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An Investigation of ESS(Environmental Stress Screening) Test of the DCS to be used for a thermal power plant. (발전소용 분산제어시스템의 스크리닝 시험에 관한 고찰)

  • Lee, J.H.;Ma, B.R.;Oh, Y.I.;Jung, M.S.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.07b
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    • pp.871-873
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    • 1999
  • According to the reports about the failure mode analysis of modules and systems, It is said that there are many early failure of system. To remove latent defects which causes early failures like that, It is necessary that screening test is performed. ESS is often used fur screening electronic equipments, and is proposed by the most powerful tool for removing latent defects of electronic equipments. [1][2] In this report, the procedure of the environmental stress screening which uses the temperature cycling stress is proposed. It is considered about environmental conditions of distributed control system(DCS) to be tested, design specifications of the system, recommended conditions of relative IEC-STD and applied conditions of similar company. ESS test was applied at the DCS to be installed in power plant. As the results of analyzing discovered problems. It was found that almost latent defects of electronic control systems was discovered early.

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Effectiveness Analysis and Profile Design Automation Tool Implementation for The Mass Production Weapon System Environmental Stress Screening Test (양산 무기체계 환경 부하 선별 시험 효과도 분석 및 프로파일 설계 자동화 도구 구현)

  • Kim, Jang-Eun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.379-388
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    • 2016
  • There are various system defects from weapons manufacturing due to the numerous production processes and various production environments. The first kind of defect is patent defects, which can be detected by visual inspection, functional testing, and existing quality control procedures during the manufacturing process. The second kind is latent defects, which cannot be detected though existing quality management approaches because of the complexity of the system and manufacturing process. To minimize the initial defect problems, environmental stress screening (ESS) is needed to detect the defects, remove them, and improve the product conditions based on the environmental stress conditions of temperature and vibration. We implemented a tool for quantitative ESS effectiveness analysis and profile design automation based on MIL-HDBK-344 and verified it using six scenarios with different temperature stress, vibration stress, and test designs.

A Study on the Standard of ESS Requirement based on MIL-HDBK-344A (MIL-HDBK-344A 기반의 ESS 요구사항 표준안 연구)

  • Kim, Byung-Jun;Kim, Jin-Sung
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.335-342
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    • 2020
  • ESS(Environmental Stress Screening) is an important production process to remove 'latent defects' introduced in the production of products. Recently, ESS is included in QAR(Quality Assurance Report) as an essential quality assurance requirement for products in the defense business. However, depending on the author of the QAR or the classification of the weapon system, it is often identified that the content and form are different or important elements are omitted. Therefore, this paper proposes a MIL-HDBK-344A based quantitative ESS requirement standard to secure the consistency and completeness of QAR. and to make easier to calculate PE(Precipitation Efficiency), which is an indicator for identifying the latent defects elimination effect.

A Study on the Radiograph Inspection of Specimen in Welding Pass Using ATOS 80 High-strength Steel (ATOS 80 고장력강의 용접 패스에 따른 용접부 방사선검사에 관한 연구)

  • Baek, Jung-Hwan;Choi, Byung-Ky
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.915-919
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    • 2012
  • In constructing all kinds of equipment and steel structure, parts with discontinuities such as weld defects formed in the welded structure can generate fatigue cracks that results in damage or accidents. In this study, weld zones are investigated with X-rays and the latent images are put on film. Weld zone defects can be verified by developing the film. As weld defects are investigated by radiographic testing and correlated with the welding condition, more appropriate welding conditions can be found. According to the result of X-ray radiographic inspection of butt welding ATOS 80 high-strength steel with a thickness of 12mm, the best conditions for welding without creating weld defects are 4 weld-passes, a protective gas of 20% $CO_2$ and 80% Ar, a protective gas flow of 20L/min, a welding current of 200A, an arc voltage of 24V, a welding speed of 14.4cm/min, a welding rod angle of $50^{\circ}$, a welding gap of 5 mm with a ceramic base, and sand pre-heating to $160^{\circ}$ Celsius prior to welding.

Characteristics of Cooling Down in the Enclosed Vacuum Tank by Water Driving Ejector (수 이젝터를 이용한 밀폐형 진공탱크내의 온도저감 특성)

  • Kim, Se-Hyun;Shin, You-Sik;Bae, Kang-Youl;Lee, Youn-Whan;Jeong, Hyo-Min;Chung, Han-Shik
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.700-705
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    • 2003
  • The general cooling tower is a device for making a cooling water in refrigerant condensers or industrial process heat exchangers. The present cooling tower have defects with noises, complicated structure and environmental problems. In this paper, we constituted a new water cooling system by using a evaporating latent heat in an enclosed tank, and this system is consisted of an enclosed vacuum tank and water driving ejector system. Several experimental cases were carried out for improvement methods of high vacuum pressure and water cooling characteristics. The ejector performance was tested in case of water temperature variations that flows in the ejector. Based on the vacuum pressure by water driving ejector, the water cooling characteristics were investigated for the vaporized air condensing effects.

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Quantitative Analysis of Development Defects to Guide Testing (시험 가이드라인을 결정하기 위한 정량적인 결함 분석 사례 연구)

  • Lee, J.K.;Shin, S.K.;Nam, S.S.;Park, K.C.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.18 no.2 s.80
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    • pp.99-109
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    • 2003
  • 검출된 소프트웨어의 결함에 대한 분석은 소프트웨어의 품질을 향상시키기 위한 여러 활동에 많은 도움을 주고 있다. 특히 개발중인 소프트웨어 컴포넌트들에 대한 검출된 결함 분석은 개발기간에 소프트웨어내에 숨어있는 결함(latent defect)에 초점이 맞추어져 시험에 많은 도움을 주고 있다. 본 논문은 대형 교환 소프트웨어로부터 시험에서 검출된 결함 데이터를 이용하여 소프트웨어의 특성을 조사, 분석하여 이를 시험에 활용하고 시험의 효율성과 시험효과에 대한 가이드 라인을 제안한다.

Numerical Life Prediction Method for Fatigue Failure of Rubber-Like Material Under Repeated Loading Condition

  • Kim Ho;Kim Heon-Young
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.473-481
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    • 2006
  • Predicting fatigue life by numerical methods was almost impossible in the field of rubber materials. One of the reasons is that there is not obvious fracture criteria caused by nonstandardization of material and excessively various way of mixing process. But, tearing energy as fracture factor can be applied to a rubber-like material regardless of different types of fillers, relative to other fracture factors and the crack growth process of rubber could be considered as the whole fatigue failure process by the existence of potential defects in industrial rubber components. This characteristic of fatigue failure could make it possible to predict the fatigue life of rubber components in theoretical way. FESEM photographs of the surface of industrial rubber components were analyzed for verifying the existence and distribution of potential defects. For the prediction of fatigue life, theoretical way of evaluating tearing energy for the general shape of test-piece was proposed. Also, algebraic expression for the prediction of fatigue life was derived from the rough cut growth rate equation and verified by comparing with experimental fatigue lives of dumbbell fatigue specimen in various loading condition.

Estimation of VOCs Affecting a Used Car Air Conditioning Smell via PLSR (부분최소자승법을 이용한 중고차 에어컨냄새 원인물질 추정)

  • You, Hanmin;Lee, Taehee;Sung, Kiwoo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.175-182
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    • 2013
  • Lately, customers think highly of the emotional satisfaction and as a result, issues on odor are matters of concern. The cases are odor of interior material and air-conditioner of vehicles. In particualar, with respect to the odor of air-conditioner, customers strongly claimed defects with provocative comments : "It smells like something rotten," "It smells like a foot odor," "It stinks like a rag." Generally, it is known that mold of evaporator core in the air-conditioning system decays and this produce VOCs which causes the odor to occur. In this study, partial least squares regression model is applied to predict the strength of the odor and select of important VOCs which affect car air conditioning smell. The PLS method is basically a particular multilinear regression algorithm which can handle correlated inputs and limited data. The number of latent variable is determined by the point which is stabilized mean absolute deviations of VOCs data. Also multiple linear regression is carried out to confirm the validity of PLS method.

Application Method of Burn-In Test to the Components for Space Launch Vehicle (우주 발사체용 부품의 번인시험 적용방안)

  • Park, Jong-Chan;Chun, Young-Doo;Chung, Eui-Seung;Park, Jung-Joo
    • Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.165-172
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    • 2007
  • A space launch vehicle is a very complex system composed of many kinds of components. It is necessary for even a small piece of components in it to be free of defects, malfunctions and to operate normally for the sake of the mission success. For these reasous, a variety of tests are carried out. Burn-in test is to detect latent material and workmanship defects which occurs early in the components use. Developed countries for the space technology have considered the burn-in test for flight vehicles in the standard test documents and performed it. Referred to the documents, application methods of burn-in test will be considered for the components of domestic space launch vehicles such as KSLV-I in this document.

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