.40-43
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• 2011

최근, 레이저 초음파 영상화 기법은 구조물의 비접촉식 손상 진단을 위해 널리 연구되고 있다. 초음파 영상화 기법의 가장 큰 장점은 비접촉식으로 구조물의 손상을 진단할 수 있고, 가진 및 측정 지점을 자유로이 이동할 수 있다는 점이다. 따라서 이는 고온이나 동적상태의 구조물에 적용이 가능하며, 시간과 공간상의 충분한 데이터를 획득할 수 있으므로 역문제 (Inverse problem)를 해결할 필요 없이 완전한 초음파의 전파 형상을 얻을 수 있다. 지난 연구들에서는 충분한 가진력 혹은 측정 민감도를 확보하기 위해 가진 레이저와 부착형 센서의 조합이나 부착형 가진 트렌스듀서와 센싱 레이저의 조합으로 초음파 영상을 획득하고자 하였다. 하지만 이들 조합은 가진 혹은 측정 지점이 구조물에 부착되어 있어 완전한 비접촉식 기법을 구현하지 못하였다. 이를 극복하고자 레이저와 EMAT 센서 등의 조합이 시도되어 왔으나, 이 또한 EMAT 센서의 적용 거리에 따른 한계점을 지니고 있다. 본 연구에서는 가진 레이저 (Nd:Yag)의 스캐닝을 통해 다양한 가진 점에서 발생된 초음파가 탄성체 구조물을 통해 전파되고, 이를 센싱 레이저 (Laser Doppler Vibrometer)를 이용하여 측정함으로써 비접촉식 초음파 영상화를 구현하였다. 나아가, 정상파 필터(Standing-wave filter)를 이용하여 구현된 초음파 영상으로부터 손상 영향만 검출해 내는 기법을 개발했다. 개발된 기법은 복합재 시편의 층간박리 (Delamination) 진단을 통해 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.98-103
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• 2002

초음파 비가진 시인 상용분무와 초음파가진 시인 개질분무, 간접진동분무, 간접진동 및 개질의 겸용분무의 네가지 경우 모두에서 분무액적의 평균직경 및 SMD가 전 영역에 걸쳐서 노즐 글에서 분무방향으로 멀어질수록 조금씩 증가했으며, 또한 초음파 비 가진시인 상용분무 경우가 초음파 가진 세경우에 비해 크게 나타났다. 초음파 가진 세가지 경우에서는 간접진동 및 개질법 겸용의 경우에서 분무액적의 미세화가 가장 우세하게 나타났다. 이는 초음파가 분무 축방향 전영역에 걸쳐서 분무액적의 미세화에 친화적임을 입증한다. 나. 분무 방향 축에서 반경 방향으로 갈수록 분무 액적의 평균 직경과 SMD는 감소하고 있으며, 반경방향 전 영역에 걸쳐서 상용 분무시의 액적이 가장 크게, 초음파겸용 경우에서 가장 작게 나타나고 있다. 이는 초음파가 분무 내부 전 영역에 걸쳐 액적의 미세화에 친화적임을 증명한다. 다. 분무액적의 크기에 따른 분무 분포도 비교에서 네가지 경우 모두에서 축 방향 거리가 멀수록 분무액적의 크기가 다소 증가함을 보였고, 축에서 반경 방향으로는 분무액적의 크기가 다소 감소함을 보이고 있다. 상용 분무와 초음파 분무의 비교에서 초음파 겸용 가진시는 상용 분무 때 보다 분무 영역 전반에 걸쳐서 미세화가 뚜렷이 우세함을 보였다.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.15 no.1 s.45
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• pp.35-44
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• 2006

This study experimentally investigates effect of boiling heat transfer when ultrasonic vibration was applied. Under the wall temperature condition, temperature distribution in a cavity was measured during the boiling process and heat transfer coefficient of convection, sub-tooled boiling and saturated boiling states were measured with and without ultrasonic vibration, respectively. Also, the profiles of the pressure distribution in acoustic field measured by a hydrophone were compared with the augmentation ratios of heat transfer calculated by local heat transfer coefficient. Result of this study, heat transfer coefficient and augmentation ratio of heat transfer is higher with ultrasonic waves than without one. Especially, augmentation ratio of heat transfer is more increased the convection state than sub-cooled boiling and saturated boiling states. Acoustic pressure is relatively higher near ultrasonic transducer than other points where is no installed it and affects the augmentation ratio of heat transfer.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.166-173
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• 2014

A noncontact nondestructive testing (NDT) method is proposed to detect the damage of pipeline structures and to identify the location of the damage. To achieve this goal, a scanning laser source actuation technique is utilized to generate a guided wave and scans a specific area to find damage location more precisely. The ND: YAG pulsed laser is used to generate Lamb wave and a piezoelectric sensor is installed to measure the structural responses. The measured responses are analyzed using three dimensional Fourier transformation (3DFT). The damage-sensitive features are extracted by wavenumber filtering based on the 3D FT. Then, flaw imaging techniques of a pipeline structures is conducted using the damage-sensitive features. Finally, the pipes with notches are investigated to verify the effectiveness and the robustness of the proposed NDT approach.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.60-67
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• 2022

A study was conducted to analyze the behavioral change of the kerosene flame ultrasonically-atomized under an ultrasonic standing-wave. Combustion region was visualized through DSLR, ICCD camera and the Schlieren photography with high-speed camera. The fuel consumption was measured by a precise scale. As a result, in the case of ultrasonic standing-wave excitation, it was observed that the intensity of OH radical(OH^*) was enhanced and optimal combustion condition was formed around the upper edge of the standing-wave field.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.673-675
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 매립 구간의 길이가 유도초음파 신호 강도에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 유도초음파 모드 해석을 통해 가진 모드와 주파수를 결정하였으며, 유도초음파의 가진 및 수진은 경사각 입사 방식의 Pitch-Catch 법을 이용하였다. 또한, 비 매립된 배관에서 유도초음파 신호를 획득하여, 이를 기준으로 매립된 배관에서 획득한 유도초음파 신호를 분석하였다. 실험 결과 매립 구간의 길이가 유도초음파의 신호 강도에 매우 큰 영향을 미칠 뿐만 아니라, 매립 구간의 길이와 신호 강도의 변화가 선형 비례적인 관계를 보이지 않는다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.353-359
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• 2002

High intensity ultrasound has been applied to a series of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)/water systems having different molecular weights of PEO. Major interest was focused on the effect of ultrasonic wane on the melt viscosity chemical structure and thermal properties of PEO. The expected role of ultrasound used in this study was to generate macroradicals of PEO chains by the formation and subsequent collapse of bubbles. It was found that the melt viscosity and chemical structure of PEO change significantly depending on the sonication time. For the prolonged sonication, PEO chains were significantly degraded and new end groups were formed by the interplay of various radical species. When the molecular weight of PEO was relatively higher, the crystallization rate was decreased and the intensity of the melting peak was reduced.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.53-60
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• 2020

In liquid-fuel spray combustion, an experimental study was conducted to observe the effect of ultrasonic excitation on the ultrasonically-atomized liquid fuel flame by controlling pressure field through an ultrasonic standing wave. Flame of the ultrasonically-atomized kerosene aerosol was visualized by using a high speed camera, DSLR, and Schlieren photography. The amount of fuel consumed was obtained by a precise flow-rate measurement technique during combustion, through which the ratio of carrier gas (air) to fuel mass was able to be obtained, too. As a result, it could be found that the combustion reaction-rate of the liquid-fuel aerosol was increased by applying an ultrasonic standing wave to the secondary flame zone of the flame.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.367-373
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• 2011

Guided waves inspection techniques that are different with inspection technique by bulk waves are widely used in pipe line evaluation due to advantages of long distance inspection. However, most of pipe lines at industrial fields are buried and/or coated. In this case, due to the attenuation effect from soil and/or coating material, there are a lot of difficulty on inspection by conventional ultrasonic technique. In this paper, guided waves propagating patterns are calculated with respect to excitation mode by Normal Mode Expansion(NME). Guided waves patterns based on excited by single transducer and guided wave focusing technique have employed to analyze focusing pattern on a pipe. A longitudinal mode and high order flexural modes are used with various number of transducers to determine sensitivity. Guided waves energy excited by multi transducer with focusing algorithm was successfully focused at a desired point.