• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.210-222
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• 2017

Railway turnout systems play a key role in railway systems that change train directions. The turnout systems are one of the weakest systems in railway systems, and consecutive maintenance is required. A turnout diagnostic system can automatically measure the turnout status and its deterioration. To diagnose the turnout systems, we follow conventional maintenance procedures and need to identify their physical characteristics to coincide the procedures and the characteristics. According to the physical characteristics, we should choose and install adequate sensors on the turnout systems to measure their physical characteristics. We studied the phenomenon of the turnout system responses for point moving and train running on the turnout systems. We installed sensors on the turnout system in a revenue line to measure the identified physical quantities and to reveal the robustness of the sensors under the turnout system environment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.223-233
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• 2017

The railway turnout system is one of the most important systems that set train routes. Turnout system integrity should be guaranteed for robust train operation. To diagnose the turnout system status, LVDT and accelerometers are installed on a turnout system in a high speed line. The LVDT and accelerometers produce signals containing physical meaning of the turnout systems. The LVDT produces the displacement of the rail gauge and vibration when point moving or a train passes on turnout systems and the accelerometer produces impact forces induced by wheel sets. We performed data extraction from the measured signals and parameterized the extracted signals into meaningful quantities. The parameters are used for classifying whether the turnout status is normal. We proposed two methods for the classification, one uses probabilistic distribution and the other artificial neuron networks. The probabilistic distribution is used for the parameter being classified by the quantities and the artificial neuron networks for the form classification. Finally, we show how to learn the normal status of a turnout system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.439-446
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• 2015

The turnout system, which determines the direction of the train, is not only a key system but also a vulnerable system. Failure of this system may lead to a delay of the train or even casualties. In this light, it is necessary to precisely the conditions of the turnout system. Currently, ROADMASTER of Germany is used as a diagnostic system in Korea. However, a new diagnostic system should be developed for optimized operation of the turnout system with maintenance that is suitable for the Korean railway environment. In this paper, a Fault Tree Analysis for the representative faults of the turnout system is conducted and physical quantities, which can be the cause of the fault, are classified according to the component and function. Also, the measuring factors for the monitoring are derived and a decision making theory is suggested. On the basis of the results, we propose a new turnout diagnostic system that can provide more driverse and precise information than the conventional system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.582-588
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• 2007

Since the turnout system in railroad restricts the train speed, the KNR (Korean National Railroad) provides the specification for the speed (130km/h) of the train when the train passes the turnout system. Therefore, the turnout system in pre-existing railroad is necessary to be improved to speed-up for the train. In this study, the dynamic wheel-load field tests have been performed to evaluate the track performance and the roadbed bearing capacity has been examined using numerical analysis at the turnout crossing in the conventional and improved turnout system. The impact factor is estimated using the data sets achieved from the dynamic wheel-load field tests in the conventional and improved turnout system. The stress acting on the roadbed for the improved turnout system is substantially decreased compare to that for the conventional turnout system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 1993.10b
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• pp.11-30
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• 1993

종래부터 CATV 또는 MATV시스템의 신호분기회로로 사용되어 오고 있는 Tap-off는 단지 실험적 경험적으로 제작되어 왔으며 이론적인 해석이나 엄밀한 설계법이 확립되어있지 않았기 때문에 그 성능에 있어서도 대역폭이 좁거나 분기 특성이 나쁜문제점등이 있었다 따라서 본 논문에서는 보조변성기가 부가된 변형된 약결합성 신호분기기를 제안하여 설계의 자유도를 높힘으로써 상당히 조밀한 결합간격의 회로구성이 가능한 설계법을 제안하고 그 주파수특성을 계산하여 제안한 변형된 신호분기기의 설계법의 유효함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06b
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• pp.261-266
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• 2007

내장형 시스템에 보다 강력한 성능이 요구됨에 따라 내장형 마이크로 프로세서는 보다 깊은 파이프라인을 채택하고 있다. 따라서, 내장형 마이크로 프로세서는 보다 정확한 분기 예측기를 필요로 하고 있다. 이러한 상황에서 분기 예특기의 구조, 성능 및 전력 소모와 전체 시스템의 전력 소모 사이의 trade-off를 분석하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 내장형 환경에서 시스템의 전력 소모는 설계 시 매우 중요하게 고려되어야 한다. 특히 내장형 시스템의 요구사항은 동작할 응용 프로그램에 의하여 규정되고, 전력 소모도 응용프로그램의 구조와 강하게 연관되어 있다. 본 논문의 목표는 내장형 환경에서 성능-전력 공간에서 분기 예측기를 분석하는 기법을 제시하는 것에 있다. 이를 통하여, 분기 예측기 테이블의 성능-전력을 고려한 최적화된 크기를 찾을 수 있다. 이러한 목표는 수학적 모델링을 통한 정량적 예측의 수행 및 시뮬레이션 결과와의 비교를 통한 수학적 모델링의 검증의 과정을 통하여 이루어진다. 결과는 우리의 수학적 모델이 성능-전력 공간에서 분기 예측기 테이블의 최적화된 크기 결정의 해법을 제공하고 있음을 보여주고 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.61-66
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• 2008

In railroad operation, turnout is the device designed to provide very critical functions of moving the train to the neighboring rail. It's the only movable section among the rail and track equipment, which has a complicated structure and as rapid movement between the wheel and rail during operation is unavoidable, the safety and the vibration caused by the impact load of the passing train becomes always the major concern. Response to rail vibration tends to vary depending on physical properties of the rail, rail base and the ground, making it difficult to estimate the quantitative outcome through the measurement. Thus, experimental or empirical approach, rather than an analytic method, has been more commonly employed to deal with the ground vibration. To predict the vibration of the turnout, an experimental value and the measured values are applied in parallel to the factors with a high degree of uncertainty. This study hence was intended to compare and analyze the vibration values measured at the crossing part of manganese turnout by type of train and turnout and distance, as well as predict the intensity of vibration generated at the crossing part of manganese turnout when tilting train accelerates.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.399-409
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• 1998

In this paper, the broad-band design theory for weakly-coupled Tap-Off for CATV systems has been described and the transmission line impedance matching method has been proposed. The fabricated weakly-coupled Tap-Offs based on the above theory and method have been much improved in the frequency characteristics compared with conventional ones. Thus, the useful bandwidth of weakly-coupled Tap-Offs have been extended from 5 to 2000 MHz. It is also recognized that turn numbers of the coils composing the transformer are not integers but 0.9, 1, 1.9, 2, 2.9, etc., in the actual circuits. Further, the practical measurements of the frequency characteristics for a fabricated weakly-coupled Tap-Off show very good agreements with theoretical results, and hence, the validity of the proposed design theory and transmission line impedance matching method have been confirmed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.175-185
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• 2015

Generally, in the train area, switch tracks have required high reliability because this system is directly associated with derailment. Especially, switch tracks of Maglev vehicles must be moved in terms of the whole geometric characteristics, in which the bogies are encased in the switch track. For this reason, switch track was constructed with steel lighter than concrete girders. But, the steel switch track was weak because of structural vibration as well as structural deformation. Therefore, it is important to predict the levitation stability when a vehicle passes over flexible switch track. The aims of this paper are to develop a coupled dynamic model to describe the relationship between a Maglev vehicle and switch track and to predict the levitation stability. In order to develop the coupled dynamic model, a three dimensional vehicle model was developed based on multibody dynamics; a switch model was made using the modal superposition method. And, the developed model was verified using comparison measured data.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.335-343
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• 2015

The role of the turnouts installed on the points of railway branches and intersections is to safely switch the directions of trains. In case of abnormal forces applied to the turnouts due to extreme operating conditions, it is difficult in the current system to conduct accurate diagnosis and measuring. Moreover, the existing measurement devices for turnout switching power are mostly based on foreign technologies, which provide only limited information on the switching power; this information is insufficient for effective monitoring and maintenance. In this paper, through an analysis of the characteristics of the switching and locking function, the problems in turnout power measurements of current electrical point machines in Korea are examined. And based on the results, a new sensor-based method for measuring switching power is proposed.