• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.91-102
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• 2008

비파괴 검사 기술은 현존하는 구조물의 진단을 위해 빈번하게 사용되었고, 사용되고 있다. 이러한 검사들로 본 연구에서 사용된 검사로는 육안적 검사, 해머 사운딩, 슈미트 해머, 그리고 토모그래피를 포함한 초음파 검사 등이 있다. 완료된 비파괴 검사 결과는 국부적으로 수행될 파괴검사의 위치를 산정하는데 사용되었다. 그래서, 압축강도, 염화물, 암석 분류 실험으로 구성된 파괴검사를 수행하였다. 비파괴검사와 파괴검사의 결과들을 종합하여 교각두부의 건전성을 평가하였다. 본 논문에서는 파괴 검사와 비파괴 검사의 적용과 해석, 그리고 이어지는 보수, 보강, 유지 결정 과정에 대해서 나타내었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.229-236
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• 2006

The acoustic field analysis method is the superior calibration method for rectifying the ultrasonic probe sensitivity. This method also can be applied to evaluate the probe performance in clinical fields without numerical analysis and precise measurements. In this paper, we propose the method of acoustic field pattern analysis with probe channel division for the evaluation of diagnostic ultrasound probe characterization. In order to verify our purpose, we performed a set of experiments. We measured the acoustic-field pattern of the three inferiority probes by channel division to evaluate an acoustic field distribution and impulse response characteristics. By comparing the results of acoustic field measurement method with that of conventional method such as impulse response and live image test for linear array probes, it is demonstrated that the ultrasound field measurement method is more effective then conventional method in detection of defective elements.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.182-189
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• 2014

본 논문은 탁도의 영향으로 사용이 제한적인 수중 광학 카메라의 대안으로 수중 영상 소나(imaging sonar)를 사용하여 수중 물체를 인식하여 추종하는 구조를 제안한다. Part 1에서, 영상 소나의 현실적인 성능을 고려한 2차원 인공 표식의 설계 방법과 인식 방법을 제안한다. 특히 영상 소나와 초음파의 특성을 분석하여 피인식성을 극대화 할 수 있는 재료를 선택하였으며, 물체의 모델링이 쉬운 무지향성이며 단순한 외형을 채택하고, 표식으로 사용이 가능한 영역 기반 특징 요소를 포함한 내부 형태를 제안하였다. 또한 제안한 인공 표식을 실시간으로 인식할 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 이 방법은 외곽선 추출, 허프-원-검출기에 의한 유사도 및 위치 추정, 형상 행렬의 비교에 의한 표식의 분류하는 알고리즘을 포함하고 있다. 제안한 인공 표식과 인식 알고리즘의 유용함을 DIDSON (영상 소나)를 사용한 수조 실험으로 검증하였다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.405-414
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• 2009

이 논문에서는 표면으로부터 내부로 진전된 CT피로시험편의 노치 피로균열을 대상으로 회절초음파를 이용하여 균열깊이를 평가하기 위한 방법을 제안하고 그 타당성을 실험에 의해 검증하였다. 특히 균열선단 이외에 노치와 같은 또 다른 회절파 발생요소가 존재하는 상황에서 회절파 성분들을 정확하게 규명하기 위해 탐촉자 스캔에 의한 영상화 및 전파경로 분석을 실시하였다. 실험은 균열이 없는 시험편과 균열이 있는 시험편에 적용하였다. 실험 및 분석의 결과 주파수가 클수록 그리고 탐촉자의 굴절각이 클수록 정확한 측정이 가능했고, 4MHz의 $60^{\circ}-60^{\circ}$ 탐촉자 조합의 경우 오차 0.38 mm 이내로 균열깊이가 측정되었다. 제안 기법은 균열 선단부가 미세하여 회절파 세기가 미약하더라도 적용이 가능하다는 특징을 가지므로 미세 균열의 검사 및 깊이 평가에 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2002년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.751-758
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• 2002

Boreholes that are drilled in soft or unconsolidated materials such as gravels and coals are prone to collapse. To maintain the hole, some kinds of casing pipes are needed. If thereby a plastic pipe e.g. PVC is used for the casing, Televiewer tool is still capable of detecting structural features such as fractures in the borehole wall behind the pipe, whereas other borehole-imaging logging devices such as BIPS (Borehole Image Processing System) and FMS(Formation Micro Scanner) won't provide any information about that. Televiewer's primary component is a piezoelectric transducer centered in the hole. It acts as both a transmitter and receiver, and sends an ultrasonic beam. That is reflected, in the same manner as the seismic wave propagation, from the both sides(inner and outer surfaces) of the casing pipe, transmits through the pipe and then reflected from the borehole wall. With an appropriate choice of time-windowing, it is possible to capture the returning signals from both the borehole wall and the outer side of casing pipe as well. A suite of laboratory tests were performed on various physical models composed of plastic pipes with different diameters. Although the amplitudes of returning signals were reduced to about half the usual value due to the transmission loss, the dynamic range of Televiewer tool was sufficient to observe the structural features behind the casing pipe. Besides, several representative case studies at various research areas in our country are presented. The results demonstrate the usefulness of the transmissivity of Televiewer acoustic km, which will assist in further structural interpretation.

• Advanced Composite Materials
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.43-59
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• 2009

The current study assessed the effect of a bolt hole on tensile fatigue properties of CFRP laminates. Two specimens, i.e. $[(0/90)_3]S$, $[(0/45/90/-45)_2]_S$, were analyzed using a finite element method and were experimentally tested for cases, both with and without a hole, whose diameter corresponded to 0.12 times the specimen width. Delamination positions predicted by a 3-dimensional static finite element analysis were matched well to those observed by an ultrasonic imaging system in the middle of fatigue test. A hole whose diameter corresponds to 0.12 times the specimen width caused the fatigue strength to decrease by 9% and 11% under 5 Hz loading frequency, and by 22% and 25% under 10 Hz loading frequency for $[(0/90)_3]_S$ and $[(0/45/90/-45)_2]_S$, respectively. Because the decrease in sectional area due to the hole was normalized in calculation of the tensile strength, a stress concentration around the hole is believed to induce the strength degradation of fatigue specimens. From the finite element analyses, the stress concentration factor around a hole was expected as 8.8 and 9.5 for $[(0/90)_3]_S$ and $[(0/45/90/-45)_2]_S$, respectively.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2014

This paper describes a tomographic imaging technique for evaluating the thickness reduction of a plate-like structure using a noncontact sensor network based on an electromagnetic acoustic transducer that generates shear horizontal plate waves. Because this technique is based on the effect of mode cutoff and time of flight of guided waves caused by a change in thickness, the tomographic image provides information on the presence of defects in the structure. To verify the performance of the method, artificial defects with various thickness reduction ratios were machined in an aluminum plate, and the tomographic imaging results are reported. The results show that the generated tomographic image displays the thickness reductions and can identify their locations. Therefore, the proposed technique has good potential as a tool for health monitoring of the integrity of plate-like structures.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.569-577
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• 2010

Nonplanar surface geometries of components are frequently encountered in real ultrasonic inspection situations. Use of rigid array transducers can lead to beam defocusing and reduction of defect image quality due to the mismatch between the planar array and the changing surface. When a flexible array is used to fit the complex surface profile, the locations of array elements should be known to compute the delay time necessary for adaptive heam focusing. An alternative method is to employ the time reversal focusing technique that does not require a prior knowledge about the properties and structures of the specimen and the transducer. In this paper, a time reversal method is applied to simulate beam focusing of flexible arrays and imaging of point-like defects contained in specimens with nonplanar surface geometry. Quantitative comparisons are made for the performance of a number of array techniques in terms of the ability to focus and image three point-like reflectors positioned at regular intervals. The sinusoidal profile array studied here exhibits almost the same image quality as the flat, reference case.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.395-401
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• 2017

In this paper, we introduce a robot-assisted medical diagnostic system that enables remote ultrasound (US) imaging to be applied to the conventional telemedicine, which has been possible only with interviewing or a visual exam. In particular, a master-slave robot system is developed that ultrasonic diagnosis specialist can control the position and orientation of US probe in the remote place. The slave robot is designed to be compact, lightweight, and hand-held so that it can easily transfer to the remote healthcare center. Moreover, 6-degree-of-freedom (DOF) probe motion is possible by the robot design based on Stewart platform. The master device is also based on a similar structure of the slave robot. To connect master and slave system in the wide area network (WAN) environment, a hardware CODEC was developed. In this paper, we introduce the detail of each component and the results of the recent experiments conducted in the remote sites by the developed robotic ultrasound imaging system.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2000년도 하계학술발표회
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• pp.118-120
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• 2000

Currently, x-ray is mostly used for the diagnosis of dental cavity and osteoporosis. The osteoporosis is broadly defined as a decrease in the amount of bone mass per unit volume of the bone. Clinically the manifestation of low bone mass presents a clinical problem to the general population as an increase in fracture risk and especially in aging population[1]. Although the amount of the irradiated x-ray to the human body for the clinical diagnosis is relatively small, the exposition of the x-ray to the human body should be minimized as much as possible, since the x-ray is an ionizing radiation. To investigate other possible systems replacing X-ray, ultrasonic imaging and MRI(Magneto-Resonance-Imaging) systems were studied. Unfortunately, an effective and safe diagnosis tool for detecting the dental cavity and the osteoporosis is currently lacking. (omitted)