• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 1981

가압경수로심의 3차원적 simulation 코드인 KINS를 개발하여 고리1호기 제 1주기에 대한 benchmark 계산을 수행하였다. KINS는 FLARE에서 사용하고 있는 모델을 기초로 하여 가압경수로심 해석에 보다 유용하게 쓸 수 있도록 발전시킨 것이다. 제 1주기초에서는 hot zero power 상태에서의 임계붕소농도, 핵연료집합체별 출력분포, 노심평균축방향 출력분포 등을 계산하여 실측 자료와 비교하였다. 아울러 연소도 1000MWD/MTU 단위로 연소계산을수행하여 여기서 산출된 임계 붕소농도와 핵 연료집합체별 출력 분포를 실측자료와 비교하였다. 계산결과는 실측자료와 매우 훌륭하게 일치하고 있으므로 KINS가 가압경수로의 노심관리에 아주 경제적이며 유효한 도구가 될것임을 보여주는 것이라고 생각된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제87권1호
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• pp.47-56
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• 2023

Any pre-existed delamination defect present during manufacturing or induce during service loading conditions in the wingskin adherend invariably shows a greater loss of structural integrity of the spar wingskin joint (SWJ). In the present study, inter-laminar delamination propagation at the critical location of the SWJ has been carried out using contact and multi-point constraint finite elements available with commercial FE software (ANSYS APDL). Strain energy release rates (SERR) based on virtual crack closure technique have been computed for evaluation of the opening (Mode-I), sliding (Mode-II) and cross sliding (Mode-III) modes of delamination by sequential release of multi point constraint elements. The variations of different modes of SERR are observed to be significant by considering varied delamination lengths, material properties of adherends and radius of curvature of the SWJ panel. The SERR rates are seen to be much different at the two pre-embedded delamination ends. This shows dissimilar delamination propagation rates. The maximum is seen to occur in the delamination front in the unstiffened region of the wingskin. The curvature geometry and material anisotropy of SWJ adherends significantly influences the SERR values. Increase in the SERR values are observed with decrease in the radius of curvature of wingskin panel, keeping its width unchanged. SWJs made with flat FRP composite adherends have superior resistance to delamination damage propagation than curved composite laminated SWJ panels. SWJ made with Boron/Epoxy (B/E) material shows greater resistance to the delamination propagation.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.22-26
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• 2023

As Light-Emitting Diodes(LEDs) continue to advance in performance, their application in automotive lamps is increasing. Automotive LEDs utilize light guides not only for aesthetics but also to control light quantity and direction. Light guides employ patterns of a few hundred micrometers(㎛) to regulate the light, and the surface roughness(Ra) of these patterns can reach tens of nanometers(nm). Given that these light guides are produced through injection molding, mold processing technology with high surface quality micro-patterns is required. This study serves as a preliminary investigation into the development of high surface quality micro-pattern processing technology. It examines the surface roughness of the workpiece based on the cutting direction of the pattern and the cutting fluid type when cutting micro-patterns on STAVAX steel using cubic Boron Nitride(cBN) tools. The experiments involved machining a step-shaped micro-pattern with a height of 60 ㎛ and a pitch of 400 ㎛ in a 22×22 mm area under identical cutting conditions, with only the cutting direction and cutting fluid type being varied. The machining results of four cases were compared, encompassing two cases of cutting direction(parallel to the pattern, orthogonal to the pattern) and two cases of cutting fluid type (flood, mist). Consequently, the Ra value was found to be the highest(Ra 128.33 nm) when machining with the flood type in parallel to the pattern, while it was the lowest(Ra 95.22 nm) when machining with the mist type orthogonal to the pattern. These findings confirm that there is a difference of up to 25.8 % in the Ra value depending on the cutting direction and cutting fluid type.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권7호
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• pp.2578-2590
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• 2023

In this work, a 24-month two-batch fuel management strategy for the APR1400 using LEU + has been investigated, where enrichments of 5.9 and 5.2 w/o are utilized in lieu of the conventional 4-5 w/o UO₂ fuel. In addition, an Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) clad based on the swaging technology is applied to APR1400 fuel assemblies. In this special ATF clad design, both outer and inner SS316 layers protect the conventional zircaloy clad. Erbia (Er₂O₃) is introduced as a burnable absorber with two-fold goals to lower the critical boron concentration in the long-cycle LEU + loaded core as well as to handle the LEU + fuel in the existing front-end fuel facilities without renewing the license. Two types of fuel assemblies with different loading of gadolinia (Gd₂O₃) are considered to control both the reactivity and the core radial power distribution. The erbia burnable absorber is uniformly admixed with UO₂ in all fuel pins except for the gadolinia-bearing ones. In this study, two core designs were devised with different erbia loading, and core performance and safety parameters were evaluated for each case in comparison with a core design without any burnable absorbers. The core analysis was done using the two-step method. First, cross-sections are generated by the SERPENT 2 Monte Carlo code, and the 3-D neutronic analysis is performed with an in-house multi-physics nodal code KANT.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권7호
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• pp.2756-2766
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• 2024

Small rod-controlled pressurized water reactors (PWR) are the ideal energy source for vessel propulsion, benefiting from their high reactivity control efficiency. Since the control rods (CRs) increase the complexity of reactivity control, this paper seeks to study the performance of CRs in small rod-controlled PWRs to extend the lifetime and reduce power offset due to CRs. This study investigates CR grouping, move-in/out strategies, and axially non-uniform design effects on core neutron physics metrics. These metrics include axial offset (AO), core lifetime (CL), fuel utilization (FU), and radial power peaking factor (R-PPF). To simulate the movement of the CRs, a "Critical-CR-burnup" function was developed in OpenMC. In CR designs, the CRs are grouped into three banks to study the simultaneous and prioritized move-in/out strategies. The results show CL extension from 590 effective full power days (EFPDs) to 638-698 EFPDs. A lower-worth prioritized strategy minimizes AO and the extremum values decrease from -0.69 and + 0.81 to -0.28 and + 0.51. Although an axially non-uniform CR design can improve AO at the beginning of cycle (BOC), considering the overall CR worth change is crucial, as a significant decrease can adversely impact axial power distribution during the middle of cycle (MOC).

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2009년도 제38회 동계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.200-200
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• 2010

In recent times, metal oxide semiconductors thin films transistor (TFT), such as zinc and indium based oxide TFTs, have attracted considerable attention because of their several advantageous electrical and optical properties. There are many deposition methods for fabrication of ZnO-based materials such as chemical vapor deposition, RF/DC sputtering and pulsed laser deposition. However, these vacuum process require expensive equipment and result in high manufacturing costs. Also, the methods is difficult to fabricate various multicomponent oxide semiconductor. Recently, several groups report solution processed metal oxide TFTs for low cost and non vacuum process. In this study, we have newly developed solution-processed TFTs based on Ti-related multi-component transparent oxide, i. e., InTiO as the active layer. We propose new multicomponent oxide, Titanium indium oxide(TiInO), to fabricate the high performance TFT through the sol-gel method. We investigated the influence of relative compositions of Ti on the electrical properties. Indium nitrate hydrate [$In(NO^3).xH_2O$] and Titanium isobutoxide [$C_{16}H_{36}O_4Ti$] were dissolved in acetylacetone. Then monoethanolamine (MEA) and acetic acid ($CH_3COOH$) were added to the solution. The molar concentration of indium was kept as 0.1 mol concentration and the amount of Ti was varied according to weighting percent (0, 5, 10%). The complex solutions become clear and homogeneous after stirring for 24 hours. Heavily boron (p+) doped Si wafer with 100nm thermally grown $SiO_2$ serve as the gate and gate dielectric of the TFT, respectively. TiInO thin films were deposited using the sol-gel solution by the spin-coating method. After coating, the films annealed in a tube furnace at $500^{\circ}C$ for 1hour under oxygen ambient. The 5% Ti-doped InO TFT had a field-effect mobility $1.15cm^2/V{\cdot}S$, a threshold voltage of 4.73 V, an on/off current ratio grater than $10^7$, and a subthreshold slop of 0.49 V/dec. The 10% Ti-doped InO TFT had a field-effect mobility $1.03\;cm^2/V{\cdot}S$, a threshold voltage of 1.87 V, an on/off current ration grater than $10^7$, and a subthreshold slop of 0.67 V/dec.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.284-284
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• 2016

Topological insulator (TI) is a bulk-insulating material with topologically protected Dirac surface states in the band gap. In particular, $Bi_2Se_3$ attracted great attention as a model three-dimensional TI due to its simple electronic structure of the surface states in a relatively large band gap (~0.3 eV). However, experimental efforts using $Bi_2Se_3$ have been difficult due to the abundance of structural defects, which frequently results in the bulk conduction being dominant over the surface conduction in transport due to the bulk doping effects of the defect sites. One promising approach in avoiding this problem is to reduce the structural defects by heteroepitaxially grow $Bi_2Se_3$ on a substrate with a compatible lattice structure, while also preventing surface degradation by encapsulating the pristine interface between $Bi_2Se_3$ and the substrate in a clean growth environment. A particularly promising choice of substrate for the heteroepitaxial growth is hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), which has the same two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) layered structure and hexagonal lattice symmetry as $Bi_2Se_3$. Moreover, since h-BN is a dielectric insulator with a large bandgap energy of 5.97 eV and chemically inert surfaces, it is well suited as a substrate for high mobility electronic transport studies of vdW material systems. Here we report the heteroepitaxial growth and characterization of high quality topological insulator $Bi_2Se_3$ thin films prepared on h-BN layers. Especially, we used molecular beam epitaxy to achieve high quality TI thin films with extremely low defect concentrations and an ideal interface between the films and substrates. To optimize the morphology and microstructural quality of the films, a two-step growth was performed on h-BN layers transferred on transmission electron microscopy (TEM) compatible substrates. The resulting $Bi_2Se_3$ thin films were highly crystalline with atomically smooth terraces over a large area, and the $Bi_2Se_3$ and h-BN exhibited a clear heteroepitaxial relationship with an atomically abrupt and clean interface, as examined by high-resolution TEM. Magnetotransport characterizations revealed that this interface supports a high quality topological surface state devoid of bulk contribution, as evidenced by Hall, Shubnikov-de Haas, and weak anti-localization measurements. We believe that the experimental scheme demonstrated in this talk can serve as a promising method for the preparation of high quality TI thin films as well as many other heterostructures based on 2D vdW layered materials.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.139-153
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• 2023

이 연구는 경안천 유역의 상류로부터 하류까지 본류와 하위 소유역의 배출 지점에서 관측되는 경안천 내 질소함량의 시공간적 변화를 이해하고, 이러한 질소류의 기원을 확인하고자 수행되었다. 2021년 11월부터 2022년 11월까지, 분기별 현장 조사와 실내 수질분석, 질산염과 붕소의 환경동위원소 분석을 수행하였다. 경안천의 유량지속곡선을 도출하여, 건조 기간(2021년 12월 중순부터 2022년 6월 중순)과 습윤 기간(2022년 6월 중순부터 11월 초까지)을 설정하였다. 연구 지역에서의 총 질소(T-N) 농도는 월단위 시간적 변동을 기준으로 할 때, 건조 기간에 속하는 1~2월에 농도가 가장 높았다가 5~6월까지 지속적으로 낮아진다. 홍수기인 7~9월 이후 T-N의 농도가 낮아지는 소유역 단위 최상류 지점들(Group 1: MS-0, OS-0, GS-0)과, 반대로 높아지는 경안천 본류와 소유역 하류 지점들(Group 2: MS-1~8, OS-1, GS-1)이 분리된다. 공간적으로, 경안천 본류의 T-N 농도는 상류에서 하류로 갈수록 증가하는 경향성을 보이지만, 소유역인 오산천과 곤지암천이 각각 합류되는 지점에서는 이들의 유입에 의해 본류의 T-N 농도 값에 의해 본류의 농도가 높아지거나 낮아지는 영향을 받고 있다. 환경동위원소비를 통해 모든 시료의 질소가 분뇨(manure) 기원으로 규명되었고, 수리화학적 특성의 변화와 T-N 농도의 변화에서 경안천으로 분뇨 기원의 질소가 유입될 수 있는 기작으로, (1) 축산단지의 분뇨, 폐수의 강우에 의한 유입, (2) 환경기초시설 방류수를 통한 유입, (3) 농업 활동 과정에서 축적된 질소류의 지하수 기저유출을 통한 유입 등이 제시되었다. 궁극적으로 경안천 유역의 수질관리는, 공간적 관점에서 지류를 포함하는 소유역 단위의 오염원 관리가 필요하며, 오염총량 관리 측면에서는 하천 유량의 수문성분을 구분하고, 각각 성분의 유량과 수질을 모니터링 할 수 있는 시스템의 구축과 운용이 선결되어야 한다.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.135-145
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• 2013

The recycling of coal bottom ash generated from coal power plants in Korea has been limited due to heterogenous characteristics of the materials. The most common management option for the ash is disposal in landfills (i.e. ash pond) near ocean. The presence of large coarse and fine materials in the ash has prompted the desire to beneficially use it in an application such as fill materials. Prior to reuse application as fill materials, the potential risks to the environment must be assessed with regard to the impacts. In this study, a total of nine test cells with bottom ash samples collected from pretreated bottom ash piles and coal ash pond in a coal-fired power plant were constructed and operated under the field conditions to evaluate the leachability over a period of 210 days. Leachate samples from the test cells were analyzed for a number of chemical parameters (e.g., pH, salinity, electrical conductance, anions, and metals). The concentrations of chemicals detected in the leachate were compared to appropriate standards (drinking water standard) with dilution attenuation factor, if possible, to assess potential leaching risks to the surrounding area. Based on the leachate analysis, most of the samples showed slightly high pH values for the coal ash contained test cells, and contained several ions such as sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, sulfate, and nitrate in relatively large quantities. Three elements (aluminum, boron, and barium) were commonly detected above their respective detection limits in a number of leachate samples, especially in the early leaching period of time. The results of the test cell study indicate that the pollutants in the leachate from the coal ash test cells were not of a major concern in terms of leaching risk to surface water and groundwater under field conditions as fill materials. However, care must be taken in extending these results to actual applications because the results presented in this study are based on the limited field test settings and time frame. Structural characteristics and analysis for coal bottom ash may be warranted to apply the materials to actual field conditions.

• 생태와환경
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• 제39권3호통권117호
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• pp.285-295
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 (1) 선진외국 및 기타국가의 농업용수 수질기준을 검토하고 (2) 선진외국과 국내의 농업용수 수질기준을 항목별로 심층 비교 분석하여, 현행 농업용수 수질기준의 적정성을 평가하였다. 또한 (3) 국내 농업용수 수질기준의 문제점을 파악하고 추가로 기준설정이 요구되는 수질기준 항목을 도출하였다. 우리나라의 농업용수 수질기준은 따로 마련되어 있는 것이 아니라, 수질환경기준의 4등급에 해당하는데, 이는 관리목적의 기준으로 이수목적의 농업용수로 필요한 항목들이 누락되어 있는 실정이다. 예를 들어 캐나다의 경우 농약과 비료에 의한 오염 등을 고려하여 관개용수 수질기준을 제시하고 있으며 일본의 경우 우리나라와 달리 EC, Zn, 그리고 Cu항목을 설정해 두고 있다. FAO에서도 주요항목으로 염도와 토양 침투율 그리고 특정이온의 독성에 대해 제시하고 있으며 중국의 경우 벼에 대한 농업용수 수질기준을 따로 제시하고 있는 실정이다. 국내 농업용수 수질기준의 추가항목 필요성은 수질환경기준의 8항목과 사람의 건강보호항목 9항목으로 나누어 세밀하게 검토한 결과, 국내 농업용수 수질기준에 추가되어야 할 수질항목으로 나트륨, 전기전도도, 미생물항목. 그리고 5개의 미량원소 (염소, 붕소, 구리, 철, 아연)가 제안되었다. 전기전도도 (EC) 는 염도의 지표로 식물뿌리 주변에 염농도가 높으면 수분결핍과 이온 독성을 나타낸다. 하수처리수를 재이용하여 농업용수로 이용할 경우 분변성 오염은 공중위생상 문제가 되며 병원성 미생물의 공존가능성을 시사하기 때문에 미생물항목이 필요하다. 또한, 염소, 붕소, 구리, 철, 아연의 5개의 원소는 이미 선진국에서는 기준설정이 되어 있는 수질항목들로, 식물생장에 필수원소들이지만 일정량 이상이 되면 식물독성을 유발하는 원소로 제시되었다. 우리나라의 농업용수 수질기준이 농작물을 보호하고, 나아가 인체건강을 고려하는 실질적인 이수목적의 기준이 되기 위해서는 추가로 제안된 수질항목들에 대한 기준이 선정된 필요가 있는 것으로 사료된다.