• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1159-1164
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• 2006

Torsional vibration is an important vibration mode when shafts, cylinders and pipes are considered. However, the modal testing of torsional vibrations is not an easy job to carry out because of the lack of proper transducers. This work presents a new torsional vibration transducer based on the magnetostrictive principle and its application to torsional modal testing. The transducer is so designed as to generate/measure only torsional vibrations excluding other vibration modes such as longitudinal and bending vibrations. The transducer is composed of ferromagnetic patches bonded to a test structure, permanent magnets, and a solenoid. Though patches and magnets are bonded to a structure, torsional vibrations are generated and measured wirelessly by a solenoid encircling a test structure. The proposed transducer works even at considerably high frequencies, say, tens of kilohertz. Furthermore, the transducer can be manufactured at a low price. To check the performance of the proposed method, the torsional modal testing on a hollow aluminum shaft was conducted. The results, such as eigenfrequencies, obtained by the proposed transducer agreed favorably with theoretical results.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제16권8호
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• pp.879-885
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• 2006

Torsional vibration is an important vibration mode when shafts, cylinders and pipes are considered. However, the modal testing of torsional vibrations is not an easy task to carry out because of the lack of proper transducers. This work presents a new torsional vibration transducer based on the magnetostrictive principle and its application to torsional modal testing. The transducer is so designed as to generate/measure only torsional vibrations excluding other vibration modes such as longitudinal and bending vibrations. The transducer is composed of ferromagnetic patches bonded to a test structure, permanent magnets, and a solenoid. Though patches and magnets are bonded to a structure, torsional vibrations are generated and measured wirelessly by a solenoid encircling a test structure. The proposed transducer works even at considerably high frequencies, say, tens of kilohertz. Furthermore, the transducer can be manufactured at a low price. To check the performance of the proposed method, the torsional modal testing on a hollow aluminum shaft was conducted. The results, such as eigenfrequencies, obtained by the proposed transducer agreed favorably with theoretical results.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.427-435
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• 2009

배관, 축 등과 같은 원통형 구조물은 산업설비에 널리 이용되고 그 중요성으로 인해 지속적인 건전성 평가를 요구하는 대상이 되는 경우가 많다. 최근, 이러한 원통형 구조물의 비파괴평가를 위해 자기변형 패치 트랜스듀서를 이용한 비틀림 유도초음파 검사가 활발히 연구되고 있다. 하지만, 기존의 자기변형 패치 트랜스듀서가 민감도 증가를 위해 자기변형 성능이 큰 강자성 패치를 구조물에 부착하여 사용하기 때문에, 시간과 비용의 소모를 비롯한, 많은 불편함을 초래한다는 한계를 지니고 있다. 이러한 기존 트랜스듀서의 단점을 극복하기 위해서 원통형 구조물에 적용이 가능한 비틀림파 변환용 모듈형 자기변형 트랜스듀서를 개발하였다. 제안한 트랜스듀서는 모든 구성요소가 모듈 내부에 집적되어 강자성 패치를 구조물에 따로 부착하는 대신, 전단 커플런트를 이용한 액상접촉이나 매개물을 사용하지 않는 건식접촉 방법으로 사용이 가능하므로, 비틀림 유도초음파 시험을 용이하고 효율적으로 수행할 수 있는 수단을 제공한다. 본 연구에서는, 상세한 구조와 구동원리를 기술하고 탄소강 시편을 대상으로 실험적 검증을 수행함으로써, 제안한 트랜스듀서의 성능 및 응용가능성을 확인하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2005년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.856-859
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• 2005

The OPMT(Orientation-adjustable Patch-type Magnetostrictive Transducer) was proposed as a tool for generating and measuring the ultrasonic Lamb wave in plate type structures. This sensor has a lot of new features compared to the traditional piezo-type ultrasonic transducers. As an example, it does not need any kind of wiring for lunching or measuring ultrasonic waves. But it has also definite limitation for practical usage as a nondestructive testing tool in that it cannot help rotating the direction of ultrasonic wave manually. The idea for 'scanning OPMT' is proposed in this respect. Two kinds of basic ideas for rotating the wave direction not manually but electrically are proposed. The fabrication of the transducer and the testing for Identifying the primary characteristics are done for one of the proposed transducers. The results says that there are the possibilities as a new tool for NDE in that the proposed transducer follows well the characteristics of the traditional OPMT. But there are also the 1imitations to overcome.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.566-568
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• 2008

An E-OPMT(Electronically-controllable OPMT) was developed as an alternative of OPMT which could adjust the direction of the generated guided waves in a plate manually. The key idea of controlling the wave direction electronically is based on a few sets of axisymmetric figure-of-eight coils and the magnet which is located for making static omni-directionally biasing magnetic field over the patch. However, in order to explain wave phenomenon generated by this transducer, a new approach is required because there are various combinations between static biasing magnetic field and dynamic actuating magnetic field on the patch, not similar to OPMT. In this paper, the experiments were performed to understand characteristics of E-OPMT and the new theoretical analysis was set up for explaining the result.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2005

In this work, we propose a new ultrasonic damage inspection method in plate structures. The proposed method employs an OPMT(orientation-adjustable patch-type magnetostrictive transducer) in order to make the ultrasonic waves directed to a specific target point. For experiments, virtual grid points were set up at every 50 mm in an aluminum plate and two OPMTs were used for inspection. If there exists a crack in a plate, the reflected Lamb wave from the crack is measured in addition to the direct waves from the transmitting transducer to the receiving transducer.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.293-298
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• 2008

Non-contact modal testing for longitudinal modes of a pipe is discussed in this work. The suggested method can generate and measure longitudinal vibrations without mechanical contact by using the coupling phenomenon between deformation and magnetic field, known as the magnetostrictive effect. This effect has been used to generate and measure ultrasonic waves, but seldom used to deal with audible vibrations. In this investigation, the validity of the developed method in a typical vibration frequency range is checked with an Inconel pipe being used in nuclear power plants.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.1200-1209
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• 2010

The main subject of this paper is to develop analytic method with which output power or sensitivity variations of a magnetostrictive ultrasonic transducer can be estimated with no aid of experiments. After the bias magnetic field deployed over the patch is calculated using finite element analysis for magnetostatics, the representative value is extracted by averaging these field values. The operating point on the characteristic curve for magnetostriction is identified by this value and then the output performance is calculated from it. It is verified that the results from this simple model match well with those of its experimental version and some limits of this modeling technique are also considered.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1343-1347
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• 2006

Non-contact modal testing for longitudinal modes of a pipe is discussed in this work. The suggested method can generate and measure longitudinal vibrations without mechanical contact by using the coupling phenomenon between deformation and magnetic field, known as the magnetostrictive effect. This effect has been used to generate and measure ultrasonic waves, but seldom used to deal with audible vibrations. In this investigation, the validity of the developed method in a typical vibration frequency range is checked with an inconel pipe being used in nuclear power plants.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권8호
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• pp.1075-1081
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• 2010

최근 가공성이 우수하고 강한 자기변형성을 가진 강자성 패치가 소개되면서, 이를 이용한 탄성초음파 변환 연구가 활발하다. 이러한 자기변형 패치 트랜스듀서는 SH 파와 비틀림파 등 전단파 변환 성능이 우수하여 비파괴평가 분야에서 많은 주목을 받고 있지만, 지금까지 관련 연구가 유도초음파 변환에 집중된 반면 체적초음파에는 아직 적용이 된 예가 없다. 본 연구에서는, 자기변형성이 큰 재질 중 하나인 철-코발트 합금을 이용한 체적전단파 트랜스듀서를 제안하고자 한다. 제안한 트랜스듀서는 강자성 패치, 코일, 영구자석, 요크를 포함하여 모듈형으로 설계되었고, 실험을 통해서 파형 및 방사 패턴 등을 측정하였다. 결과적으로, 제안한 트랜스듀서는 신호대잡음비 및 방사패턴 면에서 상당히 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.