• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.1097-1103
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• 2011

Liquid droplet impingement erosion (LDIE) is caused by the impact of high-velocity droplets entrained in steam or air on metal. The degradation caused by the LDIE has been experienced in steam turbine internals and high-velocity airplane components (particularly canopies). Recently, LDIE has also been observed in the pipelines of nuclear plants. LDIE among the pipelines occurs when two-phase steam experiences a high pressure drop (e.g., across an orifice in a line to the condenser). In 2011, a nuclear power plant in Korea experienced a steam leak caused by LDIE in a pipe through which a two-phase fluid was flowing. This paper describes a study on the design change of a pipe affected by LDIE in order to mitigate the damage. The design change has been reviewed in terms of fluid dynamics by using the FLUENT code.

• Laser Solutions
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2003

A molten metal droplets are deposited onto solid substrate for solid freeform fabrication, Collision dynamic and substrate heat transfer associated with solidification determine the final shape of molten metal droplets. In this study, the experimental model, based on the variational condition with substrate temperature and falling height, was produced reliable optimal data of droplet pattern.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.33-42
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• 2023

Metal emulsions have been studied for several decades as a method of increasing the efficiency of the steelmaking process. This study was performed using a water model, observable at room temperature, to compensate for the disadvantages of the high-temperature experiment, the results of which are difficult to observe visually. As a substitute for metal-in-slag emulsions, experiments were conducted by dropping distilled water into silicone oil and comparing the results with the results of a calculation by momentum balance equations. The descending velocity of the water droplet decreased as the diameter of the droplet and viscosity of the fluid (silicon oil) increased. To simulate the descending velocity of a water droplet in silicon oil under stirring conditions, the flow rate of the fluid (silicon oil) was measured by particle image velocimetry (PIV) methods. The calculation of the descending velocity of the water droplet was in good agreement with the measured values, with and without stirring a viscous silicone oil.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.72-81
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• 2004

Study on the analysis of sodium spray fire using Gaussian drop size distribution, which redistributes a droplet spectrum with given mean diameter if its size classes with critical diameter(D>8mm) occur, was carried out. In this case, the oversized droplets were reduced to a stable diameter. Results calculated by the code using Gaussian drop size distribution were in better agreement with AI experimental results than those of NACOM and SPRAY code. The effect of variance on pressure in the test cell appeared greatly by introducing Gaussian function, which could represent various sodium droplet size distribution. The increase of the variance with mean droplet size resulted had an important effect upon the pressure in the test cell.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.122-122
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• 2009

금속기판과 액체금속의 젖음성은 일반적으로 액적법 (sessile drop)에 의해 고체와 액체간의 접촉각 측정을 통해서 알 수 있다. 이러한 방법에 의한 젖음성 실험결과는 고체와 액체계면에서의 반응이 무시될 수 있는 경우에 적용가는 하지만 연속용용도금공정과 같이 용융된 금속내부로 강판이 인입되는 과정에서 계면반응이 동적으로 진행되는 과정에서의 젖음성을 모사하기에는 이러한 방법의 신뢰성이 떨어지는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 실제 용융도금공정과 유사하게 소둔열처리된 저탄소강판이 환원성분위기내에서 Zn 및 Zn-Al 용융도금욕 내부로 연속적으로 인입되는 과정에서의 젖음력 및 접촉각 등의 측정을 통해 실제 도금공정상의 도금성과 젖음성의 연관성을 규명하고자하였다. 연구결과 일반적인 Zn 도금욕의 경우 젖음성이 양호하지만 Al함량이 높은 경우에는 젖음성이 좋지 못한 것으로 나타났다.

• Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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• v.46 no.8
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• pp.506-515
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• 2008

Recently, it is exceedingly required to produce metal powders with tailored shape and phase altogether in order to fabricate high performance functional parts such as magnetic core or electro-magnetic noise suppressor for high frequency usage. Therefore, the collision phenomena of in-flight droplets against chamber wall or neighboring in-flight droplets each other is investigated by a computational method in order to get useful information about how to design the atomizing system and how to tailor process parameters not to make irregular-shaped powders during gas atomization process. As a results, smaller powders, lower melt temperature are known to be favorable for droplets not to collide against chamber wall. In additions, powders of narrower size distribution range, lower droplet generation rate, lower melt temperature, lower gas velocity are desirable to prevent droplet-collisions against neighboring in-flight droplets.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.297-301
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• 2004

Nano-sized mullite (3Al$_2$O$_3$$.$2SiO$_2$) colloids were prepared by use of the spray combustion method. For combustion reaction, Al(NO$_3$)$_3$$.$9$H_2O$, and CH$_{6}$N$_4$O were used as an oxidizer and a fuel respectively, and then colloidal silica was also added as 2SiO$_2$source for mullite. The temperature of the reaction chamber was kept at 80$0^{\circ}C$ to initiate the ignition of droplets of the mixed precursors. For preventing droplet coagulation, the droplet number concentration was reduced using the metal screen filter, and the residence time of aerosol was kept at 2.5 seconds for laminar flow. The synthesized colloidal particles had an uniform spherical shape with 130 nanometer size and the crystalline phase showed the mullite with stoichiometry in the observations of XRD and TEM.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.55-63
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• 2000

This paper presents a study of the solder bumping process. The theoretical model, based on the variational principle instead of solving the Navier-Stokes equation with moving boundaries, was developed to considered the energy dissipation in semi-solid phase and the approximate solidification time of the molten metal droplet. The simulation results revealed that the developed model could reasonably describe the collision behavior of molten metal with solid surface. Simulations were made with variation of initial droplet temperature, substrate metal and initial substrate temerature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.114-115
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• 2002

다성분계 세라믹스에 대하여 초미립 및 나노 분말을 제조하기 위해 공침법, 비정질 citrate법, 무기 금속염을 이용한 sol-gel법, 분무 열분해법 등과 같이 비교적 단순한 공정이면서 입도 분포가 좁고 재현성이 우수한 구형의 초미립 또는 나노 분말의 제조에 적합한 방법들이 많이 연구되고있다[1-3]. 분무 열분해법은 출발물질로 용액을 사용하고 미세한 액적(droplet)을 초음파 분무 후 열분해 하여 분말을 합성하는 방법으로, 입자의 조성이 균질하고 구형의 형상을 갖는 우수한 결정상을 얻을 수 있다. (중략)

• Laser Solutions
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.37-47
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• 2004

Laser-assisted selective infiltration is a new method of building metal layers to make metal parts layer by layer, in which superheated microscopic metal droplets are infiltrated into a laser-preheated layer of microscopic metal powders. In this work, the selective infiltration of a low melting-point metal, Sn-37Pb wt%, was conducted to investigate the effects of such dominant parameters as superheating temperature, Nd:YAG laser power for preheating, substrate temperature, etc. The optimal conditions for successful selective infiltration of a single layer of microscopic metal powder were experimentally obtained