Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing (비파괴검사학회지)

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Non-Contact Guided Wave Technique with Enhanced Mode-Selectivity

모드 선택성을 강화한 비접촉식 유도초음파 기술

  • Published : 2004.12.30
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Abstract

In practical applications of guided wave techniques, it is very important but also difficult to identify the propagating modes, and it is preferred to generate and detect a single or less dispersive mode. Also the noncontact method is required in the automated field application. So this paper considers a non-contact guided wave technique with enhanced mode-selectivity, where a laser beam illuminated through arrayed line slits is used as the transmitter and the air-coupled transducer is used as the receiver. The line arrayed laser illumination is a wavelength matching technique that ran generate only a few modes. The air-coupled transducer detects the leaky wave of the propagated guided wave, and by tuning its detection angle we ran detect the selected single mode. Experimental results for a 1mm thick aluminum plate proved the usefulness of the proposed method, and especially it was shown that this method was powerful in the generation and detection of the $a_0$ mode.

유도초음파의 현장적응에 있어 전파모드를 규명하는 것은 매우 어렵지만 중요한 과제이다. 본 연구에서는 분산성이 적은 단일모드를 발생시키고 검출할 수 있는 기법에 대해 다루고 있으며, 현장 적용성과 자동화를 위해 비접촉식의 기법을 적용하였다. 모드 선택성을 강화한 비접촉식의 유도초음파 기법으로는 선배열 슬릿을 이용한 레이저빔을 이용하였으며, 에어커플 변환기를 수신자로 사용하였다. 선배열의 레이저 조명은 파장과 일치하여 특정한 모드를 발생시킬 수 있다 또한, 에어커플 변환기는 공기 중으로 누설되는 유도초음파를 수신각도를 조절하여 선택적으로 모드를 수신할 수 있다. 1mm 두께의 알루미늄 판에 덕 기법을 적용한 실험결과로부터 제안하는 기법의 유용성을 검증하였고, 특히 단일한 $a_0$모드의 발생 및 수신에 효과적인 기법으로 나타났다.

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