• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.68-75
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• 2000

The incomplete penetration(IP) discontinuity in butt joint weld, which is detected during safety analysis of the steel bridge by nondestructive evaluation(NDE) method, is classified as unacceptable defect according to the NDE codes and standards. In fact, there are a little allowance in butt joint weld in the view point of design criterion, and also detected IP discontinuity should be classified and evaluated for the fatigue strength and residual life estimation. In this study, we performed fatigue test to evaluate the fatigue strength of high strength steel(SWS490A) containing IP discontinuities in various size, the results compared and classified according to the bridge construction standard specification which published by korea administration of construction and traffic. Experimental results could be used to evaluate and estimate the IP discontinuities considering different stress range in butt joint bridge weld during periodic safety inspection.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.94-96
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• 2006

Recently, steel structures have been increasing because of its brilliant features. In general, cracks and corrosion are produced due to the numerous environmental factors in steel structures. However, the validity of repair method for the damaged steel structures has not been fully verified because of its lack of safety and reliability after application. Moreover, repair method by welding inevitably involves cutting and welding processes and reliability for the safety during the processes has net been established yet. Therefore, this study carried out experiments on the fatigue strength of repair welded joints of old steel bridge to investigate the fatigue characteristics in the repair welded joints. Fatigue tests were conducted by 250kN capacity MIS with the frequency of 5Hz under amplitude loading. From the results, it is known that fatigue strength grade of the repair welded joints was satisfied with C grade which specification requires.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.163-169
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• 2000

This paper mainly deals with fatigue lift estimation and prediction in notched structures. The fatigue crack initiation life and the fatigue crack growth behavior in the DEN specimens were predicted using S.I.F. K solution derived in this study and the Paris' crack growth equation. Predicted results showed good agreement with experimental crack growth behaviors under constant-load-amplitude.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.153-160
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• 2000

Occupational cumulative traumas (CTDs) are becoming one of leading ailments in industrialized worl $d^{(1.2)}$. The degree of muscle fatigue is important parameter to understand cause of occupational cumulative trauma disorders. To quantify degree of muscle fatigue, muscle EMG activity was measured during isometric and dynamic contractions(repetitive concentric/eccentric muscle contraction) and its analyzed data, such as RMS, median frequency, and median power were compared when the muscle was fresh and exhausted. When muscle become fatigue, it was observed that median frequency decreased and median power and RMS increased However, based on overall prolonged observation, median frequency increased and median power and RMS decreased. Therefore it was concluded that shifting patterns of RMS, median frequency, and median power values can be used as parameter to evaluate degree of muscle fatigue even in dynamic muscle contraction.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.14-23
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• 2007

A lot of fatigue tests on a material, JIS SM490A, with yielding strength of about 350 MPa and tensile strength of about 520 MPa were carried out. Various butt-welded specimens such as reinforcement removed, as-welded and weld toe ground, several types of fillet-welded specimens and full-size box type components were used. After having obtained S-N curves for the above- mentioned specimens, fatigue strengths were compared to those of foreign design codes, AWS, BS 7608 and ENV. It was found the fatigue strengths at low cycles are not in a good agreement with the foreign codes, but the fatigue limits are in a good agreement.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.28-33
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• 2010

Stainless steel is useful material for various industrial facilities such as the nuclear and steam power plant and the heavy chemical industry due to its good corrosion resistance and mechanical properties. However, it has also a large problem that is sensitized in the welding process and its corrosion resistance and mechanical properties decreases by sensitization. Thus, corrosion and corrosion fatigue characteristics of artificially sensitized austenitic STS304 were investigated through the EPR test and corrosion fatigue test. Obtained results are as follows: 1) According to the sensitizing period increase, Cr deficiency layer is linearly expanded. 2) Degree of sensitization(Ia/Ir) proportionally increased with sensitizing period. However, after 4hrs, it showed constant value. 3) Cr-carbide($Cr_{23}C_6$) in the grain boundary increased as sensitizing period increases until six hours. 4) corrosion fatigue strength of sensitized STS304 were remarkably reduced compare to non-sensitized ones.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.42-48
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• 1996

Since the fatigue phenomenon is characterized as a probability feature and test data cannot be easily collected number its small sample data are uncertain. Therefore, statistical evaluation methods should necessarily be introduced into data evaluation. With such a basic concept in mind, this study attempted to apply conventional statistical processing methods to the fatigue data and thereby present a new evaluation method in consideration of the fact that the fatigue test is usually performed within a limited number. That is a package evaluation method was adopted which co-realtes parameters between different levels of capacity in E-N or S-N level. So far fatigue limits have been found by means of stiarcase method. But it was also disclosed that this new method has its own disadvantage because limited frequencies are not duely considered.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.40-44
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• 2000

The fatigue and tensile test were carried out with Mild steel using the Dump Frame of commercial car. The specimens were heat-treated at $810^{\circ}C$ and $930^{\circ}C$ and worked 4.5, 6.0, 8.0mm thickness in order to look over the mechanical properties and fatigue life by heat treatment and thickness from the tensile test result, the yield strength of the heat treated specimens was increased about 35% more than that of the non-heat treated specimen. The fatigue life of non-heated specimen was decreased 15% but that of heat treated specimens at $870^{\circ}C$ and $930^{\circ}C$ were decreased 16.38% and 13.16% respectably according to increasing the thickness from 4.5 to 8.0mm.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.92-97
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• 2022

In the Aviation Safety Act, the part about fatigue management of Flight dispatcher was added as an amended law. Prior to the amendment of the Act, the regulations on fatigue of flight dispatcher governed by the FOM approved and reported by airlines according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, but were enforced by law from June 9, 2021. In this study, the scope and work type of flight dispatchers are checked, and unlike flight attendants, it is intended to consider legal working hour management measures for flight dispatchers according to the enforcement of the fatigue management act.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.352-359
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• 2015

This study investigates the analysis result of structure and fatigue due to the models of the hub space with bolt joint at wheel and the existence or nonexistence of hub ring as the part of suspension system of vehicle. As the static analysis result, the structural vulnerability can be found at hub bolt and the center of wheel at three models. Model 2 and 3 have nearly same deformation and model 1 can be endured at the least load among three models. As the fatigue analysis result, fatigue lives of three models are same at the severest load of SAE bracket history. As many screw threads of weak bolts are jointed in case of model 1, model 1 is shown to be the weakest at fatigue damage among three models. By the result of this study, model 1 with bolt joint becomes most weakest among three models. As model 2 with no hub ring and model 3 with hub ring have the nearly same states of analysis results, hub ring is shown to have no influence on the safety of automotive driving.