• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권8호
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• pp.1189-1196
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• 2001

The objective of this paper is to investigate the applicability of acoustic emission(AE) technique to monitor the progress of the thermal shock damage on alumina ceramic. For this purpose, alumina ceramic specimen was heated in the furnace and then was quenched in the water tank. When the specimen was quenched in the water tank, complex AE signals due to the initiation of micro-cracks and boiling effect were generated by the progress of thermal shock damage. These mixed AE signals have to be classified for monitoring the degree of the thermal shock damage of alumina ceramics. In this paper, the mixed AE signals generated from both the boiling effect and the crack initiation under thermal shock test was analyzed. The characteristics of AE signals were also discussed by considering the variation of bending strength and Yongs modulus of specimens.

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2003년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.117-120
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• 2003

Electro-micromechanical techniques were applied using four-probe method for carbon nanotube (CNT) or nanofiber (CNF)/epoxy composites with their content. Carbon black (CB) was used to compare with CNT and CNF. The fracture of carbon fiber was detected by nondestructive acoustic emission (AE) relating to electrical resistivity for double-matrix composites test. Sensing for fiber tension was performed by electro-pullout test under uniform cyclic strain. The sensitivity for fiber damage such as fiber fracture and fiber tension was the highest for CNT/epoxy composites, and in CB case they were the lowest compared with CNT and CNF. Reinforcing effect of CNT obtained from apparent modulus measurement was the highest in the same content. The results obtained from sensing fiber damage were correlated with the morphological observation of nano-scale structure using FE-SEM. The information on fiber damage and matrix deformation and reinforcing effect of carbon nanocomposites could be obtained from electrical resistivity measurement as a new concept of nondestructive evaluation.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.541-549
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• 2007

This work describes an investigation into the feasibility of using an acoustic emission (AE) technique to evaluate the integrity of a composite actuator with a PZT ceramic under electromechanical cyclic loading. AE characteristics have been analyzed in terms of the behavior of the AE count rate and signal waveform in association with the performance degradation of the composite actuator during the cyclic tests. The results showed that the fatigue cracking of the composite actuator with a PZT ceramic occurred only in the PZT ceramic layer, and that the performance degradation caused by the fatigue damage varied immensely depending on the existence of a protecting composite bottom layer. We confirmed the correlations between the fatigue damage mechanisms and AE signal types for the actuators that exhibited multiple modes of fatigue damage; transgranular micro damage, intergranular fatigue cracking, and breakdown by a short circuiting were related to a burst type signal showing a shortly rising and slowly decaying waveform with a comparably low voltage, a continuous type signal showing a gradual rising and slowly decaying waveform with a very high voltage and a burst and continuous type signal with a high voltage, respectively. Results from the present work showed that the evolution of fatigue damage in the composite actuator with a PZT ceramic can be nondestructively identified via in situ AE monitoring and microscopic observations.

• KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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• 제5B권1호
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• pp.78-83
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• 2005

Currently in Japan, the use of the small wind turbine is an upward trend. There are already many well established small wind turbine generators in use and their various failures have been reported. The most commonly sighted failure is blade damage. Thus the research purpose was set to develop a simple failure diagnostic system, where an Acoustic Emission (AE) signal was produced from the failure part of a blade which was measured by AE sensor. The failure diagnostic technique was thoroughly examined. Concurrently, the damage part of the blade was imitated, the AE signal was measured, and a FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) analysis was carried out, and was compared with the output characteristic. When one sheet of a blade was damaged 40mm or more, the level was computed at which failure could be diagnosed.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.21-27
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• 1991

Acoustic Emission was monitored during tensile test and loading-holding-unloa-ding cycle test for two types (notched and unnotched) of CFRP specimens. AE activities showed that the fiber breakage during tensile tests depended upon the specimen geometry. We obtained new AE parameter such as the ration (damage ratio= AE events during unloading test / AE events during loading test) and the felicity ratio from which we investigated dynamic fracture process of CFRP specimens. The damage ratio of AE events was shown to be a good indicator to distinguish the generated fracture mechanism, such as fiber breakage and delamination. Also, ultrasonic testing results after loading-holding-unloading cycle test were good agreement with AE test results to detect defects or fiber breakage.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.457-464
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• 2009

섬유는 가교작용에 의한 시멘트 복합체의 파괴를 조절할 수 있는 섬유보강 시멘트 복합체의 중요한 재료로 섬유의 혼입률에 따라 다른 파괴메커니즘을 나타내기도 한다. 일반적인 연구에서 섬유를 보강한 시멘트 매트릭스의 마 이크로 메커니즘에 대한 이해를 통하여 섬유보강 시멘트 복합체의 파괴거동을 평가할 필요가 있다. 이 연구에서는 섬 유보강 시멘트 복합체의 파괴거동을 평가하기 위하여, 반복압축, 휨하중 하에서 음향방출 기법에 의한 섬유보강 시멘트 복합체의 손상을 평가하고 분석하였다. 실험체는 PVA 섬유를 0, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0%를 치환한 총 4개의 실험체를 계획하였 다. 기존 연구의 경우 기본적인 AE 신호에 의한 분석 방법을 제시하고 있으나 이 연구에서는 이전 연구자들에 의해 제 시되었던 음향방출 기법을 이용한 정량적 손상평가를 섬유보강 시멘트 복합체에 적용하여 분석하였다. 펠리시티비에 의 한 손상평가의 경우 기존 연구 결과와 같이 모든 실험체에서 카이저 효과와 함께, 펠리시티비가 0.4~1.1로 나타나 펠리 시티비에 의한 섬유보강 시멘트 복합체의 손상 정도를 평가 할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 또한 휨 실험체의 경우 손상 을 평가하기 위하여 calm ratio, b-value 및 felicity ratio를 사용하였다. 이 연구의 목적은 섬유보강 시멘트 복합체의 손 상을 평가하는데 있어 음향방출 기법을 활용한 정량적 손상평가 방법의 적용 가능성을 평가하고 차후 연구를 위한 기 본 데이터를 확보하고자 한다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.365-373
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• 2022

In order to investigate the damage evolution law of rock specimens under cyclic loading, cyclic loading tests under constant loads with different amplitudes were carried out on limestone specimens with high strength and brittleness values using acoustic emission (AE) technology and the energy evolution and AE characteristics were evaluated. Based on dissipated energy density and AE counts, the damage variable of specimen was characterized and two damage evolution processes were analyzed and compared. The obtained results showed that the change of AE counts was closely related to radial deformation. Higher cyclic loading values result in more significant radial strain of limestone specimen and larger accumulative AE counts of cyclic loading segment, which indicated Felicity effect. Regarding dissipated energy density, the damage of limestone specimen was defined without considering the influence of radial deformation, which made the damage value of cyclic loading segment higher at lower amplitude loads. The damage of cyclic loading segment was increased with the magnitude of load. When dissipated energy density was applied to define damage, the damage value at unloading segment was smaller than that of AE counts. Under higher cyclic loading values, rocks show obvious damage during both loading and unloading processes. Therefore, during deep rock excavation, the damages caused by the deformation recovery of unloading rocks could not be ignored when considering the damage caused by abutment pressure.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.421-433
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• 2018

Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) cable has good mechanical properties and corrosion resistance. However, the anchorage of CFRP cable is a big issue due to the anisotropic property of CFRP material. In this article, a high-efficient bonding anchorage with novel configuration is developed for CFRP cables. The acoustic emission (AE) technique is employed to evaluate the performance of anchorage in the fatigue test and post-fatigue ultimate bearing capacity test. The obtained AE signals are analyzed by using a combination of unsupervised K-means clustering and supervised K-nearest neighbor classification (K-NN) for quantifying the performance of the anchorage and damage evolutions. An AE feature vector (including both frequency and energy characteristics of AE signal) for clustering analysis is proposed and the under-sampling approaches are employed to regress the influence of the imbalanced classes distribution in AE dataset for improving clustering quality. The results indicate that four classes exist in AE dataset, which correspond to the shear deformation of potting compound, matrix cracking, fiber-matrix debonding and fiber fracture in CFRP bars. The AE intensity released by the deformation of potting compound is very slight during the whole loading process and no obvious premature damage observed in CFRP bars aroused by anchorage effect at relative low stress level, indicating the anchorage configuration in this study is reliable.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.391-398
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• 2016

음향방출기법은 구조물에 존재하는 손상 및 손상 메커니즘을 규명하는 가장 유효한 비파괴검사 수단으로 널리 이용되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 손상위치표정 기법은 탄성파 전파 속도에 크게 의존하는 기법의 한계에 의하여 복합재료 또는 이종의 재료로 구성된 구조물에서의 손상을 탐지하기 어려운 한계점을 가지고 있다. 최근 다양한 분야에서 사용되고 있는 압축천연가스(CNG) 저장용기는 무게와 강성의 효율을 위하여 복합재료를 사용하여 외부를 보강하는 새로운 형태의 구조를 사용하고 있다. 이러한 다층 복합소재의 사용으로 기존의 손상탐지기법으로는 저장용기의 외부에서 가해지는 충격 혹은 결함에 의한 저장탱크에 발생한 손상의 측정이 매우 어렵게 되었다. 이러한 한계를 극복하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 선행연구를 통하여 개발된 에너지 기반 contour D/B map 기법을 이용하여 4 가지 형식의 CNG 저장탱크에 발생한 외부 충격 신호의 손상 위치를 측정하였다. 각각의 형식의 저장탱크에서 측정된 손상 위치 결과를 비교 분석하여 새로운 기법의 측정 성능을 알아보았다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 광대역(100 kHz - 1 MHz) 탐촉자를 사용하여 자동차용 CNG연료탱크의 파열시험시 발생하는 음향방출신호의 분석을 통해 압력용기의 손상정도를 평가하였다. 압력이 420 bar까지 올라가기 전의 각 단계에서는 Kaiser 효과가 나타나고 creep 효과가 거의 나타나지 않으나, 420 bar 이상 상승시 creep 효과가 현저히 나타남으로써 용기가 손상을 입었다는 것을 알 수 있었으며, 480 bar 압력 상승 단계에서는 Kaiser 효과가 없어졌다. 540 bar의 압력 단계에서 공진형 탐촉자의 경우에서는 480 bar의 압력단계에 비하여 energy나 count 같은 activity가 감소하였으나 광대역 탐촉자의 경우 계속적으로 증가하였다. 또한 rise time이나 주파수 분석을 통해서 복합재료 압력용기의 손상 메카니즘을 관찰하기 위해서는 일반적으로 금속압력용기에서 많이 사용되는 공진형 탐촉자(150 kHz)보다 광대역 탐촉자가 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.