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Numerical estimation of errors in drop angle during drop tests of IP-Type metallic transport containers for radioactive materials

  • Lim, Jongmin;Yang, Yun Young;Lee, Ju-chan
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.53 no.6
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    • pp.1878-1886
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    • 2021
  • For industrial package (IP)-type transport containers for radioactive materials, a free drop test should be conducted under regulatory conditions. Owing to various uncertainties observed during the drop test, errors in drop angles inevitably occur. In IP-type metal transport containers in which the container directly impacts onto a rigid target without any shock absorbing materials, the error in the drop angle due to a slight misalignment makes a significant difference from the ideal drop. In particular, in a vertical drop, the error in the drop angle causes a strong secondary impact. In this paper, a numerical method is proposed to estimate the error in the drop angle occurring during the test. To determine this error, an optimization method accompanying a computational drop analysis is proposed, and a surrogate model is introduced to ensure calculation efficiency. Effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by performing the verification and comparison between the test and the analysis applied with the drop angle error.

Investigation of Drop Test Method for Simulation of Low Gravity Environment (저중력 환경 모사를 위한 낙하 시험 방법 연구)

  • Baek, Seungwhan;Yu, Isang;Shin, Jaehyun;Park, Kwangkun;Jung, Youngsuk;Cho, Kiejoo;Oh, Seunghyub
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.78-87
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    • 2021
  • Understanding the liquid propellant transport phenomena in low gravity is essential for developing Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV) upper-stage for the diversity of space missions. A low-gravity environment can be simulated via the free-fall method on the ground; however, the air drag is inevitable. To reduce air resistance during free fall, air-drag shield is usually adopted. In this study, the free-fall method was performed with an air-drag shield from a 7-m height tower. The acceleration of a falling object was measured and analyzed. Low gravity below 0.01 g was achieved during 1.2-s free fall with the air-drag shield. The minimum gravitational acceleration value at 1.2-s after free fall was ±0.005 g, which is comparable to the value obtained from Bremen drop tower experiments, ±0.002 g. A prolonged free-fall duration may enhance the low-gravity quality during the drop tower experiments.

A Study on the Free Drop Impact Characteristics of Spent Nuclear Fuel Shipping Casks by LS-DYNA3D and ABAQUS/Explicit Code (LS-DYNA3D 및 ABAQUS/Explicit Code를 이용한 사용후 핵연료 운반용기의 자유낙하 충격특성연구)

  • Choi, Young-Jin;Kim, Seung-Joong;Kim, Yong-Jae;Lee, Jae-Hyung;Lee, Young-Shin
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.43-49
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    • 2005
  • The package used to transport radioactive materials, which is called by the shipping cask, must be safe under normal and hypothetical accident conditions. These requirements for the cask design must be verified through test or finite element analysis. Since the cost for FE analysis is less than the one for test, the verification by FE analysis is mainly used. But due to the complexity of mechanical behaviors, the results depend on how users apply the codes and can cause severe errors during analysis. In this paper, finite element analysis is carried out for the 9 meters free drop condition of the hypothetical accident conditions using LS-DYNA3D and ABAQUS/Explicit. We have investigated the analyzing technique lot the free drop impact test of the cask and investigated several vulnerable cases. The analyzed results were compared with each other. We have suggested a reliable and relatively simple analysis technique for the drop test of spent nuclear fuel casks.

In Vitro Development of Porcine Parthenogenetic Embryos under the Oil-free Culture System

  • Park, Sang-Kyu;Choi, Young-Ju;Roh, Sang-Ho
    • Journal of Embryo Transfer
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.259-262
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    • 2010
  • Optimization of the preimplantation mammalian embryo culture condition was widely focused on refining medium composition under the name of chemically defined media. However, recent research revealed that the alteration of physical environment can be a crucial factor to a successful embryo development. In this study, under the same embryo density, a novel culture device named oil-free micro tube culture (MTC) system was evaluated using porcine parthenogenetic embryos. The activated oocytes were placed into the 0.2 ml thin-wall flat cap PCR tube and cultured to the blastocyst stage. As a preliminary step, embryo density and culture medium volume were optimized under a standard drop culture system. The optimal embryo density range for in vitro culture was 0.5 embryos per ${\mu}l$ in $20\;{\mu}l$ drop (20.5%) and 1.0 embryos per ${\mu}l$ in $10\;{\mu}l$ drop (20.6%). Based on these results, we compared drop culture system and 'MTC' system in terms of the developmental rate to the blastocyst stage. In $20\;{\mu}l$ medium volume, the 'MTC' system showed similar blastocyst formation rate when compared with drop culture system (20.2% versus 20.5%, respectively) while the 'MTC' system showed lower blastocyst formation rate than drop culture system in $10\;{\mu}l$ one (12.7% versus 20.0%, respectively). Therefore the $20\;{\mu}l$ MTC system may be an alternative incubation system for short-distance embryo transport without carrying the $CO_2$ incubator and this provides novel embryo culture device to clinical veterinary embryologists.

A study on the deformation of a bubble and a drop in a uniform electric field (균일전기장에 의한 기포와 액적의 변형에 관한 연구)

  • Gwon, Yeong-Cheol;Kim, Mu-Hwan;Gang, In-Seok;Cho, Hae-Jung;Kim, Suk-Joon
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.2023-2035
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    • 1996
  • In the present study, the characteristics of the electrical deformation of a bubble and a drop under a uniform electric field have been investigated to understand EHD heat transfer enhancement by an electric field. The deformation of the bubble and the drop have been studied theoretically using an electric normal stress acting on their interfaces and assured by the numerical analysis and the experiment. From the variation of bubble volume and free energy, it is found that a bubble is compressed in an electric field and free energy had larger value with increasing W and the permittivity of a dielectric fluid. The electric normal stress induced on the interface of the bubble and the drop is different. Because of the surface charge induced at the drop interface, the electric normal stress acting on the drop is much larger than that of the bubble. The drop is, therefore, deformed much more than the bubble. In addition, the experimental and numerical results show that the aspect ratio and the contact angle of the bubble increase with increasing W.

Influence of design modification of control rod assembly for Prototype Generation IV Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor on drop performance

  • Son, Jin Gwan;Lee, Jae Han;Kim, Hoe Woong;Kim, Sung Kyun;Kim, Jong Bum
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.3
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    • pp.922-929
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    • 2019
  • This paper presents the drop performance test of the control rod assembly which is one of the main components strongly related to the safety of the prototype generation IV sodium-cooled fast reactor. To investigate the drop performance, a real-sized control rod assembly that was recently modified based on the drop analysis results was newly fabricated, and several free drop tests under different flow rate conditions were carried out. Then the results were compared with those obtained from the previous tests conducted on the conceptually designed control rod assembly to demonstrate the improvement in performance. Moreover, the drop performance tests under several types and magnitudes of seismic loadings were also conducted to investigate the effect of the seismic loading on the drop performance of the modified control rod assembly. The results showed that the effects of the type and magnitude of the seismic loading on the drop performance of the modified control rod assembly were not significant. Also, the drop time requirement was successfully satisfied, even under the seismic loading conditions.

Development and Verification of ELT System Using the MEMS Accelerometer (MEMS 가속도계를 적용한 ELT 시스템 개발과 검증)

  • Lee, Sang-Chul;Lee, Dong-Kyu;Kang, Ja-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.294-299
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    • 2010
  • ELT(Emergency Locator Transmitter) is used to send distress signal in the event of an aircraft crash. It is very useful but the ELT may transmit wrong signal caused by misjudging between crash and hard-landing. The reason of this problem is the low accuracy of the mechanical G-switch currently in use. To improve the ELT, we developed an ELT system using the MEMS(Micro Electro-Mechanical Sensor) accelerometer. The ELT system consists of acceleration data acquisition/analysis system, program of crash recognition, and GPS receiving system for the position information of an aircraft crash site. A free-drop table was developed for verification of the ELT system. The free-drop table was designed to replicate the acceleration and the pulse duration of the hard landing and the crash. By using the free-drop table, we showed that the ELT system performed well.

Flow Characteristics in Nappe Flow over Stepped Drop Structure

  • Kim, Jin Hong;Woo, Hyo Seop
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2004.05b
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    • pp.54-61
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    • 2004
  • This paper deals with flow characteristics on the air entrainment and the energy dissipation in nappe flow over the stepped drop structure. Nappe flow occurred at low flow rates and for relatively large step height Dominant flow features include an air pocket, a free-falling nappe impact and a subsequent hydraulic jump on the downstream step. Air entrainment occurred from the step edge, through a free-falling nappe impact and a hydraulic jump. Most energy was dissipated by nappe impact and in the downstream hydraulic jump. It was related with the step height and the overflow depth, but not related with step slope. The stepped drop structure was found to be effcient for water treatment and energy dissipation associated with substantial air entrainment.

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A Study on the Multiple OWC Chamber Motion in Waves (다중 OWC챔버 구조물의 운동해석)

  • Hong, Do-Chun;Hong, Sa-Young;Hong, Seok-Won
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.202-205
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    • 2002
  • The motion of a floating body with multiple owe chambers in waves is studied taking account of fluctuating air pressure in the chambers. The atmospheric pressure drop in one chamber is interrelated with the drop in the other chamber. Velocity potential in the water due to the free surface oscillating pressure patches is calculated by making use of the hybrid Green integral equation. The chamber motion in the frequency domain is calculated for various values of parameters related to the atmospheric pressure drop in the multiple chambers.

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Shock Resistance Characteristic of Auto Focus Actuator using Finite Element Method and Drop Impact Test (유한요소해석과 낙하충격 실험을 통한 자동초점 액추에이터의 내충격 특성 향상)

  • Shin, Min-Ho;Kim, Hyo-Jun;Park, Gyusub;Kim, Young-Joo
    • Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.56-61
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    • 2013
  • The recent increased use of mobile phone has resulted in a technical focusing on reliability issues related to drop performance. Since mobile phone may be dropped several times during their use, it is required to survive common drop accidents. The plastic injection parts such as base stopper and carrier in the encoder type actuator can be broken easily in the actual reliability test of 1.5m free drop. So, we analyzed the shock resistance characteristics of auto focus actuator with variables in the material properties using finite element method. By applying the new resin materials, we can decrease the breakage of plastic injection parts and improve the reliability of mobile phone.