• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.29-39
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• 1993

초음파탐상검사는 그 검사결과가 여타 비파괴검사법에 비해 검사자, 검사장비, 절차서 등 검사 시스템에의 의존도가 높으며, 이중에서도 특히 검사자의 능력과 숙련도에 크게 좌우된다. 따라서 검사결과의 신뢰도를 높이기 위해서는 무엇보다도 검사자에 대해 엄격한 자격인정(Qualification)이 필요하다. 초음파탐상검사는 원자력 발전소 기기의 가동전중검사시 가장 많이 적용하는 체적검사법으로써, 결함검출 및 평가의 신뢰도를 확보하기 위하여 최근 관련 기술기준에서는 검사자에 대해 보다 엄격한 자격인정을 요구함과 아울러 초음파탐상검사 시스템(검사자, 장비, 절차서)에 대한 기량검증(Performance Demonstration)까지를 요구하고 있다. 위의 두 가지 요건을 성공적으로 충족시킬 수 있다면, 초음파탐상기술의 신뢰도는 크게 향상될 것이다. 본고에서는 최근 보다 강화된 원전 가동전중검사 초음파탐상검사 요원의 자격인정요건에 대해 자세히 알아봄으로써 관련 국내 기술기준의 제정과 앞으로 국내 원전 초음파탐상 검사요원에 대한 본 자격인정요건의 적용에 대비코자 하였다. 한편, "초음파탐상검사 시스템에 대한 기량검증 요건"은 초음파탐상 검사요원의 자격인정 요건과 밀접한 관계가 있으므로 다음에 별도로 기술코자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.331-338
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• 2008

Ultrasonic testing for welds is widely used to ensure the integrity of facilities in NPPs. Automated ultrasonic testing(AUT) is more consistent than the manual ultrasonic testing(MUT). It can scan welded parts, examines the scanned images, and saves the results as data files. AUT in NPPs is making use of commercial systems, and there has been some difficulties in calibration of the system. An AUT system is developed. It comprises of pulser/receiver, scanner and a control program(SonicWizard). The performance demonstration for piping welds in NPPs and the piping wall thickness measurement on site were conducted to verify this system. The test results of the ultrasonic testing system developed is satisfactory and effective.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.48-60
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• 1993

1974년에 유럽에서 시작된 PISC(Program for the Inspection of Steel Components ; PISC-I, II, III) 수행결과나 1980년대초 실시된 미국의 BWR 원전 배관계통의 입계응력부식균열(IGSCC ; Intergranular Stress Corrosion Cracks)검사결과에서 나타난 바와 같이 기존의 규격 요건과 절차에 따른 원자력발전소 기기에 대한 초음파탐상검사는 그 실효성에 많은 문제점이 제기되었다. 따라서, 원전기기의 건전성 및 초음파탐상검사 결과의 신뢰도를 보증하기 위한 각종 연구가 진행되고 여러 방안이 모색되어 왔다. 그 결과, 원전 가동중검사 규격에 "초음파탐상검사자 자격인정 요건"과 "초음파탐상검사 시스템(검사자, 장비 및 절차서)에 대한 기량검증 요건"이 새로이 부가되었다. 본고에서는 초음파탐상검사 결과의 신뢰도 확보에 있어 필수불가결한 요건인 원전기기 초음파 탐상검사 시스템에 대한 기량검증 요건을 자세히 기술한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.213-219
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• 2017

The purpose of study is provide the basic data for set up proper illuminance of examination room that put purpose of an empirical study basic data about examination environment setting of the ultrasonic examination on design the examination environment of a new ultrasonic examination. As a method, to investigate the ultrasonic environment related to illumination to take a survey on the ultrasonic examination about test object to 48 parts of six units of general hospital in Busan. As a result, All Door + Curtain showed high scores in analyzing the gender, age, examination part in the case of ultrasonic examination room shielding and LED and light source control is required in the case of kind of light source. In the ultrasonic examination environment survey, the illuminance brightness is average 10 Lux which is included illuminance brightness range recommended the WHO and CEC and illuminance brightness of ultrasonic examination waiting room(ultrasonic examination waiting room, corridor) indicate average 300~800 Lux and it satisfied hospital illumination environment more than 300 Lux recommended by KSA 3011. In conclusion, Basic data suggested that improved future ultrasonic examination environment or designed new examination room on the basis of analysis result of general background and ultrasonic examination related to environment factor.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.317-323
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• 2010

The manual ultrasonic examination for the nuclear power plant piping welds has been demonstrated by using KPD(Korean Performance Demonstration) generic procedure. For automated ultrasonic examination, there is no generic procedure and it should be qualified by using applicable automated equipment. Until now, most of qualified procedures used pulse-echo technique and there is no qualified procedure using phased array technique. In this study, data acquisition and analysis software were developed and phased-array transducer and wedge were designed to implement phased array technique for nuclear power plant in-service inspection. The developed procedure are qualified for performance demonstration for the flaw detection, length sizing and depth sizing. The qualified procedure will be applied for the field examination in the nuclear power plant piping weld inspection.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.306-311
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• 1994

경수로형 원전의 NSSS 및 2 차계통의 주요부품에 대한 가동전. 중 검사로 수행되는 초음파 검사에 관한 내용을 수록하였다. 경수로형 원전에 적용하고 있는 초음파 검사 기술요건으로 ASME Sec. V및 XI 의 과거 10여년간의 변경과정과 검사기술, 강화된 검사 결과 기록 기준, 검사대상 및 범위에 관하여 언급하였다. 초음파검사의 신뢰성 제고를 위한 신기술의 실제 검사 적용을 유도하는 규격화의 조짐이 89년 ASME Sec. V 및 XI 규격에서 나타나고 있으며, 검사 결과의 평가 해석을 정확히 할 수 있도록 컴퓨터 화한 신호 처리 개념이 수록되어 그 요건을 살펴보았다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.201-206
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• 2012

Effect of prenatal ultrasound diagnosis have serious damage for the possibility has been reported very low. Long time ultrasound scan can rise the temperature in body tissues and affect the physical. Changes in body temperature have been studied with ultrasound scan time. Fetal ultrasonography were evaluated without the influence of time. The findings, ultrasound scan time in 40 minutes the temperature was reduced. 50 minute tissue temperature rose more than $1^{\circ}C$. If within 40 minutes of ultrasound to be safe guess

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.183-189
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• 2012

Ultrasonography is one of the fields on the imaging studies within intra-abdominal organs. A blood test is a typical method of clinical chemical examination on the in vivo test of clinical symptoms. Fatty liver is performed simultaneously two kinds of diagnostics methods, intra-abdominal ultrasound and blood tests. At an implementing this, the standard of blood tests value was the TBIL, TC, AST, ALT, ALP, GGT, TG, HDL-C, GLU. In this study analyzing the accuracy of the two kinds of test, ultrasonography and blood test, on patients with fatty liver. From January to March 2012, patients 459 determined fatty liver within 1350, who received health examination simultaneously on the intra-abdominal ultrasonography and blood tests. Same result of ultrasonography and blood test's patients were 459 ie, 60.8%. and different result of those examinations was 280 ie, 39.2%. Consequently diagnostic accuracy was 60.8%. It presumably caused by differences in the diagnostic performance of ultrasound professionals(Radiologist or Radiological Technologist). In order to overcome this, ongoing educational and study will be needed.

• The Journal of Korean Orthopaedic Ultrasound Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.28-37
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• 2013

Ultrasound is a first line examination of the knee and useful diagnostic tool in assessing the various knee lesions. The advantages of ultrasound are that it is non-invasive, easily available at bed side, cheap, well accepted by patients, and that it has technical benefits including dynamic evaluation. Its limitations include reliability, which is largely operator dependent and its inability to evaluate deep structures. Technical guidelines of the ultrasound released by European Society of MusculoSkeletal Radiology (ESSR) and ultrasonographic findings of various knee lesions are described.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.151-157
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• 2004

Ultrasonic testing is a kind of nondestructive test to detect a crack or discontinuity in materials or on material surfaces by sending ultrasound to it. This conventional ultrasonic technique has some limitations in reliably detecting crack or accurately assessing materials in the case of complex-shaped power plant components such as a turbine blade root. An alternative method for such a difficult inspection is highly needed. In this study, application of a phased array ultrasonic testing (UT) system to a turbine blade, one of the critical power plant components, has been considered, and the particular incident angle has been determined so that the greatest track detectability and the most accurate crack length evaluation nay be achieved. The response of ultrasonic phased array was also analyzed to establish a special method to determine the track )ength without moving the transducer. The result showed that the developed method for crack length assessment is a more accurate and effective method, compared with the conventional method.