• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.796-803
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• 2008

Ultrasonic testing uses the directivity of the ultrasonic wave, which propagates in on direction. The directivity is expressed as the relationship between the propagate direction and its sound pressure. The directivity of an ultrasonic wave is related to the choice of probe arrangement, testing sensitivity and scanning pitch and correct measurement of defect size and location. This paper describes on the directivity measurement of ultrasonic wave using the visualization method. The directivity of shear wave emitted from the angle beam transducer were constant during propagation. The difference of directivity was existed between 2 MHz and 4 MHz angle beam transducers. When these experimental results were compared with the theory which was based on the continuous wave, it showed good agreement with theoretical directivity on the principal lobe.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2005

A modular Gaussian beam model is developed to simulate some ultrasonic testing configurations where multiple interfaces are involved. A general formulation is given in a modular matrix form to represent the Gaussian beam propagation with multiple interfaces. The ultrasonic transducer fields are modeled by a multi-Gaussian beam model which is formed by superposing 10 single Gaussian beams. The proposed model, referred to as "MMGB" (modular multi-Gaussian beam) model, is then applied to a typical contact and angle beam testing configuration to predict the output signal reflected from the corner of a vertical crack. The resulting expressions given in a modular matrix form are implemented in a personal computer using the MATLAB program. Simulation results are presented and compared with available experimental results.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.207-216
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• 1999

일반적인 하나 또는 두개의 압전소자를 사용하는 트랜스듀서에 비하여 다수의 압전소자를 사용하는 어레이 트랜스듀서는 각 압전소자에 가해지는 펄스의 지연시간을 제어함으로써 초음파 빔을 임의의 지점에 집속시킬 수 있고 기계적 구동없이 임의의 방향으로 조향시켜 실시간 주사를 할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 페이즈드 어레이 트랜스듀서의 설계조건은 압전소자의 수. 압전소자의 크기 그리고 압전소자 사이 간격 등 여러가지가 있으며, 본 연구에서는 그 중에서 압전소자수의 변화에 따른 초음파 빔의 특성을 호이겐스의 원리를 이용한 수평횡파의 시뮬레이션을 통하여 평가하였다. 그 결과 초음파 빔은 조향각이 증가 할수륵 음압이 감소하며, 초음파 빔 특성도 점차적으로 분산됨을 알 수 있었고 또한, 초점거리가 증가할수록 초점에서의 집속효과는 감소하고, 압전소자의 수가 증가되면 집속효과는 향상됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.1-39
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• 1981

A doppler log is the typical device which can measure the ship's speed over the ground directly, by means of doppler effect of the underwater ultrasonic wave, which involves the error due to the sea bottom inclination, the trim and the incorrect transducer installation etc. The present doppler log adopts a single transducer, faced in the direction of themain beam, and therefore it is unable to correct the beam direction to eliminate the above mentioned error. Moreover, the frequencyis also limitted in a comparatively high range for getting a sharp beam with single transducer, and the speed over the ground can not be detectable at the deep sea, for an instance, over 200 meters. This paper describes a theoretical consideration for the doppler log error and an analysis by a computer on the observed speed data by a full size model ship. The result is verified that the most of doppler log error is caused by the ultrasonic beam angle of transducer. To eliminate the doppler log error due to the incorrect transducer installation and also to sharpen the beam for lower frequency range to expand measurable sea depth, this paper proposes a method of controlling the directivity adopting a linear transducer array and of controlling the directivity by the control of exciting current, and investigates by the computer simulation and make experiment with magnetostrictive ferrite transducer of 28, 50 and 75KHz. The experimental results are shown well coincide with the measured ones, and they are revealed that in case where the transducer interval is greater than 1 wavelength, the effective control of the beam direction is hardly performed with keeping adequate beam width and side lobe level. It is concluded that 6-elements array with inter element space of a half wavelength can make comparatively sharp beam and low side lobe level. The results obtained here will contribute very much to the improvement of the performance of doppler log.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.594-604
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• 2003

A State-of-art methodologies on implementing conventional piezoelectric and flexible PVDF elements for generating ultrasonic guided waves in a tubing are presented. Comb transducers with PVDF can be efficiently applied to selectively excite a guided wave mode by wrapping around any size pipe while a conventional immersion type piezo-elements can be also possibly used with a modification of transducer fabrication. Technical comparisons between the use of angle beam probe and comb one will be also discussed in detail. The presented technique can be easily applied to NDE for a long range inspection of tubular structures.

• 한국복합재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국복합재료학회 2004년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.268-271
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• 2004

Non-contact technique should be developed for receiving ultrasonic wave for on-line monitoring of processing defects of fiber reinforced composites, since couplant must be applied on composite materials when conventional ultrasonic testing technique was used. Restriction of conventional ultrasonic testing technique was proven by transmitting and receiving ultrasonic wave on CFRP in various direction of wave propagation with various incident angle of ultrasonic beam. Air-coupled transducer and laser interferometer were applied for non-contacting reception of ultrasonic wave in fiber reinforced composite materials. Air-coupled transducer has optimal sensitivity and frequency band of 300kHz has homogeneous characteristics on direction of wave propagation.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.180-185
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• 2004

비금속 및 금속 재료에 존재하는 미소균열 검출에는 펄스에코법으로 고주파수 집속형 수직 탐촉자를 사용하거나 표면파를 사용한 사각 탐상법을 주로 사용한다. 이러한 방법은 압연 롤, 세라믹 롤 등 대형 구조물의 표면에 존재하는 미소 균열의 존재 여부, 위치 및 깊이 측정을 위한 자동화 초음파 탐상장치를 개발하는 다량의 검사 데이터, 결함 위치정보의 불확실성 등 현실적으로 많은 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 대구경 초음파 탐촉자를 사용하여 초음파 회절현상을 발생시킴으로써, 미세 균열의 존재 여부 및 위치 등의 검사결과를 실시간 A, B, C-Scan으로 표시할 수 있었다. 또한 기존의 방법보다 정량적으로 표면 균열의 깊이를 정확하게 측정 가능한 방법을 제시하였다. 초음파의 회절현상을 이용함으로서 기존의 방법보다 검사 속도 및 시간이 10배 이상으로 향상되고 균열의 깊이를 정량적으로 평가할 수 있는 방법을 실험적으로 검증하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.799-800
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• 2008

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.475-479
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• 2003

재료에 존재하는 미소균열을 검출하기 위한 일반적인 초음파 탐상법은 고주파수 집속형 수직 초음파 탐촉자를 이용한 펄스-에코법을 사용하거나 표면파를 발생시키는 사각 탐상법을 사용한다. 이러한 방법들은 압연 롤, 세라믹 롤등 대형 구조물의 표면에 존재하는 미소 크랙의 존재 여부 및 위치 측정을 위한 자동화 초음파 탐상장치를 구성하기에는 다랑의 검사 데이터, 결함 위치정보의 불확실성 등 현실적으로 많은 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 고정밀도 초음파 현미경(scanning acoustic microscope)에 비교적 저주파수의 대구경 초음파 탐촉자를 사용하여 미세균열의 존재 여부 및 위치 등의 검사결과를 실시간 A, B, C-Scan으로 표시할 수 있으며, 기존의 방법보다 검사 속도 및 시간을 10배 이상으로 향상된 파동화 초음파 탐상법 및 초음파 현미경법의 실용성을 검증하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.656-663
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• 2001

This paper presents a sensor fusion method to recognize a cylindrical object a CCD camera, a laser slit beam and ultrasonic sensors on a pan/tilt device. For object recognition with a vision sensor, an active light source projects a stripe pattern of light on the object surface. The 2D image data are transformed into 3D data using the geometry between the camera and the laser slit beam. The ultrasonic sensor uses an ultrasonic transducer array mounted in horizontal direction on the pan/tilt device. The time of flight is estimated by finding the maximum correlation between the received ultrasonic pulse and a set of stored templates - also called a matched filter. The distance of flight is calculated by simply multiplying the time of flight by the speed of sound and the maximum amplitude of the filtered signal is used to determine the face angle to the object. To determine the position and the radius of cylindrical objects, we use a statistical sensor fusion. Experimental results show that the fused data increase the reliability for the object recognition.