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Development of Steam-Generator UT System and Experimental Verification  

Park, Jae-Seok (Korea Advanced Inspection Technology Inc.)
Hong, Soon-Sin (Korea Advanced Inspection Technology Inc.)
Park, Chi-Seung (Korea Advanced Inspection Technology Inc.)
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Abstract
The ultrasonic inspection system for the expansion/transition area of steam generator tube was successfully developed. Variety of artificial flaw and real track specimen was tested using the UT system to verify the performance of the system. All artificial flaws of which through-wall depth larger than 10% was clearly detected by UT system. Measurement results of through-wall depth of flaws larger than 20% had good linearity and reproducibility with 3.27 of standard deviation. Results of real crack specimen test suggested that the detection limit of real crack strongly depends on the track morphology. A potential for measurement of PRL(percentage of remaining ligament) was recognized by the real crack specimen test.
Keywords
Steam Generator Tube; Ultrasonic Testing;
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