• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2017

In the present work, the effect of hygrothermal aging on the glass fibre and epoxy matrix interface has been investigated by destructive and non-destructive techniques. The glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite laminates were prepared using Vacuum Assisted Resin Infusion Molding (VARIM) technique and the specimens were immersed in simulated seawater, followed by quantitative measurement. Besides this, the tensile tests of GFRP specimens revealed a general decrease in the properties with increasing aging time. Also, exposed specimens were characterized by a non-destructive ultrasonic guided Lamb wave propagation technique. The experimental results demonstrate a correlation between the drop in ultrasonic voltage amplitude and fall in tensile strength with increasing time of immersion. Hence, the comparison of the transmitted guided wave signal of healthy vis-a-vis specimens subjected to different extents of hygrothermal aging facilitated performance evaluation of GFRP composites.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.26-41
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• 2021

Titanium hydride potassium perchlorate (THPP)는 일반적으로 널리 사용되는 착화제로 추진 시스템에서 중요한 역할을 수행해오고 있지만, '노화'라는 현상으로 인하여 THPP의 요구 성능 변화, 심지어는 system failure가 초래될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 상대습도 조건에서 노화된 THPP의 열역학적 특성 및 성능, 점화 특성 변화를 상세한 열분석과 점화 실험을 통해 밝혔다. 그리고 형태학적 분석과 조성 변화를 통해 노화에 따른 THPP의 물리·화학적인 변화 또한 확인하였다. 결론적으로, 열노화는 산화제 분해로 인하여 활성화 에너지 감소/반응성 증가로 이어지고 수분노화는 연료 산화로 인하여 활성화 에너지 증가/반응성 감소와 같은 경로를 따름을 최종적으로 확인해볼 수 있었다.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제5권5호
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• pp.177-180
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• 2006

The anticorrosive performance of epoxy coating was examined by using the hygrothermal cyclic test and the degradation mechanism of the coating was investigated by using the AC impedance method. The relationship between the results obtained from different tests was studied. It was revealed that the hygrothermal cyclic test can be used as an effective acceleration test for the degradation of organic coating. It was also found in hygrothermal cyclic test that the epoxy coatings have the resistance to stresses at some extent. The degradation of organic coating seems to be caused by the decrease of resistance of coating and the increase of both capacitance and free volume in the organic coating.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.892-901
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• 2018

Because of excellent electrical properties, epoxy resin is widely used in packaging and casting power equipment. Moisture and temperature in the environment are inclined to seriously affect the insulation tolerance of epoxy resin. This work focuses on the aging characteristics of epoxy resin in hygrothermal environment. Scanning electron microscopy images show that there are micro-crack, micro-slit and holes inside aged samples. The moisture absorption process undergoes three equilibrium stages and it does not follow the Fick's second law. Observing the change of hydrogen bonds in the infrared spectra of the dried samples, it is found that chemically moisture absorption immerges when the physical moisture absorption entered the third equilibrium stage. By Debye equation to fit the imaginary part of the dielectric constant, it is concluded that the uniformity of water molecule has a great influence on the electrical conductivity loss. Furthermore, the polarization loss can be more easily affected by water molecules than small free molecules. After the aged samples being dried, their real and imaginary part of the dielectric constant descend, but their original electrical properties cannot completely restored. After chemical moisture absorption appears inside the material, the residual space charges increase significantly and the charge dissipation rate slow down obviously.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.79-92
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• 2019

Titanium hydride potassium perchlorate (THPP)는 항공우주분야에서 일반적으로 널리 사용되는 불꽃점화장치중 하나이다. 현 연구에서는 THPP에 수분 열 노화를 가했을 때, 연소과정에 끼치는 영향과 변화된 결과들을 실험적으로 밝혀내었다. 우선, Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)와 isoconversional method를 적용하여 노화된 THPP 시료의 반응개시지연 및 최대반응속도의 저하를 확인하였다. 반응속도 파라미터는 첫 번째 반응에서 Viton에 의해 낮아지며 후에 잔류한 $KClO_4$의 영향으로 상승하는 경향을 보였다. 그리고 X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS)를 통해 노화된 THPP 시료에서 산화제 성분은 감소하고 연료산화효과가 두드러짐을 확인하였다. 또한 NASA Chemical Equilibrium with Applications (CEA)을 사용하여 얻은 이론발열량이 DSC로부터 구한 실험적 발열량과 비슷한 경향을 따르므로 실험적으로 구한 발열량 트렌드가 타당함을 검증할 수 있었다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1999년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.479-482
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• 1999

Cured epoxy resins are extensively used for the electrical insulation in high-voltage equipments. The bisphenol A-based epoxy resins lured with azine show, especially, good thermal properties and mechanical resistances. For the technical and economic reasons, varing amount of inorganic fillers are added to endow the required special properties. In the large generators and motors of power plants, epoxy insulation is disclosed to the harsh conditions like the superheated steam and abrupt temperature variation. Hygrothermal aging at elevated temperatures tends to induce degradation in epoxy resins. To predict the effect of this degradation in DGEBA/MDA/SN/zeolite system, we proceeded the forced moisture absorption experiment using the autoclave. The thermal properties of the untreated and treated specimens were analyzed by DSC and TGA under the nitrogen flowing condition. The moisture absorption results showed a weight increase during hygrothermal aging at 1207. At the initial aging period, the system leaded to more or less postcuring but more prolonged environmental aging leaded the discoloration of specimen and lowering the T$_{g}$./.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.727-734
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• 2004

An uncoupled computational model for analyzing the hygrothermal dynamic response of composite laminates has been developed. The constitutive equations, expressed in an integral form, and involving relaxation moduli are adopted, to describe the non-aging hygrothermorheologically simple materials. A Prony series represents the relaxation moduli is exploited in order to derive a recursive relationship, and thereby eliminate the storage problem that arises when dealing with material possessing memory. The problem is formulated in a descritized variational form. Mindlin and higher order finite elements are employed for spatial descretization, while the Newmark average acceleration scheme is exploited for temporal descritization. The adopted recursive formula uses only the details of the previous event to compute the details of the current one. Numerical results of the displacement fields of both thin and thick viscoelastic laminates problems are discussed to show up the effectiveness of Mindlin and higher-order shear theories.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.124-130
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• 2005

In this paper, the effects of matrix hygrothermal aging and residual stress changes on $Avimid^{(R)}$ K3B/IM7 laminates in $80^{\circ}C$ water were studied. The factors causing the $80^{\circ}C$ water to degradation of the laminates could be the degradation of the matrix toughness, the change in residual stresses. After 500 hours fully saturated aging of the neat resin, the weight gain was 1.55% increase with the diffusion coefficient $7{\times}10^{-6}m^2/s$ and the fracture toughness was decreased about 41%. After 100 hours fully saturated aging of the $[+45/0/-45/90]_s$ K3B/IM7 laminates in $80^{\circ}C$ water, the weight gain was 0.41% increase with the diffusion coefficient $1{\times}10^{-6}m^2/s$ and the loss of the microcracking fracture toughness was 43.8% of the original toughness. To see whether the residual stress influenced the fracture toughness, two ply $[90^{\circ}/0^{\circ}]$ laminates were put in $80^{\circ}C$ water from 2 hours to 8 hours. The changes in residual stress in 8 hours are less than 3MPa. Because the 3MPa change is not sufficient to degrade the laminates, the main factor to degrade the microcracking fracture toughness was the degradation of the matrix fracture toughness.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제49권9호
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• pp.759-769
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• 2021

발사체 추진 시스템에서 Titanium Hydride Potassium Perchlorate (THPP)는 에너지를 인가받으면 gas를 발생시키는 pyrotechnic initiator로써 혹은 NASA Standard Initiator (NSI)의 supplement charge로써 흔히 사용되는 물질이다. 하지만 금속으로 이루어진 복합 화약이 오랫동안 보관이 되면 노화라는 문제에 직면하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 열분석 및 표면분석을 통하여 다양한 습도환경에서 노화된 THPP에 대하여 열역학적 특성의 변화를 확인하였고, 이를 바탕으로 THPP에 대한 전반적인 노화 메커니즘을 구축해내었다. 우선, THPP가 노화됨에 따라 산화제 표면의 균열빈도가 증가하고 길이가 길어졌는데, 이는 열·수분 노화가 공통적으로 산화제의 분해를 초래함을 보여준다. 이때 열 노화된 경우 Viton의 열화 현상이, 수분 노화된 경우 연료의 산화가 더욱 두드러졌다. 또한 실험을 통해 계산된 반응률에 대한 THPP의 화학반응인자의 경우 습도에 따라 크게 달라졌는데, 이는 수분이 THPP의 연소에 상당한 변화를 미쳐 결국에는 수명의 감소로 이어지게 될 것을 시사한다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.14-27
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• 2020

본 연구는 점화제와 지연제에 대한 시차 주사 열량 측정법을 통하여 반응 속도식 및 발열량을 추출하여 노화에 따른 반응 특성을 분석하기 위한 정밀 수치계산을 수행하였다. 연소 실험을 수행하여 수분이 관여된 노화에서 점화제와 지연제에서 명확한 연소 중단을 확인하였다. 이 결과를 수치계산과 비교하여 노화가 점화제와 지연제 전반에 성능 감소 및 오작동 요인으로 작용됨을 확인하였다.