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A Study on Optimization of Welding Process Variables in MIG Welding of Aluminum Alloy Sheets for automotive door (자동차 Door용 박판 알루미늄합금의 MIG 용접공정변수 최적화에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Gi;Han, Hyun-Uk;Kim, Jae-Seong;Lee, Bo-Young;Kim, Cheol-Hee
    • Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.28-28
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    • 2009
  • 최근 전세계적으로 유가 상승 및 배기가스 배출 저감과 관련된 각종 환경규제에 대응하기 위하여 선진 자동차회사들은 $CO_2$ 배출 저감 기술과 기존 내연기관 차량의 연비향상을 위해 엔진성능 개선, 구동시스템의 최적화, 차량 경량화, 공기저항 감소 등에 초점을 맞춰 차량의 연비향상과 배기가스 규제에 대응하고 있다. 특히, 자동차 중량의 30%를 차지하는 차체의 경량화는 엔진효율을 높여 자동차의 성능향상을 극대화시키고, 그로 인해 연비향상을 도모할 수 있으므로 환경오염 방지와 연료절감에 가장 적합하고 효과적인 방법이다. 이에 기존의 강재에 비해 비중이 낮으면서 유사한 강도와 내식성이 뛰어난 알루미늄 합금의 차체 적용에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 자동차 Door에 알루미늄 합금(Al 5052)의 적용 가능성을 판단하기 위해 반응표면분석법(Response surface methodology)을 이용하여 저입열 Pulse MIG 용접 공정변수를 최적화하였다. 첫째, 저입열 Pulse MIG 용접에서 용접 공정 변수(용접전압, 용접속도, Gap)의 변화가 비드 형상에 미치는 영향에 대해 평가하였다. 요인분석법을 이용하여 용접 공정 변수와 비드 형상 변수와의 주효과와 교호작용효과를 분석하였고, 이를 통해 비드 형상 변수에 영향을 크게 미치는 용접 공정변수를 선별하여 다중회귀분석을 통해 용접 공정 변수 변화에 따른 비드형상 예측 회귀모델을 제안하였다. 둘째, 자동차 Door 생산 현장에서 박판 알루미늄 합금 겹치기 용접 이음부의 0~1 mm 갭 발생에 대해 강건한 용접조건을 제시하기 위해 반응표면법(Response surface methodology)을 이용하여 저입열 Pulse MIG 용접 공정 변수를 최적화하였고, 그 적용 가능성을 확인하였다.

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Quantitative Evaluation of Wear Resistance of Stamping Tool with Respect to Hardness of Tool Materials in Cold Stamping of TRIP1180 Steel Sheets (TRIP1180 판재의 냉간 스탬핑공정에서 금형강의 경도 특성에 따른 내마모성 평가)

  • Bang, J.H.;Bae, G.;Song, J.H.;Kim, H.G.;Lee, M.G.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.129-135
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study was to quantitatively evaluate the influence of hardness of tool materials on wear resistance in the sheet metal forming process. Punches used in the wear test were made of STD-11 and K340 tool material, and the tempering temperature was set to 530℃ and 500℃, respectively, to control the hardness of the tool materials. The punches mimic the shape of stamping tool of automotive body component to reflect its plastic deformation, and are designed to concentrate wear on the curvature region of punches. Progressive die and coil sheet were used to save time, cost, and raw sheet materials. By quantitatively measuring the wear depth of the punches, the wear behavior and mechanism of the punches were investigated, and characteristics of hardness and wear resistance according to tool materials and tempering temperatures were evaluated. Testing results indicate that the punch made of K340 tool steel with higher hardness had better wear resistance than that of STD-11 tool steel, and the hardness and wear resistance of tool steel were significantly impacted by the tempering temperature.

Recovery of Platinum Group Metals from the Leach Solution of Spent Automotive Catalysts by Cementation (자동차(自動車) 폐촉매(廢觸媒)의 침출액(浸出液)으로부터 시멘테이션에 의한 백금족(白金族) 금속(金屬)의 회수(回收))

  • Kim, Min-Seuk;Kim, Byung-Su;Kim, Eun-Young;Kim, Soo-Kyung;Ryu, Jae-Wook;Lee, Jae-Chun
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.36-45
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    • 2011
  • The recovery of platinum group metals (PGMs) from the leach solution of spent auto-catalyst and the wash solution of the leach residue was investigated in the laboratory scale experiments by the cementation process using metal powders as the reductant. In this study, the effect of Al, Mg and Zn powders on the cementation process was particularly examined. Aluminum powder was selected as the most suitable reductant for the cementation of PGMs. At the cementation time of 10 minute under the aluminium stoichimetric amount of 19.3 and the reaction temperature of $50{\sim}60^{\circ}C$, the recovery of platinum group metals from the leach solution of the spent auto-catalyst was found to be 99.3%, 99.4%, 90.2% for Pt, Pd and Rh, respectively. Under the same conditions with the aluminium stoichimetric amount of 45, the recovery of platinum group metals from the wash solution of the leach residue of spent catalyst was observed to be 97%, 97% and 90% for Pt, Pd and Rh, respectively. In addition, it was possible to upgrade the platinum group metals in the precipitates obtained from the cementation process by about 10% through the removal of metal impurities by the nitric acid leaching at ambient temperature.

Ripple Compensation of Air Bearing Stage upon Gantry Control of Yaw motion (요 모션 갠트리 제어 시 공기베어링 스테이지의 리플 보상)

  • Ahn, Dahoon;Lee, Hakjun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.554-560
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    • 2020
  • In the manufacturing process of flat panel displays, a high-precision planar motion stage is used to position a specimen. Stages of this type typically use frictionless linear motors and air bearings, and laser interferometers. Real-time dynamic correction of the yaw motion error is very important because the inevitable yaw motion error of the stage means a change in the specimen orientation. Gantry control is generally used to compensate for yaw motion errors. Flexure units that allow rotational motion are applied to the stage to apply this method to a stage using an air-bearing guide. This paper proposes a method to improve the constant speed motion performance of a H-type XY stage equipped with air bearing and flexure units. When applying the gantry control to the stage, including the flexure units, the cause of the mutual ripple generated from the linear motors is analyzed, and adaptive learning control is proposed to compensate for the mutual ripple. A simulation was performed to verify the proposed method. The speed ripple was reduced to approximately the 22 % level. The ripple reduction was verified by simulating the stage state where yaw motion error occurs.

Development of Korean Green Business/IT Strategies Based on Priority Analysis (한국의 그린 비즈니스/IT 실태분석을 통한 추진전략 우선순위 도출에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jae-Kyeong;Choi, Ju-Choel;Choi, Il-Young
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.191-204
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    • 2010
  • Recently, the CO2 emission and energy consumption have become critical global issues to decide the future of nations. Especially, the spread of IT products and the increased use of internet and web applications result in the energy consumption and CO2 emission of IT industry though information technologies drive global economic growth. EU, the United States, Japan and other developed countries are using IT related environmental regulations such as WEEE(Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment), RoHS(Restriction of the use of Certain Hazardous Substance), REACH(Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of CHemicals) and EuP(Energy using Product), and have established systematic green business/IT strategies to enhance the competitiveness of IT industry. For example, the Japan government proposed the "Green IT initiative" for being compatible with economic growth and environmental protection. Not only energy saving technologies but energy saving systems have been developed for accomplishing sustainable development. Korea's CO2 emission and energy consumption continuously have grown at comparatively high rates. They are related to its industrial structure depending on high energy-consuming industries such as iron and steel Industry, automotive industry, shipbuilding industry, semiconductor industry, and so on. In particular, export proportion of IT manufacturing is quite high in Korea. For example, the global market share of the semiconductor such as DRAM was about 80% in 2008. Accordingly, Korea needs to establish a systematic strategy to respond to the global environmental regulations and to maintain competitiveness in the IT industry. However, green competitiveness of Korea ranked 11th among 15 major countries and R&D budget for green technology is not large enough to develop energy-saving technologies for infrastructure and value chain of low-carbon society though that grows at high rates. Moreover, there are no concrete action plans in Korea. This research aims to deduce the priorities of the Korean green business/IT strategies to use multi attribute weighted average method. We selected a panel of 19 experts who work at the green business related firms such as HP, IBM, Fujitsu and so on, and selected six assessment indices such as the urgency of the technology development, the technology gap between Korea and the developed countries, the effect of import substitution, the spillover effect of technology, the market growth, and the export potential of the package or stand-alone products by existing literature review. We submitted questionnaires at approximately weekly intervals to them for priorities of the green business/IT strategies. The strategies broadly classify as follows. The first strategy which consists of the green business/IT policy and standardization, process and performance management and IT industry and legislative alignment relates to government's role in the green economy. The second strategy relates to IT to support environment sustainability such as the travel and ways of working management, printer output and recycling, intelligent building, printer rationalization and collaboration and connectivity. The last strategy relates to green IT systems, services and usage such as the data center consolidation and energy management, hardware recycle decommission, server and storage virtualization, device power management, and service supplier management. All the questionnaires were assessed via a five-point Likert scale ranging from "very little" to "very large." Our findings show that the IT to support environment sustainability is prior to the other strategies. In detail, the green business /IT policy and standardization is the most important in the government's role. The strategies of intelligent building and the travel and ways of working management are prior to the others for supporting environment sustainability. Finally, the strategies for the data center consolidation and energy management and server and storage virtualization have the huge influence for green IT systems, services and usage This research results the following implications. The amount of energy consumption and CO2 emissions of IT equipment including electrical business equipment will need to be clearly indicated in order to manage the effect of green business/IT strategy. And it is necessary to develop tools that measure the performance of green business/IT by each step. Additionally, intelligent building could grow up in energy-saving, growth of low carbon and related industries together. It is necessary to expand the affect of virtualization though adjusting and controlling the relationship between the management teams.