• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.461-465
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• 2011

Traditional magnetostrictive/piezoelectric laminate composites are generally in the regular geometries such as rectangles or disks. To explore properties of the irregular geometry magnetostrictive/piezoelectric transducer in the fundamental resonant frequency, a step dumb-bell shaped Magnetoelectric (ME) transducer is presented in this study. Both analytical and experimental investigations are carried out for the dumb-bell shaped transducer in the fundamental frequency. Comparing with the traditional rectangular transducer, the theory shows the resonant frequency of dumb-bell shaped transducer is reduced 31%, and the experiment gives the result of that is 37% which is independent of dc magnetic fields. The ratio of magnetoelectric voltage coefficient (MEVC) between the dumb-bell shaped and rectangular shaped transducers in theory is 66% comparing with that of in experiment is varying from 140% to 33% when the dc field is increased from 0 Oe to 118 Oe.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회논문초록집
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• pp.370.2-370
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• 2002

Magnetostrictive materials are used low-frequency sonar transmitter instead of piezoelectric materials. But it is difficult to analyze due to the nonlinearity and hysteresis of magnetostrictive materials. This paper deals with the program development based on finite element method to model the magnetostrictive tonpilz transducers and to analyze their acoustic characteristics. (omitted)

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.705-710
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• 2002

Magnetostrictive materials are used low frequency sonar transmitter instead of piezoelectric materials. But it is difficult to analyze due to the nonlinearity and hysteresis of magnetostrictive materials. This paper deals with the program development for the finite element modeling of magnetostrictive tonpilz transducers and for analyzing their acoustic characteristics. To take into account the nonlinearity of magnetostrictive materials, the magnetic field calculation is separated form the displacement calculation, and a curve fitting is adopted for the nonlinear behavior of the magnetic and mechanical strain fields. At first, the magnetic field is obtained by using a commercial FEM software and the displacement of the transducer is calculated by plugging the obtained magnetic field into forcing term. To verity the accuracy of the developed program, a comparison is made with a commercial code, ATILA.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.480-486
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• 2021

Magnetoelectric (ME) composite is composed of a piezoelectric material and a magnetostrictive material. Among various ME structures, 2-2 type layered ME composites are anticipated to be used as high-sensitivity magnetic field sensors and energy harvesting devices especially operating at its resonance modes. Rosen type piezoelectric transducer using piezoelectric material is known to amplify a small electrical input voltage to a large electrical output voltage. The output voltage of these Rosen type piezoelectric transducers can be further enhanced by modifying them into ME composite structures. Herein, we fabricated Rosen type ME composites by sandwiching Rosen type PMN-PZT single crystal between two Ni layers and studied their ME coupling. However, the voltage step-up ratio at the resonance frequency was found to be smaller than the value calculated with α_ME value. The ATILA FEA (Finite Elements Analysis) simulation results showed that the position of the nodal point was changed with the presence of a magnetostrictive layer. Thus, while designing a Rosen type ME composite with high performance in a resonant driving situation, it is necessary to optimize the position of the nodal point by optimizing the thickness or length of the magnetostrictive layer.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제17권3_4호
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• pp.303-329
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• 2004

Magnetostrictive materials are routinely employed as actuator and sensor elements in a wide variety of noise and vibration control problems. In infrastructural applications, other technologies such as hydraulic actuation, piezoelectric materials and more recently, magnetorheological fluids, are being favored for actuation and sensing purposes. These technologies have reached a degree of technical maturity and in some cases, cost effectiveness, which justify their broad use in infrastructural applications. Advanced civil structures present new challenges in the areas of condition monitoring and repair, reliability, and high-authority actuation which motivate the need to explore new methods and materials recently developed in the areas of materials science and transducer design. This paper provides an overview of a class of materials that because of the large force, displacement, and energy conversion effciency that it can provide is being considered in a growing number of quasistatic and dynamic applications. Since magnetostriction involves a bidirectional energy exchange between magnetic and elastic states, magnetostrictive materials provide mechanisms both for actuation and sensing. This paper provides an overview of materials, methods and applications with the goal to inspire novel solutions based on magnetostrictive materials for the design and control of advanced infrastructural systems.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.93-97
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• 2009

자기변형 탐촉자는 유도초음파를 적용한 장거리 배관 검사 시에 유용하게 사용되는데 특히 그 신호패턴이 배열형 압전탐촉자를 사용한 유도초음파 신호보다 깨끗하고 단순하기 때문에 단일 결함에 의한 신호패턴을 해석할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 결함 신호의 진행 상황을 분석함으로써 배관의 구조 건전성 감시(structural health monitoring)에도 사용되고 있다. 그러나 실제 현장 검사에서는 유도초음파의 방향성신호, 잔향효과, 모드변환, 구조물 등에 의한 의사 신호 또는 거짓 신호가 나타나기 때문에 결함 평가 시에 주의를 요한다. 본 연구에서는 실제 상황을 모의한 장거리배관 mock-up에서 발생하는 모드변환 신호를 실험적으로 검증하고 해석하였다. 자기변형 스트립 탐촉자에서 발생한 비틀림진동 T(0,1) 모드와 휨진동 F(1,3) 모드 또는 종진동 L(0,2) 모드 간에 모드변환이 발생함을 확인하였고 이러한 모드변환이 발생하는 원인을 스트립 탐촉자 및 검사대상체의 전자기적 재료 특성 및 구조 측면에서 해석하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2014

An ultrasonic magnetostrictive transducer-based phased-array system for imaging defects in plate structures is newly proposed. In that most ultrasonic phased array systems rely on piezoelectric transducers or electromagnetic acoustic transducers, this system has its own unique feature of employing magnetostrictive transducers. Interest in using a phased array system using magnetostrictive transducers has been recently reported for pipe inspection but no such system has been developed for plate inspection. In this investigation, we aim to propose a phased array system using OL-MPTs (Omnidirectional Lamb wave Magnetostrictive Patch Transducers) for plate inspection. The developed system consists of a multi-channel function generator, power amplifiers, preamplifiers and a data acquisition unit. In the process of its development, each of the units must be checked and in doing so, we suggest types of ultrasonic wave experiments that should be carried out. Finally, the phased system using a transducer array composed of eight OL-MPTs is newly configured and is applied for actual crack detection experiments.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.271-275
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• 2011

This paper proposes a magnetoelectric (ME) composite transducer structure consisting of a magnetostrictive H-type Fe-Ni fork substrate and piezoelectric PZT plates. The fork composite structure has a higher ME voltage coefficient compared to other ME composite structures due to the higher quality (Q) factor. The ME sensitivity of the fork structure reaches 12 V/Oe (i.e., 150 V/cm Oe). The fork composite with two PZT plates electrically connected in series exhibits over 5 times higher ME voltage coefficient than the output of the rectangle structure in the same size. The experiment shows the composite of a Fe-Ni fork substrate and PZT plates has a significantly enhanced ME voltage coefficient and a higher ME sensitivity relative to the prior sandwiched composite laminates. By the use of a lock-in amplifier with 10 nV resolution, this transducer can detect a weak magnetic field of less than $10^{-12}$ T. This transducer can also be designed for a magnetoelectric energy harvester due to its passive high-efficiency ME energy conversion.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.246-249
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• 2000

Fe$_{49}$ Co$_{49}$ V$_2$합금을 50$0^{\circ}C$, 75$0^{\circ}C$, 80$0^{\circ}C$ 및 90$0^{\circ}C$의 furnace에서 열처리한 후, 공냉조건으로 냉각하여 시료를 제작하였다. Michelson 레이저 간섭계를 이용하여 시료의 자기변형을 측정하였다 시료의 자기변형은 간섭계의 한쪽 팔에 piezoelectric transducer(PZT)를 부착하여 간섭계의 두 팔 사이의 상대적 광경로를 일정하게 유지하였으며 궤환회로의 전압을 광경로의 변화(자기변형)로 환산하였다. 시료를 90$0^{\circ}C$의 furnace에서 열처리한 후, H = 60 Oe에서 Fe$_{49}$ Co$_{49}$ V$_2$합금의 자기변형을 측정한 결과열처리 전 2$\times$$10^{-6}$ 에서 33.68$\times$$10^{-6}$ 가지 증가하였다. 이것은 시료의 미세구조가 변화되어 자기특성이 개선된 것으로 생각된다.