In this study, bottom-up type powder processing and top-down type SPD (severe plastic deformation) approaches were combined in order to achieve full density of Carbon nanotube (CNT)/metal matrix composites with superior mechanical properties by improved particle bonding and least grain growth, which were considered as a bottle neck of the bottom-up method using the conventional powder metallurgy of compaction and sintering. ECAP (equal channel angular pressing), the most promising method in SPD, was used for the CNT/Cu powder consolidation. The powder ECAP processing with 1, 2, 4 and 8 route C passes was conducted at room temperature.

In this study, bottom-up type powder processing and top-down type SPD (severe plastic deformation) approaches were combined in order to achieve both full density and grain refinement of metallic powders with least grain growth. ECAP (Equal channel angular pressing) was used for the powder consolidation. We investigated the consolidation, plastic deformation and microstructure evolution behavior of the metallic powders during ECAP using an experimental method. It was found that high mechanical strength could be achieved effectively as a result of the well bonded powder contact surface during ECAP process of gas atomized Al-Si powders.

This research reports for the successful consolidation of Al2O3 powder with retained ultra-fine structure using MPC and sintering. Measurements in the consolidated Al2O3 bulk indicated that hardness, fracture toughenss, and breakdown voltage have been much improved relative to the conventional polycrystalline materials. Finally, optimization of the compaction parameters and sintering conditions will lead to the consolidation of Al2O3 nanopowder with higher density and even further enhanced mechanical properties.

An infiltration technique using W-Cu composite powder has been developed to enhance microstructural uniformity of W-Cu pseudo-alloy. W-Cu composite powder, manufactured by reduction from WO3 and CuO powder mixtures, were blended with W powder and then cold iso-statically pressed into a cylindrical bar under 150 MPa. The pressed samples were pre-sintered at 1300 oC for 1 hour under hydrogen to make a skeleton structure. This skeleton structure was more homogeneous than that formed by using W and Cu powder mixtures. The skeleton structures were infiltrated with Cu under hydrogen atmosphere. The infiltrated W-Cu pseudo-alloy showed homogeneous microstructure without Cu rich region.

A new tungsten heavy alloy with hybrid structure was manufactured for the kinetic energy penetrator. The tungsten heavy alloy is composed of two parts: core region is molybdenum added heavy alloy to promote the self-sharpening; outer part encompassing the core is conventional heavy alloy to sustain severe load in a muzzle during firing. From ballistic test, it was found that the penetration performance of the hybrid structure tungsten heavy alloy is higher than that of conventional heavy alloy. This heavy alloy is thought to be very useful for the penetrator in the near future.

This study investigates the effects of focus on form on the acquisition of the tense-aspect system in English by comparing two different instructional techniques, implicit and explicit focus on form. Furthermore, it examines which class of lexical aspect use is more applicable to each method of instruction. The implicit method is intended to produce the synergy of input flooding and typographical enhancement technique. The explicit method provides learners with pedagogical statements, corrective feedback, and some exemplars which are neither flooded nor visually enhanced. The subjects were Korean junior college students enrolled in two basic English writing classes. One class was assigned to an implicit group and the other to an explicit group. They received instruction for 10 weeks under two different learning conditions and were tested on the target structures. The results showed the overall effectiveness of implicit and explicit focus-on-form instructions on facilitating the two target structures, the simple past and present perfect, and on the lexical aspectual system as well. Although the implicit group made some progress, the gain was not statistically significant. The explicit group, however, made a significant progress in the learning of the present perfect. As for the lexical aspectual system, the implicit instruction somewhat influenced appropriate use of telic verbs, whereas the explicit instruction was more effective in facilitating the appropriate use of atelic verbs. The results indicate the importance of acquisition order and learners’ readiness in the learning of the present perfect.

최근에 개정된 중 저준위 방사성폐기물 인도규정에서는 폐기물시설운영자는 처분 전 방사성폐기물이 인도규정에 적합함을 보장하기 위한 계획을 수립하여 운영할 것을 요구하고 있다. 앞으로 건설될 방사성폐기물 처분시설에서 방사성폐기물 인수 시에 충족되어야할 방사성폐기물인수기준이 수립될 것이며, 이 인수기준에는 물리화학적 및 방사선학적 특성규명, 물리화학적인 제한사항, 금지품목, 포장, 인식표, 라벨, 문서요건 등을 규정할 것으로 예상된다. 이들 규정을 준수하기 위하여 방사성폐기물 발생자는 방사성폐기물이 폐기물 인수기준에 만족하는지를 확인하는 폐기물 인증프로그램을 수행하여 방사성폐기물이 그 기준에 만족하는지 확인하여야 하며, 방사성폐기물에 대한 모든 인증서류를 폐기물 처분시설에 제출할 책임이 있다. 본 방사성폐기물 인증프로그램계획은 한국원자력연구소에서 발생되는 방사성폐기물의 인증프로그램에 대한 예비프로그램으로서 개발된 것이며 앞으로 처분장의 인수요건이 구체적으로 확립될 때까지 수정 보완되어야 한다.

원자력을 이용하는 시설 및 그와 관련한 연구개발실험실로부터 각종 화학폐수가 다량으로 발생되고 있으며 이들 폐수를 화학폐수 전용처리시설로 처리하고 있으나 최종 건조 케이크내에 함유된 우라늄의 농도가 규제면제농도인 10 Bq/g을 약간 초과하므로서 방사성폐기물로 분류하여 별도로 저장하고 있다. 화학폐수 처리후 침전된 슬러지내의 우라늄 농도를 분석한 결과 우라늄이 용액상이 아닌 침전물상에 존재함을 알았으며, 이들 우라늄을 침전물로부터 용액상으로 용해하기 위하여 강질산으로 용해시켰다. 그 결과 대부분의 우라늄이 슬러지의 침전물로부터 용액상으로 용출되었으며, 용해후 얻어진 슬러지 산용해액에 대해 IRN-77과 비드형으로 새로 제조한 다이포실 수지를 실 폐액처리에 적용하기 위한 흡착실험을 수행하였다. IRN-77과 다이포실 비드를 단독, 혼합 또는 단계적으로 사용한 결과, 80%이상의 우라늄 흡착효율을 얻기 위해서는 산용해액과 동등량 또는 그 이상의 다량의 수지가 소요되었다. 한편 침전 슬러지를 압착하여 부피가 더욱 축소된 탈수케이크를 산용해한 결과, 탈수케이크 대 질산의 비율이 3:2에서 우라늄의 함량을 최대 11 mg/L을 얻었으며 슬러지 용해시보다 적은 양으로 산용해가 가능하였다. 탈수 케이크 산용해액의 방사능 농도는 6.97E-01 Bq/ml 로서 기존의 자연증발처리시설에서 처리가 가능한 수준이었으며, 건조케이크의 비방사능은 11.2 Bq/g로서 최종 폐기물로 발생될 폐증발천의 비방사능이 4.3 Bq/g으로 평가되어 우라늄 동위원소의 규제면제치인 10 Bq/g 미만이므로 자체처분이 가능한 수준이었다. 결론적으로 화학폐수를 처리한 후 부피가 최소화된 탈수케이크에서 우라늄을 산용해시키고 최종 산용해액은 기존의 자연증발시설로 증발처리하면 방사성 건조케이크의 발생 없이 또한 자연증발천도 자체처분이 가능한 최적의 방안을 도출하였다.

최근 미국 ANL연구소가 개발한 다이포실 수지는 우라늄의 선택특성이 우수하나 수지의 형태가 분말형이므로 입상의 비드형으로 제조하기 위하여 다이포실 분말을 알기네이트상에 고정화하는 방법을 적용하였다. 생성된 비드의 우라늄에 대한 흡착특성을 측정한 결과, 소디움 알기네이트 자체도 우라늄 흡착특성을 최대 68%까지 나타낸 후 30% 수준으로 감소하였으며, 이는 흡착후 탈착하는 과정을 거쳐 평형에 이르는 것으로 사료된다. 또한 비드내 다이포실의 양이 증가할수록 우라늄의 흡착이 증가하며 최대 85 %정도의 흡착율을 나타내고 있다. 다이포실 수지만의 경우 반응초기에 급격한 흡착을 보이고 있으나 3일정도 이후에는 비드의 흡착율과 유사한 결과를 나타내고 있으며 비드내 함유된 순 다이포실량을 고려할 경우 알기네이트 자체의 흡착효과로 인해 비드의 흡착효율이 크게 상승되는 것으로 해석된다. 우라늄 농도의 영향은 농도의 증가에 따라 우라늄의 제거효율이 감소하였으며, 비드의 양을 2배로 증가시킨 결과 최대 90%이상의 제거효율을 얻었다. 결론적으로 다이포실 수지를 소디움 알기네이트상에 고정화하여 입자형의 비드로 제조하므로서 적은 양의 수지로 우라늄 제거특성이 우수한 비드를 얻을 수 있었으며 나아가서 연속공정에의 적용도 가능한 것으로 사료된다.

Undoped powders were synthesized by mechanical alloying (MA) of elemental powders using a nominal stoichiometric composition. Nano-structured, single-phase skutterudite was successfully produced by vacuum hot pressing (VHP) using MA powders without subsequent annealing. Phase transformations during synthesis were investigated using XRD, and microstructure was observed using SEM and TEM. Thermoelectric properties in terms of Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity and figure of merit(ZT) were systematically measured and compared with the results of analogous studies. Lattice thermal conductivity was reduced owing to increasing phone scattering in nano-structured MA , leading to enhancement in the thermoelectric figure of merit. MA associated with VHP technique offers an alternative potential processing route for the process of skutterudite.

1mm-thick BLT ceramics were sintered in accordance with a bulk ceramic fabrication process. All XRD peaks detected in the sintered ceramics were indexed as the Bi-layered perovskite structure without secondary phases. Density was increased with increasing the sintering temperature up to and the maximum value was about 98% of the theoretical density. The remanent polarization (2Pr) value of BLT ceramic sintered at was approximately at the applied voltage of 4.5kV. From these results, a BLT ceramic target for plused laser deposition (PLD) system was successfully fabricated.

Branched sulfonated poly(ether sulfone-ketone) copolymer was prepared with bisphenol A, 4,4-difluorobenzophenone, sulfonated chlorophenyl sulfone (40mole% of bisphenol A) and THPE (1,1,1-tris-p-hydroxyphenylethane). THPE was used 0.4 mol% of bisphenol A to synthesize branched copolymers. Organic-inorganic nano composite membranes were prepared with copolymer and a series of nanoparticles (20 nm, 4, 7 and 10 wt%). The composite membranes were cast from dimethylsulfoxide solutions. The films were converted from the salt to acid forms with dilute hydrochloric acid. The membranes were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Sorption experiments were conducted to observe the interaction of sulfonated polymers with water and methanol. Branched copolymer and nano composite membranes exhibit proton conductivities from to , water uptake from 52.9 to 62.4%, IEC from 0.81 to 1.21 meq/g and methanol diffusion coefficients from to .

The n-type compound was newly fabricated by gas atomization and hot extrusion, which is considered to be a mass production technique of this alloy. The effect of powder size on thermoelectric properties of 0.04% doped alloy were investigated. Seebeck coefficient and Electrical resistivity increased with increasing powder size due to the decrease in carrier concentration by oxygen content. With increasing powder size, the compressive strength of alloy was increased due to the relative high density. The compound with size shows the highest power factor among the four different powder sizes. The rapidly solidified and hot extruded compound using powder size shows the highest compressive strength.

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted remarkable attention as reinforcement for composites owing to their outstanding mechanical properties. The CNT/Cu nanocomposite is fabricated by a novel fabrication process named molecular level process. The novel process for fabricating CNT/Cu composite powders involves suspending CNTs in a solvent by surface functionalization, mixing Cu ions with CNT suspension, drying, calcination and reduction. The molecular level process produces CNT/Cu composite powders whereby the CNTs are homogeneously implanted within Cu powders. The mechanical properties of CNT/Cu nanocomposite, consolidated by spark plasma sintering of CNT/Cu composite powders, shows about 3 times higher strength and 2 times higher Young's modulus than those of Cu matrix.

This study investigated a mechanism for controlling the shape of Cu nanocrystals fabricated using the polyol process, which considers the thermodynamic transition from a facetted surface to a rough surface and the growth mechanisms of nanocrystals with facetted or rough surfaces. The facetted surfaces were stable at relatively low temperatures due to the low entropy of perfectly facetted surfaces. Nanocrystals fabricated using a coordinative surfactant stabilized the facetted surface at a higher temperature than those fabricated using a non-coordinative surfactant. The growth rate of the surface under a given driving force was dependent on the surface structure, i.e., facetted or rough, and the growth of a facetted surface was a thermally activated process. Surface twins decreased the activation energy for growth of the facetted surface and resulted in rod- or wire-shaped nanocrystals