• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.242-247
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• 2009

The ability of time reversal techniques to focus ultrasonic beams on the source location is important in many aspects of ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation. In this paper, we investigate the time reversal beam focusing of ultrasonic array sensors on a defect in layered media. Numerical modeling is performed using the commercially available software which employs a time domain finite difference method. Two different time reversal approaches are considered - the through transmission and the pulse-echo. Linear array sensors composed of N elements of line sources are used for signal reception/excitation, time reversal, and reemission in time reversal processes associated with the scattering source of a side-drilled hole located in the second layer of two layer structure. The simulation results demonstrate the time reversal focusing even with multiple reflections from the interface of layered structure. We examine the focusing resolution that is related to the propagation distance, the size of array sensor and the wavelength.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2006년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.25-32
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• 2006

We present a imaging method of seismic sources by time reversal propagation of seismic waves. Time-reversal wave propagation is actively used in medical imaging, non destructive testing and waveform tomography. Time-reversal wave propagation is based on the time-reversal invariance and the spatial reciprocity of the wave equation. A signal is recorded by an array of receivers, time-reversed and then back-propagated into the medium. The time-reversed signal propagates back into the same medium and the energy refocuses back at the source location. The increasing power of computers and numerical methods makes it possible to simulate more accurately the propagation of seismic waves in heterogenous media. In this work, a staggered-grid finite-difference solution of the elastic wave equation is employed for the wave propagation simulation. With numerical experiments, we show that the time-reversal imaging will enable us to explore the spatio-temporal history of complex earthquake.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.59-63
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• 2008

Time reversal (TR) of nondispersive body waves has been used in many applications including ultrasonic NDE. However, the study of the TR method for Lamb waves on thin structures is not well established. In this paper, the full reconstruction of the input signal is investigated for dispersive Lamb waves by introducing a time reversal operator based on the Mindlin plate theory. A broadband and a narrowband input waveform are employed to reconstruct the $A_0$ mode of Lamb wave propagations. Due to the frequency dependence of the TR process of Lamb waves, different frequency components of the broadband excitation are scaled differently during the time reversal process and the original input signal cannot be fully restored. This is the primary reason for using a narrowband excitation to enhance the flaw detectability.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제27권3E호
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• pp.104-111
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• 2008

Recently, a method for robust time reversal focusing has been introduced to extend the period of stable focusing in time-dependent ocean environments [S. Kim et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 114, 145-157, (2003)]. In this study, concept of focal-size broadening based on waveguide invariant theory in an ocean time reversal acoustics is described. It is achieved by imposing the multiple location constraints. The signal vector used in multiple location constraints are found from the theory on waveguide invariant for frequency band corresponding the extended focal range. The broadening of foci in an ocean waveguide can play an important role in the application of time reversal processing, particularly to the underwater acoustic communication with moving vehicles. The proposed method is demonstrated in the context of the underwater acoustic communication from the transmit/receive array (TRA) to a slowly moving vehicle.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2006년도 공동학술대회 논문집
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• pp.181-186
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 지진파 역행 전파를 이용하여 지진원을 영상화 하는 방법에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 시간 역행 전파는 파동 방정식의 시간 반전의 불변성과 상반정리로 설명할 수 있으며 파동의 시간 역행 전파는 의학적인 목적을 비롯한 비파괴 검사, 그리고 탄성파 파형 역산에 사용되어 매질을 영상화 하는데 활용되고 있다. 지진 관측소에서 관측된 지진파형은 지진원으로부터 방출된 에너지를 기록한 것이다. 이를 시간의 역순으로 매질로 전파시키면, 지진으로부터 전파되었던 에너지가 진원시각의 지진원 위치에 집중하게 되어 지진원을 영상화 시키는 원리이다. 본 연구에서는 3차원 지진파 전파의 수치 모의를 위해 엇갈린 격자 유한 차분법과 병렬 처리 기법을 이용하여 탄성 매질에서의 파동방정식의 해를 구하였다. 수치모의 결과로부터 지진파 역행 전파를 이용해 지진의 시공간적 발생양상을 살펴볼 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.303-320
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• 2011

Comparing to active damage monitoring, impact localization on composite by using time reversal focusing method has several difficulties. First, the transfer function of the actuator-sensor path is difficult to be obtained because of the limitation that no impact experiment is permitted to perform on the real structure and the difficulty to model it because the performance of real aircraft composite is much more complicated comparing to metal structure. Second, the position of impact is unknown and can not be controlled as the excitation signal used in the active monitoring. This makes it not applicable to compare the difference between the excitation and the focused signal. Another difficulty is that impact signal is frequency broadband, giving rise to the difficulty to process virtual synthesis because of the highly dispersion nature of frequency broadband Lamb wave in plate-like structure. Aiming at developing a practical method for on-line localization of impact on aircraft composite structure which can take advantage of time reversal focusing and does not rely on the transfer function, a PZT sensor array based phase synthesis time reversal impact imaging method is proposed. The complex Shannon wavelet transform is presented to extract the frequency narrow-band signals from the impact responded signals of PZT sensors. A phase synthesis process of the frequency narrow-band signals is implemented to search the time reversal focusing position on the structure which represents the impact position. Evaluation experiments on a carbon fiber composite structure show that the proposed method realizes the impact imaging and localization with an error less than 1.5 cm. Discussion of the influence of velocity errors and measurement noise is also given in detail.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.1120-1131
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• 2011

Researches using time reversal acoustics(TRA) for impact localization have been paid attention to recently. Dispersion characteristics of Lamb waves, which restrict the utility of classical nondestructive evaluation based on time-of-flight information, can be compensated through the application of TRA to Lamb waves on a plate. This study investigates the spatial focusing performance of time reversal Lamb waves on a plate using finite element analysis. In particular, the virtual sensor effect caused by multiple wave reflections at the boundaries of a plate is shown to enable the spatial focusing of Lamb waves though a very small number of surface-bonded piezoelectric(PZT) sensors are available. The time window size of forward response signals, are normalized with respect to the number of virtual active sensors. Then their effects on the spatial focusing performance of Lamb waves are investigated.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.129-134
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• 2011

The universal current reversal method is used for the simultaneous measurement of response time (${\tau}$), azimuthal angle (${\varphi}_o$), spontaneous polarization ($P_S$), and rotational viscosity (${\gamma}_{\varphi}$) of two ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs). The application of AC field in FLCs results in reorientational current, which is further analyzed to obtain various parameters. The variation in the parameters with temperature follows the typical trend predicted by the theory. The theoretical curve fits well into the experimental data. Its comparison with traditional current reversal method is confirmed to address certain limitations of that method.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.285-289
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 지능적인 원거리 무선전력전송의 방식으로 시간 역전(time reversal) 기반 전파 집속 방법을 제시하였다. 시간 역전 기반의 무선전력전송은 복잡한 전파환경에서도 기기의 위치에 상관없이 전파를 선택적으로 집속하여 높은 peak 전력을 전달할 수 있다. 현실과 가까운 전파환경 시뮬레이션을 통하여 시간 역전 기반의 시 공간 전파 집속 현상을 검증하였고, 집속된 RF를 정류하여 전달된 DC 전압을 확인하였다. 또한 일반적인 협대역 신호(CW) 대비 시간 역전 신호의 peak 향상률과 정류 전력비를 확인한 결과, 최대 12 dB 향상된 peak 전력이 전송되었으며, 따라서 보다 높은 효율로 전력전송이 이루어짐을 확인하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제31권8호
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• pp.551-560
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• 2012

시역전 기술을 활용한 수중음향장벽에 의한 수중물체 탐지는 능동소나와 수동소나의 기법과 이론적 배경이 명확한 시역전 처리의 개념을 포함하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 수동형 해양 시역전에 의한 수중탐지의 개념과 이론을 수립하였다. 또한 수중음향 전파모델을 활용하여 모델링을 통해 수동형 시역전 수중음향장벽의 성능 예측을 수행하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 수동형 시역전 개념을 이용한 수중음향장벽 탐지시스템의 설계 시 유용한 성능예측 도구로 활용될 수 있다.