• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.212-219
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• 2002

The pipe with a long-neck flange is widely used in power plants, chemical plants, and shipbuilding companies. Now the pipe with a long-neck flange is manufactured by welding a thick flange to a pipe. But this long-neck flange pipe has some defects in the welding region such as unfitting and local thermal fatigue, which weaken the strength around the neck of the flange. Moreover, after welding the flange, the contacting surfaces of the flange have to be machined flat. So, that is uneconomical. Therefore, to solve the above problems of the long-neck flange pipe, a new process, which has no defects around the flange neck, is required. In this study, three forming processes are suggested to get an enhanced long-neck flange. First suggested process consists of conical forming and flange forming. Second and third suggested processes consist of the bulging of a long pipe locally heated by induction coils and the flange forming. The differences between second and third suggestions are the thickness and local heating area of the pipe. That is, the thickness of the initial pipe of third suggestion is larger than that of the final product, and the local heating area is smaller than that of second suggestion. These three suggestions for forming a long-neck flange are simulated by FE analyses with a commercial code DEFORM 2D. Especially, the theoretical result of FE analysis on the first suggestion for forming a long-neck flange is verified by the experiment with aluminum 6063 pipes. From the theoretical and experimental results, it is concluded that three suggested processes are very useful in order to manufacture the pipe with a long-neck flange without any defects.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.47-53
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• 2015

Recently, the bending process is greatly applied to fabricate the pipe line. Bending process can reduce welding joints and then decrease the number of inspection. Thus, the maintenance cost will be reduced. Induction heat bending process is composed of bending deformation by repeated local heat and cooling. By this thermal process, corrosion properties and microstructure can be affected. This work focused on the effect of induction heating bending process on the properties of ASME SA106 Gr. C low carbon steel pipes. Microstructure analysis, hardness measurements, and immersion corrosion test were performed for base metal and bended area including extrados, intrados, crown up, and down parts. Microstructure was analyzed using an optical microscope and SEM. Hardness was measured using a Rockwell B scale. Induction heat bending process has influenced upon the size and distribution of ferrite and pearlite phases which were transformed into finer structure than those of base metal. Even though the fine microstructure, every bent area showed a little lower hardness than that of base metal. It is considered that softening by the bending process may be arisen. Except of I2, intrados area, the others showed a similar corrosion rate to that of base metal. But even relatively high rate of intrados area was very low and acceptable. Therefore, it is judged that induction heat bending process didn't affect boric acid corrosion behaviour of carbon steel.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.119-125
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• 2004

This paper is described the indirect induction heated boiler system and induction heated hot air producer using the voltage-fed series resonant high-frequency inverter which can operate in the frequency range from 20〔KHz〕 to 50〔KHz〕. A specially designed Induction heater, which is composed of laminated stainless assembly with many tiny holes and interconnected spot welding points between stainless plates, is inserted into the ceramic type vessel with external working coil. This working coil is connected to the resonant inverter. In the induction heater, it's primary heating section creates low-pressure saturated steam and secondary heating section generates heat distribution evaporating fluid from the turbulence fluid which is flowing through the vessel. The operating performances of this unique appliance in next generation and its effectiveness are evaluated and discussed from the practical point of view.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.30-35
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• 2016

Last few decades have seen a rapid increase in the fabrication and characterization of Al alloys for automobiles, heat exchangers and aerospace industries. Aluminium alloys are popular because of their high specific strength, light weight, excellent wear and high oxidation resistance. The development of aluminium alloys in these applications makes their study and research of utmost importance. Brazing is applied to the aluminium alloys for joining various aluminium parts together in most of the industrial applications. Various parameters affect the joining process of these aluminium alloys. In this article, various types of processing parameters have been discussed, and special attention has been given to the category of aluminium brazing alloys. The article reviews on the various parameters that affect the brazing property in various scientific and technological applications.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.78-84
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• 2007

Laser Material Processing has been replaced the conventional machining systems - cutting, drilling, welding and surface modification and so on. Especially, LTH(Laser Transformation Hardening) process is one branch of the laser surface modification process. Conventionally, some techniques like a gas carburizing and nitriding as well as induction and torch heating have been used to harden the carbon steels. But these methods not only request post-machining resulted from a deformation but also have complex processing procedures. Besides, LTH process has some merits as : 1. It is easy to control the case depth because of output(laser power) adjustability. 2. It is able to harden the localized and complicated a.ea and minimize a deformation due to a unique property of a localized heat source. 3. An additional cooling medium is not required due to self quenching. 4. A prominent hardening results can be obtained. This study is related to the surface hardening of the rod-shaped carbon steel applied to the lathe based complex processing mechanism, a basic behavior of surface hardening, hardness distribution and structural characteristics in the hardened zone.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.27-27
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.43-45
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• 2003

The empirical model for predicting the prior austenite grain size in low-alloy steel weld HAZ was developed through examining the effect of alloying element. The test alloys were made by vacuum induction melting. Grain growth behaviors were observed and analyzed by isothermal grain growth test and subsequent metallography. As a result, it was found that the grain growth might be controlled by grain boundary diffusion and the empirical model for grain growth was presented.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.79-89
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• 1999

The study was carried out to examine in more detail metallurgical and mechanical properties of brazed joints of diamond cutting wheel. In this work, shank(mild steel) and sintered bronze-base tips were brazed with three different filler materials(W-40, BAgl and BAg3S). The machine used in this work was a high frequency induction brazing equipment. The joint thickness, porosities and microstructure of brazed joints with brazing variables(brazing temperature, holding time) were evaluated with OLM, SEM, EDS and XRD. Bending(torque) test was also performed to evaluate strength of brazed joints. Further wetting test was performed in a vacuum furnace in order to evaluate the wettability of filler metals on base metals9shank and tips). The brazing temperature had a strong influence on the joint strength and the optimum brazing temperature range was about $700~850^{\circ}C$ for the bronze/steel combinations. The strength of the brazed joint was found to be influenced by the three factors : degree of reaction region, porosity content, joint thickness. The reaction region was formed in the bronze-base tip adjacent to the joint. The reaction region resulted in a bad influence on the strength due to the formation of Cu5.6Sn, CuZn4, $\beta(CuZn)$ and CdAg, etc. Porosities increased as brazing variables(brazing temperature, holding time) increased, and the brazed joints with porosities of less than about 3-5% had an optimum strength for the bronze-base tip.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.118-118
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• 2018

Indium tim Oxide (ITO) 의 idium 공급 제한과 그 고유한 특성상 유연기판에 적용에는 한계가 있어 대체 물질 개발이 활발히 이뤄지는 가운데, 금속나노와이어는 그 중에서도 각광받는 물질 중 하나이다. 금속나노와이어 네트워크는 높은 전기 전도성, 투명성과 같은 많은 이점을 가지며 유연기판에 다양한 방법으로 손쉽게 제조할 수 있다. 이러한 장점에도 불구하고 금속나노와이어는 자체의 고유한 표면 거칠기 및 접착 문제 등으로 인해 그 한계를 가지며, 또한 polynivnylpyrolidone (PVP)의 코팅이 불가피하기 때문에 나노와이어 간의 높은 접촉저항 및 junction 문제는 해결과제로 남아있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 금속나노와이어의 문제를 극복하기 위해 유도전류에 의해 와전류를 발생시켜 나노와이어 junction 부분에서 짧은 시간동안 국소적으로 용접시킬 수 있는 induction coil system을 구축하였다. 금속나노와이어 전극 기판의 투명도를 유지하며 기판과 나노와이어에 영향을 미치지 않고 electric field를 통해 nano-welding 하는 효과를 기대하였다. 그 결과, 실험에 사용한 은나노와이어와 구리나노와이어는 초기 투과도를 유지하면서 면저항을 각각 약 68 %, 50% 감소하는 효과를 보였다. 또한 표면 이미지 측정을 하여 표면 거칠기도 감소하였음을 확인하였으며, welding됨에 따라 내구성 향상에도 영향을 미쳤음을 bending test 와 adhesion test를 통해 그 특성이 향상되었음을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서 실시한 와전류를 이용한 나노용접 방법은 건식방법이며 열이 직접적으로 발생하지 않기 때문에 모든 종류의 금속 나노와이어에 적용될 것으로 기대하며, 짧은 시간과 저렴한 비용으로 넓은 영역에 적용 가능하다는 장점을 가져 다방면에 활용 가능할 것으로 기대한다.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.16-23
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• 2019

Steels for automotive fuel tank require unique properties such as corrosion resistance for fuel, welding for joining, forming for press, and painting for exterior. Recently, automakers have been requiring excellent seam weldable steels to enhance manufacturing productivity of fuel tank. Thus, POSCO developed a new type of functional steels coated with nano-composite thin layer on Zn-Ni plating steels. The nano-composite coating solution was prepared by mechanical fine dispersion of solutions consisting of polymeric resin and nano-composite materials in aqueous media. The composite solution was coated on the plating steel surface by using roll coater and cured through induction furnace. These new developed plating steels were evaluated for quality performances such as seam and spot weldability, press formability, and corrosion resistance. These new functional steels coated with nano-composite layer exhibited excellent seam weldability and press formability. Detailed discussion of coating solution and experimental results suggest that nano-sized composite dispersion as coating layer plays a key role in enhancing the quality performance.