• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2017

The automatic welding systems, have received much attention in recent years, because they are highly suitable not only to increase the quality and productivity, but also to decrease manufacturing time and cost for a given product. Automatic welding work in semiconductor or space industry to be carried out in pipe line and butt joint mostly and plasma arc welding(PAW) is actively applied. To get the desired quality welds in automated welding system is challenging, a mathematical model is needed that has complete control over the relevant process parameters in order to obtain the required mechanical properties. However, In various industries the welding process mathematical model is not fully formulated for the process parameter and on the welding conditions, therefore only partial variables can be predicted. Therefore, this paper investigates the interaction between the welding parameters and mechanical properties for predicting the weld bead geometry by analyzing the S/N ratio.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.68-73
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• 2009

Recently, as titanium and titanium alloys are being increasingly used in wide areas, there are on-going researches to obtain high quality weld zone. In particular, growing interest is being drawn to laser welding, which involves low heat input and large aspect ratio in various welding processes and can facilitate shield in atmospheric condition compared with electron beam welding. The first report covered the analysis of embrittlement by the bead color of weld zone through quantitative analysis of oxygen and nitrogen and measurement of hardness as basic experiment to apply laser welding to titanium. Results indicated that the element that affect embrittlement the most was nitrogen, and as embrittlement and oxygenation go on, bead color changed to silver, gold, brown, blue and gray. This study performed butt welding of pure titanium and STS304 by using 1kW CW Nd:YAG laser, and to find out basic physical properties, evaluated welding performance by laser output, welding speed, root gap and misalignment etc, and examined mechanical properties through tensile stress and Erichsen test. The reason particles of pure titanium welded metal and HAZ are greater than STS304 is because they are pure metal and do not include many impure elements that work as nuclei in case of resolidification, thus becoming coarse columnar crystals eventually. In addition, the reason STS304 requires more energy during welding than pure titanium is because the particle size of base metal is smaller.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제10권4호통권37호
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• pp.779-788
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• 1998

본 논문은 강교량 부재에 번번하게 사용되는 용접상세로 비교적 낮은 피로강도를 보이는 부재에 대해 실험과 해석적 연구를 수행하였다. 측정응력을 고려해보면, 피로균열은 복부에 연결되는 거셋판의 필렛용접 지단부에서 시작하였으며, 용접단면의 기하학적 조건과 불연속성으로 인하여 집중응력이 발생하는 것으로 나타났다. 비드단면의 기하학적 형상을 고려한 FEM 모델의 해석결과와 동일한 위치에서 게이지에 의한 측정응력은 둘다 비슷한 수준의 응력집중이 용접지단부에서 발생하고 있음을 보여주고 있다. 피로실험 결과를 AASHTO와 JSSC의 피로설계기준과 비교한 결과, 80mm와 150mm 부착 시험편 모두에서 AASHTO의 D와 E등급, JSSC의 F와 G등급을 만족하거나 상회하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, WG1와 WG3 시험편은 AASHTO와 JSSC의 S-N선도 보다 완만한 -0.3의 기울기를 갖는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

본 연구에서는 상용 순수 티타늄 소재를 사용하여 안경테를 레이저 빔 용접으로 제조하기 위하여 광섬유로 전송되는 가변 펄스곡 80 ㎲-10 ms. 최대 평균출력 200 W, 첨두출력 12 kW와 최대 펄스에너지 50J성능의 초정밀 Nd:YAG 레이저 용접장치를 설계 제작하고 이 장치를 사용하여 안경테 제조를 위한 최적 용접조건을 선정하기 위한 실험을 수행하였다. 안경테를 위한 T이음 및 맞대기 이음형상을 용접할 때 평균출력, 광섬유 형태, 초점위치 등에서 용입상태와 용접결함을 조사하여 최적 용접조건을 선정하였고 안경테 부품 장석(temple hinge)과 다리, 톱바를 레이저 용접으로 시제품을 제작하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.263-269
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• 1983

Underwater welding by a gravity arc welding process was investigated by using six types of coated electrodes and SM41A steel plates of 10 mm thickness as base metal and it was ascertained that this process may be put to practical use. Main results obtained are summarized as follows: 1. Angle of electrode affects no influence on bead appearance and the proper range of welding current and diameter of electrode for the high titanium oxide type is relatively wider than that for the ilmenite type. And the lime titania type, high titanium oxide type and ilmenite type of domestic coated arc welding electrodes of .phi.4 mm could attain the soundest underwater welded joints which contain no welding imperfection. 2. According to macro-structure, micro-structure and hardness distribution inspectionson underwater welded joint, the area between the HAZ and the surface of the weld in neighbourhood of the bond has the maximum hardness value. The structure of these parts is martensite and bainite. Other parts contain mocro-ferrite, micro-pearlite structure, which contain soundness of welded joint free from weld imperfection. 3. On consideration of both tensile strength of more than 100% joint efficiency and sufficient impact value, the welding condition which can get optimal welding strength is heat input of 1,400-1,500 J/mm, current of 200-215 ampere (voltage of 32-33 volts) in the case of lime titania type electrode. 4. Underwater welding strength (tensile strength, impact strength) depends on heat input (or current) quantitatively and they have the relationship of parabolic function. Each experimental equation has a high reliability and its percent of mean error is 4.14%. 5. It is suggested that the optimal design of weld strength by welding condition (current, heat input) could be utilized for a quality control of underwater welding.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.68-75
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• 2005

The fatigue life of welded joints is associated with crack initiation and propagation life. Theses cannot be easily separated, since the definition of crack initiation is vague due to the initiation of multiple cracks that are distributed randomly along the weld toes. In this paper a method involving a notch strain and fracture mechanical approach, which considers the characteristics of welded joints, e.g. welding residual stress and statistical characteristics of multiple cracks, is proposed, in an attempt to reasonably estimate these fatigue lives. The fatigue crack initiation life was evaluated statistically, e.g. the probability of failure occurrence in 2.3, 50 and $97.7\%$, in which the cyclic response of the local stress/strain hi the vicinity of the weld toes and notch factors derived by the irregular shape of the weld bead are taken into account. The fatigue crack propagation life was simulated by using Monte-Carlo method in consideration of the Ad-factor and the mechanical behavior of mutual interaction/coalescence between two adjacent cracks. The estimated total fatigue life, $(N_T)_{P50\%}$, as a sum of crack initiation and propagation life under the probability of failure occurrence in $50\%$ showed a good agreement with the experimental results. The developed technique for fatigue lift estimation enables to provide a quantitative proportion of crack initiation and propagation life in the total fatigue life due to the nominal stress range, ${\Delta}S$.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.30-39
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• 1988

Generally, as the welded region of weld structures has the incomplete bead and welded deposit which are able to behave like the surface cracks occasinally, there is a high possibility that the fatigue fracture of the weld structures is due to the surface cracks on the wlded region. This study was done to investigate the effects of post weld heat treatment (PWHT) on the fatigue behaviors of the surface crack of the heat affected zone (HAZ) for the multi-pass welds under the repetitive pure bending moment. The obtained results are summarized as follows : 1. The crack grows to the depth direction initially as the number of cylces increase, the amount of crack length is increased for the surface dir3ction and cive versa for the depth direction. 2. The fatigue life is increased in a order of as weld, PWHT specimens and parent. 3. As the number of cycles increase, the crack length is increased to th surface direction. The increase of the depth length is blunted at the center of specimen thickness. 4. The fatigue crack growth of PWHT specimens to the surface direction is dependent upon the holding time and applied stress during PWHT. In order words, the crack growth rate decreases with the holding time and increases with the applied stress during PWHT. 5. As the crack grows, the aspect formed in the course of crack propagation approaches to semicircle for parent and ellipse with the largest semidiameter for PWHT ($1/4hr, 15kgf/mm^2$) 6. At depth direction, it is difficult to apply to the paris' equation because of the scattered data between the crack growth rate and the stress intensity factor range.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제36권10호
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• pp.1195-1203
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• 2012

용접은 대형구조물을 제작할 때 영구적 접합을 위해서 많이 사용하는 공정이다. 용접부는 용융부, 부분용융부, 열영향부로 나누어지며 각각의 영역들은 다른 재료물성을 가지게 된다. 또한 용접부는 용접비드 형상에 따라 기계적 신뢰성이 많이 차이 난다. 따라서 정밀한 구조해석을 수행하기 위해서는 이러한 국부적인 용접부의 특성을 잘 고려해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 용접부의 효과적인 모델링 방법에 대하여 제안하고자 한다. 특히 하중을 받는 구조물에 잘 일어나는 세 가지 변형모드(인장모드, 굽힘모드, T-굽힘모드)에 대하여 용접부를 정밀하게 모델링하는 방법을 제안하였다. 대형구조물의 구조해석을 통하여 제안된 모델링 방법이 변형, 응력분포 등을 좀 더 정밀하게 묘사해 줌을 해석적으로 확인하였다.

• 대한조선학회 특별논문집
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• 대한조선학회 2007년도 특별논문집
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• pp.118-127
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• 2007

SAW(Submerged Arc Welding) process is generally applied to a wide range of welding area in the fabrication of steel structure. This process has a good characteristic properties such as the high quality of welds and the high deposition rates, but in case of welding on a thick steel plate, it also has higher cold crack susceptibility than that of a thin steel plate. The purpose of this research is to find the main factor of crack generation and clarify the countermeasure for crack prevention, and then establish the optimum welding condition in a heavy thick steel plate. The results of this study are as follows, 1. The cause of crack generation is found the diffusible hydrogen penetrated into weld metal by decomposition of the remained moisture in SAW flux during welding. 2. For the removal of diffusible hydrogen, the raw materials of SAW flux are to be dehydrated at the high temperature in the initial manufacturing stage. 3. Mechanical properties of weld metal welded with the dehydrated SAW flux were evaluated very excellent, furthermore the weld metal has been proved to have low diffusible hydrogen content with 3.1ml /100g. 4. The weldability and quality welded with thick steel plates were improved by establishing the new optimum welding condition.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.122-128
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• 2002

The laser welding in the automotive industries has been used widely for the butt joint of blank sheets rather than the lap joint of automotive body panels. But as a substitute far the spot welding of automotive body panels, the so called three dimensional laser welding will be important far the body panel engineers. Specially the laser welding of body panels with a smooth weld line is applied increasingly, for example, to the side panels. So far, some criteria of the laser weld quality was suggested by in-house regulations or national standards from experiences and/or rule of thumbs. In the manufacturing places, a go or no-go criterion is adopted because of the simplicity or a lack of rational criteria. It is true specially for the selection of the process parameters, which gives the basic causes for the good quality of laser welds. In this study, the effects of joint combination, gap and welding speed on the lap joint $CO_2$ laser welding of two mild steel sheets with different thicknesses are obtained through a $2{\times}3{\times}7$ factorial experiment. The results of the weld quality are statistically analysed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and compared between two characteristic zones, which are separated by the type of sectional shapes and the level of input energy per volume. The thickness combinations are 0.8mm/1.2mm, 1.2mm/0.8mm of mild steel sheets. The welding speed covers from the deep penetration to the partial penetration. The gap size has three levels of no-gap, 0.16m, and 0.26mm. The bead width, penetration depth and input energy per volume are measured and used as the weld quality criteria.