• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.259-267
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• 1994

The effect of processing parameters, temperature, gas concentration, gas flow rate and pressure, were studied on the densification of carbon/carbon composites using a Robust design method in isothermal low-pressure chemical vapor infiltration with a gas system of $C_3H_8-N_2$ After one time of isothermal low-pressure chemical vapor infiltrat.ion, the bulk density of carbon/carbon composites in creased up to 1-9% and apparent porosity of the composites decreased down to 20-50%. ANOVA analysis of the experiment.al data revealed that the important parameters of isothermal lowpressure chemical vapor infiltration were temperature, gas concentration and gas flnw rate. 'There was almost no ~ f f e c t on densification by pressure and interaction between each parameters. In t, he present experimental conditions, the highest bulk density was obtained at $1100^{\circ}C$ temperature, 100% $C_3H_8$, concentration, 100 SCCM flow rate and 5 torr pressure.

• Composites Research
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.104-110
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• 2016

This paper reports a novel method for simultaneous exfoliation of graphene and dispersion of carbon nanotube by using intercalation method. In common, graphene flake and carbon nanotubes can be produced through individual exfoliation or debundling process, but the process require significant amount of time. Here, potassium sodium tartrate was thermally intercalated into graphite and carbon nanotube bundle for simultaneous exfoliation and dispersion of graphene and carbon nanotubes. We confirmed expansion of interlayer distance via XRD, and also found that oxidation level of the exfoliated materials were significantly low (below 8.3 at%). The produced materials are fabricated in to conductive composite film via vacuum filtration and spray deposition to show enhancement of conductive properties.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.198-203
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• 1999

2D carbon/carbon composites have been prepared with and without addition of 1, 3 and 5wt% of oxidation inhibitor boron and then heat teated up to 1700, 2000, 2300, 2600 each. This paper presents the effects of boron on the mechanical properties of 2D C/C composites in terms of the acceleration of graphitization and also discussed about the retardation of air oxidation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.215-217
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• 2000

• Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.129-134
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• 1999

• 기계와재료
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.24-29
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• 2010

새로운 소재의 개발과 더불어 이의 특성을 평가하기 위한 여러 방법들도 새롭게 개발, 적용되어 왔다. 그러나 동일한 소재라도 사용 환경에 따라서 그 특성은 다르게 나타나기 때문에 사용 적정성의 평가는 반드시 수행되어야 한다. 특히 소재의 내구성이 한계에 달하는 극한환경에서 사용을 목적으로 하는 경우 더욱 그러하다. 이 분야의 연구는 전통적으로 미국, 일본, 독일 등을 중심으로 개발되어 왔으나 근래 국내의 연구개발도 산, 학, 연 분야에서 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 우리 연구소에서는 당해연도를 시작으로 극한환경 소재 기술개발을 수행하고 있다. 본고에서는 초고온 환경에서 사용되는 탄소-탄소 복합소재의 특성평가를 목적으로 이 분야의 비파괴평가 기술개발 동향을 소개한다.

• Composites Research
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.165-168
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• 2017

Coiled polymer actuators fabricated by twisting polymer fishing lines or sewing threads respond to heating and cooling with their contraction and relaxation. However, their actuation speed is highly dependent on the heating and cooling rates. In order to improve the actuation speed, the coiled polymer actuator was coated with polydimethylsiloxane composites. The introduction of multi-walled carbon nanotubes into the polydimethylsiloxane improved the actuation speed by about 13%.

• Composites Research
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.34-38
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• 2011

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been widely investigated as reinforcements of CNT/polymer nanocomposites to enhance mechanical and electrical properties of polymer matrices since their discovery in the early 90's. Furthermore, the number of studies about incorporating CNTs into carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) to reinforce their polymer matrices is increasing recently. In this study, single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) were dispersed in epoxy with 0.2 wt.% and 0.5 wt.%. Then, the SWNT/epoxy mixtures were processed to carbon fiber composites by a vacuum assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) and a wet lay up method. The processed composite samples were tested for the interlaminar shear strength (ILSS). The relationship between the interlaminar shear strengths and processing, and the reinforcement mechanism of carbon nanotubes were investigated. CNT/epoxy nanocomposite specimens showed the increased tensile properties. However, the ILSS of carbon fiber composites was not enhanced by reinforcing the matrix with CNTs because of processing issues caused by increased viscosity of the matrix due to addition of CNTs particularly for a VARTM method.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.89-94
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• 2014

The high Young's modulus and tensile strength of carbon nanotubes has attracted great attention from the research community given the potential for developing super-strong, super-stiff composites with carbon nanotube reinforcements. Over the decades, the strength and stiffness of carbon nanotube-reinforced polymer nanocomposites have been researched extensively. However, unfortunately, such strong composite materials have not been developed yet. It has been reported that the efficiency of load transfer in such systems is critically dependent on the quality of adhesion between the nanotubes and the polymer chains. In addition, the waviness and orientation of the nanotubes embedded in a matrix reduce the reinforcement effectiveness. In this study, we carried out performed micromechanics-based numerical modeling and analysis by varying the geometry of carbon nanotubes including their aspect ratio, orientation, and waviness. The results of this analysis allow for a better understanding of the load transfer capabilities of carbon nanotube-reinforced polymer composites.

• Composites Research
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.311-315
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• 2015

Measuring fiber volume fraction properly is very important in designing composite materials because the fiber volume fraction mainly determines mechanical and thermal properties. Conventional Ignition methods are effective for ceramic fiber reinforcing composite materials. However, these methods are not proper for applying to carbon fiber reinforcing composites because of the venerable characteristic against oxidation of carbon fiber. In the research, fiber volume fraction of carbon fiber composites was obtained by a thermogravimetric analysis considering oxidation characteristic of the carbon fiber and the method was compared and verified with the results from microscopic cross section images.