• KIEAE Journal
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2007

It is necessary to guarantee the safety, serviceability and durability of reinforced concrete structures over their service life. However, concrete structures represent a decrease in their durability due to the effects of external environments according to the passage of time, and such degradation in durability can cause structural degradation in materials. In concrete structures, some degradations in durability increase the corrosion of embedded rebars and also decrease the structural performance of materials. Thus, the structural condition assessment of RC materials damaged by corrosion of rebars becomes an important factor that judges needs to apply restoration. In order to detect the damage of reinforced concrete structures, a visual inspection, a nondestructive evaluation method(NDE) and a specific loading test have been employed. However, obscurities for visual inspection and inaccessible members raise difficulty in evaluating structure condition. For these reasons, detection of location and quantification of the damage in structures via structural response have been one of the very important topics in system identification research. The main objective of this project is to develope a methodologies for the damage identification via static responses of the members damaged by durability. Six reinforced concrete beams with variables of corrosion position and corrosion width were fabricated and the damage detections of corroded RC beams were performed by the optimization and the conjugate beam methods using static deflection. In results it is proved that the conjugate beam method could predict the damage of RC members practically.

• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.87-95
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• 2004

From the results of AE(Acoustic Emission) source location occurred by the spot exciting as suggested in this research, it has been confirmed that AE technique is quite fruitful in figuring out the location of the occurrence, form, size and direction of the defects. As the results of examining the distribution of event for the angle of crack $\alpha$ to Xs and Ys, as the increases from $0^{\circ}$ ~ $90^{\circ}$, gradually changes its width from the axis Xs to the axis Ys. So event appears approximately similar in its size at the angle of crack $\alpha$=$45^{\circ}$, yet opposite when $\alpha$ is lager. It is believed that this is a phenomenon where its crack legnth $\alpha$, assumed as a planar defect, is to be prcjected toward the direction with a larger size. Thus, it is expected that the application of the experimental method suggested in this study would make it possible to identify the location of the defect in the material in the nondestructive way.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권7호
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• pp.851-866
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• 2010

This paper presents a new concept of using PZT (lead zircornate titanate) transducers as a non-destructive testing (NDT) tool for evaluating quality of concrete. Detection of defects in concrete is very important in order to check the integrity of concrete structures. The electro-mechanical impedance (EMI) response of PZT transducers bonded onto a concrete specimen can be used for evaluating local condition of the specimen. Measurements are carried out by electrically exciting the bonded PZT transducers at high frequency range and taking response measurements of the transducers. In this study, the compression test results showed that concrete specimens without sufficient compaction are likely to fall below the desired strength. In addition, the strength of concrete was greatly reduced as the voids in concrete were increased. It was found that the root mean square deviation (RMSD) values yielded between the EMI signatures for concrete specimens in dry and saturated states showed good agreement with the specimens' compressive strength and permeable voids. A quality metric was introduced for predicting the quality of concrete based on the dry-saturated state of concrete specimens. The simplicity of the method and the current development towards low cost and portable impedance measuring system, offer an advantage over other NDE methods for evaluating concrete quality.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.90-95
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• 2014

Local wall thinning is a point of concern in almost all steel structures such as pipe lines covered with a thermal insulator made up of materials with low thermal conductivity(fiberglass or mineral wool); hence, Non Destructive Technique(NDT) methods that are capable of detecting the wall thinning and defects without removing the insulation are necessary. In this study we developed a Pulsed Eddy Current(PEC) system to detect the wall thinning of Ferro magnetic steel pipes covered with fiber glass thermal insulator and shielded with Aluminum plate. The developed system is capable of detecting the wall thickness change through an insulation of thickness 10cm and 0.4mm aluminum shielding. In order to confirm the thickness change due to wall thinning, two different sensors, a hall sensor and coil sensor were used as a detecting element. In both cases, the results show a very good change corresponding to the thickness change of the test specimen. During these experiments a carbon steel tube of diameter 210mm and a length of 620mm, which is covered with insulator of 95mm thickness was used. To simulate the wall thinning, the thickness of the tube is changed for a specified length such as 2.5mm, 5mm and 8 mm from the inner surface of the tube. A 0.4mm thick Aluminum plate was covered on the Test specimen to simulate the shielding of the insulated pipelines. For both hall sensor and coil detection methods Fast Fourier transform(FFT) was calculated using window approach and the results for the test specimen without Aluminum shielding were summarized which shows a clear identification of thickness change in the test specimen by comparing the magnitude spectra. The PEC system can detect the wall thinning under the 95 mm thickness insulation and 0.4 mm Al shielding, and the output signal showed linear relation with tube wall thickness.

• KIEAE Journal
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.147-152
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• 2007

Numerous non-destructive tests(NDT) to assess the safety of real structures have been developed. System identification(SI) techniques using dynamic responses and behaviors of structural systems become an outstanding issue of researchers. However the conventional SI techniques are identified to be non-practical to the complex and tall buildings, due to limitation of the availability of an accurate data that is magnitude or location of external loads. In most SI approaches, the information on input loading and output responses must be known. In many cases, measuring the input information may take most of the resources, and it is very difficult to accurately measure the input information during actual vibrations of practical importance, e.g., earthquakes, winds, micro seismic tremors, and mechanical vibration. However, the desirability and application potential of SI to real structures could be highly improved if an algorithm is available that can estimate structural parameters based on the response data alone without the input information. Thus a technique to estimate structural properties of building without input measurement data and using limited response is essential in structural health monitoring. In this study, shaking table tests on three-story plane frame steel structures were performed. Out-put only model analysis on the measured data was performed, and the dynamic properties were inverse analyzed using least square method in time domain. In results damage detection was performed in each member level, which was performed at story level in conventional SI techniques of frequency domain.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.38-44
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• 2002

누설자속법은 신뢰성과 경제성을 충족시키면서 정성적인 결과를 제공하는 비파괴시험법이다. 특히 저장탱크바닥판의 검사에 효과적으로 적용될 수 있음을 보여주었다. 이전에 저장탱크 qkekrvis의 검사에 사용되었던 초음파탐상법은 검사속도가 느리고, 적용에 따른 어려움으로 국부검사에 한정되어 왔다. 본 연구팀은 이러한 초음파탐상의 단점을 극복하고자 누설자속탐상법을 개발하였다. 개발된 시스템의 주요부분은 누설자속 발생부, 어레이센서, crawler 및 운용프로그램으로 구성되어 있고, 최종적으로 개발된 시스템이 6mm강판에서 ${\psi}3.2mm,\;d\;1.2mm$와 같은 인공결함을 검출할 수 있음을 보여주었다.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.553-560
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• 2004

반도체 제작 과정에서 증착이나 식각, 회로의 검사 등에서 생겨날 수 있는 미세한 흠집이나 불완전성을 검사하기 위해 광음향 현미경법을 응용하였다. 반도체 표면에서 발생되는 광음향 신호를 측정하여 흠집의 형태와 깊이를 결정함으로써 3차원 영상을 분석하여 그 구조를 밝혔다. 또한 광음향 현미경법을 이용하여 진성 GaAs 반도체의 운반자 운송성질(비방사 벌크재결합 및 비방사 표면재결합)과 열확산도 및 시료 깊이에 따른 3차원 영상을 분석하여 진성 GaAs 반도체 열확산도 측정 시, 빛이 조사되는 표면조건에 따라 광음향신호의 주파수 의존성이 달라짐을 관측하였다. 실험결과 표면상태가 거친 면에서 매끄러운 면으로 갈수록 높은 주파수 의존성을 나타내었다. Si 웨이퍼 위에 임의로 제작되어진 흠집을 만들고 이를 광음향 현미경법으로 측정한 결과 광음향 신호는 변조되는 주파수와 웨이퍼의 열적 특성에 따라 달라지며 이를 통하여 흠집의 형태와 위치 및 크기를 확인하였다. 광음향 현미경은 반도체 소자나 세라믹 물질에 대하여 비파괴 검사와 비파괴 평가에 관한 연구가 가능하며 반도체 공정 과정에서 생겨날 수 있는 시료의 깨짐이나 결함 등을 검사하는데 응용 가능한 분석법임이 증명되었다.