• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.922-934
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• 2014

In casting steels for offshore construction, manufacturing integral casted structures to prevent fatigue cracks in the stress raisers is superior to using welded structures. Here, mold design and casting analysis were conducted for integral casting steel. The laminar flow of molten metal was analyzed and distributions of hot spots and porosities were studied. A prototype was subsequently produced, and air vents were designed to improve the surface defects caused by the release of gas. A radiographic test revealed no internal defects inside the casted steel. Evaluating the chemical and mechanical properties of specimens sampled from the product revealed that target values were quantitatively satisfied. To assess weldability in consideration of repair welding, the product was machined with grooves and welded, after which the mechanical properties of hardness as well as tensile, impact, and bending strengths were evaluated. No substantive differences were found in the mechanical properties before and after welding.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.481-487
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• 1998

Shell sand is widely used to make a complex shape castings due to its good collapsibility. When molten metal is poured into the mold, various gases are generated by the thermal decomposition of binder in the shell core. Casting defects such as blow hole and blister come from these gases. If it is possible to predict the evolution of gas quantitatively, it may provide effective solutions for minimizing the casting defects. To examine the gas evolution by shell core quantitatively, casting experiment and calculation were carried out. Gas pressure and gas volume evolved by shell core were measured in the experiment, and temperature distribution in the shell core was obtained by heat transfer analysis. From the result above, prediction on the gas volume evolved during pouring was tried. As forming pressure of the shell core increased and forming temperature decreased, the gas evolution increased. There was a close relationship between the calculated gas volume evolved and the measured one.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.571-578
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• 2005

Stresses of main stop valve and control valve casings for the steam turbines of power plants are analyzed by the finite element method. The stress intensity is obtained to check the results on the basis of the design criteria of ASME boiler and pressure vessel code. To verify accuracy of the finite element analysis. analyzed stresses are compared with those measured during the hydrostatic pressure test. Stress category drawings. which play an important role in evaluating casting defects, are produced from the analysis results, and important points in casting of the valve casings are discussed in terms of the stress category.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제41권9호
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• pp.647-652
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• 2004

In aqueous tape casting of alumina slurry systems, the relationships between the suspension compositions and the defects of the dried tapes were discussed. The suspensions compositions were controlled with the ratios of the solids, water and organics binder contents. The effects of the thickness of dried tape and kinds of binder system were also examined. In the defect free region, the apparent viscosity showed nearly same value due to the count balancing effect of solid and organic binder content on the apparent viscosity. When water content was constant, increasing solid led to decrease of organic binder content. The defect free region was narrowed with increasing of casting thickness. When linear type acrylic emulsion binders system (D1000 and D 1035) were used, defect free zone formed the belt type in the triangle of solid, water and organic binder content according to the line of constant water contents. However the defect free region was not found in the cross-link type emulsion binder system (D 1050).

• 박물관보존과학
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• 제15권
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• pp.4-25
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• 2014

국립춘천박물관이 소장하고 있는 수다사지 청동금고는 1987년 강원도 평창군 진부면 수항리에서 발견되었다. 금고 표면에, 제작 당시의 주조 결함과 보수 흔적이 다수 발견되어 제작 기법을 유추하기에 용이한 중요 자료이다. 본 연구에서는 금고의 성분, 주형과 채플릿^{Chaplet, 형지(型持), 코어받침쇠}의 위치, 결함의 원인 등을 과학적으로 조사하여 주조 기법과 당대의 보수 방식을 추정해 보았다. 성분 분석 결과, 금고의 주성분은 구리 71.6wt%, 주석 18.2wt%, 납 7.2wt%로 3원계 청동합금이며 비소·안티몬이 각각 약 1wt%씩 검출되었다. 주조 시 주형을 고정하기 위하여 사용한 채플릿의 성분은 납 함량이 금고보다 더 높으며, 제작 후 구멍을 메우기 위해 사용된 땜납의 성분은 납 함량이 가장 높게 나타났다. 주조 분할선을 토대로 표면 상태를 관찰한 결과 사형주조 ^砂型鑄造로 제작되었을 가능성이 높았으며, 표면 관찰 및 방사선투과조사로 냉접^{Cold shut}이나 표면 주름^{Surface Folds}, 미스런^Misrun, 채플릿 주변의 기공^{Blowholes Adjacent to Chaplets} 등의 주조결함을 확인하고 발생 원인을 추정하였다. 보수된 부분은 제작 당시의 주조 결함인 구멍이 생긴 부위를 메우기 위하여 연납을 사용한 땜질보수 ^{Soldered-in Repair}를 하였다.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2011

This study aims to investigate the formability of bipolar plates for fuel cell fabricated by vacuum die casting of ALDC 6. Cavity shape of mold is thin walled plate (size: $200mm{\times}200mm{\times}0.8mm$) with a serpentine channel (active area: $50mm{\times}50mm$). Before bipolar plate was made by HPDC, computational filling behavior and solidification was performed by MAGMA soft. The final mold design for location and direction of channel was determined by computational simulation. Also, according to injection speed conditions, simulation result was compared to actual die casting experimental result. When vacuum pressure, injection speed of low and high region is 350 mbar, 0.3 m/s and 2.5 m/s respectively, products had few casting defects. On the other hand, at the same as injection speed, without vacuum pressure, products had many casting defects between end of the channel and overflow.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.2034-2043
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• 2002

The process design to produce a near net shape home-appliance compressor component using semi-solid die casting process is performed. In order to obtain a good component without defects such as liquid segregation and porosity, the relationship between pressure and time, and plunger tip displacement and injection velocity are proposed with repeated trial and error. The effect of the velocity variation in the process parameters on liquid segregation and extraction is investigated to produce the aluminum frame part(a kind of compressor part) with good mechanical properties. The mechanical characteristic of semi-solid die casting formed parts for AlSi7Mg0.65r(A357) and AlSi17Cu4Mg(A390) are investigated with a view to minimizing the occurrence of defects. To investigate of application possibility at industry field, A380 aluminum alloy with 8∼9% silicon contents used for the squeeze casting process. The obtained mechanical properties is compared with semi-solid die casting.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.82-85
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• 2012

The effect of the alloy systems Al-Mg alloy and Al-Si alloy in this study on the characteristics of die-casting were investigated using solidification simulation software (MAGMAsoft). Generally, it is well known that the casting characteristics of Al-Mg based alloys, such as the fluidity, feedability and die soldering behaviors, are inferior to those of Al-Si based alloys. However, the simulation results of this study showed that the filling pattern behaviors of both the Al-Mg and Al-Si alloys were found to be very similar, whereas the Al-Mg alloy had higher residual stress and greater distortion as generated due to solidification with a larger amount of volumetric shrinkage compared to the Al-Si alloy. The Al-Mg alloy exhibited very high relative numbers of stress-concentrated regions, especially near the rib areas. Owing to the residual stress and distortion, defects were evident in the Al-Mg alloy in the areas predicted by the simulation. However, there were no visible defects observed in the Al-Si alloy. This suggests that an adequate die temperature and casting process optimization are necessary to control and minimize defects when die casting the Al-Mg alloy. A Tatur test was conducted to observe the shrinkage characteristics of the aluminum alloys. The result showed that hot tearing or hot cracking occurred during the solidification of the Al-Mg alloy due to the large amount of shrinkage.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.71-77
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• 2017

Casting defects produced during the casting process seriously affect the mechanical properties of the resulting products, reduce the performance capabilities of the product, and also result in economic losses. Therefore, this paper mainly investigates the causes of defects and methods by which to reduce these defects stemming from molten metal flows in a runner system of the type widely used in the sand mold casting process. The flow characteristics of a molten alloy are difficult to observe during the actual casting process. For this reason, a water model was used to observe the flow in the casting process, and the flow in each case was recorded using high-speed cameras as part of the experimental process of this study. Several repetitive experiments were performed to improve the accuracy of the experimental results. The traditional casting system was modified according to the design rules proposed by Campbell, and the system was termed flow-adaptive gating system with a water model. Comparing the flow characteristics of traditional and adaptive gating systems with a water model shows that the bubbles in the water in the latter case are reduced more significantly than in the former case. A ceramic filter system was adapted to the flow-adaptive gating system to minimize the instability of the flow during filling, which occurs as the fluid velocity in the runner increases. In additional, the flow behavior with and without the filter system were compared. The water model system in this work was shown to be able to verify that the adaptation of the filter system brings improvements by stabilizing the flow and reducing the amount of bubbles in the runner system. Moreover, using the flow-adaptive runner system with the filter system leads to considerably stable flows in the runner system.

• 보존과학회지
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.234-242
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• 2022

국립춘천박물관 소장 철조석가불좌상(본관 1971)을 기초로 재현실험을 시행하여 분할 주조법을 연구하였다. 불상의 3D 스캔 데이터를 활용해 1/2 모형으로 축소 제작한 후 기존 연구 결과를 토대로 거푸집제작, 주조 등을 실시하여 불상을 제작하였다. 거푸집의 외부는 친모래와 산청토를 3:4의 비율로, 내부는 친모래와 산청토를 1:3의 비율로 배합하여 제작한 다음 불상을 주조하였다. 주조된 철불을 통해 다양한 주조결함을 관찰할 수 있었으며, 원불상과 유사한 형태적인 모습을 볼 수 있었다. 재현된 철불의 표면 관찰 결과 베이닝, 유동불량, 외부수축공, 피하기공, 표면핀홀, 형 어긋남 등의 주조결함을 지니고 있었으며, 이는 철조석가불좌상에서 보이는 주조결함의 특징과 유사하다. 미세조직은 나뭇가지 모양의 Dendrite 조직과 Pearlite 조직이 확인되었으며, Cementite 조직 사이에서 검은색의 Graphite가 관찰되었다. 본 연구는 철불의 전통주조기술과 제작기법을 위한 실험연구로서 고대 대형 주조기술을 알아볼 수 있는 기초데이터로 활용될 것으로 본다.