• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.521-537
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• 2000

Ultrasonic imaging is the most widely used modality among modern imaging device for medical diagnosis and the system performance has been improved dramatically since early 90's due to the rapid advances in DSP performance and VLSI technology that made it possible to employ more sophisticated algorithms. This paper describes "main stream" digital signal processing functions along with the associated implementation considerations in modern medical ultrasound imaging systems. Topics covered include signal processing methods for resolution improvement, ultrasound imaging system architectures, roles and necessity of the applications of DSP and VLSI technology in the development of the medical ultrasound imaging systems, and array signal processing techniques for ultrasound focusing.

• 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.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.495-503
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• 1995

기계구조물의 건전성 및 잔존수명 평가를 수행하기 위하여서는 먼저 고감도, 고정도의 결함평 가가 필수적이나 대부분의 경우 가동중의 기계구조물로부터의 재료손상평가를 위한 시험편을 채취하는 것은 곤란하기 때문에 비파괴적 기법의 도입이 불가결한 실정이다. 그러나 성수대교 붕괴사고 등과 같은 최근 국내에서 발생한 파손사고의 대부분은 그 사고의 기분원인이 구조물 내부에 발생한 결함들에 대한 측정이 수행되지 않았음은 물론 나아가 이에 대한 근본적인 원인은 국내에서의 비파괴 검사실시에 대한 제도적인 문제에 기인한다. 따라서 여기서는 최근 기계 및 구조물의 안전성 확보에 이써서 필수불가결한 기술인 비파괴검사에 대한 국내의 실시 현황 및 그 문제점 등을 주로 제도적인 관점에서 미국 및 일본 등의 선진국과 비교함으로써 기술하고자 한 다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.157-159
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 세라믹을 비파괴 검사를 통하여 얻어진 영상에서, 조직의 이상이나 결함의 정도를 자동으로 확인하는 방법을 제안한다. 비파괴 검사를 통하여 얻어진 영상에서 소벨 마스크를 적용하여 윤곽선을 추출하고, 추출된 윤곽선의 방향 정보를 $9{\times}9$ 마스크에 적용하여 영역을 분류한다. 그리고 분류된 각 영역을 히스토그램 스트레칭을 적용하여 영상을 보정하고, 4 방향 윤곽선 알고리즘을 적용하여 객체를 추출한다. 그리고 추출된 객체의 영역에 대해 형태학적 정보를 이용하여 잡음을 제거한 후, 손상된 영역을 추출한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법을 비파괴검사를 통하여 얻어진 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 손상된 영역을 비교적 정확히 검출되는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.152-162
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• 2001

Laser-generated ultrasonic technique which is one of the reliable nondestructive evaluation techniques has been applied to evaluate the integrity of structures by analyzing the characteristics of signal obtained from surface crack. Therefore, the signal analysis of the laser-generated ultrasonics is absolutely necessary for the accurate and quantitative estimation of the surface defects. In this study, one-sided measurement by laser-generated ultrasonic has been applied to evaluate the depth of the surface-breaking crack in the materials. However, since the ultrasonic waveform excited by pulse laser is very difficult to distinguish the defect signals, it is necessary to consider the signal analyses of the transient waveform. Wavelet Transform(WT) is a powerful tool for processing transient signals with temporally varying spectra that helps to resolve high and low frequency transient components effectively. In this paper, the analyses of the surface-breaking crack of the ultrasonic signal excited by pulse laser are presented by employing the WT analyses.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.259-269
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• 1999

Elastic wave velocity measurement technique such as impact-echo method and ultrasonic pulse velocity method has been successfully used to evaluate the moduli and strength of concrete. However, estimation results obtained by the NDT methods do not agree well with real things because longitudinal wave velocity is influenced by various factors. In this paper, among several factors influencing P-wave velocity, the influence of moisture content in concrete was investigated through the experiment. Test results show that longitudinal wave velocity is significantly affected by the moisture content of concrete, i.e., the lower moisture content. the lower velocity. Moisture content influences rod-wave velocity measured by impact-echo method stronger than ultrasonic pulse velocity measured by transmission method. During drying process with ages. the difference of increasing rate between longitudinal wave velocity and compressive strength of concrete is gradually increased. Therefore, to establish more accurate relationship between longitudinal wave velocity and strength, the difference of the increasing rate should be considered.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.552-559
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• 2011

Recently, the eddy current testing(ECT), alternating current field testing, magnetic flux leakage testing and remote field testing have been used as a nondestructive evaluation method based on the electromagnetic induction phenomenon. The eddy current testing is now widely accepted as a NDE method for the heat exchanger tube in the electric power industry, chemical, shipbuilding, and military. The ECT system mainly consists of the synthesizer module, analog module, analog-to-digital converter, power supplier, and data acquisition and analysis program. In the previous study, the synthesizer module and the analog module which is essential to the ECT system were primarily developed, and in this study the data acquisition and analysis program were developed. The operation system for this program is based on the Windows 7, and optimized for the Korean users, and the specific feature of this program using setup wizard enables inspector to make a setup easily for acquisition and analysis of ECT data. In this paper, the configuration and functions of eddy current data acquisition and analysis program will be introduced.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.155-161
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• 2010

Recently, the electromagnetic techniques of the eddy current testing(ECT), alternating current field testing, magnetic flux leakage testing and remote field testing have been used as a nondestructive evaluation method based on the electromagnetic induction. The eddy current testing is now widely accepted as a NDE method for the heat exchanger tube in the electric power industry, chemical, shipbuilding, and military. The ECT system mainly consists of the synthesizer module, analog module, analog-to-digital converter, power supplier, and data acquisition and analysis program. In this study, the synthesizer module and the analog module which are essential to the ECT system were primarily developed. The developed ECT system is basically a multifrequency type which is able to inject the maximum four frequencies based on the frequency and time domain multiplexing method. Conclusively, we confirmed that the EC signal was processed appropriately in each circuit modules, and the Lissajous EC signal was displayed in the impedance plane.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.7-11
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• 2012

For fault detection about the abrasion stage of rotational machineries under the dynamic loading conditions unlike the traditional diagnosis method used in the past decade, the infrared thermographic method with its distinctive advantages in non-contact, non-destructive, and visible aspects is proposed. In this paper, by applying a rotating deep-grooved ball bearing, passive thermographic experiments were conducted as an alternative way to proceeding the traditional fault monitoring on spectrum analyzer. As results, the thermographic experiment was compared with the traditional vibration spectrum analysis to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed method. Based on the results obtained as NDT, the temperature characteristics and abnormal fault detections of the ball bearing according to the abrasion stage were analyzed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.477.1-477
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• 2001