• Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.58-70
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• 1998

Many bulk carrier losses have been reported of late, and one of the possible causes of such casualties is thought to be the structural failure of aging hulls in rough weather. Clearly, in such cases, vessels that start out belong adequate somehow become marginal later in life. Fatigue and corrosion related potential problems may be the most important factors affecting such age related vessel damage. With respect to fatigue, extensive studies have been done worldwide both experimentally and theoretically, and the results have been applied to some extent. However, in the case of corrosion effects, additional research is still needed to better understand, clarify and address the various strength uncertainties and their effects on structural behavior. This paper develops a probabilistic corrosion rate estimation model for the longitudinal strength members of bulk carriers. The model is based on available statistical data for corrosion of existing bulk carriers. The corrosion data collected are documented for future use.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.245-253
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• 2017

The relative displacement of a piping system installed between isolated and nonisolated structures in a severe earthquake might be larger when without a seismic isolation system. As a result of the relative displacement, the seismic risks of some components in the building could increase. The possibility of an increase in seismic risks is especially high in the crossover piping system in the buildings. Previous studies found that an elbow which could be ruptured by low-cycle ratcheting fatigue is one of the weakest elements. Fatigue curves for elbows were suggested based on component tests. However, it is hard to find a quantitative evaluation of the ultimate state of piping elbows. Generally, the energy dissipation of a solid structure can be calculated from the relation between displacement and force. Therefore, in this study, the ultimate state of the pipe elbow, normally considered as failure of the pipe elbow, is defined as leakage under in-plane cyclic loading tests, and a failure estimation method is proposed using a damage index based on energy dissipation.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.384-389
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• 2008

An accelerated fatigue test is essentially required to maintain the reliability of the actual structure of KTX under operation conditions. However, actual fatigue life cannot be obtained if specimens are not adequate to the conventional fatigue test. Moreover component maker did not provide data of loading stress (S) - cycles at the failure (N). In this study, we suggest a prediction method of the S-N curve for establishing an accelerating test under various load levels. Load history was acquired from the field tests. A Rainflow method was used on the cycle counting of the field load data, and then, an S-N curve was obtained through the iteration process under the condition that the damage index satisfies to 1 in the Miner's rule.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.510-519
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• 2009

Ship structure is composed of the welded mixture members which are plate and stiffeners. Ship structure is also influenced by variable loadings such as wave and inertia load. There have been several fatigue damage problems on the connection between longitudinal and transverse web due to wide usage of high tensile steel and adoption of wide web space to improve shipbuilding productivity. It is impossible to estimate the fatigue lives for all connection details through refined fatigue analysis. It is necessary to use the simplified approach for the fatigue life estimation of the connection details. PLUS analysis, which is suggested by the classification society, is one of the simplified approaches and is widely adopted to get fatigue lives for the connection details along whole cargo hold area. However, ship building yards still have difficulties to get fatigue lives due to large amount of calculation and time even if this approach reduce the time and amount of calculation. This paper treats the computing system developed to reduce efforts of estimating the fatigue lives. The influence factors of mean shear stress and local dynamic pressure are easily calculated and fatigue lives for all hot spots can be estimated automatically by the developed computing system. It is possible to reduce computing time and efforts to get the fatigue lives for the connection details between longitudinals and transverse webs along the ship. This system was applied to get fatigue lives on the connection details of a VLCC and verified the availability.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.101-108
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• 2014

About 40% of reactors in the world are being operated beyond design life or are approaching the end of their life cycle. During long-term operation, various degradation mechanisms occur. Fatigue caused by alternating operational stresses in terms of temperature or pressure change is an important damage mechanism in continued operation of nuclear power plants. To monitor the fatigue damage of components, Fatigue Monitoring System (FMS) has been installed. Most FMSs have used Green's Function Approach (GFA) to calculate the thermal stresses rapidly. However, if temperature-dependent material properties are used in a detailed FEM, there is a maximum peak stress discrepancy between a conventional GFA and a detailed FEM because constant material properties are used in a conventional method. Therefore, if a conventional method is used in the fatigue evaluation, thermal stresses for various operating cycles may be calculated incorrectly and it may lead to an unreliable estimation. So, in this paper, the modified GFA which can consider temperature-dependent material properties is proposed by using an artificial neural network and weight factor. To verify the proposed method, thermal stresses by the new method are compared with those by FEM. Finally, pros and cons of the new method as well as technical findings from the assessment are discussed.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.2559-2565
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• 2013

2000년 이후 FRP 보트 선체 제작에 대한 국제적 법적 규제가 강화되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 보트 선체 재료로 폴리에틸렌을 제안하였다. 폴리에틸렌은 저융점 재료로서 보트가 야외에 장기간 노출되는 경우 심각한 열피로를 받을 수 있다. 고밀도 폴리에틸렌 보트 선체에 대한 열적 내구성을 실험적으로 평가하기 위하여 삼점굽힘하중조건하에서 변형률 게이지를 이용하여 열응력을 측정한 뒤 열응력 데이터를 기초로 통계학적으로 열피로 손상을 분석하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2014

선체 내구성은 기존 선급 규격에 의하여 구조 치수를 결정한 후 이러한 치수의 선체구조에 대하여 스펙트랄과 결정론적 및 간이 방법에 의하여 평가되고 있다. 이러한 방법은 선체재료를 선급 규격에서 제안하고 있는 재료로 구성하는 경우에는 적용할 수 있으나 선체 재료를 신소재로 구성하는 경우에는 적용할 수 없다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 폴리에틸렌 보트 선체에 대한 피로 손상을 평가하기 위하여 선체에 부하되는 단기간 선체 가속도를 직접 측정하고 이러한 데이터를 기초로 구조설계와 피로수명평가방법이 확립되지 못한 소형 선박의 선체 내구성을 선형누적손상 법칙으로 평가하는 방법을 제안하였다. 개발된 폴리에틸렌 보트의 경우 최대 가속도 상태에서 보트에 부하되는 최대 Von-Mises 응력은 1.8MPa로서 $1{\times}10^9$ 사이클 피로강도 5.9MPa 아래에 있고 유한피로수명개념을 적용한 폴리에틸렌 보트의 내구수명은 415년으로 평가되어져 거의 무한수명을 가지고 있다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제41권6호
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• pp.567-573
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• 2017

자동차 부품 중 드라이브 샤프트는 엔진에서 발생하는 토크를 바퀴에 전달하는 동력 전달장치의 핵심 부품이다. 엔진에서 입력되는 비틀림 하중과 주행 중 발생하는 실동하중에 의한 부품의 파손을 방지하기 위해, 고주파 열처리로 강도 및 피로수명이 개선되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고주파 열처리에 따른 드라이브 샤프트의 피로수명을 정량적으로 평가할 수 있는 피로수명 평가기법을 구축하였다. 드라이브 샤프트의 소재인 SAE10B38M2 강재로 모재 및 경화깊이가 서로 다른 고주파 열처리 시편 두 종을 제작하여 비틀림 하중 하에서의 전단 변형률 제어 피로시험을 진행하였고, 변형률-수명 피로수명 평가에 필요한 피로 물성값을 구하였다. 얻어진 피로 물성값을 이용하여 드라이브 샤프트의 변형률 기반 피로해석을 진행하였으며, 얻어진 피로수명 결과를 시제품 피로시험 결과와 비교하여 해석기법의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.359-366
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• 2012

This is the final one of the two companion papers dealing with accuracy of accumulated fatigue damage estimation under wide band process. It is stated that four kinds of wide band models exist: typed of equivalent stress, combined PDF, correction factor, and damage combination. For the idealized ESDs from full scale measurement data on an 8100TEU container vessel, fatigue damages are compared for a narrow band prediction model based on Rayleigh PDF and five wide band fatigue prediction models of Dirlik, Wirsching-Light, Jiao-Moan, Benasciutti and DNV. DNV model consistently overestimates fatigue damages regardless of variation of ESDs. Predictions by Jiao-Moan model, which is understood as standard method for design of offshore platforms, are also in conservative side. Best accuracy is found from the results by Dirlik and Benasciutti models, but Benasciutti model is preferred since it can easily combined with narrow band fatigue damage based on Rayleigh PDF.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.265-272
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• 2003

The computer program for the accelerated life testing technique of a machine part under the service conditions is developed under the GUI environment so that the user can easily obtain the results by selecting the program module. Also, the theoretical backgrounds for the computer program and the procedures of the accelerated testing method are introduced by testing the specimens made of the stainless steel 316L under the high temperature and random loading. The reliability of the program is discussed by the experimental results of the fatigue life, age degradation and accelerated testing conditions.