• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.14-21
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• 2002

The development of a new experimental method is required to easily observe the growth behavior of fatigue cracks. To satisfy the requirement, an image processing technique was introduced to fatigue testing. The length of surface fatigue crack could be successfully measured by the image processing system. At first, the image data of cracks were stored into the computer while the cyclic loading was interrupted. After testing, crack length was determined using an image processing software which was developed by authors. Various image processing techniques like a block matching method was applied tc the detection of surface fatigue cracks. By comparing the data measured by the image processing system with those by the manual measurement with a microscope, the effectiveness of the image processing system was established. If the proposed method is used to monitor and observe the crack growth behavior automatically, the time and efforts for fatigue test could be dramatically reduced.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.12 no.2 s.45
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• pp.111-122
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• 2000

In this study, A series of fatigue tests have been performed on the fillet welded joints of cover plates in steel plate girders in order to quantitatively assess the fatigue characteristics according to the shapes of cover plates. From the results of fatigue tests, it has been shown that the fatigue strengths were slightly different according to their shapes, but satisfied the fatigue design curves in Korea and other countries. Also, from the results of beachmark tests, it has been confirmed that the points of fatigue crack initiation were closely related to the shapes of weld bead toes, and fatigue cracks simultaneously initiated from several points in weld bead toes have been grown as semi-elliptical surface cracks, and these cracks have been coalesced each other, and grown as through thickness cracks, and finally reached to fracture. Besides, from the results of fracture mechanics approaches, stress gradient factors were the most dominant factors among crack correction factors obtained from the existing equations and finite element analysis, and the fatigue life on fillet welded joints of cover plates could be estimated using the relations between fatigue crack growth rate and stress intensity factor range obtained from finite element analysis.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.103-110
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• 2010

In this study, an assessment method on creep-fatigue crack initiation and crack growth for a Mod.9Cr-1Mo steel (ASME Grade 91) structure has been developed with an extension of the French RCC-MR A16 procedure. The current A16 guide provides defect assessment procedure for a creep-fatigue crack initiation and crack growth for an austenitic stainless steel, but no guideline is available yet for a Mod.9Cr-1Mo steel which is now widely being adopted for structural materials of future nuclear reactor system as well as ultra super critical (USC) thermal plant. In the present study an assessment method on creep-fatigue crack initiation and crack growth is provided for the FMS (Ferritic-Martensitic Steel) and assessment on the creep-fatigue crack behavior for a structure has been carried out. The assessment results were compared with the observed images from a structural test.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.38-47
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• 2007

The initiation of fatigue cracks in a simulated aircraft structure with a series of rivet holes was detected by acoustic emission(AE), then the crack length was determined by surface acoustic wave(SAW) technique. With the initiation and growth of fatigue cracks, AE events increased intermittently to form a stepwise incremental curve of cumulative AE events whereas the crack length increased more or less monotonically. With the SAW technique employed, the crack sizing for 13 different cracks including some short cracks was performed. With the reference to the measurement by traveling microscope, cracks in the range of $1{\sim}8mm$ long were reliably sized by the SAW technique. Although it was impossible to size the short fatigue cracks in the range shorter than 1 mm, the SAW technique still appeared practically useful for a range of crack lengths often found in aircraft structures.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.646-652
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• 2014

It is the primary aim of this paper to propose the empirical fatigue crack propagation model fit to describe a crack growth behavior of AZ31 magnesium alloys under the different specimen thickness conditions. The empirical models estimated are Paris-Erdogan model, Walker model, Forman model, and modified-Forman model. The parameters of each model are estimated by maximum likelihood method. The statistical crack growth data needed for an estimation of empirical models are obtained by fatigue crack propagation tests under the three cases of specimen thickness. It is found that the good empirical models fit to describe a crack growth behavior of AZ31 magnesium alloys under the different specimen thickness conditions are Paris-Erdogan model and Walker model. It is also verified that a fatigue crack growth rate exponent of a empirical model may be a material constant at the specimen thickness conditions of 4.75mm and 6.60mm.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.73-79
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• 2000

The applications of fracture mechanics have traditionally concentrated on cracks loaded by tensile stresses, and growing under an opening or mode I mechanism. However, many cases of failures occur from growth of cracks subjected to mixed mode loading. Several criteria have been proposed regarding the crack growth direction under mixed mode loadings. This paper is aimed at investigation of fatigue crack growth behaviour under mixed mode(I＋II) with variation of angle and pre-crack length in two dimensional branched type precrack. Especially the direction of fatigue crack propagation was predicted and effective stress intensity factor was calculated by finite element analysis(FEA. In this paper, the maximum tangential stress(MTS) criterion was used to predict crack growth direction. Not only experiment but also finite element analysis was carried out and the theoretical predictions were compared with experimental results.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.203-213
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• 1982

이재결합재의 피로시험에서 나타나는 피로균열성정거동은, 역시 균열선단이 결합경계의 근방에 있거나 경계상에 있을 때의 것이 균질재료에서의, 거동과 비교.검토되어야겠다. 이재결합재를 여기에서는 탄성계수 E 값이 동일(또는 근접)한 이재간의 결합재와, E 값이 현저히 다른 이재 간의 결합재로 나누어 그 피로시험예를 검토해 나가기로 하겠다. 또한 전술한 바와 같이 이재 결합재에 의한 피로시험 그 자체의 난전으로 말미암아 파괴역학적으로 해석된 이재결합재피로 균열거동연구보고가 극히 부진함에 비추어 여기에서는 주로 필자가 발효한 연구보고들을 바탕 으로 해서 검토해 나가기로 하겠다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1552-1560
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• 1990

A general form of the mathematical function in the fatigue crack growth rate law for CT specimens was determined by means of the dimensional analysis at elevated temperatures. The experimental results can be rigorously described by the combination of rate theory and fracture mechanics. The rate theory approach extends the scope of fracture mechanics through the consideration of the temperature. The fatigue crack growth rates are represented by the Arrhenius type equation. This equation explains fairly well the experimental data for Cr-Mo-V rotor steel and A517-F steel in the comparatively wide temperature regions as affected with the temperature and the stress intensity factor range interaction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.243-243
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• 2003

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.8 no.4 s.29
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• pp.95-103
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• 1996

단순 전단연결 구조를 가진 강철도교의 세로보 단부의 절취부위에서 많은 피로균열이 발견되었으며, 이러한 부위의 피로균열은 피로손상의 전형적인 예이다. 피로균열을 가진 세로보 절취부위의 보강방법을 연구하기 위하여 가로보 및 세로보의 상부 플랜지에 인장판을 부착한 경우와 부착하지 않은 경우로 구분하여 피로실험을 수행하였다. 피로실험에 사용된 하중은 현장에서 측정된 실동응력을 기초하여 빈도해석을 통해 산정하였다. 피로실험 결과, 인장판으로 보강한 모멘트 저항 연결구조상세가 철도교에서 균열성장을 효과적으로 정지시킬 수 있는 것으로 판명되었으며, 피로손상을 가진 절취부위의 보강방법으로 제시될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.