• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.107-111
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• 2000

Although a tracheal stent can be an option for inoperable tracheal stenoses there still are some troublesome side effects including overgranulation from foreign body irritation restenosis and patient's discomfort associated with the procedure. We report a successful case of a retrievable stent made of self-expandable 'shape memory' metal and polyurethane in a 24 year old female patient with respiratory distress and tight stenosis in the trachea and left main bronchus, The stent was inserted following a balloon dilatation and was successfully removed on the 7th days after the procedure. She regained a normal active life without any repiratory symptoms and a follow-up of 8 months showed satisfactory results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.551-557
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• 2009

A development of smart materials is becoming a prominent issue on present industries. A smart material, included in functions, is needed for micro fabrication. A shape memory alloy(SMA) in a smart material is best known material. Ni-Ti alloy, composed of nikel and titanium is one of the best shape memory alloy(SMA). Nitinol SMA is used for a lot of high tech industry such as aero space, medical device, micro actuator, sensor system. However, Ni-Ti SMA is difficult to process to make a shape and fabrications as traditional machining process. Because nitinol SMA, that is contained nikel content more than titanium content, has similar physical characteristics of titanium. In this paper, the characteristics of ECM grooving process for nitinol SMA are investigated by experiments. The experiments in this study are progressed for power, gap distance and machining time. The characteristics are found each part. Fine shape in work piece can be found on conditions; current 6A, duty factor 50%, gap distance 15%, gap distance $15{\mu}m$, machining time 10min.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.132-132
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• 2018

NiTi 형상 기억 합금은 형상기억 효과 (Shape memory effect) 또는 초탄성 효과 (superelasticity effect)를 나타낸다고 알려져 있다. 대표적으로 Ni:Ti 조성비가 1:1을 갖는 NiTi(니티놀) 합금은 형상기억 및 초탄성 효과가 우수하여 기계 가공 공정뿐만 아니라 우수한 내마모성을 요구하는 공구에 사용하기 적합하다. 하지만 NiTi 박막은 합금과 같은 Damping capacity를 가지고 있지만 비교적 낮은 물리적 특성을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 NiTi 박막의 낮은 물리적 특성을 향상시키기 위하여 TiN과 NiTi의 2층형 박막을 제조하고 각 층의 두께 변화를 조절하여 특성 향상에 대한 기초연구를 진행했다. 타겟은 NiTi (Ni:Ti=48.2:51.8 at.%) 합금 타겟과 Ti 타겟을 사용하였고, 시편과 타겟 간의 거리는 약 10cm 이며, 시편은 기초분석을 위한 SUS304, 물리적 특성 평가를 위한 초경 을 사용하였다. 초경은 실제 공구에서 사용하고 있는 Co함량이 10% 함유된 시편은 선정했다. 시편 전처리는 알코올과 아세톤으로 세척을 실시한 후 진공챔버에 장착하고 ${\sim}10^{-5}Torr$ 까지 진공배기를 실시하였다. 기판 정청은 글로우 방전 방식으로 약 800 V 전압에서 30분간 실시했다. 공정 가스는 Ar와 $N_2$ 혼합가스를 사용하였으며, UBM(Un-Balanced Magnetron) 스퍼터링 소스를 이용하여 2층형 박막을 제조했다. TiN과 NiTi 층의 두께 비율을 0.5, 1 그리고 2 로 변화시켜 코팅했으며, 박막의 총 두께는 약 ${\sim}3{\mu}m$ 이다. 기초분석은 FE-SEM을 통해 두께와 박막 비율을 확인 및 XRD 분석을 통해 박막 정성분성을 실시했다. 2층형 박막의 물리적 특성은 Nanoindentation test, AFM 및 ball on disc를 이용하여 평가했으며, 그 결과 두께 비율 변화에 따라 물리적 특성 변화가 나타남을 확인했다.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.631-640
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• 2023

This study selected Eco-AZ91 MgH₂, which shows high enthalpy as a material for this purpose, as the basic material, and analyzed the change in characteristics by synthesizing TiNi as a catalyst to control the thermodynamic behavior of MgH₂. In addition, the catalyst dispersion technology using graphene oxide (GO) was studied to improve the high-temperature aggregation phenomenon of Ni catalyst and to secure a source technology that can properly disperse the catalyst. XRD, SEM, and BET analysis were conducted to analyze the metallurgical properties of the material, and TGA and DSC analysis were conducted to analyze the dehydrogenation temperature and calorific value, and the correlation between MgH₂, TiNi catalyst, and GO reforming catalyst was analyzed. As a result, the MgH₂-5 wt% TiNi at GO composite could lower the dehydrogenation temperature to 478-492 K due to the reduction of the catalyst aggregation phenomenon and the increase in the reaction specific surface area, and an experimental result for the catalyst dispersion technology by GO could be ensured.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.493-501
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• 2015

Superelastic shape memory alloys (SMAs) are metallic materials that can automatically recover to their original condition without heat treatment only after the removal of the applied load. These smart materials have been wildly applied instead of steel materials to the place where large deformation is likely to concentrate. In spite of many advantages, superelastic SMA materials have been limited to use in the construction filed because there is lack of effort and research involved with the development of the material model, which is required to reproduce the behavior of superelastic SMA materials. Therefore, constitutive material models as well as algorithm codes are mainly treated in this study for the purpose of simulating their hysteretic behavior through numerical analyses. The simulated curves are compared and calibrated to the experimental test results with an aim to verify the adequacy of material modeling. Furthermore, structural analyses incorporating the material property of the superelastic SMAs are conducted on simple and cantilever beam models. It can be shown that constitutive material models presented herein are adequate to reliably predict the behavior of superelastic SMA materials under cyclic loadings.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.51-56
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• 2017

Nitinol, a shape memory alloy (SMA), is manufactured from titanium and nickel and it used in various fields such as electrical applications, micro sensors. It is also recommended as a material in medical for implant because it has excellent organic compatibility. Nitinol is intended to be inserted into the human body, products require a high-quality surface and low residual stress. To overcome this problems, explore electrolyte polishing (EP) is being explored that may be appropriate for use with nitinol. EP is a particularly useful machining method because, as a non contact machining method, it produces neither machining heat nor internal stress in the machined materials. Sandpaper polishing is also useful machining method because, as a contact machining method, it can easily good surface roughness in the machined materials. The electrolyte polishing (EP) process has an effect of improving the surface roughness as well as the film polishing process, but has a characteristic that the residual stress is hardly generated because the work hardened layer is not formed on the processed surface. The sandpaper polishing process has the effect of improving the surface roughness but the residual stress remains in the surface. We experimented with three conditions of polishing process. First condition is the conventional polishing. Second condition is the electrochemical polishing(EP). And Last condition is a mixing process with the conventional polishing and the EP. Surface roughness and residual stress of the nitinol before a polishing process were $0.474{\mu}mRa$, -45.38MPa. Surface roughness and residual stress of the nitinol after mixing process of the conventional polishing and the EP were $1.071{\mu}mRa$, -143.157MPa. Surface roughness and residual stress of the nitinol after conventional polishing were $0.385{\mu}mRa$ and -205.15MPa. Surface roughness and residual stress of sandpaper and EP nitinol were $1.071{\mu}mRa$, -143.157MPa. The result shows that the EP process is a residual stress free process that eliminates the residual stress on the surface while eliminating the deformed layer remaining on the surface through composite surface machining rather than single surface machining. The EP process can be used for biomaterials such as nitinol and be applied to polishing of wafers and various fields.