• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.30-35
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• 2004

The HANARO, a multi-purpose research reactor of 30 MWth open-tank-in-pool type, has been under normal operation since its initial criticality in February, 1995. Many experiments should be safely performed to activate the utilization of the HANARO. HANARO flow simulation facility is being developed for the endurance test of reactivity control units for extended life time and the verification of structural integrity of those experimental equipments prior to loading in the HANARO. This facility is composed of three major parts; a half-core structure assembly, a flow circulation system and a support system. The flow circulation system is composed of a circulation pump, a core flow piping, a core bypass flow piping and instruments. The system is to be filled with de-mineralized water and the flow should be met the design requirements to simulate a similar flow characteristics in the core channel of the half-core structure assembly to the HANARO. This paper, therefore, presents an analytical analysis to study the flow behavior of the system. Computational flow analysis has been performed for the verification of system pressure variation through the three-dimensional analysis program with the standard $k-{\epsilon}$ turbulence model and for the verification of the structural piping integrity through the finite element method. According to the analysis results, it could be said that the design requirements and the structural piping integrity of the flow circulation system are satisfied.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제30권7호
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• pp.841-848
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• 2006

Many researchers are developing computational prediction methods for protein tertiary structures to get much more information of protein. These methods are very attractive on the aspects of breaking technologies of computer hardware and simulation software. One of the computational methods for the prediction is a fragment assembly method which shows good ab initio predictions at several cases. There are many barriers, however, in conventional fragment assembly methods. Argues on protein energy functions and global optimization to predict the structures are in progress fer example. In this study, a new prediction method for protein structures is proposed. The proposed method mainly consists of two parts. The first one is a fragment assembly which uses very shot fragments of representative proteins and produces a prototype of a given sequence query of amino acids. The second one is a global optimization which folds the prototype and makes the only protein structure. The goodness of the proposed method is shown through numerical experiments.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.160-170
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• 2008

This paper proposes a mathematical model for converting conveyor assembly line to cellular manufacturing in complex production environments. Complex production environments refer to the situations with multi-products, variant demand, different batch sizes and the worker abilities varying with work stations and products respectively. The model proposed in this paper aims to determine (1) how many cells should be formatted; (2) how many workers should be assigned in each cell; (3) and how many workers should be rested in shortened conveyor line when a conveyor assembly line should be converted, in order to optimize system performances which are defined as the total throughput time and total labor power. We refer the model to a new production system. Such model can be used as an evaluation tool in the cases of (i) when a company wants to change its production system (usually a belt conveyor line) to a new one (including cell manufacturing); (ii) when a company wants to evaluate the performance of its converted system. Simulation experiments based on the data collected from the previous documents are used to estimate the marginal impact that each factor change has had on the estimated performance improvement resulting from the conversion.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.46-54
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• 2006

다수 대의 표면실장기를 포함한 PCB조립라인의 생산성 향상을 위한 방법을 제시한다. PCB조립시간의 단축을 위하여 각 실장기 별로 부품공급 피더의 배치 및 실장순서가 최적화 되어야 하며, 표면실장기들의 라인 밸런스를 위하여 부품 할당이 최적화 되어야 한다. 전체의 최적화 문제를 정수계획문제로 수식화하며, 전향경로문제와 후향경로 문제로 분할하여 구성한다. 클러스터링 알고리즘과 branch-and-bound 알고리즘을 사용하여 전향경로문제의 해를 구하며, 할당 알고리즘과 연결 알고리즘을 사용하여 후향경로 문제의 해를 구한다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통하여 제안된 방법의 성능을 평가한다.

• 한국신뢰성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신뢰성학회 2004년도 정기학술대회
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• pp.147-151
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• 2004

In this study, an optical fiber assembly directly coupled with a laser diode or a photo diode is designed to confirm high reliable optical coupling efficiency of optical transmitter(Tx) and receiver(Rx). The optical fiber assembly is fabricated by soldering an optical fiber and a Kovar ferrule using a glass solder after inserting an optical fiber through a Kovar ferrule. The Kovar which has good welding characteristics is applied to introduce laser welding technique. The glass solder has excellent thermal characteristics such as thermal shift delamination compared with PbSn, AuSn solder previously used usually. Furthermore, the glass solder doesn't need fiber metalization and this enables low cost fabrication. However, the glass soldering is high temperature process over 35$0^{\circ}C$ and the convex shape after solidification due to surface tension causes the stress concentration on optical fiber. The stress concentration on the optical fiber increases the optical insertion loss and possibility of crack formation. The shape of glass solder was designed referring to 2-D Axi-symmetric FEM simulation. To test the mechanical reliability, mechanical vibration test and shock test were done according to Telcorida GR-468-Core protocol. After each test, the optical loss of the stress distributed fiber assembly didn't exceed 0.5 dB, which passes the test.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.23-33
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• 2018

In the general manual feeder of an LED lighting assembly system, many workers are needed to supply parts to the main conveyor. The automatic feeder for modern automation lighting assembly systems consists of a completely automated feeding system and a magazine system that supplies the parts automatically. A standardized LED panel and diffusion cover is stacked in the cartridge of the magazine system. The structural safety of the automatic feeding system with regard to handling the load from the panels and covers stored in the cartridge should be guaranteed. LED convergency lighting modules are assembled using two LED panels and one diffusion cover in an automatic feeder. In this study, the structural safety and fatigue life of the automatic feeder and magazine were analyzed by considering the load generated in the automatically assembled LED convergency lighting system. In addition, the dynamic behavior of each auto-feeding system and magazine delivery system was visualized, and the working process was evaluated via dynamic simulation using a virtual engineering method. A tack time table for automatic feeding systems was derived by developing a virtual prototype.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권10호
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• pp.3943-3948
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• 2022

Single-photon emission computed tomography is one of the reliable pin-by-pin verification techniques for spent-fuel assemblies. One of the challenges with this technique is to increase the total fuel assembly verification speed while maintaining high verification accuracy. The aim of the present study, therefore, was to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm-based tomographic image analysis technique for partial-defect verification of fuel assemblies. With the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation technique, a tomographic image dataset consisting of 511 fuel-rod patterns of a 3 × 3 fuel assembly was generated, and with these images, the VGG16, GoogLeNet, and ResNet models were trained. According to an evaluation of these models for different training dataset sizes, the ResNet model showed 100% pattern estimation accuracy. And, based on the different tomographic image qualities, all of the models showed almost 100% pattern estimation accuracy, even for low-quality images with unrecognizable fuel patterns. This study verified that an AI model can be effectively employed for accurate and fast partial-defect verification of fuel assemblies.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.69-78
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• 1995

Simulation is generally used for the performance analysis and optimization of manufacturing systems. Therefore in this paper using the simulation techniques we obtain the information about the efficiency improvement and the optimization. Because simulation optimization method is subjected to the applied field and environment the general simulation optimization method does not exist. So we do not take the fixed optimization procedure but suggest the alternative one which is modified for applied field. This procedure supplies the optimized simulation information and helps improve the productivity of Geared-Motor assembly line. In order to optimize the manufacturing system we use two simulation languages, FACTOR/AIM and SLAMSYSTEM. The former gives the abundant output information. The latter gives the flexibility in simulation modeling.

• 한국시뮬레이션학회논문지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.107-117
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• 2019

조선업은 한정된 자원을 사용하는 single-product production방식이며, 리소스를 효율적으로 관리하여 선박 공정의 생산성을 극대화 시킬 수 있는 생산관리기술이 중요하다. 때문에 많은 조선사에서는 모델링 및 시뮬레이션을 적용함으로써 현장 내 다양한 제약 조건이 고려된 선박 생산계획 및 공정에 대한 연구를 수행하고 있다. 하지만 기존 연구들은 갑작스런 일정 및 공정변경 시 정확한 생산계획을 제공하기 어려우며, 블록을 생산하는 각 공정 간의 상호연관성 파악이 어렵다. 뿐만 아니라, 블록의 세부 공정 및 일량을 고려하지 못하였기 때문에 생산계획과 현장계획에 많은 차이가 발생한다. 본 연구에서는 조선 내업공정 내 스케줄 된 전체 블록의 공정작업 순서 및 설계정보, 그리고 자원 제약을 고려하는 모델링 방법인 통합 프로세스 기반 모델 설계 방법을 제시한다. 통합 프로세스 기반 모델을 통해 사용자는 내업공정 내 블록 간의 조립관계, 정반정보 및 조립공정의 선후관계 파악이 용이하다. 또한 조선 내업공정에서 공유하는 리소스의 일량을 고려하여 부하 평준화를 진행하기 때문에 별도의 시뮬레이션 및 리소스의 모델링 절차 없이 리소스 효율을 최대화 할 수 있는 전체 생산계획을 얻을 수 있다.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2002

This paper presents a structure and architecture of an integrated simulation method (ISM) to meet the requirements of virtual factory engineering (VFE). Combining CAD, VR and discrete event simulation techniques, the ISM provides static and dynamic simulation functions for implementation of VFE throughout the lifecycle. The static simulation can be used to evaluate the factory layout. The dynamic simulation enables us to evaluate ergonomics of factory, process performance of production system, feasibility of production plan and operation of factory, and to train operators safely, which cover the whole VFE lifecycle. The principles of the key techniques of VFE, including virtual factory data management system (VFDMS), static and dynamic simulation, are also discussed. To demonstrate and validate the ISM, a case study has been carried out in an assembly factory.