• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.209-216
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• 2007

Fatigue life prediction methodology of the rubber component made of vulcanized natural rubber under variable amplitude loadings was studied. The displacement-controlled fatigue tests were conducted at different levels and the maximum Green-Lagrange strain was selected as damage parameters. A fatigue life curve of the rubber represented by the maximum Green-Lagrange strain was determined from the nonlinear finite element analysis. The transmission load history of SAE as variable amplitude loading was used to perform the fatigue life prediction. And then a signal processing of variable loading by racetrack and simplified rainflow cycle counting methods were performed. The modified miner's rule as cumulative damage summation was used. Finally, when the gate value is 30%, the predicted fatigue life of the rubber component agreed well with the experimental fatigue lives with a factor of two.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.194-200
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• 2012

Rubber components have been widely used in automotive industry as anti-vibration components for many years. These subjected to fluctuating loads, often fail due to the nucleation and growth of defects or cracks. To prevent such failures, it is necessary to understand the fatigue failure mechanism for rubber materials and to evaluate the fatigue life for rubber components. The objective of this study is to develop the durability analysis process for vulcanized rubber components, which is applicable to predict fatigue life at initial product design step. The determination method of nonlinear material constants for FE analysis was proposed. In order to investigate the applicability of the commonly used damage parameters, fatigue tests and corresponding finite element analyses were carried out and strain energy density was proposed as the fatigue damage parameter for rubber components. The fatigue analysis for automotive rubber components was performed and the durability analysis process was reviewed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.8-17
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• 2003

The butt lap joint structures which are usually designed by the concept of slow crack growth damage tolerance, show frequently the behaviors of multiple site fatigue crack growth around the fastener hole edges due to the fretting between the two jointed parts. In this paper, experimental tests of fatigue crack growth have been performed of a bolted butt lap joint structure having an initial corner crack at the fastener hole edge, with different fretting conditions under a flight load spectrum. The obtained test results were reviewed to investigate the effects of fretting fatigue cracks on the damage tolerance crack growth life. Computations of corner crack growth were also carried out using an existed model to compare with test results.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2015

In this paper, computational evaluation method for fatigue crack growth rate(FCGR) based on material viscoplastic-damage model is proposed. Viscoplastic-damage model expressing material constitutive behavior of 7% nickel steel is introduced and is implemented into commercial finite element analysis(FEA) code, ABAQUS, as a user defined material subroutine(UMAT) for application in the FEA environments. Verification of developed UMAT and material parameters of material model are carried out by uniaxial tensile test simulations of 7% nickel steel. Moreover, jump-in-cycles procedure and rearrangement of critical damage are employed and also implemented to the ABAQUS UMAT for fatigue damage analysis. Typical FCGR test results such as relationship between crack length and number of cycles and relationship between da/dN and ${\Delta}K$ could be obtained from FCGR test simulation using developed UMAT and these results are compared with experimental results in order to verify of proposed computational method.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.17 no.7 s.87
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• pp.956-963
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• 2007

The purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of iron shot practice volume based on golf skill level on the indices of muscle damage and fatigue in blood. Twenty four golf players were studied under conditions of different golf skill level (beginners, intermediate, expert) and practice volume (100, 200, 300balls). In this study blood CK and LDH were determined to show the level of muscle damage, and blood phosphorus, lactate, and ammonia were measured to see the level of fatigue. Blood creatinine, and IGF- I generally used to see the rate of protein synthesis were also measured. In summary, these results are interpreted to mean that 1) blood fatigue factors, muscle damages, and creatinine levels increased due to a rise in the practice volume of iron shot, 2) those levels decreased due to rise in the golf skill level, 3) blood fators and creatinine recovered quickly after exercise, however muscle damages did not recover even after 24hr, Therefore, both golf skill lev-el and practice volume should be considered to prevent muscle damage and fatigue during practice iron shot.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.96-96
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• 2004

고성능 섬유강화 복합재는 비강성과 비강도가 높고 내부식성과 피로특성이 우수하지만 외부에서 가해지는 하중에 의해 수지, 강화섬유와 수지와의 경계면, 적층 경계면 등에 육안으로 식별하기 어려운 손상이 유발될 가능성이 있으며 이로 인해 구조재로서의 역할을 하지 못하는 경우가 발생한다. 최근에는 외부하중으로 인해 복합재 구조재에 손상이 발생한 경우 자가치료제가 저장된 마이크로캡슐을 이용하여 손상을 보수하려는 시도가 행해지고 있다.(중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.32-38
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• 2001

Although the ultrasonic method has been developed and used widely in the fields, it has been used only for measuring the defect size and thickness loss. In this study, the relationship between surface wave attenuation through micro-crack growth and variation of velocity under repeated cyclic loading has been investigated. The specimens are adopted from 2.25Cr-1Mo steel, which is used for power plant and pipeline system, and have dimensions of $200{\times}40{\times}4mm$. The results of ultrasonic test with a 5MHz transducer show that surface wave velocity gradually decreases from the point of 60% of fatigue life and the crack length of 2mm with the increasing fatigue cycles. From the results of this study, it is found that the technique using the ultrasonic velocity change is one of very useful methods to evaluate the fatigue life nondestructively.

• Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.148-158
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• 1994

The goal of this study is to develop an equivalent fatigue load model for prestressed concrete composite girder bridges in Korea. To meet this goal, the probabilistic characteristics of traffics which cause fatigue damage in bridges are properly modeled. An equivalent fatigue load inodel for prestressed concrete composite girder bridges with constant. amplitude and frequency is established. The model proposed in this paper is very simple to use and gives fairly good results.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.79.2-79.2
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• 2010

실제 교량 바닥판의 거동은 반복하중에 의한 피로누적 손상에 의해 발생되므로 성능분석을 위해서는 피로 실험결과를 통한 구조거동 분석이 이루어져야 할 것이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 현재 개발 중인 초간편 강합성 바닥판의 피로성능을 파악하기 위해 일점 재하 방식으로 반복 하중을 재하 하였다. 실험체의 거동을 파악하기 위해 변위계를 설치하여 변위를 측정하였고 이 실험의 결과로 신형식 바닥판인 초간편 강합성 바닥판의 피로 파괴 양상을 알 수 있었으며 피로 곡선을 얻을 수 있었다. 하지만 바닥판의 파괴요인 중 외부 환경적 요인과 실제 차량 하중 이동을 모사한 윤하중 재하 시 피로 성능에 대한 연구가 추가로 이루어져야 할 것으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.05b
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• pp.36-41
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• 1997

액체금속로는 고온 하중 효과(피로, 크립, 크립-피로)를 고려한 내열응력설계가 중요하다. 최근에는 액금로 후보재료로서 종래의 스테인레스강에 질소를 첨가하여 고온강도를 계량한 316LN 스테인레스강이 개발되었다. 본 연구에서는 액체금속로 재료의 가장 지배적인 손상 기구로 인식되고 있는 피로-크립 파손에 대한 설계자료를 확보하기 위해 DCPD(Direct Current Potential Drop)법에 의한 고온피로균열 측정 시스템을 개발하고 316L 및 스테인레스강인 316LN 스테인레스강에 대한 고온 피로균열진전시험을 수행하였다. 본 연구에 의해 개발된 피로균열진전속도 측정 시스템에 의하면 25$\mu\textrm{m}$ 이하의 분해능으로 균열길이를 측정할 수 있다. 한편 316L 스테인레스강에 질소를 적당량 첨가하면 상온에서 $600^{\circ}C$사이의 온도에서 피로균열진전에 대한저항성이 증가하는 것을 확인하였다.