• 소성∙가공
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.373-378
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• 2016

Recent researches have reported that the superposition of ultrasonic vibrations in metal forming provides beneficial effects such as the reduction of forming load, flow stress and interfacial friction which improves the surface quality of end products. This paper presents experimental investigations on the effects of ultrasonic vibrations in upsetting tests of aluminum. The ultrasonic exciting system consists of piezoelectric transducer and resonator was designed and constructed to superimpose high frequency oscillation on the forming tools. Ultrasonic vibration-assisted upsetting tests were performed for three vibration modes five amplitudes, and the results were compared with those of conventional upsetting tests. The results showed that the superimposition of ultrasonic vibration reduces the upsetting load, and the load reduction is only dependent on the amplitude of the applied vibration regardless of deformation histories and vibration modes.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.292-301
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• 2014

The objective of this study was to design and develop a broadband ultrasonic transducer that has both wide bandwidth and high sensitivity to measure broadband echoes related to identifying fish species. A broadband ultrasonic transducer providing a nearly flat transmitting response band of 40.2-75.5 kHz with a -12 dB bandwidth of 35.3 kHz was achieved by integrating 12 tonpilz transducer elements operating at different resonance frequencies. The average transmitting voltage response, receiving sensitivity, and figure of merit values in this frequency band were 168.4 dB (re $1{\mu}Pa/V$ at 1 m), -196.8 dB (re $1V/{\mu}Pa$), and -28.4 dB, respectively. The results suggest that bandwidth and sensitivity can be widened and improved by adjusting the array pattern and the structure of tonpilz transducer elements.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.302-312
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• 2014

This article describes the design and performance characteristics of a broadband ultrasonic mosaic transducer. We focus on the improved bandwidth in the high frequency band of a previously designed broadband ultrasonic transducer (Lee et al., 2014). The improvement in the pulse-echo bandwidth was achieved by employing twelve $2{\times}2$ element subarrays, operating at different resonance frequencies, and utilizing the mosaic array concept. We found that the -6 dB and -12 dB bandwidths of the newly developed broadband ultrasonic mosaic transducer, were up to 155% and 170% of the previously designed model, with a quality factor of 1.71 and 1.25, respectively. The averaged TVR (transmitting voltage response), SRT (receiving sensitivity), and FOM (figure of merit) values in a nearly flat transmitting response band, from 45 to 105 kHz providing a -12 dB bandwith of 60 kHz, were 163.3 dB (re $1{\mu}Pa/V$ at 1 m), -192.8 dB (re $1V/{\mu}Pa$), and -30.9 dB, respectively.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1997년도 영남지회 학술발표회 논문집 Acoustic Society of Korean Youngnam Chapter Symposium Proceedings
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• pp.40-43
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• 1997

It is known tat the echoes from the most objects differ from the incident pulses in amplitude and frequency .Especially, the frequency in echoes from moving target is shiftby the Doppler effect. it causes to reduce the receiving sensitivity of piezoelectric transducers that have definite band width. The electric impedance, whichis connected to the electrical terminals, notably changes the resonant frequency of a thickeness mode piezoelectric vibrator with high electromechanical doupling due to the electroelastic effect. Using this effect, we have developed a frequency controllable ultrasonic transducer which is mad eof multi-layered PZT disks to adjust to frequency shifted by Doppler effect. The characteristics of transducer can be obtained by using the equivalent circuit of transmission line model. It was confirmed experimentally that the center frequency and band width of the trasducer could be controlled by the conditions of the electrical terminals. These results coincided with theoretical results.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.583-588
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• 2007

This paper investigates the vibration characteristics of a wire-bonding transducer horn for high speed welding devices. The sample wire-bonder uses the input frequency of 136 kHz. The ultrasonic excitation causes the various vibrations of transducer horn and capillary. The vibration modes and frequencies close to the exciting frequency are identified using ANSYS. The nodal lines and amplification ratio of the ultrasonic horn are also obtained in order to evaluate the bonding performance of the sample wire-bonder system. The FEM results and experimental results show that the sample wire-bonder system uses the bending mode of 136 kHz as principal motion for bonding. The major longitudinal mode exists at 119 kHz below the excitation frequency. It is recommeded that the sample system is to set the excitation frequency at 119 kHz to improve bonding performance.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.651-657
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• 2003

Ultrasonic microscope has been used to detect the defects on surface or inner solid. Conventionally, it has used at a single operating frequency. The resolution and quality of the measured images are determined by a characteristic of the transducer of the ultrasonic microscope. The conventional ultrasonic microscope has been used envelope detector to detect the amplitude of reflected signal, but the changes in amplitude is not sensitive enough for specimen with microstructure that in phase. In this paper, we have studied multi-frequency depth resolution enhancement with ultrasonic reflection microscope for the reflectors of a stainless steel reference specimen and a reference calibration block to be used as the material in nuclear power plants for ISI, PSI. Increased depth resolution can be obtained by taking two, three-dimensional images at more that one frequency and numerically combining the results. As results of the experiment, we could get enhanced images with the rate of contrast in proportion and high quality signal distribution for the image to the changing rate of depth for the reflectors of the two kinds of specimens.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.215-222
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• 2011

높은 분해능의 영상을 얻는데 사용하기 위하여 초고주파 대역에서 동작하는 집속 초음파 트랜스듀서를 제작하고 그 특성을 평가하였다. 그 트랜스듀서는 한쪽 면에만 접지용 전극이 있는 두께 9 ${\mu}m$의 PVDF 압전막의 다른 쪽 면에 CCP (Copper Clad Polyimide)막을 에폭시로 접착한 후, 금속구로 압착함에 의해 구각형을 형성시키고, 그 뒷면에 에폭시를 채워 몰딩 시키는 방법에 의해 만들어졌다. 제작된 곡률반경 7.5 mm, f-number 1.7의 트랜스듀서는 초점에 있는 표적에 대한 펄스에 코 측정결과 35.0 MHz의 대역폭을 가지며, 약 40 MHz인 피크주파수 부근에서의 삽입손실은 약 60 dB 을 나타내었는데, 그 측정결과는 에폭시 접착층의 두께를 고려한 KLM 등가회로 해석에 의한 시뮬레이션 결과와 유사한 것이었다. 나아가, 그 트랜스듀서에 의해 얻어진 가는 구리선 표적에 대한 영상을 35 MHz 트랜스듀서를 장착한 UBM (Ultrasonic Backscattering Microscope) 장치에 의한 영상과 비교한 결과, 측방향 분해능은 떨어지나 축방향 분해능은 다소 향상됨을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.117-124
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• 2011

The possibility of using the properties of an ultrasonic wave as a means for monitoring the moisture content of a board during drying was investigated. The ultrasonic wave signals are influenced by moisture content and other factors such as temperature, moisture gradient and coupling area. The effect of temperature was examined by measuring the transit times, amplitudes and velocities of ultrasonic waves transmitted through air, a metal bar and a board at various temperatures. The effect of a moisture gradient was studied using a model specimen composing five wood pieces of various moisture contents. The velocity and amplitude of the ultrasonic waves transmitted through air increase with temperature, while those through a metal bar and a board decrease. It was confirmed that the temperature effect is partially attributed to the change of transducer's properties. The effect of a moisture gradient on the velocity of an ultrasonic wave varies with the average moisture content of a board. As the dimension of the end face of a board increases the velocity of an ultrasonic wave increases and low frequency components more dominates than high frequency components. The transit times of ultrasonic waves transmitted through a board during kiln drying reflect the temperature steps in the drying schedule and the transducer temperatures.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2004년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집 제23권 1호
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• pp.311-314
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• 2004

A new type of high frequency wideband ultrasonic transducer with a separation between a transmitter and a receiver was proposed and its characteristics were simulated using the PSpice model. The piezoelectric ceramic $PbTiO_{3}$ as a transmitter and the piezoelectric copolymer P(VDF-TrFE) as a receiver were used for high sensitivity and wide bandwidth, respectively. The characteristics of a center frequency approximately 40MHz focusing transducer fabricated in this study showed very wide bandwidth which could give an axial spatial resolution better than 30um in the B-mode image for biological tissues.

• 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.