• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.11-22
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• 1997

It is very essential to get the accurate classification of defects in primary pressure vessel and piping welds for the safety of nuclear power plant. Ultrasonic testing has been widely applied to inspect primary pressure vessel and piping welds of nuclear power plants during PSI / ISI. Classification of flaws in weldments from their ultrasonic scattering signals is very important in quantitative nondestructive evaluation. This problem is ideally suited to a modern ultrasonic Pattern recognition technique. Here, a brief discussion on systematic approach to this methodology is presented including ultrasonic feature extraction, feature selection and classification. A stronger emphasis is placed on Fuzzy-UTSCS (UT signal classification system) as efficient classifiers for many practical classification problems. As an example Fuzzy-UTSCS is applied to classify flaws in ferrite pressure vessel weldments into two types such as linear and volumetric. It is shown that Fuzzy-UTSCS is able to exhibit higher performance than other classifiers in the defect classification.

• Journal of Korea Fishing Vessel Association
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• v.27
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• pp.43-48
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• 1986

• Nuclear industry
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• v.20 no.9 s.211
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• pp.48-49
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• 2000

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.299-304
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• 2014

In this paper, a method is tested to measure temperatures in high-temperature welds. Protective glass was installed between an infrared thermal imaging camera and a heat source, and temperature compensation was applied to the measuring instruments. When the temperature of halogen lamps was taken in real-time and measured by the thermal camera, the temperature was found to be almost invariant with the distance between the camera and heat source. The temperature range could be predicted, through correlations with the thickness of the protective glass and the measured distance. This study suggests that the temperature measurement of welds obtained by using an infrared thermal imaging camera is valid, through experimental testing of heat sources.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.149-154
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• 2012

The size and distribution of welding residual stress and welding deformation in welding structures have an effect on various sorts of damage like brittle failure, fatigue failure and stress corrosion cracking. So, research for this problem is necessary continuously. In this study, non-destructive technique using laser electronic speckle pattern interferometry, plate of welding specimen according to the external load on the entire behavior of residual stress are presented measurement techniques. Once, welding specimen force tensile loading, using electronic speckle pattern interferometry is measured. welding specimen of base metal and weld zone measure strain from measured result, this using measure elastic modulus. In this study, electronic speckle pattern interferometry use weld zone and base metal parts of the strain differences using were presented in residual stress calculated value, This residual stress value were calculated by numerical calculation. Consequently, weld zone of modulus high approximately 3.7 fold beside base metal and this measured approximately 8.46 MPa.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.391-397
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• 2011

Conventional film radiographic test has been generally and widely used in the inspection on the weldment for quality assurance. On the other hand, since the analog RT is well known for typical time and cost consuming method with complex process of inspection, the industry has researched various ways how to improve radiographic test technology. In this study, we verified the fact that digital RT provides a lot more benefit in effectively detecting defects, ever film details, through digital processing of image enhancement, compared to film RT. As a result, we reached conclusion that digital RT is positively able to replace the film RT in industry in part or in whole.

• Nuclear industry
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• v.23 no.3 s.241
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• pp.42-48
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• 2003

가압 경수로는 원통형의 원자로 용기 안에서 핵물질을 반응시켜 고온$\cdot$고압의 물을 생성하는데 이 원자로 용기는 환형 주조물들을 서로 용접하여 만들어진다. 이 원자로 용기의 건전성을 확인하기 위해서는 용접부위에 결함이 발생되었는지를 주기적으로 정확하게 검사해야 한다. 한국원자력연구소는 원자력발전소의 핵심 기기인 원자로 용기의 용접부 결함을 수중에서 자동으로 검사, 탐지할 수 있는 $\ulcorner$원자로 자동 탐상 시스템$\lrcorner$을 개발하여, 울진 원전 6호기용 원자로 용기에서 실증 실험을 수행하였다. 이 원자로 자동 탐상 시스템은 물방개처럼 생긴 수중 탐상 로봇이 그 핵심으로서 이 로봇은 원자로 용기의 내벽을 타고 다니면서 수중 초음파 검사를 수행할 수 있는 획기적인 시스템이다. 본고에서는 개발된 원자로 자동 탐상 시스템을 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.158-162
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• 2004

Reliability of welded structures in power plant facilities is very important, and their reliability evaluation requires exact materials properties. But, the conventional PQR (Procedure Qualification Record) can hardly reflect the real material properties in the field because the test is only done on specimens with simulated welding. Therefore, a continuous indentation technique is proposed in this study for simple and non-destructive testing of in-field structures. This test measures the indentation load-depth curve during indentation and analyzes the mechanical properties such as the yield strength, tensile strength and work hardening index. This technique has been applied to evaluate the tensile properties of the weldment in the main steam pipe and hot reheater pipe in power plants under construction and in operation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.22-31
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• 1981

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.719-719
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• 2022