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A Study on the Possibility of using Light-Wall Stainless Steel Pipe for Water-Based Fire Protection System (수계소화설비용 경량벽 스테인리스 강관의 사용가능성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Nam, Jun-Seok;Won, Sung-Yeun;Kim, Yong-Ho;Min, Kyung-Tak;Park, Seung-Min
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.94-101
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    • 2010
  • The pipes using in water-based fire protection systems are used steel pipes for ordinary piping, carbon steel pipes for pressure service, copper and copper alloy seamless pipes and tubes, etc. By last buildings of high-rising, complexity, in fire protection systems, the corrosion resistance, easy construction, lightweight and cost-effective use of the pipes is being considered. Among the pipes, the possibility of used for fire protection system being used in the existing copper pipe of material properties, strength, corrosion resistance, heat resistance through and compare the performance was evaluated. As a result of that assessment light gauge stainless steel pipes for ordinary piping (KS D 3595) at a water pressure of less than 1.2 MPa can be used in sufficient physical properties, strength, corrosion resistance, heat resistance and have been observed.

Fabrication and Evaluation of the Al-STS-Cu Functionally Graded Materials (알루미늄-스테인레스스틸-구리 경사기능재료의 제조 및 특성평가)

  • Kwangjae Park;Dasom Kim;Hansang Kwon
    • Composites Research
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.241-245
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    • 2023
  • Aluminum (Al) and copper(Cu) are non-ferrous alloys with excellent electrical and thermal conductivity but have relatively lower mechanical properties than iron alloys. Stainless steel(STS), an iron alloy, is a high-strength industrial material due to its excellent mechanical properties and corrosion resistance compared to non-ferrous Al and Cu. In this research combined Al, Cu, and STS to fabricate as a functionally graded material (FGM) through a powder metallurgical process. The produced FGM exhibited lightweight and excellent surface hardness compared to copper and iron alloys and also showed higher thermal conductivity than single Al and STS materials.

Manufacturing and testing of flat-type divertor mockup with advanced materials

  • Nanyu Mou;Xiyang Zhang;Qianqian Lin;Xianke Yang;Le Han;Lei Cao;Damao Yao
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.6
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    • pp.2139-2146
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    • 2023
  • During reactor operation, the divertor must withstand unprecedented simultaneous high heat fluxes and high-energy neutron irradiation. The extremely severe service environment of the divertor imposes a huge challenge to the bonding quality of divertor joints, i.e., the joints must withstand thermal, mechanical and neutron loads, as well as cyclic mode of operation. In this paper, potassium-doped tungsten (KW) is selected as the plasma facing material (PFM), oxygen-free copper (OFC) as the interlayer, oxide dispersion strengthened copper (ODS-Cu) alloy as the heat sink material, and reduced activation ferritic/martensitic (RAFM) steel as the structural material. In this study, a vacuum brazing technology is proposed and optimized to bond Cu and ODS-Cu alloy with the silver-free brazing material CuSnTi. The most appropriate brazing parameters are a brazing temperature of 940 ℃ and a holding time of 15 min. High-quality bonding interfaces have been successfully obtained by vacuum brazing technology, and the average shear strength of the as-obtained KW/Cu and ODS-Cu alloy joints is ~268 MPa. And a fabrication route for manufacturing the flat-type divertor target based on brazing technology is set. For evaluating the reliability of the fabrication technologies under the reactor relevant condition, the high heat flux test at 20 MW/m2 for the as-manufactured flat-type KW/Cu/ODS-Cu/RAFM mockup is carried out by using the Electron-beam Material testing Scenario (EMS-60) with water cooling. This paper reports the improved vacuum brazing technology to connect Cu to ODS-Cu alloy and summarizes the production route, high heat flux (HHF) test, the pre and post non-destructive examination, and the surface results of the flat-type KW/Cu/ODS-Cu/RAFM mockup after the HHF test. The test results demonstrate that the mockup manufactured according to the fabrication route still have structural and interfacial integrity under cyclic high heat loads.

Properties and Casting Capabilities of Al-Fe-Zn-Cu Alloys for High Conductivity Parts (고전도성 부품용 Al-Fe-Zn-Cu합금의 물성 및 주조성)

  • Yun, Ho-Seob;Kim, Jeong-Min;Park, Joon-Sik;Kim, Ki-Tae;Ko, Se-Hyun
    • Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.242-247
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    • 2013
  • The most widely utilized commercial, aluminum-casting alloys are based on an aluminum-silicon system due to its excellent casting, and good mechanical, properties. Unfortunately, these Al-Si based alloys are inherently poor energy conductors; compared to pure aluminum, because of their high silicon content. This means that they are not suitable for applications demanding high eletrical or thermal conductivity. Therefore, efforts are currently being made to develop new, highly-conductive aluminum-casting alloys containing no silicon. In this research, a number of properties; including potential for castability, were investigated for a number of Al-Fe-Zn-Cu alloys with varying Cu content. As the copper content was increased, the tensile strength of Al-Fe-Zn-Cu alloy tended to increase gradually, while the electrical conductivity was slightly reduced. Fluidity was found to be lower in high-Cu alloys, and susceptibility to hot-cracking was generally high in all the alloys investigated.

The effects of addition elements on the formation of the hard spots in High strength brass (고력황동의 Hard Spots형성에 미치는 첨가원소의 영향)

  • Park, Hyun-Sik;Ra, Hyung-Yong
    • Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.12-19
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    • 1986
  • This study was undertaken to understand the formation mechanism of the hard spots in high strength brass. To investigate the behavior of the hard spots in the isothermal liquid state with varying silicon content, the rapidly quenched specimens were obtained by suctioning the melt into the silica tube and water quenching. To examine the growth process of the hard spots with holding time, the unidirectional solidification technique was used. The results of this study are summarized as follows: 1) With the addition of Fe in order to get the effects of grain refinement in high strength brass, the two different type of Fe-rich phases are occurred, which are defined as dendritic and globular phase. The chemical composition of the globular phase was different from that of the dendritic phase in that the globular phase contained Si. 2) With increasing Si content, the Fe-rich phase had a tendency to form globular phase. 3) As the holding time increased in the liquid state, globular was also prone to coalesce. The further growth of globular phase to large size was due to reducing the interfacial energy. 4) The primary phase of copper alloy was nucleated preferentially on the dendritic phase. It was noticeable that the dendritic phase acted as a grain refiner. However, the agglomerate (hard spots) which was composed of the globular phase decreased the mechanical properties of high strength brass. 5) Once the hard spots formed in the high strength brass casting, it was very difficult to remove them. This is due to the fact that their meting temperature is higher than the pouring temperature of high strength brass.

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Effects of Mg and Cu Amounts on the Casting Characteristics and Tensile Property of Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloys (Al-Zn-Mg-Cu 합금의 주조성 및 인장특성에 미치는 Mg 및 Cu 첨가량의 영향)

  • Kim, Ki-Tae;Lim, Young-Suk;Kim, Jeong-Min
    • Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.38-43
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    • 2012
  • The effects of Mg and Cu amounts on the casting characteristics and tensile property of Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys were investigated for the development of high strength aluminium alloys for gravity mold casting. Increase of copper amounts in Al-6%Zn-3%Mgy% Cu alloys resulted in reduction of the fluidity of these alloys and had little effects on the tensile property of these alloys. Increase of magnesium amounts from 1.0wt% to 3.3wt% in Al-6%Zn-x%Mg-0.5%Cu alloys resulted in reduction of the elongation of these alloys from 12% to 3% and increase of the tensile strength of these alloys from 340MPa to 450MPa, but had little effects on the fluidity of these alloys.

An Overview of The Commercialisation of The Spray Forming Process

  • Leatham, Alan
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.227-232
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    • 1996
  • (i) The development of a metallurgical bond during the spray forming of clad products has offered the possibility of manufacturing large rolls, including those used in hot and cold strip mills. Small rolls are already being produced in Japan. (ii) Technical developments, including the use-of-multi-atomizers have resulted in the elimination of porosity from the internal bore of a sprayed tube. Bimetallic tubing can also be manufactured and the installation of a 4.5 ton tube plant in the USA should provide low operation costs. (iii) Spray forming offers a potentially low cost manufacturing route for superalloy ring/casing components in high strength superalloys. (iv) A large pilot plant has been built for the spray forming of ultra-clean superalloys for turbine disc applications. (v) Using twin-atomizing technology, special steel billets have been spray formed up to 400mm diameter with deposition yields in excess of 90%. (vi) Al/Si alloy extrusion billets with excellent dimensional tolerances are being manufactured for large scale automotive applications. Several new aluminum alloys have also been developed, including high strength, low density and low cocfficient of expansion materials. (vii) New copper alloys have been developed and pilot plants are in operation to produce these alloys once markets have become established.

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Evaluation on Mechanical Properties of Sintered Tungsten Materials by Solvents (소결된 텅스텐 재료의 용매에 의한 특성 평가)

  • Park, Kwang-Mo;Lee, Sang-Pill;Lee, Jin-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.289-294
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    • 2021
  • Tungsten (W) is used as a facing material for nuclear fusion reactors, and it is used in conjunction with structural materials such as copper alloy (CuCrZr), graphite, or stainless steel. On the other hand, since tungsten is a material with a high melting point, a method that can be manufactured at a lower temperature is important. Therefore, in this study, tungsten, which is a facing material, was attempted to be manufactured using a pressure sintering method. Material properties of sintered tungsten materials were analyzed for each solvent using two types of solvents, acetone and polyethylene glycol. The sintered tungsten material using acetone as a solvent exhibited a hardness value of about 255 Hv, and when polyethylene glycol was used, a hardness value of about 200 Hv was shown. The flexural strength of the sintered tungsten material was 870 MPa and 307 MPa, respectively, when acetone and polyethylene glycol were used as solvents. The sintered tungsten material using acetone as a solvent caused densification between particles, which served as a factor of increasing the strength.

Study for the Film Coating Techniqur of Gilt Bronze Artifacts from Mir ksa Temple (미륵사지 출토 고대 금동유물의도금기법에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Sun-Ki;Kang, Dai-Ill;Kim, Sun-Dug;Park, Dong-Kyu;Kang, Sung-Goon
    • 보존과학연구
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    • s.14
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    • pp.45-76
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    • 1993
  • Au-Cu alloyed coating layer were found by Hg-amalgam process and it seemed to be used Cu-amalgam process similar to Au-amalgam. Coated layer is dense and unique, Thickness of layer was 1.5 to $18.0\mum$ which had 95.3 to 99.8% purity of gold Matrix metal mostly cosists of forged copper alloy which had high purity and ferrite ($\alpha$) strusture. It showed excellent refining technical level at that time. Aowever, the nail, ferrous matrix used for strength needed, composed of silver foil packed and gold layer for adherence between ferrous matrix and gold layer

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Implementation of Dynamic Resistance Database for Weld Quality Improvement of Inverter Spot Welder (인버터 스폿용접기의 용접품질 향상을 위한 동저항 데이터베이스 구축)

  • 김재문;원충연;최규하;김규식;목형수
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.294-303
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    • 1999
  • Resistance spot welding is commonly used for welding products of high quality because of clean welding and short w welding-time. But. conventional spot welders bring about the depreciation of welding products, iuespective of dynamic r resistance characteristics during welding time. This paper discussed dynamic resistance database implementation in t terms of welding performance improvement. On different welding conditions, we compared dynamic resistance, r respectively, about pure iron and Sn-Pb alloy on Copper. Also, it investigated the relation of tensile shear strength and d dynamic resistance in welded workpiece.

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