• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제36권7호
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• pp.894-901
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• 2012

For more efficient use of the high pressure water-jet in rehabilitation of the water pipes, we have studied the water-jet cleaning motion of the in-pipe robot with screw drive. The mathematical models of the water-jet in the straight and the curved pipe (90 degrees elbow), representative features of the water mains, were designed to understand the water-jet motion and simulations have been performed. Furthermore the experiments has been conducted to validate the simulations by using the prototype in-pipe robot in the 3-D pipeline. The simulation results show that the water-jet motion in the straight pipe has a constant water-jet interval, whereas the motion in the curved pipe is changed by its position. By the comparison of the simulation and the experimental results, we have demonstrated that the simulations successfully estimate the water-jet motion inside the water pipes. Therefore in-pipe robot operators can predict a water-jet motion for a target water pipe through the simulation and flexibly make a proper water-jet motion by changing the robot configurations before a cleaning work.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.27-28
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• 2006

This study performs to investigate deformation of wall thinning pipe and to find out the position of the internal thinning defect by shearography. Shearography is one of optical methods those have applied to nondestructive testing (NDT) and the strain/stress analysis. This technique has the merit of the directly measuring the first derivative of displacement, sensitivity of which can be adjusted by the handling of optical component in interferometer. In this paper, we tested carbon steel pipe locally wall thinned and loaded internal pressure and developed the nondestructive out-of-plane deformation analysis technique fur internal thinning defect of elbow by shearography. From the results, it was confirmed that this technique is proper to the practical application on the pipe line system with internal defect.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.125-135
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• 2004

This paper describes the calculation technique for guided wave propagation with a semi-analytical finite element method (SAFEM) and shows some results of numerical calculation and guided wave simulation for plates, pipes and railway rails. The SAFEM calculation gives dispersion curves and wave structures for bar-like structures. Dispersion curve software for a pipe is introduced, and also dispersion corves for a rail are given and experimentally verified. The mode conversions in a plate with a defect and in a pipe with an elbow or a defect are shown as examples of our guided wave simulations.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.321-328
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 전단간섭계를 이용하여 감육 곡관부의 변형을 계측하고 내부 감육 결함의 위치를 찾고자 하였다. 전단간섭법은 비파괴검사(NDT)와 응력/변형률 해석에 적용되어왔던 광학적 방법의 한가지이다. 이 기술은 간섭계에서 tilt mirror를 조작함으로써 조절이 가능한 민감도를 갖는 변위의 1차 도함수를 직접 측정할 수 있다는 이점을 지니고 있다. 본 논문에서는, 국부적으로 감육이 발생한 탄소강 곡관부에 대해 실험하였으며, 전단간섭법을 곡관부의 변형량 측정과 내부 감육결함 검사에 적용하였다. 실험 결과로부터, 이 기술이 내부 결함이 있는 배관부에도 적용이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.313-323
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• 2019

Ratcheting boundary is firstly determined by experiment, elastic-plastic finite element analysis combined with C-TDF and linear matching method, which is compared with ASME/KTA and RCC-MR. Moreover, based on elastic modulus adjustment procedure, a novel method is proposed to predict the ratcheting boundary for a pressurized pipe subjected to constant internal pressure and cyclic bending loading. Comparison of ratcheting boundary of elbow pipe determined by the proposed method, elastic-plastic finite element analysis combined with C-TDF and linear matching method, which indicates that the predicted results of the proposed method are in well agreement with those of linear matching method.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.1041-1063
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• 2014

This work introduces a two-module robotic pipe inspection system with ultrasonic NDE device to evaluate the integrity of pipe structures. The proposed robotic platform has high mobility. The two module mobile robot platform overcomes pipe obstacle structures such as elbow, or T-branch joints by cooperative maneuvers. Also, it can climb up the straight pipeline at a fast speed due to the wheel driven mechanism. For inspection of pipe structure, SH-waves generated by EMAT are applied with additional signal processing methods. A wavelet transform is implemented to extract a meaningful and specific signal from the superposed SH-wave signals. Intensity ratio which is normalized the defect signals intensity by the maximum intensity of directly transmitted signals in the wavelet transforms spectrum is applied to evaluate defects quantitatively. It is experimentally verified that the robotic ultrasonic inspection system with EMAT is capable of non-destructive inspection and evaluation of defects in pipe structure successfully by applying signal processing method based on wavelet transform.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.647-657
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• 2012

원자력 배관 시스템은 엄격한 설계기준에 따라 제작 되었음에도 불구하고, 장기 사용에 따라 발생하는 감육 및 균열에 의한 파손 사례가 보고되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 스테인리스강 배관 시험체의 단조하중 및 반복하중 재하실험을 실시하여 국부 감육과 균열의 손상유무 및 0%, 35%, 75%의 손상정도가 배관의 파괴거동에 미치는 영향을 실험적으로 검토하였다. 본 실험에서는 실제 원자력 발전소에서 사용되고 있는 직경 3인치 TP316 스테인리스강 엘보우와 직관 배관을 대상으로 하여, 인위적으로 곡관부와 용접부에 0%, 35%, 75%의 국부적인 감육과 균열을 도입하고 20MPa의 내압을 가한 후 재하실험을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 국부 감육 및 균열의 손상정도가 파괴모드, 최대하중, 반복회수 및 에너지흡수율에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 평가하였다. 그리고 휨 모멘트를 이용하여 ASME의 결함 허용기준을 평가하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제32권12호
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• pp.1063-1071
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• 2008

This paper provides a failure pressure evaluation model for local wall-thinned elbows. In this study, parametric finite element analyses are performed on the elbows containing local wall-thinning defect at their intrados and extrados, and the failure pressures are obtained from the analysis results by applying a local failure criterion that was validated by real-scale pipe tests. An evaluation model including the effects of thinning depth, length, circumferential angle, thinning location, and elbow geometries on the failure pressure is derived based on the evaluated failure pressures. The proposed model agrees well with the results of finite element analyses and reasonably estimates the dependence of failure pressure on the wall-thinning dimensions and elbow geometries. Also, the comparison with experimental data demonstrates that the proposed evaluation model can accurately predict the failure pressure of local wall-thinned elbows.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권9호
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• pp.2092-2099
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• 2020

Many damages due to flow-accelerated corrosion and cracking have been observed during recent in-service inspections of nuclear power plants. To determine the operability or repair for damaged pipes, an integrity evaluation related to the damaged piping system should be performed by using already proven code and standards. One of them, the ASME Code Case is most popularly used to integrity assessment in nuclear power plants. However, the recent version of CC N-513 still recommends the simplified method which means a damaged elbow is assumed as an equivalent straight pipe. In addition, to enhance the accuracy integrity assessment in elbow, several previous studies recommend that the SIF and elastic COD values for an elbow with relatively large crack could be predicted by an interpolation technique. However, those estimates for elbow with relatively large crack might be derived to inaccurate results for crack growth analysis, such as for the allowable crack size and life estimation. Therefore, in this paper, the effect of crack length (0.3≤θ₁/π≤0.5) on SIF and elastic COD for elbow is systematically investigated. Then, for large crack in elbow, accurate estimates for SIF and elastic COD, which are widely used to assess the integrity of elbows, are proposed. Those proposed solutions are expected to be the technical basis for revisions of CC N-513-4 through the validation.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.817-818
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• 2012