• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.72-75
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• 2006

Event trees are widely used graphical tool to denote the accident inintiation and escalation to more severe accident. But they have some drawbacks in that they do not have efficient way of updating model parameters and also they can not contain the information about dependency or independency among model parameters. A tool that can cure such drawbacks is an influence diagram. We introduce influence diagrams and explain how to update model parameters and obtain predictive distributions. We show that an event tree can be converted to a statistically equivalent influence diagram, and bayesian prediction can be made more effectively through the use of influence diagrams.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.273-282
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• 2023

Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) has been widely used to evaluate the seismic risk of nuclear power plants (NPPs). However, studies on seismic PSA for process plants, such as gas plants, oil refineries, and chemical plants, have been scarce. This is because the major disasters to which these process plants are vulnerable include explosions, fires, and release (or dispersion) of toxic chemicals. However, seismic PSA is essential for the plants located in regions with significant earthquake risks. Seismic PSA entails probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA), event tree analysis (ETA), fault tree analysis (FTA), and fragility analysis for the structures and essential equipment items. Among those analyses, ETA can depict the accident sequence for core damage, which is the worst disaster and top event concerning NPPs. However, there is no general top event with regard to process plants. Therefore, PSA cannot be directly applied to process plants. Moreover, there is a paucity of studies on developing fragility curves for various equipment. This paper introduces PSA for gas plants based on FTA, which is then transformed into Bayesian network, that is, a probabilistic graph model that can aid risk-informed decision-making. Finally, the proposed method is applied to a gas plant, and several decision-making cases are demonstrated.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.41-46
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• 2017

In this paper, from making an electrical fire which is thought to be the most damaging among potential dangers as a top event, minimal cut sets (MCS) about it were analyzed. For this, components of a power substation were classified into 15 items. Failure rates and modes were extracted based on Korea Electrical Safety Corporation, IEEE Gold Book, and RAC. To analyze the top event (an electrical fire), main events were assorted into "safety devices for overcurrent" and "ampere meter of detecter". Failure of components was divided into failure of VCB, COS, and MCCB. A fault tree was composed of 3 AND gate, 5 OR gates and 17 basic events. Overlapped events among the basic events are things which occur from relevant components. They were attached to the tree by distinguishing identifiers. In case of FT, two minimal cut sets of "IO_METER", "MF_METER", "DO_MCCB" and "IO_METER", "MF_METER", "DO_VCB" take 46% of electrical fires. Therefore, about basic events which are included in the top two minimum cut sets, strict control is necessary.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1996.04a
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• pp.113-127
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• 1996

In Human Reliability Analysis(HRA), the uncertainties involved in many factors that affect human reliability have to be represented as the quantitative forms. Conventional probability- based human reliability theory is used to evaluate the effect of those uncertainties but it is pointed out that the actual human reliability should be different from that of conventional one. Conventional HRA makes use of error rates, however, it is difficult to collect data enough to estimate these error rates, and the estimates of error rates are dependent only on engineering judgement. In this paper, the error possibility that is proposed by Onisawa is used to represent human reliability, and the error possibility is obtained by use of fuzzy reasoning that plays an important role to clarify the relation between human reliability and human error. Also, assuming these factors are connected to the top event through Fault Tree structure, the influence and correlation of these factors are measured by fuzzy operation. When a fuzzy operation is applied to Fault Tree Analysis, it is possible to simplify the operation applying the logic disjuction and logic conjuction to structure function, and the structure of human reliability can be represented as membership function of the top event. Also, on the basis of the the membership function, the characteristics of human reliability can be evaluated by use of the concept of pattern recognition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.219-221
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• 2023

첨단 디지털기술이 적용된 자율운항선박과 같이 인간의 개입을 획기적으로 줄인 첨단 시스템의 운용은, 대상 시스템의 운용 중 시스템에 영향을 미치는 다양한 변수들의 변화를 실시간으로 검토하여 안전한 시스템 운용을 위한 의사결정을 지원할 수 있는 위험도평가 방법론의 적용이 요구된다. 본 논문은, 자율운항선박의 충돌 사고 위험도를 실시간으로 분석하기 위한 위험도 모델의 개발을 목적으로, 자율운항선박 충돌 사고 시나리오에 대한 위험도분석 작업 수행 내용과 실시간 충돌 위험도를 표현하기 위하여 검토한 간략한 위험도 모델 개념들을 제시하고 있다. 위험도 모델 개발을 위하여, 먼저 자율운항선박의 항해, 통신, 비상대응 기능들을 분석하고, 기능분석 결과를 바탕으로 충돌 사고 빈도 산출을 위한 Fault Tree Analysis와 충돌 사고로 인한 영향 산출을 위한 Event Tree Analysis를 수행하였다. 또한, Fault Tree와 Event Tree의 입력값 중 외부 조건에 따라 변화하는 변수들을 식별하였고, 각 변수들에 입력값은 자율운항선박의 운항 조건에서 발생할 수 있는 가상 데이터를 만들어 사용하였으며, 식별된 각 변수들의 변화로 인한 자율운항선박 충돌 위험도 변화량을 검토하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.56 no.1
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• pp.141-146
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• 2024

Station blackout (SBO) risk is one of the most significant contributors to nuclear power plant risk. In this paper, the sequence probability formulas derived by the convolution approach are compared with those derived by the conventional event tree/fault tree (ET/FT) approach for the SBO situation in which emergency diesel generators fail to start. The comparison identifies what makes the ET/FT approach more conservative and raises the issue regarding the mission time of a turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater pump (TDP), which suggests a possible modeling improvement in the ET/FT approach. Monte Carlo simulations with up-to-date component reliability data validate the convolution approach. The sequence probability of an alternative alternating current diesel generator (AAC DG) failing to start and the TDP failing to operate owing to battery depletion contributes most to the SBO risk. The probability overestimation of the scenario in which the AAC DG fails to run and the TDP fails to operate owing to battery depletion contributes most to the SBO risk overestimation determined by the ET/FT approach. The modification of the TDP mission time renders the sequence probabilities determined by the ET/FT approach more consistent with those determined by the convolution approach.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.100-106
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• 2015

A module or independent subtree is a part of a fault tree whose child gates or basic events are not repeated in the remaining part of the fault tree. Modules are necessarily employed in order to reduce the computational costs of fault tree quantification. This quantification generates fault tree solutions such as minimal cut sets, minimal path sets, or binary decision diagrams (BDDs), and then, calculates top event probability and importance measures. This paper presents a new linear time algorithm to detect modules of large fault trees. It is shown through benchmark tests that the new method proposed in this study can very quickly detect the modules of a huge fault tree. It is recommended that this method be implemented into fault tree solvers for efficient probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of nuclear power plants.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.679-680
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• 2005

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.81-86
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• 1997

This study is to estimate the possibility of accident in chemical plants from the analysis of system component which affects the occurrence of top event. Among the various risk assessment techniques, the Fault Tree Analysis which approaches deductively on the route of accident development was used in this study. By gate-by-gate method and minimal cut set, the qualitative and quantitative risk assessment for hazards in plants was performed. The probability of occurrence and frequency of top event was calculated from failure or reliability data of system components at stage of the quantitative risk assessment. In conclusion, the probability of accident was estimated according to logic pattern based on the Fault Tree Analysis. And the failure path which mostly influences on the occurrence of top event was found from Importance Analysis.

• Convergence Security Journal
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.61-70
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• 2012

The objective of this study is to achieve the most optimal data mining for effective analysis of false alarm event on mechanical security system. To perform this, this study searches the cause of false alarm and suggests the data conversion and analysis methods to apply to several algorithm of WEKA, which is a data mining program, based on statistical data for the number of case on movement by false alarm, false alarm rate and cause of false alarm. Analysis methods are used to estimate false alarm and set more effective reaction for false alarm by applying several algorithm. To use the suitable data for effective analysis of false alarm event on mechanical security analysis this study uses Decision Tree, Naive Bayes, BayesNet Apriori and J48Tree algorithm, and applies the algorithm by deducting the highest value.