• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.40-45
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• 2008

There exist many types of pipe and component fatigue through vibrations, thermal fatigues or shifting. In some cases of thermal stratification/thermal fatigue, pipes & components are receiving thermal stress by means of material expansion and shrinkage by continuous thermal repetitive variation. Small cracks initially occur on the inside surface by thermal stress. These cracks grow in depth the pipe wall and finally come to a rupture. Pipe parts of susceptibility to thermal stratification and thermal fatigue are now being examined by conventional UT(ultrasonic test) as volumetric examination. It is difficult to fully satisfy the code & standards requirements because 3" weldolet weldments of RCS 16" pipe to 3" branch connection lines have complex structural shape. To solve the problems of conventional UT examination, we made a realistic mock-up and UT calibration block. We performed a simulation of phased array UT utilizing CIVA as NDE(Non-Destructive Examination) simulation software. Also we designed phased array UT transducer and wedge, optimal frequency by using simulation data. We performed phased array UT experiment through mock-up including artificial flaws(notch). The phased array UT technique is finally developed to improve the reliability of ultrasonic test at RCS 16" pipe to 3" branch connection weld.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.20-27
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• 2010

In order to prevent the corrosion of component contacted primary water designed alloy 600 material in the nuclear power plant. But the primary water stress corrosion cracking(PWSCC) of alloy 600 and weld area occurs continuously due to the residual stress. The leakage accident resulted from PWSCC in the drain nozzle of the steam generator of domestic power plants. Heater sleeves of the pressurizer are welded with alloy 600 weld material and therefore exposed to the primary water environment. PWSCC occurred in heater sleeve material and weld area of many foreign power plants. The current issue of domestic nuclear power plants are consequently concentrated to PWSCC of similar material. In order to improve the detection and the sizing of the PWSCC in the welding sleeve of the pressurizer, the automatic UT system and multi-directions probe sets have been developed. The experimental studies have been performed using the mock-up block containing artificial reflectors(ID connected EDM notch) and semi-artificial cracks made from thermal fatigue. The automatic UT System is applied in the detection and the length sizing of the ID/OD on the tube and the J-groove weld area of the artificial reflectors and results of the detection and the sizing are compared respectively. Also, the developed automatic UT system is successfully accomplished to inspect the heater sleeve and the J-groove weld area on the pressurizer for the detection of PWSCC.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제29권5A호
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• pp.421-431
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• 2009

본 연구는 유도초음파를 기반으로 한 구조물 건전성 모니터링 알고리즘 검증에 관한 것이다. 유도초음파 중 램파를 기반으로 하는 능동검사시스템을 사용하였으며 본 알고리즘의 적용에 관한 기초연구로서 강판에 표면결함인 원형노치를 감지하는 실험을 수행하였다. Pitch-catch방법으로 강판 표면 원형노치에 대한 손상 탐상을 수행하여 손상전후의 $S_0$모드를 비교함으로써 손상 특성을 파악하며 손상전후 신호의 수학적 차에 의해 구한 산란램파(scatter)에 의해 손상을 평가할 수 있다. 손상전후 신호의 $S_0$모드 램파를 분석하기 위해서 연속 가보 웨이블릿 변환을 사용하여 전파시간을 구할 수 있다. 본 알고리즘은 손상모니터링 다각형과 Pitch-catch 방법을 기초로 하며 손상 위치표정값들의 평균과 표준편차에 의해 손상위치표정 및 크기를 정확히 추정 가능함이 검증되었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.55-61
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 쿼드러춰 방식의 초음파현미경을 구성하고 미세한 높이변화를 갖는 표면결함에 대한 진폭영상과 위상영상을 복원하여 상대적인 영상 강도의 변화와 영상의 질을 비교 분석하였다. 본 실험에서는 중심주파수가 3㎒인 focused 변환기를 사용하여 초음파현미경을 구성하고 알루미늄 재료를 선택하여 하나는 직경이 2㎜이고 깊이가 100㎛인 원형결함을 갖도록 하였고 다른 하나는 직경이 4㎜이고 깊이가 5㎜인 원형결함을 갖도록 시편을 제작하였으며 이들에 대한 진폭과 위상영상을 복원하였다. 결함 깊이가 100㎛인 원형결함이 존재하는 시편에 대한 라인 스캔(line scan) 결과 상대적인 영상강도의 진폭 변동율은 7%로 미약한 반면에 위상 변동율은 89%로 커다란 변화를 나타내므로 결함에 대해서 위상영상이 우수한 콘트라스트를 보였다. 이에 비하여 결함의 깊이가 5㎜인 시편에 대해서 진폭영상은 위상영상에 비하여 우수한 콘트라스트를 보이므로서 결함 깊이가 한 파장을 기준으로하여 위상영상과 진폭영상은 큰 차이를 나타내었다. 따라서 쿼드러춰 검출방식의 초음파현미경은 진폭만을 검출하는 포락선 검출기에 비해 한 파장보다 작은 높이변화를 갖는 결함의 탐상시 위상영상을 진폭영상의 상호보완적인 관계로 사용하므로서 결함의 미세 높이 변동을 효율적으로 평가 할 수 있다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.353-362
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• 2016

가스터빈 블레이드는 고온 고압의 환경 아래 장시간 가동하기 위하여 초합금 모재에 세라믹 코팅으로 이루어진 열차폐코팅(thermal barrier coating, TBC)은 필수요소이다. 하지만 TBC 또한 가스터빈 가동 중 일정 열화온도 및 가동시간에서 top coat의 박리현상이 일어난다. TBC의 박리는 블레이드의 손상과 직결되므로 가스 터빈의 안정적인 가동을 위해서 TBC의 박리 평가가 선행되어야 한다. 기존 비파괴평가 기법 연구는 산화알루미늄층(thermally grown oxide, TGO)의 생성 유무 또는 완전 박리의 정성적 평가가 이루어져 왔다. 본 연구에서는 TBC 박리를 정량적으로 평가하기 위해 초음파검사의 C-scan기법을 이용한 TBC의 부분박리손상 map을 구현하였다. 시편들은 $1,100^{\circ}C$로 등온열화하여 각각 열화시간을 변화시킨 시편들을 사용하였다. 단일 탐촉자를 이용한 펄스-에코법으로 C-scan을 수행하였고 TBC 내 부분박리를 검출하기 위해 초음파를 수침법으로 시편에 수직 탐상하였다. 그리고 Rogers-Van Buren과 Kim의 이론 반사식을 이용하여 부분박리영역 지름이 1 mm부터 6 mm까지 부분박리지수를 도출했다. 이를 적용하여 각 부분박리지수에 따른 부분박리 손상 map을 영상화하였다. TBC는 열화시간이 증가할수록 부분박리지수에 관계없이 부분박리영역이 모두 증가함을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 단일 시편 내에서 부분박리지수가 증가할수록 부분박리영역이 감소하는 것을 확인하였다. 부분박리손상 map의 부분박리영역에 따른 분포를 이용하여 TBC의 완전박리 기준과 잔여 수명을 또한 도출할 수 있었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.826-837
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• 2004

Rotational molding is a plastics processing technique that is ideally suited to producing relatively large, hollow, seamless parts which are partially or totally enclosed. Designers of plastic parts turn to rotational molding to produce small or large parts of unusual shape that cannot be produced as one piece by other processes, e.g., blow molding and thermoforming. In this paper, in order to enhance the quality of rotational molding plastic products, 1) surface features for the plastic products are characterized by using an image analysis system, 2) maximum tensile strength for the plastic products that are made of materials that consist of Samsung-Atofina R90lU, pigments and two different kinds of calcium carbonate (OMYA CaCO$_3$) is measured and compared with each other by using an Instron universal testing machine, 3) thickness for the plastic products is non-destructively measured to investigate the quality of the plastic products by using an A-scan ultrasonic tester.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1332-1336
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• 2005

It could make the LIghtweight Piezoelectric Composite Actuator (LIPCA) damageable by the cyclic large deformation. If the progressive microvoid coalescence of LIPCA interlaminar took place, the decrease of the stiffness and the weakness of stress transmission and fiber bridging effect would make the fatigue characteristics worse suddenly. Therefore, it is required to study the variation of fatigue behavior and interlaminar condition in LIPCA under resonant frequencies. These studies such as the changeable fatigue phase and interlaminar behavior of LIPCA affected by the resonant frequencies should be carried out due to the strong anisotropy of CFRP layer. Hence, these studies are as follows. 1) The residual stresses distribution of interlaminar in LIPCA using the Classical Lamination Theory (CLT). 2) Comparative analysis of interlaminar behavior for the intact LIPCA versus LIPCA containing an artificial delamination during resonant frequency.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제19권9호
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• pp.935-942
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• 2009

In this paper, the purpose is to investigate the natural frequency of a cracked Timoshenko cantilever beams by FEM(finite element method) and experiment. In addition, a method for detection of crack in a cantilever beams is presented based on natural frequency measurements. The governing differential equations of a Timoshenko beam are derived via Hamilton's principle. The two coupled governing differential equations are reduced to one fourth order ordinary differential equation in terms of the flexural displacement. The crack is assumed to be in the first mode of fracture and to be always opened during the vibrations. The detection method of a crack location in a beam based on the frequency measurements is extended here to Timoshenko beams, taking the effects of both the shear deformation and the rotational inertia into account. The differences between the actual and predicted crack positions and sizes are less than 6 % and 23 % respectively.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.35-36
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• 2006

In Nd:YAG laser welding, evaluation methods of welding flaw are various. But, the method due to fume shape is difficult to classification of welding flaw. The Nd:YAG laser process is known to have high speed and deep penetration capability to become one of the most advanced welding technologies. At the present time, some methods are studied for measurement of fume shape by using high-speed camera and photo diode. This paper describes the machining characteristics of SM45C carbon steel welding by use of an Nd:YAG laser. In spite of its good mechanical characteristics, SM45C carbon steel has a high carbon contents and suffers a limitation in the industrial application due to the poor welding properties. In this study, fume shape was measured by infrared thermal camera that is non-contact/non-destructive thermal measurement equipment through change of laser generating power, speed, focus. Weld was performed on bead-on method. Measurement results are compared as two equipments. Here, two results are composed of measurement results of fume quantities due to fume shape by infrared thermal camera and inspection results of weld bead include weld flaws by ultrasonic inspector.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2005

Conventional non-destructive techniques for inspection of the weld in pipelines require significant test time and high cost. Ultrasonic guided waves have been widely studied and successfully applied to various non-destructive tests with advantage of the long-range inspection. In this paper, a study on the application of ultrasonic guided waves to the long-range inspection of the pipeline is presented using a long-range guided wave inspection system, Wavemaker SE16, GUL. The characteristics and setup of the long-range guided wave inspection system and experimental results in pipes of with various diameter are introduced. The experimental results in mock-up pipes with cluster type detects show that the minimum detectable wall thickness reduction with this guided wave system is $2\~3\%$ in the pipe cross section area. And the wall thickness reduction of $5\%$ in cross section area can be detected when actual detection level is used. Therefore, the applicability of the guided wave systeme to long-range inspection of wall thickness reduction in pipes is verified.