• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.29-31
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• 2006

Stainless steel sheets are widely used as the structural material for the railroad cars and the commercial vehicles. These kinds structures used stainless steel sheets are commonly fabricated by using the gas welding. For fatigue design of gas welded joints such as fillet and plug type joint, it is necessary to obtain design information on stress distribution at the weldment as well as fatigue strength of gas welded joints. And also, the influence of the geometrical parameters of gas welded joints on stress distribution and fatigue strength must be evaluated. the ${\Delta}P-N_f$ curves were obtained by fatigue tests. Using these results, ${\Delta}P-N_f$ curves were rearranged in the ${\sigma}-N_f$ relation with the maximum stress at the edge of fillet welded joint.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.917-922
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• 2003

In this paper, a high speed rotating arc sensor for automatic fillet welding is introduced. In order to track the welding seam, The high speed rotating arc sensor is used. The welding tip of a high speed rotating arc sensor rotates about 3000 rpm using DC motor. The rotating torch is driven by gear between welding torch body and wire guide. The welding current is measured by using the current sensor and rot at ing position sensor. To realize the welding seam tracking algorithm with accuracy, a software filter algorithm using the moving average method is applied to the measured welding current in the microprocessor. The welding mobile robot with two wheels and two sliders is developed for fillet welding. The welding mobile robot can control its traveling direction and turn itself around the corner. The effectiveness is proven through the experimental results conducted with varied fillet tracking patterns.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.20-26
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• 2007

In this study, fatigue strength of load-carrying cruciform fillet welded joints were evaluated using a new method proposed by Yamada, for geometric or structural stress in welded joint, that is, one-millimeter stress below the surface in the direction corresponding to the expected crack path. Validity of the method is verified by analyzing fatigue test results for load-carrying cruciform welded specimens has different size of weld toe radius, leg length and plate thickness reported in literature. Structural stress concentration factor for 1mm below the surface was calculated by finite element analysis for each specimen respectively. When compared to the basic fatigue resistance curve offered by BS7608, the one-millimeter stress method shows conservative evaluation for load-carrying cruciform fillet welded joints.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.63-67
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• 1992

본 논문은 프레스나 해머로 생산되는 리브/웨브 형태를 갖는 축대칭 부품에 대한 블로커설계 자동화시스템의 개발에 관하여 설명한 다. 플레시를 갖는 밀폐형단조 공정에서 블로커 형상의 설계는 매우 중요하다. 일반적으로 단조공정에서 부품의 형상은 대부분 3차 원 형상이다. 그러나 복잡한 3차원 형상의 부품을 그대로 고려하여 설계한다는 것은 어려움이 많고 실용적이지도 못하다. 따라서 블로커를 설계할 때 부품을 단면으로 도려함으로서 설계작업을 단순화시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 축대칭 형태의 부품만을 고려하였다. 한 부품단면은 리브나 웨브와 같은 부분단면들로 분할할 수 있으며, 이 부분단면들에 대하여 설계규칙과 데이타베이스를 적용함으로서 블로커형상을 설계할 수 있다. 부품단면의 형상을 분할하여 시스템 내에 인식시키기 위하여 단면을 도면요소표현, 좌표 및 반경표현 그리고 속성표현으로 나타냈으며 여기에 단면의 도면요소표현은 부품의 체적, 단면적, 원주길이 및 반단면의 질량중심을 계산하는데 쉽게 이용될 수 있다. 그리고 좌표 및 반경표현은 경사각, 코너반경과 필렛반경을 수정하는데 그리고 속성표현은 리브와 웨브의 형태와 특성을 고려하여 블로커를 설계하는데 이용될 수 있다.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.278-288
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• 2003

Presented in this paper is a numerical method for calculating the intersection points between Z-map vectors and the tool swept surface for circularly moving filleted-end mills. In numerically controlled(NC) machining simulation for large moulds and dies, a workpiece is frequently approximated as a set of z-axis aligned vectors, called Z-map vectors, and then the machining processes can be simulated through updating the Z-map with the intersection points. Circular motions are typically used for machining the free-form surfaces. For fast computation, we express each of intersection points with a single-variable non-linear equation and calculate the candidate interval in which the unique solution exists. Then, we prove the existence of a solution and its uniqueness in this candidate interval. Based on these properties, we can effectively apply numerical methods to finally calculate the solution of the nonlinear equation within a given precision. Experimental results are given for the case of a TV monitor and the hood of a car.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.149-161
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• 1990

In this study, an optimal shape design was performed on a fillet model which is subject to surface traction through minimizing the maximum stress of the fillet. A 2-dimensional quadratic isoparametirc element with 8 nodes was used in stress analysis for finite element method, and Hooke-Jeeves direct search algorithm was adopted for optimi- zation. From the resulting optimal shape, it was found that the maxium von Mises stress on the boundary of fillet was reduced by 36%, compared to other paper in which the cross sectional area of fillet was minimized. In conclusion, a real optimal fillet shape could be obtained in the viewpoint of yielding, and more pratical fillet design could be accomplished.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.87-93
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• 1997

The bonding strength evaluation of light weight materials for electrical vehicle applications has been performed through single lap joint tests in which the design parameters such as fillet, joint style, adherend, bonding overlap length,bonding thickness, and environmental condition(soaking time in $25^{\circ}C$ water) are considered. It is experimentally oberved that lap shear strength of joint increases for higher fillet height, longer overlap length, and thinner bonding layer thickness. Al-Al adherend combination shows much higher lap shear strength than AL-FRP and FRP-FRP adherend combinations. Riveting at adhesive bonded joint of AL-AL adherend combination makes lap shear strength decrease. Effect of soaking time on lap shear strength is negligible.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.466-471
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• 2007

Brackets for an automatic transmission are usually used to connect the transmission with adjacent components in a vehicle. Fillet areas of brackets are one of the most important areas to design the brackets because the areas are easily fractured when the brackets are subjected to external loads. In this study, a new design around the fillet area of the bracket is suggested and improved effects of the proposed design are proved through the comparison of safety factors with the current design. The safety factors are calculated through the fatigue analysis via a commercial code, FEMFAT.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.29 no.11 s.242
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• pp.1488-1493
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• 2005

In this study, fatigue tests to obtain S-N curves and FE analyses to obtain structural stress concentration factors were conducted for the two types of cruciform fillet welded joints, that is, load-carrying and non load-carrying types. Then we changed the obtained S-N curve of load carrying joint to that based on hot spot stress. As a result, the S-N curve of load carrying joint based on hot-spot stress was almost exactly coincided with that of non load-carrying joint based on nominal stress. So we have conducted that the fatigue strength of a welded joint with different geometry from the non stress distribution along the expected crack path.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.222-227
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• 2004

Under cyclic loading, the fatigue failures of welded joints occur at weld toes which induce stress concentration by weld shape. So we need to obtain the peak stress and the S-N curve to assess the fatigue strength of welded joints. However the measurement of peak stress is of high uncertainty and low reproducibility, so we use nominal stress instead in fatigue tests of welded joints. In this study, fatigue tests to obtain S-N curves and FE analyses to obtain stress concentration factors were conducted for the two types of cruciform fillet welded joints, that is, load-carrying and non load-carrying types. Then we changed the obtained S-N curves to that based on peak stress using the hot-spot stress concept. From the analyses of the S-N curves obtained, we have concluded that there is a need to develop a new method to evaluate the fatigue life.