• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.204-213
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• 2003

A survey for finding corrosion examples was performed on the underground steel piles buried for 19 years in the area of iron and steel making factory near Young-il bay. A failure probability model, which can be used to check the reliability of the corrosive mechanical element, based on Von-Mises failure criterion and the standard normal probability function is proposed. The effects of varying boundary conditions such as temperature change, soil-friction, internal pressure, earthquake, loading of soil, traffic loads and corrosion on failure probability of the buried steel piles are systematically investigated. To allow for the uncertainties of the design variables, a reliability analysis technique has been adopted; this also allows calculation of the relative contribution of the random variables and the sensitivity of the failure probability.

• Plant Journal
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.37-43
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• 2016

The corrosivity evaluations on soil surrounding the buried steel piles under manufacturing plants. It was proven that the soil structure of this sample area is composed of several soil layers, and that each layer show the different corrosivity. The predicted average corrosion rates of some layers are about 0.33mm/y, which is over than the general corrosion rate, 0.01-0.02mm/y.