• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.114-121
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• 2009

유도초음파는 현재 산업설비의 배관 등 장거리 탐상에 널리 사용되고 있으며, 특히, 길이가 수백 미터에서 수 km에 달하는 가스 배관의 검사를 위하여 다수의 탐촉자를 이용한 배열 유도초음파 기술의 개발 및 적용이 확대되고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는, 배관의 원거리 검사능 및 정밀도 향상을 위하여 배열 유도초음파의 집속 알고리즘을 개발하였으며, 개발 알고리즘의 성능을 개발 배열 초음파 시스템을 이용한 실험을 통하여 검증하였다. 그 결과 집속 알고리즘을 적용한 배열 유도초음파의 신호대 잡음비(SNR : signal to noise ratio)가 집속 알고리즘을 적용하지 않은 경우에 비해 향상됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.193-199
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• 2015

능동적 열화상 기법은 넓은 면적을 동시에 검사할 수 있으며, 결함부와 건전부 사이의 위상차로부터 결함의 유무를 판단할 수 있다. 지금까지 다양한 재료와 시험편을 가지고 결함 검출 기법에 대한 발전이 이루어졌다. 본 논문에서는 위상잠금 열화상 기법을 적용하여 각각 다른 결함의 크기와 깊이의 인공결함을 갖는 SM45C 시험편을 가지고 제안된 기법을 검증하였으며, 결론으로서 결함의 크기, 깊이에 따른 위상 이미지와 진폭 이미지 검사 결과를 비교하여 결함 검출능을 평가할 수 있었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권1호
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• pp.102-114
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• 2015

Background: A technique developed to produce artificial intergranular stress corrosion cracks in structural components was applied to thick, forged alloy 600 base and alloy 182 weld metals for use in the qualification of nondestructive examination techniques for welded components in nuclear power plants. Methods: An externally controlled procedure was demonstrated to produce intergranular stress corrosion cracks that are comparable to service-induced cracks in both the base and weld metals. During the process of crack generation, an online direct current potential drop method using array probes was used to measure and monitor the sizes and shapes of the cracks. Results: A microstructural characterization of the produced cracks revealed realistic conformation of the crack faces unlike those in machined notches produced by an electrodischarge machine or simple fatigue loading using a universal testing machine. Conclusion: A comparison with a destructive metallographic examination showed that the characteristics, orientations, and sizes of the intergranular cracks produced in this study are highly reproducible.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.259-267
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• 2016

Most manufacturing processes, including welding, create residual stresses. Residual stresses can reduce material strength and cause fractures. For estimating the reliability and aging of a welded structure, residual stresses should be evaluated as precisely as possible. Optical techniques such as holographic interferometry, electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI), Moire interferometry, and shearography are noncontact means of measuring residual stresses. Among optical techniques, ESPI is typically used as a nondestructive measurement technique of in-plane displacement, such as stress and strain, and out-of-plane displacement, such as vibration and bending. In this study, ESPI was used to measure the residual stress on the welded part of butt-welded American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) A36 specimens with $CO_2$ welding. Four types of specimens, base metal specimen (BSP), tensile specimen including welded part (TSP), compression specimen including welded part (CSP), and annealed tensile specimen including welded part (ATSP), were tested. BSP was used to obtain the elastic modulus of a base metal. TSP and CSP were used to compare residual stresses under tensile and compressive loading conditions. ATSP was used to confirm the effect of heat treatment. Residual stresses on the welded parts of specimens were obtained from the phase map images obtained by ESPI. The results confirmed that residual stresses of welded parts can be measured by ESPI.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.419-427
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• 2014

Nonlinear features of ultrasonic waves are more sensitive to the presence of a fatigue crack than their linear counterparts are. For this reason, the use of nonlinear ultrasonic techniques to detect a fatigue crack at its early stage has been widely investigated. Of the different proposed techniques, laser nonlinear wave modulation spectroscopy (LNWMS) is unique because a pulse laser is used to exert a single broadband input and a noncontact measurement can be performed. Broadband excitation causes a nonlinear source to exhibit modulation at multiple spectral peaks owing to interactions among various input frequency components. A feature called maximum sideband peak count difference (MSPCD), which is extracted from the spectral plot, measures the degree of crack-induced material nonlinearity. First, the ratios of spectral peaks whose amplitudes are above a moving threshold to the total number of peaks are computed for spectral signals obtained from the pristine and the current state of a target structure. Then, the difference of these ratios are computed as a function of the moving threshold. Finally, the MSPCD is defined as the maximum difference between these ratios. The basic premise is that the MSPCD will increase as the nonlinearity of the material increases. This technique has been used successfully for localizing fatigue cracks in metallic plates.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권5호
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• pp.1619-1625
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• 2021

This paper demonstrates the possible nondestructive analysis of iron artifacts' metallurgical characteristics using neutron imaging. Ancient kingdoms of the Korean Peninsula used a direct smelting process for ore smelting and iron bloom production; however, the use of iron blooms was difficult because of their low strength and purity. For reinforcement, iron ingots were produced through refining and forge welding, which then underwent various processes to create different iron goods. To demonstrate the potential analysis using neutron imaging, while ensuring artifacts' safety, a sand iron ingot (SI-I) produced using ancient traditional iron making techniques and a sand iron knife (SI-K) made of SI-I were selected. SI-I was cut into 9 cm², whereas the entirety of SI-K was preserved for analysis. SI-I was found to have an average grain size of 3 ㎛, with observed α-Fe (ferrite) and pearlite with a body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice structure. SI-K had a grain size of 1-3 ㎛, α-Ferrite on its backside, and martensite with a body-centered tetragonal (BCT) structure on its blade. Results show that the sample's metallurgical characteristics can be identified through neutron imaging only, without losing any part of the valuable artifacts, indicating applicability to cultural artifacts requiring complete preservation.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.266-272
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 나노스케일 금속박막 내에서 체적종파가 전파하는 특성을 연구하였다. 실리콘(100) 기판 위에 150 nm 두께의 크로뮴 혹은 알루미늄 박막을 적층하여 시편을 제작하였으며, 펨토초 레이저 시스템으로 구성된 시간영역 열반사율 기법(time-domain theromoreflectance technique)을 이용하여 박막 표면으로부터 여기된 탄성파가 박막과 기판의 계면에서 반향될 때 발생하는 신호를 검출하였다. 체적종파의 거동을 모사하는 열탄성 방정식을 수치해석적으로 풀어 측정값과 곡선맞춤함으로써 박막의 체적종파 속도와 탄성계수를 평가할 수 있었으며, 결과를 문헌값과 비교하여 그 타당성을 검증하였다. 본 연구로부터 확립된 레이저 계측법은 나노재료의 특성평가에 적합함을 보여주며, 이는 기존의 접촉식 파괴식 검사법의 한계를 뛰어넘을 대안을 제시한다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.52-61
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• 2000

The role of quantitative nondestructive evaluation of defects is becoming more important to assure the reliability and the safety of structure, which can eventually be used for residual life evaluation of structure on the basis of fracture mechanics approach. Although ultrasonic technique is one of the most widely used techniques for application of practical field test among the various nondestructive evaluation technique, there are still some problems to be solved in effective extraction and classification of ultrasonic signal from their noisy ultrasonic waveforms. Therefore, crack size determination through a neural network based on the back-propagation algorithm using back-scattered ultrasonic signals is established in this study. For this purpose, aluminum plate containing vertical or inclined surface breaking crack with different crack length was used to receive the back-scattered ultrasonic signals by pulse echo method. Some features extracted from these signals and sizes of cracks were used to train neural network and the neural network's output of the crack size are compared with the true answer.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.455-463
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• 2003

초음파 비파괴 평가에서 적응 노이즈 제거 기법은 시험 재료의 결정립 구조(grain structure)로 인해 공간적으로 변화하는 노이즈를 감소시키는데 적합하다. 일반적으로 결정립 노이즈는 비상관 관계성을 가지고 있는 반면에 결점(flaw) 신호는 상관 관계성을 띄고 있기 때문에 적응 필터링 알고리즘으로 출력 신호의 신호 대 잡음비를 향상시키기 위해 신호의 상관관계 특징을 이용한다. 본 논문에서는 초음파 탐상의 결함 검출 능력 향상을 위해 적응 LMSE(least mean square error) 필터를 이용한 다단계 적응 노이즈 제거기법(multi-stage adaptive noise cancellation)을 제시한다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.531-537
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• 2008

One of the fundamental features of time reversal acoustic (TRA) techniques is the ability to focus the propagating ultrasonic beam to a specific point within the test material. Therefore, it is important to understand the focusing properties of a TR device in many applications including nondestructive testing. In this paper, we employ an analytical scheme for the analysis of TR beam focusing in a homogeneous medium. More specifically, a nonparaxial multi-Gaussian beam (NMGB) model is used to simulate the focusing behavior of array transducers composed of multiple rectangular elements. The NMGB model is found to generate accurate beam fields beyond the nonparaxial region. Two different simulation cases are considered here for the focal points specified on and off from the central axis of the array transducer. The simulation results show that the focal spot size increases with increasing focal length and focal angle. Furthermore, the maximum velocity amplitude does not always coincide with the specified focal point. Simulation results for the off-axis focusing cases do demonstrate the accurate steering capability of the TR focusing.