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Structural Deformation and Flow Analysis for Designing Air Plate of a Fuel Cell (구조 변형을 고려한 연료전지 공기판의 유동 해석)

  • Yang, Ji-Hae;Park, Jung-Sun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.28 no.7
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    • pp.877-884
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, structural analysis is performed to investigate the deformation of porous media in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC). Structural deformation of air plate of the fuel cell causes the change in configuration and cross sectional area of the channel. The distributions of mass flow rate and pressure are major factors to decide the performance of a PEMFC. These factors are affected by channel configuration of air plate. Two kinds of numerical air plate models are suggested for flow analyses. Deformed porous media and undeformed porous media are considered for the two models. The Numerical flow analysis results between deformed porous media and undeformed porous media have some discrepancy in pressure distribution. The pressure and velocity distribution under a working condition are numerically calculated to predict the performance of the air plates. Pressure and velocity distributions are compared for two models. It is shown that structural deformation makes difference in flow analysis results.

Evaluation of Deformation Behavior of Nuclear Structural Materials under Cyclic Loading Conditions via Cyclic Stress-Strain Test (반복 응력-변형률 시험을 통한 반복하중 조건에서 원전 주요 구조재료의 변형거동 평가)

  • Kim, Jin Weon;Kim, Jong Sung;Kweon, Hyeong Do
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2017
  • This study investigated deformation behavior of major nuclear structural materials under cyclic loading conditions via cyclic stress-strain test. The cyclic stress-strain tests were conducted on SA312 TP316 stainless steel and SA508 Gr.3 Cl.1 low-alloy steel, which are used as materials for primary piping and reactor pressure vessel nozzle respectively, under cyclic load with constant strain amplitude and constant load amplitude at room temperature (RT) and $316^{\circ}C$. From the results of tests, the cyclic hardening and softening behavior, stabilized cyclic stress-strain behavior, and ratcheting behavior of both materials were investigated at both RT and $316^{\circ}C$. In addition, appropriate considerations for cyclic deformation behavior in the structural integrity evaluation of major nuclear components under excessive seismic condition were discussed.

An empirical formulation to predict maximum deformation of blast wall under explosion

  • Kim, Do Kyun;Ng, William Chin Kuan;Hwang, Oeju
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.68 no.2
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    • pp.237-245
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    • 2018
  • This study proposes an empirical formulation to predict the maximum deformation of offshore blast wall structure that is subjected to impact loading caused by hydrocarbon explosion. The blast wall model is assumed to be supported by a simply-supported boundary condition and corrugated panel is modelled. In total, 1,620 cases of LS-DYNA simulations were conducted to predict the maximum deformation of blast wall, and they were then used as input data for the development of the empirical formulation by regression analysis. Stainless steel was employed as materials and the strain rate effect was also taken into account. For the development of empirical formulation, a wide range of parametric studies were conducted by considering the main design parameters for corrugated panel, such as geometric properties (corrugation angle, breadth, height and thickness) and load profiles (peak pressure and time). In the case of the blast profile, idealised triangular shape is assumed. It is expected that the obtained empirical formulation will be useful for structural designers to predict maximum deformation of blast wall installed in offshore topside structures in the early design stage.

Effect of slip system transition on the deformation behavior of Mg-Al alloy: internal variable based approach (비탄성 변형 이론을 바탕으로 한 Mg-Al 합금의 슬립기구 천이 현상 해석)

  • Lee H. S.;Bang W.;Chang Y. W.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.186-189
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    • 2004
  • Although magnesium has high potential for structural material due to the lightweight and high specific strength, the structural application has been limited by the low ductility at room temperature. The reason of the poor ductility is few activated slip systems of magnesium (HCP structure) during deformation. As temperature increases, however, additional non-basal slip systems are incorporated to exhibit higher ductility comparable to aluminum. In the present study, a series of tensile tests of Mg-Al alloy has been carried out to study deformation behavior with temperature variation. Analysis of load relaxation test results based on internal variable approach gave information about relationship between the micromechanical character and corresponding deformation behavior of magnesium. Especially, the material parameter, p representing dislocation permeability through barriers was altered from 0.1 to 0.15 as the non-basal slip systems were activated at high temperature.

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Truss Ooptimization Using Homology Constraints under Multiple Loadings (호몰로지 제한조건을 이용한 다중하중하의 트러스 최적설계)

  • ;;;Kim, Kyung-Keun;Park, Gyung-Jin
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.2800-2811
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    • 1996
  • The deformation of a structure shall be called homologous, if a given geometrical relation holds, for a given number of structural points, before, during, and after the deformation. Some researchers have utilized the idea on structural design with finite element method. The approaches use the decomposition of the FEM equation or equality of eqality equations to obtain homologous deformation. However, weight reduction and response constraints such as stress, displacement or natural frequency cannot be considered by those theories. An optimization method solving the above problems is suggested to gain homologous deformation. Homology constraints can be considered under multiple loadindg conditions as well as a single loading condition. Homology index is defined for the multiple loading conditions Examples are solved to present the performances of the method.

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Effect of Slip System Transition on the Deformation Behavior of Mg-Al Alloy: Internal Variable Based Approach (비탄성 변형 이론을 바탕으로 한 Mg-Al 합금의 슬립기구 천이 현상 해석)

  • Lee H.S.;Chang Y. W.;Bang W.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.13 no.6 s.70
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    • pp.535-539
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    • 2004
  • Although magnesium has high potential for structural material due to the lightweight and high specific strength, the structural application has been limited by the low ductility at room temperature. The reason of the poor ductility is few activated slip systems of magnesium (HCP structure) during deformation. As temperature increases, however, additional non-basal slip systems are incorporated to exhibit higher ductility comparable to aluminum. In the present study, a series of tensile tests of Mg-Al alloy has been carried out to study deformation behavior with temperature variation. Analysis of load relaxation test results based on internal variable approach gave information about relationship between the micromechanical character and corresponding deformation behavior of magnesium. Especially, the material parameter, p representing dislocation permeability through barriers was altered from 0.1 to 0.15 as the non-basal slip systems were activated at high temperature.

Plasticity of Amorphous Alloys: 2. Inhomogeneous Deformation (비정질 합금의 소성 2: 불균일변형)

  • Park, Kyoung-Won;Lee, Chang-Myeon;Lee, Jae-Chul
    • Korean Journal of Metals and Materials
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    • v.47 no.11
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    • pp.773-785
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    • 2009
  • Studies of a number of Cu-Zr amorphous alloys have demonstrated that those exhibiting greater plastic strain during homogeneous deformation at room temperature show lower global plasticity associated with inhomogeneous deformation in a typical compression test. Using a combination of experiments and molecular dynamics simulations, we clarify this seeming paradox between the homogeneous and inhomogeneous deformation by exploring the microstructural aspects in view of the structural disordering, disorder-induced softening, and shear localization and relate these findings to the global plasticity of bulk amorphous alloys. Additional analyses were conducted to derive a simple structural parameter that allows the prediction of the global plasticity of bulk amorphous alloys.