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A Diagnosis of Insulated State using Eddy Current Testing in Power Line (와전류 탐상시험을 이용한 전력선의 절연상태 진단)

  • Park, Geon-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2018.07a
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    • pp.177-178
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    • 2018
  • 본 논문에서는 와전류 탐상시험을 이용하여 전력선의 절연상태 진단을 수행하였다. 전력선은 6~18 가닥의 선으로 이루어져 있는데 절연상태 변화를 위해 수산화나트륨으로 전력선의 부식을 유도하였으며, 18~27 시간으로 부식시간을 설정하여 시편을 구분하였다. 전력선의 인장력시험, 뒤틀림시험, 전자주사현미경 등을 통하여 물리적 특성을 검토하였으며, 또한 200~800[mV]의 전압에서 부식에 따른 와전류 특성을 조사하였다.

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Eddy Current Sensor Development for Offshore Pipeline NDT Inspection (해양파이프라인 비파괴검사를 위한 와전류 센서 개발)

  • Lee, Seul-Gi;Song, Sung-Jin
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.199-206
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    • 2015
  • Regular high-strength carbon steel is currently the most commonly used pipe material for onshore and offshore pipelines. The corrosion of offshore pipelines is a major problem as they age. The collapse of these structures as a result of corrosion may have a heavy cost is lives and assets. Therefore, their monitoring and screening is a high priority for maintenance, which may ensure the integrity and safety of a structure. Monitoring risers and subsea pipelines effectively can be accomplished using eddy current inspection to detect the average remaining wall thickness of corroded low-alloy carbon steel pipelines through corrosion scaling, paint, coating, and concrete. A test specimen for simulating the offshore pipeline is prepared as a standard specimen for an analysis and experiment with differential bobbin eddy current sensors. Using encircling coils, the signals for the defect in the simulated specimen are analyzed and evaluated in experiments. Differential bobbin eddy current sensors can diagnose the defects in a specimen, and experiments have been carried out using the developed bobbin eddy current sensor. As a result, the most optimum coil parameters were selected for designing differential bobbin eddy current sensors.

Design of the Fittest Eddy Current Probe for the Fin Tubes (Fin 튜브의 와전류탐상을 위한 최적 탐촉자의 설계)

  • Kim, Y.J.;Lee, S.K.;Ahn, B.Y.;Chung, M.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.156-161
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    • 1997
  • The eddy current probe was designed for the test of fin tubes that have uneven outer and inner surfaces to enhance the efficiency of heat emission. Because of the surface roughness of the fin tube, it needs much care to detect flaws in the tube employing eddy current test(ECT). We made ECT probes with different coil lengths and performed eddy current test using these probes for artificially flawed specimens. By the fast Fourier transform and digital filtering, signals from these probes were processed to characterize frequency spectra. From the analysis of eddy current signals and their frequency spectra, we concluded that, for the effective testing of the tubes with the fins of 1mm pitch, 4mm coil length gave the highest S/N ratio.

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Present Condition and View of Eddy Current Testing Probe for Nuclear Power Plant Steam Generator Tube Examination (원전 증기발생기 세관 검사를 위한 와전류 탐상 프로브의 현황 및 전망)

  • Kim Ji-Ho;Lee Hyang-Beom
    • 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.241-245
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    • 2006
  • In the examination of Steam Generator (SG) tube in Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Eddy Current Testing (ECT) probes play an Important role in detecting the defects. Bobbin probe and Rotating Pancake Coil (RPC) probe is usually used for the inspection of SG tube. Bobbin probe is good at high speed inspection, but ability of detection of circumferential defect is very weak. On the contrary RPC probe, which moves for inspection in the direction of axial and circumferential simultaneously, has very slow inspection speed, but it was excellent detection capability fur small cracks, which is hardly detected by bobbin probe. Many examinations of SG tube examination of NPP are achieved during short period. Therefore, solution about this must develop probe of new form for examination performance and examination time shortening of other probe. In this paper, analyzed technological present condition of Bob-bin probe and RPC probe been using in Nondestructive Testing (NDT) for SG tube defect detection and Appeared about background theory and view of developed probe newly.

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A study on the Relationship between the Size of Defect and the Intensity of Eddy Current Signal in Heat Exchanging Tube made of STS 304. (Stainless강(鋼) 전열관(傳熱管)에 있어서 과전류(過電流) 신호강도(信號强度)와 결함(缺陷)크기와의 관계에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Han, E.K.;Eom, H.S.;Park, I.G.;Choi, M.S.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.7-16
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    • 1987
  • Eddy Current Examination is expected as the effective technique for nondestructive inspection of steam generator and various kinds of heat exchanging tubes made of STS - 304. In Case of E. C. T, a study on the various factors which have an effect on coil impedance is very important to the sensitivity of defect detection and the ratio of signal to noise. Therefore, this study analyzed coil impedance by means of the variational principle, the minimized theory of energy functional and the application of Finite Element Method. Really by using E. C. T, the relationship between the size of defects and the intensity of Eddy Current Signals can be obtained. Signal intensity becomes maximum at certain frequency. This frequency is affected by the characteristics and the position of signal sources.

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An Interaction Effect of Eddy Current Signals Due to the Neighboring Signal Sources (근접한 두 신호원에 의한 와전류 신호의 간섭 효과)

  • Cheong, Y.M.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 1991
  • The multi-frequency eddy current technique has been used for evaluation of various type of defects in tubings. However, this technique is not sufficient to detect and evaluate the defect in tubings if the defect is located in the geometrically complicated area(e. g. tube support plate, anti-vibration bar, tubesheet area) and mixing residue signal is significant to the defect signal. In order to improve the reliability of the multi-frequency eddy current technique, the effect of the interaction of mixing residue after frequency mixing with a function of distances between the defect and the tube support plate boundary has been analyzed theoretically. The experimental results have been discussed with the theoretical developments. The calculation shows the interaction between the two neighboring signal sources could be significant within the range of approximately 1.0mm with the experimental condition.

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Wobble and Nonconcentricity Effects in Eddy Current Test of Tubes or Rods (튜브, 봉류의 와전류 탐상시 시편 변위에 의한 신호 변화)

  • Kim, Y.J.;Kim, Y.G.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.37-41
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    • 1989
  • The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of wobble and nonconcentricity of tubes or rods in eddy current test with encircling test coils. Because the eddy current induced in a sample is related to the total magnetic flux linkages, the information about magnetic field distribution in a coil is important. In theoretical study, magnetic field distribution in a single turn coil was calculated and variation of impedance according to the difference of sample positions was presumed. Magnetic field intensity at inside of a solenoidal coil was measured and compared with the theoretical estimation. In experiment, impedance loci of a coil encircling an aluminum rod were measured at different sample positions. The effect of crack positions was examined at same sample positons.

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Development of Eddy Current Technique for Reactor In-Core Flux Thimble Wear (원자로 In-Core Flux Thimble 결함의 와전류 탐상 기술 개발)

  • Park, S.S.;Jang, Y.Y.;Yim, C.Y.;Park, K.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.15-22
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    • 1990
  • Since in-core flux thimble tube wear the due to flow-induced vibration could degrade the integrity of nuclear reactor, the effective detection and interpretation of the wear is important. In order to establish an inspection technique for thimble tubes, an eddy current experiment was performed to determine the optimum test frequency, defect sensitivity and evaluation accuracy. Eddy current probes were designed and fabricated with a theory. Specimens with artificial defects were fabricated using electro discharge machining method. The results from inspection technique developed and on-site inspection showed good applicability.

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Finite Element Method Analysis of Eddy Current Array Probe According to Defects Variation of Steam Generator (배열와전류프로브를 이용한 증기발생기 세관의 결함 변화에 따른 유한요소해석)

  • Kim, Ji-Ho;Lee, Hyang-Beom
    • 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.08a
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    • pp.54-58
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, the ECT(eddy current testing) signal analysis of eddy current array probe for inspection of SG(steam generator) tube in NPP(nuclear power plant) using electromagnetic FEM(finite element method) was performed. To obtain the electromagnetic characteristics of probes, the governing equation was derived from Maxwell's equation, and the problem was solved by using the 3-dimensional FEM. The types of defects were FBH(flat bottomed hole) and OD groove, Spiral groove, natural defects(pitting, SCC, multiple SCC, wear). The depth of FBH defects were 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%, 100 of SG tube thickness, and it was assumed that the defects were located on the tube outside. And the operation frequency of 100kHz, 300kHz and 400kHz were used. Material of specimen was Inconel 600 which is usually used for SG tubes in NPP. The signal difference could be observed according to the variation of size and depth on FBH defects and operation frequencies. The results in this paper can be helpful when the ECT signals from EC array probe are evaluated and analyzed.

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Experimental Approach and Simulation-Based Design of Eddy Current Sensors for Inspection of Vehicular Bolts (자동차용 볼트의 검사를 위한 시뮬레이션에 기반한 ECT 센서 설계 및 실험적특성)

  • Im, Kwang-Hee;Lee, Seul-Gi;Kim, Hak-Joon;Song, Sung-Jin;Woo, Yong-Deuck;Ra, Seung-Woo;Lee, Hyung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.294-301
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    • 2015
  • Oil filters for vehicular parts are used under high and low temperatures as the engine is cooled, and defects can be generated with repeated changes in the operating environment and with changes in the shape, such as very high internal losses for the bolts. Visually checking for defects inside a bolt is impossible. Nondestructive evaluation methods such as eddy current testing (ECT) are recommended as a more effective way to examine inside a bolt and detect surface defects in a short amount of time. In this study, the fit bobbin coil eddy current probe was applied to checking the bolts. The bolt parameters were calculated by using a COMSOL analysis program to obtain parameters for professional interior design and fault diagnosis.