• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2005

In this work, we propose a new ultrasonic damage inspection method in plate structures. The proposed method employs an OPMT(orientation-adjustable patch-type magnetostrictive transducer) in order to make the ultrasonic waves directed to a specific target point. For experiments, virtual grid points were set up at every 50 mm in an aluminum plate and two OPMTs were used for inspection. If there exists a crack in a plate, the reflected Lamb wave from the crack is measured in addition to the direct waves from the transmitting transducer to the receiving transducer.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2016

Rayleigh wave velocity along a straight survey line on a concrete plate is measured in order to compare different non-destructive data acquisition techniques. Results from a rolling non-contact data acquisition system using air-coupled microphones are compared to conventional stationary accelerometer results. The results show a good match between the two acquisition techniques. Rolling measurements were found to provide a fast and reliable alternative to stationary system for stiffness determination. However, the non-contact approach is shown to be sensitive to unevenness of the measured surface. Measures to overcome this disadvantage are discussed and demonstrated using both forward and reverse rolling measurements.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.423-427
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• 2004

In this work, we propose a new ultrasonic damage inspection method in plate structures. The proposed method employs an OPMT (Orientation-adjustable Patch-type Magnetostrictive Transducer) in order to make the ultrasonic waves focused on the specific target point. For experiments, virtual grid points were set up at every 50 mm in an aluminum plate and two OPMTs were used for inspection. If there exists a crack in a plate, the reflected Lamb wave from the crack is measured in addition to the direct waves from the transmitting transducer to the receiving transducer.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.241-262
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• 2011

Cast iron pipe has been used as a water distribution technology in North America since the early nineteenth century. The first cast iron pipes were made of grey cast iron which was succeeded by ductile iron as a pipe material in the 1940s. These different iron alloys have significantly different microstructures which give rise to distinct mechanical properties. Insight into the non-destructive structural condition assessment of aging pipes can be advantageous in developing mitigation strategies for pipe failures. This paper examines the relationship between the small-strain and large-strain properties of exhumed cast iron water pipes. Nondestructive and destructive testing programs were performed on eight pipes varying in age from 40 to 130 years. The experimental program included microstructure evaluation and ultrasonic, tensile, and flexural testing. New applications of frequency domain analysis techniques including Fourier and wavelet transforms of ultrasonic pulse velocity measurements are presented. A low correlation between wave propagation and large-strain measurements was observed. However, the wave velocities were consistently different between ductile and grey cast iron pipes (14% to 18% difference); the ductile iron pipes showed the smaller variation in wave velocities. Thus, the variation of elastic properties for ductile iron was not enough to define a linear correlation because all the measurements were practically concentrated in single cluster of points. The cross-sectional areas of the specimens tested varied as a result of minor manufacturing defects and levels of corrosion. These variations affect the large strain testing results; but, surface defects have limited effect on wave velocities and may also contribute to the low correlations observed. Lamb waves are typically not considered in the evaluation of ultrasonic pulse velocity. However, Lamb waves were found to contribute significantly to the frequency content of the ultrasonic signals possibly resulting in the poor correlations observed. Therefore, correlations between wave velocities and large strain properties obtained using specimens manufactured in the laboratory must be used with caution in the condition assessment of aged water pipes especially for grey cast iron pipes.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권6D호
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• pp.905-913
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• 2008

최근 고속전철의 자갈도상에 대한 대안으로 콘크리트 슬래브궤도가 도입되어 고속전철 신규노선에 시공되고 있다. 콘크리트 슬래브궤도는 자갈도상에 비해 내구성, 유지관리 측면에서의 경제성, 열차운행의 안정성 등의 측면에서 우위에 있지만, 우수 및 지하수로 인한 노반강성의 저하, 연약한 원지반의 침하 등으로 인한 슬래브궤도의 처짐은 열차안정성에 치명적인 결함이 된다. 본 연구에서는 슬래브궤도의 처짐 지표로서 슬래브궤도의 휨강성을 설정하고, 슬래브궤도의 휨강성을 2차원 영상으로 표현할 수 있는 FRACTAL (Flexural-Rigidity Assessment of Concrete Tracks by Antisymmetric Lamb Waves) 기법이라는 비파괴 탄성파 기법을 제안하였다. 이론적 근거 확보를 위하여 콘크리트 슬래브궤도에서의 탄성파 시험을 수치해석적으로 모사하여 영향인자 연구를 수행하였고, FRACTAL 기법의 적용성 평가를 위하여 실제 고속전철 슬래브궤도에 적용하여 보았다. 그리고 FRACTAL 시험측선과 동일 측선에서 Impulse-Response 기법과 인접지반에서 전기비저항시험을 수행하여, FRACTAL 기법의 신뢰성을 검증하였다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.340-346
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• 1999

액체/고체 경계면에 표면파가 발생할 때 나타나는 최소반사 및 후방복사 현상을 이용하여 brass와 aluminum 시편 그리고 copper/stainless steel, nickel/brass, nickel/aluminum 도금시편에 대한 표면 탄성파 속도의 주파수 의존성이 측정되었다. 측정된 속도의 분산관계는 일반화 램 표면파의 분산 특성과 잘 일치하였다. 시편들의 분산 특징에 따라 최소반사와 후방복사에 의해 결정된 속도 차이의 경향이 다르게 나타났다. 이러한 대응 관계는 두 현상의 생성 메커니즘과 군속도의 도입으로 설명되었다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.157-174
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• 2020

The guided wave technique is commonly used in structural health monitoring as the guided waves can propagate far in the structures without much energy loss. The guided waves are conventionally generated by the surface-mounted piezoelectric wafer active sensor (PWAS). However, there is still lack of understanding of the wave propagation in layered structures, especially in structures made of anisotropic materials such as carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites. In this paper, the Rayleigh-Lamb wave strain tuning curves in a PWAS-mounted unidirectional CFRP plate are analytically derived using the normal mode expansion (NME) method. The excitation frequency spectrum is then multiplied by the tuning curves to calculate the frequency response spectrum. The corresponding time domain responses are obtained through the inverse Fourier transform. The theoretical calculations are validated through finite element analysis and an experimental study. The PWAS responses under the free, debonded and bonded CFRP conditions are investigated and compared. The results demonstrate that the amplitude and travelling time of wave packet can be used to evaluate the CFRP bonding conditions. The method can work on a baseline-free manner.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.342-348
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• 2003

Zr(1.32mm) 판재 위 $Be-Zr(100{\mu}m)$ 합금층의 평가를 목적으로 후방산란 초음파 의 입사각 의존성인 프로파일이 여러 입사위치에서 측정되었다. 누설 램(Lamb)파로부터 후방복사된 초음파 프로파일에는 4개의 주요 세부 프로파일이 발견되었다. 세부프로파일들의 정점각과 정점세기는 Be 확산층의 강화효과로 인해 감소하였다. 세부 프로파일들의 존재와 변화가 시편재질의 음향학적 특성, 램파모드들의 군속도 집단적 변화 그리고 표면파의 누설율 차이 등으로 설명되었다 판재 위 얇은 확산층의 평가를 위한 유용한 평가 기법으로 판재로부터의 후방복사 세부 프로파일이 제안되었다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 단일 센서와 시간역전 원리를 이용하여 간단한 판에서 충격 위치를 결정할 수 있는 탐상법을 다루었다. 수치적인 시뮬레이션과 실험을 통하여 시간역전에 의한 충격위치와 그 주변에서 신호의 집속효과를 관찰하고, 충격위치 결정에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 인자들(가진력의 크기, 신호의 기록시간)에 대해 살펴보았다. 이러한 결과를 기초로 두 가지 다른 충격위치에 대한 실험을 수행하고 그 결과를 가시화하였으며, 실제 충격위치를 정확하게 결정할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 여기서 제안한 방법의 특징은 단일센서를 사용하는 것과 시험체의 형상과 물성을 몰라도 된다는 점이다. 또한 판에서와 같이 분산성의 다중모드 파동이 발생하는 경우에도 특정 모드나 주파수에 의존할 필요가 없다. 따라서 기존의 충격위치 결정법에 비해 많은 장점을 지니고 있다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.587-614
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• 2014

In recent years the interest in online monitoring of lightweight structures with ultrasonic guided waves is steadily growing. Especially the aircraft industry is a driving force in the development of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. In order to optimally design SHM systems powerful and efficient numerical simulation tools to predict the behaviour of ultrasonic elastic waves in thin-walled structures are required. It has been shown that in real industrial applications, such as airplane wings or fuselages, conventional linear and quadratic pure displacement finite elements commonly used to model ultrasonic elastic waves quickly reach their limits. The required mesh density, to obtain good quality solutions, results in enormous computational costs when solving the wave propagation problem in the time domain. To resolve this problem different possibilities are available. Analytical methods and higher order finite element method approaches (HO-FEM), like p-FEM, spectral elements, spectral analysis and isogeometric analysis, are among them. Although analytical approaches offer fast and accurate results, they are limited to rather simple geometries. On the other hand, the application of higher order finite element schemes is a computationally demanding task. The drawbacks of both methods can be circumvented if regions of complex geometry are modelled using a HO-FEM approach while the response of the remaining structure is computed utilizing an analytical approach. The objective of the paper is to present an efficient method to couple different HO-FEM schemes with an analytical description of an undisturbed region. Using this hybrid formulation the numerical effort can be drastically reduced. The functionality of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by studying the propagation of ultrasonic guided waves in plates, excited by a piezoelectric patch actuator. The actuator is modelled utilizing higher order coupled field finite elements, whereas the homogenous, isotropic plate is described analytically. The results of this "semi-analytical" approach highlight the opportunities to reduce the numerical effort if closed-form solutions are partially available.