• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.174-178
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• 2002

Ac magnetic field was changed in the vicinity of a flaw because of the distribution of eddy current within a conductor, when the magnetic field was applied to a conductor having a flaw. The flaw detection was performed by using Co-based amorphous wire sensor head. The wire has almost 0 magneto-striction and high permeability. An comparative uniform magnetic field was applied to a 1㎜ thick copper plate and a 25㎛ thick aluminum sheet conductor using spiral typed coil. The size of the coil has 40㎜$\times$40㎜ outer width and 8㎜$\times$8㎜ inner width. The copper plate and the aluminum sheet has 0.5㎜ and 0.1㎜ wide gap, respectively. The frequency range of applied field was 100㎑∼600㎑. The induced voltage difference of 2.5㎷ was obtained in the maximum voltage and minimum one measured across the gap of the 1mm thick conductor. In the case of aluminum sheet, 0.4㎷ was obtained. From this results, the effectiveness of Co-based amorphous wire was confirmed in the ECT technique.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1008-1010
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• 2005

In the examination of steam generator(SG) tube in nuclear power plant, eddy current testing probes play an important role in detecting the defects. Bobbin probe and MRPC probe is usually used for the inspection of SG tube. Bobbin probe is good at high speed inspection, but ability of detection of circumferential defect is very weak. On the contrary MRPC probe, which moves for inspection in the direction of axial and circumferential simultaneously, has very slow inspection speed, but it has excellent detection capability for small cracks, which is hardly detected by bobbin probe. In this paper, for the accurate analysis of experimental ECT signals, construction of MRPC probe signals database according to the variation of defect size is the main purpose. Using 3-D finite element method, ECT signals are analyzed, and signals analysis add according to frequency ingredient. The results, which are analysis and characteristics ion of electromagnetism simulation signals, is databased.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.386-395
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• 2010

The steam generator management program(SGMP) has recently defined the procedures for the qualification of eddy current hardware and technique. These procedures provide two basic methods for qualification. The first way is to qualify the equipment or the probe by using the flaw mechanism and method of the pulled tubes from the heat exchangers or the artificial flawed tubes. The second way is to verify the equivalency with the characteristics of the qualified equipment or probe. In this case, the qualified equipment or probe may be modified to substitute or replace instruments or probes without re-qualification provided that the range of essential variables defined in the examination technique specification sheet are met. This study is to describe the result of the comparative performance evaluation of bobbin coil eddy current probes manufactured by KEPCO Research Institute and probes manufactured by a foreign manufacturer. As a result of this study, although there were minor differences between the two kinds of probes, it was evaluated that the two kinds of probes were almost identical in the significant performance characteristics described in the KEPCO Research Institute guideline.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.12
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• pp.2532-2537
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• 2009

For defect characterization in steam generator tubes in nuclear power plant, artificial neural network has been extensively used to classify defect types. In this paper, we study the effectiveness of Bagging for improving the performance of neural network for the classification of tube defects. Bagging is a method that combines outputs of many neural networks that were trained separately with different training data set. By varying the number of neurons in the hidden layer, we carry out computer simulations in order to compare the classification performance of bagging neural network and single neural network. From the experiments, we found that the performance of bagging neural network is superior to the average performance of single neural network in most cases.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.751-754
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• 2001

열교환기(Heat Exchanger)는 원전 운영에 핵심적인 설비이다. 따라서 열교환기 전열관의 건전성 유무를 판단키 위해 정기적으로 비파괴검사의 일종인 와전류검사(ECT, Eddy Current Testing)를 수행하고 있다. 이러한 와전류검사 공정은 크게 3가지로 분류할 수 있다. 첫 번째는 전열관 상태검사를 위한 신호데이터 취득공정이고, 두 번째는 취득된 신호를 판독하여 전열관의 건전성 여부를 진단하는 평가공정, 마지막으로 평가공정에서 발생하는 방대한 데이터를 토대로 추이분석 자료를 제공할 수 있는 공정이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 세 번째 공정에서 필요한 열교환기 Tubesheet를 사용자 정의에 따라 자동으로 구현할 수 있는 기능을 정의하고, 평가공정에서 발생한 데이터를 직접 Tubesheet상에 Mapping 처리하여 시각적으로 전열관 상태를 확인할 수 있는 프로그램 구현방법을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.75-75
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• 2004

Carbon/epoxy는 기존의 금속재료에 비해 피로강도 및 기계적 특성이 매우 우수하다. 따라서 최근 튜브형태의 Carbon/epoxy 활용방안이 부각되고 있다. 그러나 Carbon/epoxy는 탄소재료의 특성상 고압, 충격 및 부식에 매우 취약하다. 또한, 장기간 고압피로 및 크리프에 노출될 경우, 금속재료에서는 관찰할 수 없는 층간분리(delamination)가 발생된다. 이러한 층간분리는 섬유방향과 평행하게 진전될 때 급격한 파손을 야기하므로 층간분리에 대한 메커니즘을 이해하고 그 방지책을 강구하는 것은 매우 중요하다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07g
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• pp.2926-2928
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• 1999

원자력발전소 증기발생기 전열관 건전성 유지를 위하여 매 주기마다 실시하고 있는 비파괴검사의 일종인 와전류검사(ECT, Eddy Current Testing)의 주요 공정은 크게 3가지로 분류할 수 있다. 첫 번째는 전열관 상태검사를 위한 신호데이터 취득공정이고, 두 번째는 취득된 신효를 판독하여 전열관의 건전성 여부를 진단하는 평가공정, 세 번째는 평가공정에서 발생하는 데이터를 토대로 전열관 이력 및 상태를 유지관리하는 공정으로 구분할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 위의 세 번째 공정결과 생성되는 전열관 이력 및 상태자료를 데이터베이스화하여 유지 관리하고, 데이터베이스화된 내용을 바탕으로 전열관 상태 변화추이를 파악하는 기능, 현재까지 비 체계화된 모든 전열관의 이력자료를 다양한 보고서 형태로 출력할 수 있는 기능 둥을 제공하기 위한 "인트라넷 증기발생기 전열관 이력관리시스템"의 설계 및 구현과정 을 정 리 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.532-541
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• 2001

Developments of nondestructive evaluation techniques for reduction of strength or toughness by aging of material have been carried out, and the method using electrical resistivity is one of them. In this study, to examine the application of electrical resistivity to the evaluation of degradation of metallic alloy, ten different non-magnetic materials were selected as test materials. Electrical resistivities measured by DC two-point probe method and those measured by non-contact type eddy current method were compared with each other. In addition, to examine the application possibility of four-point probe technology in field, the electrical resistivities for 1Cr-lMo-0.25V steel measured by DC two-point probe method and four-point probe method were compared with each other Differences between two measured values for the 1Cr-1Mo-0.25V steel were 0.6%. Therefore, the four-point probe method can be applied to the estimation of the degradation of metallic alloy. ect.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.451-456
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• 2000

The development of an integrated technology including fabrication of corrosion defect specimens and their practical use is needed to enhance the reliability of eddy current test for nuclear steam generator tubing. In this paper, the necessity and importance are presented from the viewpoint of the structural integrity, simulation specimens for real defects, and experiences from the destructive examination of pulled tubes. The models for several corrosion defects we also briefly introduced, with the scheme for their practical use.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.184-190
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• 2008

Various ECT techniques have been applied basically to assess the integrity of steam generator tithing in nuclear power plant. Among these techniques, the bobbin probe technique is applied generally to examine the volumetric flaws such as a crack-like defect and wear which is generally occurred on steam generator tubing, and additionally MRPC probe is used to examine closely tile top of tubesheet and bending regions due to the high possibility of cracking. Dent and bulge also may be formed on tube during installation process and operation of steam generator, but the dent and bulge indications greater than specific size criteria are recorded on examination report because these indications are not considered as flaw. These indications can be easily detected with bobbin probe and approximately sized with profile bobbin probe, but the size and shape can not be accurately verified. Accordingly, in this study, the $8{\times}1$ multi-array EC probe was designed to increase the measurement accuracy of the sectional profiling EC testing of tube. As a result, we would like to propose the application of $8{\times}1$ multi-array EC probe for the measurement of size and shape of profile change on steam generator tube in OPR-1000 nuclear power plant.