• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.475-479
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• 2003

Traditional ultrasonic evaluation to detect micro/small surface cracks is the pulse-echo technique using the normal immersion transducer with high frequency, or the angle beam transducer with surface wave. It is difficult to make the automatic ultrasonic system that is to detect micro and small surface crack and position on the large structure like steel and ceramic rolls, because of the huge data of inspection and the ambiguous position data of transducer. The aim of this study using the high precision scanning acoustic microscope with 10MHz large aperture transducer was to display the real time A, B, C-scan for the automatic ultrasonic system in order to detect the existence and position of surface crack. The ultrasonic method with large aperture transducer was improved the scanning time and speed over 10times faster than traditional methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.290-298
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• 2014

Ultrasonic thickness measurement is a non-destructive method to measure the local thickness of a solid element, based on the time taken for an ultrasound wave to return to the surface. When an element is very thin, it is difficult to measure thickness with the conventional ultrasonic thickness method. This is because the method measures the time delay by using the peak of a pulse, and the pulses overlap. To solve this problem, we propose a method for measuring thickness by using the power cepstrum and the minimum variance cepstrum. Because the cepstrums processing can divides the ultrasound into an impulse train and transfer function, where the period of the impulse train is the traversal time, the thickness can be measured exactly. To verify the proposed method, we performed experiments with steel and, acrylic plates of variable thickness. The conventional method is not able to estimate the thickness, because of the overlapping pulses. However, the cepstrum ultrasonic signal processing that divides a pulse into an impulse and a transfer function can measure the thickness exactly.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.523-528
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• 2015

In this study, we evaluated the heating characteristics of single sonication and superposed two low-intensity ultrasonic sonication. Compare the results, the superposed sonication was showed a superior thermal effect than single sonication. And the maximum temperature was increased as 120-150%. The starting time of temperature rising has been shortened in superposed sonication. In addition, the time up to the maximum temperature has been shortened, too. In generally, as the ultrasonic intensity is higher, the more surface damage is occurred. However, in the case of superposed sonication, the same thermal effect had be confirmed without surface damage. Through the results of the study, we thought that the superposed sonication will be able to reduce the intensity of the ultrasonic treatment. And, by using the low-intensity, the more safe and more effect therapy will be possible in therapeutic ultrasound application.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.378-385
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• 2014

Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were modified with a water soluble polymer, poly(vinyl alcohol), PVA, using a simple ultrasonic wave in water. Under the irradiation of ultrasound, PVA chains were severed as macroradicals and instantly grafted onto the surface of MWCNTs due to the radical scavenging effect of MWCNTs. To control the grafting PVA onto MWCNTs, the ultrasonication power and irradiation time were changed from 300 to 500 W and from 10 to 50 min, respectively. The grafted PVA onto MWCNTs was confirmed by FTIR, TGA, SEM, and TEM. Dispersion stability of the modified MWCNTs was monitored by Turbiscan. The amount of grafted PVA on MWCNTs increased with the increase in the sonication power and irradiation time. The grafted PVA on MWCNTs induced the improved dispersion stability of the modified MWCNTs in water. These findings exhibit that ultrasound can be readily used for the grafting polymer chains on MWCNTs.

• Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.115-121
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• 2013

It is greatly expected that the technologies of durability enhancement and evaluation for the core structures of plant facilities, marine plant and bridge constructures will be greatly expanded in the plant industry fields. In this study, the actively ongoing applied cases were tried to be analyzed in the present domestic industry fields through the Ultrasonic Nanocrystalline Surface Modification (UNSM) and Ultrasonic Fatigue Test (UFT) technologies using ultrasonic elastic vibrational energy, and the new application technology to improve the durability of plant industry field, especially plant facilities, marine plant and core weld components of bridge constructures will be presented.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.70-79
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• 2020

The main objective of this research to develop an IoT based wireless contactless ultrasonic system (ICUS) and its application to concrete structure. The developed system consists of 16 mems, 2Mhz digitizer, amplifying circuit, FPGA, and wifi module, enabling to measure leaky surface waves from concrete specimens without physical coupling process and wires. Multi-channel analysis is performed to improve the accuracy of data analysis, and the velocity of leaky surface waves and acoustics are derived. Field inspection of railroad concrete sleepers is conducted to evaluate the performance of the system and to compare the results with conventional ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV). As a result of the field inspection, UPV was limited to evaluate damages. This is because crack pattern of railroad sleepers is parallel to ultrasonic ray path and accessibility of the railroad at the field is disadvantageous to contact-based UPV. On the other hand, ICUS possibly detect the damages as reduction of dynamic modulus by up to 59% compared to non-damaged specimen.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1993.04b
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• pp.151-154
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• 1993

지동 및 음향분야의 발달과 더불어 가청주파수 이상의 초음파에대한 연구가 여러분야에 걸쳐 다양하게 많은 학 자들에 의해진전되어 왔다. 이중에서 실용적인 초음파 장치가 처음으로 등장한 것은 1921년경 프랑스의 랑지방 (P. Langevin)에 의해 만들어진 초음파측심기라고 전해지고 있다. 당시 사용된 진동자는 두 장의 금속원판 사이에 수정을 샌드위치 형태로 만든것으로써 랑지방형 진동자라고 한다. 최근 각종기계의 경량화, 고도화, 고성능화가 요구 되면서 고인성, 고내열성, 고경도 등의 특성을 갖는 재료를 가공함에 있어서 저동력 및 고정밀도가 요구되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 선삭가공에서 초음파발생기에서 보낸 초음파신호를 초음파 진동혼의 설계에 의한 진폭을 증가시켜 사각형 단면을 갖는 양단자유지지 굽힘진동 공구홀더의 공진조건을 초음파 진동절삭 가공시스템에 적용시키는데 목표를 두며 또한 초음파 진동절삭을 적용시켰을 때의 절삭 특성을 규명하기 위하여 선정된 절삭조건으로 선삭할 때 발생하는 절삭분 력 및 표면거칠기를 측정하고 분석하여 그 결과로부터 절삭특성을 해석코자 본 연구를 수행하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2004.03b
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• pp.469-474
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• 2004

본 연구는 유류로 오염된 지반을 개선하는데 초음파를 사용한다는 점에 초점을 둔다. 초음파의 원리는 고체의 재료가 음파의 좋은 전도체라는 사실에 근거를 두고 있다. 초음파에 의한 정화는 초음파의 적용에 의해 재료의 표면이 변화되고 그것에 의해 오염물질이 제거된다는 것을 의미한다. 본 연구에서는 초음파의 지속, 간극률, 초음파력, 입자의 크기와 유속율 같은 초음파 취급에 영향을 끼치는 요소들을 고려하여, 초음파를 쓴 것과 쓰지 않은 오염된 흙을 다룬 결과를 비교 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2002.02a
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• pp.464-470
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 초음파를 사과의 비파괴 품질판정에 이용하기 위한 기초 연구로서 사과 표면에 입사, 반사되는 초음파 신호를 계측 및 분석하기 위한 시스템을 구축하고 저장기간에 따른 사과의 초음파 특성을 계측하였으며, 그 결론은 다음과 같다. 1. 구성된 비 접촉식 초음파 장치를 이용하여 전압-시간 그래프에서 전압의 진폭(PTP)값을 구하였고 신호처리용 프로그램을 이용하여 획득한 신호를 주파수 영역에서 분석하여 피크주파수, 영역별 에너지 밀도함수 등을 구하였다. 2. 사과의 초음파 특성을 분석한 결과 사과의 저장기간은 초음파 응답신호의 진폭(PTP) 및 제 3영역 에너지 스펙트럼 밀도함수와 높은 상관성이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 3. 초음파를 농산물의 비파괴 품질판정에 적용시 문제가 되고 지는 센서와 시료와의 접촉응력에 의한 응답신호의 변형에 의한 문제를 해결하고자 비 접촉식 센서를 사용하였으며, 실제 농산물에 적용이 가능한 것으로 판단되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.658-662
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• 2001

The classification of surface flaw types was performed on the basis of angular dependence of backscattered ultrasound. The copper line adhered on the surface, cower line filled in groove, pure groove and the normal edge were adopted as various surface flaw patterns of glass specimen. A backward longitudinal profile was formed probably by the longitudinal wane scattering at and near 1st critical angle. The wave trains at the peak angles of the backward radiation profiles showed different shapes according to the superposition ratio of scattered and leaky waves. The asymmetry of the backward radiation profile arose due to the scattering effect of flaw. The additive resonance effect of copper line appeared in the left side of the profile. The peak angles of both the longitudinal and radiation profiles were shifted toward small angle by the scattering effect.