• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.1257-1264
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• 2011

Guided ultrasonic waves propagating over long distances within a short period provide a fast long-range inspection method. However, structures with arbitrary cross-sections, such as rails, have complicated dispersion characteristics that make analysis of the ultrasonic signal difficult. Therefore, an understanding of the characteristics of the propagating waves in rails is important for the creation of a reliable and practical inspection system using guided waves. In particular, it is necessary to investigate the dispersion characteristics of the guided waves. This paper introduces a method for the calculation of the dispersion curves of KS60 rails by adopting a SAFE method, and discusses the possibility of using guided waves as a technique for rail inspection.

• Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.19-30
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• 1990

This note describes an application of Hamiton's principle to nonlinear free-surface flow problems. Two functionals are constructed based on classical Hamilton's principle with a modification due to the presence of a free surface. As an effort towards the development of an efficient numerical scheme for our problem, we present the following three test results: i) The bounding principles of the eigenvalues for the linear dispersion relation. ii) By assuming steady solitary waves, an approximate relation between the amplitudes and the speeds of solitary waves are derived from the two functionals constructed. Their numerical results are compared with those of Longuet-Higgins & Fenton(1974). iii) The shapes and charicteristics of solitary waves are computed from two sets of functionals by varying the number of total finite elements in the fluid domain.