Published February 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Development and Characterization of Ultrasonic transducers for High Temperature Contact Measurement

  • 1. Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
  • 2. HAGISONIC Co., Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)

Description

Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers for high temperature contact measurement were developed. These high temperature ultrasonic transducers (HTUT) consisted of bismuth titanate piezoceramic element whose Curie temperature is higher than 600 .deg. C, a backing material of the mixture of tungsten powder and inorganic binder, an inner alumina tube, a wear Plate and a housing. The operational frequencies or the HTUT were 1.04 and 2.08 MHz, respectively. Various commercially available couplants for high temperature were evaluated and compared. As a couplant for high temperature ultrasonic testing between HTUT and test specimen, gold epoxy was selected. The peak amplitude of pulse-echo signals from steel test specimen decreased with increasing temperature. The operational temperature of the HTUT reached up to 500 .deg. C at which the continuous contact measurement was possible

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
Journal Volume
23
Journal Issue
1
Series
9 refs, 8 figs, 2 tabs
Journal Page Range
p. 14-20
ISSN
1225-7842

INIS

Country of Publication
Korea, Republic of
Country of Input or Organization
Korea, Republic of
INIS RN
42048848
Subject category
S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
Descriptors DEI
CURIE POINT; SIGNALS; TEMPERATURE RANGE 0400-1000 K; TRANSDUCERS; TUNGSTEN
Descriptors DEC
ELEMENTS; METALS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; REFRACTORY METALS; TEMPERATURE RANGE; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE