• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.7 no.7
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• pp.242-249
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• 1999

Spot welding is very important and useful technology in fabrication of an automobile body structure. Because fatigue strength of the spot welding point is however considerably lower than parent metal due to stress concentration at the nugget edge, accurate stress analysis and fatigue stength evaluation of spot welded lap joint are very important to valuate the reliability and durability of automobile body structure and to establish a criterion of long life fatigue design. Many invetigators have studied so far onsystematic fatigue strength evaluation with various methods. It is however necessary to verify their reliability and abailability for practical application to fatigue design of spot welded structure, Thus,in this study, fatigue strength evaluation methods of spot welded lap joint. which are the maximum principal stress method. the fracture and availability with the Weibull probability distribution. From the results, it was found that reliability and availability withe the Weibull probaility distribution. From the results, it was found that reliability and availability of the suggest fatigue strength estimation methods methods were higher than $\Delta$P-$N_f$ relation. However, among them , reliability of the maximum pricipal stress method was the highest.

• Journal of Applied Reliability
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.45-55
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• 2007

In this study, two types of fatigue tests were conducted. Firs, cyclic bending tests were performed using the micro-bending tester. Second, thermal fatigue tests were conducted using a pseudo power cycling machine which was newly developed for a realistic testing condition. A three-dimensional finite element analysis model was constructed. A finite element analysis using ABAQUS was performed to extract the applied stress and strain in the solder joints. Creep deformation was dominant in thermal fatigue and plastic deformation was main parameter for bending failure. From the inelastic energy dissipation per cycle versus fatigue life curve, it can be found that the bending fatigue life is longer than the thermal fatigue life.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.672-681
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• 2018

This study was conducted to test the validity and reliability of the Korean version of the Professional Quality of Life Scale-Short Form (ProQOL-K-SF). Survey data were collected from 191 staff involved in long-term care insurance who worked for National Health Insurance Services. Construct validity using exploratory factor analysis and the internal consistency reliability were determined using SPSS/WIN (21.0). Factor analysis of the ProQOL-K-SF demonstrated that it has a two-factor structure (compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigues) and 13 items that support construct validity. Factor loadings of the compassion satisfaction ranged from 0.70-0.86, factor loading of the compassion fatigues ranged from 0.71-0.82 and the total variance was 60%. The ProQOL-K showed interanal consistency based on Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, with a total scale and two sub scale values of 0.76-0.90. Compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction of 30 items of the ProQOL-K were positively correlated with those of 13 items of the ProQOL-K-SF. The results support that the ProQOL-K has satisfactory construct validity and is a reliable measure of professional quality of life in Korea.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.105-109
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• 2010

While numerous information services are provided on the Web as a core infrastructure of information society, semantic services using the Semantic Web technologies still stay deployed number and application range. This situation would be mainly originated from the failure of securing reliability to the user. Thus, this paper introduces an evaluation method for measuring reliabilities of the semantic services comparatively. To measure the reliability of the compared systems, the observer assesses 'precision in task performance' as a quantitative analysis and 'reliability of expectation-result' as a qualitative analysis described by the test persons. On the other hand, the test person should rate the functional reliability and reliability of the served information on the vector graph by himself with a scale from 0 to 5. Experimental results show that assessment by the observer is very similar to rating value by test persons, and that the accuracy of the served information has a close effect on the functional reliability. Through this paper, we can verify the essential factors for evaluating the reliability of semantic service systems. These are functional reliability and reliability of served information resulting from function execution. In particular, it has been proven that the reliability of the semantic information services largely influences the "Quality in Use" and therefore determines the major factors of the semantic service reliability.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.35-40
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• 2019

The objective of this paper is to identify the fatigue properties of carbon-fiber composite which is widely applied for the development of aircraft structures and obtain data for full-scale fatigue test. The durability and damage tolerance evaluation of composite structures is achieved by fatigue tests and parameters such as fatigue life factor and load enhancement factor. The specimens are made with carbon-fiber/epoxy UD tape and fabric prepreg. Fatigue tests are performed with several stress ratios and lay-up patterns. The Weibull shape parameters are analyzed by Sendeckyj model and individual fatigue lives with Weibull distribution. And the fatigue life factor and load enhancement factor considering reliability are evaluated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.11
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• pp.1221-1229
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• 2014

This paper proposes an approach for predicting the fatigue life of a propeller shaft of a forklift truck by an accelerated life test method. The accelerated life test method adopted in this study is the calibrated accelerated life test, which is highly effective in the prediction of the lifetime and enables significant reduction of the test time as well as a quantification of reliability in the case of small sample sizes. First, the fatigue test was performed under two high stress levels, and then, it was performed by setting low stress levels in consideration of the available test time and extrapolation. Major reliability parameters such as the lifetime, accelerated power index, and shape parameter were obtained experimentally, and the experimentally predicted lifetime of the propeller shaft was verified through comparison with results of an analysis of load spectrum data under actual operating conditions.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.1-18
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• 2017

Metal fatigue is an important aging mechanism that material characteristics can be deteriorated when even a small load is applied repeatedly. An accurate fatigue evaluation is very important for component structural integrity and reliability. In the design stage of a nuclear power plant, the fatigue evaluations of the Class 1 components have to be performed. However, operating experience shows that the design evaluation can be very conservative due to conservatism in the transient severity and number of occurrence. Therefore, the fatigue monitoring system has been considered as a practical mean to ensure safe operation of the nuclear power plants. The fatigue monitoring system can quantify accumulated fatigue damage up to date for various plant conditions. The purpose of this paper is to describe the fatigue monitoring procedure and to introduce the fatigue monitoring program developed by the authors. The feasibility of the fatigue monitoring program is demonstrated by comparing with the actual operating data and finite element analysis results.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.39-45
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• 1997

최근 우리 주변에는 기계, 구조물의 고속화 및 대형화에 따른 충격하중의 발생빈도가 급격하게 증가하고 있다. 따라서 이와 같은 충격하중을 받는 기계 및 구조물의 안전성 및 신뢰성 확보를 위하여는 먼저 충격하중 특성을 고려한 내충격 설계기법의 확립이 필요하다. 특히 충격하중의 경우 종래의 파괴역학적 관점에서 주로 다루어 왔던 정적하중 및 피로하중 하에서의 재료거동 특성과 달리 응력파의 전파특성이 재료의 충격강도 및 균열발생, 전파특성에 큰 영향을 미치기 때문에 이를 고려한 역학적 검토가 필요하다. 한편 이와 같은 충격하중이 반복적으로 작용하는 충격피로의 경우 지금까지 많은 연구로 내피로 설계기법이 확립된 일반 피로 특성과 달리 아직 그 주요 메카니즘이 규명되지 않은 부분이 많아 이 부분에 대한 체계적인 연구가 국내에서도 요구된다.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.19-26
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• 2003

Plastic and creep deformations of a solder joint on thermal cycle play an important role in the reliability of optical telecommunication components. Solder joint strain is increased with the thermal cycle time and it causes mis-alignments and power loss in the optical component. Furthermore, the component can be failed since the deformation exceed the limitation of the fatigue life. We applied the finite element analysis method to solve the problem of the solder joint reliability on thermal cycle. Plastic and creep deformations are calculated by the finite element method. And, the fatigue lire is predicted by using creep-fatigue prediction models with calculated strains. The temperature conditon of the analysis was referred from the Telcordia reliability schedule (-40 to 75). Also, the three ramp renditions, 1/min, 10/min and 50/min, and dwelling time were considered to analyze the differences of results.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.322-325
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• 2010

철강 플랜트 주요 설비인 전로를 지지하는 장치의 접합부 강도설계를 위해 작용하중은 해석적인 방법으로 신뢰성 있게 계산하였고, 정적하중에 의한 응력은 ASME 규정에 따른 허용응력으로 평가하였다. 한편 피로설계 측면에서는 전로와 같은 대형 용접구조물은 강도상 취약부인 용접부에서 다양한 용접비드 형상에 따라 국부응력이 크게 달라지므로 설계단계에서 피로수명 평가에 어려움이 있었다. 따라서 전로 지지장치 접합부 피로설계는 설계단계에서 피로수명을 평가하는 실용적이고 안전측 방법으로 알려진 Hot Spot 응력을 사용하고 공신력을 갖는 설계규정인 ASME와 영국 PD 5500 절차에 의해 평가하였다. 평가결과 두 규정 모두 안전측에서 평가되는 것을 확인할 수 있었고 이 방법은 피로하중이 지배적인 대형구조물의 설계단계에서 유용한 방법으로 활용할 수 있으리라 판단된다.