• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.462-470
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• 2016

The locking load of a conventional manhole depends on the weight of its cover. Locking-type manhole structures with a special locking mechanism were recently developed to prevent accidents such as stolen cover, away cover from a frame. The weight of the manhole structure can be reduced under structural safety because the locking force of a locking-type manhole is greater than the weight of the cover. A light-weight manhole cover is developed in this study by using a finite element stress analysis and the design of experiments. Static stress analysis and fracture experiments are also conducted to analyze the states of the initial product. The optimum light-weight manhole cover considering manufacturing molds is developed and tested. Consequently, the weight was found to reduce by 16%. In addition, the fracture load increased by 38%.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.54-62
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• 2014

Manhole cover, which is usually made of grey cast iron and consists of frame and cover, should have enough strength to support the heavy traffic load. The manhole cover made of cast iron has heavy weight to handle manually and is vulnerable to impact force with its brittle characteristics. Moreover, its production process of casting has been regulated in terms of environmental pollution. In this study, steel manhole cover is proposed to substitute the cast cover with a series of structural analyses to confirm its strength to support the test load for manhole cover. The cover of the proposed steel manhole cover is made of thin circular pate and stiffeners below the plate. Rectangular columns and hollow circular plate were selected for the shape of the stiffener. In order to give enough strength for the cover to behave within elastic range in the loading, strengthening structures of the cover were varied with increasing the number and the size of the stiffeners. The results of the analyses revealed that when both the hollow circular stiffener and cross stiffeners were additionally applied at the same time to the steel cover with longitudinal stiffeners, the maximum stress level in the cover could be reduced to that level presented in the cast cover.

• 디자인학연구
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.167-182
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• 2006

From 1998 Seoul city is being rebuilt for 'the city which people want to go around on foot'. Many streets only for cars have been transformed for pedestrians. In addition to that streets are built not only just to pass by, but also enjoy themselves, so 8 Streets in Seoul have been redecorated as 'Streets of History and Culture'. These Streets are chosen because they have their own unique history or culture, so they are remodeled with lightings, exhibition pavilions or sign postings etc except manhole covers. Even these 8 streets have manhole covers; they are not particular, just same as like other streets. For most streets manhole cover is an essential component of them, but it is mostly omitted to be designed in particular. For the most time some of the standard manhole covers are installed in a street. Taking a look at manholes in Minneapolis city, they inform visitors what the landmark, landscape, symbol, representative flower or tree of the city is. Sometimes they are designed by famous artists and become art which all pedestrian can enjoy. If manhole covers in 'the streets of history and culture' are designed to represent its history or culture, visitors will get information about there easily and enjoy their design. To foster manhole cover designs, the government office should co-work with professional designers or design societies and encourage people to spend a certain amount of the construction cost to design manhole covers. At school designing manhole cover can be handled in an art class and besides can have a class in the field, streets to observe manhole cover designs. Getting more concern of manhole cover design, competitions and exhibitions are able to be held.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권10호
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• pp.5095-5111
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• 2019

A multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) system is developed to solve the manhole cover detection problem for the infrastructure maintenance in the suburbs of big city. The visible light sensor is employed to collect the ground image data and a series of image processing and machine learning methods are used to detect the manhole cover. First, the image enhancement technique is employed to improve the imaging effect of visible light camera. An imaging environment perception method is used to increase the computation robustness: the blind Image Quality Evaluation Metrics (IQEMs) are used to percept the imaging environment and select the images which have a high imaging definition for the following computation. Because of its excellent processing effect the adaptive Multiple Scale Retinex (MSR) is used to enhance the imaging quality. Second, the Single Shot multi-box Detector (SSD) method is utilized to identify the manhole cover for its stable processing effect. Third, the spatial coordinate of manhole cover is also estimated from the ground image. The practical applications have verified the outdoor environment adaptability of proposed algorithm and the target detection correctness of proposed system. The detection accuracy can reach 99% and the positioning accuracy is about 0.7 meters.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.581-586
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• 2018

주철 맨홀뚜껑은 제조과정에서 환경오염을 유발하며, 작업환경은 매우 열악하다. 또한, 맨홀 뚜껑의 높이와 도로 표면의 높이가 일치하지 않은 경우에는 많은 불편을 초래하며 안전에도 문제를 야기한다. 본 연구에서는 주철 맨홀뚜껑을 대체할 수 있고, 도로 노면 공사 시 도로 노면 높이와 맨홀 뚜껑의 높이를 동일하게 맞추기 용이한 높이 조절이 가능한 강재 맨홀 뚜껑 구조를 제안하였다. 요구되는 품질 성능을 만족시키기 위한 맨홀 뚜껑의 구조에 대한 설계변수를 파악하기 위하여 구조 해석을 수행하였다. 요구되는 내하중 용량을 만족하는 맨홀뚜껑을 제작하기 위하여 ㄷ자 모양의 보강대에 대하여 최적 설계를 수행하였다. 높이조절부의 원통과 하부 프레임 원통은 강판을 굽힘 가공하여 원형의 형상으로 만든 후 용접에 의하여 제작하였다. 또한, 보강대도 강판을 굽힘 가공하여 제작하였다. 높이 조절용 홈은 CNC 밀링머신에 의하여 가공하였다. 4차례의 시제품을 제작하여 내하중 실험을 수행하였으며, 시험의 결과를 반영하여 새로이 제작하였다. 내하중 시험에서 용접부의 파손은 발생하지 않았으며, 주로 변형은 높이조절 홈과 가셋트 판이 접촉하는 부위에서 발생하였다. 450kN의 부하 하중에 의해 1~2.7mm의 변형이 발생하지만, 하중을 제거한 후에 거의 잔류변형이 없으며, 맨홀뚜껑의 분해 및 재조립이 가능하기 때문에 내하중 평가도 만족하는 것으로 판정받았다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2017

How to manage manhole is to estimate the part without observation and maintain the sewer. To get the information about current flow rate, visiting and measuring specific manhole is positively necessary. Also, there are some problems that accurate measurement of flow rate is difficult and obtaining the information about real-time whole flow rate is impossible. This thesis will easily grasp the accurate location and type of manhole to solve the problems, and provide the manhole system conveying information through direct radio communication with a manhole cover to renewal information of manhole properly. Besides, it intends to save the information about management of waterworks, maintenance of facilities, data for flow rate, and structure of manhole. Using these, it is supposed to offer how to handle manhole. Thus, this thesis delivers the information to manhole and into central servers directly without wire and provides the system and management method for effective maintenance of manhole.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.648-654
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• 2018

본 노면에 설치되어있는 맨홀의 지속적인 관리를 위해서는 맨홀의 개폐가 쉬워야 한다. 가혹한 조건하에 있는 맨홀은 틀과 커버가 고착되어 개폐가 어렵기 때문에 맨홀을 열 때 부양이 가능한 맨홀이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 잠금식 맨홀을 부양식 맨홀로 개선하기 위한 부양 기구의 설계를 진행하였다. 잠금식 맨홀의 기구는 중앙에 위치한 볼트를 돌리면 볼트와 연결된 허브가 하강하고, 허브와 연결되어 있는 후크를 회전시키게 된다. 후크의 끝단이 맨홀 틀에 걸리도록 되어있다. 본 연구에서는 맨홀의 부양이 가능하도록 후크에 보조장치를 설치하도록 하였다. 부양 기능을 수행할 후크의 항복응력의 70%를 기준으로 약 300kg의 부양력을 지지할 수 있도록 구조를 설계하였다. 유한요소법을 이용한 구조해석을 통하여 형상 설계를 수행하였다. 우선 단순화된 2차원 모델로 1차 기초설계를 수행하고, 3차원 모델을 통하여 부착위치와 형상을 설계하였다. 설계된 형상에 대하여 구조적 문제점을 찾아보기 위하여 3D 프린팅을 통하여 축소 모델을 출력하였고, 기능이 작동함을 확인하였다. 최종적으로 가공을 통하여 부양 기구를 제작하여 기존의 잠금식 맨홀에 적용한 결과 평균 6.1 mm 정도의 부양이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.63-68
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• 2004

There are a lot of manholes such as for water supply, sewage, telecommunication cable, traffic sign, electricity supply, and rainwater, etc. Conventional manholes installed on a road are impossible to adjust height, so that they should be entirely excavated to reinstall or repair. This entire excavation of a manhole causes too much time-consuming work, waste of resources, and obstruction of traffic. In this study, in order to solve the above mentioned problems, a cover, outer and inner parts of a manhole are integrated by gear-shaped parts located between outer and inner parts of a manhole. Mechanical design is performed to determine dimension of gear-shaped parts by Taguchi orthogonal array table. Cast molds for a gear-shaped manhole are also manufactured.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.710-715
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• 2004

There are a lot of manholes such as for water supply, sewage, telecommunication cable, traffic sign, electricity supply, and rainwater, etc. Conventional manholes installed on a road are impossible to adjust height, so that they should be entirely excavated to reinstall or repair. This entire excavation of a manhole causes too much time-consuming work, waste of resources, and obstruction of traffic. In this study, in order to solve the above mentioned problems, a cover, outer and inner parts of a manhole are integrated by gear-shaped parts located between outer and inner parts of a manhole. Mechanical design is performed to determine dimension of gear-shaped parts by Taguchi orthogonal array table. Cast molds for a gear-shaped manhole are also manufactured.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.619-625
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• 2008

Urban sewer systems are designed to operate in open-channel flow regime and energy loss at square manholes is usually not significant. However, the energy loss at surcharged manholes is considered as one of the major causes of inundation in urban area. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the head loss associated with manholes, especially in surcharged flow. Hydraulic experimental apparatus which can change the manhole inner profile(CASE I, II, III, and IV) and the invert types(CASE A, B, C) were installed for this study. The experimental discharge was $16{\ell}/sec$. As the ratio of b/D(manhole width/inflow pipe diameter) increases, head loss coefficient increases due to strong horizontal swirl motion. The head loss coefficients for CASE I, II, III, and IV were 0.46, 0.38, 0.28 and 0.37, respectively. Side covers increase considerably drainage capacity at surcharged square manhole when the ratio of d/D(side cover diameter/inflow pipe diameter) was 1.0. The head loss coefficients for CASE A, B, and C were 0.45, 0.37, and 0.30, respectively. Accordingly, U-invert is the most effective for energy loss reduction at surcharged square manhole. This head loss coefficients could be available to evaluate the urban sewer system with surcharged flow.