• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.121-129
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• 2000

The robotic automation in NonDestructive Testing(NDT) is a promising field of research and it helps to expand the applications of NDT enormously. Especially, in the case of pipelines which are widely used in various industrial facilities, it is required to secure adequate ways of inspection in the usual maintenance activitites. In this paper, we present a robot system for inpipe inspection of underground urban gas pipelines. The robot is configured as an articulated structure like a snake with a tether cable. Two active driving vehicles are located in front and rear of the system, respectively and passive modules such as a NonDestructive Testing module and a control module are chained between the active vehicles. The proposed system has outstanding mobility by employing a new steering mechanism called Double Active Universal Joint, which makes it possible to cope with complicated configurations of underground pipelines. Characteristic features of the system are described and the construction of the system is briefly outlined.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.354-360
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• 2002

NDT나 의료용 영장장치에 응용되는 압전복합재는 일반적인 세라믹이나 고분자 압전재료에 비하여 많은 장점을 가진다. 이들 응용분야에서는 전기기계결합계수가 높아야 하고 음향임피던스가 낮아야 한다. 그러나, 압전복합재의 횡방향 단위 크기가 조밀하지 못할 경우 횡방향으로 진행하는 판파에 의한 불필요한 진통이 표면에 발생하게 된다. 횡방향 단위 크기와 세라믹 체적비에 따른 압전 특성을 조사하기 위하여 PMN-PZT 세라믹과 Epofix 에폭시로 에폭시의 폭의 달리하면서 1-3형 압전복합채를 제작하였다. 제작된 1-3형 압전복합재의 두께방향 진동모드의 전기기계결합계 수, 음향임피던스는 각각 $0.36{\sim}0.64,\;9.8{\sim}22.7MRayl$ MRayl로 나타났으며, 횡방향 단위크기가 줄어들수록 횡방향 모드 공진 주파수가 증가하였다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.244-249
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• 1995

적외선을 이용한 비파괴검사 방법은 검사자가 검사체의 온도를 분석하여 검사체의 건전성을 평가할 수 있도록 개발된 방법이다. 이것이 최근에는 화력발전소 및 원자력발전소 등과 같은 다양한 산업에 적용되어 사용되고 있다. 따라서, 본 보고서는 적외선을 이용한 비파괴검사의 기초적인 원리, 적외선 측정 장비의 기본 원리 및 그것의 응용분야를 기술하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.950-956
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• 2014

Special purpose sensor design using MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technique is commonly used in Nondestructive Testing (NDT) research for the evaluation of existing structures and for the safety control and requirements. Various sensors and network have been developed for general infrastructures as well as safety-critical applications, e.g., aerospace, defense, and nuclear system, etc. In this paper, one of sensor technique using Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBG) and Finite Element Method (FEM) evaluation is discussed. The experimental setup and data collection technique is also demonstrated. The factors influencing test result and the advantages/limitations of this technique are also reviewed using various methods.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.699-704
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• 2003

레이다기법을 이용한 마이크로파 Reflectometry를 비균질 매질의 밀도 특성을 조사하기 위한 비파괴검사 장치로 응용하기 위한 시스템 특성을 연구하였다. 마이크로파 Reflectometry로 비균질 매질을 조사하기 위해서는 대상에 따른 시스템의 하드웨어 구성이 최적화되어야 하며, 각 시스템에서의 소신호 반응특성이 이해되어야만 전체적인 시스템 해법을 제공하는 것이 된다. 그 중에서 플라즈마 연구분야에 응용하기 시작한 것은 비교적 최근의 일로서 그 활용도가 점차 증가하고 있는 경향이다. 조사하는 대상의 특성에 따른 시스템의 구성을 이해하고, 파동수 및 밀도 섭동에 관한 시스템의 특성을 조사하기 위한 장치를 제안하며, 실험적 방법의 결과와 1차원 파동방정식을 이용한 수치해석적 결과를 비교 검증하였다.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.503-514
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• 2015

Fibre-added concretes are frequently used in large site applications such as slab and airports as well as in bearing system elements or prefabricated elements. It is very difficult to determine the mechanical properties of the fibre-added concretes by experimental methods in situ. The purpose of this study is to develop an artificial neural network (ANN) model in order to predict the compressive and bending strengths of hybrid fibre-added and non-added concretes. The strengths have been predicted by means of the data that has been obtained from destructive (DT) and non-destructive tests (NDT) on the samples. NDTs are ultrasonic pulse velocity (UPV) and Rebound Hammer Tests (RH). 105 pieces of cylinder samples with a dimension of $150{\times}300mm$, 105 pieces of bending samples with a dimension of $100{\times}100{\times}400mm$ have been manufactured. The first set has been manufactured without fibre addition, the second set with the addition of %0.5 polypropylene and %0.5 steel fibre in terms of volume, and the third set with the addition of %0.5 polypropylene, %1 steel fibre. The water/cement (w/c) ratio of samples parametrically varies between 0.3-0.9. The experimentally measured compressive and bending strengths have been compared with predicted results by use of ANN method.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.556-562
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• 2007

This paper presents the use of a novel fiber optic accelerometer system to monitor ambient vibration (both wind-induced one and vehicle-induced) of a real bridge structure. This sensor system integrates the $Moir\'{e}$ fringe phenomenon with fiber optics to achieve accurate and reliable measurements. A low-cost signal processing unit implements unique algorithms to further enhance the resolution and increase the dynamic bandwidth of the sensors. The fiber optic accelerometer has two major benefits in using this fiber optic accelerometer system for monitoring civil engineering structures. One is its immunity to electromagnetic (EM) interference making it suitable for difficult applications in such environments involving strong EM fields, electrical spark-induced explosion risks, and cabling problems, prohibiting the use of conventional electromagnetic accelerometers. The other is its ability to measure both low- and high-amplitude vibrations with a constantly high resolution without pre-setting a gain level, as usually required in a conventional accelerometer. The second benefit makes the sensor system particularly useful for real-time measurement of both ambient vibration (that is often used for structural health monitoring) and strong motion such as earthquake. Especially, the semi-strong motion and the small ambient one are successfully simulated and measured by using the new fiber optic accelerometer in the experiment of the structural health monitoring of a real bridge.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제80권5호
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• pp.563-583
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• 2021

Composite materials, composed of multiple constituent materials with dissimilar properties, are actively adopted in a wide range of industrial sectors due to their remarkable strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratio. Nevertheless, the failure mechanism of composite materials is highly complicated due to their sophisticated microstructure, making it much harder to predict their residual material lives in real life applications. A promising solution for this safety issue is structural damage detection. In the present paper, damage detection of composite material via electrical resistance-based technique and infrared thermography is reviewed. The operating principles of the two damage detection methodologies are introduced, and some research advances of each techniques are covered. The advancement of IR thermography-based non-destructive technique (NDT) including optical thermography, laser thermography and eddy current thermography will be reported, as well as the electrical impedance tomography (EIT) which is a technology increasingly drawing attentions in the field of electrical resistance-based damage detection. A brief comparison of the two methodologies based on each of their strengths and limitations is carried out, and a recent research update regarding the coupling of the two techniques for improved damage detection in composite materials will be discussed.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2002년도 추계공동학술대회논문집
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• pp.155-159
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• 2002

Wire ropes are used in a myriad of various industrial applications such as elevator, mine hoist, construction machinery, lift, and suspension bridge. Especially, wire rope of crane is important component to container transfer. If it happens wire rope failures in operating, it may lead to safety accident, economic power loss by productivity decline, competitive power decline of container terminal and so on. To solve this problem, we developed wire rope fault detecting system as a portable instrument, and this system is consisted of 3 parts that fault detecting part using hall sensor, permanent magnets and analog unit, and digital signal processing part using data acquisition card, monitoring part using wavelet transform, denoising method. In this paper, a wire rope is scanned by this system after makes several broken parts on the surface of wire rope artificially. All detected signal has external noise or disturbance according to circumstances. So, we applied to discrete wavelet transform to extract a signal from noisy data that was used filter. In practical applications of denoising, it is shown that wavelet pursue it with little information loss and smooth signal display. It is verified that the detecting system by denoising has good efficiency for inspecting faults of wire ropes in service. As a result, by developing this system, container terminal could reduce expense because of extension of wire ropes exchange period and could competitive power. Also, this system is possible to apply in several fields like that elevator, lift and so on.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2015

지능형 센서 기반의 구조 건전성 감시를 통해 안전성을 확보하기 위한 연구는 우주항공을 비롯하여 기계/토목 구조물, 수송 기계 분야로 확대되었다. 특히, 실시간으로 운용되는 구조물은 사고로 인한 재산 및 인명 피해를 예방하기 위해 여러 스마트 센서 기반의 구조 건전성 감시 기술이 요구되는 결과로 이어졌다. 한편, 상용화되어 있는 대부분의 센서는 전자기 기반의 센서로써 전자기 간섭 및 부식과 같은 적용성의 제한과 환경적 요인에 취약할 수 있다. 따라서, 전자기 기반 센서의 단점을 보완하기 위한 신개념 센서로 광섬유 센서가 최근 각광을 받고 있다. 하지만, 광섬유 센서를 이용한 실제 구조물의 감시를 위해서는 고가 장비와 시스템이 요구되어 어려움이 존재한다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 한 가닥의 광섬유를 이용하여 여러 지점에서 발생할 수 있는 충격을 검출하는 센서 시스템을 제안하였다. 이를 위해, 광섬유 굽힘 손실 현상을 이용하여 같은 충격에 대해 위치별 광 강도의 변화량 차이가 존재하도록 센서부의 모듈을 제작하였다. 그리고, 광 강도 변화에 영향을 미치는 변수들을 이용하여 실험 설계를 하였으며, 충격 위치 검출이 가능함을 실험적으로 검증하였다.