• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.24-28
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• 1990

Centrifugally Cast Stainless Steel generally shows similar structure to the weld in austenitic stainless steel in the point of casting. When examining this material ultrasonically, the beam does not generally propagate straightforward but rather deviates from its original direction and this phenomenon called skewing is originally caused by anisotropic material. In order to calculate the beam skewing effect theoretically, work has been performed based on a model approach which has regarded material itself as having been composed of multi-layered columnar dendrite structure and the result was compared with the one from experiment. The result from both theory and experiment showed good correlation and ultrasonic beam showed the least skewing with around 45 degree incident angle.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.372-379
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• 2003

The problems encountered by ultrasonic testing of austenitic stainless steel weld joints are discussed in the paper. Due to low thermal conductivity and the occurrence of single phase between the melting point and the room temperature, coarse and oriented grains are formed in such weld metals more in thick sections. This leads to higher scattering at the grain boundaries and low signal to noise ratio, and extensive beam skewing. Experimental results to understand these problem are explained.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.227-236
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• 1997

탄성파 전파 과정의 정량적인 이해와 그 가시화는 결함 탐지는 물론이고, 재료의 물성 평가에 매우 중요하다. 대상 재료가 이방성을 지닐 경우에 탄성파 전파 과정은 복잡해져서 전파 과정의 해석 및 가시화 작업은 탄성파를 이용하는 결함 탐지 및 재질 평가에서는 필수적이다. 이방성 재료에서는 탄성파의 속도가 방향에 따라서 달라짐은 물론이고, 위상 속도와 군 속도의 방향이 어긋나서 파면이 진행하는 방향과 에너지가 진행하는 방향이 달라진다(beam skewing 효과). 특히 복합재료와 같이 이방성이 큰 재료에서는 이 효과가 매우 크게 나타나므로 탄성파를 이용한 시험 결과를 해석하고자 할 때에는 반드시 전파 과정을 이해해야 한다. 이방성 재료에 대해 해석적인 접근에는 한계가 있어서 유한차분법(finite difference method: FDM)과 같은 수치 해석 방법이 유용하게 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 탄성파 전파 과정을 해석할 수 있는 2차원 FDM 프로그램을 개발하고, 이를 이용하여 이방성 재료에서의 탄성파 전파에 대한 전산 시뮬레이션 결과를 비교 분석한다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.231-238
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• 2007

Ultrasonic inspection of austenitic steel weldments is a truly difficult task due to complicated wave propagation phenomena such as beam skewing, splitting and distortion. In order to understand these phenomena and design proper inspection procedures, simulation is increasingly paid more attention to. This article addresses a ray tracing based approach to determine incident angle and position of optimal wave mode ultrasonic beam for flaw detection in anisotropic and inhomogeneous austenitic steel weldments. Specially, the optimal mode of ultrasonic wave wave is selected by ray tracing simulation, and an optimization approach based on ray tracing and bi-section search is proposed in order to find the ray path connecting two given points in weldments. With help of this approach, the optimal incident angle and position of ultrasonic beam can be determined for a given flaw position.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2010

Cast austenitic stainless steel(CASS) is used in the primary cooling piping system of nuclear power plant for it's relative low cost, corrosion resistance and easy of welding. However, the coarse-grain structure of cast austenitic stainless steel can strongly affect the inspectability of ultrasonic testing. The major problems encountered during inspection are beam skewing, high attenuation and high background noise of CASS component. So far, the best inspection performance involving CASS components have been achieved using low frequency TRL(Transmitter/Receiver side-by-side L wave) angle beam probe. But TRL technique could not detect shallow defect and it contains an uncertainty for sizing capability. Currently, most of researchers are studying to overcome these challenge issue. In this study, low-frequency phased array TRL technique used to detect and sizing the flaws in CF8A cast austenitic stainless steel.As conclusion, we could detect and size not only axial flaw but also circumferential flaw using low frequency phased array technique.