• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.142-147
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• 2020

본 연구의 목적은 콘크리트 재료 및 구조물의 균열 특성 평가에 활용되고 있는 확산초음파 기법의 적용 가능성을 검토하는데 있다. 이를 위한 첫 단계로 외부 환경에 따라 변화하는 콘크리트의 수분 함유량 변화를 묘사하여, 확산초음파 파라미터와 콘크리트 수분 함유량 사이의 상관관계 분석을 수행하였다. 실험실 환경에서 완전 건조된 실험체를 수중에서 포화시켜가며 콘크리트 함수율의 차이를 묘사하였으며, 콘크리트 내부에서 초음파의 산란 현상이 충분히 발생하는 500 kHz 주파수 대역대의 신호를 가진 및 분석하여 확산초음파 파라미터인 초음파 확산계수와 초음파 에너지 소산계수를 산정하였다. 콘크리트의 수분 함유량은 확산초음파 실험 시 실험체의 무게 변화를 통해 추정하였으며, 수분 함유량 증가에 따라 실험체에서 무게가 약 2.5 % 가량 증가한 것으로 나타났다. 콘크리트 실험체의 포화정도에 따라 초음파 확산계수는 지속적으로 증가하는 것으로 나타났으나, 변화율은 확산초음파 기법의 계측 오차 범위 내에 있었다. 반면에, 초음파 에너지 소산계수는 완전 포화된 콘크리트에서 완전 건조된 콘크리트 대비 약 120 % 증가하여, 수분함유량에 대해 민감한 것으로 나타났다. 따라서, 추후 확산초음파 기법을 활용하여 콘크리트 재료 및 구조물의 균열 특성 평가 시 함수율에 대한 고려가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.227-239
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• 2020

Despite proven effectiveness and accuracy in laboratories, the existing damage assessment based on guided ultrasonic waves (GUWs) or acoustic emission (AE) confronts challenges when extended to real-world structural health monitoring (SHM) for railway tracks. Central to the concerns are the extremely complex signal appearance due to highly dispersive and multimodal wave features, restriction on transducer installations, and severe contaminations of ambient noise. It remains a critical yet unsolved problem along with recent attempts to implement SHM in bourgeoning high-speed railway (HSR). By leveraging authors' continued endeavours, an SHM framework, based on actively generated diffuse ultrasonic waves (DUWs) and a benchmark-free condition contrast algorithm, has been developed and deployed via an all-in-one SHM system. Miniaturized lead zirconate titanate (PZT) wafers are utilized to generate and acquire DUWs in long-range railway tracks. Fatigue cracks in the tracks show unique contact behaviours under different conditions of external loads and further disturb DUW propagation. By contrast DUW propagation traits, fatigue cracks in railway tracks can be characterised quantitatively and the holistic health status of the tracks can be evaluated in a real-time manner. Compared with GUW- or AE-based methods, the DUW-driven inspection philosophy exhibits immunity to ambient noise and measurement uncertainty, less dependence on baseline signals, use of significantly reduced number of transducers, and high robustness in atrocious engineering conditions. Conformance tests are performed on HSR tracks, in which the evolution of fatigue damage is monitored continuously and quantitatively, demonstrating effectiveness, adaptability, reliability and robustness of DUW-driven SHM towards HSR applications.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.1-6
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• 1980

Computer simulation results on the radiation pattern of an ultrasonic beam by the plurall arrangement of the transducers were reported by Sin (1979). This paper describes on the measurement of radiation pattern in case of one vibrox transducer and two vibrox transducers by varying the interval between the transducers. The measured results obtained are as follows; 1. Radiation wave of ultrasonic transducer is propagated to diffuse with spherical wave from center of transducer. 2. In case of one vibrox transducer, the greater the length of transducer, the sharper becomes the radiation pattern. 3. In case of two vibrox transducers, the maine lobe is revealed at the center of two transducers, it is shown difficult to make control freely of radiation pattern by varying merely the interval of transducers.