• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.31 no.7 s.262
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• pp.756-763
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• 2007

The majority of catastrophic wheel failures are caused by surface opening fatigue cracks either in the wheel tread or wheel flange areas. The inclined cracks at railway wheel tread are initiated and the cracks are caused by wheel damage-spatting after 60,000 km running. Because the failured railway wheel is reprofiled before regular wheel reprofiling, the maintenance cost for the railway wheel is increased. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the mechanism for initiation of crack. In the present paper, the combined effect on railway wheels of a periodically varying contact pressure and an intermittent thermal braking loading is investigated. To analyze damage cause for railway wheels, the measurements for replication of wheel surface and the effect of braking application in field test are carried out. The result shows that the damages in railway wheel tread are due to combination of thermal loading and ratcheting.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.497-502
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• 2010

Many forces are pressuring utilities to reduce operating and maintenance costs without cutting back on reliability or availability. Many utility managers are re-evaluating maintenance strategies to meet these demands. To utilities how to reduce maintenance costs and extent the effective operating life of equipment, predictive maintenance technique can be adapted. Predictive maintenance has three types program which arc in-house program, engineering company program and mixed program. We can approach successful predictive maintenance program with "smart trust" concept.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.89-99
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• 1997

Although discontinuously reinforced metal matrix composite(MMC) is one of the most promising materials for applications of aerospace, automotive industries, the thermal residual stresses developed in the MMC due to the mismatch in coefficients of thermal expansion between the matrix and the fiber under a temperature change has been pointed out as one of the serious problem in practical applications. There are very limited nondestructive techniques to measure the residual stress of composite materials. However, many difficulties have been reported in their applications. Therefore it is important to establish analytical model to evaluate the thermal residual stress of MMC for practical engineering application. In this study, an elastic model is developed to predict the average thermal residual stresses in the matrix and fiber of a misoriented short fiber composite. The thermal residual stresses are induced by the mismatch in the coefficient of the thermal expansion of the matrix and fiber when the composite is subjected to a uniform temperature change. The model considers two-dimensional in-plane fiber misorientation. The analytical formulation of the model is based on Eshelby's equivalent inclusion method and is unique in that it is able to account for interactions among fibers. This model is more general than past models to investigate the effect of parameters which might influence thermal residual stress in composites. The present model is to investigate the effects of fiber volume fraction, distribution type, distribution cut-off angle, and aspect ratio on thermal residual stress for in-plane fiber misorientation. Fiber volume fraction, aspect ratio, and distribution cut-off angle are shown to have more significant effects on the magnitude of the thermal residual stresses than fiber distribution type for in-plane misorientation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1995.05b
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• pp.651-657
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• 1995

고리원자력1호기에서 각각 2주기, 4주기동안 연소한 핵연료봉 G33-N2(평균연소도:3464MWD/MTU) 및 G23-14(평균연소도:13917MWD/MTU)에 대하여 와전류시험을 수행한 결과 G33-N2 핵연료봉 하단으로부터 각각 2290mm, 2878mm 위치에 관통결함신호와 내부결함신호를 얻었다. 또한 G23-l4 핵연료봉에서는 ridge 와전류신호를 획득하였다. 비파괴적 와전류시험을 통하여 관통결함 및 내부결함으로 예측된 위치에서 파괴적 금속조직시험을 수행하여 얻은 결과는 와전류시험결과와 잘 일치하였다 G23-l4 핵연료봉에서 획득한 ridge 와전류신호는 직경측정시험결과와 비슷한 경향을 보여 주었다. 따라서 와전류시험을 통하여 핵연료봉에 대한 건전성 평가 도구로서의 그 신뢰성이 양호함을 실증하였으며 핵연료봉의 ridge 정보도 제공할 수 있음을 입증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.1038-1040
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• 2019

본 연구는 방사광을 이용하여 새로운 골다공증 진단 평가법을 구축하고자 하였다. 방사광 기반 흰 쥐 넙다리뼈의 해부학적 구조와 내부미세구조를 시각화하였다. 그 후, 시각화에 기초하여 방사광에서 얻은 이미지를 통해 정상과 골다공증 모델에 대해 정량적인 분석을 수행하였다. 또한, 본 연구를 통해 기존 전임상단계의 미세단층촬영 (Micro-CT) 방법으로는 볼 수 없었던 내부미세구조 분석이 가능하다는 것을 증명하였다. 따라서, 방사광 기반 비파괴적인 방법으로 기존 골다공증 진단의 한계점을 보완하여 객관적인 분석이 가능하게 하여 신뢰도가 높은 진단 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.39-45
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• 2006

Structural health monitoring has been conducted by non-destructive evaluation method when a turbine rotor system of an aircraft engine has cracks. Local stiffness of a turbine rotor system is degraded and critical speed is changed due to the presence of cracks in rotor. Critical speed which is affected by location and depth of crack, is obtained using compliance matrix of cracked rotor. The database of the obtained critical speed is used to evaluate structural health monitoring of a rotor system of a gas turbine engine.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.91-99
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• 2001

에너지 수송배관은 경제성과 실용성으로 인해 총 설치 길이가 크게 증가하고 있으며, 최근에는 대륙관통 배관망 등의 건설이 지구촌 곳곳에서 진행되고 있다. 이러한 수송용 배관은 운송대상인 오일이나 가스의 폭발특성이나 환경오염 위험성으로 인해 무엇보다 철저한 안전관리가 이루어져야 한다. 선진 각 국에서는 이미 1960년대부터 배관파손의 원인을 분석하고 원인별 대책마련을 위해 부단한 노력을 기울이고 있다. 본고에서는 에너지 수송배관에 발생하는 대표적 결함 종류들에 대해, 선진 각 국에서 사용중인 안전성평가 방법을 정리함으로써, 국내 수송배관 안전성평가 대책 마련을 위한 기초자료로 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.61-67
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• 2015

Recently, the initiation of outside diameter stress corrosion cracking (ODSCC) at the tube support plate region of domestic steam generators (SG) with Alloy600 HTMA tubes has been increasing. As a result, SGs with Alloy600 HTMA tubes must be replaced early or are scheduled to be replaced prior to their designed lifetime. ODSCC is one of the biggest threats to the integrity of SG tubes. Therefore, the accurate evaluation of tube integrity to determine ODSCC is needed. Eddy current testing (ECT) is conducted periodically, and its results could be input as parameters for evaluating the integrity of SG tubes. The reliability of an ECT inspection system depends on the performance of the inspection technique and abilty of the analyst. The detection probability and ECT sizing error of degradation are considered to be the performance indices of a nondestructive evaluation (NDE) system. This paper introduces an optimized evaluation method for ECT, as well as the sizing error, including the analyst performance. This study was based on the results of a round robin program in which 10 inspection analysts from 5 different companies participated. The analysis of ECT sizing results was performed using a linear regression model relating the true defect size data to the measured ECT size data.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.353-362
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• 2016

Thermal barrier coating (TBC) is an essential element consisting of a super-alloy base and ceramic coating designed to achieve long operational time under a high temperature and pressure environment. However, the top coat of TBC can be delaminated at certain temperatures with long operation time. As the delamination of TBC is directly related to the blade damage, the coupling status of the TBC should be assured for reliable operation. Conventional studies of nondestructive evaluation have been made for detecting generation of thermally grown oxide (TGO) or qualitatively evaluating delamination in TBC. In this study, the ultrasonic C-scan method was developed to obtain the damage map inside TBC by estimating the delamination in a quantitative way. All specimens were isothermally degraded at $1,100^{\circ}C$ with different time, having different partial delamination area. To detect partial delamination in TBC, the C-scan was performed by a single transducer using pulse-echo method with normal incidence. Partial delamination coefficients of 1 mm to 6 mm were derived by the proportion of the surface reflection signal and flaw signal which were theoretical signals using Rogers-Van Buren and Kim's equations. Using the partial delamination coefficients, the partial delamination maps were obtained. Regardless of the partial delamination coefficient, partial delamination area was increased when degradation time was increased in TBC. In addition, a decrease in partial delamination area in each TBC specimen was observed when the partial delamination coefficient was increased. From the portion of the partial delamination maps, the criterion for delamination was derived.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.165-172
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• 2013

Power generating unit structures are designed and built to meet standard to secure its safety for expected life time. As the structures have been exposed to combined environment, degradation of structure material is accelerated and it can cause unexpected damage; evaluating precise mechanical properties of weak site like welded area is an essential research area as it is directly connected to safety issues. Existing measuring technique like tensile test requires specific size in testing specimen yet it is destructive method which is hard to apply on running structures. To overcome above mentioned limitation, IIT is getting limelight as it is non-destructive and simple method. In this study, latest technique is introduced to evaluate tensile property and residual stress by analyzing stress field occurs under the indenter while IIT is performed. Test on welded area, the weak site of nuclear structures have been practiced and confirmed that IIT can be usefully applied to evaluate integrity in industry.