• KIEAE Journal
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2007

Tower crane is a large construction equipment which is extremely tall for its section when it is erected, with its high slenderness ratio, and it has a heavy load by itself due to large lifting stuff to handle. In line with the construction projects in these days which increasingly tend to become higher, larger and complex, the stuff and height subject to lifting are also getting larger and higher, which has also increased the risk of disastrous accidents. A stable foundation design thus to deal with the increasing self load becomes more important. When a typhoon Maemi swept the nation in 2003, as many as 43 tower cranes fell down or collapsed, causing a severe damage to the people and the properties. Considering such fatal damages, a technical evaluation of the stability to prevent the safety accident with the tower crane must be very crucial. Tower cranes operation in domestic construction sites, in fact, have been simply dependent on personal experience and intuition of the engineers. Particularly when it comes to the foundation design, it mostly depends on manufacturer's recommendation. The study hence was intended to develop the fundamental measures for granting the objective stability, instead of following the individual's experience only. The simulation model recommended in the study is expected to make a good commitment to achieving an effective lifting work as well as preventing the safety accident.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.423-434
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• 2023

Aerodynamic force coefficients are generally obtained from traditional wind tunnel tests or computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Unfortunately, the techniques mentioned above can sometimes be cumbersome because of the cost involved, such as the computational cost and the use of heavy equipment, to name only two examples. This study proposed to build a deep neural network model to predict the aerodynamic force coefficients based on data collected from CFD simulations to overcome these drawbacks. Therefore, a series of CFD simulations were conducted using different geometric parameters to obtain the aerodynamic force coefficients, validated with wind tunnel tests. The results obtained from CFD simulations were used to create a dataset to train a multilayer perceptron artificial neural network (ANN) model. The models were obtained using three optimization algorithms: scaled conjugate gradient (SCG), Bayesian regularization (BR), and Levenberg-Marquardt algorithms (LM). Furthermore, the performance of each neural network was verified using two performance metrics, including the mean square error and the R-squared coefficient of determination. Finally, the ANN model proved to be highly accurate in predicting the force coefficients of similar bridge sections, thus circumventing the computational burden associated with CFD simulation and the cost of traditional wind tunnel tests.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2020

Concrete pump cars are a type of construction equipment that continuously supplies concrete using hydraulic pressure. When manually casting concrete, there may be a problem in the final quality of the concrete due to differences in the degree of cure between the pre-poured and subsequent concretes. Concrete pump cars are the most efficient machines to supply concrete in the shortest time; however, it is difficult to calculate their margin of safety during operation. In this paper, we verified the structural safety of the concrete pump car using a static/dynamic analysis at various position angles. Next, these results were compared with experimental results; strains using strain gages were compared with the strains measured using FEM software to verify the static analysis. In addition, the maximum displacement during the pumping was measured and it was used for fatigue analysis to evaluate the dynamic structural safety.

• 드라이브 ㆍ 컨트롤
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.22-29
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• 2014

This paper presents simulation-based analysis of energy flow of a wheel loader. The objective of this study is to analyze the energy flow of a wheel loader during driving and working. Because the wheel loader powertrain consists of a mechanical and hydraulic powertrain, the generated power from the engine is divided into 2 powertrains. Further, a virtual prediction of energy flow in the powertrains is a key factor in terms of optimal design. Accordingly, the simulation model that is able to predict the virtual energy flow is developed and analyzed in this study. The proposed wheel loader simulation model has been constructed in the Matlab/Simulink environment. It is expected that the developed simulation model will analyze the energy flow and efficiency in the design stage.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.48-53
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• 2017

Many construction accidents can be lead to a death occurring at construction sites. These are considerably due to potentially-hazardous equipment and machine or unexpected collapsion at earth work due to land slide and so on. Almost 50% of the total death and injury, occurred in construction sites in 2015. 66% of those serious accidents are due to falling occurring from construction sites when they work. Therefore, causes and recommendations of each accident should be deeply thought and analysed The indirect causes are directly related to safe consciousness of the construction workers. Actually, their safety consciousness are not high, even very low, it is thought. Questionnaire survey sheets have been distributed to Seoul, Incheon, and Gyunggi-Do area, first. And then, the authors have collected those directly at sites, in order to increase collection rate of the sheets. The totally, collected sheets are 295 sheets. And, they are analysed using SPSS version 19 package program. Workers internal consciousness has been investigated and reviewed and analysed by statistical method such as frequency rate, crossed, and correlated analysis. And finally the conclusions for the above analyses are as follows; Heavy weight worth a crew of more than two workers should be necessarily considered for the advanced safety plan and needed for making a highly potential hazard group at construction sites. Safety consciousness, earing p.p.e, workman ship should be mainly considered for investing safety costs with an aspect of human factor.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.13-17
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• 2009

Ejector is an equipment devised for making use of the low pressure occurring from the fast fluid injection and it is a transportation equipment which can obtain vacuum using the kinetic energy of the fluid. This ejector system is, nowadays, widely used for construction machinery, heavy equipments, the cooling and ventilation of electronic devices and for the various fluid transportation and pumps. In this study, it is attempted to perform a numerical analysis and an experiment to find out the characteristics of fluid quantity, velocity and the pressure distribution of the induction pipe by changing the length and the radius ratio of the nozzle of ejector. From the results, it is investigated that the distributions of velocity and pressure of induction pipe attached are changing with the length and the radius ratio of the nozzle. In addition, it is shown that for the small and large ejector, the efficiency is the maximum when the length of the nozzle arrived to the neck of the ejector, however, if it is installed at below or above the neck the efficiency is rather decreased.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.404-420
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• 2021

In this paper, an automatic system of locating the indoor area with weak or no mobile signal was proposed and demonstrated experimentally by using the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. Nowadays, the technicians of mobile services providers need to go along with numerous heavy equipment to measure and record the mobile signal strength at outside environment. Recently, there are systems proposed to do such measurement at outdoor area by using the IoT technology automatically. However, these works could not be applied in the indoor area since there are difficulties to do the indoor mapping and positioning. In this work, the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) was used to tackle these two difficulties. After a proper placement of BLE in the testing site, while the technician walk around with a handheld analyzer, the data can be obtained accordingly for further analysis in the proposed system which includes the construction of floor plan, detection of mobile signal strength and suggestion of indoor base stations. The gift wrapping and centroid algorithms were used during the analysis. The experimental results showed that the proposed system successfully demonstrated the indoor mapping, positioning of weak mobile signal area and suggestion of indoor base stations for the normal rectangular rooms with an area of 100 m² on single floor.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.22-26
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• 2022

A 1.7-ton grade small excavator is a construction equipment that can perform various functions in limited spaces where heavy equipment cannot enter easily. Owing to the recent acceleration of urbanization, it has been used increasingly in drainage and gas pipes, as well as for road repair works in urban areas. The power train of a traveling reducer for a 1.7-ton grade small excavator utilizes a complex planetary gear system. Complex planetary gears are vital to the power train of a traveling reducer as it mitigates the fatigue strength problem. In the present study, the specifications of a complex planetary gear train are calculated; furthermore, the gear bending and compressive stresses of the complex planetary gears are analyzed to achieve an optimal design of the latter in terms of cost and reliability. In this study, the actual gear bending and compressive stresses of a planetary gear system are analyzed using a self-developed gear design program based on the Lewes and Hertz equation. Subsequently, the calculated specifications of the complex planetary gears are verified by evaluating the results with the data of allowable bending and compressive stress based on curves of stress vs. number of cycles of the gears.

• 한국재난정보학회 논문집
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.138-146
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• 2024

연구목적: 본 연구는 대설 상황 발생시 신속하고 효율적인 도로 제설을 위해 제설 차량과 장비 등에 정보통신기술과 스마트 모빌리티 기술을 활용한 사례들을 찾아보고, 활용방안을 모색하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 연구방법: 국내 및 해외 제설작업 방법에 대한 사례를 조사하고 신 기술을 접목한 제설운영방법을 제시한다. 연구결과: 우리나라 제설장비 운영은 GPS와 CCTV, 도로교통 정보시스템을 활용한 방법이 대부분이며 해외의 경우 도로기상 정보시스템과 도로제설모니터링 시스템을 활용한다. 향후 스마트모빌리티인 자율주행 제설차량을 활용한 제설기술이 개발 될 것을 기대한다. 결론: 본 연구의 결과는 지자체 및 관련 기관의 제설 장비와 제설 차량 활용 정책에 기여할 수 있다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.675-684
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• 2020

노후 인프라로 인한 각종 안전사고 발생과 수질관리 등으로 인하여 상·하수도 관에 대한 공사가 전국적으로 활발하게 진행 되고 있다. 하지만 현장에서는 공사비적용에 있어, 공사비기준의 개정내용을 분석하는 연구나 자료가 없어 어려움을 겪고 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 관 부설 및 접합공사의 공사비산정을 위한 기준현황과 현장조사내용, 개정사항을 분석하였다. 주요 개정요인으로는 시공범위의 불분명, 시설물유형에 따른 배관 재질 적용한계, 보통인부 중심의 인력구성, 인력부설의 한계, 공구손료 및 기계경비 계상기준 미비로 분석되었다. 실제 현장조사를 통해 관종별 특징을 정하여 구분하였고, 양중장비와 경장비의 투입현황 등을 파악하였다. 또한, 관부설과 병행되는 터파기 및 검측에 대한 작업내용, 기능공 투입실태를 조사하였다. 그 결과, 공통사항의 신설을 통한 작업범위의 명확화, 관 재질별 편제구성, 기능공 중심의 인력비율 조정, 기계경비의 계상근거를 마련하였다. 더불어 관의 유지관리를 위한 관 세척 기준을 제정하였으며, 주기개정을 통한 곡관, 이형관의 계상기준을 명확히 하였다. 이러한 개정결과로 인한 공사비영향성을 분석한 결과 사업별로 약 1.28%의 공사비 절감효과가 나타났다.