복합화력발전소는 가스터빈의 특성상 잦은 기동과 정지에 노출되며, 특히 배기부의 케이싱은 고온의 작동 유체가 실온 상태의 외 기와 만나기 때문에 볼트 체결부에서 열 피로 파괴가 발생한다. 비용과 시간의 효율성을 위해 운전에 경미한 영향을 미치는 균열 부위 는 용접 보수 작업 후 운용된다. 그러나 용접 과정에서 발생한 잔류 응력과 소성 변형이 케이싱에 미치는 영향을 조사하기 어렵기 때 문에 균열 보수 용접 케이싱의 피로 수명을 예측하여 운전을 얼마나 지속할 수 있는지 연구할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서 유한요소해석 과 피로해석을 순차적으로 수행하여, 운전 조건에 따른 응력 및 변형률 진폭을 기반으로 피로 수명을 계산했다. 균열이 없는 건전 케 이싱에 비해 균열 보수 용접 케이싱은 피로 수명이 최대 32% 감소했다. 또한 다양한 균열 형태를 고려하여 8가지 크기의 용접 비드를 사용했으며, 폭과 높이가 줄어들고 길이가 길어질수록 피로 수명이 감소하는 경향을 보였다.

Sheet aluminum alloys have been used in manufacturing of machine structures. In fatigue crack propagation behavior of thin sheet aluminum alloys, it is important that fatigue crack growth rate is affected by crack closure phenomenon. In this work, we analyzed the characteristics of fatigue crack propagation behavior in experiment of constant stress condition for thin sheet Al 2024-T3 alloys, and identified the retardation behavior of crack growth by comparing experimental results of thin and thick plate specimen. We attempt to operate the fatigue life estimating process using the fatigue related material constants from referred fatigue crack propagation analysis. And we analyzed the experimental and prediction results of fatigue life of thin sheet aluminum alloy in order to identify the relation between retardation behavior of fatigue crack growth and crack closure phenomenon.

For the stress and vibration analysis of vehicle components by computer simulation, it is necessary to find the forces acting on the vehicle components due to the road profile undulation. A precise modeling of tires is not easy due to nonlinear effects between tire-ground. Instead of precise tire modeling, this paper proposes to regenerate the road profile, which preserves the measured wheel accelerations with a linear tire model in the computer simulations. From the full car example, the proposed method in this paper shows very nice results, and thus the new method seems well-suited in virtual driving simulations. The effort to improve durability of vehicle components has been continued during test and development process. Computer aided durability analysis techniques cut down time and money compared with experiment. In this paper, the dynamic simulation of vehicle model was carried out with the MSC/ADAMS program and the durability analysis of vehicle components was carried out with MSC/Fatigue program by using load profiles generated from dynamic simulation.