• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.97-107
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• 1994

Both in-process quality control and high reliability of the weld is one of the major concerns in applying friction welding to the economical and qualified mass-production. No reliable nondestructive monitoring method is available at present to determine the real-time evaluation of automatic production quality control for friction welding of special hydraulic valve spool of 16mm in diameter. This paper, so that, presents the experimental examinations and statistical quantitative analysis of the correlation between the initial cumulative counts of acoustic emission(AE) occurring during plastic deformation periods of the welding and the tensile strength and other properties of the welded joints of $\phi16$ valve spool as well as the various welding variables, as a new approach which attempts finally to develop real-time quality monitoring system for friction welding.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.490-500
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• 2000

사용하는 탄성파의 파장과 두께가 비슷하거나 보다 얇은 박판 구조에서 음향방출(acoustic emission, AE) 신호의 위치표정 정확도의 향상을 위해 새로운 신호처리 방법인 웨이블릿 변환 디노이징(wavelet transform de-noising) 기법을 도입하였다. 탐지된 AE 신호에 대하여 웨이블릿 변환과 역변환을 수행하여 상대적으로 저주파수이고 큰 진폭을 갖는 굽힘파 성분(flexural component)은 활용하고, 고주파수이고 작은 진폭의 팽창파 성분(extensional component)은 필터링하여 제거한 다음 신호를 재구성하는 디노이징 처리를 거침으로써 박판에서의 위치표정 시 발생하는 도달시간차 측정오차를 최소화할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 따라서 웨이블릿 디노이징 처리를 도입함으로써 위치표정의 정확도가 게인(gain)이나 문턱값의 설정, 판의 두께, 센서간거리, 발생원과 센서의 상대적인 위치에 무관하고 전통적인 문턱값 통과 방법에 비하여 월등하게 향상되었다. 또한 상대적으로 매우 큰 진폭을 가지는 굽힘파 성분을 활용하므로 실제적인 박판 구조물에서의 위치표정에 효과적으로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.332-340
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• 2015

음향방출기술은 고체내부에 국부적으로 형성된 변형에너지가 급격히 방출되면서 발생하는 탄성파를 이용하는 기술로써 결함의 발생이나 존재하는 결함의 진전을 검출하는 비파괴검사 기법이다. 환경문제로 인해 최근 약 20년 전부터 압축 천연 가스가 자동차 석유 연료의 대안으로 사용되면서 CNG 탱크의 안전성 검사의 필요성 또한 증가하고 있다. 특히 복합재 CNG 탱크에서는 적층된 재료와 방향에 따라 파의 속도나 분산 특성이 달라지므로 매질의 속도에 절대적으로 영향을 받는 종래의 도달 시간차를 이용한 AE 기법으론 결함검출을 하는데 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 스틸실린더인 Type-I과 스틸실린더에 GFRP로 와인딩된 Type-II 시편에서 에너지 기반 contour map 기법을 이용해 종래의 AE기법의 한계를 극복하고 결과를 비교하였다. 그 결과 위치표정이 불가하거나 오차가 컸던 종래의 방법과 달리 에너지 기법은 모든 지점에서 위치표정이 가능했으며 오차 또한 현저히 준 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1349-1352
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• 2005

This paper is to investigate a defect for thermal barrier coating layers by acoustic emission method in 4-point bending test. The two-layer thermal barrier coating is composed of $150\mu{m}\;CoNiCrAlY\;bond\;coating\;by\;vacuum\;plasma\;spray(VPS)\;process\;and\;250\mu{m}\;ZrO_2-8wt%Y_2O_3$ ceramic coating layer by air plasma spray(APS) process on Inconel-718. The specimen prepared by cyclic thermal test(500, 1000, 2000cycle) at $1050^{\circ}C$ The AE monitoring system is composed of PICO type sensor, a wide band pre-amplifier(40dB), PC and AE DSP(16/32 PAC) board. The AE event, amplitude, Cumulative energy and count of coating specimens is evaluated according to cyclic thermal test.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.13-25
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• 2020

One of the most important aspects in structural health monitoring is the detection of fatigue damage. Structural components such as heavy-duty bolts work under high dynamic loads, and thus are prone to accumulate fatigue damage and cracks may originate. Those heavy-duty bolts are used, for example, in wind power generation and mining equipment. Therefore, the investigation of new and more effective monitoring technologies attracts a great interest. In this study the acoustic emission (AE) technology was employed to detect incipient damage during fatigue testing of a M36 bolt. Initial results showed that the AE signals have a high level of background noise due to how the load is applied by the fatigue testing machine. Thus, an advanced signal processing method in the time-frequency domain, the Hilbert-Huang Spectrum (HHS), was applied to reveal AE components buried in background noise in form of high-frequency peaks that can be associated with damage progression. Accordingly, the main contribution of the present study is providing insights regarding the detection of incipient damage during fatigue testing using AE signals and providing recommendations for further research.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2009

A study of fracture to material is getting interest in nuclear and aerospace industry as a viewpoint of safety. Acoustic emission (AE) is a non-destructive testing and new technology to evaluate safety on structures. In previous research continuously, all tensile tests on the pre-defected coupons were performed using the universal testing machine, which machine crosshead was move at a constant speed of 5mm/min. This study is to evaluate an AE source characterization of SM45C steel by using k-nearest neighbor classifier, k-NNC. For this, we used K-means clustering as an unsupervised learning method for obtained multi -variate AE main data sets, and we applied k-NNC as a supervised learning pattern recognition algorithm for obtained multi-variate AE working data sets. As a result, the criteria of Wilk's $\lambda$, D&B(Rij) & Tou are discussed.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.67-79
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• 2015

Acoustic emission analysis is an effective technique for monitoring the evolution of damage in a structure. An experimental analysis on a set of reinforced concrete beams under flexural loading was carried out. A mixed AE analysis method which used both parameter-based and signal-based techniques was presented to characterize and identify different failure mechanisms of damage, where the signal-based analysis was performed by using the Hilbert-Huang transform. The maximum instantaneous energy of typical damage events and the corresponding frequency characteristics were established, which provided a quantitative assessment of reinforced concrete beam using AE technique. In the bending tests, a "pitch-catch" system was mounted on a steel bar to assess bonding state of the steel bar in concrete. To better understand the AE behavior of bond-slip damage between steel bar and concrete, a special bond-slip test called pullout test was also performed. The results provided the basis of quantitative AE to identify both failure mechanisms and level of damages of civil engineering structures.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1991년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.127-133
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• 1991

Acoustic microscopy has attracted much intrest recently as potential mondestructive evalution technique for detecting and sizing defects of surface and sub-surface. Also acoustic emission testing method has been developed for detecting microcracks which is more than 30 umm in length quintitatively on ceramics material. In the present paper, acoustic emission during the four point bending test in hot-pressed sintered Si$\_$3/N$\_$4/ specimen which was stressed bythermal shock has been measured by high sensitive sensing system. The surface and sub-surface cracks were detected by scanning acoustic microscope of 800 MHz and conventional ultrasonic testing in C-scope image. The purpose was to investigate the location and size of cracks by SAM and AE technique, whose experimental datas demontrates good agreement for detecting microcracks.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.657-673
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• 2019

최근 음향방출(Acoustic Emission, AE) 센서를 이용하여 지하 암반 내 구조물의 손상을 평가하는 기법이 활발하게 사용되고 있다. 암반 손상 시 발생되는 미소파괴음은 시간 및 주파수 영역에서 다양한 음향방출 특성인자로 분석된다. 암반 내 초기 균열 발생부터 최종 파괴까지의 특징을 파악하기 위해서는 외부응력 수준과 암반 강도에 따른 음향방출 특성인자 발생 양상을 이해하는 것이 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 경암과 연암 강도를 가진 화강암 시편을 이용하여 일축 압축시험을 수행하여, 암석 시편 파괴 시 발생하는 음향방출 특성인자를 분석하였다. 실험결과, 응력 비율이 증가할수록 이벤트 횟수, 실효값, 최대 진폭, 절대 에너지가 경암 시편에서 연암 시편 보다 높은 경향을 보였다. 또한, 주파수 관련 특성인자는 응력 비율 증가나 시편의 물성특성에 대해 민감도가 낮은 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구에서 암석 시편 파괴에 따른 음향방출 특성인자 분석 결과, 실효값(RMS)이 가장 민감한 인자로 평가되었다. 본 연구의 결과는 음향방출 기반 모니터링 수행 시 암반 손상 정도 평가를 위하여 유용하게 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Composites Research
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.267-272
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• 2017

In this study, SiC powder was added to twill woven carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) composites to improve its mechanical properties. An acoustic emission (AE) frequency analysis method was suggested for the prediction of failure behaviors. Tensile tests were conducted and the fracture characteristics of each component of the SiC reinforced composite were evaluated using AE. The results showed that SiC powder improved the strength of twill woven CFRP composites and the fracture behavior of the SiC reinforced CFRP composite and its crack extension could be effectively evaluated on the basis of the specific AE frequency bands which are 100 to 228 kHz and 428 to 536 kHz upon the resin failure and 232 to 424 kHz due to addition of SiC powder and 576 to 864 kHz at the fiber breakage.