• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.187-196
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• 2003

Today, the Working Stress Rating (WSR) is being widely used for the capacity-rating and the safety assessment of railroad steel bridges. Since it cannot incorporate the uncertainties, several studies have been carried out in order to get over the incompleteness of the conventional capacity-rating and safety assessment. A system reliability-based equivalent capacity-rating method, which can evaluate the capacity of existing bridges, has been recently proposed. For more efficient reliability analysis, probabilistic parameters of the random variables in the limit-state models should be reasonably evaluated. Especially, uncertainties for live load effects must be realistically included. In this study, an improved limit-state model was used for the system reliability-based equivalent strength method. This model can incorporate the probabilistic parameters obtained from ambient measurement data. To demonstrate the applicability of the improved system reliability-based equivalent capacity rating method, this was applied to the existing steel plate girder bridge for comparison with the conventional capacity-rating and safety assessment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.9 no.5 s.36
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• pp.606-611
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• 2006

This paper presents a procedure and an analysis method to evaluate reliability of the Korea high-speed train. The rolling stock system is divided into 6 sub-systems and each subsystem is classified into sub-assemblies. Functional analysis has been conducted to draw reliability block diagrams for the sub-systems. First, failure rates has been calculated for each sub-assembly from the failure data obtained during commissioning tests. Then a reliability block diagram is used to evaluate the MKBF(Mean Kilometers Before Failure) of the sub-systems. Activities to increase reliability have been carried out throughout the test runs and analysis results show that the reliability of the rolling stock system is gradually growing in time.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.2166-2178
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• 2010

The Korea Transportation Database (KTDB) is used to obtain data on the origin and destination (OD) of inter-city travel, which are currently used in railroad planning when estimating traffic demand. The KTDB employs the trip assignment method, whereby the total traffic volume researched for inter-city travel in Korea is divided into road, rail and air traffic, etc. However, as regards rail travel, the railroad stations are not identical to the existing zones or the connector has not been established because there are several stations in one zone as such, certain problems with the applicable methods have been identified. Therefore, estimates of the volume of railroad traffic using the KTDB display low reliability compared to other modes of transportation. In this study, these problems are reviewed and analyzed, and use of the aggregate model method to estimate the direct demand for rail travel is proposed in order to improve the reliability of estimation. In addition, a method of minimizing error in traffic demand estimation for the railroad field is proposed via an analysis of the relationship between the aggregate model and various social-economic indicators including population, distances, numbers of industrial employees, numbers of automobiles, and the extension of roads between cities.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.1367-1370
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 LTS(Labeled Transition System)로 명세화된 철도 신호 제어 프로토콜의 동작의 정확성을 형식기법을 통해 검정하고 적합성 시험을 위한 시험계열을 자동으로 생성해 주는 도구로서 프로토콜 검정기와 적합성 시험 계열 생성기를 개발하였다. 본 도구는 과거에 사용되었던 비정형적 방법의 많은 오류와 모호함을 제거하고 프로토콜 개발시간 및 비용을 절약해 줌으로써 철도 신호 제어시스템의 안전성 및 신뢰성을 보장해 줄뿐만 아니라, 다른 시스템에도 응용되어 검정 및 시험을 효율적으로 수행하게 해주는 도구이다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04b
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• pp.319-322
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• 2006

안전필수시스템인 철도신호제어 시스템의 신뢰성은 하드웨어와 소프트웨어의 신뢰도에 의해서 결정된다. 하드웨어의 신뢰도는 상대적으로 많은 연구와 환경적 시험을 통하여 비교적 용이하게 예측하고 입증할수 있으나, 소프트웨어의 신뢰도는 반복실험결과에 의해서 추정해야 하므로, 입력 값에 따라서 신뢰도 추정치가 종속된다. 소프트웨어의 입력과 출력의 조합은 거의 Combinatoric으로 되기 때문 모든 경우를 시험하기는 블가능하다. 따라서 단순화된 방법에 의해서 소프트웨어의 신뢰도를 구하는 것이 중요한 문제로 부각되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 소프트웨어의 신뢰도를 예측하는 신뢰도 예측방정식(Reliability Prediction Equation)을 도출하여 신호제어시스템 소프트웨어에 대한 신뢰도 모델링을 수행하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.240-247
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• 2008

Recently, railway corporations have built maintenance information systems and collected failure and maintenance data. For example Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation (SMRT) built the Electric Motor Unit-Information System (EMU-IS) which is the first maintenance information system in Korea. It has been operated from August, 2000. This paper deals with a case study on determining maintenance interval through reliability analysis using EMU-IS fault data. Door system is considered for the case study in which reliability is evaluated for operating time and distance and the overhaul interval is determined.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.11b
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• pp.251-261
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• 2006

FMEA(Failure Mode and Effects) is a procedure for the analysis of a system to identify the potential failure modes, and their effects and causes to reduce or mitigate the critical effects of the system. Recently, FMEA is used in various industries and it is specialized in each industry. For instance, MIL-1629a in Military industry, SAE-J1739 in Automotive industry and other industry are using specialized FMEA method. Though Railroad industry requires the high reliability system, it does not have the FMEA method which is specialized to them. So in this paper, we examined the MIL-1629a, SAE-J1739, IEC-60812 and compared those standards. Furthermore, we propose the FMEA method that is specialized to the railroad system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.182-187
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• 2005

Air spring system was widely accepted for railway vehicle secondary suspension to reduce and absorb the vibration and noise. The low natural frequency ensures a comfortable ride and an invariably good stiffness. In this paper, the characteristics and durability test was conducted in laboratory by using servo-hydraulic fatigue testing system to reliability evaluation of air spring for electric railway vehicle. The experimental results show that the characteristics and durability of domestically developed productions are shown in good results. And to guarantee the adaption of air spring, the ride comfort and air pressure variation were measured in train test on subway line.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.286-292
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• 2005

In this paper, we introduce IEC 60300(Dependability program management) into urban transit system, and propose effective method to apply IEC 60300 to Subway Corporation. The dependability is the collective term used to describe the availability performance and its influencing factors such as reliability performance, maintainability performance and maintenance support performance. A dependability program covers all phases of a system's life cycle from planning to operation and possibly disposal, and is composed of program elements divided into tasks.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.439-443
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• 2005

The biggest challenge bridge agencies face is the maintenance of bridges, keeping them safe and serviceable, with limited funds. To maintain the bridges effectively, there is and urgent need to predict their remaining life from a system reliability viewpoint. In this paper, a model using lifetime functions to evaluate the overall system probability of survival of a rail road bridge is proposed. In this model, the rail load bridge is modeled as a system. Using the model, the lifetime of the rail road bridge is predicted.