• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.5 no.3 s.15
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• pp.15-22
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• 2001

Reliability evaluation of welded structures by mechanical testing of weld heat-affected zones (HAZs) has become general practice throughout the world. HAZs of steel welded Joints show a gradient of microstructure from the fusion line to the unaffected base metal. This study is concerned a correlation between the microstructural change and the fracture characteristics in HAZs of both seam and girth welds of API 5L X65 pipeline steel, which is generally used for natural gas transmission pipelines in Korea. The focus in this study is the investigation of macroscopic fracture behavior of the various regions within HAZ. Changes in microstructure and toughness were observed using actual HAZ specimens. To evaluate the macroscopic toughness of actual HAZ, Charpy V-notch impact test and CTOD test were performed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.11-22
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• 1997

It is very essential to get the accurate classification of defects in primary pressure vessel and piping welds for the safety of nuclear power plant. Ultrasonic testing has been widely applied to inspect primary pressure vessel and piping welds of nuclear power plants during PSI / ISI. Classification of flaws in weldments from their ultrasonic scattering signals is very important in quantitative nondestructive evaluation. This problem is ideally suited to a modern ultrasonic Pattern recognition technique. Here, a brief discussion on systematic approach to this methodology is presented including ultrasonic feature extraction, feature selection and classification. A stronger emphasis is placed on Fuzzy-UTSCS (UT signal classification system) as efficient classifiers for many practical classification problems. As an example Fuzzy-UTSCS is applied to classify flaws in ferrite pressure vessel weldments into two types such as linear and volumetric. It is shown that Fuzzy-UTSCS is able to exhibit higher performance than other classifiers in the defect classification.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.90-95
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• 2003

Fracture behaviors of pipes with local wall thinning are very important for the integrity of nuclear power plant. In pipes of energy plants, sometimes, the local wall thinning may result from severe erosion-corrosion (E/C) damage. However, the effects of local wall thinning on strength and fracture behaviors of piping system were not well studied. In this paper, the monotonic bending tests were performed of full-scale welded and unwelded carbon steel pipes with local wall thinning. A monotonic bending load was applied to straight pipe specimens by four-point loading at ambient temperature without internal pressure. The observed failure modes were divided into four types; ovalization, crack initiation/growth after ovalization, local buckling and crack initiation/growth after local buckling. Also, the strengths of welded and unwelded piping system with local wall thinning were evaluated.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.368-375
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• 2013

Failure of small bore piping welds is a recurring problem at nuclear power plants. And the socket weld cracking in small bore piping has caused unplanned plant shutdowns for repair and high economic impact on the plants. Consequently, early crack detection, including the detection of manufacturing defects, is of the utmost importance. Until now, the surface inspection methods has been applied according to ASME Section XI requirements. But the ultrasonic inspection as a volumetric method is also applying to enforce the inspection requirement. However, the conventional manual ultrasonic inspection techniques are used to detect service induced fatigue cracks. And there was uncertainty on manual ultrasonic inspection because of limited access to the welds and difficulties with contact between the ultrasonic probe and the OD(outer diameter) surface of small bore piping. In this study, phased array ultrasonic inspection technique is applied to increase inspection speed and reliability. To achieve this object, the 3.5 MHz phased array ultrasonic transducer are designed and fabricated. The manually encoded scanner was also developed to enhance contact conditions and maintain constant signal quality. Additionally inspection system is configured and inspection procedure is developed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.205-210
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• 1998

이미 오래전부터 국내외에서 석유화학공장 등의 보온 배관에서 보온재를 벗기지 않고 배관의 부식 손상 및 잔존두께를 평가하는데 방사선투과시험법을 적용해 오고 있다. 그러나 배관 용접부의 결함 탐상에 관한 방사선투과법에 대한 국제 및 국내 코드는 이미 마련되어 있지만 배관의 두께와 내부에 존재하는 부착물(deposit) 등의 두께를 측정하는 것에 관련한 국제 및 국내 코드는 미비되어 시험 절차 및 시험 결과에 대한 시비가 근본적으로 존재할 수 밖에 없을 뿐만 아니라 표준화된 시험 기술의 미비로 현장에서 많은 시행착오를 동반하였다. 그러나 최근 이 시험법에 대한 관련 원안(protocol)을 확정하기 위해 각국에서 개별적으로 수행되었던 기존의 연구 결과들이 취합되고 있으며 부족한 부분들에 대한 연구가 국제 공동 연구 형식으로 이뤄지고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 tangential radiography를 적용하여 보온된 배관의 잔존 두께를 평가할 수 있는 시험 방법을 제시하고자 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.199-200
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• 2012

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.11-20
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• 1994

건축철골, 교량, 압력용기, 배관, 해양구조물 등의 강구조물은 그 대부분이 용접구조이다 이러한 구조물의 용접부의 결함검출법으로는 방사선투과 시험방법도 적용되지만, 구조물의 향상 등에 따라서는 초음파탐상시험방법이 단독적으로 또는 방사선투과 시험방법과 더불어 적용되는 경우가 많다. 따라서 이들 각각의 구조물에 대한 초음파탐상시험규격이 제정되어 있다. 여기서는 결함평가만으로 한정하여 자주 이용되는 규격인 KS B 0896 및 AWS D1.1에 대해 기술한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.328-333
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• 2003

It has been widely recognized that the residual stress of the weldment affect the integrity of steel structures and cause an initiation of crack in the welded regions. Since the power plants adopt a variety of welding processes, it is necessary to know the distribution and magnitude of residual stresses. This paper has attempted to investigate the validity of the saw cutting method and the indentation method to measure the residual stresses in the steel plates. The residual stresses in the specimens of hot reheater pipes, cold reheater pipes and feed water lines in power plants were determined by the saw cutting method and the indentation method. The data were compared and reviewed for the validity of the methods.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1021-1033
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• 2017

In this study, an optimum process to improve structural integrity was established by investigating effect of the process variables on fatigue lifetime of steel-sleeve repair welds in buried gas pipeline. Residual stresses in the repair welds were derived through sequentially-coupled temperature-stress analysis using ABAQUS, which is a commercial finite element analysis program. In addition, variations of operating stresses were derived by finite element linear elastic stress analysis. Fatigue lifetimes of the steel-sleeve repair welds were evaluated by substituting the derived weld residual stresses and operating stress variations into the structural stress/fracture mechanics approach as input. Parametric study using finite element analysis and fatigue assessment for various repair welding process variables were carried out to investigate the effects of the process variables on the fatigue lifetime. Finally, based on the effects of the process variables on the fatigue lifetime, an optimal process to minimize the welding time and economic costs and to improve the fatigue lifetimes was derived.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.47-54
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• 2013

This study investigates the crack growth behavior due to primary water stress corrosion cracking (PWSCC) in the dissimilar metal butt weld of a reactor piping using Alloy 82/182. First, detailed finite element stress analyses were performed to predict the stress distribution of the dissimilar metal butt weld in which the hydrostatic and the normal operating loads as well as the weld residual stresses were considered to evaluate the stress redistribution due to mechanical loadings. Based on the stress distributions along the wall thickness of the dissimilar metal butt weld, the crack growth behavior of the postulated axial and circumferential cracks were predicted, from which the crack growth diagram due to PWSCC was proposed. The present results can be applied to predict the crack growth rate in the dissimilar metal butt weld of reactor piping due to PWSCC.