• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제14권10호
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• pp.1072-1080
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• 2000

Leakage magnetic flux (LMF) is widely used for non-contact detection of cracks. The combination of optics and LMF offers advantages such as real time inspection, elimination of electrical noise, high spatial resolution, etc. This paper describes a new nondestructive evaluation method based on an original magneto-optical inspection system, which uses a magneto-optical sensor, LMF, and an improved magnetization method. The improved magnetization method has the following characteristics: high observation sensitivity, independence of the crack orientation, and precise transcription of the geometry of a complex crack. The use of vertical magnetization enables the visualization of the length and width of a crack. The inspection system provides the images of the crack, and shows a possibility for the computation of its depth.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.591-598
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• 2002

Leakage magnetic flux is occurred in the cracked area of magnetized specimens, and also it changes the magnetic domain area of the magneto-optical film positioned on the specimen. It causes the change of the optical permeability of the magnetic domain on the crack area. So crack images can be obtained easily using this principle. On the other hand, utilizing a laser in this method makes possible to perform a remote sensing by detecting the light intensity contrast between cracked area and normal area. This paper shows the application of non-destructive inspection system taking advantage of magneto-optical method for micro-cracks and presents examples applied to the several types of specimens having fatigue cracks and fabricated cracks using this method. Also the authors prove the possibility of this method as a remote sensing system under the oscillation load considering application to real fields.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.1691-1701
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• 2006

The scan type magnetic camera is proposed to improve the limited spatial resolution due to the size of the packaged magnetic sensor. An image of the scan type magnetic camera, ${\partial}B/{\partial}x$ image, is useful for extracting the crack information of a specimen under a large inclined mag netic field distribution due to the poles of magnetizer. The ${\partial}B/{\partial}x$ images of the cracks of different shapes and sizes are calculated by using the improved dipole model proposed in this paper. The improved dipole model uses small divided dipole models, the rotation and relocation of each dipole model and the principle of superposition. Also for a low carbon steel specimen, the experimental results of nondestructive testing obtained by using multiple cracks are compared with the modeling results to verify the effectiveness of ${\partial}B/{\partial}x$ modeling. The improved dipole model can be used to simulate the LMF and ${\partial}B/{\partial}x$ image of a specimen with complex cracks, and to evaluate the cracks quantitatively using magnetic flux leakage testing.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.640-648
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• 2004

This paper describes a new magnetization method for non-destructive testing with magneto-optical sensor (denoted as MO sensor) which have the following characteristic : high observation sensitivity, independence of the crack orientation, and precise imaging of a complex crack geometry such as multiple cracks. When a magnetic field is applied normally to the surface of a specimen which is significantly larger than its defects, approximately the same magnetic charge per unit area occurs on the surface of the specimen. If there is a crack in the specimen, magnetic charge per unit area has the same value at the bottom of the crack. The distribution of the vertical component of the magnetic flux density, B$\_$Z/, is almost uniform over the no-crack area (denoted as B$\_$Z,BASE/), while the magnetic flux density is smaller in the surroundings of the crack(denoted as B$\_$Z,CRACK/) If B$\_$Z, BASE/ is a bit larger than the saturated magnetic flux density of the MO sensor (B$\_$s/) , then small magnetic domains occur over the crack area and a large domain over the non-crack area because B$\_$Z,CRACK/ is smaller than B$\_$s/.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.566-572
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• 2004

금속성 도선 뿐 아니라 기상 또는 액상의 직류전류를 계측하기 위해서는 비접촉으로 전류를 측정할 필요가 있다. 본 논문은 직류전류를 비접촉으로 계측하기 위한 방법 중 하나로써 패러데이효과와 누설자속을 이용하는 방법을 제안하고, 이론적 고찰 및 실험적 검증결과를 보고한다. 공극을 가진 강자성체 코어를 1차 코일에 의하여 자화하면, 공극 주위에는 누설자속이 발생한다. 이러한 누설자속의 수직성분에 의하여 자기광학소자의 자구는 자화되어, 공극의 중심과 자벽은 평행하게 된다. 한편, 2차 코일에 의하여 자기광학소자에 수직한 방향으로 자장을 인가하면, 누설자속분포는 공극의 중심을 기준으로 좌우 대칭이었던 자구의 분포에 편향이 발생한다. 이때 금속, 기체 또는 액체상태의 전류가 코어를 통과하면 자기광학소자의 자벽이 이동하게 된다. 이러한 원리에 의하여 자구 또는 자벽의 이동량을 측정하면, 코어를 통과하는 직류전류의 세기를 알 수 있다.