• Composites Research
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.19-26
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• 2002

Real defects in composite structures were detected by using laser measuring system. Four types of real defects, that is, impact-induced delamination in a composite laminate, debond in a honeycomb structure, free-edge delamination in a composite laminate and debond in an adhesive joint, were made by applying several types of loads to the specimens. Laser measuring system such as ESPI and shearography technique were used to detect those defects. Thermal loading method, which can easily induce the surface deformation of specimen, was used to detect the defects. Experimental results show that the defects in composite structures could be easily detected by ESPI and shearography technique. Moreover, it shows that ESPI and shearography technique could be usefully applied to the detection of defects in various kinds of composite structures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.27-27
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 초음파 Immersion법을 이용하여 복합재 연소관내에 존재하는 결함을 검출하는 방법에 대하여 연구하였으며, 이를 위하여 FRP의 delamination, FRP-EPDM간의 미접착을 모사한 모의 결함 시편을 제작하여 시험하였다. 먼저 복합재료에 대한 초음파 시험방법을 최적화하기 위하여 가장 검출 감도가 좋은 탐촉자의 적용 주파수조건 및 물거리를 구하였으며, 이들 최적 조건으로 모의 결함 시편을 A, B, C-Scan하여 결함을 검출 분석하였다. 그리고 시험 자료를 바탕으로 데이터 값을 분석함으로써 복합재료에서의 음파 속도, 음향 임피던스, 반사율 및 투과율 등 복합재료의 초음파 특성을 산출하였으며, 동 시편에 대한 X-ray 필름을 촬영하여 그 결과를 초음파 시험 결과와 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.299-306
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• 2001

In this paper, artificial and real defects(delamination and debond) in composite structures were detected by using ESPI system. Three types of specimens, that is, composite laminates, honeycomb structures, and adhesive joints, were used to study the applicability of ESPI to composite structures. To detect defects in specimens, we selected thermal loading method that can easily induce the surface deformation of specimen. Experimental results show that defects in composite structures could be easily detected by ESPI. Moreover, it shows that ESPI could be usefully applied to the detection of defects in various composite structures.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.139-143
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• 2011

The problem of delamination of composite tubes by impact has been acknowledged in aerospace and automobile industry. Non-destructive testing(NDT) methods in composite material structure are important to evaluate reliability of composite structure. There are many kinds of NDT methods which can detect the inside defect of the composite material such as Infrared Thermography(IRT). Infrared thermal imaging of object is different from that of a defect, in heated composite tubes with an internal defect, and then location and size of a defect can be measured by the analysis of thermal imaging pattern. In this study, Lock-in Infrared thermography detect internal defects of Impacted composite tubes by the inspection of infrared lay radiated from the surface of composite tubes.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.55-62
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• 2014

This paper proposes a fault detection method utilizing converted images of acoustic emission signals and texture analysis for identifying bearing's multi-faults which frequently occur in an induction motor. The proposed method analyzes three texture features from the converted images of multi-faults: multi-faults image's entropy, homogeneity, and energy. These extracted features are then used as inputs of a fuzzy-ARTMAP to identify each multi-fault including outer-inner, inner-roller, and outer-roller. The experimental results using ten times trials indicate that the proposed method achieves 100% accuracy in the fault classification.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.150-156
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• 2011

In this paper, infrared thermography measurement technique has been used to develop standard measurement technique for nondestructive testing of composite materials which is widely used in aerospace industries. To increase the defect detection rate, the related experiment used the lock-in IR-thermographiy method. Therefore it is of considerable interest in the field of non-destructive testing for fast discontinuity detection by using ultrasonic lock-in infrared thermography. The result also shows that as the investigation period of light source is lengthened according to the thickness of specimen, the possibility of detecting defects gets higher as well. However, the reason why the result values were not favorable when less than 50 mHz of light source was provided is because it was difficult to detect defects as the defect parts became a state of thermal equilibrium in general when thermal diffusivity affects the entire materials.

• Composites Research
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.8-12
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• 2022

Analysis of defect signals inside glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) was conducted through deconvolution of terahertz (THz) wave. The GFRP specimen with internal defects was manufactured and the THz signal was measured through the reflection mode of the Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS) system. For deconvolution of the measured THz signal, the peak position of the THz signal was amplified through Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC) of the incident and detected THz signals. The position and intensity of the amplified peak were extracted as impulse, and the extracted signal of the impulse position was removed from the THz original signal. By repeating the process, the critical impulses, which represent boundary of the specimen, were derived. The deconvolution process was verified by confirming that the original THz signal without noise can be restored through the convolution of the critical impulses and the incident signal. From the derived critical impulses, the thickness of the internal defect in the GFRP was calculated through the detection time of impulses within 15 ㎛ accuracy.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2009.12a
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• pp.961-964
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• 2009

본 논문은 복합재료로부터 얻어진 C-scan영상에서의 효과적인 잡음 제거에 관한 연구 내용이다. 복합재료에서의 결함을 검출하는 것은 여러 실용, 응용분야에서 관심을 가지는 주제이다. 초음파 영상은 대부분이 육안으로 정확한 판단을 하기에는 어렵고, 잡음의 영향으로 정확한 결함에 대한 영역을 파악하는데 문제를 발생시킨다. 결함의 정확한 판별을 위해서는 물체의 영역을 정확히 판별하는 것이 중요하지만 영상에서 잡음에 대한 문제를 우선 해결해야 한다. C-scan 영상에서의 배경과 결함의 경계영역을 보존하면서 잡음 제거를 위해 웨이브렛(Wavelet) 변환을 이용하는 방법을 제안한다. 특히, C-scan 영상에서 Filtering을 적용하는데에 있어 드비시(Daubechies) Wavelet Filtering이 결함영역에 대한 좀 더 명확한 분석이 가능하게 함을 얘기하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.20-30
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• 2001

This study represents the Nondestructive Test about impact damage of composite materials made by different lay-up patterns and degrees. For this study, they were examined by the drop test on composite materials of two type lap-up patterns with fabric and unidirectional prepreg and examined nondestructive test of those. Nondestructive methods were X-ray test with $ZnI_2$ penetrant and Ultrasonic C-scan. The defect detectability of X-ray and Ultrasonic test was compared according to defect species. And the amounts of damage on impacted zone wert compared according to impact energy on two type test specimens. At results, Ultrasonic test was more effective to detect delamination and Penetrant X-ray test was more effective to detect matrix crack and fiber fracture. There were some differences in defect shapes and grades according to lay-up patterns and degrees, and the trend appeared that matrix crack, delamination, fiber fracture occured and increasing defects sizes according to increasing impact energy.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.246-252
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• 2004

Electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI) for quantitative evaluation of delaminations inside of a composite material plate is described. Delaminations caused by the impact on composite materials are difficult to detect visual inspection and ultrasonic testing due to non-homeogenous structure. This paper proposes the quantitative evaluation technique of the defects made in the composite plates by impact load. Artificial defects are introduced inside of the composite plate for the development of a reliable ESPI inspection technique. Real defects produced by impact tester are inspected and compared with the results of visual inspection which shows a good agreement within 5% error.