• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.113-119
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• 2008

Recently, fiber reinforced polymers(FRP) composite materials are used extensively in the rehabilitation of concrete structural members. A main application is to wrap beams and columns using the continuous fibers sheets to improve their strength and ductility. The corner chamfering affects significantly the performance of the continuous fibers sheets, and could lead to environmental problem with waste and dust. The main purpose of this paper is to verify the effect of corner conditions on the strength of the continuous fiber sheets, and to introduce new attached components which can avoid environmental problem. A total of 15 specimens were tested and carefully checked for three types of continuous fiber sheets(carbon, glass, and aramid) and three types of corner conditions(non-chamfering, chamfering, and device attaching). It is proved that the devices proposed in this research have some capabilities to use for RC member. But additional research will be needed for commercializing.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.52-62
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• 2013

In order to obtain the relation between the cutting force and the process parameters in the chamfering process for the gear of a gear shaft, analysis of the process was performed with a simplified model instead of considering the whole actual 3-dimensional cutting situation produced between cutting tool and gear. The model divided the actual situation into the accumulation of hundreds of 2-dimensional layers with a small thickness in the direction of the height of gear and derived cutting force at a cutting position by accumulating each cutting force calculated in a layer. With proposed method to analyze the cutting forces in the chamfering process, it was revealed that the cutting position and size were exactly searched to calculate the cutting force in each layer. The total cutting force was the highest in the corner where the cutter encountered the gear first during the relative motion between them. The cutting forces were changed in proportion to the cutting parameters such as feed rate and trajectory.