• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.590-593
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 산업용으로 널리 사용되는 접이식 자동문의 개폐 거동을 관찰하기 위한 운동방정식이 유도 되었다. 특히 자동문이 자유 낙하할 때 갑작스런 닫힘으로 인하여 작업 환경에 초래할 위험을 방지하고자 토션 스프링을 사용하였다. 설정된 작동 시간 및 속도에 적합한 토션 스프링의 강성을 산정하였고, 이를 바탕으로 스프링의 제원을 결정하였다.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.177-184
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• 2014

Flight safety analyses concerned with Launch Vehicle are performed to measure the risk to the people, ship and aircraft using impact point and impact dispersion area of debris generated by on-trajectory failures and malfunction turns. Predictions of impact point and impact dispersion area are essential for launch vehicle's flight safety analysis. Usually, impact dispersion area can be estimated in using Monte-Carlo simulation. However, Monte-Carlo method requires more several hundreds of iterative calculations which requires quite some time to produce impact dispersion area. Herein, we check the possibility of applying JU(Julier Uhlmann) transformation and Taguchi method instead of Monte-Carlo method and we propose a best method in terms of compuational time to produce impact dispersion area by comparing the results of the three methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.252-256
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• 2018

호우 시 산지하천 유역에서 빈발하는 토석류에 따라 하천 흐름에 들어온 전석과 같이 상대적으로 큰 물체는 하류로 이송되거나 하상에 퇴적하여 기존 흐름과 하상을 변화시키는 교란요인이 된다. 따라서 산지하천 흐름에서 전석의 영향을 예측하는 것이 필요하나 이는 유속, 전석의 크기와 형상, 유입조건, 부유사 농도 등 수 많은 변수들에 영향을 받기 때문에 그 경로를 정확히 예측하기 어렵다. 이 연구는 유리와 철로 된 구형물체가 개수로 흐름에서 이동하는 경로를 조사한 것이며 흐름의 수심, 물체의 크기와 초기침강조건을 고려하여 수리실험을 실시하고 물체의 이동경로와 유하거리를 분석하였다. 개수로 흐름에 유입한 구형 물체는 침강에 의한 항력과 유수에 의한 항력을 동시에 받는다. 이 힘은 물체의 형상, 유수의 점성, 난류, 물체와 물의 밀도차가 복합적으로 작용한 결과이며 구체의 이동경로와 시간을 좌우한다. 실험결과 개수로 흐름에서 낙하중인 구형물체는 하상에 가까워질수록 흐름방향 이동거리가 증가하였다. 물체의 수중무게가 작을수록 유수 중에서 체류하는 시간이 길고 이동거리가 더 크며, 구체에 작용하는 초기항력에 따라 초기 낙하각도와 이동거리가가 증가하는 것을 확인하였다.

• The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.5-11
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• 2015

In a pressurized water reactor (PWR), control rod assembly (CRA) falls into the guide tubes of a fuel assembly due to gravity for scram. Various theoretical approaches and numerical analyses have been performed because its shape is simple and its design was completely developed several decades ago. A control rod assembly for a sodium-cooled faster reactor (SFR) which is geometrically more complicated is being actively developed in Korea nowadays. Drop time and impact velocity of a CRA are important parameters with respect to reactivity insertion time and the mechanical robustness of a CRA and a guide duct. In this paper, computational method considering simultaneously the equation of motion for rigid body and the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid is suggested and verified by comparison with theoretical analysis results. Through this valuable CFD analysis method, drop time and impact velocity of initially designed SFR CRA are evaluated before performing scram tests with it.

• Composites Research
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.54-64
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• 1999

This study investigated the impact behaviors of the stitched sandwich composites under the low energy impact by the use of drop weight impact tester. These sandwich composites condidted of the glass fabric faces with a urethane foam core. The upper face and the lower face were stitched to combinr through the core thickness direction using the polyester reinforcements. Four types of the stitched sandwich composites, each having a different core thickness, were tested to determine the effects of the core thickness. The impact conditions were changes with the variations of the mass and drop height of the impact tup. The test results showed that the core thickness and the impact condidtions such as the drop height and the mass of the impact tup affected the impact force, the contact time, and the strain behaviors of the stitched sandwich composites. The stitched sandwich composites are able to avert the damage and also maintain the structural integrity even thouth the presence of the damage owing to the through-the-thickness reinforcements. However, it is important to improve the wetting ability of the stitched reinforcements so that the conventional structures are substituted for the stitched sandwich composites effectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.78-87
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• 2021

Understanding the liquid propellant transport phenomena in low gravity is essential for developing Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV) upper-stage for the diversity of space missions. A low-gravity environment can be simulated via the free-fall method on the ground; however, the air drag is inevitable. To reduce air resistance during free fall, air-drag shield is usually adopted. In this study, the free-fall method was performed with an air-drag shield from a 7-m height tower. The acceleration of a falling object was measured and analyzed. Low gravity below 0.01 g was achieved during 1.2-s free fall with the air-drag shield. The minimum gravitational acceleration value at 1.2-s after free fall was ±0.005 g, which is comparable to the value obtained from Bremen drop tower experiments, ±0.002 g. A prolonged free-fall duration may enhance the low-gravity quality during the drop tower experiments.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.134-140
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• 2016

The Control Rod Assembly (CRA) controls the reactor power by adjusting its position in the reactor core during normal operation and should be quickly inserted into the reactor core by free drop under scram condition to shut down chain reactions. Therefore, the drop time of the CRA is one of important factors for the safety of the nuclear reactor and must be experimentally verified. This study presents the drop performance test of the CRA which has been conceptually designed for the Proto-type Generation IV Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor. During the test, the CRA was free dropped from a height of 1 m under different flow rate conditions and its drop time was measured. The results showed that the drop time of the CRA increased as the flow rate increased; the average drop times of the CRA were approximately 1.527 seconds, 1.599 seconds and 1.676 seconds at 0%, 100% and 200% of design flow rates, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.542-547
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• 2014

This paper describes the medical and IT convergence system using a smart phone and a heuristic method for the measurement of the dripping speed of the liquid in a drip chamber, which can estimate the remaining time using pattern recognition and difference image from video frame information based on Android technology. The video frames were first made using a smartphone camera and we calculated the difference image between the n image and the (n-1) image and then changed into binary images using the threshold value. At this point, it is very important to find an optimal threshold value using heuristic method to recognize the dripping of the liquids. In addition, the user can adjust the dripping speed according to the doctor's prescription, exactly like watching the progress bar of a mobile application. The experiment results show that our method using video processing technique accurately measures the dripping speed for a wide range of speeds that are sufficient for ordinary practice.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.44 no.6
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• pp.463-467
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• 2016

In this paper, acceleration and pressure exerted on a human model were measured under a supersonic condition in a shock tunnel. In order to measure these in an interference-free environment, free-fall technique with an electromagnet and a three-dimensional iron-powdered human model was used. Free-fall experiment was conducted at Mach 4 and the force acting on the model was obtained by calculating the displacement from the flow visualization images.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.658-664
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• 2010

A control element drive mechanism(CEDM) is a reactor regulating system, which inserts, withdraws or maintains a control rod containing a neutron absorbing material within a reactor core to control the reactivity of the core. The ball-screw type CEDM for the integral reactor has a spring-damper system to reduce the impact force due to the scram of the CEDM. This paper describes the experimental results to obtain the drop and damping characteristics of the CEDM. The drop tests are performed by using a drop test rig and a facility. A drop time and a displacement after an impact are measured using a LVDT. The influences of the rod weight, the drop height and the flow area of hydraulic damper on the drop and damping behavior are also estimated on the basis of test results. The drop time of the control element is within 4.5s to meet the design requirement, and the maximum displacement is measured as 15.6 mm. It is also found that the damping system using a spring-hydraulic damper plays a good damper role in the CEDM.