Thermo-mechanical fatigue cracks on the turbine housing of turbochargers are often observed in currently developed gasoline engines for them to adopt lightness and higher performance levels. Maximum gas temperatures of gasoline engines usually exceed 950℃ under engine test conditions. In order to predict thermo-mechanical failures by simulation method, it is essential to consider temperature-dependent inelastic materials and inhomogeneous temperature distributions undergoing thermal cyclic loads. This paper presented the analytical methods to calculate thermal stresses and plastic strain ranges for the prediction of fatigue failures on the basis of motoring test mode, which is commonly used for accelerated engine endurance test. The analysis results showed that the localized critical regions with large plastic strains coincided well with crack locations from a thermal shock test.

The likelihood of failure for the stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of caustic cracking, which affect to a risk of facilities, was analyzed through the risk based-inspection using API-581 BRD. We found that SCC of the caustic cracking was occurred above 5 % NaOH concentration, and the technical module subfactor (TMSF) was maximized for above 50 % concentration. The heat traced and monitoring were not sensitive to the TMSF with NaOH concentration and temperature. But the steam out was more of less affect minimum value of the TMSF. Also, the inspection number, the inspection effectiveness, and the year since inspection were very sensitive to the TMSF with NaOH concentration and temperature. Therefore, the plan of next inspection will be established with compositively considering those at once.

본 논문에서는 일축인장하중을 받고 있는 8-매 주자직 복합재료의 적층 위상변화가 등가물성치 및 응력분포에 미치는 영향을 연구하였다. 등가물성치 및 응력은 임의의 배열을 갖는 적층 구조물에 대한 단위구조 해석을 통해 계산하였으며, 마크로요소를 사용하여 효율적인 계산을 수행하였다. 계산 결과, 섬유다발 미세구조의 변화는 응력분포에 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 섬유다발 및 수지에서의 응력은 섬유다발의 이동에 따라 서로 다른 분포를 보였고, 수지영역에서의 최대응력은 매우 넓은 범위에 걸쳐 분포하였다.