• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.219-226
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• 2010

The stamping process is widely used in fabricating various sheet-parts for vehicle, airplane, and electronic devices due to its low processing cost and high productivity. Recently the use of thin sheets with corrugated structures has rapidly increased for the production of energy devices, e.g., heat exchangers and fuel cells. However, it is very difficult to make corrugated structures directly in the stamping process due to their geometrical complexity. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a multi-step stamping process with a combined heat treatment process: a sequence of the first stamping, heat treatment, and second stamping. By multi-stamping, we obtained successful results in fabricating very thin corrugated structures with thicknesses of $100{\mu}m$; these are applicable as part of a plate-type heat exchanger.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.174-174
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• 2013

현재 자동차 강판 시장에서는 승객들의 안전 확보와 연비 향상을 위하여 자동차 강판의 경량화 및 고장력화가 급속히 진행되고 있다. 더불어 소비자는 더욱 아름답고 멋있는 외관을 추구하면서 정교한 디자인이 가능할 수 있도록 높은 성형성을 갖는 강판에 대한 요구도 또한 증대되고 있다. 따라서 강도와 성형성을 동시에 확보할 수 있는 DP형, TRIP형 등의 다양한 컨셉을 갖는 변태강화형 고장력강에 대한 개발 요구가 점점 심화되고 있으나 이들 고장력강의 상 제어를 위하여 첨가된 Si, Mn등의 성분들이 표면에 안정한 산화물을 형성하기 때문에 이러한 고장력강은 표면 품질이 열위한 것으로 보고 되고 있다. 따라서 기존 연구에서는 열처리중 표면으로 확산되어 올라오는 Si, Mn 산화물의 저감을 위하여 분위기 중 산소농도나 노점등을 조절하거나, 산화전처리, 선도금처리 등을 통하여 Si, Mn 의 표면 선택산화를 제어하여 도금 결함을 최소화하려는 연구가 많이 진행되고 있다. 그러나 이러한 연구들은 대부분 강판 표면에서의 산화/환원의 반응에 대한 분위기 요인을 제어하는 연구들이며 실제 Si, Mn등의 산화성 원소들이 어떠한 조건에서 어떠한 경로들을 통해서 이동하여 표면으로 올라오는지에 대한 연구는 부족한 상황이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 산화성 원소들의 표면 확산 거동에 대한 고찰을 위하여 다양한 열처리 온도 조건을 통한 표면 도금성 경향, 합급화 경향 및 표면 분석결과를 바탕으로 확산 거동에 대한 경향을 밝히고자 하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.1119-1123
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• 2008

High-frequency induction is an efficient way to heat mold surface by electromagnetic induction in a noncontact procedure. It has been recently applied to the injection molding of thin-walled parts or micro/nano structures. Though the induction heating has an advantage in terms of its rapid-heating capacity on the mold surface, it still has difficulty in efficient mold temperature control due to the restriction of an induction coil design suitable for the given mold shape. The present study proposed a localized mold heating method by means of selective use of mold material. For localized induction heating, an injection mold composed of ferromagnetic material and paramagnetic material is used. The electromagnetic induction concentrates on the ferromagnetic material, from which we can selectively heat for the local mold elements. The feasibility of the proposed heating method is investigated through an experimental measurement in terms of the heating efficiency on the localized mold surface.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.34-40
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• 1993

Nylon 6 based magnetic pellets for injection molding were produced using plasma arc melt-spun $Nd_{10.5}Fe_{79}Co_{2}Zr_{1.5}B_{7}$ powders. Two sorts of bonded magnets made of two different sizes of particles ($38~75\;\mu\textrm{m}$ and $75~150\;\mu\textrm{m}$) were prepared to determine critical volume fraction of magnet powders, and the magnetic prop erties of the magnets were discussed as a function of density. For the nylon fi based Nd-Fe-Co-Zr-B pellets made of $38~75\;\mu\textrm{m}$ particles, the critical volume fraction of powders 0.7 was obtained with the pellet density which is 90% of theoretical density while the magnets of $75~150\;\mu\textrm{m}$ showed the density of 87% of the theoretical value with the same volume fraction. The nylon (i magnets with the addition of 0.5 wt. % silicon oil only exhibited the best magnetic properties to have $_{i}H_{c}=8.8\;kOe,\;B_{r}=5.1\;kG$ and $(BH)_{max}=5.2\;MGOe$ which are of world class. An empirical relationship in predicting the magnet density with a known fraction ($V_s$) of loading powders was obtained such as ${\rho}(g/cm^{3})=1.1+K.V_{s}$ where the K ranges over 5.3~5.6 be ing dependent upon the particle size loaded.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.681-688
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• 1996

To investigate the effort of drying methods on the physicochemical properties of agar, gel strength, viscosity, melting and setting point, and phase transition by differential scanning calorimetery (DSC) during its heating were determined. In addition the structural differences of agar powder by scanning electron microscope (SEM) was examined. The most shortest onset temperature of gel strength increase was extruding method among any other methods. Viscosity of agar with hot air method, 400.00 cps at $45^{\circ}C$, was markedly increased, but with spraying and extruding ones were little change. The melting and setting point, and the temperature for maximum endothermic and enthalpy for agar with extruding one, $80.01^{\circ}C,\;36.05^{\circ}C\;and\;61.72^{\circ}C,\;0.73\;cal/g$, respectively, were lowest among the drying ones. But in the case of reheating after gelling, there were little change in all methods. Observing the surface structure of agar with SEM, extruding method showed the most unstable with absorptive property.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1754-1759
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• 2008

To produce plastic parts that have fine pattern through conventional injection molding, a lot of difficulties follow. Therefore, rapid heating and cooling methods are good candidates for manufacturing injection-molded parts with micro/nano patterns. In this study, we adopted the E-Mold patent technology. The mold for E-Mold technology has a separate heated core with micro heaters. It is very important to optimize the lay-out of the heaters in heated core because it influences both control and distribution of mold temperature. We developed a optimization method of heating line lay-out by using commercial softwares and compared the output with the experimental results. We used Pro-Engineer Wildfire 2.0 for the mold design, ICEMCFD for mesh generation, and FLUENT for heat transfer simulation. The simulation results showed the temperature profile from $60^{\circ}C$ to $120^{\circ}C$ or $180^{\circ}C$ during heating and cooling process which were compared with the injection molding experiments. We concluded that the simulation could well explain the experimental results. It was shown that the E-Mold optimization design for heater lay-out could be available through the simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.195-198
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• 2007

The present work focuses on the prediction of birefringence in injection-molded plastic part and its improvement by rapid mold heating. To calculate birefringence, flow-induced residual stress is computed through a fully three-dimensional injection molding analysis. Then the stress-optical law is applied from which the order of birefringence can be evaluated and visualized. The birefringence patterns are predicted for a rectangular plate with a variation of mold temperatures, which shows that the amount of molecular orientation and birefringence level decreases with an increase of mold temperature. The effect of mold temperature on the order of birefringence is also studied for a thin-walled rectangular strip, and compared with experimental measurements. Both predicted and experimental patterns of birefringence are in agreements on the observation that the birefringence level diminishes significantly when the mold temperature is raised to above the glass transition temperature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.341-343
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• 2002

인간의 생활수준은 산업의 발달과 함께 꾸준히 향상되고 있으나 환경은 산업발달의 부산물로 배출되는 공해물질들로 인하여 급속히 열악해지고 있다. 대표적인 악취물질로는 암모니아, 황화수소 및 트리메틸아민 등을 들 수 있으며 공간으로부터 악취분자들을 적극적으로 제거하는 탈취소취법에 오늘날 많은 관심이 집중되고 있다. 일반적인 탈취재료는 활성탄, 제올라이트 등의 무기물이 오래전부터 사용되고 있으나 이들의 대표적인 악취물질인 암모니아가스, 황화수소 등 유해가스에 대한 흡착능력은 매우 낮으며 흡착제 형태가 입상이기 때문에 성형가공면에서 한계가 있다. (중략)

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.145-151
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• 2010

In case of thin-wall two-color injection molding, flashing often occurs when molten polymer flows into small gap at the parting line in mold with high pressure or under the unbalanced clamping force condition. In this study, flashing was examined in the production of thin-wall notebook case with large area when the rapid heat cycle molding (RHCM) technology was applied to the two-color injection molding. The effects of the RHCM technology on the part properties and weld-lines were compared with conventional injection molding. The flashing caused by the clamping device of the two-color injection molding machine was examined and compared by experiments and CAE analyses.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.340-346
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• 2011

In order to improve the weak mechanical properties of cast Mg alloys, Mg-$Zn_1Y_2$ (at%) alloy powders were synthesized using gas atomization, a typical rapid solidification process. The powders consist of fine dendrite structures less than 3 ${\mu}m$ in arm spacing. In order to fabricate a bulk form, the Mg powders were compacted using magnetic pulse compaction (MPC) under various processing parameters of pressure and temperature. The effects of the processing parameters on the microstructure and mechanical properties were systematically investigated.