• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.324-325
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• 2005

The primary aim of this paper is to develop an automated welding system capable of adapting to variation in the weld seam center in order to allow higher welding speeds and improved welding quality by using a laser vision sensor. The system is designed to compensate for production problems such as pipe ovality, variation in bevel geometry and track misalignment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.46-51
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• 2015

Stainless steel is a popular structural materials for liquid-hydrogen storage containers and piping components for transporting high-temperature fluids because of its superior material properties such as high strength and high corrosion resistance at elevated temperatures. In general, tungsten inert gas (TIG) arc welding is used for bonding stainless steel. However, it is often reported that the thermal fatigue cracks or initial defects in stainless steel after welding decreases the reliability of the material. The objective of this paper is to clarify the characteristics of ultrasonic guided wave propagation in relation to a change in the initial crack length in the welding zone of stainless steel. For this purpose, three specimens with different artificial defects of 5 mm, 10 mm, and 20 mm in stainless steel welds were prepared. By considering the thickness of s stainless steel pipe, special attention was given to both the L(0,1) mode and L(0,2) mode in this study. It was clearly found that the L(0,2) mode was more sensitive to defects than the L(0,1) mode. Based on the results of the L(0,1) and L(0,2) mode analyses, the magnitude ratio of the two modes was more effective than studying each mode when evaluating defects near the welded zone of stainless steel because of its linear relationship with the length of the artificial defect.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.185-191
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• 2012

Typically, a wedge is involved to generate effectively high inspection angle in pipe weld inspection using phased array ultrasonic technique. But the usage of this wedge for weld or access limited area can cause coverage limitation for the examination volume because of the wedge front length. Therefore, the shear wave phased array probe which can generate high inspection angle without wedge is essentially necessary. In this paper, the shear wave phased array ultrasonic probe which can generate high inspection angle designed by modeling and manufactured from the modelling result. And this shear wave probe tested whether it can detect and sizing for EDM test block that contains various depth. As results, the experimental results show that the designed shear wave phased array probe can detect and size with reliable accuracy. Therefore if this phased array probe apply in field inspection, it is expected that it show more reliable inspection result for plant structure having access limitation.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.535-541
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• 2013

The present study was carried out to investigate the effects of welding parameters such as current, voltage and shielding gases on the bead shape, microstructures and hardness. It was confirmed that bead height was lowered and bead depth was increased with increasing voltages while height, depth and width of beads increased with welding currents. The hardness of weld metals with Ar+10% $O_2$ and Ar+20% $CO_2$ was low due to the formation of grain boundary and polygonal ferrites while that of weld metals with Ar+2% $O_2$ was high due to the presence of acicular, bainitic and sideplate ferrites.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.43-51
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• 2017

The automatic welding systems, have received much attention in recent years, because they are highly suitable not only to increase the quality and productivity, but also to decrease manufacturing time and cost for a given product. Automatic welding work in semiconductor or space industry to be carried out in pipe line and butt joint mostly and plasma arc welding(PAW) is actively applied. To get the desired quality welds in automated welding system is challenging, a mathematical model is needed that has complete control over the relevant process parameters in order to obtain the required mechanical properties. However, In various industries the welding process mathematical model is not fully formulated for the process parameter and on the welding conditions, therefore only partial variables can be predicted. Therefore, this paper investigates the interaction between the welding parameters and mechanical properties for predicting the weld bead geometry by analyzing the S/N ratio.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.6
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• pp.979-990
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• 2016

This study presents a nonlinear finite element procedure involving a phenomenological model to validate the tensile strain capacity of the X80 line pipe developed for the strain-based design purpose. The procedure is based on the Gurson-Tvergaard-Needleman (GTN) model, which models nucleation, growth and coalescence of void volume fraction occurred inside a metal. In this study, the user-defined material module (UMAT) is implemented in the commercial finite element platform ABAQUS and is applied to the nonlinear damage analysis of steel specimens. Material parameters for the nonlinear damage analysis of base and weld metals are calibrated from numerical simulations for the tensile tests of round bar and full thickness specimens. They are then employed in the numerical simulations for SENT (Single Edge Notch Tension) test and CWPT (Curved Wide Plate Test) and in the simulations, the tensile strain capacities are naturally evaluated. Comparison of the numerical results with the experimental results and the conventional empirical formulae shows that the proposed numerical procedure can fairly well predict the tensile strain capacity of X80 line pipe. So, it is readily expected to be effectively applied to the strain-based design procedure.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.21-27
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• 2010

Due to excellent weld quality, orbital welding with TIG is widely applied to pipe welding. But concave back bead is formed easily in overhead and inclined-up position of butt orbital welding. It is difficult to find a paper to overcome this problem. In this study, in order to make convex back bead in overhead and inclined-up position of pipe 5G welding, control method of molten pool was actively investigated. Melt run welds were conducted on thickness 4.0mm SS400 with overhead and inclined-up position and was observed the variation of bead shape after welding with the bead former developed. The height of back bead showed the trend of increase as the distance from molten pool to the bead former was decreased. Also, there is no trend in the bead width of front and back as welding position was changed or the distance from molten pool to the bead former was decreased.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.553-560
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• 2015

Fracture mechanics analysis for cracked pipes is essential for applying the leak-before-break (LBB) concept to nuclear piping design. For LBB assessment, crack instability and leak rate should be predicted accurately for through-wall cracked pipes. In a nuclear piping system, elbows are connected with straight pipes by circumferential welding; this weld region is often considered a critical location. Hence, accurate crack assessment is necessary for cracks in the interface between elbows and straight pipes. In this study, the stress intensity factor (SIF) and elastic crack opening displacement (COD) were estimated through detailed 3D elastic finite element (FE) analyses. Based on the results, closed-form solutions of shape factors for calculating the SIFs and elastic CODs were proposed for circumferential through-wall cracks in the abovementioned interfaces under internal pressure. In addition, the effect of the elbow on shape factors was investigated by comparing the results with the existing solutions for a straight pipe.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.85-89
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• 2011

Waste water is disposed to sewage disposal plant by underground PE double wall pipes. Various processes have been introduced to join PE pipes, but most of these methods have many disadvantages such as costs, lack of reliability and difficulties in joining, etc. Recently butt welding has been paid much attention to joint PE pipes as this process has many advantages such as cost, safety and reliability. In this study, newly developed heat plate, a patent-pending heat plate with a groove, was used to butt-weld PE double wall pipes with different misalignment gaps to simulate real underground conditions, and the butt welding temperature of PE pipe was determined by thermal analysis (Thermal Gravimetric Analysis, Differential Scanning Calorimetry and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis). The resulting joining characteristics of double wall pipes were compared with those from a conventional heat plate, in terms of stiffness, flattening and leakage tests. The results from the stiffness and flattening test showed that there were no big differences between the butt-welded joints made from these two plates. From the leakage test, although PE pipes welded with a conventional heat plate did leak below the required test conditions (10 min. at 0.75kgf/cm2), the pipes welded with a patent-pending grooved heat plate did not show any leakage even at a pressure 1.5 times higher than the required conditions. It was noted that by utilizing a grooved heat plate more complete fusion at the pipe joints could be obtained, which in turn induced a high quality joints.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.20-20
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• 2010

GTA (Gas Tungsten Arc)용접은 불활성 분위기에서 용접이 이루어지기 때문에 타 아크용접법에 비해 용접부 품질이 우수하여 고품질이 요구되는 산업분야에 널리 이용되고 있다. 하지만 스테인리스강으로 pipe를 제조하기 위해 GTA 용접을 적용할 경우, Laser 및 고주파 용접 (HFIW)에 비해 용접부 품질 및 용접속도가 낮기 때문에 pipe를 제조하는 산업에서 적용에 제한을 받고 있다. 하지만, GTA는 laser 혹은 HFIW에 비해 가격이 1/10수준으로 낮고, 용접부 gap tolerance 및 용접면 관리범위가 넓은 장점이 있기 때문에 GTA의 용접속도 및 용접품질을 향상시키기 위한 연구가 꾸준히 진행되고 있다. 일반적으로 스테인리스강 GTA용접 시 용접속도를 향상시키기 위해, 모재의 성분 제어 (합금성분 최적화-Al, S, Se, O등), Flux 도포 기술 (산화물을 용접전에 도포하여 용접속도 향상) 및 혼합보호가스 적용 등이 있다. 스테인리스강 용접 시 보호가스로는 용접부 품질을 확보하기 위해 Ar을 주로 사용하고 있다. 하지만 용입 특성을 향상시키기 위해 아크의 온도를 높일 수 있는 He, 혹은 $H_2$ gas를 단독 혹은 혼합하여 사용하고 있다. 오스테나이트계 스테인리스의 경우 용입특성을 향상시키기 위해 Ar에 $H_2$를 2~10%정도 혼합하여 사용하고 있다. 페라이트계 스테인리스강은 수소에 대한 고용도가 상대적으로 작아 용접부 수소 취화를 일으킬 수 있기 때문에 적용에 제한을 받고 있어 그 대안으로 산소를 극히 소량을 혼합하여 용입성 향상에 대한 연구가 보고 되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 페라이트계 스테인리스강의 용입특성을 향상시킬 목적으로 Ar에 산소를 미량 첨가 (1%미만) 하여 용접전류 및 산소 함량에 따른 용입특성의 변화에 대해 연구하였다. 또한 기계적인 물성 및 부식특성을 평가하였고, 최종적으로 실용화 가능성을 파악하기 위해 용접전극의 수명 테스트를 실시하였다. 실시한 결과, 산소가 첨가량 증가 할수록 용입특성은 상승하였으며, 기계적인 물성 또한 산소를 첨가하지 않은 경우에 비해 거의 유사한 값을 얻을 수 있었다, 하지만 산소함량이 증가 할수록 전극의 수명은 감소하여 교체주기가 증가함을 알 수 있다. 본 연구를 통해 얻어진 기술을 상용화시키기에는 극복해야할 문제가 있지만, 소재 합금성분 설계 시 용접생산성 향상위한 산소성분 범위를 제시할 수 있으리라 판단된다.