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Hardness and microstructural changes by cooling rate and holding time during porcelain firing of a multi-purpose dental gold alloy (다목적용 치과용 금합금의 소성 시 냉각속도와 계류시간에 따른 경도와 미세구조의 변화)

  • Cho, Mi-Hyang
    • Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.271-281
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    • 2011
  • Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate the changes in hardness and microstructure of a dental multipurpose alloy after simulated complete firing with controlled cooling rate and holding time by characterizing the changes in hardness and microstructure after simulated firing with various cooling rates and holding times. Methods: Before hardness testing, the specimens were solution treated and then were rapidly quenched into ice brine. The specimens were completely fired in furnace. Hardness measurements were made using a Vickers microhardness tester. The specimens were examined at 15 kV using a field emission scanning electron microscope. Results: The maximum hardness value was obtained at stage 0 after simulated firing with various cooling rates (quick cooling, stage 0, stage 1, stage 2, stage 3). By the repetitive firing, the hardness of the tested alloy decreased gradually. By holding the specimen at $500^{\circ}C$ for 10-20min after simulated firing, the hardness increased apparently. However, to hold the alloy for long periods of time in the relatively high temperature after simulated firing resulted in the formation of thick oxidation layer. The oxide film formed on the surface of the alloy after simulated complete firing with controlled cooling rate, which was mainly composed of O and Zn. Conclusion: It is reasonable to hold the alloy at $500^{\circ}C$ for 10-20min after complete firing in other to improve the final hardness of the alloy.

Characteristics of Hardness and Wear-Resistance of Plasma-Nitrided and Nitrocarburized Carbon Steels (플라즈마질화 및 침질탄화처리한 탄소강의 경도와 내마모특성)

  • Kim, M.K.;Jung, B.H.;Park, H.S.;Lee, B.C.;Shin, S.H.;Lee, J.S.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.166-173
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    • 1999
  • Commercial carbon steels containing 0.2~0.55 wt.----C were plasma-nitrided or plasma nitrocarburized at $550^{\circ}C$ for 21.6Ks using $H_2-N_2$ or $H_2-N_2$-CO mixed gas respectively. The characteristics of hardening and wear-resistance of each treatment were studied and compared. And also microstructure of nitrided layer and nitrides formed in compound layer near surface were studied. All plasma-nitrided steels investigated showed remarkable increase of surface hardness with the increase of carbon content. But nitrocarburized steels resulted in higher surface-hardness than plasma-nitrided steels, which means that nitrocarburized has higher surface-hardening effect. Plasma-nitrided steels showed hardness increase in through-thickness direction near surface. And also nitrocarburized steels showed similar hardness distribution in through-thickness direction to that of plasma-nitrided steel. However, nitrocarburized steels had higher cross-sectional maximum-hardness than plasma-nitrided steels as much as 100Hv. Wear test showed that the amount of specific wear was reduced by both plasma-nitriding and nitrocarburized, showing that the amount of specific wear was not related to the hardness. But non-treated specimen showed that the amount of specific wear was related to the hardness.

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Development of an Automatic Soil Hardness Measuring System Mountable on Agricultural Tractors (트랙터 부착형 자동 토양경도 측정 시스템 개발)

  • 이현동;김기대;김찬수;김성환
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.537-546
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    • 2002
  • In this study an automatic soil hardness measuring system mountable on agricultural tractors was developed to improve the accuracy of manual soil hardness testers by a constant penetrating rate, right direction of the cone-penetrometer and the isolation of vibration from the operator. This was necessary to supply similar experimental condition for performance test of new model and comparative experiment. The results of the study are summaried as follows; 1. The system consisted of a sensing part of soil hardness, a driving part of the measuring system and an attaching part between the tractor and the measuring system. 2. The allowable limit value of the system developed was set to 392N to protect from breaking the serve motor and the coupling used in this system. 3. The driving shaft penetrated into soil by 0.3m to measure soil hardness. The soil hardness was measured at the depth of 0.3m from the soil surface but the penetrating work was stopped and the driving shaft was pulled out to protect the system when the value of the soil hardness was too big on foreign substances like stones or straws. 4. Two values measured by automatic measuring system developed in this research and manual penetrometer were compared by statistics hypothesis testing method. When two people measured the soil hardness at the depth of 0.1 and 0.15m by manual cone penetrometer, there was no relationship between two values by two people but the values at the same depths by automatic measuring system developed showed similarity. The automatic system, therefore, developed in this research was proper for measuring soil hardness.

Effects os Cold Drawing Ratio on the Hardness of Inconel 718 Wire (Inconel 718 선재의 경도에 미치는 냉간신선가공의영향)

  • Jeong, Yong-Kwon;Jo, Chang-Yong;Jung, Byong-Ho;Kim, In-Bae
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.354-358
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    • 1998
  • Effect of cold drawing ratio and aging time on the hardness of lnconel 718 wire aged at 11l6K were investi¬gated by hardness measurement and scanning & transmission electron microscopy. Hardness which was 245Hv in as¬solution treated condition increased very rapidly to 450Hv as cold drawing ratio increased to 50%. The hardness in the early stage of aging was increased by the precipitation of $\gamma^{'}$ and $\gamma^{'}$ phases and after the peak hardness, the hardness was decreased by the transformation of $\gamma^{'}$ phase to $\delta$ phase. The time to reach peak hardness during aging appeared to be reduced with the increase of cold drawing ratio, and those times were 30, 10, and 5 minutes for 0, 30 and 50% cold drawn materials, respectively. For the 50% cold drawn material. $\gamma^{'}$ and $\gamma^{'}$ were precipitated by aging for 5 minutes at 1116K. The hardness in the same material was largely decreased under the initial hardness by the recrystallization.

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Correlation between microhardness and wear resistance of dental alloys against monolithic zirconia

  • Cha, Min-Sang;Lee, Sang-Woon;Huh, Yoon-Hyuk;Cho, Lee-Ra;Park, Chan-Jin
    • The Journal of Advanced Prosthodontics
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.127-135
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    • 2021
  • Purpose. The aim of this study is to compare the hardness according to the conditions of metal alloys. Moreover, the correlation between the cast crown hardness before and after wear testing and the degree of wear for each dental alloy was assessed. Materials and Methods. Cast crowns of three metal alloys (Co-Cr, gold, and Ni-Cr alloys) opposing smooth-surface monolithic zirconia were used. The Vickers microhardness of the ingot (which did not undergo wear testing) and the cast crown before and after wear testing were measured for each alloy. Two-way ANOVA and Scheffé tests were used to compare the measured hardness values. Moreover, the Pearson correlation coefficient was used to evaluate the relationship between the surface hardness and the wear of the cast crown (α=.05). Results. There was no significant difference in the hardness before and after wear testing for the gold alloy (P>.05); however, the hardness of the worn surface of the cast crown increased compared to that of the cast crown before the wear tests of Ni-Cr and Co-Cr alloys (P<.05). Furthermore, there was no correlation between the wear and hardness of the cast crown before and after wear testing for all three metal alloys (P>.05). Conclusion. There was a significant difference in hardness between dental alloys under the same conditions. No correlation existed between the surface hardness of the cast crown before and after wear testing and the wear of the cast crown.

The Effects of Solution Heat Treatment and Aging Treatment on the Electrical Conductivity and Hardness of Cu-Cr Alloys (크롬동합금의 도전율과 경도에 미치는 용체화처리와 시효처리의 영향)

  • Kim, Shin Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.21-24
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    • 2002
  • The electrode materials for welding machine in automobile industry such as Cu-Cr, Cu-Zr and Cu-$Al_2O_3$ require the high electrical conductivity and the proper hardness. Therefore the effects of solution heat treatment and aging treatment on the electrical conductivity and hardness of Cu-0.8wt%Cr and Cu-1.2wt%Cr alloys have been investigated. Cu-0.8wt%Cr alloy showed the higher electrical conductivity and hardness than Cu-1.2wt%Cr alloy and both alloys showed the better electrical conductivity at $930^{\circ}C$ among 930, 980 and $1030^{\circ}C$ solution heat treatment temperatures. The electrical conductivity and hardness in both alloys were not affected by aging treatment but remarkably affected by solution heat treatment temperature. The final drawing process reduced electrical conductivity and increased hardness more in Cu-1.2wt%Cr alloy.

Effect of Hot Forging on the Hardness and Toughness of Ultra High Carbon Low Alloy Steel (초 고 탄소 저합금강의 경도와 인성에 미치는 열간단조의 영향)

  • Kim, Jong-Beak;Kang, Chang-Yong
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2013
  • This study was carried out to investigate the effect of hot forging on the hardness and impact value of ultra high carbon low alloy steel. With increasing hot forging ratio, thickness of the network and acicular proeutectoid cementite decreased, and than were broken up into particle shapes, when the forging ratio was 80%, the network and acicular shape of the as-cast state disappeared. Interlamellar spacing and the thickness of eutectoid cementite decreased with increasing forging ratio, and were broken up into particle shapes, which then became spheroidized. With increasing hot forging ratio, hardness, tensile strength, elongation and impact value were not changed up 50%, and then hardness rapidly decreased, while impact value rapidly increased. Hardness and impact value was greatly affected by the disappeared of network and acicular shape of proeutectoid cementite, and became particle shape than thickness reduction of proeutectoid and eutectoid cementite.

Research on the Electric device for the Noncontacting Hardness Tester (비접촉식 경도 측정용 전기 설비에 관한 연구)

  • 이진락;백기남
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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    • 1991.10a
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    • pp.45-47
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    • 1991
  • In this research, we verify the relations between the mechanical hardness of a strip and the output of Residual Magnetic Flux Detector, which is installed in the end side of #2 CAL. First, we install the strip speed detector and get a hardness signal and a speed signal 2 seconds, and then do signal processing and send an output to a printer every 30 seconds. The system that performs above functions is Magnetic Hardness Data Acquisition & Processing System. We got the relation between output current and hardness for the strip of T3 BP through on-line tests. Seconds, we made a hardness Measurement Simulator and observed the speed characteristics of residual magnetic flux, with using it.

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A Study on the Evaluation of Brinell Standard Hardness Tester and Automatic Indentation Measurement System (브리넬 경도 표준 시험기 및 압입 자국 자동 측정장치의 특성 평가에 대한 연구)

  • Bahng, G.W.;Tak, Nae-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.294-302
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    • 1999
  • Evaluation of Brinell standard hardness tester was carried out to secure its application as a national standard for Brinell hardness. Accuracies and reliabilities in load application, indenter diameter and indentation measurement were tested through evaluation of these components. The accuracies of load application for various loading conditions were within the limit of ISO and KS specifications. Errors in the indentation measurement due to the difference in personnel characters were successfully removed by utilising automatic indentation measurement system. In overall, the tester and the indentation measuring system were found to be eligible as a national standard of Brinell hardness.

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The Analysis for Surface Hardening by Repeated Sliding Contact (반복 미끄럼 접촉에 의한 표면층의 경화에 대한 해석)

  • 박준목;김석삼
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 1997
  • Wear is affected by numerous factors-contact load, sliding velocity and distance, friction coefficient, material properties and environmental conditions. Among these wear factors, surface hardness is one of very important factors to determine wear. But surface hardness is varied by work hardening during repeated sliding contact. In this reason wear rate is increased or decreased with varying surface hardness, and transition of wear mechanism is happened. In this study, the surface hardening by accumulating residual stress was analyzed by considering the repeated sliding Hertzian contact model. The results showed that surface hardness was increased with increasing contact load, friction coefficient and contact number. And the depth of hardening layer, plastic layer and elastic layer depended upon contact load and number, but they didn't depend upon friction coefficient. The predicted surface hardness was about 1.5-1.8 times as hard as the material.