• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.59-70
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• 2009

This study is concerned with the correlation between microstructure and mechanical properties in heat affected zones (HAZs) of API X80 pipeline steels containing complex oxides. Three kinds of specimens were fabricated by varying alloying elements of Ti, Al, and Mg to form complex oxides, and their microstructures, Vickers hardness, Charpy impact properties were investigated. The number of complex oxides increased as the excess amount of Ti, Al, and Mg was included in the steels. The simulated HAZs containing a number of oxides showed a high volume fraction of acicular ferrite region because oxides acted as nucleation sites for acicular ferrite. According to the correlation study between thermal input, volume fraction of acicular ferrite region, and Charpy impact properties, the ductile fracture occurred predominantly when the volume fraction of acicular ferrite region was 65% or higher, and the Charpy absorbed energy was excellent over 200 J. When the volume fraction of acicular ferrite region was 35% or lower, the Charpy absorbed energy was poor below 50 J as the brittle cleavage fracture occurred. These findings suggested that the active nucleation of acicular ferrite in the oxide-containing steel HAZs was associated with the great improvement of Charpy impact properties of the HAZs.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제46권10호
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• pp.617-626
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• 2008

This study is concerned with the effect of Cu and B addition on microstructure and mechanical properties of high-strength bainitic steels. Six kinds of steels were fabricated by varying alloying elements and hot-rolling conditions, and their microstructures and tensile and Charpy impact properties were investigated. Their effective grain sizes were also characterized by the electron back-scatter diffraction analysis. The tensile test results indicated that the B- or Cu-containing steels had the higher yield and tensile strengths than the B- or Cu-free steels because their volume fractions of bainitic ferrite and martensite were quite high. The B- or Cu-free steels had the higher upper shelf energy than the B- or Cu-containing steels because of their higher volume fraction of granular bainite. In the steel containing 10 ppm B without Cu, the best combination of high strengths, high upper shelf energy, and low energy transition temperature could be obtained by the decrease in the overall effective grain size due to the presence of bainitic ferrite having smaller effective grain size.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제46권7호
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• pp.427-436
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• 2008

The effect of dewpoints on annealing behavior and coating characteristics such as wettability and galvannealing kinetics was studied by annealing 0.3wt%Si - 0.1~0.4wt% Mn added interstitial-free high strength steels(IF-HSS). The 0.3wt%Si-0.1wt%Mn steel exhibited good wettability with molten zinc and galvannealing kinetics after annealing when the dewpoint of $H_2-N_2$ mixed gas was above $-20^{\circ}C$. It is shown that the wettability and galvannealing kinetics are directly related to the coverage of the external(surface) oxide formed by selective oxidation during annealing. At $N_2-15%H_2$ annealing atmosphere, the increase of dewpoint results in a gradual transition from external to internal selective oxidation. The decrease of external oxidation of alloying elements with a concurrent increase of their subsurface enrichment in the substrate, showing a larger surface area that was free of oxide particles, contributed to the improved wettability and galvannealing kinetics. On the other hand, the corresponding wettability and galvannealing kinetics were deteriorated with the dewpoints below $-20^{\circ}C$. The continuous oxide layer of network and/or film type was formed on the steel surface, leading to the poor wettability and galvannealing kinetics. It causes a high contact angle between annealed surface and molten zinc and plays an interrupting role in interdiffusion of Zn and Fe during galvannealing process.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.174-179
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• 2011

We investigated the surface morphology changes of a lithium/sulfur battery using multi-walled canbon nanotube added sulfur electrode during charge-discharge cycling. The Li/S cell showed the first discharge capacity of 1286 mAh/g-S, which utilized is 71% of the theoretical value. It decreased to 328 mAh/g-S at the 100th cycle, which corresponds to about 19% utilization of the total sulfur in the cathode. The spherical lumps of the reaction product were observed on the surface of the sulfur electrode. This material was verified as lithium sulfide by X-ray diffraction measurement. The pores in the separator were filled with reaction product. Thus the diffusion of the $Li^+$ ion decreased, which resulted in the decreased capacity of the Li/S cell.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.199-208
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• 2008

This study is concerned with effects of complex oxides on Charpy impact toughness of heat affected zone (HAZ) of API X80 linepipe steels. Three kinds of steels were fabricated by varying alloying elements such as Ti, Al, and Mg and hot-rolling conditions to form complex oxides, and their microstructures and Charpy impact properties were investigated. The number of complex oxides present in the steel containing excess Ti, Al, and Mg was twice larger than that in the conventional steels, while their size ranged from 1 to $3{\mu}m$ in the three steels. After the HAZ simulation test, the steel containing a number of oxides contained about 20 vol.% of acicular ferrite in the simulated HAZ, together with bainitic ferrite and martensite, whereas the HAZ microstructure of the conventional steels consisted of bainitic ferrite and martensite with a small amount of acicular ferrite. This formation of acicular ferrite in the oxide-containing steel was associated with the nucleation of acicular ferrite at complex oxides, thereby leading to the great (five times or more) improvement of Charpy impact toughness over the conventional steels.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.61-67
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• 2021

밀링 및 터닝 가공 중 발생되는 칩 형태 타이타늄 스크랩을 세라믹스 원료로 활용하기 위한 연구를 수행하였다. 우선, 칩 형태 타이타늄 스크랩에 포함되어 있는 다량의 절삭유와 철 성분 제거를 위해 유기세정 및 산 세정 과정을 거쳐 스크랩 표면 세척을 진행하였다. 아세톤과 질산을 사용한 세정 과정을 통해 스크랩 내 유기물과 철 함량은 5 wt.% 수준에서 0.07 wt.% 이하로 감소하는 것을 확인하였고 세정에 이어진 산화 과정을 통해 타이타늄 스크랩은 이산화타이타늄화 되었다. 타이타늄 스크랩의 이산화타이타늄화 과정은 800 ℃ 이상의 온도에서 이루어졌으며 이산화타이타늄은 고에너지 밀링 과정을 통해 나노 결정립으로 미세화되어 탄소에 의한 환원 및 탄화 반응은 기존 이산화타이타늄 탄화환원 온도인 1500 ℃보다 낮은 1200 ℃에서 가능하게 되었다. 이산화타이타늄 탄화환원을 통해 얻어지는 타이타늄 탄화물은 질소 및 타이타늄 이외 전이금속 원소의 첨가 및 고용을 통해 물성이 개선될 수 있었다. 타이타늄 탄화물 내 질소 첨가 및 고용상 형성 가능성은 열역학 계산을 통해 예측되었고 질소 첨가 및 전이금속 고용에 의해 타이타늄 탄화물의 특성 중 경도 및 파괴인성 제어가 가능하였다.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.14-25
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• 2021

고품질 철강의 수요가 증가함에 따라 2차 정련 공정의 중요성이 높아지고 있다. 하지만 공정 시간에 따라 변화하는 용강, 슬래그 및 비금속 개재물의 조성은 정련 공정이 평형 상태가 아님을 의미하며, 정련 공정에서는 용강, 슬래그, 비금속 개재물, 내화물 및 합금 원소 간의 동시 다발적 반응이 일어난다. 다양한 상들의 비평형 상태에서 복잡한 반응을 고려하기 위해, 이전 연구자들은 실험을 통해 도출된 반응 속도 수식들을 기반으로 kinetic 기반의 고급강 제조 정련 시뮬레이션 모델을 발표하였다. 정밀한 시뮬레이션 모델의 개발을 위해 보고된 2차 정련 모델들의 분석 및 검토가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 국내외로 발표된 정련 공정 관련 종합 모델들 및 단일 반응 모델들에 대하여 검토하고 소개하였다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.318-323
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• 2022

Barium titanate (BaTiO₃) is considered to be a beneficial ceramic material for multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) applications because of its high dielectric constant and low dielectric loss. Numerous attempts have been made to improve the physical properties of BaTiO₃ in response to recent market trends by employing multicomponent alloying strategies. However, owing to its significant number of atomic combinations and unpredictable physical properties, finding a traditional experimental approach to develop multicomponent systems is difficult; the development of such systems is also time-consuming. In this study, 168 new structures were fabricated using special quasi-random structures (SQSs) of Ba_1-xCa_xTi_1-yZryO₃, and 1680 physical properties were extracted from first-principles calculations. In addition, we built an integrated database to manage the computational results, and will provide big data solutions by performing data analysis combined with AI modeling. We believe that our research will enable the global materials market to realize digital transformation through datalization and intelligence of the material development process.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.3-15
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• 2022

리튬은 가장 가벼운 금속으로 주기율표상의 첫 번째 금속이다. 리튬은 유기 화합물부터 알루미늄이나 마그네슘의 합금원소는 물론 전자기기나 전기 자동차용 리튬이온 이차전지의 양극재 등 다양한 용도로 사용되고 있다. 따라서 리튬은 우리 일상생활에서 필수적인 금속이다. 전 세계 리튬의 사용량은 2000년도의 약 14,000 톤에서 2020년에는 약 82,200 톤으로 계속 증가하였다. 그러나 리튬은 지각 중 원소 존재도가 32 번째인 대표적인 희소금속이다. 본 연구에서는 생산량 및 용도와 리튬 제련기술에 대해 고찰하였다. 리튬은 자원이 종류에 따라 다양한 제련법으로 추출된다. 이러한 다양한 리튬의 제련기술은 리튬 2차 자원으로부터 리튬을 추출하는 새로운 재활용 프로세스의 개발에 필수적으로 필요하다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.148-157
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• 2022

Research on hydrogen storage is active to properly deal with hydrogen, which is considered a next-generation energy medium. In particular, research on metal hydride with excellent safety and energy efficiency has attracted attention, and among them, magnesium-based hydrogen storage alloys have been studied for a long time due to their high storage density, low cost, and abundance. However, Mg-based alloys require high temperature conditions due to strong binding enthalpy, and have many difficulties due to slow hydrogenation kinetics and reduction in hydrogen storage capacity due to oxidation, and various strategies have been proposed for this. This research manufactured Mg₂Ni to improve hydrogenation kinetics and synthesize about 5, 10, 20 wt% of CaF₂ as a catalyst for controlling oxidation. Mg₂NiHx-CaF₂ produced by hydrogen induced mechanical alloying analyzed hydrogenation kinetics through an automatic PCT measurement system under conditions of 423 K, 523 K, and 623 K. In addition, material life cycle assessment was conducted through Gabi software and CML 2001 and Eco-Indicator 99' methodology, and the environmental impact characteristics of the manufacturing process of the composites were analyzed. In conclusion, it was found that the effects of resource depletion (ARD) and fossil fuels had a higher burden than other impact categories.