• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.44-49
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• 2013

As the polyethylene of high strength and ductility stabilized chemically has been mass-produced, it is spreading widely as material of industrial piping and water service piping. Recently, High density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe has been used even in water supply system of plant as buried pipe instead of cast iron pipe in domestic, but HDPE pipe has a probability of occurrence of damage if plant design and operating conditions are not considered. As a result of reviewing with respect of system design engineering based on operating conditions and verification test results, the specific design criteria for the use of HDPE piping in fire water supply system need to be established because of the possibility of crack damage due to water hammer.

• 한국가스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.111-121
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• 2002

천연가스 수송배관은 매설환경시의 방식 및 외부충격 등에 대비하여 배관을 보호할 목적으로 폴리에틸렌(polyethylene)으로 피복(coating)되어 있다. 가스배관이 전국으로 확장됨과 더불어 배관피복 기술도 초기 사용하던 1층(one-layer), 2층피복으로 발전되어 현재는 3층피복시스템을 적용한 배관들이 전국에 매설되고 없다. 그러나 강관에 적용된 폴리에틸렌 피복이 경우에 따라 장기간 사용에 따른 자연균열등이 발생하여 피복의 안정성에 문제를 일으키기도 하므로, 그동안 전국에 매설되어있는 배관 피복재들의 물성변화 여부를 확인하여 천연가스수송용 배관의 내성 데이터베이스를 구축, 향후 배간운영의 신뢰성 평가에 참고하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 선진외국에서 폴리에틸렌 배관의 내구성과 장기사용 안정성 평가를 위해 오래전부터 활용되고 있는 저속균열저항성(slow crack growth resistance : SCGR) 측정과 배관 피복층의 산화유도시간(OIT : oxidation induction time)을 측정하여 국내 배관 피복재들의 내구성을 평가하고 이를 근거로 하여 국내사용판정에 적합하고 수출도 고려한 폴리에틸렌 물성치의 목표값을 제안하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.6 no.4 s.18
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• pp.40-46
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• 2002

This study has been carried out to evaluate the reliability by examining the properties related to durability of commercially available coating systems in domestic. For this purpose slow crack growth resistance and oxidative induction time tests were introduced, which have been accepted as durability parameters in polyethylene pipes with low pressure. Based upon the experimental results on these parameters, desirable minimum values are proposed for the durability enhancement of the polyethylene coatings.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.8 no.3 s.24
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• pp.1-7
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• 2004

The polyethylene pipe can use semi-permanent because of the high corrosion resistance with chemical stability. In addition to, there is the merit that is an easy to establish and to maintain. However, as the reason that it is simply degraded when the polyethylene pipe was exposed to the outside, mainly it is used to lay under the ground with low-pressure gas transportation pipe. In this study, the nondestructive evaluation method was used to maintain the integrity of the polyethylene pipe. We simulated the various defects on the polyethylene pipes, and then the AE signal occurred according to the impact test of steel ball was evaluated by the acoustic emission method. From the results, the waveform and dominant frequency could be distinguishing from the defect shapes of polyethylene pipe. Especially, in the case of notch defect, the AE signals occur different by the angle and depth of the notch.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.406-414
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• 2001

Ultrasonic guided waves were explored to apply them to the long range inspection of polyethylene coated steel gas pipes. The steel pipes have such dimensions as 190.7mm inside diameter and 5.3mm thickness. The outside surface of the pipe is coated by a polyethylene layer of $1.9{\pm}0.5mm$ thickness. Non-axisymmetric guided waves were excited on the outside surface of the polyethylene coated pipe by using a 0.5MHz transducer with a variable angle shoe. Frequency and phase velocity tuning was used to find optimum guided wave modes for the inspection. The dispersive characteristics of the modes were analyzed in time-frequency representation obtained by short time Fourier transforms. Sample results were presented for artificial defects such as wall thinning and hole.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.149-154
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• 2008

도시가스용 배관으로 사용하고 있는 폴리에틸렌 배관은 유연하여 시공이 용이할 뿐만 아니라 부식 및 전식이 일어나지 않아 유지관리가 편리하고 교체 없이 50년 이상 사용이 가능하여 금속 소재에 비하여 경제적이기 때문에 그 사용량이 증가하고 있다. 그러나 차량의 증가 등으로 인하여 매설된 배관에 많은 응력이 집중되고 있다. 따라서 토하중 뿐만 아니라 증가한 차량 등에 의한 하중이 복합적으로 작용할 경우에 매설된 배관이 어느 정도의 응력을 받고 있는지를 검토하고자 하였다. 직경이 $50{\sim}400mm$인 배관을 대상으로 매설깊이를 $0.6{\sim}1.2m$로 변화시키고 사용압력을 $0.4{\sim}4bar$로 변화시켜 그 결과를 검토하였다. 결과는 수식해와 유한요소 해석 방법을 이용하여 계산하였으며 두 결과를 비교하여 유한요소 해석 방법의 신뢰성을 높였다. 두 해석방법 모두 내압에 의한 영향, 토양하중에 의한 영향 그리고 차량 하중에 의한 영향을 각각 계산하였다. 그리고 각 하중이 복합적으로 작용할 경우에 대한 응력을 계산하여 매설 깊이에 따라 배관에 발생하는 응력을 계산하였다. 또한 가스배관 설계에 사용하는 허용응력을 4가지로 구분하여 발생한 응력과 비교하여 그 안전성을 검토하였다. 수식해와 유한요소 해석 결과를 비교하여 각각의 결과를 검증한 결과 수식해가 유한요소 결과보다 약간 높은 응력값을 나타내었으며 내압, 토하중, 차량하중 등이 복합적으로 작용할 경우에 매설깊이가 1m일 때 가장 낮은 원주방향응력이 발생하였다.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.103-109
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• 2016

Polyethylene pipes has useful benefits which are anti-corrosive and flexible material, so it is used to gas pipes but also class 3 water pipes of nuclear power plant, process pipes of petrochemical plant and chemical plant. So the usage of polyethylene pipes is widely increased. But it has been limited for the usage of polyethylene, because it can not be directly detected to fusion joints by using non destructive evaluation. Polyethylene pipes are connected by two methods, one is butt fusion and the other is electrofusion. Butt fusion is widely used to connecting the pipes. It is proposed to method for determining the reliability of joints in this study that is detection of the melt flow zone at fusion joints. In this study, middle density polyethylene is used, outside diameter of the test specimen is 225mm and thickness is 20.5mm. Speed of ultrasonic of this test specimen is 2,200m/s. Test specimens were fabricated by varying the heating time which means from 0% to 130% applying time through heating plate to polyethylene for detecting melt flow zone. Also 4 additional test specimens were made, one was made that not scrapping attached surface of pipes but applying 100% of the proper heating time and the others were made to include of soil, gravel and vinly tape paper at fusion joints, that were also applied 100% of proper heating time. Ultrasonic testing to measure the melt flow zone of 20 test specimens was conducted by using 3.5MHz and 5.0MHz ultrasonic probes and melt flow zone measuring was conducted to three times at different point to one specimen. To differentiate the melt flow zone signal, post image processing was equally conducted to all test results and image levels, contrast, sharpen, threshold were adopted to all teat results and the test results were displayed gray scale. From the results, for the shorter heating times the reflection area of multiple echo have been increased, so the data was obtained from the position where it can be eliminated as much as possible. At 80% of proper heating time(168 sec.), the signal of melt flow zone was obtained clearly, so measuring could be conducted. From 7% of proper heating time(15 sec.) to shorter heating times. we could not obtain the signal because test specimen was not fused. From the result, we can verify that measuring of melt flow zone by using phased array ultrasonic imaging method is possible. And we can verify to complete and incomplete butt fusion by measuring the melt flow zone.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.204-211
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• 2008

Polyethylene(PE) pipes have been widely used as they are easy to construct and suitable for economical efficient when they are compared with metal pipelines. This paper studied the effect of various external loadings on stress and deflection of the buried PE pipes using Finite Element Method(FEM). For this purpose, stresses of buried PE pipes were calculated according to the loading condition such as pipe types(pipe diameter $50{\sim}400mm$), burial depths($0.6{\sim}1.2m$) and internal pressures($0.4{\sim}4bar$). As a result, it was founded the effect and relation with each of loading conditions under the buried condition.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.49-55
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• 2007

Polyethylene pipes have been widely used as they are easy to construct and suitable for economical efficient when they are compared with metal pipelines. This paper studies the effect of various external loadings on stress and deflection of the buried PE pipes using Finite Element Method(FEM). For this purpose, stresses of buried PE pipes are calculated according to the loading condition such as pipe types (pipe diameter $50{\sim}400mm$), burial depths ($0.6{\sim}1.2m$) and internal pressures ($0.4{\sim}4bar$). As a result, it is founded the effect and relation with each of loading conditions under the buried condition.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2015

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) piping, which has recently been applied to safety class III piping in nuclear power plants, can be butt-joined through the thermal fusion process, which heats two fused surfaces and then subject to axial pressure. The thermal fusion process generates bead shapes on the butt fusion. The stress concentrations caused by the bead shapes may reduce the fatigue lifetime. Thus, investigating the effect of the thermal butt fusion beads on fatigue behavior is necessary. This study examined the fatigue behavior of thermal butt fusion via a tensile fatigue test under stress-controlled conditions using finite element elastic stress analysis. Based on the results, the presence of thermal butt fusion beads was confirmed to reduce the fatigue lifetime in the low-cycle fatigue region while having a negligible effect in the medium- and high-cycle fatigue regions.