• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.1060-1066
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• 2007

When a high-energy ultrasound propagates through a solid body that contains a crack or a delamination, the two faces of the defect do not ordinarily vibrate in unison, and dissipative phenomena such as friction, rubbing and clapping between the faces will convert some of the vibrational energy to heat. By combining this heating effect with infrared imaging, one can detect a subsurface defect in material efficiently. In this paper a detection of the welding defect of thin SUS 304 plates using the UIR (ultrasonic infrared imaging) technology is described. A low frequency (20kHz) ultrasonic transducer was used to infuse the welded thin SUS 304 plates with a short pulse of sound for 280ms. The ultrasonic source has a maximum power of 2kW. The surface temperature of the area under inspection is imaged by a thermal infrared camera that is coupled to a fast frame grabber in a computer. The hot spots, which are a small area around the defect tip and heated up highly, are observed. From the sequence of the thermosonic images, the location of defective or inhomogeneous regions in the welded thin SUS 304 plates can be detected easily.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제28권B호
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• pp.129-133
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• 2008

A method to reduce seam line artifact in spatial compounding of ultrasonic images is presented. Spatial compounding is a speckle reducing imaging technique in which a number of ultrasound images of a given target that have been obtained from multiple view angles are combined into a single compounded image by combining the data received from each data point in the compounded image. Since different view angle results in different view area, and the images of different view arms are combined into an image, the compounded image consists of regions with different signal to noise ratio, and the boundary lines between these regions are visible as seam lines in the compounded images. In this paper, we present an algorithm that reduces the visibility of this seam line in the spatially compounded images. Design procedure for a FIH filter is described and the results of applying the filter to in-vivo ultrasonic images are analyzed.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2008년도 춘계종합학술대회 A
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• pp.556-559
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• 2008

용접부 내에 존재하는 결함의 형태, 위치, 크기 등의 정보를 정량적으로 파악하기 위하여 초음파 탐상 검사가 많이 활용되는데, 최근 들어 용접부의 결함 탐상을 위해, 검사과정을 기계적 스캐너로 자동화한 자동 초음파 탐상 시스템이 많은 산업분야에서 활용되고 있고, 특히 배관 용접부의 건전성 평가를 위한 비 파괴안전진단에서 그 활용 폭이 커지고 있다. 배관 용접부 건전성 제고를 위해 본 연구를 통해 용접부 결함 영상화 프로그램을 구현하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.1057-1066
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• 2006

Acoustic streaming Induced by longitudinal vibration at 30 kHz is visualized for a test fluid flow between the stationary glass plate and ultrasonic vibrating surface with particle imaging velocimetry (PIV) To measure an increase in the velocity of air flow due to acoustic streaming, the velocity of air flow in a gap between the heat source and ultrasonic vibrator is obtained quantitatively using PIV. The ultrasonic wave propagating into air in the gap generates steady-state secondary vortex called acoustic streaming which enhances convective cooling of the stationary heat source. Heat transfer through air in the gap is represented by experimental convective heat transfer coefficient with respect to the gap. Theoretical analysis shows that gaps for maximum heat transfer enhancement are the multiple of half wavelength. Optimal gaps for the actual design are experimentally found to be half wavelength and one wavelength. A drastic temperature variation exists for the local axial direction of the vibrator according to the measurement of the temperature distribution in the gap. The acoustic streaming velocity of the test fluid in the gap is at maximum when the gap agrees with the multiples of half wavelength of the ultrasonic wave, which are specifically 6 mm and 12 mm.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.31-43
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• 2016

Applications of ultrasonic tomography to concrete structures have been reported for many years. However, practical and effective application of this tool for nondestructive assessment of internal concrete condition is hampered by time consuming transducer coupling that limits the amount of ultrasonic data that can be collected. This research aims to deploy recent developments in air-coupled ultrasonic measurements of solids, described in Part 1 of this paper set, to concrete in order to image internal inclusions. Ultrasonic signals are collected from concrete samples using a fully air-coupled (contactless) test configuration. These air coupled data are compared to those collected using partial semi-contact and full-contact test configurations. Two samples are considered: a 150 mm diameter cylinder with an internal circular void and a prism with $300mm{\times}300mm$ square cross-section that contains internal damaged regions and embedded reinforcement. The heterogeneous nature of concrete material structure complicates the application and interpretation of ultrasonic measurements and imaging. Volumetric inclusions within the concrete specimens are identified in the constructed velocity tomograms, but wave scattering at internal interfaces of the concrete disrupts the images. This disruption reduces defect detection accuracy as compared with tomograms built up of data collected from homogeneous solid samples (PVC) that are described in Part 1 of this paper set. Semi-contact measurements provide some improvement in accuracy through higher signal-to-noise ratio while still allowing for reasonably rapid data collection.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1990년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.29-32
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• 1990

In this paper, we designed and fabricated linear array transducer for ultrasonic medical imaging system. Fabricated transducer is 85mm in length and has 64 elements. It shows good sensitivity and band width characteristics compared with commercial transducers.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2006

Recently, active research has been going on to measure the elastic modulus of human soft tissue with medical ultrasound imaging systems for the purpose of diagnosing cancers or tumors which have been difficult to detect with conventional B-mode imaging techniques. In this paper, a real-time ultrasonic elasticity imaging system is implemented in software on a Pentium processor-based ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system. Soft tissue is subjected to external vibration, and the resulting tissue displacements change the phase of received echoes, which is in turn used to estimate tissue elasticity. It was confirmed from experiment with a phantom that the implemented elasticity imaging system could differentiate between soft and hard regions, where the latter is twice harder than the former, while operating at an adequate frame rate of 20 frames/s.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.361-367
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• 2024

공기중 초음파 측정은 각종 기계 설비류의 이상 발생 예방 활동으로 산업계에서 사용되고 있다. 최근에는 다수의 초음파 센서 배열을 이용하여 설비의 이상 발생 위치를 찾을 수 있는 공기중 초음파 영상화 기법의 활용이 증가하고 있다. 초음파 음원의 위치를 가시화하기 위해 센서 별 위상 차이를 이용하는 빔형성법이 사용된다. 2차원 평면에 분포된 초음파 센서 배열을 이용해 3차원 공간에서 빔형성 파워 분포를 구할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 관심 파장보다 크기가 큰 초음파 센서로 구성된 랜덤 희소배열(random sparse array)을 사용하고, 초음파 배열이 분포한 평면으로부터 일정한 거리만큼 떨어진 평행한 평면 내에서의 빔형성 파워 분포를 통해서 음원의 위치를 보여주는 영상화 기법을 구현하고자 한다. 기존의 빔형성법은 사용 하는 배열 센서의 개수와 그에 따른 구경의 크기 등에 의해 공간 해상도가 제한될 수 밖에 없다. 본 연구에서는 배열이 가지는 기하학적 제약을 극복할 수 있는 방법으로 기능성 빔형성법을 적용하여 고해상도 초음파 영상화 기법을 구현하였다. 기능성 빔형성법은 수학적으로 일반화된 형태의 빔형성법으로 표현가능하고, 기존의 빔형성법을 통해 얻어진 영상에서 주엽의 폭과 부엽의 크기를 저감시키는 역할을 하여 고해상도 영상화를 얻을 수 있는 장점이 있다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안한 방법에 의한 영상화 성능을 관찰한 결과, 초음파 희소배열을 이용하여 공기중 초음파 음원의 해상도 증대가 성공적으로 구현됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.51-65
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• 2007

본 논문의 목적은 초음파 탐사 방법을 이용하여 지반내의 불연속 물질을 탐측할 수 있는 고해상도의 시스템을 개발하고 실내에서 적용하는 것이다. 초음파 탐측 방법은 불연속면의 경계면에서 반사되어온 반사파를 탐측하고, 이를 배열하여 불연속면의 존재를 찾는 방법이다. 본 논문은 암반내 초음파의 전달 양상, 최적화된 트랜스듀서의 선택, 데이터 획득, 신호처리 방법, 영상화 기법, 그리고 실내 적용실험을 포함하고 있다. 실내실험은 수평이동장치와 회전이동장치를 이용하여 수행된다. 수중에서 수평이동 및 회전실험 결과, 불연속면의 위치와 크기가 정확하게 평가 되었다. 또한 석고시료에서 회전실험결과 석고 내에 존재하는 균열과 공동이 비교적 정확하게 영상화됨을 알 수 있다. 본 논문은 새롭게 제시된 방법이 암반 불연속면 탐측에 매우 경제적이고 효과적인 방법이 될 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.227-232
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• 1990

As a part of the study on ultrasonic tissue characterization, conventional ultrasonic imaging system is interfaced to the personal computer to acquire raw ultrasonic signal. One approach for tissue charaterization is performed using the attenuation map to the conventional images and the resulting attenuation map images are compared and inspected inside the region of interest from the viewpoint of pattern analysis. Currently, these methods are applied and modified to effectively find out the differences between the normal control and the patients with liver cirrhosis.