• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.6-15
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• 2012

목적: 이 연구의 목적은 excitation pulse profile을 이용하여 불균일 자장에 의하여 발생하는 배경 경사 자장에 의한 영향을 보상하여 2차원 다중 단면 경사에코 간 영상에서의 정확한 지방 및 $T_2{^*}$ 측정을 하는 데에 있다. 대상과 방법: 2차원 경사에코영상에서 불균일 자장에 의한 배경경사자장으로 인하여 유도되는 신호의 감소는 excitation pulse profile weighting으로 나타난다. 이에 의한 영향을 최소화 하기 위하여 $B_0$ field map을 통하여 단면선택방향으로의 선형 경사자장의 정도를 추정한 후, 획득한 신호를 excitation pulse profile을 이용하여 보정하였다. $T_2{^*}$ 및 지방은 보정된 신호로부터 측정되었으며 보정방법은 3.0T 임상용 장비에서 팬텀 및 in vivo 실험을 통하여 이루어 졌다. 결과: 팬텀 실험 결과는 보정 후 측정된 $T_2{^*}$ 및 지방의 양이 자장이 균일한 경우에 가까워 진 것을 보여 주었다. In vivo 실험에서는 간에서 배경경사자장의 크기가 약 120 ${\mu}T/m$ 정도 까지로 나타났으며 보정하기 전에 비하여 측정된 $T_2{^*}$ 및 지방의 정도의 균일도가 높아지는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 결론: Excitation pulse profile을 이용한 배경경사자장 보정 방법은 경사 에코 신호에서의 거시적인 불균일 자장에 의한 영향을 줄여 주며 2차원 간 영상에서의 적용을 통하여 보다 정확한 지방 및 $T_2{^*}$의 측정에 도움이 될 수 있다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.115-116
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• 1998

Pulse echo techniques have been used for the conventional medical ultrasound imaging systems. However, their resolution is limited in the transmitted signal power. To overcome this limit, pulse compression method used in the radar systems was proposed. This system transmits a continuous coded signal and then compresses the received signal into the short and high resolution pulse by using correlator. The reflectors can be detected by cross-correlation between the transmitted signal and the received signal with the depth information. In this paper, we will present a comparative study of the performances of the most common sequences(pseudo-chirp, m-sequences, modified Golay code). The best result for improving resolution is obtained with the modified Golay Code.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.318-319
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• 2010

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2010

Ultrasonic inspection of heavy walled cast austenitic stainless steel(CASS)welds is very difficult due to complex and coarse grained structure of CASS material. The large size of anisotropic grain strongly affects the propagation of ultrasound by severe attenuation, change in velocity, and scattering of ultrasonic energy. therefore, the signal patterns originated from flaws can be difficult to distinguish from scattered signals. To improve detection and sizing capability of ID connected defect for heavy walled CASS piping welds, the low frequency segmented TRL Pulse Echo and Phased Array probe has been developed. The experimental studies have been performed using CASS pipe mock-up block containing artificial reflectors(ID connected EDM notch). The automatic pulse echo and phase array technique is applied the detection and the length sizing of the ID connected artificial reflectors and the results for detection and sizing has been compared respectively. The goal of this study is to assess a newly developed ultrasonic probe to improve the detection ability and the sizing of the crack in coarse-grained CASS components.

• 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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• 제27권3호
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• pp.268-279
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• 2007

The reliability of cold-bonding repair technique of carbon-fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) laminates, often used as a temporary repair for the airplane maintenance, has been evaluated during cyclic loading and localized heating by nondestructive methods. Major concern was given to the evolution of damage after repair in the form of delaminations due to localized heating and cyclic loading combined. An area of interest both on the specimen repaired by cold-bonding and the specimen without repair where delaminations were induced by localized heating and cyclic loading was monitored by acoustic emission (AE) testing and further examined by pitch-catch low-frequency bond testing, and pulse-echo high-frequency ultrasonic testing. The results showed that the reliability of cold-bonding repair would be significantly reduced by the localized heating and cyclic loading combined rather than by the cyclic loading only. AE monitoring appeared to be an effective and reliable tool to monitor the integrity of temporarily repaired CFRP laminates in terms of the structural health monitoring (SHM) philosophy.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.73-79
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• 1995

현재 사용중인 초음파 트랜스듀서는 종피 또는 횡피 중 하나를 발생하도록 구성되어 있다. 본 연구는 단일 PZT소자로서 종파와 횡파를 동시에 발생 할 수 있는 2 중 모우드 트랜스듀서 의 초음파 발생 메커니즘을 조사하였다. 분극처리한 압전 세라믹 PZT의 결정구조는 상온에서 hexagonal (6mm) 이다. 트랜스듀서가 종. 횡액를 동시에 큰 강도로 발생하는 최적 절단면을 결정하기 위하여 PZT 소자의 효율을 회전각의 함수로 조사하였다 그리고 선택된 절단면에 대하여 소자의 임피던스 변화를 유한요소법으로 분석하고, pulse-echo 시뮬레이션으로 파형을 관찰하였다. 이론적 결과를 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.30-36
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• 1992

$LiNbO_3$단결정의 조성비 변화에 따른 탄성표면파 특성을 축정하기 위해 47-50 $Li_2O$ mol% 조성의 $LiNbO_3$단결정을 성장시켜 $128^{\circ}$Y cut wafer를 제조하였다. 제작된 wafer 위에 사진식각법을 이용하여 지연선(Delay line)을 형성시켰다. Pulse-echo overlap mehtod로 지연시간을 측정하여, 탄성표면파 속도$(V_s)$, 전기기계결합계수$(K_s^2)$ 및 $-50^{\circ}C~100^{\circ}C$ 온도 범위에서 지연시간 온도계수(TCD)의 조성비에 대한 의존성을 조사하였다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.420-425
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• 1999

Time of flight diffraction(TOFD)법은 초음파의 회절현상을 이용한 검사방법으로 일반적인 pulse echo 법에 비해 검사수행 속도가 빠르며, 보다 알기 쉽게 결함을 유무를 표시하고 검사표면의 상태와 결함의 방향에 의한 검사 결과가 기존에 방법에 비해 안정적인 특징을 갖는다. 그러나 TOFD 법은 결함의 위치가 검사체의 표면 근처에 위치하는 경우 표면을 따라 전파되는 lateral wave의 영향으로 결함의 검출에 어려움이 따른다. 본 연구에서는 TOFD 법을 이용한 초음파 탐상 시스템을 개발하였고, TOFD 법의 단점이라 할 수 있는 표면 근처에 존재하는 결함을 보다 쉽게 검출하기 위하여 deconvolution 법을 사용하여 근거리 분해능을 향상시켰다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.138-148
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• 2016

Measurement of elastic constants is crucial for engineering aspects of predicting the behavior of materials under load as well as structural health monitoring of material degradation. Ultrasonic velocity measurement for material properties has been broadly used as a nondestructive evaluation method for material characterization. In particular, pulse-echo method has been extensively utilized as it is not only simple but also effective when only one side of the inspected objects is accessible. However, the conventional technique in this approach measures longitudinal and shear waves individually to obtain their velocities. This produces a set of two data for each measurement. This paper proposes a simultaneous sensing system of longitudinal waves and shear waves for elastic constant measurement. The proposed system senses both these waves simultaneously as a single overlapped signal, which is then analyzed to calculate both the ultrasonic velocities for obtaining elastic constants. Therefore, this system requires just half the number of data to obtain elastic constants compared to the conventional individual measurement. The results of the proposed simultaneous measurement had smaller standard deviations than those in the individual measurement. These results validate that the proposed approach improves the efficiency and reliability of ultrasonic elastic constant measurement by reducing the complexity of the measurement system, its operating procedures, and the number of data.