• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.297-301
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• 2004

The optimum design against contact crack initiation is investigated to find major parameters in designing desirable surface-coated asymmetric layered components. Hard ceramic coated soft materials with various elastic modulus mismatch are prepared for the analysis. Spherical indentation is conducted for producing contact cracks from the surface or interface between the coating and the substrate layer. A finite element analysis of the stress fields in the loaded layer components enables a direct correlation between the damage patterns and the stress distributions. Implications concerning the design of asymmetric layered components indicate that the coating thickness and the elastic modulus mismatch are important parameters for designing layered component to prevent the initiation of contact cracks.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06c
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• pp.322-326
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• 2001

Hard disk drive(HDD) consists of a head/slider system which flies over the magnetic disk at an extremely low height. As the density of HDD increases the flying height of the head needs to be decreased. This increases the chance for contact between the slider and the disk. This paper addresses some key issues related to surface failure characteristics of HDD. It is shown that flying behavior of the slider during contact-start-stop cycle can be analyzed based on different regimes of air film lubrication, experimental methods for identifying the underlying mechanisms and improving the reliability of HDD are discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.337-340
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• 2005

The effect of residual stress on fatigue crack growth was investigated in terms of finite element analysis. Simulations were performed on a CT specimen in plane strain. An interface-cohesive element that accounts for damage accumulation due to fatigue along the notch direction has been used. Numerical results show that fatigue crack growth rate slows down when compressive residual stress field exists in front of the crack tip.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.541-561
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• 2011

The Finite Element Method (FEM) was employed to demonstrate that accurate simulations of seismically repaired and retrofitted reinforced concrete shear walls can be achieved provided a good analysis program with comprehensive models for material and structural behaviour is used. Furthermore, the analysis tool should have the capability to retain residual damage experienced by the original structure and carry it forward in the repaired and retrofitted structure. The focus herein is to provide quick, simple, but reliable modelling procedures for repair and retrofitting strategies such as concrete replacement, addition of diagonal reinforcing bars, bolting of external steel plates, and bonding of external steel plates and fibre reinforced polymer sheets, thus illustrating versatility in the modelling. Slender, squat, and slender-squat shear walls were investigated. The modelling utilized simple rectangular membrane elements for the concrete, truss bar elements for the steel and FRP retrofitting materials, and bond-link elements for the bonding interface between steel or FRP to concrete. The analyses satisfactorily simulated seismic behaviour, including lateral load capacity, displacement capacity, energy dissipation, hysteretic response, and failure mode.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.57-70
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• 2018

For the long-term structural health monitoring of civil structures, the effect of ambient temperature variation has been regarded as one of the critical issues. In this study, a principal component analysis (PCA)-based algorithm is proposed to filter out temperature effects on electromechanical impedance (EMI) monitoring of prestressed tendon anchorages. Firstly, the EMI monitoring via a piezoelectric interface device is described for prestress-loss detection in the tendon anchorage system. Secondly, the PCA-based temperature filtering algorithm tailored to the EMI monitoring of the prestressed tendon anchorage is outlined. The proposed algorithm utilizes the damage-sensitive features obtained from sub-ranges of the EMI data to establish the PCA-based filter model. Finally, the feasibility of the PCA-based algorithm is experimentally evaluated by distinguishing temperature changes from prestress-loss events in a prestressed concrete girder. The accuracy of the prestress-loss detection results is discussed with respect to the EMI features before and after the temperature filtering.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.341-345
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• 1989

The distribution behaviors of beryllium which may produce a deleterious damage in the zircaloy cladding have been investigated by the X-ray line scanning of EPMA. The results obtained are as follows; 1) The alloy phase formed by the brazing contains ~6.3 mass % of beryllium. 2) The beryllium diffusion in the base metal (cladding and bearing pad) is recognized only in the range ~5 $\mu$m from the brazing interface.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.24 no.10 s.181
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• pp.2646-2653
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• 2000

The performance of slider of a hard disk drive affects the durability of the system. Particularly, the flying ability of the slider is critical in terms of surface damage and head crash. In this work, the take-off characteristics of the slider for various types of laser zone textured bump geometries were investigated. Also, the effect of ambient pressure on the flying characteristics of the slider was experimentally observed. An index of air density which can be used as a parameter for evaluating the flying characteristic is introduced.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.767-773
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• 1988

We have proposed a new simple and easy method for the observation of OSF growth and shrinkage. This method is to observe the behavior of OSF in thedamaged region during oxidation as well as annealing process after introducing mechanical damage on the silicon surface by pressure-controllable indentor. The effect of SiO2 layer on the shrinkage of pregrown OSF generated by the proposed method has been investigated using the samples with or without SiO2 layer. From the experimental data, we suggest a model for the shrinkage of OSF, which is based on the recombinaiton mechanism between silicon interstitial and vacancy at the Si-SiO2 interface.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.12 s.255
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• pp.1573-1580
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• 2006

In this study, fatigue tests were carried out under push-pull loading condition using spheroidal graphite cast iron in order to clarify the internal fatigue fracture mechanism in an extremely low cycle fatigue regime. It is found that a successive observation of internal fatigue damage it is found that the fracture processes go through three stages, that is, the generation, growth and coalescence of microvoids originated from debonding of graphite-matrix interface. It is also found that the crack which is initiated from the void propagates by coalescence of neighboring cracks and the fatigue crack growth rate can be expressed in form of the Manson-Coffin rule type. In this paper, quantitative analyses of fatigue properties for realization of simulation about fatigue life evaluation are also presented.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.453-459
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• 2004

TiNi/ Al6061 shape memory alloy (SMA) composite was fabricated by hot press method to investigate the microstructure and mechanical properties. Interface bonding between TiNi reinforcement and A1 matrix was observed by using SEM and EDS. Pre-strain was imposed to generate compressive residual stress inside composite. A tensile test for specimen, which under-went pre-strain, was performed at high temperature to evaluate the variation of strength and the effect of pre-strain. It was shown that interfacial reactions occurred at the bonding between matrix and fiber, creating two inter-metallic layers. And yield stress increased with the amount of pre-strain. Acoustic Emission technique was also used to nondestructively clarify the microscopic damage behavior at high temperature and the effect of pre-strain of TiNi/ Al6061 SMA composite.