• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.190-193
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• 2008

Thick pipes which have large thickness have been used in fields of ocean and industrial plants, and for oil pipelines, water pipes and pipe arrangement. In manufacture of the pipes, roll bending process has been used mostly. However, studies on the pipe forming processes using brake press have been performed in recent days. Normally, the brake press has high aspect ratio, so analysis of structural integrity should be conducted. In this study, the evaluation of structural integrity of the brake bending press was carried out for thick pipe forming process.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.529-533
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• 2008

Thick pipes have been used in fields of ocean and industrial plants, and pipe arrangement of oil and water pipelines. Mostly, roll bending process has been used in manufacture of the pipes. Recently, however, studies on the pipe forming processes using brake press have been performed. Normally, the brake press has high aspect ratio, so structural integrity evaluation should be conducted. In this study, finite element analysis of structural integrity for the brake bending press was carried out for thick pipe forming process.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.116-123
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• 2016

Press-brake bending is used to shape flat and thick plates into a targeted circular configuration without excessive localized thinning or thickening. A brake bending press called 'a knife press bending apparatus' has been widely adopted to manufacture thick, large and long pipe from initially thick plate. Submerged Arc Welded (SAW) pipes are also produced by employing press-brake bending. These pipes are mainly used for oil, natural gas and water pipelines. The principal process variables for press-brake bending can be summarized as stroke of the press-brake knife, the distance between both roll in the lower die, and the feeding length of the plate. Many combinations of these process variables are available, thus various pipe diameters can be realized. In the current study, a series of repetitive numerical simulations by feeding a thick plate with initial thickness of 25.4mm were conducted with the consideration of elastic recovery. Furthermore, an index for SAW pipe production is proposed which can be widely used in industry.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.1-6
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• 2014

This study aims at manufacturing SA welded API-X70 line-pipe with sour gas resistance. A pipe was manufactured by JCO bending process and SA welding using the API-X70 plate guaranteed HIC resistance. SA welded pipe was expanded in order to reduce the residual stress. The evaluation of a pipe for resistance to HIC and SSCC were performed by the RS D 0004 and RS D 0005 standards. For verification that a pipe has acceptable resistance to HIC, fullscale test was carried out. Results showed no cracking for the HIC and SSCC.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.31 no.3 s.258
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• pp.322-330
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• 2007

This paper quantifies the effect of a bend angle of a pipe bend on plastic loads, via small strain and large strain FE limit analyses using elastic-perfectly plastic materials. To consider the effect of the attached straight pipe, two limiting cases are considered. One case corresponds to the pipe bend without the attached straight pipe, and the other to that with a sufficiently long attached straight pipe. For the former case, the FE results suggest that the limit load is not affected by the bend angle for both in-plane bending and internal pressure. For the latter case, however, the bend angle affects plastic loads. An interesting finding is that the plastic load smoothly changes from the limit load of the straight pipe when the bend angle approaches zero to the plastic load of the $90^{\circ}$ pipe bend when the bend angle approaches 90 degree. Based on such observations, closed-form plastic load solutions are proposed for the pipe bend with an arbitrary bend angle under in-plane bending and internal pressure.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.66-71
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• 2013

Soft bending pipe is widely used for freezing equipment and shipbuilding. These pipe have some problems that they cause occasionally outside wrinkle, crack, wall thinning phenomena. However, vending machines which have been made to solve the problems completely, are not yet. In this study, to settle these problems, we proved the effectiveness of the self-made mandrel by results of simulation as the basic for the development of precision high-quality vending machine ; presents the solution method of the wall thinning phenomena by analyzing circular deformation and damage of bending pipe.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.329-330
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.265-266
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1154-1158
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• 2006

This investigation suggests a new non-contact type sensor that can measure flexural vibrations of a non-ferromagnetic pipe. The sensor works on the reversed Lorentz force mechanism; however, anti-symmetric bias magnetic field suggested in this work should be applied to measure bending vibration of a non-ferromagnetic pipe. The importance of the suggested magnetic field is verified by a series of experiments. The sensor is applied to the bending vibration measurement and modal testing of an aluminum pipe and shows satisfactory working performance compared to others.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.10
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• pp.3571-3580
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• 2023

The application of the induction bending process to pipe systems in various industrial fields is increasing. Recently, efforts have also been made to apply this bending process to nuclear power plants because it can innovatively reduce welded parts of the curved pipes, such as elbows. However, there have been no cases of the application of induction bending to the piping of nuclear power plants. In this study, the applicability of the P91 induction bending piping for the sodium-cooled fast reactor PGSFR was validated through high temperature low cycle fatigue tests and creep tests using P91 induction bending pipe specimens. The tests confirmed that the materials sufficiently satisfied the fatigue life and the creep rupture life requirements for P91 steel at 550 ℃ in the ASME B&PV Code, Sec. III, Div. 5. The results show that the effects of heating and bending by the induction bending process on the material properties were not significant and the induction bending process could be applicable to piping system of PGSFR well.