• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.44 no.12
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• pp.1017-1026
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• 2016

The present paper describes the two off-surface visualization techniques and their application examples to vortex flows. One of the two visualization techniques is the classical smoke-wire technique, and the other is the visualization technique using the micro water-droplets generated by the home-style ultrasonic humidifier. The smoke-wire technique has the limit of air flow speed (about 5 m/sec for 0.07 mm-diameter wire) and the pollution problem, but it produces very fine and clear streak line sheet. It is applied to visualize the wing-tip vortices of a 3-dimensional wing. The micro water-droplet technique has the larger limit of air flow speed (above 10 m/sec) and is free from pollution and toxic problems compared to the smoke-wire technique. It is successfully applied to visualize the complex vortex system of a double-delta wing with an apex strake.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2013.01a
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• pp.303-304
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 충수염을 추출하고 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 충수염을 추출하는 과정은 복부 초음파 영상에서 End_in_search Stretching 기법, 블록 이진화, Grassfire, 팽창 연산을 이용하여 복부 근육의 최하단 근막 부분을 추출하여 제거한 후, 평균 이진화 기법을 적용하고 영상의 객체화 및 객체 제거를 통해 충수염을 추출한다. 제안된 방법을 복부 초음파 영상에 적용시킨 결과, 객관적이고 효율적으로 충수염이 추출됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.07b
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• pp.619-622
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 진화 전략 알고리즘(Evolution Strategy Algorithm)를 이용한 L1B4 선형 초음파 모터(L1B4-USM)의 최적 설계 기법을 제시하고자 한다. 유한요소법(Finite Element Method)을 정식화 하였고, 2차원 유한요소법을 L1B4-USM의 임피던스와 모드의 해석을 통해 검증 하였다. 검증된 2차원 유한 요소 해석을 통한 선형 초음파 모터의 임피던스 해석, mode 해석 및 최적 모드의 탐색 프로그램, 자동 요소분할 프로그램 그리고 진화 전략 알고리즘을 수행하였다. 이를 통해 선형 초음파 모터의 L1모드, B4 모드 각각이 발생하는 공진주파수를 일치시키며, 최대 속도를 얻기 위한 최적 설계기법을 완성 하였고, 최적화된 형상의 L1B4-USM를 설계하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2014.05a
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• pp.73-75
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 원본 초음파 영상에서 스케일을 측정한 후, 영상의 확대 비율을 분석하여 충수염 객체의 크기에 대한 범위를 설정한다. 제안된 방법은 초음파 영상에서 ROI 영역을 추출한 후, 사다리꼴 타입의 소속 함수를 이용한 Fuzzy 이진화와 8방향 윤곽선 추적 기법을 적용하여 잡음을 제거한 후에 근막을 추출한다. 추출된 복부 근육의 근막 하단 경계선을 Cubic Spline 보간법을 이용하여 근막의 하단 영역을 추출한다. 초음파 영상의 근막을 기준으로 근막 영역을 제거한 후, SOM(Self-Organizing Map) 알고리즘을 이용하여 충수염의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 충수염의 후보 영역에 8방향 윤곽선 추적기법을 적용하여 충수염을 추출한다. 제안된 방법을 초음파 영상에 적용하여 실험한 결과, 기존의 충수염 추출 방법보다 충수염 영역이 비교적 정확히 추출되고 충수염의 크기를 측정할 수 있는 것을 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.386-392
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• 2002

Ultrasonic has been proposed as an attractive means of detecting bone loss. There have been several commercial ultrasound devices developed for measuring the heel to predict fracture at other bones. However, these devices select only single point of heel bone as measurement site. It causes poor assessment of bone quality due to the error of transducer positioning. In an effort to improve current ultrasound systems, we evaluated the linear scanning method which provides better prediction of bone quality and an accurate image of bone shape. The system used in this study biaxially scans a heel bone using automated linear scanning technique. The results demonstrated that the values of ultrasound parameters varied with different positions within bone specimen. It has been also found that the linear scanning method could better pre야ct bone quality, eliminating the error of transducer positioning.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.367-373
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• 2011

Guided waves inspection techniques that are different with inspection technique by bulk waves are widely used in pipe line evaluation due to advantages of long distance inspection. However, most of pipe lines at industrial fields are buried and/or coated. In this case, due to the attenuation effect from soil and/or coating material, there are a lot of difficulty on inspection by conventional ultrasonic technique. In this paper, guided waves propagating patterns are calculated with respect to excitation mode by Normal Mode Expansion(NME). Guided waves patterns based on excited by single transducer and guided wave focusing technique have employed to analyze focusing pattern on a pipe. A longitudinal mode and high order flexural modes are used with various number of transducers to determine sensitivity. Guided waves energy excited by multi transducer with focusing algorithm was successfully focused at a desired point.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.651-658
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• 2012

This paper concentrates on the evaluation of microcracks in thermal damaged concrete on the basis of the nonlinear ultrasonic modulation technique. Since concrete structure exposed to high temperature accompanies the development of microcracks due to the physical and chemical changes from temperature and exposed time, the adoption of nonlinear approach is required. Instead of using the conventional ultrasonic nondestructive methods which have the limitation in evaluating excessive microcracks, accordingly, a nonlinear ultrasonic modulation method which shows better sensitivity in quantifying microcracks is introduced. Upon the analysis for the modulation of ultrasonic wave and low frequency impact to measure the nonlinearity parameter, which can be used as an indicator of thermal damage, the verification processes for the introduced technique are followed: SEM investigation and permeable pore space test are performed to characterize thermally induced microcracks in concrete, and ultrasonic pulse velocity tests are performed to confirm the outstanding sensitivity of nonlinear ultrasonic modulation technique. In advance, compressive strength of thermal damaged concrete is measured to represent the effect of microcracks on performance degradation. Correlation studies between experimental data and measured data show that nonlinear ultrasonic modulation technique can effectively be used to quantify thermally induced microcracks, and to estimate the compressive strength of thermally damaged concrete.

• Composites Research
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.246-250
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• 2018

In this paper, laser ultrasonic rotation scanning method was proposed to inspect and visualize defects in corner section of curved composite structure. L-shaped composite specimen with defects in its corner section were inspected using laser ultrasonic rotation scanning method. L-shaped specimens had artificial defects at three different depths to simulate delamination damage. All artificial defects were detected clearly in different time-of-flight according to their depths. Inspection result showed that the proposed method is suitable to inspect round corner section of curved composite structure without any special tools.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.91-101
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• 2000

Modeling of radiation beam from ultrasonic transducers has been investigated extensively, since it is one of the most important, fundamental issues that have great influence on the accuracy of an ultrasonic measurement model. Here, three popular radiation models, namely the Rayleigh-Sommerfeld integral model, the boundary diffraction wave model and the edge element model, are discussed briefly, and the radiation beam fields from ultrasonic transducers with planar, circular and rectangular cross-sections are calculated using these three models. Then, the accuracy and the time-efficiency of these methods are compared based on the calculation results.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.27-31
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a new quantization method using fuzzy C-means clustering(FCM) for lumbar ultrasound image recognition. Unlike usual histogram based quantization, our method first classifies regions into 10 clusters and sorts them by the central value of each cluster. Those clusters are represented with different colors. This method is efficient to handle lumbar ultrasound image since in this part of human body, the brightness values are distributed to doubly skewed histogram in general thus the usual histogram based quantization is not strong to extract different areas. Experiment conducted with 15 real lumbar images verified the efficacy of proposed method.