• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.121-132
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• 1998

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.211-222
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• 1998

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.49-52
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• 1997

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.236-239
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• 2016

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.384-389
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• 2004

As the increase of the operation year of nuclear power plants, the probabilities of the degradation of the major facilities and materials in the nuclear power plants are increased. The integrity of those facilities shall be monitored and verified by the non-destructive examination methods with the regulation codes, so called inservice inspection(ISI). The ISI of Yonggwang unit 6 was performed in four different parts, 1) non-destructive examinations for the components, piping weldments and structures, 2) automated ultrasonic examinations for pressure vessels, 3) visual examinations for the interior structures of the reactor, 4) eddy current examinations for the steam generator tubes. As the results, there was no severe indication and all detected indications were evaluated as non-relavent. Especially for the examinations of the piping weldments, PD(Performance Demonstration) was applied as a W examination method defined in the 1995 edition of ASME Code Sec. XI. The implementation of the PD for the piping weld results in an improvement of the reliability of the UT examinations.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.311-316
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• 2010

Defects positioning of underground gas pipelines using MFL(magnetic flux leakage) inspection which is one of non-destructive evaluation techniques is proposed in this paper. MFL signals acquired from MFL PIG(pipeline inspection gauge) have nonlinearity and distortion caused by various external disturbances. SQI(self quotient image), a compensation technique for nonlinearity and distortion of MFL signal, is used to correct positioning of pipeline defects. Through the experiments using artificial defects carved in the KOGAS pipeline simulation facility, it is found that the performance of proposed defect detection is greatly improved compared to that of the conventional DCT(discrete cosine transform) coefficients based detection.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.437-442
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• 2010

Flow-accelerated corrosion (FAC) leads to thinning of steel pipe walls that are exposed to flowing water or wet steam. From experience, it is seen that FAC damage to piping at fossil and nuclear plants can result in outages that require expensive repairs and can affect plant reliability and safety. CHECWORKS have been utilized in domestic nuclear plants as a predictive tool to assist FAC engineers in planning inspections and evaluating the inspection data so that piping failures caused by FAC can be prevented. However, CHECWORKS may be occasionally ignore local susceptible portions when predicting FAC damage in a group of pipelines after constructing a database for all the secondary side piping in nuclear plants. This paper describes the methodologies that can complement CHECWORKS and the verifications of CHECWORKS prediction results using numerical analysis. FAC susceptible locations determined using CHECWORKS for two pipeline groups of a nuclear plant was compared with determined using the numerical-analysis-based FLUENT.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.460-465
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• 2016

Long pipe structures are usually installed in fixtures located with regular intervals or laid underground. Therefore, deflection and deformation could easily occur due to their weight or ground activity. A shape monitoring technique can be used effectively to evaluate the integrity of the pipe structures. Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors, which have an advantage of multiplexing could be used to measure strains at multiple-points of a long structure. In this study, to evaluate the integrity of a pipeline, a shape estimation technique based on strain information was proposed. Furthermore, different experiments were conducted to verify the performance of the proposed technique. Thus, the proposed shape estimation technique can represent the shape according to the deformation of the specimen using the FBGs. Moreover, calculated deflection of the pipeline using the estimation technique showed a good agreement with the actual deflection of the pipeline.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.238-245
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• 2000

유도초음파를 이용하면 배관 및 박판과 같은 파유도체에 대한 광범위한 비파괴탐상을 할 수 있게되어 시간과 경비를 절약할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 그래서 유도초음파를 이해하고 활용하기 위한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 유도초음파가 기존의 체적 초음파와 크게 다른 점은 분산성있어 초음파의 전파속도가 진동수와 파유도체의 두께에 의존한다는 것과 전파 특성이 다른 무한개의 모드가 존재한다는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 박판과 배관에서의 유도초음파를 이해하고 비파괴탐상에 적용하기 위해 필요한 모드의 분산과 선택 그리고 확인에 대해 이론적인 결과와 및 실험적인 예를 제시하여 그 개념을 소개하였다.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.308-310
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• 2004

1980년대 초 미국의 비등형 경수로(Boiling Water Reactor : BWR) 원자력발전소 배관계통의 입계 응력 부식 균열(Inter-Granular Stress Corrosion Crack) 검사 결과 및 미국 EPRI(Electric Power Research Institute)에서 실시한 round robin test 결과에서 기존 초음파 검사 방법의 실효성에 많은 문제점이 제기 되었다. (중략)