• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.15-19
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• 2005

Conventional eddy current testing has been used for the detection of the defect-like fatigue crack in the conductive materials, such as aluminum, which uses a sinusoidal signal with very narrow frequency bandwidth, Whereas, the pulsed eddy current method uses a pulse signal with a broad bandwidth. This can allow multi-frequency eddy current testing, and the penetration depth is greater than that of the conventional eddy current testing. In this work, a pulsed eddy current instrument was developed for evaluating the metal loss. The developed instrument was composed of the pulse generator generating the maximum square pulse voltage of 40V, an amplifier controlled up to 52dB, an A/D converter of 16 bit and the sampling frequency of 20 MHz, and an industrial personal computer operated by the Windows program. A pulsed eddy current probe was designed as a pancake type in which the sensing roil was located inside the driving roil. The output signals of the sensing roil increased rapidly wich the step pulse driving voltage かn off, and the latter part of the sensing coil output voltage decreased exponentially with time. The decrement value of the output signals increased as the thickness of the aluminum test piece increased.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.398-408
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• 2007

For better evaluation of material thickness by using the reflection type pulsed eddy current method, various probe models are designed and their response signals, characteristics, and sensitivities to thickness variation are investigated by a numerical analysis method. Since the sensor needs to detect magnetic fields from eddy currents induced in a test material, not from the exciter coil, two types of models that are shielded by the combination of copper and ferrite and only by ferrite are considered. By studying response signals from these shielded probe models, the peak value and the zero crossing time are selected as useful signal features for the evaluation of material thickness. Investigation of sensitivities of these two features shows that the sensitivity of peak value is more useful than that of zero crossing time and that the probe shielded only by ferrite gives much better sensitivity to thickness variation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.2034-2035
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• 2007

투과형 펄스와전류(Pulsed Eddy Current; PEC) 탐상을 대상으로 수치해석 방법을 사용하여 펄스와전류 탐상신호를 예측하고, 펄스의 폭이 신호에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 그 결과 전도도나 두께가 증가하면 PEC 신호의 최대값이 작아지며 최대값 발생시간이 지연됨을 관찰할 수 있었고, 전도도나 두께를 측정할 때 펄스의 폭이 좁으면 신호의 최대치를 사용하는 것이 유리하고, 펄스의 폭이 넓으면 최대치가 나타나는 시간을 사용하는 것이 판별에 유리하다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한, lift-off가 커질수록 PEC 신호의 최대값은 작아지지만, 두 코일 사이의 간격만 일정하면 피검사체가 어디에 위치해도 신호는 거의 동일하며, 같은 두께에서 서로 다른 lift-off 변화는 PEC 신호를 한 점에서 만나게 하는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.04c
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• pp.53-55
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• 2008

복합층에서 나타나는 투과형 펄스와전류(Pulsed Eddy Current; PEC) 탐상신호를 수치해석 방법을 사용하여 예측하고 분석하였다. 공기층이 없는 복합층에서 Ti-6Al-4V의 두께가 변하는 경우에는 Lift-off를 변화시켰을 때 나타나는 펄스와전류 신호특성과 LOI(Lift-off Intersection)가 형성되는 것을 관찰할 수 있었고, Aluminum의 두께가 변하는 경우에는 Aluminum만의 두께변화 시 발생하던 신호특성이 났다. 공기층이 있는 복합층에서는 Lift-off를 변화시켰을 때 나타나는 신호특성과 LOI가 형성되었고, 공기층이 증가하면 피크 값이 감소하는 것을 볼 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.210-213
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• 2012

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.291-298
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• 2015

An array type probe for monitoring metal tubes is proposed in this paper which utilizes peak value and peak time of a pulsed eddy current(PEC) signal. The probe consists of an array of encircling coils along a tube and the outside of coils is shielded by ferrite to prevent source magnetic fields from directly affecting sensor signals since it is the magnetic fields produced by eddy currents that reflect the condition of metal tubes. The positions of both exciter and sensor coils are consecutively moved automatically so that manual scanning is not necessary. At one position of send-receive coils, peak value and peak time are extracted from a sensor PEC signal and these data are accumulated for all positions to form an array type peak value signal and an array type peak time signal. Numerical simulation was performed using the backward difference method in time and the finite element method for spatial analysis. Simulation results showed that peak value increases and the peak appears earlier as the defect depth or length increases. The proposed array signals are shown to be excellent in reflecting the defect location as well as variations of defect depth and length within the array probe.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.94-100
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• 1993

이번 호부터 해설란을 통하여 비파괴검사(非破壞檢査) 기술(技術)에 대한 연재를 시작한다. 앞으로 비파괴검사(非破壞檢査) 기술(技術) 각 분야에 대해 다룰 예정이며 우선 1차적으로 와전류탐상법(渦電流探傷法)에 관해 3회에 걸쳐 게재하기로 한다. 특정한 비파괴검사(非破壞檢査)의 전문가가 아니더라도 쉽게 이해할 수 있도록 가급적 수식은 배제하고 기초적인 이론을 소개할 것이며 특히 현장 적용에 중점을 두어 기술(記述)하고자 한다. 본 원고에서는 원거리 와전류탐상법(渦電流探傷法)(remote field eddy current testing) 이나 펄스 와전류탐상법(渦電流探傷法)(pulsed eddy current testing)과 같은 특수 와전류(渦電流) 기술(技術)은 제외하였으며 본 연구실에서 내부 교육용으로 사용하는 "와전류탐상법(渦電流探傷法) Level I 과정"과 미국금속학회에서 발행한 Metal Handbook, 9th ed., Vol. 17, "Non-destructive Evaluation and Quality Control" 및 기타 관련 기술 자료들을 참고하였으나 일일이 명기하지는 않는다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.2036-2037
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• 2007

반사형 펄스와전류(Pulsed Eddy Current; PEC) 탐상을 위한 여러 가지 탐촉자를 설계하고, 수치해석 방법을 사용하여 신호특성과 두께변화에 대한 만감도를 조사하였다. 구리와 페라이트를 차폐체로 사용한 결과, 구리로 차폐한 여자코일이 페라이트로 차폐한 센서코일보다 안쪽에 있는 것이 두께변화에 더 민감하였고, 페라이트만으로 차폐한 경우에도 여자코일이 안쪽에 있는 것이 더 민감하다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 한편, 두께가 두꺼워지면 펄스신호의 피크치는 감소하며 피크 발생시간이 변화하는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.212-216
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• 1997

A pulsed field magnetometer with maximum applied field of 130 kOe has been constructed. The pulsed field generated by a 18 kJ capacitor bank system combined with a pulse coil was damped oscillation with the period of 10.12 ms. Magnetic hysteresis loop was measured by induction method during 10.12 ms of a pulse duration from the first positive to the second positive peak. The difference from DC magnetic properties due to the eddy current effect was inferred below 3% for the NdFeB magnet with the diameter below 5 mm.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.53-58
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• 1999

Eddy current in MRI systems degrades gradient field linearity and distorts gradient waveform. When the waveform distortion is spatially variant, it is very difficult to perform special imaging techniques such as the echo planar imaging technique or the fast spin echo imaging technique. In this study, we have developed a new technique to estimate the distorted gradient waveforms at any points inside the imaging region using the finite element method. After obtaining the eddy-current-effect transfer function, which represents magnitude and phase characteristics of the gradient field at a particular point, we have used the transfer function to estimate the actual gradient waveforms at the point. To verify the proposed technique, we have compared the estimated gradient waveforms with the measured ones.