• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2006

Corrosion of reinforcing steel bars is a major concern for ocean engineers when reinforced concrete structures are exposed to marine environments. Evaluating the degree of corrosion and corrosion-induced defects is extremely necessary to pursue a proper retrofit or rehabilitation plan for reinforced concrete structures. A promising inspection should be carried out for the evaluation, otherwise the retrofit or rehabilitation process would be useless. Nowadays, ultrasonic guided wave-based inspection techniques become quite promising for the inspection, mainly because of their long-range propagation capability and their sensitivity to different types of defects or conditions. Evaluating haw the guided waves response to the different types of defects or conditions is quite challenging and important. This study shows how surface conditions of reinforcing bars and a corrosion-induced defect, separation, affect guided wave propagation in reinforced concrete. Experiments and associated signal analysis show the sensitivity of guided waves to the surface conditions, as well as the amounts of separation at the interface between. concrete and steel bar.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.367-373
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• 2011

유도초음파를 활용한 진단 기술은 기존의 체적파를 이용한 진단 기법과 달리 장거리 진단의 장점 때문에 널리 사용된다. 대부분의 산업현장에서는 배관이 코팅되어 있거나 땅속이 묻혀있다. 이러한 경우 감쇠의 영향으로 기존의 방식으로는 진단에 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 배관에서 전파되는 유도초음파 전파 모드별 음장을 직교모드확장기법을 이용하여 계산하였다. 단일 탐촉자에 의해 전파되는 유도초음파의 음장과 다중 탐촉자 모델링을 바탕으로 배관에서 전파되는 음장 특성을 해석하기 위해 유도초음파 모드별 집속 기술이 사용되었다. 추가적으로 배관에서 전파되는 유도초음파를 가진하는 탐촉자의 개수에 따른 집속 민감도가 종형 모드와 휨형 모드를 이용하여 계산되었다. 본 연구를 통하여 단일 탐촉자에 의해 가진된 유도초음파와 집속 알고리즘을 적용한 다중 탐촉자에 의해 가진된 음장을 비교하여 높은 에너지가 접속 되는 것을 확인 하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.329-344
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• 2009

Ultrasonic chaotic excitations combined with sensor prediction algorithms have shown the ability to identify incipient damage (loss of preload) in a bolted joint. In this study we examine a physical experiment on a single-bolt aluminum lap joint as well as a three-dimensional physics-based simulation designed to model the behavior of guided ultrasonic waves through a similarly configured joint. A multiple bolt frame structure is also experimentally examined. In the physical experiment each signal is imparted to the structure through a macro-fiber composite (MFC) patch on one side of the lap joint and sensed using an equivalent MFC patch on the opposite side of the joint. The model applies the waveform via direct nodal displacement and 'senses' the resulting displacement using an average of the nodal strain over an area equivalent to the MFC patch. A novel statistical classification feature is developed from information theory concepts of cross-prediction and interdependence. This damage detection algorithm is used to evaluate multiple damage levels and locations.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.550-554
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• 2014

Regarding thin films in MEMS/NEMS structures, the exact evaluation of mechanical properties is very essential to enhance the reliability of their design and manufacturing. However, such methods as a tensile test and a resonance test, general methods to measure elastic moduli, cannot be applied to thin films since its thickness is so small. This work concerns guided wave based elastic modulus measurement method. To this end, guided wave excitation and detection system using a pulsed laser and a laser interferometry has been established. Also an elastic modulus extraction algorithm from the measured guided wave signal was developed. Finally, it was applied to actual thin film structures such as Ni-Si and Al-Si multilayers. From experimental results, we confirm that the proposed method has considerable feasibility to measure elastic properties of thin films.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.271-277
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• 2011

This study presents a nondestructive test for underwater PVC pipes. To use guided ultrasonic waves, specially denoted by cylindrical Lamb waves, a test setup was made in a water tank using the pitch and catch mode and specimens were made to give artificial cutouts located in the circumferential direction of the pipes. Total three states of damaged levels were considered to see how the guided waves interact with the defects. For the experimental adjustments, three different pipe diameters (60, 90, 114 mm) were tested, and two factors - incident angle (10 and $40^{\circ}$) and distance (50 and 200 mm) - were tried. From the results, regardless of the diameters and two experimental factors, it is shown that the degrees of defects were recognized through amplitude and arrived time of the very first part of the received cylindrical Lamb waves. Between amplitude and arrived time, it is found that the amplitude gives more sensitive results.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.594-604
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• 2003

A State-of-art methodologies on implementing conventional piezoelectric and flexible PVDF elements for generating ultrasonic guided waves in a tubing are presented. Comb transducers with PVDF can be efficiently applied to selectively excite a guided wave mode by wrapping around any size pipe while a conventional immersion type piezo-elements can be also possibly used with a modification of transducer fabrication. Technical comparisons between the use of angle beam probe and comb one will be also discussed in detail. The presented technique can be easily applied to NDE for a long range inspection of tubular structures.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제29권3E호
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• pp.140-145
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• 2010

In the present study, tubular polyvinyl chloride (PVC) cortical bone mimics that simulate the cortical shell of long bones were used to validate the axial transmission technique for assessing the cortical thickness by measuring the ultrasonic velocities along the cortical shell of long bones. The ultrasonic velocities in the 9 PVC cortical bone mimics with wall thicknesses from 4.0 to 16.1 mm and inner diameters from 40 to 300 mm were measured as a function of the thickness by using a pair of custom-made transducers with a diameter of 12.7 mm and a center frequency of 200 kHz. In order to clarify the measured behavior, they were also compared with the predictions from a theory of guided waves in thin plates. This phantom study using the PVC cortical bone mimics provides useful insight into the dependencies of ultrasonic velocities on the cortical thickness in human long bones.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.353-361
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• 2004

증기발생기 세관에서의 유도초음파 전파 특성에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 증기 발생기 세관의 분산선도 및 특정 모드에 대응하는 초음파 입사각을 계산하였다. 수신된 유도초음파에 대하여 short time Fourier transform을 이용한 시간-주파수 분석을 통하여 유도초음파 모드를 확인하였다. 실험적으로 유도 초음파가 증기발생기 세관의 곡관 부분을 통과할 때 뚜렷한 모드 변환을 관측할 수 없었다. 유도 초음파를 이용한 증기발생기 세관의 최적 검사 모드를 제안하고 실험에 의하여 이를 확인하였다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.233-240
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• 2014

나노/마이크로 소자의 개발이 활발해짐에 따라 나노/마이크로 박막의 기계적 물성의 정밀 측정에 대한 필요성이 점차 커지고 있다. 기존의 파괴적인 방법의 한계를 극복하기 위한 방법으로, 유도초음파를 이용한 비파괴적인 박막 물성 방법에 대한 관심이 늘어나고 있다. 유도초음파를 이용하여 박막의 물성을 측정하는 실험을 설계하거나, 물성 측정에 대한 실험 결과를 이해하는데 있어 박막의 분산선도를 이해하는 것은 필수적이라 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는, 전달 행렬법을 이용하여 박막의 분산선도를 계산하는 방법을 제시하고, 이를 금속 박막에 적용하여 그 특성을 관찰하였다. 전달 행렬법을 이용하여 다층판에서의 주파수에 따라 유도초음파가 전파하는 속도를 계산하여 상용 프로그램과 비교하여 그 타당성을 확인하였다. 이러한 방법을 Si 기판 위에 증착된 Al 금속 박막에 적용하여 얻은 분산곡선의 분석을 통해, 박막의 두께 조건에 따른 모드와 분산 및 비분산 특성이 나타나는 구간을 관찰할 수 있었다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.190-197
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• 2006

For enhancement of flaw detactability using array transducers, focusing of ultrasonic waves on a target in an inhomogeneous medium or through a complex geometry is important. But focusing can be strongly degraded by geometrical distortion of field radiated by the array transducers or by sound speed fluctuations in the propagating medium. In recent years, the time reversal technique has been proposed. Thus, in this paper, we describe the basic principal of the time reversal technique for focusing. Then, the implementation results of the time reversal technique for ultrasonic inspections using bulk waves and guided waves generated by array transducers are presented.