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Development of Wall Thinning Distinction Method using the Multi-inspecting UT Data of Carbon Steel Piping (탄소강배관 다중 UT 측정두께를 활용한 감육여부 판별법 개발)

  • Hwang, Kyeong Mo;Yun, Hun;Lee, Chan Kyoo
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.173-178
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    • 2012
  • To manage the wall thinning of carbon steel piping in nuclear power plants, the utility of Korea has performed thickness inspection for some quantity of pipe components during refueling outages and determined whether repair or replacement after evaluating UT (Ultrasonic Test) data. When the existing UT data evaluation methods, such as Band, Blanket, PTP (Point to Point) Methods, are applied to a certain pipe component, unnecessary re-inspecting situations may be generated even though the component does not thinned. In those cases, economical loss caused by repeated inspection and problems of maintaining the pipe integrity followed by decreasing of newly inspected components may be generated. EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) in USA has suggested several statistical methods, TPM (Total Point Method), LSS (Least Square Slope) Method, etc. to distinguish whether multiple inspecting components have thinned or not. This paper presents the analysis results for multiple inspecting components over three times based on both NAM (Near Area of Minimum) Method developed by KEPCO-E&C and the other methods suggested by EPRI.

A study on the Innovation method of Metro EMU Maintenance (도시철도 전동차 정비 이론 및 개선 방향 연구)

  • Choi, Yong-Woon
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.1864-1870
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    • 2007
  • The inspection periods for the metro EMU maintenances vary variously according to the countries and railway operators. And the inspection systems vary according to the safety, economical, technical aspects, and also the social environments like passengers and maintenance qualities, etc. Also, in economic point of view, maintenance requires the man power, facilities, equipments, purchasing of parts and the loss of not being in revenue service during the maintenance period. Recently, there is a tendency that the inspection periods are extended gradually owing to the increased reliabilities of the equipments and parts of EMUs. Even if it is the EMUs that are already be in service, once the inspection method is innovated, the inspection time can be reduced. The inspection management innovation scheme includes such methods as the complete module to module replacement when trouble shooting a faulty parts before putting the EMU back to revenue service, the replacements of parts in complete set unit for the heavy maintenance, the establishments of exchange periods for the wasting parts, modernization of inspection equipments, introduction of RAMS for the reliability improvement and computerization of EMU maintenance management, etc. I think it is possible to optimize the inspection scopes and periods per parts and equipments by the introduction of RAMS.

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Development of Disaster Risk Analysis System for Environment Friendly Road (친환경 도로노선의 재해위험도 평가시스템 개발)

  • Song, Min-Tae;Kang, Ho-Geun;Kim, Heung-Rae;Lee, Tae-Ock;Lee, Han-Joo
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.123-132
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    • 2012
  • PURPOSES: This study is to investigate the consideration which relates with a disaster from route alignment process and proposed the method it will be able to evaluate a disaster danger fixed quantity. METHODS: Use the landslide disaster probabilistic map of GIS based and in about landslide occurrence of the route alignment at the time of neighboring area after evaluating a risk fixed quantity, it compared LCC expense in about each alternative route. It developed the system it will be able to analyze a LCC and a disaster risk in about the alternative route. In order to verify a risk analytical algorithm and the system which are developed it selected national road 59 lines on the demonstrative route and it analyzed a disaster risk. RESULTS: Demonstrative route not only the disaster risk to be it will be able to compare a disaster risk fixed quantity like the economical efficiency degree in compliance with LCC expense productions it compared and there being the designer will be able to decide the alternative route, it confirmed. CONCLUSIONS: Roads can be designed by considering occurs repeatedly landslides and debris flow caused by disasters in advance and expect to be able to effect that can reduce the overall cost to recover losses caused by the disaster, and temporally loss is expected.

The Die Development of REF SILL OTR-R/L Auto-Body Panel by using Forming Analysis (성형해석을 통한 REF SILL OTR-R/L 차체판넬 금형개발)

  • Jung, D.W.;Lee, C.H.;Moon, W.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.81-85
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    • 2006
  • The characteristic of sheet metal process is the few loss of material during process, the short processing time and the excellent price and strength. The sheet metal process with above characteristic is common used in industrial field, but in order to analysis irregular field problems the reliable and economical analysis method is demanded. Finite element method is very effective method to simulate the forming processes with good prediction of the deformation behaviour. Among Finite element method, The static-implicit finite element method is applied effectively to analyze real-size auto-body panel stamping processes, which include the forming stage. In this paper, it was focussed on the drawability factors on auto-body panel stamping by AUTOFORM with using tool planing alloy to reduce law price as well as high precision from Design Optimization of die. According to this study, the results of simulation will give engineers good information to access the Design Optimization of die.

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Study on the Improvement of Strength Capacity for Various Wood-to-wood Connections (다양한 형태의 목재 결합부의 강도 성능 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Gwang-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.33 no.6 s.134
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    • pp.38-45
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    • 2005
  • This research was investigated on the increase in strength capacity among different five wood-to-wood connections. Group using small diameter bolts with equal area loss has the highest increase in strength capacity, secondly the group inserted plywood, thirdly the group used glued bolt, and lastly the group inserted rubber plate. These groups showed at least 10% increase in strength capacity more than existing connection groups. Therefore, these results can be applied to develop the new highly efficient connection. To select suitable connection configuration and materials, however, economical advantage and increase in strength capacity and the difficulty should be considered by the additional works.

Structural Integrity Monitoring of the Marine Riser with Composite Structure (복합구조 해양라이저의 구조건전성 모니터링)

  • Yoo, Yong;Jae, Hyunmin;Park, Sooyong;Choi, Sanghyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Advanced Composite Structures
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.44-51
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    • 2014
  • As the world energy consumption grows, the interest in marin energy resources is increasing. In excavating such resources, the marine riser which connects the floating structure and sea bed is an essential device. The riser system is often exposed to harsh ocean environment and thus vulnerable to damage. Since the failure of the riser system may cause serious economical loss as well as environmental problem, the structural integrity of the riser is very important. Generally, the riser is an extremely slender structure with a much smaller diameter than a length. Therefore, a structural integrity monitoring methodology for typical buildings and bridges may not be applicable. In this paper, the applicability of a damage identification method for a structure to a marine riser is examined via a numerical example. Also, recent research practices and findings for monitoring the behavior and the structural integrity of the marine riser are examined and summarized.

Computational Design of Bifurcation: A Case Study of Darundi Khola Hydropower Project

  • Koirala, Ravi;Chitrakar, Sailesh;Neopane, Hari Prasad;Chhetri, Balendra;Thapa, Bhola
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2017
  • Bifurcation refers to wye division of penstock to divide the flow symmetrically or unsymmetrically into two units of turbine for maintaining economical, technical and geological substrates. Particularly, water shows irrelevant behavior when there is a sudden change in flow direction, which results into the transition of the static and dynamic behavior of the flow. Hence, special care and design considerations are required both hydraulically and structurally. The transition induced losses and extra stresses are major features to be examined. The research on design and analysis of bifurcation is one of the oldest topics related to R&D of hydro-mechanical components for hydropower plants. As far as the earlier approaches are concerned, the hydraulic designs were performed based on graphical data sheet, head loss considerations and the mechanical analysis through simplified beam approach. In this paper, the multi prospect approach for design of Bifurcation, incorporating the modern day's tools and technology is identified. The hydraulic design of bifurcation is a major function of dynamic characteristics of the flow, which is performed with CFD analysis for minimum losses and better hydraulic performances. Additionally, for the mechanical design, a simplified conventional design method as pre-estimation and Finite Element Method for a relevant result projections were used.

Design of IPv6 Based Traffic Analysis Tool (IPv6 기반 트래픽 분석 도구 설계)

  • Lee Hong-Kyu;Oh Seung-Hee;Seo Dong-Il;Oh Chang-Suk;Kim Sun-Young
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2005
  • In the present internet environment, various traffic flooding attacks and worm attacks cause economical loss. If IPv4 is substituted by IPv6 because of the lack of IP address, it will be more serious. Therefore, we design and implement the traffic analysis tool which can detect attacks by expecting them encountered in the IPv6 environment. Proposed tool is composed of packet generation module, packet gathering module, discrimination module, and display module in X-windows. As a simulation result, it is proved that it can effectively detect DAD-NA message attack, TCP SYN flooding attack, UDP flooding attack and ICMP flooding attack in the IPv6 environment.

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Thesis of Non-passing Distance in Road using Close-Range Photogrammetry (근거리사진측량을 이용한 도로에서의 정지시거 정립)

  • Choi, Seok-Keun;Lee, Seon-Gyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.407-414
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    • 2007
  • Even Korea is big country of automobile, the occurrence of traffic accident is in last place in 29 OECD countries. If it is evaluated by assessment guide of investment over the development project of public-traffic facilities, it was shown that the direct economical loss was fairly great. In this study, in order to minimize the traffic accidents occurring at curve area of road, it was tried to establish the standard of non-passing distance. The close-range photogrammetry was used and three dimensional modeling was fulfilled. Currently, this paper was focused on presenting the standard of road design with analyzing the internal and external standard of non-passing distance.

A Study On the Method for Optimal Selection Tide Observation (조위관측을 위한 최적 기법선정 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, Dong-Gun;Park, Seon-Dong;Seo, Sang-Il
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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    • 2010.04a
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    • pp.333-335
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    • 2010
  • Global warming gas caused an increase in a direct and indirect problems like the rising sea level, seawater overflowing and a coastal flooding. The loss and damage of the republic of korea are increasing because of the rising sea level. As a result, It is necessary to establish the foundation of the monitoring of the sea level changes for the flooding prevention. A new measurement technique is developed using GPS equipped ship to make up for the spatial-temporal and economical problems by this study. We compared the data using GPS with the value for height of the tide. And we corrected the errors using the more accurate data that we studied. In addition to we studied that the corrected value had statistical significance and similarity compared with the observed value using GPS. The following studies also performed : When the observed value of tide by a tide observatory and by using GPS are applied to sounding ; How the values of the water depth are being, and if the values are similar, whether the observed value of tide using GPS is valid or not.

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