• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.1098-1108
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• 2022

The effect of the material hardening model of the canister on a finite element vertical cask drop simulation is investigated for the strain-based acceptance evaluation. Three different hardening models are considered in this paper: the isotropic hardening model, the strain rate-dependent Johnson-Cook (J-C) hardening model, and the modified J-C model which are believed to be the most accurate. By comparing the results using the modified J-C model, it is found that the use of the J-C model provides similar or larger stresses and strains depending on the magnitudes of the strain and strain rate. The use of the isotropic hardening model always yields larger stresses and strains. For the strain-based acceptance evaluation, the use of the isotropic hardening model can produce highly conservative assessment results. The use of the J-C model, however, produces satisfactory results.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.360-371
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• 2022

Electropolishing has various parameters because an electrochemical reaction is applied. Accordingly, experiments to determine factors and levels of electropolishing conditions are in progress for various materials. The purpose of this investigation was to optimize conditions for electropolishing using the taguchi method for UNS S31603. Factors such as electrolyte composition ratio, electrolyte temperature, and electropolishing process time were selected. Electropolishing was optimized using analysis of variance (ANOVA), signal-to-noise ratio (the smaller the better characteristics), and surface analysis. Results of ANOVA revealed that only the electrolyte composition ratio among factors was effective for surface roughness. As a result of statistical analysis of the signal-to-noise ratio, the highest signal-to-noise ratio was calculated under electropolishing conditions with sulfuric acid and phosphoric acid ratio of 4:6, an electrolyte temperature of 75 ℃, and electropolishing process time of 7 minutes. In addition, the surface roughness after electropolishing under the above conditions was 0.121 ㎛, which was improved by more than 88% compared to mechanical polishing.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.325-331
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• 2022

In this study, austenitic 316L stainless steel was rolled at three different temperatures (100℃, -50℃, -196℃) at five rolling degree (0, 16, 33, 50, 66 and 80%). The rolled specimen was examined for micro structure, and the volume fraction and mechanical properties were evaluated. In particular, the rolling specimen detected the elastic wave generated in tensile and investigated the relationship between the rolling degree and the dominant frequency. As the rolling degree increased, austenite decreased and martensite increased. The volume fraction of martensite more increased at lower temperatures, but increased rapidly at the rolling degree of 50% of all rolling temperature. Tensile strength increased rapidly with the increase of the rolling degree, and was larger at lower temperatures. The elongation decreased sharply to the rolling degree of 33%, but decreased gently thereafter. The dominant frequency highly appeared as the volume fraction of martensite increased, but the dominant frequency was higher at the low temperature rolling temperature. A similar trend was also observed in the relationship between tensile strength and dominant frequency.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.236-246
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• 2022

Electropolishing is a surface finishing treatment that compensates for the disadvantages of the mechanical polishing process. It not only has a smooth surface, but also improves corrosion resistance. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation is to examine the corrosion resistance and electrochemical characteristics in seawater of UNS S31603 with electropolishing process time. The roughness improvement rate after electropolishing was improved by about 78% compared to before polishing, indicating that the electropolishing is effective. As a result of potential measuring of mechanical polishing and electropolishing, the potential of electropolishing was nobler than the mechanical polishing condition. As a result of calculating the corrosion current density after potentiodynamic polarization experiment with electropolishing conditions, the corrosion current density of mechanical polishing was about 6.4 times higher than that of electropolishing. After potentiodynamic polarization experiment with electropolishing conditions, the maximum damage depth of mechanical polishing was about 2.2 times higher than that of electropolishing(7 minutes). In addition, the charge transfer resistance of the specimen electropolished for 7 minutes was the highest, indicating improved corrosion resistance.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권11호
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• pp.4266-4273
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• 2023

In a severe reactor accident, a crust will form on the surface of the molten material during the core melting process. The crust will have a contact melting with the internal components of the reactor. In this paper, the contact melting process of the molten material on the austenitic stainless steel plate bundles is studied. The contact melting model of parabolic molten material on the plate bundles is proposed, and the rule and main effect factors of the contact melting are analyzed. The results show that the melting velocity is proportional to the slope of the paraboloid, the heat flux and the distance between two plates D. The influence of melt gravity and the plate width on melting velocity is negligible. The thickness of the molten liquid film is proportional to the heat flux and plate width, and it is inversely proportional to the gravity. With the increase of D, the liquid film thickness decreases at first and then increases gradually. The liquid film thickness has a minimum against D. When the width of the plate is small, the width of the plate is the main factor affecting the thickness of the liquid film. The parameters are coupled with each other. In a severe reactor accident, the wider internal components of reactor, which can increase the thickness of the melting liquid film and reduce the net input heat flux from the molten material to the components, are the effective measures to delay the melting process.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.4647-4658
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• 2023

In this paper, elastic-plastic fracture mechanics analysis is performed to determine the critical crack sizes of the multipurpose canister (MPC) manufactured using austenitic stainless steel under dynamic loading conditions that simulate drop accidents. Firstly, dynamic finite element (FE) analysis is performed using Abaqus v.2018 with the KORAD (Korea Radioactive Waste Agency)-21 model under two drop accident conditions. Through the FE analysis, critical locations and through-thickness stress distributions in the MPC are identified, where the maximum plastic strain occurs during impact loadings. Then, the evaluation using the failure assessment diagram (FAD) is performed by postulating an external surface crack at the critical location to determine the critical crack depth. It is found that, for the drop cases considered in this paper, the principal failure mechanism for the circumferential surface crack is found to be the plastic collapse due to dominant high bending axial stress in the thickness. For axial cracks, the plastic collapse is also the dominant failure mechanism due to high membrane hoop stress, followed by the ductile tearing analysis. When incorporating the strain rate effect on yield strength and fracture toughness, the critical crack depth increases from 10 to 20%.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.678-685
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• 2010

STS304와 22APU 스테인리스강에 가스 텅스텐 아크용접을 하였다. 이 경우 두 강의 용접부의 부식특성을 전기화학적 방법으로 검토하였다. STS304 용접금속의 경도(Hv-250)는 22APU 강(Hv-217) 보다 상대적으로 높은 값을 보였다. 22APU의 용접금속과 STS 304의 열영향부의 부식전류 밀도는 다른 용접부위와 비교하여 각각 높은 값이 관찰 되었으며, 이것은 예민화 온도 영역에 있는 STS 304의 열영향부와 22APU의 용접금속에 형성된 크롬탄화물로 크롬결핍이 더욱 활성태의 양극으로 쉽게 부식된 것에 기인하는 것으로 사료된다. 그리고 이들 두 강의 용접금속과 열영향부는 크롬결핍상태에 있는 입자 사이 경계의 선택부식으로 입계부식을 나타내었다. 결과적으로 다른 용접방법의 적용이나 적절한 용접봉 사용은 두 강의 용접부에 대한 내식성을 개선하기 위해서 필요한 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제48권12호
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• pp.1090-1096
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• 2010

This pitting corrosion study of welded joints of austenitic stainless steels (AISI 304L and 316L) has addressed the differentiating solidification mode using three newly introduced filler wires with a flux-cored arc welding process (FCAW). The delta ferrite (${\delta}$-ferrite) content in the welded metals increased with an increasing equivalent weight ratio of chromium/nickel ($Cr_{eq}/Ni_{eq}$). Ductility dip cracking (DDC) was observed in the welded metal containing ferrite with none of AISI 304L and 0.1% of AISI 316L. The potentiodynamic anodic polarization results revealed that the $Cr_{eq}/Ni_{eq}$ ratio in a 3.5% NaCl solution didn't much affect the pitting potential ($E_{pit}$). The AISI 316L welded metals with ${\ddot{a}}$-ferrite content of over 10% had a superior $E_{pit}$ value. Though the AISI 316L welded metal with 0.1% ferrite had larger molybdenum contents than AISI 304L specimens, it showed a similar $E_{pit}$ value because the concentration of chloride ions and the corrosion product induced severe damage near the DDC.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권6_2호
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• pp.1055-1062
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• 2022

In this study, the mechanical properties of 80% cold-rolled austenitic 316L stainless steel were evaluated using specimens subjected to reverse transformation at 500-750℃ for 20 minutes and reverse transformation at 700℃ for 2-60 minutes. Also, for the elastic wave obtained from the tensile test, the dominant frequency according to the reverse transformation condition was investigated by time-frequency analysis. The SEM image of the 80% cold-rolled material was transformed into martensite and showed line and cross shapes. The TEM image showed that line shapes were shown at the grain, and grain boundary of martensite. The higher the heat treatment temperature and the longer time, the larger the grain. Tensile strength decreased as the heat treatment temperature and time increased, but elongation increased. Hardness was proportional to tensile strength. This is because the grain with different directions showed the same direction due to reverse transformation. The dominant frequency was decreased and then increased as the temperature and time increased. This is because the direction of the grain is different at a low temperature and the same direction is shown at a high temperature.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제43권5호
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• pp.230-240
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• 2023

염화물 환경에서 329LD 린 듀플렉스 스테인리스강과 CF3M 오스테나이트 스테인리스강 주물재의 공식 거동을 조사하였다. CF3M 합금에 비해 상대적으로 낮은 Ni 및 낮은 Mo 함량을 갖는 329LD 합금의 공식 전위, 부동태 영역 및 임계 공식 온도는 상용 CF3M 합금보다 높기 때문에 329LD 합금의 공식 저항성은 CF3M 합금보다 우수하였다. CF3M 합금에 비해 높은 Cr과 Mo 와 중간 정도의 N 함량을 갖는329LD 합금의 공식 저항성이 향상된 이유는 크게 두 가지이다. 첫째, 329LD 합금의 공식 저항 당량지수 (PREN δ+γ) 값이 CF3M 합금보다 높다. 둘째, 329LD 합금의 부동태 영역은 CF3M 합금의 부동태 영역보다 크다. 이는 329LD 합금에 높은 Cr과 낮은 Mo 및 중간 정도의 N 함량을 첨가함으로써 세 원소의 시너지 효과가 부동태 피막의 부동태를 향상시켜 내식성을 증가시키기 때문이다. 공식저항 당량지수에서 N factor 16을 이용하여 계산된 오스테나이트 (γ)의 PREN_γ과 페라이트 (δ) 값의 PREN_δ을 계산한 결과 오스테나이트 (γ)의 PREN_γ 값이 페라이트 (δ)보다 작으므로 329LD 합금의 공식은 γ상에서 선택적으로 시작되어 최종적으로는 γ상에서 δ상으로 전파됨을 확인하였다.