• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.383-390
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• 2015

This study conducted tensile tests on SA508 Gr.1a low alloy steel and SA312 TP316 stainless steel piping materials under various strain rates at room temperature (RT) and $316^{\circ}C$ to investigate the effects of loading rate on the deformation behavior of nuclear piping materials. At RT, the deformation behavior for both pipe materials showed a typical loading rate dependence, i.e., the strength increased and the ductility decreased as the loading rate increased. At $316^{\circ}C$, however, the strength and elongation of SA508 Gr.1a low alloy steel decreased as the loading rate increased, and its reduction of area non-linearly varied with the loading rate. For SA312 TP316 stainless steel, the strength, elongation, and reduction of area at $316^{\circ}C$ were almost the same regardless of the loading rate. At both temperatures, the strain hardening capacity was nearly independent of the loading rate for SA508 Gr.1a low alloy steel, while it decreased with increasing loading rate for SA312 TP316 stainless steel.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.10
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• pp.1163-1169
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• 2014

In this study, a fatigue assessment method for vehicle suspension systems having welded geometries was established under a bending loading condition. For the fatigue life estimation of the actual product's welded joints made of different steels, bending fatigue tests were performed on welded specimens with a simplified shape for obtaining the moment-fatigue-life plot. Further, geometry modeling of the simplified welded specimens was conducted. Results of finite element analysis were used to obtain the stress-fatigue-life plot. The analysis results were also used to calculate the stress concentration factors for notch-factor-based fatigue life estimation. The test results were compared with results of the general notch-factor-based fatigue life estimation for improving fatigue assessment. As a result, it was concluded that both the welded fatigue tests and the notch-factor-based fatigue life estimation are necessary for accurate fatigue assessment.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.514-523
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• 1992

스트레인 게이지를 이용하여 변형측정을 할 때 온도변화의 영향으로 나타나는 겉보기 변형도와 게이지 상수의 변화에 대하여 설명하였고 실제 측정시 정확한 측정값을 얻기위한 온도보상 방 법에 대하여 기술하였다. 온도변화에 의한 겉보기 변형도의 값은 기계적 하중에 의한 변형도에 비하여 무시할 수 없는 큰 값을 나타내기 때문에 적절한 보상에 의하여 정확한 측정값을 얻어 내야 한다. 항공우주산업, 원자력산업 등의 분야에서 널리 응용되는 극저온 환경에서 겉보기 변 형도와 게이지 상수의 측정결과를 제시하였다. 극저온에서는 자체 온도보상된 스트레인 게이지라 할지라도 대단히 큰 온도영향을 받기 때문에 본시험에서 제시한 바와 같이 측정결과를 온도보 상하여 처리해야만 의미있는 결과를 얻을 수 있다. 본 시험에서 4차식으로 구해진 겉보기 변형 도에 대한 특성곡선과 게이지 상수에 대한 시험결과는 극저온에서 변형을 측정할 때 직접적으로 보상하여 사용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1051-1055
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• 2003

Aluminum carbody for rolling stocks is light and perfectly recycled, but includes severe defects which are very dangerous to fatigue strength. Structural integrity assessment for the carbody by static load test has been performed up to date. In this study, to evaluate fatigue strength of the aluminum carbody of urban transit unit. a testing method to simulate dynamic loading condition was proposed and the fatigue strength of the carbody was evaluated. The dynamic load test results showed that the alternating stress ranges were different from the estimated ranges based on the static test results. Excessive stress ranges at the center are thought to come from the flexible motion of the carbody. published fatigue test data for aluminum components, but variation of alternating acceleration along the length due to flexibility of carbody yielded unexpected results. Because fatigue strength based on the static test results may be overestimated at the center, modification of testing method is necessary.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.306-314
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• 2006

Instrumented indentation technique is a new way to evaluate nondestructive such mechanical properties as flow properties, residual stress and fracture toughness by analyzing indentation load-depth curves. This study evaluated quantitatively the flow properties of steels and residual stress of weldments. First, flow properties can be evaluated by defining a representative stress and strain from analysis of deformation behavior beneath the rigid spherical indenter and the parameters obtained from instrumented indentation tests. For estimating residual stress, the deviatoric-stress part of the residual stress affects the indentation load-depth curve, so that by analyzing the difference between the residual-stress-induced indentation curve and residual-stress-free curve, the quantitative residual stress of the target region can be evaluated. The algorithm for flow property evaluation was verified by comparison with uniaxial tensile test and the residual stress evaluation model was compared to mechanical cutting and ED-XRD results.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.1201-1207
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• 2010

In this study, a fatigue testing system capable of performing load-controlled tension-tension tests for micro-specimens was developed by using an electro-magnetic actuator. Using this system, fatigue testing as well as tensile testing can be performed over a wide range of loading frequencies. Further, a new laser interferometric strain/displacement gage was used during fatigue testing to obtain high-resolution measurements of the cyclic deformation of thin films. Since the testing machine and the displacement gage are stable and show quick responses, the displacement can be measured instantaneously and continuously during fatigue testing, and high-resolution results can be obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1993.04b
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• pp.53-57
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• 1993

굽힘 가공(Bending Process)은 원통형의 다이(die)등을 이용하여 평판형 금속 판재에 프레스 하중을 가하여 임의의 굽 힘 형상을 영구적으로 만드는 가공법으로 소성가공을 하고 있는 대부분의 산업현장에서 널리 쓰이는 가공법 중의 하 나이다. 본 연구에서는 특수 목적이 대형구조물 혹은 대형차체에 주로 사용되어지는 고장력 후판을 대상으로 하여 여러종류의 굽힘각도에 따른 가공성 시험을 수행하고, 굽힘가공부위에서 채취한 시험편에 대한 기계적 물성시험을 통하 여 가공전의 모재와 비교, 분석하므로써 적절한 굽힘 가공조건 및 굽힘가공이 가능한 허용각도등을 결정할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.7
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• pp.911-917
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• 2010

In this study, we performed structural and fatigue analyses of the engine exhaust manifold that was subjected to thermo-mechanical cyclic loading. The methodologies used in this study are based on an approach in which the techniques for modeling the exhaust system, the temperature-dependent properties of the material, and thermal cyclic loading are taken into consideration and a reliable strategy is adopted for failure prediction. An application example shows that at an elevated temperature, considerable compressive plastic deformation is observed and that at a low temperature, tensile stresses remain in those parts of the test exhaust manifold where failure is observed. In order to predict fatigue life, mechanical damage is determined on the basis of the stress.strain hysteresis loops by using the classical Coffin.Manson equation and by adopting a method in which the dissipated plastic energy is taken into consideration.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.1186-1192
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• 1990

It is well known that the fatigue crack growth retardation following overloads can be estimated reasonably well by the models of Wheeler and Willenborg. These models, however, can not explain the delayed-retardation revealed by every experimental result. This means that they necessarily have some qualitative defects in themselves despite of a fair approximation of quantity. In fact, they did not take into account the effects of the compressive portion of the overload cycle such as the change of reversed plastic zone size. The present study is focused on the acceleration effect in the reversed plastic zone in order to analyze qualitatively delayed-retardation phenomenon following single peak overload on the fatigue crack growth behavior using 2024-T3 aluminum alloy.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.1299-1306
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• 2011

In this study, crack-growth model parameters subjected to variable amplitude loading are estimated in the form of a probability distribution using the method of Bayesian parameter estimation. Huang's model is employed to describe the retardation and acceleration of the crack growth during the loadings. The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method is used to obtain samples of the parameters following the probability distribution. As the conventional MCMC method often fails to converge to the equilibrium distribution because of the increased complexity of the model under variable amplitude loading, an improved MCMC method is introduced to overcome this shortcoming, in which a marginal (PDF) is employed as a proposal density function. The model parameters are estimated on the basis of the data from several test specimens subjected to constant amplitude loading. The prediction is then made under variable amplitude loading for the same specimen, and validated by the ground-truth data using the estimated parameters.