• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.05a
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• pp.557-562
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• 1997

노심용융물의 노내 자연 냉각 현상은 TMI-2 사고 이래로 실험과 해석 분야에서 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있으나, 아직까지는 이에 대한 명확한 규명이 이루어지지 않은 상태이다. 원자로 용기 냉각 Mechanism 중에서 노심용융물이 원자로 용기 하부 반구내로 재배치되어 하부 반구 내벽과 접촉할 때 용융물과 하부 반구 내벽 사이에 생길 수 있는 작은 간극으로 냉각수가 침투되어 노심용융물의 냉각이 이루어질 수 있다는 가정이 유력하게 제기되고 있다 본 논문에서는 노심용융물과 원자로 용기 하부 반구 사이의 간극을 통한 노심용융물의 냉각 특성을 규명하는 SONATA-IV실험 연구와 연계하여 이상 유동이 존재하는 고온 표면에서의 미세한 간극을 측정할 수 있는 방법의 검토 및 시편을 이용한 실험을 통하여 가장 적합한 간극측정기법을 도출하였다 간극 측정 기법으로는 중성자 래디오그라피, X 선 후방산란 단층기법 그리고 초음파 펄스 반사 탐상법을 검토하였으며, 시편 측정 실험결과 실시간 간극 측정방법으로는 초음파 펄스 반사 탐상법이 가장 적합한 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.675-680
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• 1997

반구형 간극에서 히터 출력이 임계열유속(CHF)에 이르렀을 때 히터표면의 온도 변화와 CHF 값을 측정하였다. 반구형 히터의 직경은 498mm 이고 간극은 1, 2mm 에서 실험을 수행하였다. 히터표면의 온도는 항상 간극상단의 특정 부분에서부터 증가하기 시작하였다. 즉, 이곳에서 국부적인 dryout이 발생한 것으로 판단된다. 히터의 열속이 증가함에 따라 dryout 부분은 원주방향과 아래방향으로 확장되었다. 한편 임계열유속보다 작은 열속에서는 dryout 영역이 변하지 않는 정상상태가 존재하였으나 임계열유속에서는 열속이 고정되어 있어도 dryout 영역이 스스로 확장되어 나갔다. 이 실험은 계속 진행중이며 현재까지 측정된 CHF 값을 제시하였다. CHF 값은 간극을 대상으로 개발된 기존의 실험식보다 낮게 측정되었다.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.1-11
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• 2003

In order to measure aperture variation dependent on normal stress and to characterize on relationship between aperture variation and hydraulic conductivity this study measured apertures of rock fractures under a high resolution confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) with application of five stages of uniaxial normal stresses. From this method the response of aperture can be continuously characterized on one specimen by different loads of normal stress. The results of measurements showed a rough geometry of fracture bearing non-uniform aperture. They also revealed different values of aperture variations according to the load stages on each position along a fracture due to the fracture roughness. Laboratory permeability tests were also conducted to evaluate the changes of permeability coefficients related to the aperture variations by different loads. The results of permeability tests revealed that the hydraulic conductivity was not reduced at a fixed rate with increase of normal load. Moreover, the rates of aperture variations did not match to those of hydraulic conductivity. The hydraulic conductivity calculated in this study did not follow the cubic law, representing that the parallel plate model is not suitable to express the fracture geometry corresponding to the results of aperture measurements under the CLSM.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.1C
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• pp.9-17
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• 2008

In this research, an analytical solution for the coefficient of permeability of soils during consolidation is suggested. The pore pressure and the flow rate measurements at different locations during consolidation are utilized. The void ratio and volume compressibility of soils under consolidation are also estimated. A large consolidation testing device, possible in both vertical and radial drainage is designed and manufactured. And consolidation test with kaolinite soils were performed under radially inward drainage direction. Pore pressures in varying radial distances and flow rate with time were measured as well as vertical deformations. From the test results, the changes of permeability, volume compressibility and void ratio under consolidation and their spatial variations are estimated. Thus the proposed solution is verified by comparing with the experimentally estimated test results. In addition, it is confirmed that permeability, void ratio and volume compressibility decrease as consolidation and loading steps progress. Also, these soil characteristics increase with radial distant from drainage boundary, where lowest values observed, and slightly decrease as approaching undrained boundary.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.192-199
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• 2015

There is a gap between the inner wall of a pulse tube and an underwater acoustic material when the measurement for transmission loss by the pulse tube is carried out. In this paper, the effect, which is caused by the gap, for the measurement of transmission loss is analyzed. Transmission coefficient is derived from the ratio of the pressures between front and rear of the gap. Then, transmission loss for specimen with a gap is obtained by combining the transmission coefficients of the gap and specimen. The results of experiment and simulation for a specimen of stainless steel with 10 mm thickness are compared in order to evaluate the simulation model. Finally, simulations with respect to the gap size and transmission loss of a specimen are performed to analyze and evaluate the effect of the gap in measurement of transmission loss.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.2C
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• pp.85-93
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• 2010

The shear stiffness has become an important design parameter to understand the soil behavior. In particular, the elastic moduli and void ratio has been considered as important parameters for the design of the geotechnical structures. The objective of this paper is the development of the penetration type Field Velocity and Resistivity Probe (FVRP) which is able to assess the elastic moduli and void ratio based on the elastic wave velocities and electrical resistivity. The elastic waves including the compressional and shear wave are measured by piezo disk elements and bender elements. And the electrical resistivity is measured by the resistivity probe, which is manufactured and installed at the tip of the FVRP. The penetration tests are carried out in calibration chamber and field. In the laboratory calibration chamber test, after the sand-clay slurry mixtures are prepared and consolidated. The FVRP is progressively penetrated and the data are measured at each 1 cm. The field experiment is also carried out in the southern part of Korea Peninsular. Data gathering is performed in the depth of 6~20 m at each 10 cm. The elastic moduli and void ratio are estimated based on the analytical and empirical solutions by using the elastic wave velocities and electrical resistivity measured in the chamber and field. The void ratios based on the elastic wave velocities and the electrical resistivity are similar to the volume based void ratio. This study suggests that the FVRP, which evaluates the elastic wave velocities and the electrical resistivity, may be a useful instrument for assessing the elastic moduli and void ratio in soft soils.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.328-336
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• 1999

To characterize the hydro-mechanical behavior of a rock joint, a rotary shear testing apparatus was devised in this study. Shear stress was driven by twisting the end of a sample in the rotary shear testing apparatus. The test results show that the rotary shear test underestimates the peak shear strength of a rock joint. The torque is known as a function of the radial distance from the axis of rotation, resulting in the radial variation of the shear stress. Fluid flow through rock joints is mainly dependent on the Joint roughness, contact area, initial aperture. To examine the dependency, the relationship between the hydraulic and the mechanical apertures for shear-flow was established by measuring the initial aperture. It shows that the mechanical aperture and the hydraulic aperture increase linearly with the dilatancy. The difference between the hydraulic and mechanical apertures describes the deviation from the behavior predicted by the parallel plate model.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.61-68
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• 2008

Side friction is often neglected in the analysis of the results of a consolidation test when the specimen has a high ratio of diameter to height. As the height of a specimen increases, however, side friction becomes important. This paper presents an investigation of the effect of side friction on consolidation test results for normally consolidated kaolinite slurry. Consolidation tests were performed to obtain settlement, pore pressure, compressibility, and hydraulic conductivity of kaolinite slurry. The compressibility relationship is corrected for side friction using a modified form of Taylor (1942) analytical solution. Numerical simulations using the CS2 piecewise-linear model are compared with settlement and excess pore pressure measurements. Experimental results show improved agreement with a modified CS2 model in which the effect of side friction is considered. The numerical and experimental results indicate that the side friction is an important factor affecting the rate of consolidation as well as the compressibility relationship for the specimen.

• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.59-70
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• 1992

This work is to study experimentally the measurment of pore air pressure according to rainfall in colluvium model and the characteristics of pore water pressure according to increasement of artesian ground water head. After modeling a geological feature of the Tertiary formation, the experiment was performed about sixty times on three kinds of soil. This experimental results showed the variation of pore water and pore air pressures with time, the change of void ratio and appling pressure head in the nonsaturated soil. It can be also expressed by the final pore water and the air reaction ratios and then formularizing the relationship between the permeability coefficient and the void ratio. In the results of this experiment, the patterns of the pore water pressure reaction are classified by the step-type and the wave-type, and the time-lag to reach final point of pore water pressure is in order sand, sandy silt and clayey sand.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.78-86
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• 2006

This paper presents the performance test result of the 30-ton class turbopump turbine. Test has been conducted using high pressure cold air, The turbine overall performance has been measured for various pressure ratio and rotational speed settings. The nozzle-rotor clearance effect on turbine performance also has been tested for the four kinds of the nozzle-rotor clearance values. We found that turbine efficiency rated 51.1% at its design velocity ratio and pressure ratio of 13.5. We also found that turbine efficiency can be increased by 3.5% for approximately 1mm decrement of the nozzle-rotor clearance from its nominal value.