• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05b
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• pp.312-317
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• 1998

사용 후 핵연료 수송용기는 자유낙하 충돌사고에 대비해 양 끝단에 충격완충체를 부착하는데 이 충격완충체의 층격흡수특성은 수송용기의 구조적 안전성애 크게 영향을 미친다. 충격완충체의 층격흡수재를 감싸주는 철제 케이스와, 내부 격막판의 용접 접합부는 제작공정상 일부 부분이 부분접합 형태를 갖기 때문에 완전 접합된 부분이나 모재인 판재 부분에 비해 강도가 약하다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 충격완충체의 부분접합부와 같은 조건의 접합상태를 고려한 용접시편의 시험을 통해서 충격완충체 케이스의 용접 접합부에 대한 접합강도와 기계적 특성을 분석하고, 접합부의 강도특성이 수송용기의 자유낙하 충돌거동에 미치는 영향을 예측하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05b
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• pp.318-323
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• 1998

사용 후 핵연료 수송용기의 충돌사고에 대한 안전성은 층격완충체의 층격흡수특성에 지배되며, 충격완충체의 충격홉수특성은 외부의 케이스와 내부 격막판 둥의 철제 구조물과 내부에 삽입된 충격흡수재의 변형특성에 지배를 받는다. 충격흡수재를 감싸주는 철제 케이스와 내부 격막판의 용접 접합부는 일부 부분이 제작공정상 부득이 부분용접의 접합형태를 갖기 때문에 판재나 완전 접된 부분에 비해 강도가 약해 충돌사고시 취약부위가 파단된다. 이러한 케이스 용접부의 파단은 충격완충체의 변형특성을 변화시켜 충격흡수거동이 달라지는 원인이 된다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 용접 접합부의 강도특성을 수송용기의 자유낙하 충돌해석에 적용할 수 있는 해석모델을 구성하고 부분용접된 접합부의 파단강도가 수송용기의 충돌거동에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

• Composites Research
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.58-64
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• 2015

The purpose of this paper is to suggest the effective equivalent finite element model for the impact limiter of a nuclear spent fuel shipping cask made of sandwich composite panels. The sandwich composite panels were composed of a metallic facesheet and a core material made of urethane foam, balsa wood and red wood, respectively. The effective equivalent finite element model for the impact limiter was proposed by comparing the results of low-velocity impact test of sandwich panels. An explicit finite element analysis based on LS-DYNA 3D was done in this study. The results showed that the solid elements were recommended to model the facesheet and core of sandwich panels for impact limiter compared to combination modeling method, in which the layered shell element for facesheet and solid element for core material are used. In particular, the solid element for balsa and red wood core materials should be modeled by the element elimination approach.

• Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 2009

Transport package for radioactive material should be structurally safe under puncture drop condition and its safety should be verified by test and numerical analysis. Most finite element analyses for puncture drop have been performed without modeling the impact limiter since failure is occurred in the materials of the impact limiter. This paper presents a new modeling methodology, where an element is eroded in case that the material's failure criteria are reached at the element's integration point, to investigate the effect of the impact limiter in the puncture process. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is shown through the puncture drop analysis of hotcell transport cask, which is under design in KAERI. The results show that about 80 percent of the total impact energy is absorbed due to the deformation of impact limiter. Using the present method the puncture drop can be analyzed more accurately, but it would give conservative results compared to the actual test condition.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2023

This study examines the response when the shock by underwater explosion is transmitted to a vertical launch air-vehicle mounted on a ship using modeling and simulation, and is about a plan to increase method shock resistance to protect the air vehicle. In order to obtain an accurate mathematical model, a dynamic characteristic test was performed on similar equipment, and through this, the mathematical model could be supplemented. And, using the supplemented mathematical model, the air vehicle simulated the shock response by the underwater explosion specified in the BV043 standard. As a result of the first simulation, it was confirmed that air vehicle could not withstand shock, and air vehicle protection method using a ring spring type shock absorber was studied. In addition to the basic shape of abosber, it was confirmed that the ring spring absober can be used to increase the impact resistance of a shipborn vertical launch vehicle by performing simulations for each case by changing deseign varables.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.1345-1352
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• 2012

This paper aims to evaluate the low-velocity impact responses and mechanical properties of balsa-wood and urethane-foam core materials and their sandwich panels, which are applied as the impact limiter of a nuclear spent fuel shipping cask. For the urethane-foam core, which is isotropic, tensile, compressive, and shear mechanical tests were conducted. For the balsa-wood core, which is orthotropic and shows different material properties in different orthogonal directions, nine mechanical properties were determined. The impact test specimens for the core material and their sandwich panel were subjected to low-velocity impact loads using an instrumented testing machine at impact energy levels of 1, 3, and 5 J. The experimental results showed that both the urethane-foam and the balsa-wood core except in the growth direction (z-direction) had a similar impact response for the energy absorbing capacity, contact force, and indentation. Furthermore, it was found that the urethane-foam core was suitable as an impact limiter material owing to its resistance to fire and low cost, and the balsa-wood core could also be strongly considered as an impact limiter material for a lightweight nuclear spent fuel shipping cask.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.61-62
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• 2015

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.20-28
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• 2008

According to IAEA regulations, a transportation package of radioactive material should perform its intended function of containing the radioactive contents after the drop test, which is one of hypothetical accident conditions. Impact limiters attached to a transport cask absorb the most of impact energy. So, it is appreciated to determine properly the shape, size and material of impact limiters. A material data needed in this determination is a dynamic one. In this study, several materials considered as those of impact limiters were tested by a drop weight facility to acquire dynamic material characteristics data. Impact absorbing volume of the impact limiter was derived mathematically for each drop condition. A size optimization of impact limiter was conducted. The derived impact absorbing volumes were applied as constraints. These volumes should be less than critical volumes generated based on the dynamic material characteristics. The derived procedure to decide the shape of impact limiter can be useful at the preliminary design stage when the transportation package's outline is roughly determined and applied as input value.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.05b
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• pp.256-261
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• 1997

국내 원전의 사용후핵연료를 경제적으로 수송할 수 있는 대형 수송용기의 국내개발을 위하여 10년의 냉각기간을 갖는 28다발의 PWR 사용후핵연료를 수송할 수 있도록 기본 설계기준을 설정하였다. 이 대형 수송용기에 대하여 개념설계로부터 결정된 차폐두께와 칫수를 기준으로 기본구조를 결정하고 정상수송조건 및 가상사고 조건에 대한 구조해석을 수행하였다. 대형 수송용기는 내부에 많은 양의 PWR 사용후핵연료를 담고 있으므로 이들 핵연료의 중량은 구조설계에 큰 영향을 미치게 된다. 본 연구의 목적은 28다발의 PWR 핵연료를 담은 대형 수송용기가 9m 높이에서 자유낙하하여 충돌사고를 일으켰을 때의 안전성을 파악하기 위한 것이다. 수송용기가 충돌시 충격면에 발생하는 충격력으로 인한 충격완충체의 변형과 충격흡수, 수송용기에 발생하는 응력, 가속도, 충돌력 등의 동적거동을 파악하여 안전성을 입증하였다.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF PACKAGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.51-56
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• 2013

From the time the product is manufactured until it is carried and ultimately used, the product is subjected to some form of handling and transportations. During this process, the product can be subjected to many potential hazards. One of them is the damage caused by shocks. In order to design a product-package system to protect the product, the peak acceleration or G force to the product that causes damage needs to be determined. When a corrugated fiberboard box loaded with products is dropped onto the ground, part of the energy acquired due to the action of the gravitational acceleration during the free fall is dissipated in the product and the package in various ways. The shock absorbing characteristics of the packaging cushion materials are presented as a family of cushion curves in which curves showing peak accelerations during impacts for a range of static loads are shown for several drop heights. The new method for determining the shock absorbing characteristics of cushioning materials for protective packaging has been described and demonstrated. It has been shown that cushion curves can be produced by combining the static compression and impact characteristics of the material. The dynamic factor was determined by the iterative least mean squares (ILMS) optimization technique in which the discrepancies between peak acceleration data predicted from the theoretical model and obtained from the impact tests are minimized. The approach enabled an efficient determination of cushion curves from a small number of experimental impact data.