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A Study on Reliability Improvement of RALT for KUH through Fault Analysis (한국형기동헬기 레이더고도계의 결함분석을 통한 신뢰성 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Jun, Byung Kyu;Kim, Young Mok;Chang, Joong Jin;Kim, Chang Young;Hwang, Gil Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.42 no.5
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    • pp.406-414
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, it is introduced characteristics of FMCW-type Radar Altimeter for KUH, and its defects occurred during ground/flight test in initial product phase. In addition, it is also described 'data/control flow model' based fault analysis results of S/W and processes of verifying improvement design through flight test as well as aircraft system integration test called MEP SIL. As a result of design improvement and verification, it is validated that settling the defects and improving not only safety but also capability of the KUH.

A study on early faults detection of pressurizer pressure control system using MTS (MTS를 이용한 가압기 압력 제어 계통의 조기 고장 감지에 대한 연구)

  • Cha, Jae-Min;Kim, Joon-Young;Shin, Junguk;Yeom, Choongseob;Kang, Seong-Ki
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.29 no.7
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    • pp.1385-1398
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    • 2016
  • A pressurizer is a major equipment system in a nuclear power plant (NPP) and controls the reactor cooling system pressure within the allowable range. Faults in the pressurizer can be critical to the NPP; therefore, early fault detection in the pressurizer is significant for NPP safety. This study applies Mahalanobis Taguchi system (MTS), which is one of the promising pattern classification methods, based on the Mahalanobis distance concept and Taguchi quality engineering theory to the early fault detection problem of the pressurizer pressure control system. We conducted experiments using data from full scope NPP simulator based on a pressurizer pressure transmitter faults scenario to validate the faults detection performance of MTS. As a result, MTS can rapidly detect the faults compared to conventional faults detection based on single sensor monitoring.

A Study of Life about Naturally Aged Nitrocellulose by Storage (자연 노화된 니트로셀룰로오스의 수명에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dong-seong;Jin, Hong-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.595-601
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    • 2020
  • During the safety inspection of nitrocellulose-made explosive containers stored for more than 10 years, cracks were found in the containers. Therefore, a failure cause analysis test was performed. First, the cause of failure through the failure tree analysis was conducted to select the factors that influenced failure. The changes in the properties of the container caused by the acceleration of the reaction were found to be the cause of the failure by confirming the influence on the environment and internal/external factors that may occur during storage. To confirm this, environmental tests, such as thermal shock test and vacuum thermal stability test, were performed using a naturally aged container to analyze the cause of failure, and an accelerated aging test was performed to reproduce the failure. Through this, the chemical reaction was accelerated by heat and charge, as in the result of the fault tree analysis, and it was confirmed that the physical properties of the container were changed. In addition, the service life of the container was estimated using the Arrhenius model for the storage life due to thermal aging.

A Study on the Reliability Quality Testing Model of Game Software (게임 소프트웨어의 신뢰성 품질 평가 모델에 대한 연구)

  • Jung Hye-Jung
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 2005
  • Computer are being used in an increasingly wide variety of application areas, and their correct operation is often critical for business success and humasn safety. Developing high quality software products is therefore of prime important. The recent game software become popular, so we are interest in the game software testing. According to the kinds of game software, because it has the different characters, so game software testing is very difficult. According to enviroment change, Recently, online game is popular, so online game trade in the world market. In the company, developers try to develop the reliable game software. But we can experience many fault of game software in spite of the beta testing. Especially, Testing is very difficult on the game software because of various environment and functionality. We tried the survey for game user. In this paper, we study the quality testing metric of game software fault basis on the ISO/IEC 9126. Also, we consist of the check list of game software a point of view user. It apply for the reliability testing metrics of ISO/IEC 9126.

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A Study on Auxiliary Control Safety Apparatus for RCD Trip on Electric Arc and Spark Disasters - Using by Power Semiconductor Switching Device - (아크 및 스파크 재해에 대한 누전차단기 트립을 위한 보조제어 전기안전장치에 관한 연구 - 전력용 반도체 스위칭 소자 적용 및 응용 -)

  • Kwak, Dong-Kurl;Shin, Mi-Young;Jung, Do-Young
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.20 no.1 s.61
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    • pp.71-76
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    • 2006
  • The major causes of electrical fire are classified to short circuit fault, overload fault, electric leakage and electric contact failure. The occurrence factor of the fire is electric arc or spark accompanied with electrical faults. Residual Current Protective Device(RCD) of high sensitivity type used at low voltage wiring cuts off earth leakage and overload, but the RCD can't cut off electric arc or spark to be a major factor of electrical fire. As the RCDs which are applied low voltage distribution panel are prescribed to rated breaking time about 30[ms](KS C 4613), the RCDs can't perceive to the periodic electric arc or spark of more short wavelength level. To be improved on such problem, this paper is proposed to a auxiliary control apparatus for RCD trip on electric arc or spark due to electrical fire. Some experimental results of the proposed apparatus is confirmed to the validity of the analytical results.

Fault Detection and Diagnosis Methods for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell System (고분자전해질연료전지를 위한 고장 검출 및 진단 기술)

  • LEE, WON-YONG;PARK, GU-GON;SOHN, YOUNG-JUN;KIM, SEUNG-GON;KIM, MINJIN
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.252-272
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    • 2017
  • Fuel cell systems have to satisfy acceptable operating reliability, sufficient lifetime and price to enter the market in competition with existing products. Fuel cells are made up of complex element technologies and various problems related to the failure of the components can affect the reliability and safety of the system. This problem can be overcome by introducing a monitoring and supervisory control system in addition to automatic control to detect the failure of the fuel cell quickly and properly diagnose the performance degradation. For the fault detection and diagnosis of polymer electrolyte fuel cells, the model based method using the theoretical superposition value and the non-model based method of checking the signal tendency or the converted signal characteristic can be applied. The methods analyzed in this paper can contribute to the development of integrated monitoring and control technology for the whole system as well as the stack.

A Study on Crane Wire Rope Flaws Signal Processing Using Discrete Wavelet Transform (Wavelet 변환을 이용한 크레인 와이어 로프 결함 신호처리에 관한 연구)

  • Min, Jeong-Tak;Sohn, Dong-Seop;Lee, Jin-Woo;Lee, Kwon-Soon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.155-159
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    • 2002
  • Wire ropes are used in a myriad of various industrial applications such as elevator, mine hoist, construction machinery, lift, and suspension bridge. Especially, wire rope of crane is important component to container transfer. If it happens wire rope failures in operating, it may lead to safety accident, economic power loss by productivity decline, competitive power decline of container terminal and so on. To solve this problem, we developed wire rope fault detecting system as a portable instrument, and this system is consisted of 3 parts that fault detecting part using hall sensor, permanent magnets and analog unit, and digital signal processing part using data acquisition card, monitoring part using wavelet transform, denoising method. In this paper, a wire rope is scanned by this system after makes several broken parts on the surface of wire rope artificially. All detected signal has external noise or disturbance according to circumstances. So, we applied to discrete wavelet transform to extract a signal from noisy data that was used filter. In practical applications of denoising, it is shown that wavelet pursue it with little information loss and smooth signal display. It is verified that the detecting system by denoising has good efficiency for inspecting faults of wire ropes in service. As a result, by developing this system, container terminal could reduce expense because of extension of wire ropes exchange period and could competitive power. Also, this system is possible to apply in several fields like that elevator, lift and so on.

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The Implementation of Load Resistance Measurement System using Time-Frequency Domain Reflectometry (시간-주파수 영역 반사파 계측방법을 이용한 부하 저항 측정 시스템 구현)

  • Kwak, Ki-Seok;Park, Tae-Geun;Yoon, Tae-Sung;Park, Jin-Bae
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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    • v.55 no.10
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    • pp.435-442
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    • 2006
  • One of the most important topics about the safety of electrical and electronic system is the reliability of the wiring system. The Time-Frequency Domain Reflectometry(TFDR) is a state-of-the-art system for detecting and estimating of the fault on a wiring. In this paper, We've considered the load resistance measurement on a coaxial cable using TFDR in a way of expanded application. The TFDR system was built using commercial Pci extensions for Instrumentation(PXI) and LabVIEW. The proposed real time TFDR system consisted of the reference signal design, signal generation, signal acquisition, algorithm execution and results display part. To implement real time system, all of the parts were programmed by the LabVIEW which is one of the graphical programming languages. Using the application software implemented by the LabVIEW, we were able to design a proper reference signal which is suitable for target cable and control not only the arbitrary waveform generator in the signal generation part but alto the digital storage oscilloscope in the signal acquisition part. By using the TFDR real time system with the terminal resistor on the target cable, we carried out load impedance measurement experiments. The experimental results showed that the proposed system are able not only to detect the location of impedance discontinuity on the cable but also to estimate the load resistance with high accuracy.

Case history of electrical resistivity survey at the river for bridge design (장대교량 기초 설계를 위한 수륙혼합 전기비저항탐사 사례)

  • Chung Ho-Joon;Kim Jung-Ho;Kwon Hyoung-Seok;Ahn Hee-Yoon;Kim Ki-Seog
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.126-138
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    • 2002
  • Designing the bridge with wider span is the present-day trends. Therefore, constructing the foundation on the suitable ground is one of the important factor for the safety of bridge. But, getting a subsurface information under the river is not easy problem. This paper shows results of electrical resistivity survey at the river. Electrical resistivity survey have revealed geoelectrical structure successfully. The result is well matched with boring and can provide useful information on the geological structure such as fault fracture zone for suitable location of foundation. It is expected that application of electrical resistivity survey at the river will be helpful in preventing modification of design due to unexpected ground condition during the construction, or water contamination and increment of costs accompanied with ground reinforcement.

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A Fault Detection and Exclusion Algorithm using Particle Filters for non-Gaussian GNSS Measurement Noise

  • Yun, Young-Sun;Kim, Do-Yoon;Kee, Chang-Don
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.255-260
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    • 2006
  • Safety-critical navigation systems have to provide 'reliable' position solutions, i.e., they must detect and exclude measurement or system faults and estimate the uncertainty of the solution. To obtain more accurate and reliable navigation systems, various filtering methods have been employed to reduce measurement noise level, or integrate sensors, such as global navigation satellite system/inertial navigation system (GNSS/INS) integration. Recently, particle filters have attracted attention, because they can deal with nonlinear/non-Gaussian systems. In most GNSS applications, the GNSS measurement noise is assumed to follow a Gaussian distribution, but this is not true. Therefore, we have proposed a fault detection and exclusion method using particle filters assuming non-Gaussian measurement noise. The performance of our method was contrasted with that of conventional Kalman filter methods with an assumed Gaussian noise. Since the Kalman filters presume that measurement noise follows a Gaussian distribution, they used an overbounded standard deviation to represent the measurement noise distribution, and since the overbound standard deviations were too conservative compared to the actual distributions, this degraded the integrity-monitoring performance of the filters. A simulation was performed to show the improvement in performance of our proposed particle filter method by not using the sigma overbounding. The results show that our method could detect smaller measurement biases and reduced the protection level by 30% versus the Kalman filter method based on an overbound sigma, which motivates us to use an actual noise model instead of the overbounding or improve the overbounding methods.

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