• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 2000

Surface micro-crack grows along intergranular or transgranular region of crystal grains. But if it meets the barrier such as sessile dislocation and precipitates it loses straightness and deflects. Investigators had many difficulties in estimating fatigue life of smooth specimen because of the random distribution growth and coalescence of surface micro-cracks. The path of surface micro-crack has irregularity due to nonhomogeneous microstructure. Euclidian geometry can't quantify the shape of surface micro-crack but fractal geometry can. Therefore in this paper fractal dimension is measured at various stage of cycle ratio and estimated cycle ratio in 2024-T3 aluminium, alloy.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.168-177
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• 1999

Fatigue damage is the phenomena which is accumulated gradually with loading cycle in material. It is represented by fatigue crack growth rate da/dN and fatigue life ratio $N/N_{f}$. Fracture mechanical parameters estimating large crack growth behavior can calculate quantitative amount of fatigue crack growth resistance in engineering material. But fatigue damage has influence on various load, material and environment. Therefore, In this study, we propose that artificial intelligent fatigue damage model can predicts fatigue crack growth rate da/dN and fatigue life ratio $N/N_{f}$ simultaneously using fracture mechanical and nondestructive parameters.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.14 no.9
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• pp.45-51
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• 1997

For semi-solid forging, it is necessarily required to prepare a workpiece with globular microstructure. Among several processes to obtain golbular microstructure, SIMA process is very simple and advantageous with respect to equipment. This paper presents the influence of effective strain on the globularization with aluminium 2024 alloy in cold working stage by SIMA process. Upsetting and forward extrusion are tested for cold working and induction heating is also carried out for reheating to obtain golbular microstructure. Microstructure is observed with an optical microscope. And finite element simulations to obtain effective strain in cold working stage are performed by using commercial finite element code, DEFORM.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.142-148
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• 1997

In this paper, forging of internal triangular and involute serrations are analyzed by upper bound method. Kinematically admissible velocity fields for half pitch of the serration were proposed. It was assumed that the shape flow surface during forging is a straight line perpendicular to plane of symmetry. Using the suggested velocity fields, forging loads and relative pressures were calculated by numerical method. Experiments were carride out with commercial AI 2024 aluminium alloy. As a result, the calculated solutions are good agreement with experimental results, so it is useful to predict the loads for forging of internal serrations.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.97-102
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• 1992

Transimission electron microscope(TEM)/ultramicrotomy were used to characterize the detailed surface morphology of 2024-T3 Al alloy surfaces prepared by various pretreatment process. It was found that, for good and superior initial adhesive strength and durability, chemically pretreated substrates appeared essential. The film morphology developed after CSA etching treatment, ass revealed by TEM, suggested the present of irregular cell pattern with finely separated whisker-like protrusion with was responsible for increase of bond strength.