• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.657-666
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• 2020

A rotational pulse-echo ultrasonic propagation imager that can inspect cylindrical specimens for material nondestructive evaluations is proposed herein. In this system, a laser-generated ultrasonic bulk wave is used for inspection, which enables a clear visualization of subsurface defects with a precise reproduction of the damage shape and size. The ultrasonic waves are generated by a Q-switched laser that impinges on the outer surface of the specimen walls. The generated waves travel through the walls and their echo is detected by a Laser Doppler Vibrometer (LDV) at the same point. To obtain the optimal Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of the measured signal, the LDV requires the sensed surface to be at a right angle to the laser beam and at a predefined constant standoff distance from the laser head. For flat specimens, these constraints can be easily satisfied by performing a raster scan using a dual-axis linear stage. However, this arrangement cannot be used for cylindrical specimens owing to their curved nature. To inspect the cylindrical specimens, a circular scan technology is newly proposed for pulse-echo laser ultrasound. A rotational stage is coupled with a single-axis linear stage to inspect the desired area of the specimen. This system arrangement ensures that the standoff distance and beam incidence angle are maintained while the cylindrical specimen is being inspected. This enables the inspection of a curved specimen while maintaining the optimal SNR. The measurement result is displayed in parallel with the on-going inspection. The inspection data used in scanning are mapped from rotational coordinates to linear coordinates for visualization and post-processing of results. A graphical user interface software is implemented in C++ using a QT framework and controls all the individual blocks of the system and implements the necessary image processing, scan calculations, data acquisition, signal processing and result visualization.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.24-30
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• 1993

The necessity of ultrasonic inspection to detect the cracks in turbine blade is being increased as the forced outage of nuclear power plants have been occurred due to blade failure in turbine components. However, the complex blade root geometry causes the ultrasonic inspection technique not to be established yet and much effort is required to set up a more reliable inspection. In this paper, the ultrasonic inspection technique for flaw detectability, skew angle effect, identification of flaw and geometric signal have been investigated with a test block and discussed the interpretation of ultrasonic signal through the acquisition and analysis of RF waveform. The experimental results show that the proper examination procedure can be established. It is required that the skew angle is essential to decrease the effect of signals from the complex blade geometry. The present results of this study can be applied to the site inspection without blade disassembly.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.60-67
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• 2016

A pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) designed to refuel in service produces the energy required by nuclear fission. The fuel channel consists of components such as a pressure tube which directly contacts the fuel and is a passage for the reactor coolant, a calandria tube which contacts the moderator and is rolled joint with calandria, and a spacer which is not to contact the pressure tube and a calandria tube. As the fuel channel is one of the most important equipments, it requires accurate and periodic inspections to assess the integrity of a reactor in accordance with CSA N285.4. A fuel channel inspection system is developed to inspect fuel channels during in-service inspection in Wolsong unit. In this paper, the results and considerations of a field test are presented in order to show the effectiveness of the developed fuel channel inspection system.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.82-91
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• 1988

This study is concerned with the development of the economic sampling inspection plan when it is possible to carry out a nondestructive screening inspection for the rejected lots by substitutive characteristics closely related to the original quality characteristic. It is assumed that the probabilities of those errors depend linearly on the fraction defective of the process. The inspection policies considered are as follows: take a random sample of size n from the lot of size N and perform a destructive test on the sample. If the number of the defective items is not greater than a critical number C, accept the lot. Expected cost functions are obtained when the process average can be considered to follow a beta distribution and the way of finding the optimal values of (n, c) is to be explored.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.20 no.3 s.71
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• pp.14-18
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• 2005

The ultrasonic handy scanner to be developed in this research is a nondestructive inspection equipment with various facility. The ultrasonic inspection is the technique area which apply range is increasing greatly with IT. The purpose of this research is development of a ultrasonic handy scan inspection device with the utility in a work spot. The ultrasonic handy scanner to be developed with portability in this research is able to carry out the spot inspection. It can contribute to the quality improvement, cost reduction and safety design.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.120-127
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• 2016

Several problems including respiratory and skin disorders due to the problems for sick house syndrome have occurred, there appears echo friendly materials to solve the problems. The research is lacking in quality management techniques ocher concrete using nondestructive tests. In this research, the experimental works were conducted to study the initial quality control for the compressive strength of Ocher concrete(21 MPa). The purpose of this study is the implementation platform for quality management of ocher concrete using nondestructive tests. It uses the relationship between the compressive strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity of the ocher concrete to estimate the compressive strength of the ocher concrete. And using the impact echo method to estimate the thickness of the ocher concrete. The platform is based on a Java script, so that the user can obtain the data through the platform.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.300-313
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• 1999

비파괴검사 기술의 레벨 향상과 안정화를 통한 시간적 재현성이 있는 비파괴검사 결과의 확보를 위해서는 비파괴검사 기술자의 자격 인정 및 인증(nondestructive testing qualification and certification of personnel)제도의 확립이 매우 중요하다. 비파괴검사 결과에 대한 유효성은 비파괴검사을 실시하는 사람의 능력이나 비파괴검사에 대한 책임을 지고 있는 사람의 능력에 크게 의존한다. 1974년부터 원자력 선진국들이 중심이 되어 수행된 PISC 프로그램(program for inspection of steel components) 및 EPRI 등에서는 순회시험 (piping inspection round-robin: PIRR trial) 결과 기존 비파괴검사 방법은 모의 시험편에 있는 상당히 큰 결함도 탐지하지 못하거나 정확한 결함크기를 측정하는데 실패한 경우가 있으며, 검사자의 기량 또는 신체조건에 상당한 차이가 있는 것으로 나타났다[1]. 국제표준화기구(ISO)의 비파괴검사 기술자의 기량인정 및 인증에 대한 국제규격안 DIS(draft international standard) 9712에서는 비파괴검사를 기획 실시 감독 감시 평가를 하기 위한 적절한 이론적 및 실무적 지식을 필요로 하는 기술자의 능력을 평가하고, 문서화하는 방법을 제공하는 절차를 제시하고 있다. 국제표준화기구에 의한 비파괴검사 기술자의 기량인정 및 인증에 대한 국제통합을 추진하는 동기는 제 3자에 의한 체계적인 인증시스템을 가지고 있지 않은 나라와 새로운 NDT 방법에 대해서 인증제도를 적용할 때 세계적인 공통성을 갖도록 유도하기 위함이다. 현재, 우리나라 비파괴검사 기술자의 기술자격 인증제도는 국가기술자격법에 의거하여 한국산업인력공단에서 주관하여 기술사, 기사, 산업기사, 기능사로 구분하여 실시하고 있다. 국제표준화기구의 비파괴검사 기술자의 자격과 인증에 대한 국제 통합화(안)[2]이 거의 마무리 단계에 있고 일본을 비롯한 많은 나라가 국제규격을 기초로 한 새로운 인증제도를 발족시켜 거의 시행 단계에 있다. 반면 국내에서는 한국비파괴검사학회(KSNT)에서 비파괴검사 기술자의 자격인정 및 인증제도의 개선방향이 제시된 바 있고 [3], 표준화위원회에서 나름대로 준비를 하고 있으나 아직 구체적인 실천단계에와 있지 못하다. 본 고에서는 최근 대폭수정 보완된 ISO/DIS 9712 국제규격(안)을 회원들에게 소개하고, 우리나라의 향후 대응방안에 관한 회원 여러분의 의견 수렴에 도움을 주고자 ISO/DIS 9712(1997)를 번역하여 제공한다.

• Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.48-55
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• 1985

This paper intends to decide the optimum OC curves and to find the minimized ${\alpha}$, ${\beta}$-risk based upon the Linear Cost Model (L.C.M.) for the destructive or nondestructive acceptance sampling inspection plan. For the solution from the L.C.M., we assume the uniform distribution as a Prior-distribution and use numerical analysis by computer.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.511-514
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• 2003

The Infrared Camera usually detects only Infrared waves emitted from the light in order to illustrate the temperature distribution. An Infrared diagnosis system can be applied to various fields. But the defect discrimination can be automatic or mechanized in the special shoes total inspection system. This study introduces a method for special shoes nondestructive total inspection. Performance of the proposed method is shown through thermo-Image.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.7-16
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• 1987

Eddy Current Examination is expected as the effective technique for nondestructive inspection of steam generator and various kinds of heat exchanging tubes made of STS - 304. In Case of E. C. T, a study on the various factors which have an effect on coil impedance is very important to the sensitivity of defect detection and the ratio of signal to noise. Therefore, this study analyzed coil impedance by means of the variational principle, the minimized theory of energy functional and the application of Finite Element Method. Really by using E. C. T, the relationship between the size of defects and the intensity of Eddy Current Signals can be obtained. Signal intensity becomes maximum at certain frequency. This frequency is affected by the characteristics and the position of signal sources.