• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.1016-1019
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• 2005

In the cutting of plate steel, the quality of the cut surfaces is strongly dependent on the cutting condition such as cutting speed, plate thickness, power, kerf width and gas pressure etc. The cutting tests of Steel Automobile Press Hot were carried out using $CO_2$ Laser cutting machine. The kerf width and surface roughness of a section are examined at various cutting conditions. This paper deals with cutting characteristics of Steel Automobile Press Hot(SAPH400) using $CO_2$ Laser Cutting Machine.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.307-310
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• 2009

Nowadays, the usage of high strength steel has been growing in automobile industry mainly as structural parts since for its lightweight and high strength properties the oil crisis happened. Owing to poor formability, complex-shaped high-strength steel components are invariably produced through hot press forming. The high-strength steel sheets are in so me instances used with an Al-Si-coating with a view to prevent scaling of components during hot press forming. How ever, friction and fracture characteristics of Al-Si-coated high-strength steel during hot press forming process have not yet been investigated. In this paper, the formed parts which were formed in hot bending process were investigated by using EDS. SEM and nano indenter in order to analysis the coating layer behavior.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1355-1360
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• 2007

The use of high strength steels are gradually increasing to reduce the weight of automobile to improve the environmental problems and collision safety. To encounter the traditional disadvantages of high strength steels like as a poor formability and high springback, hot press forming has been developed. By this method, the strength of steel sheet is increased about three times of original one through die quenching process. In order to the design of hot press forming tools by using numerical simulation, the knowledge of mechanical and microstructural characteristics are required. This study show the mechanical and microstructural characteristics of a high strength boron-alloyed steel according to the various quenching conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.218-221
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• 2008

Hot Press Forming (HPF), an advanced sheet forming method in which a high strength part can be produced by forming at high temperature and rapid cooling in dies, is one of the most successful forming process in producing components with complex geometric shape, high strength and a minimum of springback. In order to obtain effectively and accurately numerical finite element simulations of the actual HPF process, the flow stress of a boron steel in the austenitic state at elevated temperatures has been investigated with Gleeble system. To evaluate the formability of the thermo- mechanical material characteristics in the HPF process, the FLDo defined at the lowest point in the forming limit diagrams of a boron steel has been investigated. In addition, the simulation results of thermo-mechanical coupled analysis of an automobile one-piece lower-arm part are compared with the experimental ones to confirm the validity of the proposed simulations.