• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제35권10호
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• pp.1257-1264
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• 2011

짧은 시간에 장거리를 전파하는 유도 초음파의 특성을 이용하면 빠르게 넓은 영역의 검사가 가능하다. 그러나 레일의 경우와 같이 단면이 단순하지 않고 임의의 형상을 갖는 구조물의 경우 초음파 전달시 발생하는 분산 특성이나 다수의 모드의 발생으로 초음파 신호의 분석에 어려움을 겪는다. 따라서 실용적인 유도 초음파 검사 시스템을 개발하기 위해서는 먼저 레일내를 전파하여 전달되는 초음파의 거동특성을 이해하여야 한다. 특히 레일내를 전파하는 초음파의 분산특성은 필수적으로 확인되어야 할 특성이다. 본논문에서는 SAFE법을 활용하여 KS60 레일내를 전파하는 초음파의 분산곡선을 구하는 방법을 소개하고 유도초음파를 활용한 레일 검사의 가능성에 대하여 살펴보았다.

• 한방재활의학과학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.103-112
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• 2019

Objectives The purpose of this study is to investigate pain reduction and treatment satisfaction of patients with rib fracrture treated with Soyeom pharmacopuncture therapy under ultrasonic guided - thoracic paravertebral space (TPVS), and also compare to the patients with non-guided pharmacoacupuncture. Methods We studied medical records of 6 patients hospitalized with rib fractures were analyzed retrospectively at department of Korean Medicine Rehabilitation from March 1, 2019 to May 31, 2019, The 3 patients had performed the treatment of Soyeom pharmacopuncture therapy on TPVS under ultrasonic guidance with Korean Medicine treatment (such as herbal medicine, acupuncture, moxabustion, etc) and the other 3 patients had performed the treatment of Soyeom pharmacopuncture therapy on TPVS through non-guided. We used numeric rating scale to assess improvements in pain and the five-point likert scale was used to assess treatment satisfaction. Statistical analysis was carried out using the IBM SPSS Statistics 24 program. Results The purpose of this study is to investigate pain reduction and treatment satisfaction of patients with rib fracrture treated with Soyeom pharmacopuncture therapy under ultrasonic guided - TPVS, and also compare to the patients with non-guided pharmacoacupuncture. Conclusions After analyzing 6 studies, we could imply that the treatment of Soyeom pharmacopuncture therapy on TPVS under ultrasonic guidance could be more effective on pain reduction and improvement of treatment satisfaction with rib fracture compared to those who were treated with non-guided pharmacoacupuncture.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2011

유도초음파는 구조물의 장거리 탐상에 널리 사용되고 있으며 탐촉자의 중심주파수와 판의 두께에 따라 유도 초음파의 군속도가 바뀌는 어려움으로 인하여 최근에 많은 연구자들에 의해 유도초음파를 이용한 판과 같은 구조물 진단에 토모그래피 영상화기법에 관심을 기울이고 있다. 기존에 개발된 영상화 기법으로는 Delay and Sum영상화 기법이 있으며, 수 년간 판 구조물 영상화 기법의 알고리즘으로 이용되었다. MVDR(Minimum Variance Distortionless Response) 영상화 기법은 초음파의 산란특성을 고려한 영상화 기법으로써, 빔의 특성이 영상화 알고리즘에 적용되어 Delay and Sum 영상화 기법보다 향상된 영상을 판구조물에 존재하는 홀 결함 영상을 통해 비교 분석하였다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.415-424
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• 2001

고온에서 장시간 사용으로 인하여 발생되는 경년열화 평가에는 파괴적인 방법이 신뢰성이 높지만 시험편 채취의 어려움이 있다. 그러므로 비파괴석인 방법에 의한 열화도 평가가 바람직하다. 본 연구에서는 2.23Cr-1Mo강에 대하여 장시간 등온열처리로 모의 열화시험편을 제작하여 고온설비부재에서 발생되는 탄화물의 석출 및 조대화, 분순물의 입계편석 등 금속학적 미세조직을 관찰하고, 미세조직의 변화와 유도 초음파의 전파특성과의 상관관계를 규명하고, 파괴시험치와 그 결과를 비교하여 초음파 비파괴평가에 의한 고온부재의 열화도 평가의 가능성을 실험적으로 검증하고자 한다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.126-131
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 유도초음파를 이용하여 다양한 온도에서 사용되어지는 항공기 복합재료의 건전성에 대하여 평가하였다. 항공기가 지상과 비행고도에서 운행할 때의 온도편차나, 반복되어지는 열주기 횟수와 같이, 항공기가 운행되어지는 온도와 관련하여 복합재료의 건전성에 결정적인 영향을 미치는 요소에 관한 연구는 항공기 안전에 있어서 매우 중요한 요소가 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 유도초음파를 이용하여 항공기의 운행환경과 유사한 환경 하에서 열피로가 가해진 항공기의 복합재료 시편을 평가하였다. 유도초음파의 분산선도 곡선은 서로 다른 열피로가 가해진 시편에 대한 민감성을 나타내기 위해 최적의 모드를 선택하는데 사용되었다. 현재 제시된 접근법 또한 항공기의 건전성을 평가하는데 있어서 하나의 도구로 구현될 수 있다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.349-362
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• 2010

Ultrasonic Guided Waves (UGWs) are a useful tool in structural health monitoring (SHM) applications that can benefit from built-in transduction, moderately large inspection ranges and high sensitivity to small flaws. This paper describes a SHM method based on UGWs, discrete wavelet transform (DWT), and principal component analysis (PCA) able to detect and quantify the onset and propagation of fatigue cracks in structural waveguides. The method combines the advantages of guided wave signals processed through the DWT with the outcomes of selecting defect-sensitive features to perform a multivariate diagnosis of damage. This diagnosis is based on the PCA. The framework presented in this paper is applied to the detection of fatigue cracks in a steel beam. The probing hardware consists of a PXI platform that controls the generation and measurement of the ultrasonic signals by means of piezoelectric transducers made of Lead Zirconate Titanate. Although the approach is demonstrated in a beam test, it is argued that the proposed method is general and applicable to any structure that can sustain the propagation of UGWs.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.471-484
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• 2016

Optical fiber sensors have been proven that they have the potential to detect high-frequency ultrasonic signals, in structural health monitoring field which generally refers to acoustic emission signals from active structural damages and guided waves excited by ultrasonic actuators and propagating in waveguide. In this work, the sensing properties of optical fiber sensors based on Mach-Zehnder interferometer were investigated in the metal plate. Analytical formulas were conducted first to explore the parameters affecting its sensing performances. Due to the simple and definable frequency component, the Lamb wave excited by the piezoelectric wafer was employed to study the sensitivity of the proposed optical fiber sensors with respect to the frequency, rather than the acoustic emission signals. In the experiments, according to above investigations, spiral shape optical fiber sensors with different size were selected to increase their sensitivity. Lamb waves were excited by a circular piezoelectric wafer, while another piezoelectric wafer was used to compare their voltage responses. Furthermore, by changing the excitation frequency, the tuning frequency characteristic of the proposed optical fiber sensor was also investigated experimentally.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.293-301
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• 2019

Bolted joints are commonly used in civil infrastructure and mechanical assembly structures. Monitoring and identifying the connection status of bolts is the frontier problem of structural research. The existing research is mainly on the looseness of a single bolt. This article presents a study of assessing the loosening/tightening health state and identifying the loose bolt by using ultrasonic guided wave in a bolt group joint. A bolt-tightening index was proposed for evaluating the looseness of a bolt connection based on correlation coefficient. The tightening/loosening state of the bolt was simulated by changing the bolt torque. More than 180 different measurement tests for total of six bolts were conducted. The results showed that with the bolt torque increases, value of the proposed bolt-tightening index increases. The proposed bolt-tightening index trend was very well reproduced by an analytical expression using a function of the torque applied with an overall percentage error lower than 5%. The developed damage index based on the proposed bolt-tightening index can also be applied to locate the loosest bolt in a bolt group joint. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, a bolt group joint experiment with different positions of bolt looseness was performed. Experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective to detect and locate bolt looseness and has a good prospect of finding applications in real-time structural monitoring.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.364-371
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• 2003

In this paper, a review of the current status, on the use of long range cylindrically guided wave modes, and their interaction with cracks and corrosion damage in pipe-like structures will be discussed. Applications of cylindrically guided ultrasonic wave modes have been developed for inspection of corrosion damage in pipelines at chemical plants, flow-accelerated corrosion damage (wall thinning) in feedwater piping, and circumferential stress corrosion cracks in PWR steam generator tubes. It has been demonstrated that this inspection technique can be employed on a variety of piping geometries (diameters from 1 in. to 3 ft, and wall thickness from 0.1 to 6 in.) and a propagation distance of 100 meters or more is sometimes feasible. This technique can also be used in the inspection of inaccessible or buried regions of pipes and tubes.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.297-309
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• 2012

As a result of the medium coupling, propagation characteristics of ultrasonic waves guided by a multi-phase medium can be different from those in a homogeneous system. This phenomenon becomes prominent for a medium consisting of phases with considerably distinct material and physical properties (e.g., submerged structures or human bones covered with soft tissues). In this study, the coupling effect arising from both fluid and soft tissues on wave propagation in engineering structures and human bone phantoms, respectively, was explored and calibrated quantitatively, with a purpose of enhancing the precision of ultrasonic-wave-based non-destructive evaluation (NDE) and clinical quantitative ultrasound (QUS). Calibration results were used to rectify conventional NDE during evaluation of corrosion in a submerged aluminium plate, and QUS during prediction of simulated healing status of a mimicked bone fracture. The results demonstrated that with the coupling effect being appropriately taken into account, the precision of NDE and QUS could be improved.