• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제36권12호
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• pp.1511-1519
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• 2012

배관설비는 용접이음으로 많은 부분이 구성되어 있으며, 이러한 배관 용접부의 건전성 평가를 위한 초음파 검사 시스템의 자동화 요구가 증대하고 있다. 전자기초음파탐촉자(Electromagnetic Acoustic Transducer; EMAT)는 비접촉 방식으로 초음파를 송 수신할 수 있고 다양한 초음파 모드의 발생이 가능하여 초음파 자동화 시스템 구축에 매우 유용하다. 본 연구에서는 수평횡파(Shear Horizontal wave; SH-wave) EMAT를 적용하여 배관의 용접부에 존재하는 결함의 검출을 수행하였다. 이때 수평횡파의 특정 모드($SH_0$)의 신호해석을 위해 웨이브렛 변환(Wavelet Transform)을 이용한 신호의 시간-주파수 분석을 수행 하였다. 웨이브렛 변환으로 해석된 SH0 모드 주파수의 반사 신호강도가 결함의 길이와 선형적 관계를 나타내어 효과적으로 용접부 결함 검출이 가능하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.327-334
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• 2009

Elastic wave is one of the most useful tools for non-destructive tests in nuclear power plants. Since the elastic properties are indispensable for analyzing the behaviors of elastic waves, they should be predetermined within an acceptable accuracy. Nuclear power plants are exposed to harsh environmental conditions and hence the structures are degraded. It means that the Young's modulus becomes unreliable and in-situ measurement of Young's modulus is required from an engineering point of view. Young's modulus is estimated from the group velocity of propagating waves. Because the flexural wave of a plate is inherently dispersive, the group velocity is not clearly evaluated in temporal signal analysis. In order to overcome such ambiguity in estimation of group velocity, Wigner-Ville distribution as the time-frequency analysis technique was proposed and utilized. To verify the proposed method, experiments for steel and acryl plates were performed with accelerometers. The results show good estimation of the Young's modulus of two plates.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.195-205
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• 2023

The contact acoustic emission (AE) monitoring system is time-consuming and costly for monitoring concrete structures in large scope, in addition, the great difference in acoustic impedance between air and concrete makes the detection process inconvenient. In this work, we broaden the conventional AE source localization method for concrete to the non-contact (air-coupled) micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) microphones array, which collects the energy-rich leaky Rayleigh waves, instead of the relatively weak P-wave. Finite element method was used for the numerical simulations, it is shown that the propagation velocity of leaky Rayleigh waves traveling along the air-concrete interface agrees with the corresponding theoretical properties of Lamb wave modes in an infinite concrete slab. This structures the basis for implementing a non-contact AE source location approach. Based on the experience gained from numerical studies, experimental studies on the proposed air-coupled AE source location in concrete slabs are carried out. Finally, it is shown that the locating map of AE source can be determined using the proposed system, and the accuracy is sufficient for most field monitoring applications on large plate-like concrete structures, such as tunnel lining and bridge deck.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제20권3E호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2001

Finite element model of a cMUT is constructed using the commercial code ANSYS to analyze the cross talk mechanism. Calculation results of the complex load impedance seen by single capacitor cells are presented, and then followed by a calculation of the plane wave real load impedance seen by a parallel combination of many cells that are used to make a transducer. Cross talk between 1-D array elements is found to be due to two main sources: coupling through a Stoneley wave propagating at the transducer-water interface and coupling through Lamb waves propagating in the substrate. To reduce the cross talk level, the effect of various structural variations of the substrate are investigated, which include a change of its thickness and etched trenches or polymer walls between array elements.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2008년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.699-704
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• 2008

This paper describes a general approach for processing data from an omni-directional guided wave transducer array for the rapid inspection of large plate structures. A basic phased array algorithm is presented that can be applied to any array Geometry. For guided waves on plate, beam steering algorithm is derived and the corresponding beam pattern is analyzed. The algorithms are applied to simulation and experimental data. The results show well its usefulness in structural applications.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.32-40
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• 2010

This paper proposes the technique of estimating the pipe thickness using the measured group velocity. To measure the group velocity from the accelerometer data in the frequency domain, Wigner-Ville distribution is utilized, which interprets the waveform of the shock wave. Using this measured group velocity, this paper proposes the technique to estimate the thickness of pipes with the impact on the pipe. The group velocity is estimated by the modeling correlation between the group velocity and the thickness of the pipe based on the propagation velocities. The correlation model between thickness and group velocity has been proved through the real experiments. The measured group velocity in the frequency-domain is the maximum at the center frequency of the bending waves in the modeling of the group velocity. In addition to these, a smoothing technique for analyzing lamb wave Wigner-Ville distribution has been introduced to improve the reliability of the data acquisition.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.546-548
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• 2010

This paper proposes a new baseline-free TR-based SHM method in which the time-reversal (TR) property of the guided Lamb waves is utilized. The new TR-based SHM method has two distinct features when compared with the other existing SHM techniques: (1) The measurement- based backward TR process is replaced by the computation-based process (2) In place of the comparison method most commonly used for SHM, the TOF information of the damage signal extracted from the reconstructed signal is utilized for the damage diagnosis. For the damage diagnosis, the imaging method is adopted to efficiently detect damage by representing the damage as an image. The proposed TR-based SHM technique is then validated through the damage diagnosis experiment for an aluminum plate with a damage at different locations.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2001년도 추계학술발표대회 논문집 제20권 2호
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• pp.219-222
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• 2001

Nondestructive nonlinear acoustic method in two dimensions is suggested as a useful tool for detecting defects in a composite layer-structured material. Spectrum level changes in fundamental and harmonic frequencies are observed in the presence of a layer type defect compared with in the absence of such a defect. It is proposed in this study that such spectrum changes we due to the mode conversion. The layer type defect makes different normal modes due to different boundary conditions in the thickness direction for the Lamb waves propagating in a layer-structured material. Specifically, the normal mode with the fundamental frequency in the case of the water-layer gap is converted to the normal mode with the second harmonic frequency in the case of the air-layer gap.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.56-63
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• 2009

This paper describes a general approach for processing data from an omni-directional guided wave transducer array for the rapid inspection of large plate structures. A basic phased array algorithm is presented that can be applied to any array geometry. For guided waves on plate, beam steering algorithm is derived and the corresponding beam pattern is analyzed. The algorithms are applied to simulation and experimental data. The results show well its usefulness in structural applications.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2002년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집 제21권 1호
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• pp.529-534
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• 2002

유도초음파는 얇은 판재와 다층재료를 평가하는데 널리 사용되는데, 이를 정량적으로 이용하기 위해서는 위상 및 군속도의 분산선도는 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 후방복사 리키 램파를 이용하여 위상속도 분산곡선과 군속도를 측정하였다. 물에 잠긴 판재에 입사각을 변화 시키면서 판재에서 발생하는 후방복사 초음파 신호를 측정하였고, 후방복사된 초음파 신호는 유도초음파의 분산특성을 지님을 보였다. 입사각도와 수신된 파형의 주파수 분석을 통하여 램파의 위상속도 분산선도를 구하였다. 또한, 특정한 입사각에서 입사점을 변화시키면 서 론 파형의 시간대역 이동으로부터 군속도를 측정하였다.