• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.212-217
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• 2000

The reliable determination of the stress intensity factors for cracks in bolted Joints is needed to evaluate the safety and fatigue life of them widely used in mechanical components. The weight function method is an efficient technique to calculate the stress intensity factors for various loading conditions using the stresses of an uncracked model. In this paper the mixed-mode stress intensity factors for cracks in bolted joints are obtained by weight function method, in which the coefficients of weight function are determined by finite element analyses far reference loadings. The effects of the magnitude of clearance and factional coefficient on the stress intensity factors are investigated.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.165-170
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• 2000

The weight function method is an efficient technique to calculate the stress intensity factors for various loading conditions in that only the stress analysis of an uncracked model is required. This paper analyzes the mixed-mode stress intensity factors of surface and deepest points for quarter elliptical surface cracks in mechanical joints by weight function method and the coefficients included in weight function are determined by finite element analyses for reference loadings. Results for the different number of terms in weight function are presented.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.362-368
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• 2009

In general, circuit board assemblies experience various mechanical loadings during assembly and in actual use. The repeated cyclic bending can cause electrical failures due to circuit board cracks, solder interconnects cracks, and the component cracks. In this paper, we report on the failure characteristics of semiconductor chips under the repeated cyclic bending. We first describe a new 4-point bending tester, which is developed according to JEDEC standard No. 22B113. The performance of the tester is then estimated through actual experiments. Test results reveal that the cracks first occur on the outer balls around 20,000 cycles and gradually propagate to the inner balls where cracks are found around 70,000 cycles.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.181-190
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• 2004

The interest of the fatigue life of rubber components such as engine mounts is increasing according to the extension of warranty period of the automotive components. Automotive engine mounts get damaged due to thermal and mechanical loadings. This paper discusses a fatigue life prediction of the 3-dimensional dumbbell specimens for natural rubber compound considering the effects of maximum strain and heat aging temperature. Displacement controlled fatigue life tests were performed using specimens with different levels of maximum strain and various hardness. The basic mechanical properties test and the fatigue test of aged rubber specimen under normal and elevated temperature were executed. A procedure to predicted the fatigue life of vulcanized natural rubber material based on the maximum strain method was proposed, and then this curve was in good agreement with fatigue test data less than 200% error range.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.565-572
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• 2000

To quantitatively estimate mass contribution of long-range transported yellow sand, their sources should be separated independently from various local soil sources having similar elemental compositions. While it is difficult to estimate total mass loadings of pure yellow sand by traditional bulk analysis, it can be clearly solved by an particle-by-particle analysis. To perform this study, two yellow sand samples and three local soil samples were collected by a mini-volume sampler. These samples were three analyzed using a scanning electron microscope(SEM) equipped with an energy dispersive x-ray analyser (EDX) was used to obtain basic chemical information of individual yellow san particles. A total of 19 elements in a single particle were measured to develop a source profile with newly created homogeneous particle classes (HPCs) as chemical variables. The present study showed that the yellow sand samples as well as three local soil samples were characterized with reasonably well created HPCs. Finally the mass fraction of each HPC in each sample was calculated and then compared each other.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2009.03a
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• pp.326-330
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• 2009

In this study, coarse-grained geomaterials were mixed with cementing binder. To do that, typical soils from road construction sites were selected to assess the strength and stiffness characteristics of cemented geomaterials mixed with cement and recycled fly ash. Mechanistic evaluation on these samples was performed depending on the various binder contents. Increasing cementing content tend to increase the resilient modulus under repeated loadings and unconfined strength respectively. In addition, the toughness of cemented geomaterials was also estimated in order to check the ability to resisting fatigue failure.

• International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-4
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• 2016

Functionally graded materials (FGMs) are becoming very popular in various industries due to their effectiveness of the utilization of their constituent elements. However, the modelling of these materials is difficult due to the complex nature of variation of material properties across the thickness. Many shear deformation theories have been developed and employed for the analysis of such functionally graded plates (FGPs). A recently developed inverse hyperbolic shear deformation theory has been successfully employed by Grover et al. [1] for the analysis of laminated composites and sandwich plates. The objective of the study is to obtain finite element solution for the structural analysis of functionally graded plates using inverse hyperbolic shear deformation theory. Finite element analysis facilitates the analysis of complex problems such as functionally graded plates with different boundary conditions and different loadings.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.26-31
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• 2013

Last blades of low-pressure turbine in nuclear power plant are the highly damaged part and always suffered from different types of loadings leading to various stress components, stresses due to centrifugal force and steam flow loading. Especially, centrifugal stress generated by turbine rotation is one of the main problems and more significant than other stresses as they have the greatest effect on total stress. Therefore, this study was performed to obtain the important information for estimation model development of the blade centrifugal stress level and distribution.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.423-444
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• 2007

By using the incremental form of the endochronic theory of plasticity, a model of material function is proposed in this paper to investigate plastic behavior. By comparing the stress-strain hysteresis loop, the theory is shown to agree well with the experimental results, especially in the evolution of peak stress values of SAE 4340 steel loaded by cyclic loading with various amplitudes. Depending on the choice of material parameters, the present model can substantially result in six categories of material function, each of which can behave differently with respect to an identical deformation history. In addition, the present model of material function is shown to be capable of describing the behavior of erasure of memory of materials, as experimentally observed by Lamba and Sidebottom (1978).

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.83-90
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• 2002

Prying action caused by the eccentric loads within the equipment itself and the anchors can result in a lack of adequate stiffness and strength within the equipment and in additional moment loadings on the anchors. A typical case of prying action often found in power plants is the angle type anchorage system with expansion bolt. Experimental and analytical studies were performed to investigate the relationship between the amplification factors and various geometrical and material factors. It is revealed that the value of the factor is effected by the stiffness of bolt and angle, lateral stiffness of cabinet, and geometrical parameter of anchor system.