• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.235-243
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• 1996

The mechanical behavior ot concrete is strongly influenced by various scenarios of crack initiation and crack propagation. Recently. the study of the interface fracture and cracking in interfacial regions is emerged as an important field, in the context of the developement of high performance concrete composites. The crack path criterion for elastically homogeneous materials is not valid when the crack advances at an interface because. in this case, the consideration of the relative magnitudes of the fracture toughnesses between the constituent materials and the interface are involved. In this paper, a numerical method is presented to obtain the values of two interfacial fracture parameters such as the energy release rate and the phase angle at the tip of an existing interface crack. Criteria based on energy release rate concepts are suggested for the prediction of crack growth at the interfaces and an hybrid experimental-numerical study is presented on the two-phase beam composite models containing interface cracks to investigate the cracking scenarios in interfacial regions. In general, good agreement between the experimental results and the prediction from the criteria is obtained.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.17-26
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• 2014

This paper presents a dynamic crack propagation algorithm based on the Moving Least Squares(MLS) difference method. The derivative approximation for the MLS difference method is derived by Taylor expansion and moving least squares procedure. The method can analyze dynamic crack problems using only node model, which is completely free from the constraint of grid or mesh structure. The dynamic equilibrium equation is integrated by the Newmark method. When a crack propagates, the MLS difference method does not need the reconstruction of mode model at every time step, instead, partial revision of nodal arrangement near the new crack tip is carried out. A crack is modeled by the visibility criterion and dynamic energy release rate is evaluated to decide the onset of crack growth together with the corresponding growth angle. Mode I and mixed mode crack propagation problems are numerically simulated and the accuracy and stability of the proposed algorithm are successfully verified through the comparison with the analytical solutions and the Element-Free Galerkin method results.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.35.2-35.2
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• 2009

최근 전세계적으로 저탄소, 녹색성장으로 인하여 원자력발전이 주목받고 있다. 또한 에너지의 고효율로 인한 발전소의 설비가 대형화가 됨에 따라 발전소의 수명평가와 건전성평가가 중요해지고 있다. 일반적으로 구조물 내에 존재하는 균열의 크기와 형상을 파악하여 피로균열전파속도를 평가함으로써 건전성평가를 확인하고 있다. 그리고 고온, 고압에서의 피로균열전파속도는직류전위차 (Direct Current Potential Drop : DCPD)법을 사용하고 있다. DCPD법은 균열의 정밀한 측정방법으로써 측정시 오차가 발생하기 때문에 ASTM에서 제시된 incremental polynomial 법을 권고하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 피로균열전파전파속도의통계적처리를 통해서 합리적인 곡선을 구하여 건전성평가에 활용하고자 한다. 실험에 사용된 시편은 두께 5mm, 폭 25.4mm CT시편을 사용하였으며, 1mm의 예비균열을 주었다. 그리고 실험온도는 상온에서 실시 하였으며, 주파수는 10Hz를 주었다. 그리고 DCPD 측정을 위해 5A의 전류를 주었으며, 이때 측정된 전압값을 ASTM에 제시된 관계식에넣어 균열길이로 환산하였으며, 데이터처리는 ASTM에 제시된 incremental polynomial법을 기본적으로 사용하였다. 또한 ASTM에 제시된 2n+1을 이용하여 데이터의 수 n을 1~7 까지 변화를 주어 3~15 point 까지 데이터를 처리하여곡선을 제시하였다. 분석결과 $R^2$값이 1을 기준으로 했을 때 3~7 point 까지는큰 차이를 보이지 않았지만 9-point 이후부터는 $R^2$ 감소함을 알 수 있었다. 또한 적용된 데이터의수에 따라 피로군열전파속도 곡선에서 측정된 Paris law의 n값과 C 값은 큰차이를 보이지 않았다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.05b
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• pp.118-122
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• 1997

차세대 원자력발전소 증기발생기 전열관 재료로 채택된 니켈기저합금으로 기존 전열관 재료인 인코넬600에 비해 고온 고압 조건에서 응력부식균열에 강한 장점을 가진 합금인 인코넬690 시료에 최대 에너지 120 keV의 질소 이온빔을 조사하여 이 재료의 기계적 특성 변화를 관측하였다. 특성 시험으로는 표면 경화를 관찰하기 위한 미세 경도 시험을 수행하여 미세 경도 증가를 확인하였다 아울러 표면 경화가 피로 특성에 미치는 영향을 관찰하기 위해 피로 균열 전파 시험을 수행하여 이온 주입으로 인한 표면 경화가 피로 균열 전파를 촉진시킴을 관찰하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.193-199
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• 1985

Iodine-induced stress corrosion cracking tests of Zircaloy-4 cladding were undertaken using the modified infernal pressurization method. The effects of iodine concentration and applied stress were studied. The critical iodine concentration for SCC was found to be about 0.2 mg/$\textrm{cm}^2$ at 603$^{\circ}$K. The threshold stress was dependent on the test temperature and the mechanical properties of the specimen. The fracture surface showed that the crack propagated stepwise iron one grain to others until the material was unstable and then ruptured mechanically. The initial region showed the transgranular feature and the wedge-shaped cracks. As the crack proceeded, the transgranular and ductile-tearing mired feature appeared in the middle region.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.283-290
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• 2002

In this paper, we consider the dynamic electromechanical behavior of an eccentric Yoffe permeable crack in a piezoelectric ceramic strip sandwiched between two elastic orthotropic materials under the combined anti-plane mechanical shear and in-plane electrical loadings. Fourier transforms are used to reduce the problem to the solution of two pairs of dual integral equations, which are then expressed to a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind. The initial crack propagation orientation for PZT-5H piezoceramics is predicted by maximum energy release rate criterion.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.295-305
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• 2023

This study introduces a smoothed finite-element implementation into the phase-field framework. In recent years, the phase-field method has recieved considerable attention in crack initiation and propagation since the method needs no further treatment to express the crack growth path. In the phase-field method, high strain-energy accuracy is needed to capture the complex crack growth path; thus, it is obtained in the framework of the smoothed finite-element method. The salient feature of the smoothed finite-element method is that the finite element cells are divided into sub-cells and each sub-cell is rebuilt as a smoothing domain where smoothed strain energy is calculated. An adaptive quadtree refinement is also employed in the present framework to avoid the computational burden. Numerical experiments are performed to investigate the performance of the proposed approach, compared with that of the finite-element method and the reference solutions.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.28 no.8 s.227
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• pp.1229-1236
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• 2004

The specimen materials used in this research are isotropic epoxy resins. The static photoelastic experiment was applied to them. And then the specimens used in photoelastic experiment were fractured under static load. The static photoelastic experimental hybrid method was introduced and its validity had been assured. Crack propagation criterion used the stress components, which are considered the higher order terms, obtained from the static photoelastic experimental hybrid method was introduced and it was applied to the minimum strain energy density criterion, the maximum tangential stress criterion and mode mixity. Comparing the actual initial angle of crack propagation with the theoretical initial angle of crack propagation obtained from the above failure criterions, the validities of the above two criterions are assured and the optimal distance (r) from the crack-tip is 0.01mm in order to get the initial angle of crack propagation of isotropic epoxy resin.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1216-1221
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• 2003

The specimen materials used in this research is bimaterial. The static photoelastic experiment was applied to them. And then the specimens used in photoelastic experiment were fractured under static load. The static photoelastic hybrid method was introduced and it's validity had been assured. The static photoelastic hybrid method was applied to the Minimum Strain Energy Density Criterion, the Maximum Tangential Stress Criterion and Mode Mixity. Crack propagation criterion by the static photoelastic hybrid method was introduced and it was applied to the above various failure theories. Comparing the experimental initial angle of crack propagation with the theoretical initial angle of crack propagation from the various failure criterions. And then the optimal crack propagation criterion was suggested and it's validity was assured.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.1799-1806
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• 2004

The static photoelastic experiment was applied to orthotropic materials. And then the specimens used in photoelastic experiment were fractured under static load. The static photoelastic experimental hybrid method for orthotropic material was introduced and its validity had been assured. Crack propagation criterion used the stress components, which are considered the higher order terms, obtained from the static photoelastic experimental hybrid method was introduced and it was applied to the minimum strain energy density criterion, the maximum tangential stress criterion and mode mixity. Comparing the actual initial angle of crack propagation with the theoretical initial angle of crack propagation obtained from the above failure criterions, the validities of the above two criterions are assured and the optimal distance (${\gamma}$) from the crack-tip is 0.01mm in order to get the initial angle of crack propagation of orthotropic material(C.F.E.C.).