• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.719-724
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• 2014

During the development process of a thermal-hydraulic system code, a non-regression test (NRT) must be performed repeatedly in order to prevent software regression. The NRT process, however, is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Thus, automation of this process is an ideal solution. In this study, we have developed a program to support an efficient NRT for the SPACE code and demonstrated its usability. This results in a high degree of efficiency for code development. The program was developed using the Visual Basic for Applications and designed so that it can be easily customized for the NRT of other computer codes.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2001

기존의 유압실험장치는 단순히 유압회로도만을 구성하도록 되어 있기 때문에 수업시 학생들의 흥미를 유발시키지 못하면서 강의 효과를 떨어뜨리고 있는 실정이다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 기계공학실험중 유압실험에 관한 공학교육의 효과를 높이기 위해 학생들이 눈으로 쉽게 유동을 파악할 수 있는 유압시스템을 개발하였다. 이를 위하여 유압구성품은 아크릴로 정밀가공을 하여 투명성을 유지시켜 주었고, 기존의 불투명한 관은 투명하면서 유연한 관으로 교체하였다. 유체의 흐름을 눈으로 확인할 수 있도록 적색의 오일을 사용하였다. 더 나아가 제작된 유압장치를 이용하여 이론수업시 OHP와 함께 사용한다면 밸브의 구조를 명확히 이해할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 개발된 비주얼 유압 시스템을 이용한다면 유압 분야의 기본 이론이나 원리를 쉽게 이해시킬 수 있어 학생들의 학습증진에 기여할 수 있고 교과목의 목적을 충분히 구현할 수 있어 그 교육 효과가 매우 클 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.552-558
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• 2011

A 50 kW class rotating body type wave energy converter consisted of two floating bodies and a PTO (Power Takeoff) unit is studied. As an wave energy extractor, the body is designed to have a VLCO (Variable Liquid-Column Oscillator) having a liquid filled U-tube with air chambers. Owing to the oscillation of the liquid in the U-tube caused by the air spring effect of the air chambers, the amplitude of response of the VLCO becomes significantly amplified for a target wave period. The PTO converts the rotational moment introduced from the relative motion of the hinged bodies to an hydraulic power by means of a cylinder. A high pressure accumulator, hydraulic motor and a generator are equipped in the PTO to convert the hydraulic power to electric power. A control law for adjusting the oscillation period of the VLCO is proposed for the efficient operation of the VLCO with various wave conditions. It is found that the effect of the air spring has an important role to play in making the oscillation of the VLCO match with the ocean wave. In this way, the wave energy converter equipped with the VLCO provides the most effective mode for extracting energy from the ocean wave.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.1841-1850
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• 2013

4대강에 설치된 16개의 다기능보에는 횡단구조물의 건설로 인한 생태계의 악영향을 최소화하기 위해 다양한 형태의 어도가 설치되어 있다. 달성보에 설치된 아이스 하버식 인공형 어도는 상류측에 가동보를 설치하여 하천유량에 상관없이 어도 내로 일정한 양을 통수시킬 수 있다. 어도의 유입유량은 내부의 수리적 특성과 밀접한 관계가 있으며, 이는 어류의 이동효율에 영향을 준다. 그러므로 어도의 이동효율을 효율적으로 관리하기 위하여 최적 유입유량 등의 다기능보 운영조건을 산정하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 낙동강 달성보의 아이스하버식 인공형 어도를 대상으로 FLOW-3D 모형을 이용하여 유량에 따른 수리특성과 이동효율을 분석하였고, 이동효율을 고려한 최적의 어도 가동보 유량 조건을 제시하였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.843-850
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• 2002

This paper presents a simulation method using the transmission line modeling to reduce simulation runtime of hydraulic control systems. This method is based on separating the system components each other using the transmission line elements prior to simulation, which leads to divide the simulated system into several subsystems suitable for an even more efficient integration. It can also handle nonlinearities and discontinuities without flag signal when restarting integration. By applying variable integration timestep to parallel hydraulic circuits via parallel processing, it is shown that simulation run-time can be reduced significantly compared with that of Runge Kutta method.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.1462-1469
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• 1997

This study presents a genetic algorithm-based method for optimizing control parameters in fluid power systems. Genetic algorithms are general-purpose optimization methods based on natural evolution and genetics. A genetic algorithm seeks control parameters maximizing a measure that evaluates system performance. Five control gains of the PID-PD cascade controller fr an electrohydraulic speed control system with a variable displacement hydraulic motor are optimized using a genetic algorithm in the experiment. Optimized gains are confirmed by inspecting the fitness distribution which represents system performance in gain spaces. It is shown that optimization of the five gains by manual tuning should be a task of great difficulty and that a genetic algorithm is an efficient scheme giving economy of time and in labor in optimizing control parameters of fluid power systems.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.133-142
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• 2002

To improve the hydraulic control performance of ABS, it is necessary to establish an efficient control algorithm. And also it is necessary to ova]Hate a hydraulic modulator with solenoid valve quantitatively. In this paper, FEM and permeance method are used to analyze dynamic characteristics of outlet valve. In return, mathmatical modeling of a hydraulic modulator and operating pressure is presented, and the model parameters of an outlet valve are moving plunger, spring constant and orifice diameter. This study shows the way to improve the dynamic characteristic of an ABS outlet valve heavily depending on operating pressure. It is recommended that operating pressure should be justified at the first step toward the design to get the optimal design of an outlet valve.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2000

In this study, a new design of an one-body type of an unbalanced-fixed- displacement type vane pump combined with an induction type electric motor was suggested. By the application of the new design scheme, it was possible to reduce the number of parts of the pump system and to cut down the volume of power package than that of already-used products. The case in this study enabled efficient heat transfer and electricity insulation of hydraulic fluid. Thus oil moves through the inside of the package for cooling and returns to the reservoir. Because of this design, it was difficult to measure the shaft-input torque. Therefore the package overall efficiency in the paper was evaluated with a ratio of hydraulic power and electric power.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.213-221
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• 2016

Due to the nature of cavitation numerical analyses, computational optimization of a pump with respect to the cavitation properties is extremely demanding. In this paper it is shown how a combination of Transient Blade Row (TBR) method and some simplifications can be used for making the optimization process more efficient and thus possible on current generation of hardware. The aim of the paper is not the theory of hydraulic design. Instead, the practical aspects of numerical optimization are shown. This is done on an example of a radial pump and a combination of ANSYS CFX, ANSYS software tools and custom scripts is used. First, a comparison of TBR and fully-transient simulation is made. Based on the results, the TBR method is chosen and a parametric model assembled. Design of Experiment (DOE) table is computed and the results are used for sensitivity analysis. As the last step, the final design is created and computed as fully-transient. In conclusion, the results are discussed.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2009

Coastal vegetation consists of rooted flowering marine plants that provide a variety of ecosystem services to the coastal areas they colonize. The attenuation of currents and waves and sediment stabilization are often listed among these services. From this point of view, artificial seaweed is an effective method of controlling sea bed sediment and stabilization without damaging the landscape or the stability of the coastline. A series of hydraulic experiments were performed in a wave channel with regular and irregular waves to examine the effect of artificial seaweed in relation to scouring and beach erosion prevention. Based on the results of these experiments, the coastal vegetation model is efficient against scouring and beach erosion.