• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.278-291
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• 1998

Fracture process of continuous fiber reinforced composites is very complex because various fracture mechanisms such as matrix cracking, debonding, delamination and fiber breaking occur simultaneously during crack growth. If fibers cause crack bridging during crack growth, the stable crack growth and unstable crack growth appear repeatedly. Therefore, it is very difficult to exactly determine tile starting point of crack growth and the fracture toughness at the critical crack length in composites. In this research, fracture toughness test for CFRP was accomplished by using acoustic emission(AE) and recording of tile fracture process in real time by video-microscope. The starting point of crack growth, pop-in point and the point of unstable crack growth can be exactly determined. Each fracture mechanism can be classified by analyzing the fracture process through AE and video-microscope. The more reliable method ior the fracture toughness measurement of composite materials was proposed by using the combination of R-curve method, AE and video microscope.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.103-110
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• 2010

In this study, an assessment method on creep-fatigue crack initiation and crack growth for a Mod.9Cr-1Mo steel (ASME Grade 91) structure has been developed with an extension of the French RCC-MR A16 procedure. The current A16 guide provides defect assessment procedure for a creep-fatigue crack initiation and crack growth for an austenitic stainless steel, but no guideline is available yet for a Mod.9Cr-1Mo steel which is now widely being adopted for structural materials of future nuclear reactor system as well as ultra super critical (USC) thermal plant. In the present study an assessment method on creep-fatigue crack initiation and crack growth is provided for the FMS (Ferritic-Martensitic Steel) and assessment on the creep-fatigue crack behavior for a structure has been carried out. The assessment results were compared with the observed images from a structural test.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.103-111
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• 1990

This paper presents a methodology for predicting stable crack growth and instability of a cracked body under monotonically increasing load. It is based on a model that incremental crack extensions and load increments after fracture initiation occur by turns in sequence and the criterion that the crack grows by an incremebt .delta.a when the opening displacement at the current crack tip increases by a critical value V$_{c}$. It is shown that the value I$_{c}$ = V$_{c}$/ .delta. a is a material constant characterizing ductile crack growth resistance. Along with the fracture initiation toughness value, the constant is used for the calculation of the loads against crack extensions by adding up each increment. The specimen failure is defined to occur when the necessary load increment for crack extension is zero or when the limit load in the current ligament is reached. The predicted failure loads are in good agreement with the avaliable experimental failure loads for the compact and center-cracked tension specimens of 7075-T651, 2024-T351 aluminum alloys and 304 stainless steel.steel.

• CORROSION AND PROTECTION
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.12-23
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• 2013

원자력 발전소 주요 부품에 사용되는 Alloy 600의 PWSCC 개시와 전파기구를 살펴보고 그 억제 기술을 소개하였다. ○ 균열은 경화된 표면 산화층이 깨질 경우, 입계부식, 공식(pitting), 열처리 또는 물속에 노출되었을 때 일어나는 선택부식(selective corrosion), MnS등 게재물의 용출등에 의해 시작된다. ○ 균열의 전파는 '느린 성장'과 '빠른 성장'으로 구별해 볼 수 있는데 빠른 균열성장은 균열 선단에서의 응력확대 계수(K_I)가 균열이 전파하는 임계값(K_Iscc)을 넘는 경우에 일어난다. ○ Slip Dissolution/Film Rupture Model, Enhanced surface mobility model, Hydrogen assisted creep rupture, Internal oxidation 등의 모델이 제시되어 있으며 Internal oxidation 모델이 여러 실험자료로 잘 뒷 받침되고 있다. ○ PWSCC 억제 방안으로는 부식환경과의 격리 및 보수용접이 대표적이며 부품의 교체를 통한 안전 확보의 방안도 있다. 수소량 조절을 통한 억제 방안도 제시되어 있다. ○ Alloy 600 PWSCC열화 관리 전략프로그램은 결함 발생 가능성이 높은 부위 선정, 우선 순위에 따른 계획적인 검사, 결함이 발견될 경우 완화조치를 취하거나 필요시 교체/보수를 실시하고 그 운영프로그램을 지속적으로 갱신관리하는 방안으로 유지되어야 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.740-745
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• 1987

For the prediction of the crack growth initiation from a blunt notch or a precrack in a prestrained material under plane strain tension and small-scale yielding conditions, a microscopic fracture criterion is proposed in terms of the crack tip opening displacement(COD) needed for the attainment of fracture strain at a microstructural distance. Smooth blunting of a crack tip with an initial root radius is assumed, and strain distributions on the crack-line axis are calculated at each deformation stage until the distributions against an original distance normalized to the COD are insensitive to an initial root radius. This case of no initial-root-radius effect is taken as for a sharp crack tip, on which the criterion is applied to determine the characteristic length of material from a critical COD for a fatigue-precracked specimen. The predicted COD at the fracture initiation from a crack with an initial root radius or a prestraining shows reasonable agreement with experimental values.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 1992.03a
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• pp.47-58
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• 1992

탄소성 재료의 파괴에서 최대하중을 계산할 수 있는 방법이 제시되었다. 사용된 재 료상수는 파괴개시인성, 항복강도, 진행된 균열선단에서 열림 변위 증분에 대한 균열성장의 비이고, 계산을 실험결과에 맞추어 재료상수를 결정한다. 이들 상수로 다른 시편의 최대하 중을 계산하는 간단한 방법을 평면변형하의 A572 강(상온)과 4533(B)강(-10C)에 적용하여 기존의 실험결과와 비교하였다. 또한 균열 선단 열림 변위와 J-적분값에 기초한 다른 방법 과 비교·논의되었다.

• Composites Research
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.44-50
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• 2003

The damage zone around a crack tip occurring before the fracture is a significant domain. which affects the toughening mechanism of materials. In this study. the growth process of damage zone in the vicinity of crack tip for rubber-modified epoxy resin is investigated using an acoustic emission(AE) analysis. The weight fractions of rubber(CTBN 1300$\times$B) in rubber-modified epoxy resin are 5 wt% and 15 wt%. The fracture toughness($K_{IC}$) and the fracture energy($G_{IC}$) were measured using 3 point bending single-edge notched specimens. The damage zone and rubber particles distributed around the crack tip were observed by a polarized optical microscope and an atomic force microscope(AFM). The damage zone around crack tip of rubber-modified epoxy resin was formed at 13 % loading and developed until 57 % loading of the fracture load. The crack initiated at 57 % loading grew repeatedly in the stick-slip propagation behavior. Based on time-frequency analysis, it was confirmed that AE signals with frequency bands of 0.15~0.20 MHz and 0.20~0.30 MHz were generated from cavitation and stable/unstable cracking inside the damage zone.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.29-36
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• 1991

This experimental research evaluated the length of crack extension with the measured compliances as the mutual comparison factors instead of the method proposed in ASTM E561-80. And this research measured the R-curves with the application to the concept of the strain energy release rate that was formulated from the inelastic energy absorbed during the crack growth. With the interpretation of R-curves, this research obtained the starting point of the unstable crack growth, and compared the values of critical fracture toughness with each other, and then examined the effects of variations of the maximum size of coarse aggregate and the thickness of specimen on the values of the critical fracture toughness.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.269-273
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• 2015

The study investigated the effect of the distance between two collinear circumferential surface cracks on the primary stress corrosion crack (PWSCC) growth in alloy 600TT steam generator tubes using a finite element damage analysis based on the PWSCC initiation model and macroscopic phenomenological damage mechanics approach. The damage analysis method was verified by comparing the results to the previous study results. The verified method was applied to collinear circumferential surface PWSCCs. As a result, it was found that the collinear cracks showed earlier coalescence and penetration times than the a single crack, and the times increased with the distance. In addition, it is expected that penetration may occur before coalescence of two cracks if they are more than a specific distance apart.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.107-114
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• 1990

(1) Cr-Mo-V 합금강 로우터재료는 사용도중 템퍼 취화된다. 템퍼취화된 소재는 취성제거처리 혹 은 재열처리를 하여 취성을 감소시킬 수 있다. (2) 축의 신뢰도를 파괴역학 원리를 적용하여 계산하였으며 템퍼 취화된 소재는 파손 위험성이 있으나 열처리 된 소재는 취성파괴 및 고 사이클 하중에 의한 피로균열 성장에 대해서 안전성 이 충분하다는 결론을 얻을 수 있다. (3) 샬피 V-노치 충격치 (CVN)와 파괴인성치(K$_{tc}$ )의 관계식을 취성재료에도 적용할 수 있 는가의 여부에 대해서는 많은 조사가 필요하다. (4) 취성소재의 피로균열 개시값$\Delta$ $K_{th}$을 알고 있으면 취송소재로 제조된 구조물의 파괴역학적인 해석을 하는데 도움을 줄 수 있다.