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Development of Inspection Robot for Removing Snow on Stays of Cable-Stayed Bridge (사장교 케이블의 잔설 제거용 점검 로봇 개발)

  • Kim, Jaehwan;Seo, Dong-Woo;Jung, Kyu-San;Park, Ki-Tae
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.246-252
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    • 2020
  • Safety accidents have been reported due to falling accumulated snow from cables of cable-supported bridges. In addition to the direct damage caused by falling snow, secondary damage, such as traffic accidents, can occur. Various methods have been proposed to prevent these accidents, but there are still problems in safety and practicality. In this study, a cable robot type was selected as one of the active methods for removing accumulated snow on cables. An attempt was made to increase the climbing ability of the robot to improve the efficiency of snow removal. In addition, the available range of cable diameter for the robot can be adjusted flexibly to be applied to cables used in the field. A high-resolution camera was also installed to check the surface condition of the cable in real time to increase the utility, and be used as a cable inspection robot. A three-axis accelerometer and a tension conversion algorithm were added to measure the tension force of cables. To verify the performance, indoor and field experiments were conducted, and future improvements for the inspection robot were proposed.

Carbonation Analysis of Bridge Structures in Urban Area Based on the Results of the Field Test (현장실험결과를 활용한 국내 도심지 교량구조물의 탄산화 해석)

  • Kim, Hun-Kyom;Kim, Sung-Bo
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.111-118
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    • 2010
  • Reinforced steel corrosion due to concrete carbonation is one of main factors on the durability of RC structure. The carbonation velocity have an effect on carbon dioxide density, concrete quality and structural shape. Specially, these problems have increased in urban area. This study investigates the carbonation status of the bridges and quantifies the effect of carbonation based on various domestic field data. The failure probability of durability is evaluated on the basis of reliability concept. According to experimental results of the carbonation depth, the carbonation depth increased with structural age and carbonation velocity decreased with high strength of concrete. In most cases, the failure probability of durability by carbonation was more than 10%. Also, The results requires the minimum cover thickness of 70-80mm for target safety index(${\beta}$=1.3) proposed by Korean concrete specification.

Survey Equipment Development of Stability Evaluation for Rock Slope using Drone (드론을 이용한 암반사면의 안정성평가 측정장비 개발)

  • Lee, Hyun-Chol;Kwon, Ki-mun;Moon, Chang-eun;Jo, Yeong-hun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.91-99
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    • 2018
  • Mechanical Properties of Rock Slope as a safe and effective interpretation should be thoroughly investigated. Clinometer, however, this new measurement due to the restrictions of the research for the joint orientation is needed. In this study, characteristics of the joint orientation can be used to analyze the joint orientation of developing a joint survey system that can be applied to the field. The system is developed and Analysis software to hardware. Hardware is composed to measure the joint orientation of measuring module, measuring the transfer of data transfer module. From the software is measuring module from the data to analyze the orientation of the joint development, and drone joint orientation survey system named. Can not be measured by the investigation, including regional development approach is a system that has been difficult if the Field Application of the lab test results of the joint orientation and effectively.

Probabilistic Estimation of Service Life of Box Culvert for Power Transmission Considering Carbonation and Crack Effect (탄산화와 균열을 고려한 전력구 콘크리트 구조물의 확률론적 수명 예측)

  • Woo, Sang-Kyun;Lee, Yun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.30-40
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    • 2014
  • The demand of underground structure such as box culvert for electric power transmission is increasing more and more, and the service life extension of these structures is very important. Recent observations in field and experimental evidences show that even steel in concrete can be corroded by carbonation reaction of cover concrete. Carbonation-induced corrosion in concrete may often occur in a high carbon dioxide environment. In this study, the risk of carbonation of box culverts in our nation was evaluated by measuring the carbonation rate and concrete cover depth in field. Then, the service life due to carbonation at the cover depth was calculated by in situ information and the Monte Carlo simulation in a probabilistic way. Additionally, the accelerated carbonation test for the cracked beam specimen was executed and the crack effect owing to the carbonation process on the service life of box culvert was numerically investigated via Monte Carlo simulation based on the experimental results.

Development of Diagnosis Application for Rail Surface Damage using Image Analysis Techniques (이미지 분석기법을 이용한 레일표면손상 진단애플리케이션 개발)

  • Jung-Youl Choi;Dae-Hui Ahn;Tae-Jun Kim
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.511-516
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    • 2024
  • The recently enacted detailed guidelines on the performance evaluation of track facilities presented the necessary requirements regarding the evaluation procedures and implementation methods of track performance evaluation. However, the grade of rail surface damage is determined by external inspection (visual inspection), and there is no choice but to rely only on qualitative evaluation based on the subjective judgment of the inspector. Therefore, in this study, we attempted to develop a diagnostic application that can diagnose rail internal defects using rail surface damage. In the field investigation, rail surface damage was investigated and patterns were analyzed. Additionally, in the indoor test, SEM testing was used to construct image data of rail internal damage, and crack length, depth, and angle were quantified. In this study, a deep learning model (Fast R-CNN) using image data constructed from field surveys and indoor tests was applied to the application. A rail surface damage diagnosis application (App) using a deep learning model that can be used on smart devices was developed. We developed a smart diagnosis system for rail surface damage that can be used in future track diagnosis and performance evaluation work.

An Experimental Study of Tension Properties on New Developed Up-Set Coupler (Up-Set Coupler 이음철근의 인장특성에 대한 실험적 연구)

  • Sim, Jong-Sung;Park, Cheol-Woo;Kang, Tae-Sung;Kim, Tae-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.109-115
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    • 2008
  • As structures are getting super-rise and large-sized, introducing the construction methods such as prefabrication of bar-meshes and complex method are being actively discussed to pursue the high quality of reinforced concrete, the simplification of field works, and the reduction of duration, as well as the study on how to connect reinforcing rods, which occurs while applying the same methods, is in progress Also, the pressure welded joint is a kind of method that heats the ends of reinforced bars locally and joint them, and after the pressure welding, the vulnerable part in the reinforced bar occur. Thus, in the construction field, the throughout quality control is necessary because of the delayed duration and the lowered construct ability. In this study, of the traditional lap splice method and the mechanical splice one, the screw coupler, we tried to look into through experiments the prefabrication method of bar-meshes, a typical joint method usually used for the joint parts for PSC structures applying the reinforced bar with its big diameter, and a newly-developed up-set coupler method. And we also examined the characteristic of tensile.

OHDSI OMOP-CDM Database Security Weakness and Countermeasures (OHDSI OMOP-CDM 데이터베이스 보안 취약점 및 대응방안)

  • Lee, Kyung-Hwan;Jang, Seong-Yong
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.63-74
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    • 2022
  • Globally researchers at medical institutions are actively sharing COHORT data of patients to develop vaccines and treatments to overcome the COVID-19 crisis. OMOP-CDM, a common data model that efficiently shares medical data research independently operated by individual medical institutions has patient personal information (e.g. PII, PHI). Although PII and PHI are managed and shared indistinguishably through de-identification or anonymization in medical institutions they could not be guaranteed at 100% by complete de-identification and anonymization. For this reason the security of the OMOP-CDM database is important but there is no detailed and specific OMOP-CDM security inspection tool so risk mitigation measures are being taken with a general security inspection tool. This study intends to study and present a model for implementing a tool to check the security vulnerability of OMOP-CDM by analyzing the security guidelines for the US database and security controls of the personal information protection of the NIST. Additionally it intends to verify the implementation feasibility by real field demonstration in an actual 3 hospitals environment. As a result of checking the security status of the test server and the CDM database of the three hospitals in operation, most of the database audit and encryption functions were found to be insufficient. Based on these inspection results it was applied to the optimization study of the complex and time-consuming CDM CSF developed in the "Development of Security Framework Required for CDM-based Distributed Research" task of the Korea Health Industry Promotion Agency. According to several recent newspaper articles, Ramsomware attacks on financially large hospitals are intensifying. Organizations that are currently operating or will operate CDM databases need to install database audits(proofing) and encryption (data protection) that are not provided by the OMOP-CDM database template to prevent attackers from compromising.

Experimental Study on Compressive Strength of Centrally Loaded Concrete Filled Square Tubular Steel Columns (중심축압(中心軸壓)을 받는 콘크리트충전(充塡) 각형강관(角形鋼管)기둥의 내력(耐力)에 관한 실험적(實驗的) 연구(硏究))

  • Kim, Jong Sung;Oh, Yun Tae;Kwon, Young Hwan
    • Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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    • v.8 no.4 s.29
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    • pp.59-76
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    • 1996
  • Concrete filled steel tube column has a large load carrying capacity through its steel and concrete interaction which makes it useful in construction. However, it has not been used often in a practical construction field. This is partly due to the non-destructive inspection method for concrete filling which has yet to be established. Furthermore, there are the lack of test data and a practical method in evaluating the ultimate load carrying capacity of concrete filled steel tube column. This paper will attempt to predict the ultimate strength of short concrete filled square tubular steel columns through conducting several tests. To accumulate the new test data on concrete filled steel tube columns, a total of 42 specimens of steel tubular columns were monotonically tested under concentric axial force, having the slenderness ratio(${\lambda}=10,\;15,\;20$), width-thickness ratio(d/t=25.0, 33.3) and concrete strengths($F_{c}=210,\;240,\;270kg/cm^{2}$). The hollow sections and concrete filled steel columns were compared to check the lateral confinded effects by steel tube. Through these test results, we propose a coefficient k=3.64 for the strength evaluation formula(10) of concrte filled tubular steel short columns.

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Evaluation of Chloride Absorption in GGBS Concrete by Impedance Measurements (임피던스 측정을 통한 GGBS 콘크리트의 염화물 흡수 평가)

  • Kim, Jaehwan;Cho, Han-Min;You, Young-Jun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.230-237
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    • 2022
  • It is essential that service life of reinforced concrete structures in economic and safety aspects should be secured. It is well-known that chloride attack is a typical deterioration mechanism in field concrete structures. To prevent serious accidents like collapse, many studies have been conducted to increase resistance of chloride ingress using concrete mixed with GGBS. The usage of GGBS concrete is nowadays mandatory. Since most concretes in the field are unsaturated, study regarding chloride absorption is necessary, but many studies have focused on the chloride diffusion phenomenon. Methods for evaluating chloride absorption are cost and improper in the field. It is necessary to develop a simple method for evaluating chloride absorption in practice. This study evaluated resistance of chloride ingress in GGBS concretes with impedance measurement and absorption test. From the results, it was confirmed that the contents of absorbed chloride were linearly correlated with the measured electrical resistivities (or conductivities) in the concrete. At the end of the test, the electrical conductivities were 250.8 S/m (w/b=0.4) and 303.1 S/m (w/b=0.6) for PC concretes, and 2.6 S/m (w/b=0.4) and 64.4 S/m (w/b=0.6) for GGBS concretes, respectively. Considering influencing factors for chloride absorption and impedance measurement, chloride ingress into concrete is mainly affected by pore structures due to replacement of GGBS. Especially, formations of pore structure are different with binder, thereby binders should be considered in building reinforced concrete structures exposed to chloride environments.

Simulations for Internal Defect Inspection Using Laser Generated Ultrasonic Wave in Ablation Regime (어블레이션 영역 레이저 초음파의 시뮬레이션과 내부결함 검사)

  • Kim, Jin-Gyum;Choi, Sungho;Jhang, Kyung-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.34 no.3
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    • pp.226-232
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    • 2014
  • In the present study, the characteristics of laser ultrasound in the ablation regime are investigated using simulations and experiments. The laser ultrasonic technique has been recognized as a noncontact method in the field of nondestructive tests (NDTs). In hostile environments (such as hot temperatures), this method has various advantages over the conventional contact ultrasonic method. In particular, in the ablation regime, the laser ultrasonic technique is suitable for inspecting internal defects because of the high amplitude and directivity of the longitudinal wave. In this paper, a simulation model for laser ultrasound in the ablation regime was developed. This model was subsequently applied to a defective specimen using the B-scan method to locate defects. Finally, we performed an experimental test to verify the simulation results. Consequently, the simulation demonstrated good agreement with the experimental test.