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Application of Acoustic Emission Technique for Bridge Cable Monitoring (교량 케이블 적용 강연선 모니터링을 위한 음향방출 기법 검토)

  • Kim, Ga-Young;Seo, Dong-Woo
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.121-125
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    • 2018
  • This paper presents the assessment of 7-wire strand monitoring using acoustic emission technique for bridges. 7-wire strand is widely used construction materials to provide additional tensile force to bridges. PSC (PreStressed Concrete) bridge and cable-stayed bridge are representatives for such cases. However, as the bridge aging progresses recently, corrosion problems of strand are emerging. For this reason, various NDT (Non-Destructive Test) methods for cable inspection are being studied and applied to the field. One of the NDT methods, acoustic emission technique, is known as an effective technique to detect cable damage and breakage. In this study, to evaluate the applicability of acoustic emission technique to bridges, acoustic emission signals according to damage of the strand were acquired and analyzed by tensile test. Moreover, The optimal AE sensor type was selected for field application. As a result, it is considered that the acoustic emission technique will be able to detect corrosion breakage and signs of rupture.

Understanding the Material Removal Mechanisms of Abrasive Water Jet Drilling Process by Acoustic Emission Technique

  • Kwak, Hyo-Sung;Kovacevic, Radovan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 1998.03a
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    • pp.40-52
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    • 1998
  • Among the non-traditional machining methods, Abrasive waterjet machining process shows big promise in drilling difficult-to-machine materials due to its numerous advantages such as absence of heat affect zone and thermal distortion. Acoustic emission signal technique is used to understand about material removal mechanisms during abrasive waterjet drilling process. More information about the drilling process is derived through frequency decomposition of auto regressive moving average modeling representing acoustic emission signals.

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THE INVESTIGATION FOR UH-60 HOVERING ACOUSTIC NOISE CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS BY COMPUTATIONAL AERO-ACOUSTIC METHOD (전산공력소음해석을 통한 UH-60 제자리비행 공력소음 연구)

  • Park, N.E.;Woo, C.H.;Choi, G.M.;Kim, C.H.;Yee, S.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.70-74
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    • 2009
  • The helicopter development technology is improved by the increasing of computing power and advanced test facilities. The increasing efficiency of fuel consuming by the developing of improved lift-to-drag rotor system is the major issue, the noise reduction for ecology(civil area) and increase of survivability to reduce noise detection(battlefield) also are important. This investigation shows the helicopter external noise flight test methods, conventional military helicopter's(UH-60) experimental results and the numerical modeling method for aero-acoustic of rotor blade and the result of CAA(Computational Aero-Acoustic) for main rotor blade.

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Robust Energy Efficiency Power Allocation for Uplink OFDM-Based Cognitive Radio Networks

  • Zuo, Jiakuo;Dao, Van Phuong;Bao, Yongqiang;Fang, Shiliang;Zhao, Li;Zou, Cairong
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.506-509
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    • 2014
  • This paper studies the energy efficiency power allocation for cognitive radio networks based on uplink orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing. The power allocation problem is intended to minimize the maximum energy efficiency measured by "Joule per bit" metric, under total power constraint and robust aggregate mutual interference power constraint. However, the above problem is non-convex. To make it solvable, an equivalent convex optimization problem is derived that can be solved by general fractional programming. Then, a robust energy efficiency power allocation scheme is presented. Simulation results corroborate the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

A New Distance Measure for a Variable-Sized Acoustic Model Based on MDL Technique

  • Cho, Hoon-Young;Kim, Sang-Hun
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.795-800
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    • 2010
  • Embedding a large vocabulary speech recognition system in mobile devices requires a reduced acoustic model obtained by eliminating redundant model parameters. In conventional optimization methods based on the minimum description length (MDL) criterion, a binary Gaussian tree is built at each state of a hidden Markov model by iteratively finding and merging similar mixture components. An optimal subset of the tree nodes is then selected to generate a downsized acoustic model. To obtain a better binary Gaussian tree by improving the process of finding the most similar Gaussian components, this paper proposes a new distance measure that exploits the difference in likelihood values for cases before and after two components are combined. The mixture weight of Gaussian components is also introduced in the component merging step. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms MDL-based optimization using either a Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence or weighted KL divergence measure. The proposed method could also reduce the acoustic model size by 50% with less than a 1.5% increase in error rate compared to a baseline system.

Acoustic Echo Cancellation using the DUET Algorithm and Scaling Factor Estimation (잡음 상황에서 DUET 블라인드 신호 분리 알고리즘과 스케일 계수 추정을 이용한 음향 반향신호 제거)

  • Kim, K.J.;Seo, J.B.;Nam, S.W.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.10c
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    • pp.416-418
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a new acoustic echo cancellation approach based on the DUET algorithm and scaling factor estimation is proposed to solve the scaling ambiguity in case of blind separation based acoustic echo cancellation in a noisy environment. In hands-free full-duplex communication system. acoustic noises picked up by the microphone are mixed with echo signal. For this reason, the echo cancellation system may provide poor performance. For that purpose, a degenerate unmixing estimation technique, adjusted in the time-frequency domain, is employed to separate undesired echo signals and noises. Also, since scaling and permutation ambiguities have not been solved in the blind source separation algorithm, kurtosis for the desired signal selection and a scaling factor estimation algorithm are utilized in this rarer for the separation of an echo signal. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach yields better echo cancellation and noise reduction performances, compared with conventional methods.

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Applicatio of Finite Element and Boundary Element Methods to Predict Steady-State Response of a Structure-Acoustic-Cavity System (구조-음향계의 정상상태 응답예측을 위한 유한요소법과 경계요소법의 응용)

  • Lee, Cang-Myung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.1383-1391
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    • 1996
  • The steady-state response for a coupled structure-acoustic-cavity systme has been investigated by numerical technique using a directly coupled finite element method(FEM) and Boundary Element Method(BEM) model. The Laplace tranformed matrix equations for the structure and the acoustic cavity are coupled directly satisfying the necessary equilibrium and compatibility conditions. The coupled FEM-BEM code is verified by comparing its prediction for an example with known analytical, numerical and experimental results. The example involves a coupled structure-acoustic-cavity system which is a box-type cavity with one end as experimentally excited pinned-pinned plate.

Computer Simulation for Noise Source Identification and Application to Vehicle Using Complex Acoustic Intensity Method (복소음향 인텐시티법을 이용한 소음원검출의 시뮬레이션 및 실차응용)

  • 오재응;김상헌;안지훈
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.159-171
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    • 1997
  • Sound intensity distributions and energy flow in the near field of dipole source system and flat plate were investigated. First, the effectiveness of complex acoustic intensity was proved by using mathmatical and experimental methods in order to inden- tify noise sources and transmission paths of dipole field which is effected by the presence of neighbouring coherent sources. Next, analytical complex acoustic intensity method was discussed and the characteristics and energy flow of sound induced from the plate are clarified. The velocity of plate obtained from Finite Element Method was used for calculation of complex acoustic intensity in the near field. Finally experimental complex acoustic intensity method using both of active and reactive intensity is vital in devising a strategy for the identification and the reduction of vibration and noise.

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The Floor Structure of Korean High Speed Train : Equivalent Plate Model and Acoustic Power Radiation (한국형 고속전철 하니콤 바닥구조의 등가평판모델 및 방사소음평가)

  • 장준호;이상윤;홍성철;이우식;박철희
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.398-404
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    • 1998
  • The acoustic power reduction methods of the vibrating structures are valid to design the quite structure. To calculate the acoustic power, the dynamic responses have to be determined. It is not easy to analyse the structure composed of the corrugated panels. Because of the structural complexity and the many analysing times. To make up for these defects, the equivalent orthogonal panel is presented. Also the acoustic power prediction method of the vibrating structures is proposed. As examples, the equivalent material properties of the corrugated plates are obtained and the acoustic powers of the floor structure are calculated at several frequency regions for KHST.

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Nondestructive Evaluation for Long-term Heat Treatment Effects on Microstructure of Co-base Superalloy by Scanning Acoustic Microscope (주사음향현미경을 이용한 코발트기 초내열합금 미세조직에 관한 장시간 열영향에 대한 비파괴평가)

  • lEE, JoonHee;Kim, ChungSeok
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.118-123
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    • 2019
  • The aim of this study investigates the feasibility of scanning acoustic microscope (SAM) with high frequency transducer for material degradation. The test specimen was prepared by artificial heat treatment of Co-base superalloy. The high frequency 200 MHz acoustic lens was used to generate the leaky surface acoustic wave (LSAW) on the test specimens. The matrix precipitates coarsened with thermal aging time, and then grow up to several tens of micrometers. The velocity of LSAW decreased with increasing aging time. Also, it has a good correlation between LSAW and hardness. Consequently, V(z) curve methods of SAM using high frequency transducer is useful tool to evaluate the heat treatment effects on microstructure.