• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.146-152
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• 1996

A small power reactor core of 108 MW$\_$th/ was designed with some design constraints: 2 year refueling cycle length, soluble boron free operation, low power density, and proven fuel assembly design - Uljin 3'||'&'||'4 design specifications. CASMO-3 and KINS-3 was used to evaluate operational capability for power level control via control rods. Cycle length, power peaking factor, M.T.C., and power coefficients were also checked. Designed core loaded with KOFAs satisfied all design goals. We found that much more burnable poisons are to be loaded with axial enrichment zoning. Control rod assemblies should be located at every other assemblies with more than 3 banks. Additional shutdown banks are proposed for the safe plant cooldown, which could be located at core periphery.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.165-174
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• 2010

TTG-blocks are concrete blocks designed to be paved around the bridge piers in order to protect the channel bed from local scour. In this study roughness coefficient of T.T.G- blocks are investigated through the hydraulic model test. And critical safety weight of TTG-blocks is derived in terms of Reynolds number for each individual block and group of linked blocks. Flume experiments show that a performance of TTG-blocks is effective to protect the river channel bed from local scour at bridge piers if it is assessed using with geotextile mat under blocks or designated gravels for filling in holes of blocks.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.30 no.B
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• pp.17-23
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• 2010

Since the propagation of a short fatigue crack is directly related to the large crack which causes the fracture of bulk specimen, the detailed study on the propagation of the short crack is essential to prevent the fatigue fracture. However, a number of recent studies have demonstrated that the short crack can grow at a low applied stress level which are predicted from the threshold condition of large crack. In present study, the threshold condition for the propagation of short fatigue crack is examined with respect to the micro-structure and cyclic loading history. Specimens employed in this study were decarburized eutectoid steels which have various decarburized ferrite volume fraction. Rotating bending fatigue test was carried out on these specimens with the special emphasis on the "critical non-propagating crack length" It is found that the reduction of the endurance limit of their particular micro-structures can be due to the increase of the length of critical non-propagating crack, and the quantitative relationship between the threshold stress ${\sigma}_{wo}$ and the critical non-propagating crack length $L_c$ can be written as ${\sigma}_{wo}{^m}{\cdot}L_c=C$ where m,C is constant. Further experiments were carried out on cyclic loading history on the length of critical non-propagating crack. It shown that the length of critical non-propagating crack is closely related to cyclic loading history.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.160-167
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• 2012

This paper is concerned with a particular fracture mechanics parameter ${\Delta}K_{th}$, known as the 'threshold stress intensity range', or 'fatigue threshold'. This threshold ${\Delta}K_{th}$ constitutes, as it were, a hinge between the notion of crack initiation and the notion of crack growth. It has often been thought that, like the endurance limit, it could be an intrinsic criterion of the material. The study was conducted on a SA-508 pressure vessel steel used in the nuclear power industry. This material exhibits a typical threshold effect in the range of the crack growth rates which were determined; that is, below approximately $da/dN=10^{-6}mm/cycle$, the slope of the da./dN versus ${\Delta}K$ curve is almost vertical. The value of ${\Delta}K_{th}$ was determined at a growth rate of $10^{-7}$ mm/cycle according to the ASTM Standard for threshold testing. The fatigue threshold values are in the range 21 $kg/mm^{3/2}$ to 12 $kg/mm^{3/2}$ depending on the stress ratio effect.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.43 no.6
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• pp.696-703
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• 2005

The definition of cake is not established for cake filtration, and especially the definition was impossible for the filtration of the floc already sedimented. The definition is proposed with the experimental method named 'filtration-permeation'. The limit of water content which can be achieved with cake filtration of floc was established with the definition of cake. The expression operation of which the purpose is to reduce the water content of pre-formed filter cake is calculated with our 'unified theory on solid-liquid separation' and compared with the experimental results. The importance of expression is analyzed by the calculated whole procedure of cake filtration and expression. The method determining the most effective operational conditions of filter press including the cake discharge and washing time is proposed.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.1-15
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• 1992

A Practical and easily applicable methods for the numerical analysis and the optimum design of continuous and horizontally curved two-way slab systems with twelve possible edge conditions are presented. The proposed method for the numerical structural analysis is based on the use of design moment coefficients which are derived from the elastic theory of thin curved plates. The optimum values are selected from within the feasible region in the design space defined by the limit state requirements. The sequential linear programming is introduced as an analytical method of nonlinear optimization. The optimum design variables, including a effective depth and transformed steel ratios per unit width of middle and column strips of slabs, are then determined.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.125-132
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• 2003

This study introduces a simulation model of radar responses from subsurface voids in concrete for their frequency variations. In this model, resolution and attenuation characteristics due to frequency variations are analyzed at each material interface which has different electromagnetic property. This model aims at the selection of best frequency of radar which can analyze the thickness of voids in concrete from radar responses. It can also be applied to estimate the limitation of propagation depth of radar on subsurface voids in concrete. The computed results show the radar images obtained by using a radar signal processing technique using convolution.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.66-75
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• 1993

Hydraulic experiments were performed in order to gain an insight into the quantitative differences between the perforated wall caisson and its solid wall counterpart in the local pressure distribution and caisson stability. The results showed that the wave forces acting on local walls were smaller in the perforated wall caisson than in the solid wall caisson. For the caisson stability, the critical weights of the perforated wall caisson also turned out to be smaller than those of the solid wall caisson. The Phenomenon was attributed to the dual effects inherent to the perforated wall caisson, which are the decrease of total horizontal force and the phase difference between the total horizontal and vertical forces.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.130-134
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• 1988

Direct differential-pulse cathodic stripping voltammetry on mercury electrode (HMDE) provides a sensitive technique for low level cyanide measurement in distilled and sulfide free solution. Cyclic voltammetry revealed the forming and redissolution reactions were reversible at pH 7 in 0.1M KCl-0.01M phosphate supporting electrolyte. The analytical conditions have been optimized. With deposition time of 3 min at deposition potential 0.00V(vs. Ag/AgCl) in this medium of pH7, quite reproducible and linear calibration curve was obtained down to $3{\times}10^{-7}M$ (8ppb) $CN^-$ which was the detection limit.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.174.2-174.2
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• 2012

위성의 방열판 설계 과정은 수치해석을 위해 위성을 모델링한 열모델에서 분할 격자인 노드를 기준으로 방열판 위치와 형상, 크기를 조절하면서 한계 온도조건을 만족할 때까지 설계 엔지니어의 판단에 의존하여 열해석을 반복하는 것이 보편적인 방식이다. 대부분 방열판 면적을 줄이기 위한 추가적인 노력을 하지 않기 때문에 필요 이상의 과도한 방열판 설계를 하는 경우가 많은 것이 사실이다. 이러한 방열판 설계에서 최소한의 방열판 면적을 사용하여 한계 온도를 만족하도록 설계를 최적화 한다면 무엇보다 전체 위성 열설계의 효율성과 경제성을 높일 수 있는 바탕이 될 수 있을 것이다. 위성의 방열판 설계는 방열판 영역 내에서 동일한 면적을 가지더라도 위치나 형상에 따라 그 효과가 상당히 차이가 날 수 있기 때문에 실제 방열판 설계에서는 이러한 점을 고려하는 것이 필수적이다. 먼저 위성은 열해석에 알맞는 격자 크기로 분할된 노드로 이루어진 열모델로 모델링되어 개발된다. 방열판이 설계되는 방열판 영역 역시 격자 모양의 노드로 분할되기 때문에 열해석을 이용하여 방열판 설계를 한다면 노드 크기를 기준으로 노드 분할 형태에 따라 설계를 한다. 그래서 위성 열모델에서 방열판 영역의 각 노드가 방열판 노드 여부에 따라 모자이크와 같은 분포의 방열판 설계를 하게 되므로 방열판 노드 분포의 최적화가 방열판 최적 설계를 의미하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 방열판 설계 최적화를 위해 일반적인 위성 프로그램의 열제어 개발에서 사용하는 위성 열모델과 열해석 프로그램을 최적화 기법과 동일한 언어로 다시 개발해야 하는 부담 없이 그대로 최적화 기법과 연동할 수 있도록 하는 방법을 제안하고, 실제 소형의 검증용 위성 열모델을 개발하여 여러 가지 해석 조건에 따른 방열판 최적 설계 결과를 비교하고 검토함으로써 이러한 접근 방식을 검증해보고자 하였다.