• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.92-96
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• 2010

Recently, the application of aluminum alloys has been increasing for lightweight and high quality transport vehicles. Therefore, the proposal has been made to apply high speed hybrid welding methods to the marine grade aluminum alloy (A5052) used for shipbuilding by combining a 3-KW CW Nd : YAG laser and the MIG welding process. In this study, the characteristics of the welding parameters were investigated for a hybrid butt joint. This paper also describes the determination of the heat distribution in a weldment and the welding residual stress using a finite element method. Mechanical experimentation was also used to ascertain the reliability of the weldment.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.114-116
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• 2005

There are some problems when weld gray cast iron which is used well in automobile industry with auto MIG welding. the problems are followed like this 1) Occurrence of porosity and hardening organization. 2) Occurrence of crack due to lower elongation of gray cast iron when restraint stress works on. 3) Occurrence of porosity and unstable bead shape due to unstable arc under low current MIG welding.. especially there is a restraint on chemical composition of weld metal because the weldment demands more than 570Hv hardness. so it is hard to use Fe-Ni wire to prevent cracks occured on weldment and new welding method is needed to resolve that problems. This study shows how to prevent porosity and cracks occurring when weld gray cast iron trimming die and shows a new welding method for press die of gray cast iron

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Marine Engineers Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.88-91
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• 2001

New type of vehicles made from thin aluminum alloy are under rapid development and some product are already on the market, but when welding sheet metal joint of aluminum alloy, the main problem are burn-through by the high heat input. The purpose of this study, it is to prevent the burn-through and to shallow penetration that AC pulse welding has diminish the penetration and to lower the droplet temperature at Al sheet metal welding. In this study, we observed the bead appearance and whether it was appeared burn through or not , as the variation of the root gap in the lap and butt-joint welding process.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.770-783
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• 2015

Lately, high production rate welding processes for Al alloys, which are used as LNG FPSO cargo containment system material, have been developed to overcome the limit of installation and high rework rates. In particular, plasma-metal inert gas (MIG) hybrid (PMH) welding can be used to obtain a higher deposition rate and lower porosity, while facilitating a cleaning effect by preheating and post heating the wire and the base metal. However, an asymmetric undercut and a black-colored deposit are created on the surface of PMH weld in Al alloys. For controlling the surface defect formation, the wire feeding speed and nozzle diameter in the PMH weld was investigated through arc phenomena with high-speed imaging and metallurgical analysis.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.8-8
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• 2009

알루미늄 합금 Al 6082-T6는 최근에 개발되어 북유럽 등의 선진국에서는 그 뛰어난 해양 내식성과 우수한 강도로 인하여 해양구조물의 헬리데크(Helideck), 타워 갱웨이(Tower gangway), 알루미늄 피팅류(Aluminium fitting)등의 해양구조물과 플랫폼(Flatform), 알루미늄 래더(Aluminium ladder)등의 선박부품, 차량, 기계부품 분야에서 전 세계적으로 널리 사용되기 시작하였다. 그러나 전통적으로 용접금속의 기공은 결함으로 분류 되고, Rakesh Kumar 등의 논문에 따르면 용접 시 용접금속 내에 발생되어진 미세기공이 기계적 성질에 악영향을 미치는 것으로 보고되어졌다. 따라서 용접금속내의 발생하는 기공을 방지하는 용접공정의 개발이 반드시 필요하다. 본 연구의 목적은 Al 6082-T6 고속 MIG용접에서 기공방지를 위한 용접공정을 개발하는 것이다. Al 6082-T6의 7t 플레이트에 Al 5356의 와이어를 사용하여 아크길이 변경 및 용접속도를 60cpm과 120cpm으로 변경하여 실험하였고, 용접속도 120cpm의 고속 MIG용접에서 토치 진행각을 변경하여 실험을 진행하였다. 용접공정 파라메터 변경에 따른 기공율 측정은 이미지 분석 소프트웨어를 사용하여 정량적으로 분석하였다.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.28-28
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• 2009

최근 전세계적으로 유가 상승 및 배기가스 배출 저감과 관련된 각종 환경규제에 대응하기 위하여 선진 자동차회사들은 $CO_2$ 배출 저감 기술과 기존 내연기관 차량의 연비향상을 위해 엔진성능 개선, 구동시스템의 최적화, 차량 경량화, 공기저항 감소 등에 초점을 맞춰 차량의 연비향상과 배기가스 규제에 대응하고 있다. 특히, 자동차 중량의 30%를 차지하는 차체의 경량화는 엔진효율을 높여 자동차의 성능향상을 극대화시키고, 그로 인해 연비향상을 도모할 수 있으므로 환경오염 방지와 연료절감에 가장 적합하고 효과적인 방법이다. 이에 기존의 강재에 비해 비중이 낮으면서 유사한 강도와 내식성이 뛰어난 알루미늄 합금의 차체 적용에 대한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 자동차 Door에 알루미늄 합금(Al 5052)의 적용 가능성을 판단하기 위해 반응표면분석법(Response surface methodology)을 이용하여 저입열 Pulse MIG 용접 공정변수를 최적화하였다. 첫째, 저입열 Pulse MIG 용접에서 용접 공정 변수(용접전압, 용접속도, Gap)의 변화가 비드 형상에 미치는 영향에 대해 평가하였다. 요인분석법을 이용하여 용접 공정 변수와 비드 형상 변수와의 주효과와 교호작용효과를 분석하였고, 이를 통해 비드 형상 변수에 영향을 크게 미치는 용접 공정변수를 선별하여 다중회귀분석을 통해 용접 공정 변수 변화에 따른 비드형상 예측 회귀모델을 제안하였다. 둘째, 자동차 Door 생산 현장에서 박판 알루미늄 합금 겹치기 용접 이음부의 0~1 mm 갭 발생에 대해 강건한 용접조건을 제시하기 위해 반응표면법(Response surface methodology)을 이용하여 저입열 Pulse MIG 용접 공정 변수를 최적화하였고, 그 적용 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• v.43
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• pp.171-173
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• 2004

Electromagnetic force is one of the most important factor that effect on metal transfer mode, short-circuit rate, spatter generation rate and mechanical properties of weld metal etc. Also, shielding gas and welding current have influence on metal transfer mode in GMAW. In this paper, different ways for external electromagnetic forces are applied by attaching cylindrically rounded conducting wire solenoid on touch tip holding. With the applied electromagnetic field, the arc transfer mode changes from normal mode to rotating mode and spatter generation decreased in electromagnetic fields(N-pole). In MIG welding, the influences of electromagnetic force on the spatter generation showed different tendency as in the $CO_2$ welding. It is possible reasons were discussed.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.665-668
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• 2002

Joining thin aluminum alloy is difficult using most wilding techniques. Many of problems associated burn-through by the high heat input Common welding techniques are TIG, MIG, and MIG-PULSE welding. The VP-GMAW provides more control of the heat balance in the voiding arc by taking advantage of the different arc characteristics obtained with each of the two polarities. In this paper, we proposed new VP_GMA Welding method by control DSP 320C32, and the characteristic and experiment result-voltage, current, welding bead. penentraion by this method are presented

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.102-107
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• 2000

It was attempted to improve the wear resistance of Al alloy under the load condition by making a formation of the thick surface hardening alloy layers. The thick surface hardening alloy layers were formed on 6061 Al alloys overlayed by MIG welding process with WC-12%Co powder addition. Effects of the dispersion of WE-12%Co powders on hardness and wear characteristics of alloys were investigated. The following results were obtained. Most of WE-12%Co powders are dispersed nearly uniform as unmelted particles in the matrix alloy. A part of WC-12%Co powders are melted in the molten pool, and during solidification {TEX}$Al_{9}Co_{2}${/TEX} appeared. With increasing addition of WC-12%Co powders, the hardness and specific wear resistance of the overlay weld alloys increased and reached Hv450 at WC-12%Co powder addition rate of 54g/min. It is considered that excellent wear resistance of the overlayed alloys was due to dispersed WC-12%Co powders and increased 10 times at WC-12%Co powder addition rate of 54 g/min than that of the WC-free overlaying layers.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.58-63
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• 2010

A laser beam welding and an electric arc welding were combined, and the positive points of each welding method are drawn such as high speed, low thermal load, deep penetration, and high productivity. The fiber laser-MIG conjugated welding. namely the hybrid welding has been studied mainly for the automation industry of a pipeline welding. In this study, the MIG welding was combined with a fiber laser welding to make up the hybrid welding. The weld shapes, microstructures and mechanical properties for weld zones after the hybrid welding or only fiber laser welding were investigated on the 700 MPa grade Ultra Fine Grained(UFG) high strength steel. The amount of acicular ferrite in weld metals and HAZ(heat affected zone) was observed larger after hybrid welding compared with after only laser welding. The Vickers hardness of the top area of the fusion zone after fiber laser welding was higher compared with after hybrid welding.