• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.63-68
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• 2013

Magnesium alloys have gained increased attention in recent years as the structural materials, because of their attractive properties such as good specific strength, excellent sound damping capability. However, to expand their applications, a reliable joining process is absolutely necessary. In this study, a CW fiber laser was used to investigate the lap weldability of sand casting and wrought magnesium alloys. The effect of defocused distance on lap weldability was examined, and it was found that spatters always generated at the around focused distance because of the high power density of the laser beam. Thus, defocused distance was required to obtain sound welds. In addition, the application of fillet welding was evaluated for minimizing the affect of sand casting magnesium alloy that have relatively poor weldability. As a result of this study, we could confirm good weldability without weld defects.

• International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.82-91
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• 2012

Fillet welding is widely used in the assembly of ships and offshore structures. The T-joint configuration is frequently reported to experience fatigue damage when a marine structure meets extreme loads such as storm loads. Fatigue damage is affected by the magnitude of residual stresses on the weld. Recently, many shipping registers and design guides have required that the fatigue strength assessment procedure of seagoing structures under wave-induced random loading and storm loading be compensated based on the effect of residual stresses. We propose a computational procedure to analyze the residual stresses in a T-joint. Residual stresses are measured by the X-ray diffraction (XRD) method, and a 3-D finite element analysis (FEA) is performed to obtain the residual stress profile in the T-joint. The proposed finite element model is validated by comparing experiments with computational results, and the characteristics of the residual stresses in the T-joint are discussed.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.561-565
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• 2010

용접부는 일반적으로 잘 알려져 있는 바와 같이, 외력에 의한 응력 집중원(stress concentration source)이 되는 것은 물론 용접과정에서의 입열(heat input)로 인한 성분과 조직의 변화에 의해 반복하중에 대한 피로강도(fatigue strength)가 모재의 그것에 비해 훨씬 떨어져서 피로균열(fatigue crack)의 발단이 되고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 실제로 철도차량에 적용되는 가스용접 이음재 가운데 대표적인 형상시편들을 재질별로 피로실험을 수행하여 피로하중범위-피로수명(${\Delta}P-N_f$) 관계를 도출하여 비교 평가하였다. 또한, 수치 해석적 유한요소법을 이용하여 용접이음재의 응력분포를 해석한 후, 용접이음부에 발생하는 최대주응력으로 (${\Delta}P-N_f$) 관계를 $\Delta\sigma-N_f$ 관계로 재정리하였다. 이상의 결과들을 바탕으로, 가스용접이 적용된 철도차량 차체의 경제적이고 합리적인 피로설계를 위한 기초정보로 사용하고자 하였다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.220-226
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 선박 용접구조물의 피로균열 발생 여부와 균열의 진전 상황을 실시간으로 모니터링하기 위한 기초 연구단계로서 선박의 전형적인 용접형태인 필렛용접부(fillet welded joint)의 피로시험에 대한 음향방출(Acoustic Emission, AE)기법의 적용성을 검토하였다. 필렛용접부의 피로시험에서 균열의 발생과 진전, 위치를 검출하기 위하여 AE 카운트(ring down count)와 위치표정(source location)등을 이용하였다. 시험결과 용접 토우(toe)부의 표면균열(surface crack)이 관통균열(through crack)로 발전하기 전까지의 AE 신호는 비교적 미약하게 나타났으나 균열의 발생시점과 위치를 카운트-위치표정으로 어느 정도 추정 가능함을 확인하였다. 표면균열이 브라켓의 두께방향으로 관통한 시점에서는 AE 카운트의 양이 급격히 증가하였으며 카운트-위치표정, 이벤트(event)-위치표정으로 균열의 위치와 발생시점을 명확하게 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 AE 위치표정과 클러스터(cluster) 기능을 이용하여 균열발생 위치 이외의 영역에서 검출된 신호는 잡음에 기인한 것으로 추정할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2005

The fatigue life of welded joints is associated with crack initiation and propagation life. Theses cannot be easily separated, since the definition of crack initiation is vague due to the initiation of multiple cracks that are distributed randomly along the weld toes. In this paper a method involving a notch strain and fracture mechanical approach, which considers the characteristics of welded joints, e.g. welding residual stress and statistical characteristics of multiple cracks, is proposed, in an attempt to reasonably estimate these fatigue lives. The fatigue crack initiation life was evaluated statistically, e.g. the probability of failure occurrence in 2.3, 50 and $97.7\%$, in which the cyclic response of the local stress/strain hi the vicinity of the weld toes and notch factors derived by the irregular shape of the weld bead are taken into account. The fatigue crack propagation life was simulated by using Monte-Carlo method in consideration of the Ad-factor and the mechanical behavior of mutual interaction/coalescence between two adjacent cracks. The estimated total fatigue life, $(N_T)_{P50\%}$, as a sum of crack initiation and propagation life under the probability of failure occurrence in $50\%$ showed a good agreement with the experimental results. The developed technique for fatigue lift estimation enables to provide a quantitative proportion of crack initiation and propagation life in the total fatigue life due to the nominal stress range, ${\Delta}S$.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제36권10호
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• pp.1195-1203
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• 2012

용접은 대형구조물을 제작할 때 영구적 접합을 위해서 많이 사용하는 공정이다. 용접부는 용융부, 부분용융부, 열영향부로 나누어지며 각각의 영역들은 다른 재료물성을 가지게 된다. 또한 용접부는 용접비드 형상에 따라 기계적 신뢰성이 많이 차이 난다. 따라서 정밀한 구조해석을 수행하기 위해서는 이러한 국부적인 용접부의 특성을 잘 고려해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 용접부의 효과적인 모델링 방법에 대하여 제안하고자 한다. 특히 하중을 받는 구조물에 잘 일어나는 세 가지 변형모드(인장모드, 굽힘모드, T-굽힘모드)에 대하여 용접부를 정밀하게 모델링하는 방법을 제안하였다. 대형구조물의 구조해석을 통하여 제안된 모델링 방법이 변형, 응력분포 등을 좀 더 정밀하게 묘사해 줌을 해석적으로 확인하였다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.53-61
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• 1993

One of the most interesting and promising steel groups considered for the rocket motor case, aircraft and aerospace component is the maraging(martensitic plus aging) nickel steel, developed by International Nickel Company in 1960. This material attains a very high strength with good fracture toughness by simple heat treatments which do not involve a quenching. Full strength can be obtained by "maraging" at 480.deg. for 3 hours for the 18% Ni maraging steel. The effect of heat treatments was considered on the residual stress field of 18% Ni maraging steel weldments. In experiments, various heat treatments such as stress relieve heat treatment, aging and solution heat treatment were carried out of the GTA weldments and the residual stresses were measured by using the hole drilling method. Whereas the conventional pattern of residual stress shows the stresses to be maximum along the weld centerline with tensile stress extending into the heat affected zone, the pattern in maraging steels shows the centerline stress to be compressive. After welding, a series of aging, solution heat treatment and solution heat treatment plus aging treatment were carried out and the residual stresses were measured to reveal that these heat treatments almost completely remove the welding residual stresses.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2007년 추계학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.36-38
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• 2007

The instability of the arc in the $CO_2$ arc welding affects the quality of the weld in the automotive industry. This paper evaluates the effects of the arc stability in $CO_2$ arc welding with respect to vertical welding positions. In this experiment, galva-annealed steel sheets(CA) were used as specimens, and these materials were welded by adopting new Cold Metal Transfer (CMT) process. For each sample, fillet joint welding trials were carried out using the same conditions. Each part of welding joints was welded with vertical-up, vertical-down position at $45^{\circ},\;90^{\circ}\;and\;135^{\circ}$ degrees. A high speed camera and a welding signal monitoring system were used for monitoring fluid-flow phenomena in weld pools and frequency measurements, respectively. Through this study, the welding position were found to be key factors mainly to influence the arc stability in $CO_2$ welding moreover and that the arc stability in the vertical-up welding position was observed to be more stable than the vertical-down welding position below $90^{\circ}$.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.40-47
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• 2016

The Zn coating on automotive galvanized steel sheets can improve corrosion resistance. However, the boiling temperature of Zn is lower than the melting temperature of steel and it causes well-known spatter and porosity problem. One of most prominent solutions is a pretreatment of Zn coating by an additional welding arc prior to the main welding process. In this research, GTA and GMA are selected as heat sources for pretreatment and main welding processes, respectively. The authors suggested three possible mechanisms to reduce weld defects by the GTA pretreatment: (1) Formation of gap between the sheets; (2) Evaporation of Zn layer; (3) Oxidation of Zn layer. Among them, Zn Oxidation is the most important mechanism to reduce weld defects in the GTA-GMA hybrid process.

• International Journal of Korean Welding Society
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2001

Because the quantitative relationships between welding parameters and welding result are not yet blown, optimal values of welding parameters for $CO_2$ robotic arc welding is a difficult task. Using the various artificial data processing methods may solve this difficulty. This research aims to develop an expert system for $CO_2$ robotic arc welding to recommend the optimal values of welding parameters. This system has three main functions. First is the recommendation of reasonable values of welding parameters. For such work, the relationships in between the welding parameters are investigated by the use of regression analysis and fuzzy system. The second is the estimation of bead shape by a neural network system. In this study the welding current voltage, speed, weaving width, and root gap are considered as the main parameters influencing a bead shape. The neural network system uses the 3-layer back-propagation model and a generalized delta rule as teaming algorithm. The last is the optimization of the parameters for the correction of undesirable weld bead. The causalities of undesirable weld bead are represented in the form of rules. The inference engine derives conclusions from these rules. The conclusions give the corrected values of the welding parameters. This expert system was developed as a PC-based system of which can be used for the automatic or semi-automatic $CO_2$ fillet welding with 1.2, 1.4, and 1.6mm diameter the solid wires or flux-cored wires.