• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1996.05d
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• pp.170-175
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• 1996

대형 튜브구조물의 길이방향으로 전파되는 유도형초음파(Ultrasonic Guided Wave)를 이용한 원자력발존소내의 열교환기류에 대한 새로운 건전성 평가법을 제시한다. 이를 위해, 유도형초음파의 물리적 특성을 이론적으로 해석하였고 실험을 통해 열고환기류에 대한 유도형초음파법의 타당성 여부를 검토하였다. 국부적인 평가(Local Inspection)에 근거한 기존의 평가법에 비해 유도형초음파법은 단시간 내에 보다 효율적으로 전체 열교환기에 대한 신뢰성 검사(Global Inspection)가 가능하며 만족할 만한 민감도(Sensitivity)를 갖고 있음을 보였다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.215-222
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• 2017

In order to evaluate a stress state of concrete according to the change of tensile force of prestressed beam, improved nonlinear resonant ultrasonic spectroscopy(NRUS) method is proposed. This technique is advantageous to evaluate the stress state in initial state because the method shows much higher sensitivity than existing linear ultrasonic methods. The NRUS technique measure a nonlinearity parameter, which is calculated from the resonant frequency shift of ultrasonic wave related to the medium state, and the result is also closely related to the stress state of concrete. In this study, the nonlinearity parameter was measured with the change of tensile force to verify the close relationship between the two factors, and the effect of repetitive load cycle on the change of nonlinearity parameter was analyzed. In addition, sensitivity comparison with the linear ultrasonic pulse velocity method was performed. Through the experimental results, the possibility of NRUS technique for the evaluation of stress state in prestressed beam was confirmed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.303-306
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• 2011

An experimental study has been conducted to investigate the effects of an ultrasonic standing-wave field to the behavior of methane/air premixed flame. Visualization technique utilizing the schlieren method was employed for the observation of premixed flame behavior. The shape of flame front and local flame velocity were measured according to the variation of reactants pressure and chamber opening/closing condition. The flame front was distorted and severely deformed to a lotus-type flame by the interaction of ultrasonic standing-wave and the reflection wave coming from an end wall of reactor.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.65-71
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• 1984

The design formular of optical focusing systems cannot be applied to ultrasonic B scanners, which use broadband pulses instead of continuous wave. In this paper, a calculation method is studied for analyzing the propagation of ultrasonic broadband pulse excited by ultrasonic array transducers. Using the results, seveial design parameters such as the number of transducer elements, delay time, and the focal point are determined to obtain high resolution in the ultrasonic dynamic focusing system. A dynamic focusing system with low-noise switching characteristics; which attains lateral resolution of 2-3mm all along the axial direction up to 18 cm with a 3.5 MHz linear array transducer, was implemented.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.491-494
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• 1998

해양음향 토모그래피는 해수중을 전파하는 음파의 전파시간을 측정하여 이것으로부터 수온 및 유속의 분포를 구하는 새로운 관측기법이다. 해양음향 토모그래피에 의한 실시간 유속측정 시스템을 구축하기 위한 기초실험으로서 해양음향 토모그래피의 유속측정 유효성을 검증하기 위하여 쌍방향 음파전파의 해양음향 토모그래피 실험을 1997년 4월중에 거제도 남쪽해역에서 실시하였다. 실험시의 해양물리 환경을 고찰하고 토모그래피에 의한 유속측정 결과를 초음파 유속계(ADCP)에 의한 유속측정 결과와 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과 토모그래피에 의한 유속측정은 매우 양호하게 나타나, 향후 유속측정법으로 활용성이 크리라 기대되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.231-231
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• 2012

엔진의 상태진단을 위하여 사용되는 진동 및 초음파 신호는 진동 가속도계와 초음파변환기를 대상 엔진의 취약 부위에 부착하여 측정한다. 이들 센서는 연소와 관련된 고주파진동을 측정하는 능력이 있어서 사용되고 있다. 진동가속도계와 초음파변환기의 선정 및 설치는 진동해석에서 가장 중요한 결정 요소이다. 가속도계의 설치도 주파수응답에 영향을 준다. 초음파변환기는 전자기계적 변환기로서, 진동면에서 발생하여 공기 중으로 전파되는 음파를 감지한다. 초음파변환기는 사용할 수 있는 주파수대역이 아주 협소한 대신 가속도계보다 명확한 신호를 산출한다. 초음파변환기는 사용할 수 있는 아주 협소한 주파수역을 갖는 비용으로 가속도계보다 명확한 신호를 얻을 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 원전 비상디젤발전기 엔진 상태진단을 위한 초음파 및 진동센서의 설치방법에 따른 가속도계 및 초음파 센서의 응답 특성을 분석하고 주파수응답에 대한 영향에 따라 여러 가지 설치방법의 검토를 통하여 최적방법론을 도출한 결과를 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.591-597
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• 2001

Ti alloy is used for essential parts of aircraft for high temperature environment. Although Ti alloy has excellent performance in regard to mechanical properties, it is difficult ot find fatigue cracks by nondestructive ultrasonic inspection due to its two-phase microstructure, which consists of hard alpha and beta phases. Sound energy reflected from microstructural features in the component produces a background inspection noise which is seen even when no defects are present. This noise can inhibit the detection of critical internal defects such as pores cracks or inclusions. To obtain fundamental data on ultrasonic inspection of Ti alloy, ultrasonic testing was performed using a specimen with small drill holes and ultrasonic wave propagation velocites were measured.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.225-235
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• 2020

Ultrasonic investigation of damage detection has been widely used for non-destructive testing of various concrete structures. This study focuses on damage detection analysis with the aid of wave propagation in two-phase composite concrete with aggregate (inclusion) and mortar (matrix). To fabricate a realistic simulation model containing a variety of irregular aggregate shapes, the mesh generation technique using an image processing technique was proposed. Initially, the domains and boundaries of the aggregates were extracted from the digital image of a typical concrete cut-section. This enables two different domains: aggregates and mortar in heterogeneous concrete sections, and applied the grids onto these domains to discretize the model. Subsequently, finite element meshes are generated in terms of spatial and temporal requirements of the model size. For improved analysis results, all meshes are designed to be quadrilateral type, and an additional process is conducted to improve the mesh quality. With this simulation model, wave propagation analyses were conducted with a central frequency of 75 kHz of the Mexican hat incident wave. Several void damages, such as needle-shaped cracks and void-shaped holes, were artificially introduced in the model. Finally, various formats of internal damage were detected by implementing energy mapping based signal processing.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.105-115
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• 2011

Although there are many possible mechanisms for the intrinsic seismic attenuation in composite materials that include fluids, relative motion between solids and fluids during seismic wave propagation is one of the most important attenuation mechanisms. In our previous study, we conducted ultrasonic wave transmission measurements on an ice-brine coexisting system to examine the influence on ultrasonic waves of the unfrozen brine in the pore microstructure of ice. In order to elucidate the physical mechanism responsible for ultrasonic wave attenuation in the frequency range of 350.600 kHz, measured at different temperatures in partially frozen brines, we employed a poroelastic model based on the Biot theory to describe the propagation of ultrasonic waves through partially frozen brines. By assuming that the solid phase is ice and the liquid phase is the unfrozen brine, fluid properties measured by a pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance technique were used to calculate porosities at different temperatures. The computed intrinsic attenuation at 500 kHz cannot completely predict the measured attenuation results from the experimental study in an ice-brine coexisting system, which suggests that other attenuation mechanisms such as the squirt-flow mechanism and wave scattering effect should be taken into account.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.294-299
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• 2012

An investigation into the influence of ultrasonic standing wave on the structural behavior of propane/air premixed flame has been made to get a clue to the combustion reaction acceleration and combustion instability, as well. Visualization technique utilizing the Schlieren method was employed for the observation of structural variation of the premixed flame. The flame shape and propagation velocity were measured according to the variation of equivalence ratio. It was found that the standing wave distorted the flame front and expedited a transition to the flame with turbulent nature.