Our laboratory’s content of research performance in industrial application areas is the “ valuation of equipment reliability and risk management” technology. Current this technique is used in the field of large equipments, such as, process plant and power plants. However, from now on, main facilities management of almost all production companies, this technique will be used. Since this area of researches have the character of industrial engineering, business administration and mechanical engineering, we need not only knowledge of mechanical engineering, which is maintainability of equipment, damage, remaining life, etc, but also knowledge about equipment maintenance expenses, calculate the loss cost, reliability theory , relevant legislation, and the commercial solution are also necessary.

Such reliability management technology is an application technology which is expended by “high temperature fracture mechanics and mechanical properties”. The academic study area perform in our lab. As a field of science which investigates the materials’ fracture mechanisms at high temperatures and studies the damage prevention and life assessment of high temperature structures. High temperature fracture mechanics , is studies by limited several research teams around the world.. Our laboratory maintains close relationship with United State research team and continues doing studies. As a new future topic, in a recent study of trend in the field of material properties is associated with nano-technology, “high-temperature properties of nanostructure materials research”, our lab is also doing researches with ECAP nano-materials.

Recently, along with the hydrogen energy getting more and more popular, in pursuit of deversification energy consumption structure, we are planning to continue to research about hydrogen energy infrastructure, and proceeding researches on hydrogen-related safety diagnostic and safety design at the same time.

 

Reliability & Risk Management

RAM ( Reliability, Availability, Maintainability )

RBI ( Risk Based Inspection )

RCM ( Risk Centered Management )

 

Nanostructure Materials

Research of ECAP ( Equal Channel Angular Pressing ) Materials

Assessment of Nano Property

 

Mechanical Properties at High Temperature

Anisotropic materials high temperature

Life estimation of high Temperature Fracture

Development of On-line Life Monitoring System

 

Hydrogen Embrittlement

Chang-Sik Oh, Yun-Jae Kim, Kee-Bong Yoon
Elastic–plastic behaviours of pressurised tubes under cyclic thermal stresses with temperature gradients Original Research Article
International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping,, 2010, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0~ 0

Young Wha Ma, Jeong Woo Choi, Kee Bong Yoon
Change of anisotropic tensile strength due to amount of severe plastic deformation in aluminum 2024 alloy Original Research Article
Materials Science and Engineering, 2011, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0~ 0

Young Wha Ma, Kee Bong Yoon
Assessment of tensile strength using small punch test for transversely isotropic aluminum 2024 alloy produced by equal channel angular pressing Original Research Article
Materials Science and Engineering:, 2010, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0~ 0

Young Wha Ma, Kee Bong Yoon
Estimation of Ct parameter in transversely isotropic materials under transient creep conditions Original Research Article
Engineering Fracture Mechanics,, 2010, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0~ 0

Sung Chan Kim, Seung Hoon Lee, Kee Bong Yoon
Thermal characteristics during hydrogen fueling process of type IV cylinder Original Research Article
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2010, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0~ 0

Nak-Hyun Kim, Chang-Sik Oh, Yun-Jae Kim, Kee-Bong Yoon, Young-Hwa Ma
Comparison of fracture strain based ductile failure simulation with experimental results Original Research Article
International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping,, 2011, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0~ 0

Chang-Sik Oh, Yun-Jae Kim, Kee-Bong Yoon, Robert A. Ainsworth, Kamran Nikbin
The relationship between Ct and contour integrals under small-scale transient creep
Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2010, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0~ 0