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Applicability Estimation of Ballast Non-exchange-type Quick-hardening Track Using a Layer Separation Pouring Method (층 분리주입을 이용한 도상자갈 무교환방식 급속경화궤도의 적용성 평가)

  • Lee, Il Wha;Jung, Young Ho;Lee, Min Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.543-551
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    • 2015
  • Quick-hardening track (QHT) is a construction method which is used to change from old ballast track to concrete track. Sufficient time for construction is important, as the construction should be done during operational breaks at night. Most of the time is spent on exchanging the ballast layer. If it is possible to apply the ballast non-exchange type of quick-hardening track, it would be more effective to reduce the construction time and costs. In this paper, pouring materials with high permeability are suggested and a construction method involving a layer separation pouring process considering the void condition is introduced in order to develop ballast non-exchange type of QHT. The separate pouring method can secure the required strength because optimized materials are poured into the upper layer and the lower layer for each void ratio condition. To ensure this process, a rheology analysis was conducted on the design of the pouring materials according to aggregate size, the aggregate distribution, the void ratio, the void size, the tortuosity and the permeability. A polymer series was used as the pouring material of the lower layer to secure the void filling capacity and for adhesion to the fine-grained layer. In addition, magnesium-phosphate ceramic (MPC) was used as the pouring material of the upper layer to secure the void-filling capacity and for adhesion of the coarse-grained layer. As a result of a mechanics test of the materials, satisfactory performance corresponding to existing quick-hardening track was noted.

Effect of Strain Aging on Tensile Behavior and Properties of API X60, X70, and X80 Pipeline Steels

  • Lee, Sang-In;Lee, Seung-Yong;Lee, Seok Gyu;Jung, Hwan Gyo;Hwang, Byoungchul
    • Metals and materials international
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.1221-1231
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    • 2018
  • The effect of strain aging on tensile behavior and properties of API X60, X70, and X80 pipeline steels was investigated in this study. The API X60, X70, and X80 pipeline steels were fabricated by varying alloying elements and thermomechanical processing conditions. Although all the steels exhibited complex microstructure consisting of polygonal ferrite (PF), acicular ferrite, granular bainite (GB), bainitic ferrite (BF), and secondary phases, they had different fractions of microstructures depending on the alloying elements and thermomechanical processing conditions. The tensile test results revealed that yielding behavior steadily changed from continuous-type to discontinuous-type as aging temperature increases after 1% pre-strain. After pre-strain and thermal aging treatment in all the steels, the yield and tensile strengths, and yield ratio were increased, while the uniform elongation and work hardening exponent were decreased. In the case of the X80 steel, particularly, the decrease in uniform elongation was relatively small due to many mobile dislocations in PF, and the increase in yield ratio was the lowest because a large amount of harder microstructures such as GB, BF, and coarse secondary phases effectively enhanced work hardening.

A Practical Method to Determine the Die Shape using a Streamline in Axisymmetric Extrusion (축대칭 압출에서의 유동경로를 이용한 실용적 금형설계)

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    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.79-82
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    • 2000
  • A new simple method to determined the die shape using a streamline in extrusion is presented. This method assumes that a billet deforms naturally to minimize the energy input for the given process condition. Then an optimal die shape can be determined along a streamline. Extrusion operations with two types of materials strain-hardening material and strain-rate hardening material are examined using this method. Prediction with the proposed method are compared with those by the previous optimizing model to show its efficiency.

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Forming Condition for Automotive Body Outer Panel using Aluminum Alloy Sheet for Improved Dent Resistance (차체 외판 부품의 덴트 특성 향상을 위한 알루미늄 판재의 성형조건에 관한 연구)

  • Ko, S.J.;Kim, T.J.;Kim, I.S.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.420-426
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    • 2011
  • Dent resistance is determined by both shape characteristics, i.e., local radius of curvature and sheet thickness, and material properties such as yield strength. This work presents results of a study on the effect of work hardening and bake hardening on dent resistance of aluminum alloy sheet parts by considering the forming condition and baking temperature.

Characteristics of Pre-Heat Treated Steel for Application to Forging (선조질강 소재의 단조공정 측면에서의 특징)

  • Eom, J.G.;Li, Q.S.;Jang, S.M.;Ahn, S.T.;Son, Y.H.;Hyun, S.W.;Kim, H.;Yoon, D.J.;Joun, M.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.48-51
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, plastic deformation behaviors of ESW105 and SCM435 steels are revealed by simulations and experiments. ESW105 is the special pre-heat-treated steel characterized by high initial yield strength and negligible strain-hardening behavior. The flow stresses of the two steels for large stain are calculated from tensile tests. Axial and lateral compressions of cylindrical bars are tested and simulated and the deformed shapes are compared to characterize the plastic deformation behaviors of the two materials. A forward extrusion process of a cylindrical bar is also simulated to reveal the difference. It has been shown that there are pretty much difference in plastic flow between ESW105 and SCM435 which causes from the difference in strain-hardening capability, implying that the experience-oriented design rules for common commercial materials may lead to failure in process design when the new material of ESW105 is applied without consideration of its plastic deformation behavior.

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A Behavior of Embrittlement at the Subsurface Zones of Multiphase Steels Charged with Hydrogen (수소주입시킨 다상조직강의 Subsurface Zone 내 취성화 거동)

  • Kang, Kae-Myung;Park, Jae-Woo;Choi, Jong-Un
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.48-53
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    • 2013
  • In the present work, it was investigated a behavior of hydrogen embrittlement at the subsurface zones of 590 DP steels by using the micro-Vickers hardness test. The micro-Vickers hardnessess of DP steels were measured to evaluate the degree of embrittlement as the effective hardening depths of subsurface zones with hydrogen charging conditions. The results showed that the distributions of micro-Vickers hardness in width varied from maximum hardness 239.5 Hv to minimum hardness 174 Hv, while the depth of effective hardening layer at the subsurface zones of DP steels was from $320{\mu}m$ to $460{\mu}m$ with hydrogen charging conditions, respectively. It was proposed that the distribution of microhardness be used as the evaluation index of the degree of embrittlement. But the variations of martensite volume fractions were not affected along depth of hardening at the same changing time, hydrogen charging times were appeared as an effective factor of the degree of embrittlement. Therefore, the micro-Vickers hardness test is an attractive tool for evaluation of hydrogen embrittlement at the subsurface zones of these DP steels.

Advanced Indentation Studies on the Effects of Hydrogen Attack on Tensile Property Degradation of Heat-Resistant Steel Heat-Affected Zones

  • Choi, Yeol;Jang, Jae-il;Lee, Yun-Hee;Kwon, Dongil;Kim, Jeong-Tae
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.2 no.6
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    • pp.266-271
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    • 2003
  • Safety diagnosis of various structural components and facilities is indispensable for preventing catastrophic failure of material by time-dependent and environment accelerating degradation. Also, this diagnosis of operating components should be done periodically for safe maintenance and economical repair. However, conventional standard methods for mechanical properties have the problems of bulky specimen, destructive procedure and complex procedure of specimen sampling. So, a non-destructive and simple mechanical testing method using small specimen is needed. Therefore, an advanced indentation technique was developed as a potential method for non-destructive testing of in-field structures. This technique measures indentation load-depth curve during indentation and analyzes the mechanical properties related to deformation such as yield strength, tensile strength and work-hardening index. In this paper, we characterized the tensile properties including yield and tensile strengths of the V-modified Cr-Mo steels in petro-chemical and thermo-electrical plants. And also, the effects of hydrogen-assisted degradation of the V-modified Cr-Mo steels were analyzed in terms of work-hardening index and yield ratio.

Evaluation of Performance of Artificial Neural Network based Hardening Model for Titanium Alloy Considering Strain Rate and Temperature (티타늄 합금의 변형률속도 및 온도를 고려한 인공신경망 기반 경화모델 성능평가)

  • M. Kim;S. Lim;Y. Kim
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.96-102
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    • 2024
  • This study addresses evaluation of performance of hardening model for a titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V) based on the artificial neural network (ANN) regarding the strain rate and the temperature. Uniaxial compression tests were carried out at different strain rates from 0.001 /s to 10 /s and temperatures from 575 ℃ To 975 ℃. Using the experimental data, ANN models were trained and tested with different hyperparameters, such as size of hidden layer and optimizer. The input features were determined with the equivalent plastic strain, strain rate, and temperature while the output value was set to the equivalent stress. When the number of data is sufficient with a smooth tendency, both the Bayesian regulation (BR) and the Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) show good performance to predict the flow behavior. However, only BR algorithm shows a predictability when the number of data is insufficient. Furthermore, a proper size of the hidden layer must be confirmed to describe the behavior with the limited number of the data.