• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.820-830
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• 2016

Pipe wall thinning by flow-accelerated corrosion and various types of erosion is a significant and costly damage phenomenon in secondary piping systems of nuclear power plants (NPPs). Most NPPs have management programs to ensure pipe integrity due to wall thinning that includes periodic measurements for pipe wall thicknesses using nondestructive evaluation techniques. Numerous measurements using ultrasonic tests (UTs; one of the nondestructive evaluation technologies) have been performed during scheduled outages in NPPs. Using the thickness measurement data, wall thinning rates of each component are determined conservatively according to several evaluation methods developed by the United States Electric Power Research Institute. However, little is known about the conservativeness or reliability of the evaluation methods because of a lack of understanding of the measurement error. In this study, quantitative models for UT thickness measurement deviations of nuclear pipes and fittings were developed as the first step for establishing an optimized thinning evaluation procedure considering measurement error. In order to understand the characteristics of UT thickness measurement errors of nuclear pipes and fittings, round robin test results, which were obtained by previous researchers under laboratory conditions, were analyzed. Then, based on a large dataset of actual plant data from four NPPs, a quantitative model for UT thickness measurement deviation is proposed for plant conditions.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 반도체 패키지 내부결함의 비파괴 정량평가를 위한 ESPI 기법을 이용한 시스템 및 검사기 법을 제안하고 있으며, 검사시스템은 ESPI 검사장치, 열변형유도장치, 단열챔버로 구성되어있다. 기존 초음파, X-ray 기반의 검사기법에 비하여 측정시간 및 검사방법이 용이하며, 결함의 정량검출이 가능하다는 장점이 있다. 검사결과에서 대부분의 결함이 열 방출이 많은 칩 주위에서 박리결함으로 나타났으며, 원인은 층간 접착강도의 약화와 열분배 설계에서 문제점인 것으로 사료된다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.489-496
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• 2010

발전 및 화학플랜트의 많은 고온 설비는 장시간 운전으로 인해 재질열화 현상이 필연적으로 발생된다. 이러한 고온설비의 건전성 확보와 신뢰성 있는 수명평가를 위해서는 비파괴평가기법인 표면복제시험을 통한 미세조직분석 평가법이 현재까지 유용한 것으로 인식되어왔다. 이러한 표변복제기법은 기존의 평가법과 함께 탄화물평가를 통한 재질열화도 평가 등 새로운 정량적 접근법이 필요하며 다양하게 시도되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 표면복제기법과 관련한 기술개발 현황과 현장 적용사례들을 소개하고, 합리적인 평가결과 여부에 대해 기술하였으며, 현장설비에 대해 표면복제시험 후 미세조직을 분석한 결과 탄화물 평가방법이 정량적으로 유용함을 입증하였다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.421-428
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• 2015

An important trend in the sustainment of military aircraft is the transition from preventative maintenance to condition based maintenance (CBM). For CBM, it is essential that the actual system condition can be measured and the measured condition can be reliably extrapolated to a convenient moment in the future in order to facilitate the planning process while maintaining flight safety. Much research effort is currently being made for the development of technologies that enable CBM, including structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. Great progress has already been made in sensors, sensor networks, data acquisition, models and algorithms, data fusion/mining techniques, etc. However, the transition of these technologies into service is very slow. This is because business cases are difficult to define and the certification of the SHM systems is very challenging. This paper describes a possibility for fielding a SHM system on legacy military aircraft with a minimum amount of certification issues and with a good prospect of a positive return on investment. For appropriate areas in the airframe the application of SHM will reconcile the fail-safety and slow crack growth damage tolerance approaches that can be used for safeguarding the continuing airworthiness of these areas, combining the benefits of both approaches and eliminating the drawbacks.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.109-117
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• 1994

Spot welding has wide used with a high work efficiency in the automotive and aerospace industries. Up to the present, the technique mainly used to test spot welds on production lines has been entirely depended upon destructive chisel or peel testing. Therefore, it's being very important assignment to secure the NDE technique which can be evaluate spot weld quality with more efficiency and high reliability. This paper discusses the feasibility of UNDE techniques to evaluate spot weld quality. For the sake of the approach to the quantitative measurement of nugget diameter and the discrimination of a the corona bond from nugget, ultrasonic c-scan image and distribution of reflective echo amplitude was measured by immersion method with the mechanical and the electronic scanning of point-focussed ultrasonic beam(25 MHz). As the results of this study, corona bond which is the most dangerous types of interface defects can be successfully detected, as well as expulsion and voids. Ultrasonic testing results were confirmed and compared by optical microscope and SAM(Scanning Acoustic Microscope) observation of the spot-weld cross section. The results show that the nugget diameter can be successfully measured with the accuracy of 0.8 mm.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.284-290
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• 2012

Infrared thermography uses infrared energy radiated from any objects above absolute zero temperature, and the range of its application has been constantly broadened. As one of the active test techniques detecting radiant energy generated when energy is applied to an object, ultrasound infrared thermography is a method of detecting defects through hot spots occurring at a defect area when 15~100 kHz of ultrasound is excited to an object. This technique is effective in detecting a wide range affected by ultrasound and vibration in real time. Especially, it is really effective when a defect area is minute. Therefore, this study conducted thermography through lock-in signal processing when an actual defect exists inside the austenite STS304 seamless pipe, which simulates thermal fatigue cracks in a nuclear power plant pipe. With ultrasound excited, this study could detect defects on the rear of a pipe by using an aluminium reflector. Besides, by regulating the angle of the aluminium reflector, this study could detect both front and rear defects as a single infrared thermography image.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.311-316
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 비파괴검사법 중 하나인 자기누설탐상검사법을 이용하여 지하에 매설된 가스 배관의 결함 위치를 검출하는 방법을 제안한다. 자기 누설 탐상 시스템을 통해 얻은 자기 누설 신호는 일반적으로 비선형성을 띄며 다양한 외부 요인으로 인한 신호의 왜곡이 심하다. 본 논문에서는 신호의 비선형성과 신호의 왜곡을 보정하는 신호 처리 기법 중 SQI(self quotient image)를 이용하여 배관 결함의 위치를 검출하였다. 실제로 제작된 모의시험 배관에 제작된 다양한 인공 결함에 대해 알고리즘을 적용한 결과 기존 DCT(discrete cosine transform) 계수 기반 방법에 비해 결함 검출 성능이 크게 향상됨을 확인하였다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.93-101
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• 2016

This paper presents the results obtained using time-series-based methods for structural damage assessment. The methods are applied to a wind turbine blade structure subjected to fatigue loads. A 9 m CX-100 (carbon experimental 100 kW) blade is harmonically excited at its first natural frequency to introduce a failure mode. Consequently, a through-thickness fatigue crack is visually identified at 8.5 million cycles. The time domain data from the piezoelectric active-sensing techniques are measured during the fatigue loadings and used to detect incipient damage. The damage-sensitive features, such as the first four moments and a normality indicator, are extracted from the time domain data. Time series autoregressive models with exogenous inputs are also implemented. These features could efficiently detect a fatigue crack and are less sensitive to operational variations than the other methods.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.609-620
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• 2002

It is well known that during tensile testing, a part of the mechanical work done on the specimen is transformed into heat energy. However, the ultimate temperature rise and the rate of temperature rise is related to the nature of the material, conditions of the test and also to the deformation behaviour of the material during loading. The recent advances in infrared sensors and image/data processing techniques enable observation and quantitative analysis of the heat energy dissipated during such tensile tests. In this study, infrared imaging technique has been used to characterise the tensile deformation in AISI type 316 nuclear grade stainless steel. Apart from identifying the different stages during tensile deformation, the technique provided an accurate full-field temperature image by which the point and time of strain localization could be identified. The technique makes it possible to visualise the region of deformation and failure and also predict the exact region of fracture in advance. The effect of thermal gradients on plastic flow in the case of interrupted straining revealed that the interruption of strain and restraining at a lower strain rate not only delays the growth of the temperature gradient, but the temperature rise per unit strain decreases. The technique is a potential NDE tool that can be used for on-line detection of thermal gradients developed during extrusion and metal forming process which can be used for ensuring uniform distribution of plastic strain.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.225-235
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• 2010

There are many types of the geometric transitions such as dent, bulge, protrusion, expansion, etc, on the inner and outer surfaces of heat exchanger tubes, steam generator tubes, and condenser tubes of nuclear power plants. Such geometric transition causes a local residual stress in heat exchanger tubes and acts as a structural factor accelerating the evolution of defects, in particular stress corrosion cracks. In the conventional eddy current test methods, the bobbin coil profilometry can provide 2-dimensional geometric information on the variation of the average inner diameter along the tube length, but the 3-dimensional distribution and the quantitative size of a local geometric transition existing in the tube cannot be measured. In this paper, a new eddy current probe, developed for the 3-dimensional profile measurement, is introduced and its superior performance is compared with that from the conventional bobbin coil profilometry for the various types of geometric transition. Also, the accuracy of the probe for the quantitative profile measurement is verified by comparing the results with that from the laser profilometry. It is expected that the new eddy current probe and techniques can be effectively used for an optimization of the tube expansion process, and the management of tubes with geometric transitions in service.