• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.547-557
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• 2013

The mode II fracture toughness and strength due to shear stress are important parameters in the stability of caprock and injection zone with application to geological sequestration of carbon dioxide. In this research, a short beam compression test has been used to determine the shear strength and the mode II fracture toughness for Coconino sandstone. The average value of the shear strength and mode II fracture toughness are estimated to be 23.53 MPa and 1.58 MPa${\surd}$m respectively. The stress intensity factor is suggested by finite element analysis using the displacement extrapolation method. The effect of biaxial stress and water saturation on the fracture toughness has also been investigated. The fracture toughness increases with confining stresses, but decreases by 11.4% in fully saturated condition.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.166-172
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• 2001

고 인성의 Y-TZP 세라믹스에 0.5$\mu\textrm{m}$, 1$\mu\textrm{m}$, 3$\mu\textrm{m}$ 알루미나를 20 vol% 분산시킨 후 입자크기에 따른 미세구조와 파괴인성 변화를 관찰하였다. 알루미나 분산 지르코니아 세라믹스는 98% 이상의 높은 밀도를 나타내었으며, 알루미나 입자가 균질하게 분산된 치말한 미세구조를 나타내었다. 알루미나를 분산시킨 시편에서는 순수 지르코니아에 비하면 파괴인성이 증가하였고, 분산시킨 알루미나 입자크기가 증가함에 따라 파괴인성이 증가하였다. 파괴인성은 분산된 알루미나 입자크기가 3$\mu\textrm{m}$일 때 3Y-TZP는 8.6 MPa.m$^{1}$2/에서 12.5 MPa.m$^{1}$2/로, 2Y-TZP는 13.5 MPa.m$^{1}$2/에서 18.9 MPa.m$^{1}$2/로 각각 증가하였는데, 이는 파괴시 알루미나 입자에 의한 균열편향 효과로 인하여 균열길이가 증가하기 때문이었다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.21-26
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• 2011

Type-3 cylinder liner has a limitation of machining the standard specimen for fracture toughness test because it has approximately 5 mm in thickness as well as a curvature. Hence, it needs to be employed a miniature specimen test technique to evaluate fracture toughness of the cylinder liner. In this study, small punch (SP) test method was employed to evaluate fracture toughness of the cylinder liner. Load-displacement curve result measured from the SP test showed that the liner material was failed during membrane stretching in the general SP load-displacement curve. Additionally, it was shown that liner material was isotropic although the amount of plastic deformation was different depending on the direction due to manufacturing process characteristics. Fracture toughness, $J_{Ic}$, was evaluated using the SP test data. The value of fracture toughness obtained was $13.0kJ/m^2$. This value was similar to that of the same kind of materials. Therefore, the fracture toughness evaluated using the SP test data was reasonable.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.11
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• pp.1355-1360
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• 2013

A cracked solid propellant would have failure or fracture of rocket because of excessive combustion according to increase of burning area, therefore it is important to evaluate the fracture toughness of solid propellant. A procedure is used to investigate the material under a range of test temperatures between -60 and $60^{\circ}C$, three kind of specimen thickness, 4, 12.5 and 24.5 mm to determine the effect of two parameters on the fracture toughness. A center cracked tension (CCT) specimen is used in these tests, which were conducted using INSTRON 5567 testing machine and environmental chamber to evaluate the fracture toughness. The experimental results show that the fracture toughness tends to decreases with an increase in the temperature, and the effect of thickness indicates that the fracture toughness is highest at 12.5 mm under various temperatures except $-60^{\circ}C$. It is found that the fracture toughness of solid propellant is changed due to glass transition behavior around $-60^{\circ}C$.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.217-224
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• 2010

Three relatively homogeneous granitic rocks were studied to investigate the relationship between their microstructural properties and fracture toughness. Fracture toughness and ultrasonic velocity were varied with the orientation of mineral's long axis and microcrack, obtained from optical microscope. The lowest fracture toughness values are obtained, when the fracture propagates parallel to weakness planes which have the orientation of mineral's long axis and microcrack, in other words, when weakness planes develop perpendicular to the direction of tensile stress agrees with that of rift plane. The fracture toughness values, measured with the short rod method, varied from 1.63 to 2.62 MPa $m^{0.5}$, and their values are related with the average grain size and average microcrack length.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 1987

The fracture toughness of SA 533 Grade B Class 1 steel has been studied with the Charpy impact test specimens in a range of temperature between -4$0^{\circ}C$ and 288$^{\circ}C$. The dynamic fracture toughness is measured by the instrumented precracked Charpy impact test while the static fracture toughness is by the 3-point bend test based on the unloading compliance method. The results are compared with the data obtained from the large specimens. It is known through the studies that temperature dependence of the appropriate (a low bound) value of the fracture toughness can be estimated by taking the static fracture toughness above the transition temperature and the dynamic fracture toughness below the temperature and it is also shown that the tests are satisfied with the requirements of ASTM E 813 when the side-groove is more than 14%.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.67-72
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• 2010

The fracture toughness for the LBB analysis of piping is generally determined by the J-integral according to ASTM E1820. However, since this evaluates a base metal, the fracture toughness for narrow gap welding can be differently than the real value. This study evaluated the plastic  factor of the narrow gap welding part of a nuclear piping with SA508 Cl.1a and SA312 TP316. Also, it performed the fracture toughness test for the narrow gap welding part and applied the new plastic $\eta$ factor equation by Huh, et al. and then compared the results with those according with the ASTM standard.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.57-62
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• 2013

A crack in a solid propellant increases the area of burning surface, which leads to excessive burning that causes motor failure. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate fracture toughness of solid propellants. However, it is very difficult to measure fracture toughness of solid propellants because of the nonlinear mechanical behavior. In this study, evaluation of fracture toughness on a solid propellant was carried out under the assumption that the solid propellant is a linear viscoelastic material. Actual displacements from fracture toughness tests using CCT specimens were converted into pseudo-elastic displacements by using stress relaxation characteristics and fracture toughness was evaluated using ASTM E399 standard. Also, effects of test temperature and speed on the fracture toughness were considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05b
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• pp.324-329
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• 1998

본 연구는 주증기배관으로 사용되고 있는 SA106. Gr.C의 모재와 용접계에 대해서 파괴인성에 미치는 온도와 하중속도의 영향을 살펴보기 위해서 다양한 온도와 하중속도에서 J-R 시험 및 인장시험을 수행하였다. 두 재료 모두 동적변형시효의 영향을 받고 있는 온도영역에서 약 40% 정도의 파괴인성 감소가 관찰되었으며, 하중속도에 따른 파괴인성 감소영역은 serration과 인장강도 증가 영역의 하중속도 의존성과 일치하였다. 원자력발전소 운전온도에서 모재와 용접재 모두 하중선변위속도가 4.0mm/min 일 때 파괴인성치의 최저를 보였으며, 하중속도가 증가함에 따라 증가하여 동적하중속도(800, 40mm/min)일 때 최대를 보였다. 모재와 용접재를 비교하면 용접재에서 serration이 뚜렸했고, 보다 넓은 온도영역에서 관찰되었다. 또한 인장강도의 증가가 보다 고온에서 형성되었다. 이러한 특성은 용접재가 모재에 비해 냉각률이 크고 미세한 결정입으로 이루어져있으며, 망간의 함량이 높기 때문으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.160-163
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• 2003

In this study, intrinsic dynamic fracture toughness of 17-4PH casting steel is evaluated from the apparent dynamic fracture toughness of notched specimen. Notch radius of notched specimen is manufactured from 0.1mm to 4mm. The results shows that dynamic fracture toughness decreases with decreasing of notch root radius above critical notch roof radius. The true dynamic fracture toughness can be predicted from test results of apparent dynamic fracture toughness measured by using notched specimen.