• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.29-35
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• 1997

실제로 용접구조물의 재료에는 항상 내부 잔류응력이 존재하며 그 크기는 재료내의 내부 잔류응력간의 평형의 원리(Self-equilibrating system)에 의해 결정 된다. 일반적인 구조 강도설계에서 행해지는 탄성해석에서는 재료 내부에 존재하는 잔류응력을 고려하지 않기 때문에 설계시에 계산된 응력이 심하중하의 구조물에서 발생하는 응력과 같다고 볼 수는 없다. 철강재료를 사용한 구조물의 경우 구조물 제작 공정 전반에 걸친 성형가공 및 조립과정에 수반되어 재료 내에는 잔류응력이 발생되며 특히 용접조립에 의해 용접부 근방에서는 재료의 항복강도 수준의 상당히 큰 용접응력 이 발생하게 된다. 일반적으로 용접잔류응력의 완화법으로 가장 확실한 방법은 후열 처리법(Post weld heat treatment, PWHT)이지만 이 방법의 적용은 구조물의 크기에 제한을 받게 된다. 따라서 PWHT를 적용하기 어려운 구조물에 대해서는 다른 방법에 의해 용접잔류 응력을 완화시켜야 하며 이 경우에 일반적인 방법으로 기계적 응력완화 법(Mechanical stress relief method, MSR)이 있다. 본고에서는 MSR의 기본원리에 대하여 간단하게 정리하고 실 구조물에 대한 MSR 적용시 고려해야 할 제반사항을 위하여 단순 용접부에 대한 MSR 적용 실험결과와 실제 압력용기를 대상으로 MSR을 자체 제작된 기술절차서에 따라서 시행하고 MSR의 적용성에 대해서 검토하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.16 no.5 s.72
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• pp.519-528
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• 2004

Most of ferrous b.c.c weld materials may experience martensitic transformation during rapid cooling after welding. And it is well known that volume expansion due to phase transformation could influence in the case of welding of high tensile strength steels on the relaxation of welding residual stress. To apply this effect practically, it is a prerequisite to establish a numerical model which is able to estimate the effect of phase transformation on residual stress relaxation quantitatively. In this study, we investigated the effect of phase transformation on the relaxation of welding residual stress through experiment. And three-dimensional thermal elastic-plastic FEM analysis is conducted to reproduce the effect of phase transformation on the relaxation of welding residual stress. Also we carried out the analysis of welding residual stress in welds of similar or dissimilar steels considering the effect of residual stress relaxation due to phase transformation.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 1992.04a
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• pp.75-77
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• 1992

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• v.43
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• pp.272-274
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• 2004

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.125-130
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• 2008

A spherical indentation has been proposed as a nondestructive method of measuring local residual stress field in laser-voided joints. The apparent yield strengths interpreted from the spherical indentation data of as-welded cutting wheel were compared with the intrinsic yield strengths measured at nearly equivalent locations in annealed wheel. Their difference along the distance from the welding line is welding stress distribution because the intrinsic yield strength is invariant regardless of the elastic residual stress. The spherical indentations show that the laser-welded diamond cutting wheel displays a 10 min-wide distribution of the welding residual stress and has peak compressive and tensile stresses in the shank and tip regions, respectively.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.90-95
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• 2004

In this study, we proposed new method to mitigate tensile welding residual stress for preventing PWSCC in CRDM nozzle. Residual stress analysis using finite element method is performed to confirm benefit of the new method. In case of applying existing method, tensile axial residual stress decrease by about 28% and tensile hoop residual stress decrease by about 33%. In case of applying the new method, tensile axial residual stress decrease by about 32% and tensile hoop residual stress decrease by about 43%. Therefore, we conclude the new proposed method is more effective to prevent PWSCC than existing method.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.225-228
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• 1999

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.100-100
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• 2009

This paper is concerned with numerical analyses of residual stresses in welds and material's susceptibility to stress corrosion cracking (SCC) for the primary piping system in nuclear power plants: Both the dissimilar metal weld (DMW) for stainless steel to low alloy steel joints and the similar metal weld (SMW) for forged stainless steel to cast stainless steel joints are considered. Thermal elasto-plastic analyses using the finite element method (FEM) are performed to predict residual stresses generated in fabrication welding and its related processes for both the DMW and SMW, including effects of quenching for cast stainless steel piping, machining of the DMW root, and grinding of the SMW root. As a result, the effect of quenching should be included in the evaluation of residual stresses in the SMW for the cast stainless steel piping. It is deemed that residual stresses in both the DMW and SMW would not affect the SCC susceptibility of the welds providing that the welding processes are completed without any weld repair on the inside wall of the joint. However, the grinding process if performed on the safe-end to piping weld, would produce a high level of residual stresses in the inner surface region and thus a stress improvement process (e.g. buffing) should be considered to reduce susceptibilities to SCC.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.314-317
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• 1999

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.113-123
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• 1997

The welding residual stresses produced by welding frequently cause a crack and promote stress corrosion etc. in heat affected zone contained with external load and weakness of material. For the purpose pof relaxation of welding residual stress, post welding heat teratment(PWHT) is widely used. In this paper, the computer program which is based on Thermal-Elasto-plastic-creep theory for plane deformation on developed by finite element method (F.E.M) and verified its propriety by experimental measurement and also by using the developed computer program. The mechanical behavior of butt welding joint is clairfied during PWHT.