• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.654-662
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• 2016

As the number of gates and basic events in fault trees increases, it becomes difficult to calculate the exact probability of the top event. In order to overcome this difficulty the BDD methodology can be used to calculate the exact top event probability for small and medium size fault trees in short time. Fault trees are converted to BDD by using CUDD library functions and a failure path search algorithm is proposed to calculate the exact top event probability. The backward search algorithm is more efficient than the forward one in finding failure paths and in the calculation of the top event probability. This backward search algorithm can reduce searching time in the identification of disjoint failure paths from BDD and can be considered as an effective tool to find the cut sets and the minimal cut sets for the given fault trees.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.936-943
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• 2009

In this study, a risk assessment model based on the ETA (Event Tree Analysis) and FTA (Fault Tree Analysis) is developed according to the procedure of hazard analysis and risk assessment in order to estimate the risk quantitatively. The FTA technique is applied to estimate the branch probability (frequency) and the ETA technique is applied to estimate the consequence for each branch path on the ET (Event Tree). A risk assessment model is developed by the combination of those ETA and FTA. In addition, the reliability and the validity of the risk assessment model are verified by comparing the risk estimated through the developed model with the actual equivalent fatality.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.605-613
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• 2007

In order to overcome the difficulties of quantitative risk analysis such as complexity of model, we propose a systematic methodology for risk quantification of railway system which consists of 6 steps: The identification of risk factors, the determination of major scenarios for each risk factor by using event tree, the development of supplementary fault trees for evaluating branch probabilities, the evaluation of event probabilities, the quantification of risk, and the analysis in consideration of accident situation. In this study, in order to address the feasibility of the propose methodology, this framework is applied to the prototype risk model of nation-wide railway level crossings. And the quantification result based on the data of 2005 in Korea will also be presented.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.611-626
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• 1994

격납건물 사건수목 방법은 확률론적 안전성 평가시 격납건물 해석의 핵심을 이루는 부분으로서 계통안전 분석으로부터 파악된 주요 노심용융 사고경위와 격납건물 방호계통의 적절한 조합에 의하여 선정된 발전소손상군을 초기조건으로 하여 격납건물 파손 및 방사선원 방출에 영향을 주는 격납건물 내부에서 발생 가능한 주요 사고진행 과정을 체계적으로 다룰 수 있는 유용한 수단이다. 원자력 안전성 향상연구이후 격납건물의 건전성을 확보하기 위한 많은 노력의 결과 현재까지 격납건물 해석 및 논리체계는 상당한 기술적 진보를 이루어 왔으나 아직도 이를 기술하는 방식에는 논쟁의 여지가 많고, 중대사고와 관련된 여러 현상들을 반영할때 그것의 논리적 타당성을 객관적으로 평가할 수 있는 방법이 아직 확고히 정착되지 못함으로 인하여 격납건물 해석결과에는 많은 불확실성 이 존재한다. 또한 아직까지 기존 방법론에 대한 어떠한 종류의 체계적 분석도 이루어지지 않음으로 인하여 이들에 대한 논리적 한계점을 파악하는 데 많은 어려움이 있다. 본 연구에서는 지금까지 주로 개발, 사용되어 온 다양한 격납건물 사건수목 분석 방법론을 소개하고 이들 각각이 지니고 있는 기술적인 문제점을 고찰하며 이를 바탕으로 격납건물 사건수목이 갖추어야 할 기본논리, 구조에 대한 안내지침을 제시함으로써 효과적인 격납건물 해석 및 방법론 개발에 도움을 주고자 한다

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.285-298
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• 1991

An example application of the fuzzy set theory is first made to a simple portion of a given accident progression event tree with typical qualitative fuzzy input data, and thereby computational algorithms suitable for application of the fuzzy set theory to the accident progression event tree analysis are identified and illustrated with example applications. Then the procedure used in the simple example is extended to extremely complex accident progression event trees with a number of phenomenological uncertainty issues, i.e., a typical plant damage state‘SEC’of the Zion Nuclear Power Plant risk assessment. The results show that the fuzzy averages of the fuzzy outcomes are very close to the mean values obtained by current methods. The main purpose of this paper is to provide a formal procedure for application of the fuzzy set theory to accident progression event trees with imprecise and qualitative branch probabilities and/or with a number of phenomenological uncertainty issues.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.05a
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• pp.444-449
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 기존의 PSA기법인 사건수목/고장수목의 단점을 보완한 동적 신뢰성 평가도구인 DYLAM방법론을 이용해서 참조원전$^{[1]}$ 소외전원 상실사고시 노심노출 사고발생 빈도를 평가하였다. 부분충수 운전시 발생될 수 있는 노심의 노출을 예방하기 위한 운전원의 여러가지 조치들의 오류가능성애 대한 민감도 계산을 수행하였다. 민감도 분석의 결과 일차 충전 및 유출운전 (Feed and B띤) 인적오류가 노심노출 사고발생 빈도에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었으며 정지생각계통 기능회복을 위한 조치는 상대적으로 적은 영향을 끼치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 정지/저출력으로 운전하는 부분충수 운전시 전 출력에 비하여 노심노출올 무시할 수 없음도 보여주었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.530-535
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• 2008

After train fire accident in Daegue, many research on train fire safety improvement have been carrying out. Since many alternative fire safety measures can be applied in our railway system, the effect of the each safety measure must be quantified prior to the safety investment. In order to estimate the effects of each safety measure quantitatively, fault trees and event trees are constructed in this study. Results can be applied for cost-benefit analysis or sensitivity analysis for safety measures in risk assessment process.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.190-198
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• 2009

This study shows the developing process of the risk assessment models for railway casualty accidents. To evaluate the risks of these accidents, the hazardous events and the hazardous factors were identified by the review of the accident history and engineering interpretation of the accident behavior. The frequency of each hazardous event was evaluated from the historical accident data and structured expert judgments by using the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) technique. In addition, to assess the severity of each hazardous event, the ETA (Event Tree Analysis) technique and other safety techniques were applied. The risk assessment models developed can be effectively utilized in defining the risk reduction measures in connection with the option analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1996.05b
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• pp.570-575
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• 1996

1단계 확률론적 안전성 평가 (Level 1 Probabilistic Safety Assessment, PSA)를 수행할 때 나타나는 보조계통 고장 수목간의 순환 논리는 사고 경위 정량화를 위하여 해결되어야만 한다. 기존의 PSA에서는 이를 위하여 별도의 고장 수목을 다시 작성하였으나, 이 방법을 사용하기 위하여서는 보조계통 간의 관계를 검토하여야 하며, 이에 따른 별도의 고장 수목을 작성하여야 하는 등 추가적인 작업이 요구된다. 또한 기존 방법은 일부 최소 단절군이 생성되지 않는 약점을 갖고 있다. 이에 따라 한국원자력연구소에서는 해석적으로 순환 논리를 푸는 방법을 개발하였으며, 이를 PSA용 코드인 KIRAP 코드에 구축하였다. 이에 따라 기존 방법의 약점을 극복하고 고장 수목간의 순환 논리를 자동으로 풀 수 있게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 개발된 해석적 방법을 설명하며, 또한 이 방법을 실제 PSA에 적용하며 나타난 여러 현상에 대하여 살펴본다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.129-136
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• 1996

Influence diagram method is applied to containment performance analysis of Young-Gwang 3&4 in an effort to overcome some drawbacks of current containment performance analysis method. Event tee methodology has been adopted as a containment performance analysis method. There are, however, some drawbacks on event tree methodology. This study is to overcome three major drawbacks of the current containment performance analysis method : 1) Event tree cannot express dependency between events explicitly. 2) Accident Progression Event Tree (APET) cannot represent entire containment system. 3) It is difficult to consider decision making problem. To resolve these problems, influence diagrams, is proposed. In the present ok, the applicability of the influence diagrams has been demonstrated for YGN 3&4 containment performance analysis and accident management strategy assessments of this study are in good agreement with those of YGN 3&4 IPE. Sensitivity analysis has been peformed to identify relative important variables for each early containment failure, late containment and basemat melt-though. In addition, influence diagrams are used to assess two accident management strategies : 1) RCS depressurization, 2) cavity flooding. It is shown that influence diagrams can be applied to the containment performance analysis.