• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.579-584
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• 2006

Aluminum Resistance Spot Weld(Al RSW) is an enabling technology for body assembly of low mass fraction vehicles. Due to the unreliable durability of spot-welded joints, applications of Al RSW are limited. This study presents experimental investigation on the use of a post-weld cold working process to improve the fatigue strength of Al RSW. The post-weld cold working process includes special shaped indenters that are pressed or driven into the structure to induce compressive residual stresses. The mechanical properties of the post-weld cold worked Al RSW were investigated, including the experimental results of fatigue and micro-hardness tests. Comparisons of the mechanical properties and qualitative results between the as-welded RSW specimens and the post-weld cold worked RSW specimens are discussed. The post-weld cold worked Al RSW samples had an increase in both microhardness and fatigue life.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2011

To develop a 6061 aluminum alloy with low residual stress and high tensile strength, a cryogenic treatment process was investigated. Compared to the conventional heat treatment process for precipitation hardening with artificial aging, the cryogenic treatment process has two additional steps. The first step is cryogenic quenching of the sample into liquid nitrogen, the second step is up-hill quenching of the sample into boiling water. The residual stress for the sample was measured by the $sin^2{\psi}$ method with X-ray diffraction. The 6061 aluminum alloy sample showed 67% relief in stress at the cryogenic treatment process with artificial aging at $175^{\circ}C$. From this study, it was found that the optimum cryogenic treatment process for a sample with low residual stress and high tensile strength is relatively low cooling speed in the cryogenic quenching step and a very high heating speed in the up-hill quenching step.

• 열처리공학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.20-29
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• 2006

Wear behaviour of B.390 aluminum alloy with different particle sizes of primary Si against a SM45C counterface was studied as a function of wear load and sliding velocity, using pin-on-disk apparatus under dry condition. The wear rate of specimen with fine primary Si particles showed increased wear resistance at high wear load, on the other side wear resistance of coarse primary Si particle size was improved at low wear load. As the compressive residual stress in the matrix increased remarkably by liquid nitrogen(LN) treatment, wear resistance of the LN treated specimen was more excellent than that of T6 treated specimen.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 G
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• pp.2521-2523
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• 1998

Freestanding flexible microstructures fabricated from deposited thin films become mechanically unstable when internal stresses exceed critical values. The residual stress and stress gradient of aluminum thin film were examined to make sure of fabricating the reproduceable aluminium structure. For good shape of micro mirror array and microstructures, the experiment was done varying thickness and deposition rate. As the aluminium film thickness increased from 0.8${\mu}m$ to 1.6${\mu}m$, the stress gradient decreased from 11.62MPa/${\mu}m$ to 2.62MPa/${\mu}m$. The residual stress values are from 42.4MPa to 62.24MPa of tensile stresses.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.42-56
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• 1987

Fatigue Fracture behaviors of the TIG-welded aluminum alloys, such as Al 2024-T4, A1 5050-0 and Al 7075-T7 were investigated when a crack propagated from tensile residual stress region and compressive residual stress region. The experimental values were compared with the values expected by the Forman equation. The experimental results are summarized as the following: (1) In case of fatigue crack propagation from residual stress region, the values predicted by Forman equation were Found to exactly corresponded to the experimental values. (2) When the stress intensityfactors affected by compressive residual stress, Kres, were greater than the stress intensity factors by minimum applied stresses. Kmin, the Forman equation was found to be improper to be applied directly, but the equation appeared to be proper, if the stress ratio was modified to zero. (3) The experimental results confirmed that residual stress was relaxed by repeated tensile loading and the relaxing trend was greater in case of compressive residual stress than that of tensile residual stress.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제36권11호
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• pp.1381-1389
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 쇼트피닝 가공한 알루미늄 7075-T6 재료의 부식피로향상에 대한 연구를 하였다. 사용된 알루미늄 금속은 상대적으로 가볍고 강한 재료의 특성으로 항공기 주요부품의 재료로 사용되고 있으며, 많은 연구를 통해 알루미늄을 사용하면 약 50%의 무게 감소효과를 낼 수 있다고 한다. 재료의 부식은 인장환경에서 재료의 파단시점을 앞당기고 구조물의 수명을 심각하게 감소시킨다. 따라서 알루미늄 금속의 부식 환경에서의 재료의 부식저항을 향상 시킬 수 있는 연구가 요구된다. 쇼트피닝 가공은 재료 표면에 압축잔류응력을 인가하여 재료의 피로수명을 늘리고 나아가 재료의 신뢰성을 확보하는 기술로 반복하중을 받는 많은 부품들에 이미 적용되어 사용되고 있다. 부식 환경에서는 가공 후 거칠어진 표면으로 인해 공식부식을 야기하지만, 피닝가공에 의한 표면 직하에 압축잔류응력이 부식을 억제하여 부식저항을 증가시킨다. 본 연구에서의 쇼트피닝가공된 시험편에 대한 실험결과와 선행연구에서의 쇼트피닝 가공하지 않은 알루미늄 합금 재료의 부식피로특성을 비교하였다. 실험 결과 쇼트피닝 가공은 알루미늄합금의 피로수명향상에 영향을 미치고, 압축잔류응력은 부식피로수명을 증가시킴을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.204-212
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• 2009

The effects of addition of magnesium only and the simultaneous addition of magnesium and aluminum on the graphite morphology of the cast iron with the composition of 3.6wt.% and 2.5wt.%Si poured into shell stack mold were investigated. The nodularity and mechanical properties of the specimen with smaller cross-section were higher than those with langer one, when copper was not added. When the magnesium only was added, the nodularity was decreased with decreased residual magnesium content and the C. V, graphite was obtained with the magnesium content in the range of 0.010~0.015wt.%. When the magnesium and aluminum were added together, the nodularity was decreased with decreased residual magnesium and increased aluminum contents. When copper was added, the volume fraction of pearlite in the matrix, strength and hardness were higher and elongation was lower for specimen with smaller cross-section. The volume fraction of pearlite, strength and hardness were increased and the elongation was decreased with increased copper content for the specimen with C, V, graphite.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.100-108
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• 1996

The internal stress of acidic electroless nickel deposits on zincated aluminum was determined by spiral contractometer. Several plating conditions such as inhibitor and complexing agent concentrations and pH affecting the internal stress were studied. The resulting intrinsic stress contribution to the total stress was discussed in terms of phosphorous content of the deposit, solution pH, and surface morphology. However, the most important was found to be thermal stress for the total stress of Al substrate, because of high thermal expansion coefficient of the aluminum substrate.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.438-444
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• 2003

A new method to measure residual stress in micron and nano scale films is described. In the theory it is based on Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics. And in the techniques it depends on the combined capability of the focused ion beam (FIB) imaging system and of high-resolution digital image correlation (DIC) software. The method can be used for any film material (whether amorphous or crystalline) without thinning the substrate. In the method, a region of the film surface is highlighted and scanning electron images of that region taken before and after a long slot, depth a, is introduced using the FIB. The DIC software evaluates the displacement of the surface normal to the slot due to the stress relaxation by using features on the film surface. To minimize the influence of signal noise and rigid body movement, not a few, but all of the measure displacements are used for determining the real residual stress. The accuracy of the method has been assessed by performing measurements on a nano film of diamond like carbon (DLC) on glass substrate and on micro film of aluminum oxide thermally grown on Fecrally substrate. It is shown that the new method determines the residual stress ${\sigma}_R=-1.73$ GPa for DLC and ${\sigma}_R=-5.45$ GPa for the aluminum oxide, which agree quite well with ones measured independently.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.99-100
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• 2006

Cold gas dynamic spray or cold-spray is a deposition process, which causes deformation of a thin substrate. The deformation is usually convex to the deposited side. In this research, the main cause of the deformation was investigated using 6061-T6 aluminum alloy. The effects or anisotropic coefficient or thermal expansion (CTE) or the deposited layer by cold-spray and residual stress were studied by experiments and finite element analysis. The Hole Drilling method was applied to measure residual stress in the cold-spray layer and substrate. The data obtained by the experiments were used for the analysis of substrate deformation. From the result of the analysis, it was concluded that compressive residual stress was the main reason of substrate deformation while CTE had little effect.