• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.103-109
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• 2008

A study has been conducted on the bulging process of regenerative cooling nozzle which is essential for the manufacturing of liquid rocket thrust chamber. Tension tests have been performed for the material to be used for the development of the bulging process and mechanical properties are obtained by the test. Two or three bulging tools were required to complete the bulging process. The necking of the material was a major failure encountered in the bulging process and a research has revealed that grain size of the material has considerable effect on its occurrence. The presently developed bulging process with a controlled grain size material has been successfully applied to the manufacturing of subscale and 30-tonf full scale regeneratively cooled nozzle while demonstrating the applicability and usefulness of the presently developed bulging process.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.101-106
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• 2012

The press bulging process is very useful and productive method to produce round-type mechanical components which have not been able to be manufactured because of limitation of the conventional press technology. The application of the press bulging process has expanded very quickly in the hydraulic and electronic industry and more recently it has been used to produce other mechanical parts such as the automobile and shipping parts. This expanding application also has brought some unsolved problems and leads many researchers to put their effort into the die design of the press bulging process. In this study, to obtain the optimum die shape for the press bulging process, various process parameters have been considered such as corner radius, bulging height, pressing length, and forming load, etc. The main interest of this paper is to verify the press bulging process which has more than 4.0 in height-length ratio. From this aspect, Finite Element analysis shows great ability to simulate the precise deformation process and gives us manufacturing database. Consideration of strain, stress, and strain-rate for the various cases has been also taken to keep the forming load within a particular range.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.271-278
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• 2008

A study has been conducted on the bulging process of liquid rocket engine nozzle which is essential to the manufacturing regenerative cooling combustion chamber. Mechanical properties of the material used for the bulging were experimentally obtained by tension tests. Deformation of the bulged nozzle was confirmed by a structural analysis. The developed bulging process and the deformation analysis result were confirmed by manufacturing of the bulged nozzle specimens and the bulging test. There has been a bulging failure among 7 bulged specimens due to the necking of the material. The cause of necking was investigated by comparing microstructure of the material. The investigation has revealed grain size of the material has considerable effect on the occurrence of the necking.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.145-147
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• 2009

The benefits of hydroforming technology are known as weight and cost savings through part consolidation and reduced post-forming processes such as welding and piercing. Hydroforming technology has some weaknesses in terms of process cycle times. But, as the hydraulic system and process designs are continuously developed, the cycle time is also reduced to acceptable and competitive levels. Hot air bulging is one of recently developed hydroforming techniques. Hot air bulging in order to further extend the forming degrees of Al lightweight material is investigated. A heated tube is placed in a heated die and sealed at the ends by sealing cylinders. The tube is subsequently expanded against the die cavity wall by internal pressure provided by air medium. The result of this study shows that axial feeding speed and air pressure have an effect on formability of Al air bulging at elevated temperature.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.35-39
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• 2000

Three-dimensional rigid plastic FEM is adopted to analyze the extruding-bulging process of tee tubes. Equivalent strain-rate stress distributions and the deformation characteristic in extruding-bulging process of tee tubes are revealed which provide scientific and reliable basis for correctly designing technologcial scheme and rationally selecting parameters. meanwhile some approaches for three-dimensional rigid plastic FEM are also discussed in this paper

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.329-337
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• 2019

This paper presents an experimental investigation about visualization of bulging development of geosynthetic-encased stone column (GESC) based on the digital image correlation (DIC) technique and transparent soil. Visual model tests on GESC and ordinary stone column (OSC) were carried out. In order to delete the warping effect resulting from transparent soil and experiment setup, a modification for experiment results was performed. The bulging development process of the GESC and the displacement field of the surrounding soil were measured. By comparing with the existing experimental and theoretical results, it demonstrates that the model test system developed for studying the continuous bulging development of GESC is suitable. The current test results show that the bulging depth of GESC ranges from 1.05 to 1.40 times the diameter of GESC. The influence depth of GESC bulging on surrounding soil displacement is 0~3 the times diameter of GESC.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.30-34
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• 2000

In this paper we analyzed bulging condition which affect the quality of continuous casting steel by using the numerical analytic method. First solidification analyses are performed for each cooling zones. Solidification analysis are carried out by one-dimensuional finite difference method. The bulging deformation of cast slab has been calculated with a two-dimensional elasto-plastic and creep finite element model. The adequacy of the model has been checked against the experimental results. From this study the effects of the process variables such as casting speed cooling condition roll pitch are examined. The results from these analyses would be able to apply to the design of continuous casting process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.1291-1292
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.251-252
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• 2011

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.122-128
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• 2000

In this paper, a bulging condition which affect the quality of continuous casting steel was analyzed by using the numerical analytic method. First, solidification analyses were performed for each cooling zone by one-dimensional finite difference method. The bulging deformation of cast slab has been calculated with a two-dimensional elasto-plastic and creep finite element model. The adequacy of the model has been checked against the experimental results. From this study the effects of the process variables such as casting speed, cooling condition and roll pitch were examined. The results from these analyses would be able to apply to the design of continuous casting process.