• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.259-267
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• 2016

Most manufacturing processes, including welding, create residual stresses. Residual stresses can reduce material strength and cause fractures. For estimating the reliability and aging of a welded structure, residual stresses should be evaluated as precisely as possible. Optical techniques such as holographic interferometry, electronic speckle pattern interferometry (ESPI), Moire interferometry, and shearography are noncontact means of measuring residual stresses. Among optical techniques, ESPI is typically used as a nondestructive measurement technique of in-plane displacement, such as stress and strain, and out-of-plane displacement, such as vibration and bending. In this study, ESPI was used to measure the residual stress on the welded part of butt-welded American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) A36 specimens with $CO_2$ welding. Four types of specimens, base metal specimen (BSP), tensile specimen including welded part (TSP), compression specimen including welded part (CSP), and annealed tensile specimen including welded part (ATSP), were tested. BSP was used to obtain the elastic modulus of a base metal. TSP and CSP were used to compare residual stresses under tensile and compressive loading conditions. ATSP was used to confirm the effect of heat treatment. Residual stresses on the welded parts of specimens were obtained from the phase map images obtained by ESPI. The results confirmed that residual stresses of welded parts can be measured by ESPI.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.491-500
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• 2012

The dissimilar metal joints welded between Ni-based alloy, Alloy 690 and low alloy steel, A533 Gr. B with Alloy 152 filler metal were characterized by using optical microscope, scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, secondary ion mass spectrometry and 3-dimensional atom probe tomography. It was found that in the weld root region, the weld was divided into several regions including unmixed zone in Ni-base alloy, fusion boundary, and heat-affected zone in the low alloy steel. The result of nanostructural and nanochemical analyses in this study showed the non-homogeneous distribution of elements with higher Fe but lower Mn, Ni and Cr in A533 Gr. B compared with Alloy 152, and the precipitation of carbides near the fusion boundary.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.572-582
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• 2021

This study investigated the creep and creep crack growth (CCG) behavior of the base metal (BM), weld metal (WM), and heat affected zone (HAZ) in a Gr. 91 weldment, which was made by a shield metal arc weld process. A series of tensile, creep, and CCG tests were performed for the BM, WM, and HAZ at 550 ℃. Creep behavior of the BM, WM, and HAZ was analyzed in terms of various creep laws; Norton's power-law, Monkman-Grant relation and damage tolerance factor (λ), and their constants were determined. In addition, each CCGR law for the BM, WM, and HAZ was proposed and compared in terms of a C^*-fracture parameter. The WM and HAZ revealed faster creep rate, lower rupture ductility, and faster CCGRs than the BM, but they showed a similar behavior in the creep and CCG. The CCGRs obtained in the present study exhibited a marginal difference when compared with those of RCC-MRx of currently elevated design code in France. A creep crack path in the HAZ plane progressed towards a weak fine-grained HAZ adjacent to the BM.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.1142-1153
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• 2019

This paper presents the effect of fusion procedure on the fusion performance of the thermal butt fusion in the safety class III buried HDPE piping per various tests performed, including high speed tensile impact, free bend, blunt notched tensile, notched creep, and PENT tests. The suitability of fusion joints and qualification procedures was evaluated by comparing test results from the base material and buttfusion joints. From the notched tensile test result, it was found that the fused joints have much lower toughness than the base material. It was also identified that the notched tensile test is more desirable than the high speed tensile impact and free bend tests presented in the ASME Code Case N-755-3 as a fusion qualification test method. In addition, with regard to the single low-pressure fusion joint performances, the procedure given by the ISO 21307 was determined to be better that the one specified in the Code Case N-755-3.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.10.1-10.3
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• 2019

To identify miRNA-mRNA interaction pairs associated with binary phenotypes, we propose a hierarchical structural component model for miRNA-mRNA integration (HisCoM-mimi). Information on known mRNA targets provided by TargetScan is used to perform HisCoM-mimi. However, multiple databases can be used to find miRNA-mRNA signatures with known biological information through different algorithms. To take these additional databases into account, we present our advanced application software for HisCoM-mimi for binary phenotypes. The proposed HisCoM-mimi supports both TargetScan and miRTarBase, which provides manually-verified information initially gathered by text-mining the literature. By integrating information from miRTarBase into HisCoM-mimi, a broad range of target information derived from the research literature can be analyzed. Another improvement of the new HisCoM-mimi approach is the inclusion of updated algorithms to provide the lasso and elastic-net penalties for users who want to fit a model with a smaller number of selected miRNAs and mRNAs. We expect that our HisCoM-mimi software will make advanced methods accessible to researchers who want to identify miRNA-mRNA interaction pairs related with binary phenotypes.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.1374-1381
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• 2022

Under the influence of nuclear radiation, the reliability of steam generators (SGs) is an important factor in the efficiency and safety of nuclear power plant (NPP) reactors. Motion planning that remotely manipulates an SG mobile tube-inspection robot to inspect SG heat transfer tubes is the mainstream trend of NPP robot development. To achieve motion planning, conditional traversal is usually used for base position optimization, and then the A^* algorithm is used for path planning. However, the proposed approach requires considerable processing time and has a single expansion during path planning and plan paths with many turns, which decreases the working speed of the robot. Therefore, to reduce the calculation time and improve the efficiency of motion planning, modifications such as the matrix method, improved parent node, turning cost, and improved expanded node were proposed in this study. We also present a comprehensive evaluation index to evaluate the performance of the improved algorithm. We validated the efficiency of the proposed method by planning on a tube sheet with square-type tube arrays and experimenting with Model SG.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.870-875
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• 2023

In this paper, we analyzed the revised guidance on electromagnetic (EM) interference qualification of Regulatory Guide 1.180 (Revision 2), which is published by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for electromagnetic compatibility qualification for nuclear safety, by comparing it with that of the previous version. We confirmed that the test methods and the acceptance criteria of both CE101 and CE102 tests for conductive emission and RE102 test for radiating emission are changed in the recently revised Regulatory Guide 1.180 (Revision 2). Furthermore, we found that the revised Regulatory Guide 1.180 provides flexibility in the use of alternative methods for EM interference (EMI) qualification, in that a mix of the various base-standards is technically allowed. In addition, the primary revision of the updated Regulatory. Guide 1.180 is that MIL-STD-461G is to be adopted as the latest base-standard, instead of MIL-STD-461E. To evaluate the influence on EMI qualification for nuclear safety due to the endorsement of MIL-STD-461G, we thoroughly analyzed the modifications in the acceptance criteria and test methods for EMI qualification, and then validated the analyzed effect on the EMI qualification, which is caused by the revision of MIL-STD-461, by performing electromagnetic simulation for equipment under RE102 test.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권10호
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• pp.3535-3542
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• 2023

Eutectic reactions of five kinds of Cr-coated Zr alloy cladding with different base materials (Zr-Nb-Sn alloy or Zr-Nb alloy), different coating thicknesses (6~22.5 mm), and different coating materials (Cr single layer or Cr/CrN bilayer) were studied using Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). The DSC experiments demonstrated that the onset temperatures of the Cr single layer coated specimens were almost identical to ~1308 ℃, regardless of base materials or coating thicknesses. This study demonstrated that the Cr/CrN bilayer coated Zr-Nb-Sn alloy has a slightly (~10 ℃) higher eutectic onset temperature compared to the single Cr-coated specimen. The eutectic region characterized by post-eutectic microstructure proportionally increases with coating thickness. The post-eutectic characterization with different holding times at high temperature (1310-1330 ℃) reveals that progression of Zr-Cr eutectic requires time, and it dramatically changed with exposure time and temperature. The practical value of the time gain in non-instantaneous eutectic formation in terms of safety margin, however, seems to be limited.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2008년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.52-55
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• 2008

워드넷(WordNet)의 논리적 내포관계(ISA)를 자동으로 WIKI와 같은 동적인 백과사전으로부터 구할 수 있다면, 워드넷과 같은 지식베이스를 전문분야로까지 쉽게 확장할 수 있을 것이다, 또한 동적인 백과사전에 기반하기 때문에 지식베이스의 동적인 업데이트가 가능하게 된다. 본 논문은 워드넷과 같은 정적이고 수동으로 제작된 개념망이 온라인상의 동적 백과사전에 의해서 어느 정도 자동화 될 수 있는지 밝히고자 하였다, 워드넷의 IT관련 100개의 표제어에 대해서 WIKI 백과사전에서 추출한 정의를 이용하여 ISA관계를 구축하고 그 결과가 워드넷과 어느 정도 일치하는지를 실험하였다. 실험결과 자동 구축된 ISA관계는 워드넷에 대하여 80%의 일치율을 보였다.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.63-68
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• 1978

일본에서 멸치를 어획하는데 보편적으로 쓰이고 있는 파치망의 성능을 알기 위하여 1/20 크기의 모형어구를 제작하여 해상에서 예인하여 실험한 결과는 대략 다음과 같다.1. 어구의 전저항 $R_p$(kg)과 끝자루만의 저항 $R_b$(kg)은 예망속도 v(m/sec)가 $0.3\leqv\leq0.7$의 범위에 있을 때는 $R_p=69.6 V_{I.66}$ $R_h=37 v^2$라고 표현된다. 2. 그물꼴로서는 끝자루가 구김살없이 전개되고 수비부분이 재래식과 같이 봉소마모양이 되지 않으며, 날개끝에 여분의 망지가 없는 점을 장점이라고 볼수 있다. 그러나 그물목줄 길이는 날개끝의 도개깊이, 뜸줄쪽 그물목줄 및 발줄쪽 그물목줄의 길이 사이에 피타고라스정리가 성립되도록 조정할 필요가 있고, 또 날개 끝에 지나치게 무거운 추를 채우는 것도 바람직하지 않은 것 같다. 또 자루(문턱과 천장망사이)의 전개 깊이의 끝자루의 그것에 대한 비는 2:1정도이며, 어구 크기에 비하여 그 비가 그다지 크지 않은 것 같다. 또 예인속도가 빨라지면 문턱 밭줄이 날개끝 보다 들어 올려지는데, 이것을 시정하기 위해서는 끝자루 장력의 전달방식을 개선할 필요가 있다고 보아진다.은 韓國에 도입 된지 반세기가 넘었다. 그 동안 漁法이 引寄網에서 引廻網으로 발달하였고 漁具材料중 일부가 함성섬유로 대치되 있으며, 揚網機에 의한 날개그물의 양망등 상당한 발달을 하였다. 그러나, 漁具의 기본 형태는 引寄網시대의 원형에서 크게 벗어나지 않은 채 그저 확대되어 온 것에 지나지 않으며, 그물그물은 여전히 人力으로서 揚網되고 있어서 省力化를 위한 漁具, 漁船, 漁撈裝備의 개량이 요망되고 있다. 權現網漁業에 관한 硏究로서는 在來式漁具의 그물꼴에 관하여 李 梁 徐 孫(1971)이 1/10 크기의 模型漁具로써 연구한 것 이외는 없다. 다만 1972년 부터는 기선권 현망 수산업협동조합에서 일본식 파치망을 도입하여 실지 조업 시험을 실시한 바 있으며, 재래식의 반정도의 인력으로서 조업이 가능하므로 보편화되는가 했더니 어획성능이 좋지않아서 계속되지 않았다. 그러나 이 漁具는 일본에서는 보편적으로 쓰이고 있는것이므로 다른형의 漁具의 개발에 앞서이 漁具의 장단점을 규명하여 새로은 漁具의 개발이 참고가 되게 하고자 그 것의 모형실험을 실시하였다.의 개발이 참고가 되게 하고자 그 것의 모형실험을 실시하였다.