• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.2145-2152
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• 1993

The objective of this paper is to examine the detection limit, growth characteristics and notch curvature radius in short crack problem. Measurement techniques such as ultrasonic method and back-face strain compliance method were adopted. The fatigue crack growth rate of the short crack is slower than that of a long crack for a notched specimen. The characteristic of crack growth and crack closure is same as the case of a delay of crack growth caused by constant amplitude load for an ideal crack or single peak overload for a fatigue crack. The short crack is detected effectively by ultrasonic method. A short surface crack occurs in the middle of specimen thickness and is transient to a through crack depth is larger than the notch curvature radius.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.299-304
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• 2007

구조물의 주요 부재들은 임의의 부분에 과대 하중이 작용하거나 반복 하중을 받아서 재료가 열화되면 균열이 발생한다. 이러한 균열은 구조물의 안전성을 평가할 수 있는 중요한 인자이며 균열의 진전 여부가 구조물의 안전성을 평가하기 위한 중요한 지표로 사용할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 구조물의 기존 균열이 진전하는지를 감시하기 위하여 광섬유 브래그 격자 센서를 개발하였다. 이 센서 시스템은 탐촉자, 파장제어 광원부 및 광수신부, 그리고 가진부로 구성된다. 센서 탐촉자 부분은 광섬유 브래그 격자 소자만으로 구성된다. 파장제어 광원부는 전류공급회로와 DFB(distributed feedback) 레이저 다이오드로 구성되고 파장 제어 회로는 레이저 다이오드의 온도를 바꾸어 파장을 제어한다. 또한 가진부는 강체 낙하구에 의하여 구현한다. 이렇게 구성된 센서의 성능은 알루미늄판에 임의의 균열을 만들고 센서를 작동시키면서 출력 신호를 검토하면서 확인하였다. 광섬유 브래그 격자 센서의 출력 신호의 변화는 균열 길이 변화에 따라서 크게 변화되어 나타나므로 균열 진전 탐지 가능성이 충분함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2007

The objective of this paper is to examine the detection limit, growth characteristics and notch curvature radius in short crack problem. Measurement techniques such as ultrasonic method and back-face strain compliance method were adapted. The fatigue crack growth rate of the short crack is slower than that of a long crack for a notched specimen. The short crack is detected effectively by ultrasonic method. A short surface crack occurs in the middle of specimen thickness and is transient to a through crack when maximum crack depth is larger than the notch curvature radius.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.185-190
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• 2010

Condition monitoring(CM) is a method based on non-destructive test(NDT). So, recently many kind of NDT were applied for CM. Acoustic emission(AE) is widely used for the early detection of faults in rotating machinery in these days because of high sensitivity than common accelerometers and detectable low energy vibration signals. And crack is considered one of severe fault in the rotating machine. Therefore, in this paper, study on early detection using AE has been accomplished for the crack of the low-speed shaft. There is a seeded initial crack on the shaft then the AE signal had been measured with low-speed rotation as the applied load condition. The signal detected from crack in rotating machine was detected by the AE transducer then the trend of crack growth had found out by using some of feature values such as peak value, skewness, kurtosis, crest factor, frequency center value(FC), variance frequency value(VF) and so on.

• Composites Research
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 탄소섬유 복합재료의 균열의 위치 및 성장을 감지하기 위하여 브리지 회로 개념이 적용된 전기 전위법을 제안하였다. 중앙 관통 균열을 가진 복합재료 박판 시험편에 두 쌍의 전극을 생성하였으며, 브리지 회로 개념을 적용하여 한 쌍의 전극에 외부 전압을 인가하고 다른 한 쌍의 전극으로부터 출력 전압 변화를 관찰하였다. 실험과 유한요소해석을 통하여 전극의 크기와 간격, 균열의 위치와 크기 및 성장 방향의 영향을 고찰하였다. 검출 가능한 균열의 크기는 전극의 크기 보다는 전극의 간격에 의한 영향이 더 컸으며, 전극의 크기와 간격이 작을수록 균열의 검출 능력이 우수하였다. 또한, 균열 크기가 증가할 수록, 입력 전극과 가까울수록 출력 전압의 변화가 큼을 관찰할 수 있었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.13-27
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• 2023

Fatigue crack is a fatal problem for steel structures. Early detection and maintenance can help extend the service life and prevent hazards. This paper presents the ultrasonic guided waves-based (UGWs-based) fatigue crack detection of a steel I-beam. The semi-analytical finite element model has been built to obtain the wave propagation characteristics. Damage indices in both time and frequency domains were analyzed by considering the characteristic variations of UGWs including the amplitude, phase angle, and wave packet energy. The pulse-echo and pitch-catch methods were combined in the detection scheme. Lab-scale experiments were conducted on welded steel I-beams to verify the proposed method. Results show that the damage indices based on the characteristic variations in the time domain can identify and localize the fatigue crack before it enters the rapid growth stage. The damage severity can be reasonably evaluated by analyzing the time-domain damage indices. Two nonlinear damage indices in the frequency domain give earlier warnings of the fatigue crack than the time-domain damage indices do. The identification results based on the above two nonlinear indices are found to be less consistent under various excitation frequencies. More robust nonlinear techniques needed to be searched and tested for early crack detection in steel I-beams in further study.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.194-200
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• 2017

Stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) of alloy 600 and alloy 800 in 0.5 mol/L thiosulfate solution during constant strain was investigated using electrochemical noise (EN) combined with 3-D microscope techniques. The in-situ morphology observation and EN results indicate that the SCC process could be divided into three stages: (1) passive film stabilization and growth, (2) crack initiation, (3) and crack growth. Power Spectral Density (PSD) and the probability distribution obtained from EN were used as the "fingerprint" to distinguish the different processes. During passive film stabilization and growth, the current noise signals resembled "white noise": when the crack initiated, many transient peaks could be seen in the current noise and the wavelet energy at low frequency as well as the noise resistance decreased. After crack propagation, the noise amplitudes increased, particularly the white noises at low and high frequencies ($W_L$ and $W_H$) in the PSDs. Finally, the detection of metal structure corrosion in a simulated sea splash zone and pipeline corrosion in the atmosphere are established.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.317-328
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• 2009

Current maintenance operations and integrity checks on a wide array of structures require personnel entry into normally-inaccessible or hazardous areas to perform necessary nondestructive inspections. To gain access for these inspections, structure must be disassembled and removed or personnel must be transported to remote locations. The use of in-situ sensors, coupled with remote interrogation, can be employed to overcome a myriad of inspection impediments stemming from accessibility limitations, complex geometries, the location and depth of hidden damage, and the isolated location of the structure. Furthermore, prevention of unexpected flaw growth and structural failure could be improved if on-board health monitoring systems were used to more regularly assess structural integrity. A research program has been completed to develop and validate Comparative Vacuum Monitoring (CVM) Sensors for surface crack detection. Statistical methods using one-sided tolerance intervals were employed to derive Probability of Detection (POD) levels for a wide array of application scenarios. Multi-year field tests were also conducted to study the deployment and long-term operation of CVM sensors on aircraft. This paper presents the quantitative crack detection capabilities of the CVM sensor, its performance in actual flight environments, and the prospects for structural health monitoring applications on aircraft and other civil structures.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.377-383
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• 1982

Acoustic emission (AE) of a high strength steel (SCM-4) was measured under stress corrosion cracking(SCC) test at a constant displacement in 3.5% artificial NaCl solution of 18.deg.C, 45.deg.C and 60.deg.C, respectively. The results are as follows; During the SCC test, AE is detected and AE count rate is approximately proportional to the crack growth rate. Even though crack is not propagated macroscopically, AE is detected. The crack growth rate of SCC and the AE count rate are higher for the solution of higher temperature, 45.deg.C and 60.deg.C, than for the solution of lower temperature, 18.deg.C. In the early stage of SCC, AE total counts mostly depend on crack growth. In the later stage, however, AE mostly depends on the film fracture and the dissolution of anode.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집A
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• pp.96-101
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• 2001

The development of a new experimental method is required to easily observe the growth behavior of fatigue cracks. To satisfy the requirement, an image processing technique was introduced to fatigue testing. The length of surface fatigue crack could be successfully measured by the image processing system. At first, the image data of cracks were stored into the computer while the cyclic loading was interrupted. After testing, crack length was determined using image processing software which was developed by ourselves. Block matching method was applied to the detection of surface fatigue cracks. By comparing the data measured by image processing system with the data measured by manual measurement with a microscope, the effectiveness of the image processing system was established. If the proposed method is used to monitor and observe the crack growth behavior automatically, the time and efforts for fatigue test could be dramatically reduced.