• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.100-106
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• 2012

Recently, the demand to acquire and improve durability performance has steadily risen in rubber components design. In design process of a rubber component, an analytical prediction is the most effective way to improve fatigue life. Existing methods of analytical estimation have mainly used an equation for fatigue life obtained from fatigue test data. However, such formula is rarely used due to costs and time required for fatigue testing, as well as randomness of rubber materials. In this paper, we describe fatigue life estimation of rubber component using only the results from a relatively simple tearing test. We estimated fatigue life of the Janggu type fatigue specimen and the automotive motor mount, and evaluated reliability of the proposed method by comparing the estimated values with actual test results.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.473-481
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• 2006

Predicting fatigue life by numerical methods was almost impossible in the field of rubber materials. One of the reasons is that there is not obvious fracture criteria caused by nonstandardization of material and excessively various way of mixing process. But, tearing energy as fracture factor can be applied to a rubber-like material regardless of different types of fillers, relative to other fracture factors and the crack growth process of rubber could be considered as the whole fatigue failure process by the existence of potential defects in industrial rubber components. This characteristic of fatigue failure could make it possible to predict the fatigue life of rubber components in theoretical way. FESEM photographs of the surface of industrial rubber components were analyzed for verifying the existence and distribution of potential defects. For the prediction of fatigue life, theoretical way of evaluating tearing energy for the general shape of test-piece was proposed. Also, algebraic expression for the prediction of fatigue life was derived from the rough cut growth rate equation and verified by comparing with experimental fatigue lives of dumbbell fatigue specimen in various loading condition.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1489-1500
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• 2018

Partial shading analysis of large-scale photovoltaic (PV) arrays has recently become a theoretically and numerically challenging issue, and it is necessary for PV system designers. The main contributions of this study are the following: 1) A PSIM-based macro-model was employed because it is remarkably fast, has high precision, and has no convergence issues. 2) Three types of equivalent macro-models were developed for the transformation of a small PV sub-array with uniform irradiance to a new macro-model. 3) On the basis of the proposed new macro-model, a tearing method was established, which can divide a large-scale PV array into several small sub-arrays to significantly improve the efficiency improvement of a simulation. 4) Three platforms, namely, PSIM, PSpice, and MATLAB, were applied to evaluate the proposed tearing method. The proposed models and methods were validated, and the value of this research was highlighted using an actual large-scale PV array with 2420 PV modules. Numerical simulation demonstrated that the tearing method can remarkably improve the simulation efficiency by approximately thousands of times, and the method obtained a precision of nearly 6.5%. It can provide a useful tool to design the optimal configuration of a PV array with a given shading pattern as much as possible.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제39권10호
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• pp.1053-1061
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• 2015

본 연구는 테어링 튜브에 플랫 다이를 설치하고 동하중이 가해졌을 때 에너지흡수용량 및 거동을 예측하기 위하여 수행하였다. 컬 끝과 튜브 본체가 접촉할 때 컬 끝의 굽힘이 발생함을 발견하고 식을 제안하였다. 그러나 컬 끝의 굽힘 하중과 에너지 소산율의 예측을 더욱 정확히 하기 위해 컬의 곡률반경의 변화와 튜브 두께의 감소에 주목할 필요가 있었다. X.Huang 등이 제안한 테어링 튜브 이론 모델에 컬의 평균 곡률반경, 감소하는 튜브 두께를 반영한 컬 끝의 굽힘 식을 추가하였고 충돌시험 결과를 통하여 검증하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2000년도 추계학술대회논문집A
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• pp.395-401
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• 2000

Rubber is used extensively in many industries because of its large reversible elastic deformation, excellent damping and energy absorption characteristics, and wide availability. Therefore it becomes very important to evaluate fracture characteristics of rubber. Tearing energy and J-integral have been used as fracture parameters of rubber. The J-integral values for pure shear and single edge specimen are calculated by finite element analysis and compare with theoretical values. Finite element analysis is performed by ABAQUS.

• Carbon letters
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• 제1권3_4호
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• pp.138-142
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• 2001

The effect of electrochemical surface treatments in KOH chemical solution on microstructures of carbon blacks was investigated in terms of surface functional values and XRD measurements. And their mechanical interfacial properties of the carbon blacks/rubber composites were studied by the composite tearing energy ($G_{IIIC}$). It was found that the development of basic-surface functional groups lead to the significant physical changes of carbon blacks, such as, decrease of the interlayer spacing ($d_{002}$), increase of the crystalline size along c-axis ($L_c$), and increase of degree of crystalline (${\chi}_c$). This treatment is possibly suitable for carbon blacks to be incorporated in a hydrocarbon rubber matrix, resulting in improving the hardness and tearing energy of the resulting composites.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2001

Both tensile and tear properties of short-fiber reinforced Chloroprene rubber have been studied as functions of the fiber aspect ratio and fiber content. Both properties increased when both the fiber aspect ratio and fiber content were increased. The fiber reinforced rubbers exhibited maximum values of these properties at a fiber aspect ratio of about 300. When the fiber aspect ratio exceeds 400, the mechanical properties decreased with the fiber content because of the non-uniform dispersion of fibers. The tensile modulus was compared with the prediction by the Halpin-Tsai equations for randomly oriented cases. A bonding agent was used in the fiber treating process. It was found that the ultimate tensile strength, torque, tearing energy and tensile modulus of the rubbers with treated fibers were much higher than those with untreated ones.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 산소 플라즈마 처리에 의한 카본블랙의 표면특성과 카본블랙/고무 복합재료의 기계적 계면물성에 대하여 고찰하였다. 산소플라즈마의 산화반응에 의한 카본블랙 표면특성은 표면산도-염기도와 제타전위, 그리고 X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy (XPS)를 통하여 알아보았으며 카본블랙/고무 복합재료의 기계적 물성은 인열에너지 ($G_{III}c$)를 측정하여 관찰하였다. 본 실험결과로부터 플라즈마 처리에 의해 카본블랙 표면에 카르복시기, 하이드록시기, 락톤, 카르보닐기와 같은 산소를 함유하는 극성관능기들이 플라즈마 처리시간이 증가함에 따라 증가하는 경향을 나타내었으며, 카본블랙 표면에 산소를 함유한 관능기와 극성고무인 NBR과 높은 상호작용으로 인해 카본블랙과 고무사이의 계면 결합력이 증가하여 카본블랙/고무 복합재료의 기계적 계면물성인 tearing energy가 증가한 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.313-320
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• 2019

A typical wear pattern was reported to resemble the fatigue crack growth behavior considering its mechanism, especially for amorphous rubbers such as styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR). In this study, the wear and crack growth rates were correlated using two separate experiments for carbon black and silica-reinforced selected rubber compounds. The wear rate was determined using a blade-type abrasion tester, where the frictional energy input during wearing was measured. The crack propagation rate was determined under different tearing energy inputs using a home-made fatigue tester, with a pure-shear test specimen containing pre-cracks. The rates of abrasion and crack propagation were plotted on a log-log scale as a function of frictional and tearing energies, respectively. Reasonable agreement was observed, indicating that the major mechanism of the abrasion pattern involved repeated crack propagation.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2021

In this study, the adhesive fracturing characteristics of a DCB specimen due to single and heterogeneous bonding materials under tearing load was investigated. The experiments were conducted to examine the fracturing properties of the adhesive DCB specimen. As an experimental condition, a forced displacement of 3mm/min was applied to one side while the other side was fixed. As a result of the experiment, it was found that the AL6061-T6 material was superior to the CFRP material in terms of maximum stress, specific strength, and energy release rate when compared to the adhesive fracturing property of a single material. We tested CFRP-AL, a heterogeneous bonding material, and compared its experimental results to the results from the single materials. Based on these results, CFRP-AL with a heterogeneous bonding material was observed to have the superior structural safety compared to single materials for the mode III fracture type.