• Title/Summary/Keyword: Maintenance Capacity

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Developing a Community Capacity Builded Exercise Maintenance Program for Frail Elderly Women (지역사회 역량강화 전략을 이용한 재가 허약여성노인의 운동유지 프로그램 개발)

  • Choi, Yeon Hee;Hong, Sun Yi
    • The Korean Journal of Rehabilitation Nursing
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.153-164
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to develop a community capacity builded exercise maintenance program for frail elderly women. Methods: As a guideline to develop the exercise maintenance program, the intervention mapping framework, including needs assessment, setting program goals, selecting theory-informed intervention methods, producing program components, planning program implementation and evaluation, was used. Focus group interviews with public health nurses and frail elderly women were conducted for needs assessment. Intervention strategies and components were formulated based on community capacity theory. Results: The developed exercise maintenance program consisted of strategies focusing on leadership development, partnership construction, organization development, community systematization of dimension of community capacity. A exercise maintenance program using health leader, health contract, exercise pocketbook, rhythmic activity suiting song and self-help group was included. Conclusion: The intervention mapping method was found to be useful to develop theory-based valid and community capacity builded exercise maintenance strategies for frail elderly women.

A Study on Impact of Generator Maintenance Outage Modeling on Long-term Capacity Expansion Planning (발전기 계획예방정비 모델링 방식이 전원계획 수립에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyoungtae;Lee, Sungwoo;Kim, Wook
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.67 no.4
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    • pp.505-511
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    • 2018
  • Long term capacity expansion planning has to be carried out to satisfy pre-defined system reliability criterion. For purpose of assessing system reliability, probabilistic simulation technique has been widely adopted. However, the way how to approximate generator outage, especially maintenance outage, in probabilistic simulation scheme can significantly influence on reliability assessment. Therefore, in this paper, 3 different maintenance approximation methods are applied to investigate the quantitative impact of maintenance approximation method on long term capacity expansion planning.

A Comparative Study of Maintenance Scheduling Methods for Small Utilities

  • Ong, H.L.;Goh, T.N.;Eu, P.S.
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.13-26
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents a comparative study of a few commonly used maintenance scheduling methods for small utilities that consists solely of thermal generating plants. Two deterministic methods and a stochastic method are examined. The deterministic methods employ the leveling of reserve capacity criterion, of which one uses a heuristic rule to level the deterministic equivalent load obtained by using the product of the unit capacity and its corresponding forced outage rate. The stochastic method simulates the leveling of risk criterion by using the peak load carry capacity of available units. The results indicate that for the size and type of the maintenance scheduling problem described In this study, the stochastic method does not produce a schedule which is significantly better than the deterministic methods.

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Meeting the Demands for Major International Traffic Flows through Railnet Austria's Maintenance and Capacity Planning Regime

  • Herbacek, R.;Petri, K.;Ertl, B.
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.134-142
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    • 2008
  • Serving as a strategic crossing point for major corridors in Central Europe, Railnet Austria's Infrastructure Network incurs continual increases in international traffic flows and is therefore subject to accumulating traffic congestion with potential restrictions to infrastructure access. This imposes challenges towards preserving open access to Railnet Austria's existing railway network and hinders quality infrastructure service during maintenance, repair, and upgrading. Through Railnet Austria's experiences, the economic viability of a railway network can be sustained through maintaining open access with good quality service of planned trainpaths, thus representing new challenges for future infrastructure maintenance and capacity planning. Railnet Austria's Capacity Management Department has proven that these challenges can be accommodated more effectively through recent technological developments in data warehousing and software development.

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Risk-based optimum repair planning of corroded reinforced concrete structures

  • Nepal, Jaya;Chen, Hua-Peng
    • Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.133-143
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    • 2015
  • Civil engineering infrastructure is aging and requires cost-effective maintenance strategies to enable infrastructure systems operate reliably and sustainably. This paper presents an approach for determining risk-cost balanced repair strategy of corrosion damaged reinforced concrete structures with consideration of uncertainty in structural resistance deterioration. On the basis of analytical models of cover concrete cracking evolution and bond strength degradation due to reinforcement corrosion, the effect of reinforcement corrosion on residual load carrying capacity of corroded reinforced concrete structures is investigated. A stochastic deterioration model based on gamma process is adopted to evaluate the probability of failure of structural bearing capacity over the lifetime. Optimal repair planning and maintenance strategies during the service life are determined by balancing the cost for maintenance and the risk of structural failure. The method proposed in this study is then demonstrated by numerical investigations for a concrete structure subjected to reinforcement corrosion. The obtained results show that the proposed method can provide a risk cost optimised repair schedule during the service life of corroded concrete structures.

Load carrying capacity Evaluation Considering the Structural Characteristics of Bridge Bearing (교량받침의 거동특성을 고려한 내하력 평가)

  • Park, Kil-Hyun;Yang, Seung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.209-216
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    • 2003
  • Load carrying capacity evaluation is very important element in maintenance of bridge. There are several reasons about differences in deflection caused by loading test and structural analysis. Especially when we do modeling uniformly without considering real structural characteristics of support, this problem can be more deepened. This computes modification factor high so we may evaluate the load carrying capacity more than fact. In this study, we do structural analysis nearing real structure with negative bending moment of support that computes considering structural characteristics of support, and then evaluate load carrying capacity.

A Study on the Load Carrying Capacity of the RC-T Bridge considering depth of crack (RC-T 교량의 균열을 고려한 내하력평가 연구)

  • Shim, Jae-Soo;Kim, Chun-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.141-146
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    • 1999
  • Recently, many existing bridges has been evaluated for maintenance and protection of collapse. In this study, field measurement according to truck loads tests on the reinforce concrete T beam bridge was carried out. Comparing the results of load test and structural analysis using the moments of inertia of gross section, crack section and effective section, and the moments of inertia of section considering depth of crack, it is conclude that the evaluation of load carrying capacity using the stress modification factor from structural analysis using the moments of inertia of gross section is more rational than using the other moments of inertia of sections.

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Load Rating of Bridges and Load Test of Agricultural Slab Bridge (교량의 내하력 평가 및 농로교의 하중시험)

  • Yang, Seung-Ie;Kim, Han-Joong;Kim, Jin-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.239-249
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    • 2003
  • The bridges, which were built between 20 and 30 years ago in rural area, have to support unexpected overload caused by excessive amount of transportation. For these rural bridges, repairs and replacements are needed. To avoid the high cost of rehabilitation, the bridge rating must correctly report the present load-carrying capacity. Rating engineers use Allowable Stress Design (ASD), Load Factor Design (LFD), and Load Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) to evaluate the bridge load carrying capacity. In this paper, the load rating methods are introduced, and it is illustrated how to use the load test data from literature survey. Load test is conducted to the bridge that was built 30 years ago in rural area. From load test results, new maintenance strategy is suggested instead of the bridge replacement.

An Operational Availability Analysis in Supply Chain Using Simulation (다단계 공급체인에서의 장비운용가용도 시뮬레이션 분석)

  • Park, Se-Hoon;Moon, Seong-Am
    • Korean System Dynamics Review
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.115-130
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    • 2011
  • This study shows the operational availability(Ao) analysis of the supply chain with maintenance functions using the system dynamics simulation. The simulation uses 60 equipments which are serial systems composed by 4 major components. And every entities are connected each other by causal loops. So whole simulation executed like one organic system. Specially we consider 2 constraints, one is the number of spare parts and the other is maintenance capacity level. 2 constraints have 11 levels each so the simulation has 121(11*11) scenarios which scenario has 30 different random number seed. The simulation executed total 3,630(11*11*30) times. We analysis average Ao of total equipments by 121 scenarios and additionally the regression of the average Ao and 2 constraints. As the result, we can get the more accurate values by the system dynamics simulation than the regression to analysis complex system like the supply chain with maintenance functions.

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