• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.6 no.1 s.19
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• pp.25-36
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• 2004

The total length of paved roads in Korea is 67,265 Km, and among these roads, about 40% of the national highways and 98% of local roads are paved with asphalt concrete. The major distress to asphalt pavement is rutting and fatigue crack. The permanent deformation including rutting accounts for about 75% of this distress. UTW(Ultra-Thin Whitetopping), which is known for its high-quality performance in asphalt pavement with rutting and cracking, seems to reduce maintenance costs significantly if it is used as the maintenance/repair method for domestic asphalt pavement. In the research, static load test was conducted to establish a behavior of Whitetopping under traffic and environmental condition. It showed that the effect of the thickness of the concrete layer and the temperature change was significant. In addition, the tensile strain as the wheel load position was close to interior and edge of concrete slab were increased up to 75% of maximum tensile strain. It showed that joint spacing must be considered in UTW design procedure.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.268-276
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• 2016

This paper presents a study on the crashworthiness of the scaled-down stiffened panels used on a Korean icebreaker. In order to validate the crashworthiness of the panels, this paper provides various mechanical properties such as the results of a CVN test, quasi-static tensile test, and high-speed tensile test at arctic temperatures. Two types of steels (EH32 and FH32) were chosen for the material tests. CVN tests revealed that the two steels were equivalent up to −60℃ in terms of their impact energy absorption capacity. However, the toughness of FH32 was significantly superior to that of EH32. EH32 showed slightly higher flow stresses at all temperature levels compared to FH32. The improvement ratios of the yield strengths, tensile strengths, plastic hardening exponents, etc. for FH32, which were obtained from quasi-static tensile tests, showed an apparent ascending tendency with a decrease in temperature. Dynamic tensile test results were obtained for the two temperatures levels of 20℃ and −60℃ with two plastic strain rate levels of 1 s⁻¹ and 100 s⁻¹. A closed form empirical formula proposed by Choung et al. (2011;2013) was shown to be effective at predicting the flow stress increase due to a strain rate increase.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.1479-1485
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• 2010

In recent times, due to wire drawing of high carbon steel at a high speed to ensure a high productivity and high strength, axial residual stress are generated because of rapid increase in surface temperature. In the process, the temperatures of the wires increased because of the deformation of the wires and the friction between the die and wire. In particular, in the case of the wire drawing at a high speed, friction leads to a large temperature gradient so that considerable axial residual stress is generated on the surface. In this study, the relationship between axial residual stress and increase in the surface temperature was investigated, and a prediction model of uniform temperature was proposed. Then, a prediction model for residual stress was developed. The proposed model was verified by measuring the residual stress by X-ray diffraction on drawn wires.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.117-117
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• 2009

저항 점 용접 시스템은 SCR 방식과 Inverter 방식으로 나뉘어지는데 현재 공급전원의 안정화 및 고속의 제어가 가능한 Inverter 방식으로 점차 변해가는 추세이다. 이러한 추세에 따라 기존 SCR 방식에서는 구현하기 힘들었던 고속의 전류제어가 요구되고 있으며 여러 제어 알고리즘들이 적용되고 있다. 일반적으로 전류를 제어하기 위해 PI제어 알고리즘이 많이 사용되고 있다. PI제어보다 좀더 반응이 빠르고 정밀한 제어 알고리즘의 적용이 시도되고 있지만 실질적으로 현장에 적용하여 활용하기에 어려움이 있어 PI제어가 많이 선호되고 있다. 일반적으로 용접전류의 제어는 일정한 전류를 공급할 수 있게 하는 것이 주요하지만 저항 점 용접 시스템에서는 일정한 전류의 공급 이외에 목표 전류까지 도달하는 응답시간 또한 주요한 사항으로 작용하고 있다. 이는 짧은 통전시간으로 인해 응답성에 따라 입열량의 차이가 나타나기 때문이다. 응답시간이 느릴수록 그만큼 전류의 공급이 적어지고 이로 인해 입열량이 감소하게 된다. 국내의 Inverter 방식의 경우 응답시간이 15ms 이상이지만, 해외 선진 제품의 경우 10ms 이하의 응답시간을 가져 크게는 1cycle(16.6ms)의 차이가 나고 같은 용접전류 조건에서도 용접성의 차이가 나타나게 된다. 본 연구에서는 응답시간에 따른 용접성의 변화와 응답시간 제어의 필요성을 확인하기 위해 PI제어기를 응답시간에 따라 설계하고 이를 자체 제작한 Inverter DC 저항 점 용접기에 적용하여 용접실험을 실행하였다. 용접소재로는 현 자동차용 강판 소재인 SPFC590, 1mmt를 사용하였고 인장 및 단면시험을 통해 용접성을 비교하였다. 또한 각각의 로브곡선을 도출하고 비교하여 응답시간에 따른 용접성의 차이를 확인하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.127-134
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• 2005

This paper introduces a newly developed high speed material testing apparatus for tensile tests at the strain rate up to 500/sec. The tensile properties of sheet metals are indispensable for the accurate crashworthiness analysis of auto-bodies since the local strain rate reaches to 500/sec in the car crash. An appropriate experimental method has to be developed to acquire the tensile properties at the intermediate strain rate ranged from 0.003/sec to 200/sec. Tensile tests of various different steel sheets for an auto-body were perform ed to obtain the dynamic properties with respect to the strain rate. The dimensions of specimens that can provide the reasonable results were determined by the finite element analysis. A special jig fixture of a load cell is designed to reduce the load ringing phenomenon induced by unstable stress propagation at the high strain rate. Stress-strain curves were acquired for each steel sheet from the dynamic tensile test and utilized to obtain the relationship of the stress to the strain rate.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.65-70
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• 2008

This study deals with the friction welding of SKH55 and SM45C; The friction time was variable conditions under the conditions of spindle revolution 2,000rpm, friction pressure of 190MPa, upset pressure of 270MPa and upset time of 2.0 seconds. Under these conditions, the microstructure of weld interface, tensile fracture surface and mechanical tests were studied, and so the results were as follows. 1. When the friction time is 1.0 seconds, the tensile strength of friction welds was 926MPa, which is around as much as 84% of the tensile strength of base metal(SKH55), the bending strength of friction welds was 1,542MPa, which is around as much as 80% of the bending strength of base metal(SKH55), the shear strength of friction welds was 519MPa, which is around as much as 70% of the shear strength of base metal(SKH55). 2 According to the hardness test, the hardness distribution of the weld interface was formed from 964Hv to 254Hv. HAZ(Heat Affected Zone) was formed from the weld interface to 1.5mm of SKH55 and 2mm of SM45C.

• Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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• v.50 no.12
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• pp.873-882
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• 2012

Dual Phase (DP) steel which has a soft ferrite phase and a hard martensite phase reveals both high strength and high ductility and has received increased attention for use in automotive applications. To conduct structural analysis to verify vehicle safety, highly credible experimental results are required. In this study, tensile tests were performed in a strain rate range from $10^{-4}/s$ to 300/s for Sink Roll-Less (SRL) hot-dip metal coated sheets. Collision properties were estimated through simulation by LS-DYNA using the stress-strain curve obtained from the tensile test. The simulation results were compared with the actual crash test results to confirm the credibility of the simulation. In addition, a tensile test and a crash test with 2% prestrain and a baking (PB) specimen were evaluated identically because automotive steel is used after forming and painting. The mechanical behaviors were improved with an increasing strain rate regardless of the PB treatment. Thus, plastic deformation with an appropriate strain rate is expected to result in better formability and crash characteristics than plastic deformation with a static strain rate. The ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and absorbed energy up to 10% strain were improved even though the total elongation decreased after PB treatment, The results of the experimental crash test and computer simulation were slightly different but generally, a similar propensity was seen.

• Composites Research
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.23-29
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• 2021

Commercialized carbon fiber obtained from polyacrylonitrile(PAN) precursor is subjected to oxidation stabilization at 180 to 300℃ in air atmosphere and carbonization process at 1600℃ or lower in inert gas atmosphere. Both of these processes use a lot of time and high energy, but are essential and important for producing high-performance carbon fibers. Therefore, in recent years, an alternative stabilization technology by being assisted with various other energy sources such as plasma, electron beam and microwave which can shorten the process time and lower energy consumption has been studied. In this study, the PAN precursor was stabilized by using plasma treatment and heat treatment continuously. The morphology, structural changes, thermal and physical properties were analyzed using Field emission scanning electron microscopy(FE-SEM), X-ray diffraction(XRD), Fourier transform infrared(FT-IR), Thermogravimetric analysis(TGA) and Favimat.

• Composites Research
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.143-149
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• 2024

This paper measures the mechanical properties of corrugated cardboard, an eco-friendly packaging material, and applies these measurements to the MAT_PAPER model in LS-DYNA for finite element analysis. Although MAT_PAPER is primarily designed for modeling the behavior of paper, this research demonstrates its applicability to corrugated cardboard as well. Tensile, compression, and shear behaviors of a corrugated cardboard were measured and analyzed, and based on these results, six yield surfaces were derived and integrated into the MAT_PAPER model. By comparing the finite element analysis of the material tests and the low velocity collapse analysis of the corrugated cardboard square boxes with each experimental results, it was shown that the behavior of corrugated cardboard could be equivalently considered well by the MAT_PAPER model. However, since the model is not rate-dependent, the high strain rate properties of liner materials were measured and used for strain rate correction. Consequently, this matches well with the results of the high-speed compression tests of the corrugated cardboard square boxes.

• Clean Technology
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.205-211
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• 2014

Biomass-based plastics containing the biomass content higher than 25 wt% have been considered as environment-friendly materials due to their effects on the reduction in the $CO_2$ emission and petroleum consumption as well as biodegradability after use. This article described the effect of the additions of oxo-biodegradable additive, 4 kinds of plant biomass, unsaturated fatty acid, citric acid in the properties of polyethylene films. Bio films were prepared using a variety of biomasses and tested for feasibility as a food packaging film. Mechanical properties such as tensile strength and percent elongation at break were evaluated. Husk biomasses from such as corn, soybean, rice, and wheat were pulverized using air classifying mill (ACM) and four different types of packaging films with thickness of $50{\mu}m$ were prepared using the pulverized biomass and low density polyethylene/linear low density polyethylene. The packaging film with wheat husk biomass was found to have greater mechanical properties of elongation and tensile strength than the other samples. Biodegradability of bio film was measured to be 51.5% compared to cellulose.