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Han, Soon-Woo;Cho, Seung-Hyun
- Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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- v.31 no.4
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- pp.398-413
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- 2011
For railway safety, it is very important to detect damages of rails at their early stage because any undetected damage in a rail can break the rail and cause a serious railway accident. In this paper, several NDT applicable to rail inspections are described. Major damage types in rails are discussed first and the rail inspection technology using conventional piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers, which is widely adopted for damage detection of rails, is explained. Other NDT being researched or tested for rail inspection are also discussed as complementary technologies to the concurrent contact type ultrasonic inspection. Characteristics of each rail inspection technologies are evaluated in order to provide requirements for future development of a new rail inspection method.
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Lee, Hee-Jong;Kim, Yong-Si;Yoon, Byung-Sik;Lee, Young-Ho
- Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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- v.25 no.4
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- pp.294-303
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- 2005
This paper describes the analysis results of a series f Round-Robin test that was performed to intercompare inspection and diagnosis techniques for characterization of pressure tube f a pressurized heavy water reactor under the Coordinated Research Project(CRP) of IAEA's nuclear Power Programme. For this test, six nations, Korea, Canada, India, Argentina, Rumania, and China that currently have pressurized heavy water reactors under operation involved, and the "KOR-1" pressure tube sample prepared by Korea was used. Two kinds of NDE technique, ultrasonic and eddy current test, were applied for these tests. The "KOR-1" pressure tube sample contains total 12 artificial flaws such as crack-like EDM notches, wear that is similar to the real flaws and can be produced on the pressure tubes during plant operation. Test results showed that seven laboratories from six nations detected all twelve flaws in "KOR-1" specimen by using ultrasonic and eddy current test methods, and ultrasonic test method was more accurate than eddy current test method in flaw detectin and sizing. ID flaws in pressure tube sample were more easily detected and accurately sized than OD flaws.
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Park, Moon-Ho;Kim, Jae-Hee
- Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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- v.17 no.2
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- pp.114-121
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- 1997
가압경수로 원자로 압력용기 비파괴검사를 위해 지금까지 계속 사용하여 온 기존의 고정식 매니플레이터 방식의 원자로 자동초음파검사장비는 최근 급속도로 발전한 전자산업 및 컴퓨터 등으로 인해 기본 설계 개념부터 달리하는 소형.경량화된 수중 이동형 원자로 검사 장비 형태로 바뀌어 가고 있다. 따라서, 본 해설에서는 현재까지 국내외 알려진 각종 소형 원자로 압력용기 자동초음파검사장비 및 고정식 매니플레이터 방식의 원자로 압력용기 자동초음파검사장비를 분석하여 기술하였으며, 현재 국내 원자로 압력용기 용접부검사를 위해 개발중인 RYSIS 장비 및 검사 기술 수준을 진단해보고 앞으로의 방향을 제시하였다.
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Kim, J.K.;Koh, S.N.;Kim, M.K.;Shim, Y.J.
- Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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- v.18 no.1
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- pp.27-32
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- 1998
This paper is written to introduce a multimedia tutoring system for nondestructive testing using personal computer. Nondestructive testing, one of the chief methods for inspecting welds and many other components, is very difficult for the NDT inspectors to understand its technical basis without a wide experience. And it is necessary for considerable repeated education and training for keeping their knowledge. The tutoring system that can simulate NDT works is suggested to solve the above problem based on reasonable condition. The tutoring system shows basic theories of nondestructive testing in a book-style with video images and hyper-links, and it offers practices, in which users can simulate the testing equipment. The book-style and simulation practices provide effective and individual environments for learning nondestructive testing.
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