In recent automobile development, vehicle weight reduction has become a very important goal. Seat weight reduction is a large portion of vehicle weight reduction. In this study, a specimen tensile tests were conducted on the Almag material, which is an alloy of aluminum and magnesium, and also conducted on SAFH440, SAFH 590, SAFC780, and SAFH980, which are mild steel materials used in the seat frame. The tensile specimen tests were carried out in two speed; 2mm/s and 4mm/s, and the obtained stress to strain curve was converted to the analysis material card of true stress to true strain curve to be used in the seat structural analysis. The constructed analysis material card was used in the specimen tensile finite element analysis, and the analysis result was able to obtain the stress to strain curve similar to the test result.

Ring Tensile Test (RTT) is mainly performed for comparing tensile strength and total strain between nuclear fuel cladding specimens under various initial conditions. Through RTT, the loaddisplacement (F-D) curve obtained from the uniaxial tensile test can also be obtained. However, the Young’s modulus estimated from the gradient of the straight portion is much lower than general value of materials. The reasons include tensile machine compliance, slack in the fixtures, or elastic deformation of the fixtures and the tooling. Another reason is that the bending of the test part in the ring is stretched with two pieces of tools. Although the absolute value of the Young’s modulus is smaller than the actual value, it is applicable to calculate the ratio of the Young’s moduli of different materials, that is, the relative value. The Young’s modulus, or slope of the linear section, varies slightly depending on which location data is used and how much data is included. In order to obtain a more accurate ratio of Young’s moduli between materials using the RTT results, a post-processing method for the ring tensile test results that can prevent such human errors is proposed as follows. First, the slope of the linear section is obtained using the displacement and load when the load increase is the largest and the displacement and load of the position that is 95% of the maximum load increase. To replace the section where the ring-shaped specimen is stretched at the beginning of the F-D curve, a straight line equal to the slope of the linear section is drawn to the displacement axis from the position of maximum load increase and moved to the origin to obtain the final F-D curve for a RTT. Lastly, the yield stress uses the stress at the point where the 0.2% offset straight line and the F-D curve meet as suggested in the ASTM E8/E8M-11 “Standard test methods for tensile testing of metallic materials”. RTT results post-processing method was coded using FORTRAN language so that it could be performed automatically. In addition, sensitivity analysis of the included data range on the Young’s modulus was performed by using the included data range as 90%, 85%, and 80% of the maximum load increase.

The hydride reorientation (HR) of used nuclear fuel cladding after operation affects the integrity during intermediate and disposal storage, as well as the handling processes associated with transportation and storage. In particular, during dry storage, which is an intermediate storage method, the radial hydrogen redistributes into circumferential hydrogen, increasing the embrittlement of used nuclear fuel cladding. This hydride reorientation is influenced by various key factors such as circumferential stress (hoop stress) due to internal rod pressure, maximum temperature reached, cooling rate during storage, and the concentration of precipitated hydrogen during irradiation. To simulate long-term dry storage of used nuclear fuel, hydrogenated Zircaloy-4 cladding (CWSRA) specimens were used in hydride reorientation tests under various hoop stress conditions (70, 80, 90, and 110 MPa) for extended cooling periods (3 months, 6 months, and 12 months). After the hydride reorientation tests, the cladding’s offset strain (%) was evaluated through a ring compression test, a mechanical property test encompassing both ductility and brittleness. In this study, the offset deformation of the hydride reorientation specimens was compared and evaluated through ring tensile tests. In this study, the offset deformation values were compared and evaluated through ring tensile tests of the hydride reorientation test specimens. Hydrogen in zirconium cladding reduces ductility from a physical perspective and induces rapid plastic deformation. Generally, even in hydrogenated unirradiated cladding, it maintains a tensile strength of around 800 MPa at room temperature. However, high hydrogen content accelerates plastic deformation. In contrast, samples with radial hydrogen distribution exhibit fracture behavior in the elastic region below 500 MPa. This is attributed to the directional of radial hydrogen distribution. Specimens with a hydrogen concentration of 200 ppm fracture faster than those with hydrogen concentrations exceeding 400 ppm. This is believed to be due to the ease of reorientation of radial hydrogen in cladding with relatively low hydrogen content. Although the consistency of the test results is not ideal, ongoing research is needed to identify trends in hydride reorientation from a cladding perspective.

A tensile test is performed to obtain the mechanical property data of the spent fuel cladding. In general, the elastic modulus, elongation, yield stress, tensile stress, etc. are obtained by axial tensile test of cladding attaching an extensometer. However, due to the limitation in the number of specimens for spent nuclear fuel that can be made, the ring tensile test (RTT) whose required length of the specimen is short is mainly performed. In the case of RTT, an extensometer or strain gauge cannot be attached because the gauge part of the specimen is formed around the cladding and is short. In addition, since a load is applied in the radial direction of the cladding, a curved portion of the circular cladding is spread out and becomes straight, and then the cladding is tensioned. For this reason, it is difficult to obtain the stress-strain curve directly from the RTT results. Isight, which is used to identify the optimization design parameters, was used to build an optimization process that minimizes the difference between the RTT and the analysis to estimate the material property. For this, the elastic modulus, plastic strain, and the radius of the RTT jig were taken as fixed variables. As variables, isotropic hardening data and plastic stress were taken. The objective function was taken as the minimization of the area difference of the load-displacement curve obtained from the tests and analysis, of the difference in the magnitude of the maximum reaction force, and of the difference in the location where the maximum reaction force occurred. Optimization workflow was configured in the following order. First, using the calculator component, plastic stress design variables were created. Next, ABAQUS was placed to perform analysis using design variables, and the reaction force or displacement was calculated. After that, the reaction force was calculated considering the 1/4 symmetry condition using the script component. After that, the data matching component performed quantitative comparison of test and analysis data. Finally, by utilizing the exploration component, the plastic stress design variable that minimizes the difference in the objective function was obtained by automatically changing six optimization algorithms. In this paper, the constructed optimization process and the obtained plastic stress by applying it to the SUS316 RTT results are briefly described. The established optimization process can be utilized to obtain mechanical property from the results of the cladding RTT of spent nuclear fuel or new material.

For form stability of membrane structures, membrane material is required to be in tension. Therefore, in planning and maintenance management, the engineer should consider enough about introduction of stress during construction and re-introduction of stress after completion. Clamping part is an important portion with the function for introducing tension into membrane materials, and the function to transmit stress to boundary structures, such as steel frames. Then, the purpose of this research is to clarify stress condition and stress transfer mechanism including clamping part of membrane structures, and to grasp the changing tendency of membrane structures with the passage of time. In this research, following previous one, we perform well-balanced evaluation by conducting tensile fractured tests of clamping part's specimens, and by measuring individually the amount of displacement of not only overall specimen's length but membrane material and clamping part. Thereby, we consider the influence the difference in the hardness of edge rope and the difference in the direction of thread affect modification and fracture load.

일반적인 구조용 강재의 경우 항복변형률의 이상의 변형을 경험한 이후에 하중을 제거하면 재가력되는 시점에 따라 서 재료의 항복강도는 증가하고 연성이 감소하는 현상을 보인다. 원형강관의 경우 철판을 말아서 제작하는 과정에서 철판의 두 께와 원형강관의 직경에 따라서 항복변형률이상의 큰 변형을 경험하게 되고 이러한 변형은 제작된 강관의 구조적인 성능에 많 은 영향을 미친다. 이러한 이유에서 제작과정에 발생하는 변형이 원형강관의 구조성능에 미치는 영향을 파악할 필요가 있다. 따 라서, 이 연구에서는 원형강관을 제작하는 경우에 발생하는 변형에 의한 철판의 항복강도, 인장강도 및 연성 등의 영향을 파악 하기 위해서 강관의 직경 및 두께와 시험편을 채취한 방향을 변수로 다수의 인장실험을 수행하고 이를 분석하였다. 실험 결과 를 바탕으로 원형강판에서 채취한 시험편은 코일에서 채취한 시험편에 비해 항복강도와 인장강도가 더 높았고, 연신율은 낮아 진 것으로 나타났다.

This study was carried out to standardize the material properties of roll-over protective structure (ROPS) for agricultural tractor. The material properties which were obtained from stress-strain curve, a result of tensile test stress, were used to apply to the virtual test and varied from one production lot to the other and from one manufacturer to the other. And the finite element analysis was performed on the ROPS according to the OECD code. The results show that the load-displacement curves of virtual test were approximately equal to the actual test curves. The manufacturer or lot has been shown to have little effect on the properties of the material. Therefore, it is expected that the representative values that can be used in the finite element analysis can be determined by averaging the property values.

Tensile strength was investigated for hybrid bar (HYB), in this study. HYB is made of both steel reinforcement and glass fiber. Cross section of HYB has a shape in which steel reinforcement wrapped with glass fiber. For the production of HYB, rebar of SD400 class and glass fiber of E class are used as main materials. Vinyl ester resin is used to harden a glass fiber. In order to evaluate for tensile strength of HYB, the direct tensile test was performed about total ten specimens. The length of total specimens is 2,200 mm including the grip. Diameter of HYB according to core diameter was considered as a test variable. Direct tensile test for HYB was performed using a UTM with a capacity of maximum 1,000 kN. Tensile strength and strain were measured for each specimen during the test. From the test results, tensile strength and elastic modulus were 317 ~ 341 MPa, 103 ~ 107 GPa, respectively. Especially, elastic modulus of HYB was improved in comparison with usual GFRP bars such as the Aslan 100 or the V-rod.

본 논문에서는 세 종류의 ETFE 막재에 대한 단축인장실험을 수행하였다. 이 실험에서 얻은 변형도-변위 곡선을 분석함으로써 항복응력, 두 번째 항복응력, 탄성계수, 두 번째 탄성계수, 그리고 세 번째 탄성계수를 얻게 되었다. 아울러, 탄성 단계와 항복 단계, 소성유동 단계에서 각각 ETFE 막재의 사이클 하중시험을 진행하여, 잔여변형률, 응력 이완, 하중 변화(재하/제하) 중 ETFE 막재의 탄성 변화 등을 알아본다. 재료의 크리프시험에서는 25, 40, 60℃의 시험온도와 3, 6, 9MPa의 인장 응력 하에서 크리프시험의 시간은 24시간으로 설정하였다.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the mechanical behaviors and structural integrity of the weldment of high strength steel by using an acoustic emission (AE) techniques. Monotonic simple tension and AE tests were conducted against the 3 kinds of welded specimen. In order to analysis the effectiveness of weldability, joinability and structural integrity, we used K-means clustering method as a unsupervised learning pattern recognition algorithm for obtained multi-variate AE main data sets, such as AE counts, energy, amplitude, hits, risetime, duration, counts to peak and rms signals. Through the experimental results, the effectiveness of the proposed method is discussed.

사용중인 중화학 설비의 재료물성의 경년열화적 특성을 평가하기 위하여 기존 실험법의 인장시험편이나 충격시험편을 채취하기는 실제적으로 불가능하다. 인장강도등 인장특성과 비교한 결과 인장강도, 연신율, 항복강도, 종탄성계수와 소형펀치실험의 각 특성과 선형적 관계를 얻을 수 있었다. 또한 경년열화도를 평가하는 두구인 파면천이온도(FATT)와 비교하기 위하여 저온 소형펀치실험을 실시한 결과 충격실험을 통하여 구한 FATT온도와 소형펀치실험의 천이온도 ( Tsp )와 일정한 관계가 있음이 밝혀져 사용재의 열화도를 평가할 수 있다.

본 연구는 길이 1m의 SD400 D13, D10 철근 시편의 중앙 20cm를에 염화칼슘(CaCl2–10%)과 10V의 전압을 인가하여 부식을 촉진시킨 수, 부식으로 인해 줄어든 단면적과 철근의 인장 거동과의 관계를 파악하기 위한 것이다. 9주 동안의 실험을 통해 평균 15.57%의 단면 손실을 이루었으며, 이때 부식이 진행된 시편에서 항복응력의 저하, 탄성계수 감소 등의 현상이 나타난 것을 확인할 수 있다.

취성재료인 탄소섬유보강폴리머(CFRP)의 시편시험에서 총변형량과 유효길이로서 유도되는 환산변형률을 도입하고, 환산변형률의 장점을 기술하였다. 일반적으로 재료의 인장물성을 결정하기 위해 스트레인 게이지 측정값을 사용하지만, 취성특성을 가지는 CFRP에서는 항상 유효한 것은 아니다. 그 이유는 취성재료에서는 응력재분배를 할 수 없으며, 스트레인 게이지의 측정값은 국부거동만을 나타기 때문이다. 따라서 환산변형률은 취성재료의 인장인장특성의 평균값을 측정하고 변형률과 측정값을 검증하는 보조지표로서 효과적으로 사용될 수 있다. 또한 환산변형률은 1) 제작 오차(편차) 와 세팅 오차(정렬 불량)에 의해 발생하는 초기 내부 변형률에 기인한 영향과 2) 불균일 변형분포로 인한 부분파단 이후 거동을 명확히 가시화하는 장점이 있다.

최근 철근 콘크리트 구조물에 다양한 철근 이음이 사용되고 있다. 이에 따라 커플러 이음 철근의 인장 특성에 대한 파악이 중요해졌 다. 본 연구에서는 커플러 이음 철근의 연성도에 대한 평가를 위하여 ASTM A615 기준에 따라 생산된 Grade 60 D22(#7), D29(#9), 그리고 두 종류의 커플러를 상대로 1축 인장시험을 수행하였다. 보다 정확하고 다양한 지점에서 자유로운 계측이 가능한 이미지 프로세싱 방법을 사용하 여 변형률을 계측하였다. 1축 인장시험 결과, 응력-변형률 관계와 응력 단계별 종방향 변형률 분포를 산출할 수 있었고, 이를 통하여 동일한 표 점거리 내에서 커플러 이음 부분이 많이 차지할수록 평균변형률이 낮아지는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 커플러 이음철근의 극한거동 및 파단 시 변형률에 대한 평가를 통해 커플러의 길이에 대한 한계상태변형률과 파단변형률과의 상관관계를 정식화하였다.

In the study, direct tensile test was conducted to perform statistical approaches to the maximum tensile strength of design strengths (120, 150 and 180 MPa), and then the direct tensile database construction was made to examine the reliability of the direct tensile test.

This study was evaluated dynamic impact tensile properties of 80 MPa sprayed HPFRCC by I-SEFIM test as a part of the research for development of sprayed HPFRCC for protection and blast resistant of existing structures.