• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.10
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• pp.1195-1203
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• 2012

Welding is a well-developed, widely used process for permanently joining metal components. However, the mechanical reliability of welded parts still offers room for improvement. A weld region consists of a fusion zone, a partially melted zone, and a heat-affected zone, and each zone has different material properties. In addition, the geometrical shape of a weld bead or fillet influences the mechanical reliability. A precise structural analysis must consider how a local welded region influences the mechanical behavior of the entire structure. This study focuses on an effective modeling scheme for the weld region. It relies on experimental and numerical methods to determine the proper correlation based on experimental results and to propose a modeling scheme for welded parts.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.5385-5392
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• 2014

Super typhoons develop as a result of meteorological changes. In 2012, Typhoons Bolaven and Denba reached Korea. The maximum instantaneous wind speed of the typhoons reached 60 m/sec. Harbor structures including sofa block sustained damage and loss by the abnormally high waves. In Korea, tetrapod blocks were installed the most for wave dissipating. Nevertheless, a structural evaluation of the tetrapod block has not been performed. This study examined the structural mechanism and weakness part of the tetrapod block under a range of boundary conditions. The block has weakness against a tensile force because it is plain concrete. The joint part of the legs is the most vulnerable to tensile stress. The weakest part can be reduced if the joint part is reinforced as a hunch.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.16-21
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• 2016

Recent keywords of the heavy industries are large-scale structure and productivity. Especially, the sizes of the commercial vessels and the offshore structures have been gradually increased to deliver goods and explore or produce oil and natural gas in the Arctic. High heat input welding processes such as electro gas welding (EGW) have been widely used for welding thick steel plates with flux-cored arc welding (FCAW), especially in the shipbuilding industries. Because high heat input welding may cause the detrimental effects on the fracture toughness of the welded joint and the heat affected zone, it is essential to obtain the sufficient toughness of welded joint. There are well known that the fracture toughness like CTOD, CVN, and KIC were very important factors in order to secure the safety of the structures. Furthermore, the welding residual stress should be considered to estimate the unstable fracture in both EGW and FCAW. However, there are no references on the welding residual stress distribution of EGW and FCAW with thick steel plates. Therefore the welding residual stresses were very important elements to evaluate the safety of the welded structure. Based on the measurement results, the characteristics of residual stress distribution through thickness were compared between one-pass electron gas welding and multi-pass flux-cored arc welding. The longitudinal residual stress in the multi-pass flux-cored arc welding is tensile through all thicknesses in the welding fusion zone. Meanwhile, longitudinal residual stress of EGW is tensile on both surfaces and compressive at the inside of the plate. The magnitude of residual stresses by electron gas welding is lower than that by flux-cored arc welding.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.46-55
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• 2011

This paper deals with the crack propagation life assessment of T-joint welded structure where typical fatigue cracks have been frequently initiated when the marine vessels experience the storm load. Welding residual stresses are calculated to investigate its effects on the fatigue life. Thereafter the residual stress distribution was applied to the AFGROW life prediction program, which incorporated the loading, the welding residual stress, and the geometric shape of the structure. The fatigue tests of the T-joint welded specimen under storm loading show the beach mark clearly generated on the fractured section of the weldment. The crack propagation life estimated based on the beach mark is compared with that of AFGROW to validate the life prediction. Based on the results, the evaluation method of the remaining fatigue life for T-joint fillet weldment of marine vessel's cargo hold with random load or storm load was established.

• Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.391-399
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• 2018

In this paper, experimental study performed on steel-pipe connections for structural members of a greenhouse is presented. By those experiments performed, bending moment, deformation and stress distribution of specimens were investigated under four point bending test. The bending performance according to connection method using pin and the stretching is also investigated. The results of bending performance of the no connection specimen were compared to those of other connection specimens. The pin and stretching connection specimens showed lower banding performance than the no connection specimen. The stretching connection method was relatively higher bending performance than the pin connection specimens. According to the results, we proposed the connection method with good bending performance that can be applied to steel-pipe connection in greenhouse.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.57-67
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• 1994

It is usual that underground structures are constructed within a multi-layered medium. In this paper, an efficient numerical modelling of multi-layered structural systems is studied using coupled analysis of finite elements and boundary elements. The finite elements are applied to the area in which the material nonlinearity dominates, and the boundary elements are applied to the far field where the nonlinearity is relatively weak. In the boundary element modelling of the multi-layered medium, fundamental solutions are not readily available. Thus, methods which can utilize existing Kelvin solutions are sought for the interior multi-layered domain problem. The interior domain problem which has piecewise homogeneous layers is analyzed using boundary elements with Kelvin solution, by discretizing each homogeneous subdomain and enforcing compatibility and equilibrium conditions between interfaces. Developed methodology is verified by comparing its results with those from the finite element analysis and it is concluded that coupled analysis using boundary elements and finite elements can be reasonable and efficient.

• Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.105-110
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• 2014

In this work, mechanical characteristics of titanium diaphragm have been studied as a potential robust substrate and a diaphragm material for automotive tire pressure sensor. Lamination process techniques combined with traditional micromachining processes have been adopted as suitable fabrication technologies. To illustrate these principles, capacitive pressure sensors based on titanium diaphragm have been designed, fabricated and characterized. The fabrication process for micromachined titanium devices keeps the membrane and substrate being at the environment of 20 MPa pressure and $200^{\circ}C$ for a half hour and then subsequently cooled to $24^{\circ}C$. Each sensor uses a stainless steel substrate, a laminated titanium film as a suspended movable plate and a fixed, surface micromachined back electrode of electroplated nickel. The finite element method is adopted to investigate residual stresses formed in the process. Besides, out-of-plane deflections are calculated under pressures on the diaphragm. The sensitivity of the fabricated device is $9.45ppm\;kPa^{-1}$ with a net capacitance change of 0.18 pF over a range 0-210 kPa.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.24-24
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• 2015

최근 생체재료의 개발이 눈부시게 발전되고 생체적합성이 우수한 표면을 요구함에 따라 생체재료의 표면처리에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. Laser Deposition법은 항공기 부품제조 분야에 주로 사용되고 있으며 최근에 오하이오 주립대 타이타늄합금연구센터를 중심으로 표면처리에 관한 연구가 주로 이루어졌다. 특히 이를 이용하여 치과재료의 표면처리에 응용을 시도하였다. 치과에서 응용될 수 있는 경우는 주로 임플란트는 부분 또는 완전 무치악 환자의 보철수복에 사용되는 보철물의 제작등에 사용될 수 있으며 이중에서도 특히 생체용 임플란트의 표면처리응용으로 임플란트와 조직간의 접합성을 개선하는 표면처리법으로 연구되었다. 임플란트의 성공과 실패는 물성적인 측면에서 임플란트의 형태, 표면거칠기 및 표면처리방법, 초기하중 등에 의하여 좌우되며 임플란트 재료에 작용하는 응력차폐는 생체적합성을 좌우하는 큰 요인이 되고 있다. 이를 위하여 저 탄성계수합금을 설계하지만 하중을 버티는 강도가 낮아지는 단점이 있어 레이저증착법을 이용하여 임플란트재료인 Ti6Al4V합금에 탄성계수가 낮은 Ta, Nb등을 코팅하는 방법을 통하여 이를 해결하고자하는 시도가 이루어지고 있다. 이 방법은 최근의 3D 프린팅의 원리가 되고 있다. 따라서 발표에서는 Laser Deposition방법을 이용하여 치의학분야에서 응용되고 있는 예를 강연하고 응용 가능 분야에 대하여 토론 하고자한다. 또한 펨토레이저를 이용하여 생체합금의 표면처리는 생체활성화를 더욱 증진시키며 이를 위하여 많은 연구 수행되고 있다. 본 발표에서는 매식용 합금 표면에 펨토레이저를 이용하여 텍스춰링하여 세포가 잘 성장 할 수 있는 크기의 조절함으로써 기존의 표면처리와는 다른 효과를 얻을 수 있는 장점을 알아본다. 펨토레이저를 이용하면 여러 가지 형태의 텍스춰링이 가능하며 원형, 사각형등등 자유자제로 형태의 묘사가 가능하고 깊이 또한 쉽게 조절할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 지금까지는 표면 개질에 사용되는 레이저는 주로 Nd:YAG 레이저의 파장을 반으로 줄인 녹색레이저 (${\lambda}=532nm$)를 사용하거나, 자외선파장영역의 레이저를 사용하는 경우가 일반적으로 가장 보편화되었다. 이를 이용하여 제조된 Ti합금에 펨토 초(10-15 second) 펄스폭 대역을 갖는 레이저를 이용하여 나노크기의 미세 요철을 표면에 형성한 후, 나노튜브를 형성하여 그 표면특성의 변화를 알아보고 펨토레이저가 의료분야에 적용되고 있는 예를 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.395-402
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• 2007

Probabilistic risk assessment was conducted on a hybrid cable-stayed bridge consisting of a steel-composite plate girder and a concrete girder with a long span, designed using the working stress design and strength design methods. The component reliabilities of the bridge's cables, pylons, girders, and steel-concrete conjunction were evaluated using the AFOSM(Advanced First Order Second Moment) algorithm and the simulation technique at the critical sections, based on the maximum axial force, shear, and positive and negative moments of the selected sections. For the analysis of system reliability, the hybrid cable-stayed bridge consisting of cables, pylons, and plate girders was modeled into combined failure modes, and for system reliability, the probabilities of failure and reliability index of the structural system were evaluated. Based on the results of this study, the critical failure modes of the hybrid cable-stayed bridge based on the bridge's structural characteristics are suggested, and the efficiency of the partial ETA technique for use in the risk assessment method was confirmed.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.31-35
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• 2009

When conducting CTOD test, especially in thick welded steel plate, fatigue pre-cracking occasionally failed to satisfy the requirements of standards thus making the test result invalid. Internally accumulated residual stress of test piece has been thought as one of the main reasons. The propagation of fatigue crack, started from the tip of machined notch, which might have propagated irregularly due to residual stress field. To overcome this kind of difficulty three methods to modify the residual stress are suggested in standard i.e. local compression, reverse bending and stepwise high-R ratio method. In this paper not only multi pass welding but also local pre-compressing process of thick steel plate has been simulated using finite element method for clarifying variation of internal welding residual stress. The simulated results show that welding residual stress is compressive in the middle section of the model and it is predominantly increased after machining the specimen. Comparing as-welded state all component of the welding residual stress changing to compressive in the tip of machine notch whereas residual stress of the outer area remain as tensile condition relatively. Analysis results also show that this irregular residual stress distribution is improved to be more uniformly by applying local compression.