• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.118-125
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• 1991

Acoustic microscopy has attracted much interest recently as potential nondestructive evaluation technique for detecting and sizing defects of surface and sub-surface. Also acoustic emission testing method has been developed for detecting microcracks which is more than 30${\mu}m$ in length quantitatively on ceramics. In the present paper, acoustic emission during the four point bending test in hot-pressed sintered $Si_3N_4$ specimen which was stressed by thermal shock, has been measured by high sensitive sensing system. The surface and sub-surface cracks were detected by scanning acoustic micrscope of 800 MHz and conventional ultrasonic testing in C-scope image. The purpose was to investigate the location and size of cracks by SAM and AE technique, whose experimental data demonstrate good for detecting microcracks.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.28 no.1
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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.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.106-109
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• 2003

지능형 초음파 탐상 시스템은 재래식 초음파 탐상시험에서 주된 논란의 대상이 되는 검사의 객관성과 신뢰성, 그리고 일반화된 검사자료의 데이터베이스화 문제를 해결할 수 있는 해법으로 제시 되었다. 또한 이 시스템은 검사의 자동화(혹은 간이자동화)를 통해 검사자에 의해 수작업으로 작성되던 피검체 및 결함관련 정보를 자동으로 계산하고 데이터베이스화함으로써, 열악한 검사환경에서도 최선의 능률을 제공할 수 있는 기반을 제공한다. 본 논문에서는 지능형 시스템의 개발을 위해 필요한 요소기술과 개발된 시스템의 전반에 관하여 논한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.23-31
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• 1990

Acoustic Emission(AE) signals obtained during fracture toughness test and fatigue test for nuclear pressure vessel material(SA 508 cl.3) and artificial AE signals from pencil break and ultrasonic pulser were classified using pattern recognition methods. Three different classifiers ; namely Minimum Distance Classifier, Linear Discriminant Classifier and Maximum Likelihood Classifier were used for pattern recognition. In this study, the performance of each classifier was compared. The discrimination of AE signals from cracking and crack surface rubbing was possible and the analysis for crack propagation was applicable by pattern recognition methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.241-262
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• 2012

Some applications require structural health monitoring in inaccessible components. This paper presents a technique useful for Structural Health Monitoring of double wall structures, such as double wall steam pipes and double wall pressure vessels separated from an ultrasonic transducer by three layers. Detection has been demonstrated at distances in excess of one meter for a fixed transducer. The case presented here is for one of the layers, the middle layer, being a fluid. For certain transducer configurations the wave propagating in the fluid is a wave with low velocity and attenuation. The paper presents a model based on wave theory and finite element simulation; the experimental set-up and observations, and comparison between theory and experiment. The results provide a description of the technique, understanding of the phenomenon and its possible applications in Structural Health Monitoring.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1991.04a
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• pp.127-133
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• 1991

Acoustic microscopy has attracted much intrest recently as potential mondestructive evalution technique for detecting and sizing defects of surface and sub-surface. Also acoustic emission testing method has been developed for detecting microcracks which is more than 30 umm in length quintitatively on ceramics material. In the present paper, acoustic emission during the four point bending test in hot-pressed sintered Si$\_$3/N$\_$4/ specimen which was stressed bythermal shock has been measured by high sensitive sensing system. The surface and sub-surface cracks were detected by scanning acoustic microscope of 800 MHz and conventional ultrasonic testing in C-scope image. The purpose was to investigate the location and size of cracks by SAM and AE technique, whose experimental datas demontrates good agreement for detecting microcracks.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.9-23
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• 1985

Boshin-Kak Bell, which is one of the largest bells, is located at Chong-Ro Square in the center of Seoul. The bell has been struct early morning and late evening for time-report since the 14th century in Lee Era. Therefore Boshin-Kak Bell has been an intimate old friend of Seoul citizen more than 500 years. Unfortunately, motal large cracks were found inside this bell in the horizontal and vertical directions in 1979. The present paper has investigated the propagated bell-crack by ultrasonic flaw detecting method, and the stress level, bell vibration and weight measurement by electric wire resistance strain gauge method. The results indicate that they are useful for further study of Korean bell by nondestructive test.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.371-382
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• 2001

The recognition of such natural wave guides as plates, rods, hollow cylinders, multi-layer structures or simply an interface between two materials combined with an increased understanding of the physics and wave mechanics of guided wave propagation has led to a significant increase in the number of guided wave inspection applications being developed each year. Of primary attention Is the ability to inspect partially hidden structures, hard to access areas, and teated or insulated structures. An introduction to some physical consideration of guided waves followed by some sample problem descriptions in pipe, ice detection, fouling detection in the foods industry, aircraft, tar coated structures and acoustic microscopy is presented in this paper. A sample problem in Boundary Element Modeling is also presented to illustrate the move in guided wave analysis beyond detection and location analysis to quantification.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.448-453
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• 1999

원전의 열성층 현상으로 발생하는 열 피로균열 및 입계응력부식균열(IGSCC) 등은 결함에 대해서 검사자의 특별한 관심과 노력 없이는 초음파를 이용해 이러한 종류의 결함검출 및 크기 측정이 쉽지 않다. 이러한 결함의 검출 및 크기 측정을 위해서 먼저 초음파 모드 변환 기법을 사용하여 결함 검출 및 결함 크기를 분류한 후에 결함 끝단에서의 초음파 회절파(tip diffraction)를 이용한 여러 가지의 초음파 기법 둥으로 정확한 결함 크기를 측정하여 가동전 중점검시 발견된 결함의 추적 관리 및 결함평가신뢰도 향상에 기여하고자 한다. 따라서, 여기서는 열 피로균열 및 입계응력부식균열 등과 같은 결함의 정확한 검출 및 크기 측정을 위해 초음파 모드 변환 기법의 특성을 철저히 이해하고 이에 관련된 초음파 신호들을 정확히 구분할 수 있는 방법을 기술하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.269-276
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• 2004

Deterioration analysis was performed on carbody and bogies of a shunting locomotive, which has been used for shunting works in steel making processes. In this investigation, various types of technical evaluation methods for the locomotive were employed to assess the current deterioration status. Corrosion test and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques were employed to demonstrate the wear status of the carbody and bogie parts in the locomotive. Since the locomotive has been working under corrosive environment, the corrosion tests with x-ray analysis for exterior part of the locomotive were conducted to examine the evolution of corrosion reaction, and NDE techniques such as ultrasonic testing, magnetic particle testing, and x-ray radiography, were conducted on the carbody and bogies to inspect any possible inherent and/or in-service flaws. In this paper, the degree of deterioration in a shunting locomotive has been presented based on the analysis results.