• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.594-604
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• 2003

A State-of-art methodologies on implementing conventional piezoelectric and flexible PVDF elements for generating ultrasonic guided waves in a tubing are presented. Comb transducers with PVDF can be efficiently applied to selectively excite a guided wave mode by wrapping around any size pipe while a conventional immersion type piezo-elements can be also possibly used with a modification of transducer fabrication. Technical comparisons between the use of angle beam probe and comb one will be also discussed in detail. The presented technique can be easily applied to NDE for a long range inspection of tubular structures.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.156-159
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• 2001

Recently, side scan sonar system has been developed and operated to survey cable laying, sunken bodies, geometry of sea bottom and so on. It uses the acoustic signals, which are emitted from two transducer arrays, left and right sides, to get geometric information of the specified area. This system consists of transceiver board, towed body, deck unit and GPS receiver. The transceiver board, nested in a watertight canister, controls the transmitting and receiving of the acoustic pulses from transducer arrays. After receiving the scattered signals, it processes BP(Band Pass) filtering, AGC(Automatic Gain Control), TVG(Time Varying Gain) and Heterodyne. The deck init has the signal processing part, A/D converter, power supplier, and real-time monitoring part. The towed body has been designed to satisfy the optimal hydrodynamic behavior during towing, In this paper, brief introductions on the design theory of transceiving part and some results from the field which have been operated recently will be introduced.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.6B
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• pp.1149-1155
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• 1999

This paper presents a narrow-band orthomode transducer(OMT) based on waveguide to waveguide transitions which can separate two linearly polarized orthogonal modes. This operates in the range 120Hz-13GHz frequency band. It consists of two parts, main arm and side arm. Stepped transformers are designed and an inductive post is inserted to improve the characteristics of the transmission loss and isolation. This paper also presents results from fabricated OMT These results show that the transmission loss is less than 1dB and the isolation between the ports for the OMT is above 20dB.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.232-233
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• 2011

수중에서는 대기와는 달리 매질의 차이로 인하여 통신의 제약이 따르므로 초음파를 이용하여 정보를 송 수신한다. 수중통신을 하기 위해서는 초음파를 발생시키는 트랜스듀서와 신호를 증폭시키는 전력증폭기가 필요하다. 전력증폭기는 선형적인 출력이 보장되어야 하며, 수중에서의 연료문제로 인하여 높은 효율로 동작하여야한다. 하지만 출력의 선형성과 시스템의 효율은 Trade off의 관계이기 때문에 두 가지 모두를 만족시키는 연구가 요구된다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 Class B push-pull 증폭기를 사용하여 선형 출력 특성을 보장하며, 신호의 크기에 따라 증폭기의 인가전압을 가변하는 ET(Envelope Tracking) 기술을 적용하여 향상된 효율 특성을 갖는 넓은 대역폭의 전력증폭기를 설계하고 실험을 통해 특성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.12-19
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• 2001

In this study, the physical properties of the piezoelectric sounder with metal-piezoelectric ceramics were analyzed. The dielectric and piezoeletric properties of 0.5wt% MnO$_2$ and NiO doped 0.1Pb(Mg$\_$1/3/Nb$\_$2/3/)O$_3$-0.45PbTiO$_3$-0.45PbZrO$_3$ ceramics were investigated aiming at acoustic transducer applications. The acoustic characteristics of a thin circular disc-type with metal-piezoceramics have been investigated. Also, the acoustic characteristics for the geometrical form of case were investigated. The piezoelectric sounder with 200kHz resonant frequency and 20kHz bandwidth was designed by considering the sharp directivity and the sound pressure.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.21-30
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• 1979

Echo sounder and Doppler sonar are to theultra-sonic transducers for measuring the depth and the ship's speed respectively. To measure the depth and speed with a single transducer, it is required to control the ultra-sonic beam to optional direction. In the past, the direction of the transducer itself is varied, but such a method provoked much problems in the mechanical design of the equipment. This paper deals with the method to control beam direciton by the phase control of the plural arrangement of transducers, and the results are studied by a computer simulation. The remarkable results of the study is condensed as follows; 1. The greater the interval of arrangement between transducers, the sharper the radiation pattern is, but in this case, the level of undesired sidelobe is also increased. 2. The control of radiation pattern up to 60 degree can be achieved by an adequate arrangement of more than 10 transducers. 3. It is shown that a simultaneous measurement of both depth and speed can be achieved by alternating directivity of the pulse by the method proposed in this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.05b
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• pp.294-297
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 압전형 음향변환기를 제작하기 위한 금속과 세라믹스로 적층된 원형의 압전음향소자와 음향변환기 케이스를 설계하였다. 먼저 음향소자인 복합원형평판의 진동운동 방정식을 세우고 그 진동모드를 알아보았다. 음향소자의 세라믹스는 두께 1 mm, 지름 10 mm의 PZT(IV)를 사용하였고, 금속판의 지름과 두께를 다양하게 변화시키면서 음향소자의 공진주파수를 계산하고, 각각의 금속판에 따른 감도지수의 변화를 계산하였다. 설계하고자 하는 음향소자의 공진주파수를 200 KHz로 청하고, 위의 계산을 통하여 음향변환소자에 가장 적합한 금속진동판을 찾아보았다. 음향변환기의 복합원형평판으로 이루어진 음향소자의 물리적 변화에 따른 공진주파수와 감도지수를 구하고 음향변환기 케이스의 공진주파수를 계산하여 압전형 음향변환기에 알맞은 금속진동판과 음향변환기 케이스를 알아보았다.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.595-601
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• 2005

A mobile robot system utilizing NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) method is designed and fabricated f3r automatic integrity evaluation of large sized industrial reservoirs and pipelines. The developed mobile robot can crawl over the outer surface of the industrial facilities even though the shape of the structures is various and unsymmetric. The robot detects defects such as pinholes, cracks and thickness reduction at the wall of the facilities using EMAT (Electro-Magnetic Acoustic Transducer). Image processing technology for weld line detection at the surface of the target and host programs including defect detecting algorithms are also developed. Automation of defect detection for these kinds of large facilities using mobile robots is helpful to prevent significant troubles of the structures without danger of human beings under harmful environment.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.215-218
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• 2001

Finite element models are constructed using the commercial code ANSYS for two most representative types of ultrasonic transducers, cMUTs and piezoelectric transducers. Calculation result shows the origin and level of cross talk between array elements in each transducer type For reduction of the cross talk level, the effects of various structural variations are Investigated for each transducer type. The results say that proper design of the coupling isolation structures between the transducing elements can significantly reduce the cross talk in ultrasonic transducers.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.55-63
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• 1991

Transforming small ultrasonic energy into large mechanical energy is the essential feature of ultrasonic vibration in various application fields. This energy amplification can be obtained by achieving resonance condition between booster or tool horn and transducer. When it has uniform section with small sectional area, one dimensional analysis provides good estimation of the natural frequency of the horn. But, for arbitrary shape of horn, one dimensional analysis can no longer be applied. At present, designing tool horn whose natural frequency is identical to that of transducer requires serveral stages of trial and error in actual manufacturing process. In this paper, frequency analysis program is developed to easily predict the natural frequency of ultrasonic vibration cutting tool with axisymmetry and 3- dimensional shape using finite element method.