• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.281-288
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• 2016

The ballistic performance data of composite materials is distributed due to material inhomogeneity. In this paper, the uncertainty in residual velocity is obtained experimentally, and a method of predicting it is established numerically for the high-speed impact of a bullet into laminated composites. First, the failure strain distribution was obtained by conducting a tensile test using 10 specimens. Next, a ballistic impact test was carried out for the impact of a fragment-simulating projectile (FSP) bullet with 4ply ([0/90]s) and 8ply ([0/90/0/90]s) glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) plates. Eighteen shots were made at the same impact velocity and the residual velocities were obtained. Finally, simulations were conducted to predict the residual velocities by using the failure strain distributions that were obtained from the tensile test. For this simulation, two impact velocities were chosen at 411.7m/s (4ply) and 592.5m/s (8ply). The simulation results show that the predicted residual velocities are in close agreement with test results. Additionally, the modeling of a composite plate with layered solid elements requires less calculation time than modeling with solid elements.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.752-757
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• 2017

Analysis has been performed for the penetration of a long-rod into MMC/Ceramic layered armour system with several shot test and a series of simulations. Two types of MMC plate have been fabricated by a liquid pressing method; A356/45%vol.%SiCp with a uniform distribution of SiC particle and Al7075/45%vol.B4Cp with B4C particle. The mechanical properties were measured with the high-speed split Hopkins bar test, hardness test and compression test. The popular Simplified Johnson-Cook model was adopted to represent the material characteristics for FEM simulations. The performance of the MMC applied armour system has been made by comparing with the semi-infinite mild steel target using the depth of penetration(DOP). The results show that placing ceramic front layer provides a certain gain in protection, and that placing another ductile front layer provides a further gain. The application of MMC is found to be attractive.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05b
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• pp.318-323
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• 1998

사용 후 핵연료 수송용기의 충돌사고에 대한 안전성은 층격완충체의 층격흡수특성에 지배되며, 충격완충체의 충격홉수특성은 외부의 케이스와 내부 격막판 둥의 철제 구조물과 내부에 삽입된 충격흡수재의 변형특성에 지배를 받는다. 충격흡수재를 감싸주는 철제 케이스와 내부 격막판의 용접 접합부는 일부 부분이 제작공정상 부득이 부분용접의 접합형태를 갖기 때문에 판재나 완전 접된 부분에 비해 강도가 약해 충돌사고시 취약부위가 파단된다. 이러한 케이스 용접부의 파단은 충격완충체의 변형특성을 변화시켜 충격흡수거동이 달라지는 원인이 된다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 용접 접합부의 강도특성을 수송용기의 자유낙하 충돌해석에 적용할 수 있는 해석모델을 구성하고 부분용접된 접합부의 파단강도가 수송용기의 충돌거동에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05b
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• pp.312-317
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• 1998

사용 후 핵연료 수송용기는 자유낙하 충돌사고에 대비해 양 끝단에 충격완충체를 부착하는데 이 충격완충체의 층격흡수특성은 수송용기의 구조적 안전성애 크게 영향을 미친다. 충격완충체의 층격흡수재를 감싸주는 철제 케이스와, 내부 격막판의 용접 접합부는 제작공정상 일부 부분이 부분접합 형태를 갖기 때문에 완전 접합된 부분이나 모재인 판재 부분에 비해 강도가 약하다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 충격완충체의 부분접합부와 같은 조건의 접합상태를 고려한 용접시편의 시험을 통해서 충격완충체 케이스의 용접 접합부에 대한 접합강도와 기계적 특성을 분석하고, 접합부의 강도특성이 수송용기의 자유낙하 충돌거동에 미치는 영향을 예측하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.349-356
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• 2004

자동차의 외관품질과 관련된 외판재용 고강도강으로는 내 dent성을 향상을 위해서 IF-HSS강과 BH강의 사용량이 크게 증가하였으며, 최근에는 490MPa급 DP강이 적용되기 시작하고 있다. 그리고 내판 판넬의 경우에는 고가공성 을 갖는 고강도강의 개발으로 고강도강의 사용량이 늘어나고 있다. 내판재 중 승객의 안전과 관련된 멤버, 필라와 같은 구조부재는 중간 정도의 강도를 갖는 고강도강을 주로 적용되어 왔으나, 최근 차체경량화 요구의 증가로 590MPa급 이상 고강도강이 적용되기 시작하였으며, 특히 고속변형에서 에너지 흡수능이 우수한 TRIP (Trans-formation Induced Plasticity)강 및 DP(Dual Phase)강에 대한 관심이 크게 증대되고 있다. 저속충돌에서 차체를 보호하는 범퍼보강재는 고강도화가 빠르게 진행되어, 현재는 석출경화강에 변태 조직 강화를 더한 780MPa급 이상의 초고강도강을 주로 사용하고 있으며, 1370MPa급 까지 적용하고 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.228-238
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• 2002

Using the dynamic explicit program NET3D, oblique impact between long rod penetrator and metallic plate was analyzed. Compared with an experiment and AUTODYN-3D analysis result, the accuracy of NET3D program was examined. It was proved that NET3D program could analyze comparatively exactly oblique impact phenomenon between long rod penetrator and metallic plate. The final deformed configuration of penetrator predicted by NET3D program was more close to experimental result than commercial program AUTODYN-3D. But, in order to increase the reliability of NET3D program in the simulation of tensile fracture phenomenon, the additional research is required.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.9
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• pp.1021-1026
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• 2011

Structural impact problems are becoming increasingly important for a modern defense industry, high-speed transportation, and other applications because of the weight reduction with high strength. In this study, a numerical investigation on the impact fracture behavior of aluminum plates was performed under various projectile conditions such as nose shapes, velocities, and incidence angles. In order to reduce the iterative numerical analysis, the Latin Square Method was employed. The influence factor was then determined by an FE analysis according to the conditions. The results were evaluated by means of a statistical significance interpretation using variance assessment. It was shown that the velocity and incidence angle can be the most important influence factors representing the impact absorption energy and plastic deformation, respectively.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.527-532
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• 2009

In this paper simulations for the impact into ceramics and/or metal materials have been discussed. To model discrete nature for fracture and damage of brittle materials, we implemented cohesive-law fracture model with a node separation algorithm for the tensile failure and Mohr-Coulomb model for the compressive loading. The drawback of this scheme is that it requires a heavy computational time. This is because new nodes are generated continuously whenever a new crack surface is created. In order to reduce the amount of calculation, parallelization with MPI library has been implemented. For the high-speed impact problems, the mesh configuration and contact calculation changes continuously as time step advances and it causes unbalance of computational load of each processor. Dynamic load balancing technique which re-allocates the loading dynamically is used to achieve good parallel performance. Some impact problems have been simulated and the parallel performance and accuracy of the solutions are discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.33 no.12
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• pp.1039-1045
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• 2016

We investigated the protection capability of a plate against high speed projectiles demonstrating collision and penetration behaviors by finite element analysis. The element erosion method was used for penetration analysis, which showed that the speed of the projectile was slightly reduced by the collision with the protection plate. Protection capability was measured by the projectile's attitude angle change because the damage of our tanks by projectiles was also dependent on the projectile-tank collision angle. When the length of the protection plate was sufficiently long, the projectile was severely deformed and incapacitated. In the case of a small plate, the projectile was deformed only in the collision region. Thus, projection capability was investigated by the change of attitude angle. The effect of collision angle, velocity, and length of the plate on the rotational and vertical velocities of the projectile was investigated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.26 no.7
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• pp.1426-1437
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• 2002

Using the Lagrangian explicit time-integration finite element code NET3D which can treat three-dimensional high-velocity impact problems, oblique penetration processes of long rod projectile with yaw against thin plate are simulated. Through the comparison of simulation result with experimental result and other code's computational result, the adaptability and accuracy of NET3D is evaluated under the complex situation in which yaw angle and oblique angle exist simultaneously. Main research contents to be handled in this paper include the followings. First, the accuracy and efficiency estimation of NET3D code result obtained from the oblique penetration simulations of long rod projectile with yaw against thin plate. Second, the effect of increasing impact velocity. Third, the effect of initial yaw for the spaced-plate target. Residual velocities, residual lengths, angular velocities, and final deformed configurations obtained from the NET3D computations are compared with the experimental results and other code's computational results such as Eulerian code MESA and Lagrangian code EPIC. As a result of comparisons, it has been found that NET3D code is superior to EPIC code and MESA code in the prediction capability of residual velocity and residual length of penetrator. The key features obtained from the experiment can be successfully reproduced through NET3D simulations. Throughout the study, the applicability and accuracy of NET3D as a metallic armor system design tool is verified.