• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.809-817
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• 2020

In cells, the microtubules are surrounded by viscoelastic medium. Microtubules, though very small in size, perform a vital role in transportation of protein and in maintaining the cell shape. During performing these functions waves propagate and this propagation of waves has been investigated using nonlocal elastic theory. But the effect of surrounding medium was not taken into account. To fill this gap, this study considers the viscoelastic medium along with nonlocal elastic theory. The analytical formulas of the velocity of waves, and the results reveal that the presence of medium reduces the velocity. The axisymmetric and nonaxisymmetric waves are separately discussed. Furthermore, the results are compared with the results gained from the studies of free microtubules. The presence of medium around microtubules results in the increase of the flexural rigidity causing a significant decrease in radial wave velocity as compared to axial and circumferential wave velocities. The effect of viscoelastic medium is more obvious on radial wave velocity, to a lesser extent on torsional wave velocity and least on longitudinal wave velocity.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.427-435
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• 2009

배관, 축 등과 같은 원통형 구조물은 산업설비에 널리 이용되고 그 중요성으로 인해 지속적인 건전성 평가를 요구하는 대상이 되는 경우가 많다. 최근, 이러한 원통형 구조물의 비파괴평가를 위해 자기변형 패치 트랜스듀서를 이용한 비틀림 유도초음파 검사가 활발히 연구되고 있다. 하지만, 기존의 자기변형 패치 트랜스듀서가 민감도 증가를 위해 자기변형 성능이 큰 강자성 패치를 구조물에 부착하여 사용하기 때문에, 시간과 비용의 소모를 비롯한, 많은 불편함을 초래한다는 한계를 지니고 있다. 이러한 기존 트랜스듀서의 단점을 극복하기 위해서 원통형 구조물에 적용이 가능한 비틀림파 변환용 모듈형 자기변형 트랜스듀서를 개발하였다. 제안한 트랜스듀서는 모든 구성요소가 모듈 내부에 집적되어 강자성 패치를 구조물에 따로 부착하는 대신, 전단 커플런트를 이용한 액상접촉이나 매개물을 사용하지 않는 건식접촉 방법으로 사용이 가능하므로, 비틀림 유도초음파 시험을 용이하고 효율적으로 수행할 수 있는 수단을 제공한다. 본 연구에서는, 상세한 구조와 구동원리를 기술하고 탄소강 시편을 대상으로 실험적 검증을 수행함으로써, 제안한 트랜스듀서의 성능 및 응용가능성을 확인하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.79-84
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• 1998

본 논문은 길이방향으로 조화함수 형태로 변화하는 단면적을 가진 원형단면의 탄성 막대에서 전파하는 비틂 탄성파의 전파속도에 대한 이론적 및 실험적 결과를 제시한다. 주 기적인 미소한 반경 변화를 섭동법에 의해 다루어 전파속도의 이론적 근사해를 구하였다. 그결과 전파속도는 반경 변화 폭의 제곱에 비례하는 양 만큼 감소하는 경향이 나타났다. 이 론적 경향을 검증하기 위한 실험은 자왜현상으로 비틂파를 전파시키고 나사면을 가진 탄성 도파관에서 전파속도를 측정하는 방법으로 행하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.923-929
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• 2004

A magnetostrictive sensor is a sensor measuring elastic waves. Because of its unique non-contact measurement feature, the sensor receives more attentions in recent years. These sensors have been mainly used to measure longitudinal and torsional waves in ferromagnetic waveguides, but there increases an interest in using the sensor for flexural wave measurement. Since the performance of the sensor is strongly influenced by the applied bias magnetic field distribution, the design of the bias magnetic system providing the desired magnetic field is critical. The motivation of this investigation is to design a bias magnetic system consisting of electromagnets and yokes and the specific objective is to formulate the design problem as a bias yoke topology optimization. For the formulation, we employ linear magnetic behavior and examine the optimized results for electromagnets located at various locations. After completing the design optimization, we fabricate the prototype of the proposed bias magnetic system, and test its performance through flexural wave measurements.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.174-178
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• 2015

This paper describes a signal processing technique for identifying signals from defects by using an electromagnetic-ultrasonic guided waves method based on a magnetostrictive sensor that generates a torsional mode (T(0, 1)). Because this technique is based on the digital filtering, the filtered signals provide information on the relationship between the cutoff frequency of band-pass filter and the characteristic of defect signals in heat exchange tubes. To verify the performance of the technique, artificial defects with various thickness reduction ration and shape were machined in titanium tubes, and digital filtering results are reported. The results show that digital filtering provides information to the identify shape of defects and the contact condition between the tube and support ring. Therefore, the proposed technique has good potential as a tool for evaluating the integrity of heat exchange tubes.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.589-598
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• 2002

The safe operation of petrochemical plant requires screening of the pipework to ensure that there are no unacceptable levels of corrosion. Unfortunately, each plant has many thousands of metres of pipe, much of which is insulated or inaccessible. Conventional methods such as visual inspection and ultrasonic thickness gauging require access to each point of the pipe which is time consuming and very expensive to achieve. Extensional or torsional ultrasonic guided waves in the pipe wall provide an attractive solution to this problem because they can be excited at one location on the pipe and will propagate many metres along the pipe, returning echoes indicating the presence of corrosion or other pipe features. Guided Ultrasonics Ltd have now commercialised the technique and this paper describes the basis of the method, together with examples of practical test results and typical application areas.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.108-113
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• 2005

One of the recent safety issues in the pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) is the cracking of the feeder pipe. Because of the limited accessibility to the cracked region and a high dose of radiation exposure, it is difficult to inspect all the pipes with the conventional ultrasonic method. In order to solve this problem, a long-range guided wave technique has been developed. A computer program to calculate the dispersion curves in the pipe was developed and the dispersion curves for the feeder pipes in PHWR plants were determined. Several longitudinal and/or flexural modes were selected from the review of the dispersion curves and an actual experiment has been carried out with the specific alignment of the piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers. They were confirmed as L(0,1)) and/or flexural modes(F(m,2)) by the short time Fourier transformation(STFT) and were sensitive to the circumferential cracks, but not to the axial cracks in the pipe. An electromagnetic acoustic transducers(EMAT) was designed and fabricated for the generation and reception of the torsional guided wave. The axial cracks were detected by a torsional mode(T(0,1)) generated by the EMAT.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.16-21
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• 2003

The very large container ships have been built recently and those ships have very small structural rigidity compared with the other conventional ships. As a result, the destruction of ship hull is occurred by the springing including to warping phenomena due to encounter waves. In this study, the solutions of hydrodynamic coefficients are obtained by solving the three dimensional source distribution method and the forward speed Green function representing a translating and pulsating source potential for infinite water depth is used to calculating the integral equation. The vessel is longitudinally divided into various sections and the added mass, wave damping and wave exciting forces of each section is calculated by integrating the dynamic pressures over the mean wetted section surface. The equations for six degree freedom of motions is obtained for each section in the frequency domain and stiffness matrix is calculated by Euler beam theory. The computations are carried out for very large ship and effects of bending and torsional ridigity on the wave frequency and angle are investigated.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.145-158
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• 2008

In slender sections there is a substantial post-buckling strength provided after the formation of local buckling waves. These waves happened due to normal stresses or shear stresses or both. In this study, a numerical investigation of the behavior of slender I-section beams in combined pure bending and shear has been described. The studied cases were assumed to be prevented from lateral torsional buckling. To achieve this aim, a finite element model that simulates the geometric and material nonlinear nature of the problem has been developed. Moreover, the initial geometric imperfections were included in the model. Different flange and web width-thickness ratios as well as web panel aspect ratios have been considered to draw complete set of interaction diagrams. Results reflect the interaction behavior between flange and web in resisting the combined action of moments and shear. In addition, the web panel aspect ratio will not significantly affect the combined ultimate shear-bending strength as well as the post local buckling strength gained by the section. Results are compared with that predicted by both the Eurocode 3 and the American Iron and Steel specifications, AISI-2001. Finally, an empirical interaction equation has been proposed.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.43-48
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• 2005

Conventional non-destructive techniques for inspection of the weld in pipelines require significant test time and high cost. Ultrasonic guided waves have been widely studied and successfully applied to various non-destructive tests with advantage of the long-range inspection. In this paper, a study on the application of ultrasonic guided waves to the long-range inspection of the pipeline is presented using a long-range guided wave inspection system, Wavemaker SE16, GUL. The characteristics and setup of the long-range guided wave inspection system and experimental results in pipes of with various diameter are introduced. The experimental results in mock-up pipes with cluster type detects show that the minimum detectable wall thickness reduction with this guided wave system is $2\~3\%$ in the pipe cross section area. And the wall thickness reduction of $5\%$ in cross section area can be detected when actual detection level is used. Therefore, the applicability of the guided wave systeme to long-range inspection of wall thickness reduction in pipes is verified.