• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.409-414
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• 2013

In this work, corrosion of 304 stainless steel was evaluated by using acoustic emission(AE) technique. AE measurement system was set for detecting acoustic signal during accelerated corrosion test of the specimen. AE signal started to be detected after the time of pitting corrosion initiation was evaluated by anodic polarization curve. Pitting corrosion damage was confirmed by optical microscopic observation of the surface morphology. AE cumulative counts and amplitude according to corrosion time could be divided into three stages. These trends were discussed in relation with changing pitting corrosion mechanism. Feasibilities of AE technique for evaluation of corrosion damage and mechanism were suggested.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.308-315
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• 2009

Because the attenuation of AE signal in composite materials is relatively higher than that of metallic materials, it is required to develop a damage assessment technique less affected by the attenuation property of composite materials in order to use AE sensing as a damage detection method. In the signal processing procedure, it is profitable to use the leading wave that arrives first because the leading wave is less influenced by the boundary conditions. Using wavelet transform, we investigated the frequency characteristics of impact induced AE signals focused on the leading wave in advance and chose the key factors to discriminate the damaged condition quantitatively. In this research, we established a damage assessment technique using the sharing percentage of the wavelet detail components of AE signal, and conducted a low-velocity impact test on composite laminates to confirm the feasibility of the proposed signal processing method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.116-124
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• 2003

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.485-492
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• 2009

The thermal fatigue crack(TFC) is one of the life-limiting mechanisms at the nuclear power plant operating conditions. In order to evaluate the structural integrity, various non-destructive test methods such as radiographic test, ultrasonic test and eddy current are used in the industrial field. However, these methods have restrictions that defect detection is possible after the crack growth. For this reason, acoustic emission testing(AET) is becoming one of powerful inspection methods, because AET has an advantage that possible to monitor the structure continuously. Generally, every mechanism that affects the integrity of the structure or equipment is a source of acoustic emission signal. Therefore the noise filtering is one of the major works to the almost AET researchers. In this study, acoustic emission signal was collected from the pipes which were in the successive thermal fatigue cycles. The data were filtered based on the results from previous experiments. Through the data analysis, the signal characteristics to distinguish the effective signal from the noises for the TFC were proven as the waveform difference. The experiment results provide preliminary information for the acoustic emission technique to the continuous monitoring of the structure failure detection.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.45-51
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• 2004

Boiler tubes in power plants are often leaked due to various material degradations including creep and thermal fatigue damage under severe operating conditions such as high temperature and high pressure over an extended period of time. To monitor and diagnose the tubes on site and in real time, the acoustic emission (AE) technology was applied. We developed an AE leak detection system, and used it to study the variation of AE signal from the on-site tubes in response to the changes in the boiler operation condition and to detect the locations of leakage based on it. Detection of leak was performed by acquiring and evaluating the signals in separate regimes of high and low frequency signal. As a result of these studies, we found that on-line monitoring and detection of leak location for boiler tubes is possible using the developed system. Thus, the system is expected to contribute to the safe operation of power plants, and prevent economic losses due to potential leak.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.488-496
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• 2003

To establish nondestructive test method for rocket motor assembly with rubber and aerospace composite materials, practicable quality control acoustic emission test method is presented. Structural analysis for motor assembly is performed by ABAQUS code and analysis output result is confirmed by strain gage and AE data. Various specimens were tested and analyzed using strain gage and acoustic emission data. The hit rate of acoustic emission was closely related with case/rubber debonding. This report also describes practicable acoustic emission nondestructive method for evaluating motor case assembly quality assurance in the industrial field.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.165-173
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• 2011

The acoustic emission(AE) technique is a well established method to carry out structural health monitoring(SHM) of large structures. However, the real-time monitoring of the crack growth in the roller coaster support structures is not easy since the vehicle operation produces very large noise as well as crack growth. In this investigation, we present the waveform parameter filtering method to classify acoustic sources in real-time. This method filtrates only the AE hits by the target acoustic source as passing hits in a specific parameter band. According to various acoustic sources, the waveform parameters were measured and analyzed to verify the present filtering method. Also, the AE system employing the waveform parameter filter was manufactured and applied to the roller coaster support structure in an actual amusement park.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.32-32
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• 1997

복합재 연소관의 구조적 건전성 평가 방법을 개발하기 위하여 표준 평가용 시편의 수압 시험 중, 연소관으로부터 방출되는 음향방출(acoustic emission: AE) 신호를 측정 장비를 이용하여 신호 처리함으로써 시편이 파괴되기 전, 대략적인 시편의 파열 위치 및 일정 압력 유지상태에서 hit rate 양상에 의한 건전성 평가 방법을 제시하였다. 데이터의 분석 기법 향상을 위하여 음향방출 데이터를 시간 및 센서별로 분류하는 프로그램을 개발하였다. 수압 시험을 낮은 압력 단계부터 높은 압력 단계까지 일정 압력 유지 상태(load-hold)에서 발생한 hit 수와 1분간 유지한 후 발생되는 hit rate(hit/sec)의 값의 크고 작음이 복합재 압력 용기의 결함수의 증감으로 나타났으며, 이로부터 복합재 압력 용기의 파열 압력과의 상관관계 및 건전성을 예측할 수 있었다. 복합재 압력 용기의 파열 위치는 energy rate(energy/sec) 측정값을 분석하여 예측하였으며, 파열 압력의 30∼50%에서 가능하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.360-367
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• 2009

The acoustic emission(AE) behavior of reinforced concrete slab under flexural loading was investigated to assess the integrity. This study was aimed at identifying the characteristics of AE response associated with damage development. By applying cyclic loading in various load steps, it was able to differentiate each AE source such as distributed micro crack initiation, friction, flexural crack and localized diagonal tension crack. The secondary peak and the change of AE hit rate gave valuable criteria fur assessment. From the analysis of the felicity ratio, furthermore, it was shown that this values can be used for evaluating the degree of concrete damage. Based on the experimental results, this approach for practical AE application may provide a promising method for estimating the level of damage and distress in concrete structures.

• Composites Research
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.316-324
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• 2024

This paper presents a study on estimating the number of bridging fibers in multidirectional glass/epoxy composite laminates using acoustic emission signals. DCB test was conducted for analyzing the fracture behavior of multidirectional composite laminates, and acoustic emission sensor was utilized to measure the elastic wave generated upon specimen fracture. For unidirectional composite laminates, the initial number of bridging fibers was estimated through reference paper and fiber volume fraction. To estimate the initial number of bridging fibers for multidirectional composite laminates, the relative ratio of acoustic emission signals was utilized. The estimated number of bridging fibers was applied to FEM, and the results of FEM showed good agreement with experimental results.