• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.329-336
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• 2009

A fretting wear test rig for cross contacting tube specimens, which employs a piezoelectric actuator, has been developed. Along with the simple loading scheme using dead weights, the rig is very simple to be used also. The accuracy was found acceptable. Inconel 690 tubes were tested in room temperature and ambient condition. Normal load and sliding amplitude range up to 35N and $100{\mu}m$, respectively. The sizes of wear scar and the wear volumes were measured, and wear coefficients have been calculated based on those. A study on the fretting wear mechanism of the tubes has been attempted via microscopic observation. Rugged wear surfaces are induced by the separation and adhesion of particles and formation and subsequent fracture of surface layers. Lapped specimens were also tested and abrasive wear seems to be playing a dominant role.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1996.04b
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• pp.25-29
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• 1996

The fretting wear characteristics for Zircaloy-4 tube used as fuel rod in the nuclear power plant have been investigated. The fretting wear tester was designed and manufactured for this experiment. This study was focused on main factors of fretting wear, cycle, slip amplitude and normal load. The worn surfaces were observed by SEM.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.259-259
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1859-1863
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• 2007

A new type of a fretting wear tester has been designed and developed in order to simulate the actual vibration behavior of a nuclear fuel rod for springs/dimples in room temperature. When considering the actual contact condition between fuel rod and spring/dimple, if fretting wear progress due to the flow-induced vibration (FIV) under a specific normal load exerted on the fuel rod by the elastic deformation of the spring, the contacting force between the fuel rod and dimple that were located in the opposite side should be decreased. Consequently, the evaluation of developed spacer grids against fretting wear damage should be performed with the results of a cell unit experiments because the contacting force is one of the most important variables that influence to the fretting wear mechanism. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a new type of fretting test rig in order to simulate the actual contact condition. In this paper, the development procedure of a new fretting wear tester and its performance were discussed in detail.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.67-72
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• 2004

Fundamentally, slip displacement should be known to solve the problem related to the fretting wear. For this, methods for measuring the slip displacement range in the contact surface of the tube and the supports were introduced and analyzed in this study. Also the increment of the slip displacement during a cycle was calculated using the revised formulas. As a result, the slip displacement newly evaluated was much higher ($7{\sim}50$ times) than that previously evaluated especially in the case of the gap existence. This enables to explain the severe wear found when there was a gap between the tube and the supports.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.113-114
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.203-204
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.329.1-329
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.262.2-262
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• 2002

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.239-239
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• 2002