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Detection of Cracks in feeder Pipes of Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor Using an EMAT Torsional Guided Wave (EMAT의 유도초음파 비틀림 모드를 이용한 가압중수로 피더관의 균열 검출)

  • Cheong, Yong-Moo;Kim, Sang-Soo;Lee, Dong-Hoon;Jung, Hyun-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.136-141
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    • 2004
  • A torsional guided wave mode was applied to detect a crack in a pipe. An array of electromagnetic acoustic transduce. (EMAT that can generate and receive torsional guided ultrasound with the frequency of 200kHz was designed and fabricated for testing a pipe of 2.5 inch diameter Artificial notches with various depths were fabricated in a bent feeder pipe mock-up and the detectability was examined from the distance of 2m of the specimen. The axial notches with the depth of 5% of wall thickness were successfully detected by a torsional mode (T(0,1)) generated by the EMAT However, it was found that the depth of defects was not related to the signal amplitude.

Reproduction of Extreme Waves Caused by Typhoon MAEMI with Wave Hindcasting Method, WAM (I) - Corrections of directional spreading division and limitation on wave development of WAM model - (제3세대 파랑추산모형을 이용한 태풍매미의 극한파랑 재현 (I) - WAM 모형의 파향격자 분할법 및 파 발달 제한조건의 수정-)

  • Shin, Seung-Ho;Hong, Key-Yong;Choi, Hak-Sun;Noriaki Hashimoto
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.557-564
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    • 2004
  • The WAM wave model has been widely used for wave hindcasting in the ocean by many domestic and foreign researchers due to its relative simplicity and high accuracy. As this model was originally developed for the condition of deepwater and comparatively coarse grid size covering wide area, it might produce in a fault result caused by the improper distribution of directional spreading. We extensively investigated involved problems based on WAM Cycle 4 model and suggested the improved WAM model so that it is applicable to both shallow water sea and fine mesh wave simulation The modified W AM model is verified here by comparing the computed result with and the observed data at Ieodo Ocean Research Station for September of 2003.

Expansion of a Fire-Ball and Subsequent Shock-Wave Propagation due to Underwater TNT Explosion (해저에서 TNT 폭발에 의한 파이어볼의 팽창과 이에 따른 충격파 전파)

  • Kwak, Ho-Young;Kang, Ki-Moon;Ko, Il-Gon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.35 no.7
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    • pp.677-683
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    • 2011
  • Until now, several empirical models for assessing the damage due to TNT explosions have been proposed. A set of analytical solutions for the time-dependent radius of an expanding fire-ball after detonation of TNT was obtained by solving the continuity, Euler (momentum), and energy equations with a "polytrope" assumption at the fire-ball center. The shock waves developed from the rapid expansion of a fire-ball under water were obtained by using the KirkwoodBBethe hypothesis. The calculated period of bubble oscillation and the maximum radius of the bubble resulting from the fire-ball due to a violent underwater TNT explosion were in good agreement with the experimental data.

The Records of Origin and Transport of Sediments From the Past to the Present in the Yellow Sea

  • Yi, Hi-Il;Chun, Jong-Hwa;Shin, Im-C.;Shin, Dong-Hyeok;Jou, Hyeong-Tae
    • Journal of the korean society of oceanography
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.96-106
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    • 2004
  • A total of 116 surface sediment samples were obtained on the Yellow Sea and analyzed for grain size and geochemical elements in order to interpret the present sediment transportation. Thirty-nine cores and 3,070 line-km shallow seismic profiles are analyzed for sedimentary records of Yellow Sea in the past. Results show that the boundary of sediment transport between Korean side and Chinese side is about between $123^{\circ}E$ and $124^{\circ}E$. The similar result is produced from Shi et al. (in this publication). Two cyclonic patterns of surface sediments are recognized in the northeastern and southwestern Yellow Sea, while the strong front zone of the mud patch and sandy sediments are found in the southeastern Yellow Sea (the southwestern part of Korean coasts). The formation of fine-particle sediment packages, called for Northwest Mudbelt Deposit (NWMD), Hucksan Mudbelt Deposit (HSMD) and Jeju Mudbelt Deposit (JJMD), are resulted from eddies (gyres) of water circulations in the Yellow Sea. NWMD has been formed by cyclonic (anticlockwise) eddy. NWMD is composed of thick, homogeneous, relatively semi-consolidated gray clay-dominated deposit. On the other hand, HSMD and JJMD are formed by anticyclonic (clockwise) eddies. They are thick, homogeneous, organic-rich gray, silt-dominated deposit. Both core and surface sediments show that the middle zone across Chinese and Korean side contains bimodal frequency of grain-size distribution, indicating that two different transport mechanisms exist. These mud packages are surrounded by sand deposits from both Korea and China seas, indicating that Yellow Sea, which is the shallow sea and epicontinental shelf, is formed mostly by sand deposits including relict sands. The seismic profiles show such as small erosional/non-depositional channels, sand-ridges and sand-waves, Pleistocene-channelfilled deposits, a series of channels in the N-S major channel system, and thick Holocene sediment package, indicating that more complex sedimentary history exists in the Yellow Sea.

Development of a Simplified Treatment Technique of Partial Wave Reflection and Transmission for Mild-Slope Wave Model (완경사 방정식에서의 간편화된 파의 부분 반사 및 투과 처리기법)

  • Chun Je-Ho;Ahn Kyung-Mo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.84-96
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    • 2006
  • This paper presents a simplified numerical method that can be used to incorporate the partial reflection and transmission of water waves in the hyperbolic mild-slope equation. For given reflection and transmission coefficients, wave fields around a porous breakwater including reflection, transmission, and diffraction can be simulated accurately. For the verification of the proposed method, numerical experiments have been carried out and compared with analytic solutions given by Yu(1995) and McIver(1999). The proposed method is easy to implement and is computationally efficient. It is demonstrated that the method performs well with a sloping bottom bathymetry and varying incident wave angles.

Evaluation of Early-age Properties of Controlled Low Strength Material Using Non-destructive Testing (비파괴 기법을 이용한 유동성 채움재의 초기경화특성 평가)

  • Kim, Dong-Ju;Kim, Sang-Cheol;Han, WooJin;Lee, Jong-Sub;Byun, Yong-Hoon
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.62 no.2
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2020
  • Controlled Low Strength Material (CLSM) has high fluidity and self-compaction characteristics. CLSM is mainly used for backfilling the excavated road. Early-age properties of CLSM should be characterized for fast restoration of the road. In this study, shear wave monitoring and Vicat needle test are performed to investigate the early-age properties of CLSM depending on the setting time. CLSM consists of CSA cement, fly ash, silt and sand, accelerator, and water. Five fly ashes with different chemical properties are used for CLSM samples. The penetration of CLSM along setting time is obtained through the Vicat needle test. A pair of bender elements are placed in a mold for shear wave measurement, and the change in shear waves with the setting time is monitored. The experimental results show that, regardless of the type of fly ash, the penetration depth decreases and the shear wave velocity increases with the setting time. Depending on the type of fly ash, initial and final times and shear wave velocity change. After testing, the correlation between penetration and shear wave velocity is obtained with high coefficient of determination. The shear wave measurement technique using the bender element can be used to identify early-age properties.

Low-Frequency Normal Mode Reverberation Model (저주파수 정상모드 잔향음 모델)

  • Oh, Suntaek;Cho, Sungho;Kang, Donhyug;Park, Kyoungju
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.184-191
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, a normal mode reverberation model for a range-independent environment of shallow water is proposed to calculate the reverberation level in the low-frequency range. Normal mode is used to calculate the acoustic energy propagating from the source to the scattering area and from the scattering area to the receiver. Each mode is decomposed into up and down going waves to consider scattering strength at the scattering area. The scattering functional form combines Lambert's law with a Gaussian-like term near the specular direction based on Kirchhoff approximation considering bottom condition. For verification of the suggested model, the result is relatively compared to several solutions of the problem XI and XV in the Reverberation Modeling Workshop I sponsored by the US Office of Naval Research.

ULF electromagnetic variation associated with seismic wave (지진파에 의해 발생하는 ULF 전자기장 변동)

  • Lee Heuisoon;Lee Choon-Ki;Kwon Byung-Doo;Yang Jun-Mo;Oh Seokhoon;Song Yoonho;Lee Tae Jong;Uchida Toshihiro
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.197-202
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    • 2005
  • The electromagnetic signals associated with the seismic activity in the south-east offshore of Kii peninsula, Japan, were clearly recorded at the MT sites in Jeju island, Korea. In this research, we have identified the co-seismic electromagnetic signals associated with the seismic activity and have analyzed the characteristics of significant electromagnetic variations. The analysis of phase velocity, power spectral density, MT impedance and polarization direction shows that the significant earthquake signals have the frequency band of about 0.05 to 0.5 Hz and that the sources of electromagnetic field are local effects of passing seismic waves. The simple approximation using electrokinetic effect successfully explains the co-seismic EM signals coincides with measured data but cannot explain the localities of electromagnetic variations.

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Time Series Prediction of Dynamic Response of a Free-standing Riser using Quadratic Volterra Model (Quadratic Volterra 모델을 이용한 자유지지 라이저의 동적 응답 시계열 예측)

  • Kim, Yooil
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.51 no.4
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    • pp.274-282
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    • 2014
  • Time series of the dynamic response of a slender marine structure was predicted using quadratic Volterra series. The wave-structure interaction system was identified using the NARX(Nonlinear Autoregressive with Exogenous Input) technique, and the network parameters were determined through the supervised training with the prepared datasets. The dataset used for the network training was obtained by carrying out the nonlinear finite element analysis on the freely standing riser under random ocean waves of white noise. The nonlinearities involved in the analysis were both large deformation of the structure under consideration and the quadratic term of relative velocity between the water particle and structure in Morison formula. The linear and quadratic frequency response functions of the given system were extracted using the multi-tone harmonic probing method and the time series of response of the structure was predicted using the quadratic Volterra series. In order to check the applicability of the method, the response of structure under the realistic ocean wave environment with given significant wave height and modal period was predicted and compared with the nonlinear time domain simulation results. It turned out that the predicted time series of the response of structure with quadratic Volterra series successfully captures the slowly varying response with reasonably good accuracy. It is expected that the method can be used in predicting the response of the slender offshore structure exposed to the Morison type load without relying on the computationally expensive time domain analysis, especially for the screening purpose.

3-Dimensional Imaging of Shear Wave Velocity in the Soil Site using HWAW Method (HWAW방법을 이용한 지반의 전단파 속도 3-D 영상화)

  • Park, Hyung-Choon;Hwang, Hea-Jin;Cho, Sung-Eun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2010.03a
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    • pp.176-181
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    • 2010
  • The evaluation of shear modulus (or shear wave velocity) profile of the site is very important in various fields of geotechnical engineering. In the field, there exist spatial variations of shear modulus that case uncertainty in the geotechnical analysis or design. So it is necessary to evaluate the spatial variation of shear wave velocities of the soil site. In this study, the HWAW method is applied to the determination of a 3-D Vs map of soil site. The HWAW method, which is based on harmonic wavelet transforms, has been developed to determine phase and group velocities of waves. The HWAW method uses only the signal portion of the maximum local signal/noise ratio to evaluate the phase velocity in order to minimize the effect of the noise. The field testing of this method is relatively simple and fast because only one experimental setup, which consists of one pair of receivers on the surface, is needed using a short receiver spacing setup (1~3m). These characteristics make it possible to determine detailed local Vs profile in the site with lateral Vs variation and to evaluate 3-D Vs map by performing a series of tests on the grid. To estimate the applicability of the proposed method, field tests were performed. Through field applications validity and applicability of the proposed method were verified.

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