• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Dyers and Finishers Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.119-124
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• 2002

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.134-142
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• 2016

In this paper, a method synthesizing speech signal using the 40 kHz ultrasonic signals reflected from the articulatory muscles was introduced and performance was evaluated. When the ultrasound signals are radiated to articulating face, the Doppler effects caused by movements of lips, jaw, and chin observed. The signals that have different frequencies from that of the transmitted signals are found in the received signals. These ADS (Acoustic-Doppler Signals) were used for estimating of the speech parameters in this study. Prior to synthesizing speech signal, a quantitative correlation analysis between ADS and speech signals was carried out on each frequency bin. According to the results, the feasibility of the ADS-based speech synthesis was validated. ADS-to-speech transformation was achieved by the joint Gaussian mixture model-based conversion rules. The experimental results from the 5 subjects showed that filter bank energy and LPC (Linear Predictive Coefficient) cepstrum coefficients are the optimal features for ADS, and speech, respectively. In the subjective evaluation where synthesized speech signals were obtained using the excitation sources extracted from original speech signals, it was confirmed that the ADS-to-speech conversion method yielded 72.2 % average recognition rates.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.2
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• pp.161-168
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• 2021

In this paper, a Silent Speech Interface (SSI) technology was proposed in which Doppler frequency shifts of the reflected signal were used to synthesize the speech signals when 40kHz ultrasonic signal was incident to speaker's mouth region. In SSI, the mapping rules from the features derived from non-speech signals to those from audible speech signals was constructed, the speech signals are synthesized from non-speech signals using the constructed mapping rules. The mapping rules were built by minimizing the overall errors between the estimated and true speech parameters in the conventional SSI methods. In the present study, the mapping rules were constructed so that the distribution of the estimated parameters is similar to that of the true parameters by using Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). The experimental result using 60 Korean words showed that, both objectively and subjectively, the performance of the proposed method was superior to that of the conventional neural networks-based methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.79-83
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• 1998

높은 온도에서 금속물질이 응고되는 동안에 물질의 구조는 결정성장속도비율에 따 라 크게 좌우된다. 유도초음파를 기초로 한 펄스-에코 초음파실험기술과 함께 고체-액체 경 계면의 위치와 속도를 실시간으로 측정할 수 있어 고체화되는 동안의 용광로 파라메터들을 조절하는데 사용될 수 있다. 실험은 Bridgman형의 용광로에서 CuMn-막대시료에 대하여 서로 다른 냉각비율로 수행되었다. 열적평형상태에서 경계면의 위치에 대한 측정분해능은 약10㎛이다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.48 no.10
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• pp.1335-1343
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• 1999

This paper presents concrete pattern recognition method to identify the strength of concrete by evidence accumulation with multiple parameters based on artificial intelligence techniques. At first, zero-crossing(ZCR), mean frequency(MEANF), median frequency(MEDF) and autoregressive model coefficient(ARC) are extracted as feature parameters from ultrasonic signal of concrete. Pattern recognition is carried out through the evidence accumulation procedure using distance measured with reference parameters. A fuzzy mapping function is designed to transform the distances for the application of the evidence accumulation method. Results are presented to support the feasibility of the suggested approach for concrete pattern recognition.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.290-295
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• 2004

In this study, the pressure vessel piping with corrosion used during long term were investigated from the time-frequency analysis method. The damage of piping could be evaluated the attenuation factor by ultrasonic parameters such as center frequency and echo waveform. Based on NDE analysis by time-frequency analysis method, it should also be possible to evaluate from various damages and defects in piping members.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.226-231
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• 2007

This paper describes a development of ultrasonic examination analysis software to analyze steam generator of nuclear power plant. The developed software includes classical analysis method such as A, B, C and D-scan images. This software provides the information of shape, depth, size and position of flaws. To do such, we obtain raw data from specimens and/or real pipeline of power plants and, modify the obtained ultrasonic 1-dimensional data according to prepared software design schedule. The developed analysis software is applied to specimens containing various flaws with known dimensions. The results of applications showed that the developed software provided accurate and enhanced images of flaws on various specimens.