• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.507-514
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• 1991

A penalty finite element method has been developed for accurately predicting stress distributions at the tool-workpiece interfaces. The basic formulation is described, with the emphasis on the algorithm to deal with the normal stress and the frictional stress at the interface. Comparison with the experimental data and the theoretical solutions found in the literature is made for the forming processes selected.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.347-350
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• 2004

In this paper, the acceleration is studied for the rigid-plastic FEM of metal forming simulation. In the FEM, the direct iteration and Newton-Raphson iteration are applied to obtain the initial solution and accurate solution respectively. In general, the acceleration scheme for the direct iteration is not used. In this paper, an Aitken accelerator is applied to the direct iteration. In the modified Newton-Raphson iteration, the step length or the deceleration coefficient is used for the fast and robust convergence. The step length can be determined by using the accelerator. The numerical experiments have been performed for the comparisons. The faster convergence is obtained with the acceleration in the direct and Newton-Raphson iterations.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.03a
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• pp.26-26
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 누적압연접합공정(ARB)을 통하여 5052 알루미늄 합금의 결정립을 약 0.2$\mu\textrm{m}$ 크기로 미세화 하였다. 누적압연에 의한 변형량 증가에 따른 미세 조직 변화와 결정립 간의 상대적인 방위각 차이를 TEM을 이용하여 관찰하였다. 누적 변형량을 함수로 상온 인장특성을 분석하였고, 초미세립 소재를 후속 열처리한 후 미세 조직 변화를 관찰하여 제조된 초미세립 소재의 열적 안정성을 평가하였다. 상온 대기 중에서 pin-on-disk 형태의 마멸시험기를 사용하여 초미세립 소재의 미끄럼 마멸시험을 변형량과 하중을 변수로 행하였다. 강소성 변형에 의해 제조된 5052 알루미늄 합금 소재의 마멸저항성은 강소성 변형 전과 비교하여 소재의 경도가 크게 증가하였음에도 불구하고 오히려 감소하였다. 마멸시험 후 마멸면의 SEM, 마멸단면의 OM 관찰과 마멸면 직하의 깊이에 따른 경도측정을 통하여 초미세립 소재의 마멸기구를 분석하였고 마멸표면의 변형 층을 관찰하였다. 또한 마멸면 직하 조직의 TEM 관찰을 통해서 마멸시험 중의 미세 조직 변화를 연구하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.1087-1090
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• 2009

A unique process was developed to improve the mechanical properties of a circular tube. In this proposed process, a large amount of strain is applied to the wall of tube, leading to grain refinement in the material. In order to investigate characteristics of microstructural evolution such as the distribution of grain size and misorientation angle during the process, an EBSD OIM analysis was carried out. The analysis confirms that the proposed process can very effectively produce a circular tube with ultrafine-grains.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.122-129
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• 2005

On the cluster system, the parallel code of rigid-plastic FEM has been developed. The cluster system, Simforge, has 15 processors and the total memory is 4.5GBytes. In the developed parallel code, the distributed data of the column-wise partitioned stiffness are stored as the compressed row storage and the diagonal preconditioned conjugate gradient solver is applied. The analysis of block upsetting is performed with the parallel code on Simforge cluster system. In this paper, the analysis results are compared and discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.32-41
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• 1995

In the analysis of metal forming processes by the finite element method, there are many numerical instabilities such as element locking, hourglass mode and shear locking. These instabilities may have a bad effect upon accuracy and convergence. The present work is concerned with improvement of stability and efficiency in two-dimensional rigid-plastic finite element method using various type of elemenmts and numerical intergration schemes. As metal forming examples, upsetting and backward extrusion are taken for comparison among the methods: various element types and numerical integration schemes. Comparison is made in terms of stability and efficiency in element behavior and computational efficiency and a new scheme of adaptive directional reduced integration is introduced. As a result, the finite element computation has been stabilized from the viewpoint of computational time, convergency, and numerical instability.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.26 no.12
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• pp.2670-2677
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• 2002

The ring rolling process involves three-dimensional non-steady material flow and continuous change of radius and thickness of the ring workpiece. In this study, the deformation analysis and geometric updating algorithm of the ring rolling process were verified by using the three-dimensional rigid-plastic finite element method. Manufacturing processes for plain ring and T-shaped ring were investigated by comparing experiments with simulation results, especially in side spread, load-stroke and pressure distribution, showing a good agreement. It was concluded that the simulation method would be a useful tool for the design of a ring rolling process.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.125-133
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• 1998

The objective of this study is to propose a new approach for modelling of burr formation process during orthogonal cutting when the tool exits the workpiece. This approach is based on the rigid-plastic finite element method combined with the ductile fracture criterion and the element kill method. This approach is applied to orthogonal cutting process to predict the fracture location and the fracture angle as well as the cutting force. To validate this approach, orthogonal cutting tests inside SEM(scanning electron microscope) at very low speed are carried out using A16061-T6 to observe the behavior of the material during the chip and the burr formation. The results of the experiment are compared with those of the finite element simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 1998.03a
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• pp.246-249
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• 1998

In the present study, domain decomposition using the substructuring method is developed for the computational efficiency of the finite element analysis of metal forming processes. In order to avoid calculation of an inverse matrix during the substructuring procedure, the modified Cholesky decomposition method is implemented. As obtaining the data independence by the substructuring method, the program is easily parallelized using the Parallel Virtual Machine(PVM) library on a workstation cluster connected on networks. A numerical example for a simple upsetting is calculated and the speed-up ratio with respect to various domain decompositions and number of processors. Comparing the results, it is concluded that the improvement of performance is obtained through the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.201-206
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• 2007

In this paper, we apply a three-dimensional rigid-plastic finite element method to simulate an unsteady-state roll forming process. A typical roll forming process is investigated from the standpoint of computer simulation and its realistic analysis model is proposed. The material is considered as bulk material and discretized into hexahedral finite elements. The presented approach is applied to simulating the roll forming process of straight stringer used for aircraft structure.