Application of Laser-based Ultrasonic Technique for Evaluation of Corrosion and Defects in Pipeline

배관부 부식 및 결함 평가를 위한 레이저 유도 초음파 적용 기술

  • 최상우 (부산대학교 기계기술연구소) ;
  • 이준현 (부산대학교 기계공학부) ;
  • 조윤호 (부산대학교 기계공학부)
  • Published : 2005.04.30

Abstract

There are many tube and pipeline in nuclear power plant under high temperature and high pressure. Erosion and corrosion defects were expected on these tube and pipe-line by environmental and mechanical factors. These erosion and corrosion defects ran be evaluated by ultrasonic technique. In these study, Scanning Laser Source(SLS) technique was applied to detect defect and construct image. This technique also makes detection possible on rough and curved surfaces such as tube and pipe-line by scanning. Conventional ultrasonic scanning technique requires immersion of specimen or water jet for transferring ultrasonic wave between transducer and specimen. However, this SLS technique does not need contacting and couplant to generate surface wave and to get flaw images. Therefore, this SLS technique has several advantages, for complicated production inspection, non-contact, remote from specimen, and high resolution. In this study, SLS images were obtained with various conditions of generation laser ultrasound and receiving in order to enhance detectability of flaws on the tube. Stress corrosion cracks were produced on tube and images of stress corrosion cracks were constructed by using SLS technique.

원자력 발전소의 많은 배관부는 고온, 고압환경에서 적용되고 있어 환경적 및 기계적 요인에 의하여 부식결함이 빈번히 발생하고 있다. 이와 같은 부식 결함은 초음파 기법 등에 의하여 평가되어야 하고, 본 연구에서는 주사형 레이저 유도 초음파(SLS) 기법을 도입하여 배관부 부식결함의 영상화 기법을 적용하였다. 본 기법은 표면이 거칠거나 배관재와 같은 곡면의 표면에서 적용할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 한편 기존의 주사형 초음파 기법은 초음파 센서와 검사대상체 사이의 초음파 전달 매개체를 확보하기 위하여 시험편이 수침되거나 워터젯을 이용하였으나 주사형 레이저 초음파 기법은 광학적 기법을 이용하여 초음파를 발생시키므로 비접촉 방법에 의한 주사 이미지 획득이 가능하다. 따라서 본 주사형 레이저 초음파 기법은 복잡한 구조물의 검사, 비접촉 원격 및 고화질의 결함 이미지 탐상이 가능하다. 본 연구에서는 배관 결함의 검출능 향상을 위하여 결함 영상 획득에 있어서 다양한 조건의 레이저 유도 초음파 발생 기법을 적용하였고, 배관에 존재하는 응력부식 균열의 결함 영상을 얻게 되었다.

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