• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.1-11
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• 1997

During hydroproof test of composite pressure vessel, acoustic emission signal was measured and analyzed to evaluate structural integrity of composite motor case. When pressure was held for 1 min. at constant pressure from low pressure level to high pressure level, the pattern of hit rate of good composite pressure vessel is increased with higher value than that of bad composite pressure vessel. This report also presents detection possibility of burst location approximately in the range of 25∼36％ of burst pressure using energy rate. In case that it is difficult to detect burst location of composite motor case, it is possible to detect burst location, i.e. structurally weak location of composite pressure vessel with applying same pressure lower than maximum expected operating pressure(MEOP) repeatedly.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.199-202
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• 2004

해양에서 연구목적으로 저주파 음원으로 사용하고 있는 폭발성 음원(SUS: Signals, Underwater Sound)의 신호특성을 파악하기 위해 1999년 9월에 동해의 대륙사면에서 1마일에서 80 마일까지 약 1에서 5마일의 정해진 간격으로 SUS를 투하하여 발생된 음향신호를 거리 및 수신수심별로 수신하였다. 주파수 필터를 사용하여 분석한 결과, 1 kHz이상의 고주파수 성분이 폭발시에 먼저 방출되며 저주파수 신호는 뒤이어 발생됨을 확인하였다. 이것은 폭약이 폭발시에 일어나는 메카니즘과 관련이 있는 것으로 사료된다. 거리의 증가에 따라 잔향의 영향을 받아 뒤이어 수신되는 파속(wave packet)들을 확인할 수 있었으며, 신호에 많은 영향을 주고 있었으나 잔향 분석은 여기서는 제외하였다. 본 연구는 실해역에서의 SUS신호에 관한 많은 자료를 분석한 것으로서 그 신호특성에 관한 이번 고찰은 해양음파전달시 사용하는 SUS 음향신호 해석에 많은 도움을 줄 것으로 기대한다.

• Composites Research
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.39-46
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• 2010

Acoustic emission (AE) signals are detected during the polymerization shrinkage of composite resin restoration in artificial dental ring according to various interfacial treatment conditions. AE amplitudes and the number of AE hit events were compared through the non-parametric statistics of Mann-Whitney method and Kruskal-Wallis method. The AE amplitudes detected from the PMMA and human tooth ring specimens were not significantly different according to adhesive conditions. The stainless steel ring specimen, meanwhile, had a difference in AE amplitude (p<0.05). The quantity of hit events for the human molar dentin specimens of the good bonding state was much less than that for the steel ring specimen but more than that for the PMMA ring specimen. For the same substrate, the better the bonding state, the less the AE hit events (p<0.05). The degree of marginal disintegration measured by SEM was proportional to the amount of AE hit events detected.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.246-253
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• 2003

The initiation and growth of short fatigue cracks in the simulated aircraft structure with a series of rivet holes was detected by acoustic emission (AE). The location and the size of short tracks were determined by AE source location techniques and the measurement with traveling microscope. AE events increased intermittently with the initiation and growth of short cracks to form a stepwise increment curve of cumulative AE events. For the precise determination of AE source locations, a region-of-interest (ROI) was set around the rivet holes based on the plastic zone size in fracture mechanics. Since the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was very low at this early stage of fatigue cracks, the accuracy of source location was also enhanced by the wavelet transform do-noising. In practice, the majority of AE signals detected within the ROI appeared to be noise from various origins. The results showed that the effort of structural geometry and SNR should be closely taken into consideration for the accurate evaluation of fatigue damage in the structure.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.31-38
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• 2013

This research analyzed the acoustic emission signals collected from the pin loading tests and investigated the effect of hygrothermal exposure on the fracture behavior of the pin-jointed carbon fiber/epoxy composites. The composite specimens include: the Base specimen that has not been exposed to any environments, the RT specimen that has been immersed in room temperature water, and the HT specimen that has been immersed in high temperature water. According to the pin loading test, the RT and the HT specimens showed 2.2% and 13% decreases in the bearing strength compared to the Base specimen, respectively. The analysis of the acoustic emission signals showed different fracture acceleration points for three types of the specimens. Furthermore, for the RT and the HT specimens, the event from the matrix crack signals in the composites decreased. This shows the effect of the hygrothermal conditions on the acoustic emission signals. Additionally, upon investigating the fracture behaviors of the pin-jointed composites, the exposing specimens to hygrothermal environments decreases the interfacial characteristics of the composites.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.170-173
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• 2003

음향방출 신호를 이용하여 목재 섬유판(fiberboards)의 위치표정의 유용성 유무를 실험적으로 검증하였다 위치표정의 정확도를 향상하기 위해 신호처리 방법중의 하나인 웨이블릿 변환 디노이징 기법을 활용하여 저주파수인 대칭모드(굽힘파)를 활용하고, 고주파수인 비대칭모드(팽창파)를 제거하여 신호를 재구성함으로써 섬유관의 위치표정시 문턱값 통과방법을 사용할 때 발생하는 도달시간차를 최소화 할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 디노이징 기법을 활용한 섬유판의 위치 표정과 굽힘강도에 대한 사상총수를 기초로 하여 목재 구조물 및 문화재의 건전성을 평가 할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Composites Research
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.61-68
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• 2022

Composite materials have been used in aerospace industry and many applications because of many advantages such as specific strength and stiffness and corrosion resistance etc. However, it is vulnerable to impacts, these impact lead to formation of cracks in composite laminate and failure of structures. In this paper, we analyzed Mode I fracture toughness of Carbon/Epoxy laminates using acoustic emission signal. DCB test was carried out to analyze Mode I failure characterization of Carbon/Epoxy laminates, and AE sensor was attached to measure AE signal induced by failure of specimen. Fracture toughness was calculated using cumulative AE energy and measured crack length using camera. The calculated fracture toughness was applied in FE model and the result of FE analysis compared with DCB test results. The results show good agreement with between FEM and DCB test results.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.121-125
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• 2018

This paper presents the assessment of 7-wire strand monitoring using acoustic emission technique for bridges. 7-wire strand is widely used construction materials to provide additional tensile force to bridges. PSC (PreStressed Concrete) bridge and cable-stayed bridge are representatives for such cases. However, as the bridge aging progresses recently, corrosion problems of strand are emerging. For this reason, various NDT (Non-Destructive Test) methods for cable inspection are being studied and applied to the field. One of the NDT methods, acoustic emission technique, is known as an effective technique to detect cable damage and breakage. In this study, to evaluate the applicability of acoustic emission technique to bridges, acoustic emission signals according to damage of the strand were acquired and analyzed by tensile test. Moreover, The optimal AE sensor type was selected for field application. As a result, it is considered that the acoustic emission technique will be able to detect corrosion breakage and signs of rupture.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.905-908
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• 2007

The purpose of this work is to obtain fundamental data about fatigue crack detection of the welded exhaust flange by using the AE method. The acoustic emission method as a nondestructive evaluation is one of high technical test for realtime monitoring in the dangerous industry fields. Signal analysis of both AE sensor and accelerometer for fatigue crack failure are presented in this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.215-215
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• 2014

현재 가장 많이 사용되고 있는 스프링식 안전밸브는 스프링과 설정치 드리프트, 누설 취약성, 채터링에 의한 시트 파손등의 문제점을 지니고 있다. 안전밸브 디스크에서 발생하는 유체 누설은 안전밸브 설정압력 개방에 영향을 주며, 시트(Seat)면의 이물질 삽입, 균열 및 유체에 의한 침식(Erosion) 등에 의해 밸브 핵심 부품이 쉽게 손상되어 기기 성능 저하를 초래하게 된다. 따라서 유체 누설을 조기에 탐지하고 정량화하여 해당 기기의 상태정보 제공을 통한 누설 감지 기법 연구가 요구된다. 원자력 발전소의 경우 밸브에서 유체가 누설되면 밸브의 오작동 및 운전 안정성 저해 요인이 된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 음향방출법을 이용하여 안전밸브의 유체 누설을 평가하고, 안전밸브의 음향신호 측정 위치 선정 및 누설량에 따른 음향신호를 분석하고자 한다.