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The Occupant Load Density of Sunken Area in Multiple Occupancy Building with Underground Facility (지하연계복합건축물의 선큰 재실자밀도 분석)

  • Kim, Woon Hyung;Kim, Jong Sung;Lee, Yong Jae
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2013.04a
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    • pp.80-81
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    • 2013
  • 최근 제정 시행되고 있는 지하연계 복합건축물에 대한 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 그러나 화재위험성이 높은 지하 공간의 경우, 아직까지 관련 규정의 근거가 미약하여 현실적인 피난안전 설계에 어려움을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 피난 계획을 위한 로우 데이터를 확보하고자 현재 사용 중인 선큰을 대상으로 실제 유동인구를 측정하여 재실자 밀도를 분석하였다. 선큰으로 연결되는 출입구들의 유동인구와 함께 유동계수를 측정하였으며 선큰내의 재실자 밀도 산정을 통하여 선큰의 대피기능을 위한 연구 진행의 토대를 마련하였다.

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A Study on the Injury Assessment of Helicopter's Crew with Multi Point Restraint System under Drop Impact (낙하 충격을 받는 다점 구속 장치를 착용한 헬기 승무원의 상해도 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jung-Hyun;Lee, Young-Shin
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.33 no.6
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    • pp.590-599
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, a method of modeling seat belts on crew seat during dynamic seat testing was studied. The body segments of the occupant were modeled with joints. The joints consisted with various stiffnesses, dampings, and frictions. Three types of seat belt restraint systems were investigated. The analysis for on the injury assessment of helicopter's crew under drop impact was conducted. The effectiveness of the seat belt system for crashworthiness and safety was evaluated. As the results of impact analysis, head, neck and spine of the crew can be easily damaged in the vertical direction more than the longitudinal direction. Based on the verified model, behavior of human body was studied with three-point restraint systems. The displacement and injury level of the 12-point restraint system was the smallest.

Anomaly Detection in Smart Homes Using Bayesian Networks

  • Saqaeeyan, Sasan;javadi, Hamid Haj Seyyed;Amirkhani, Hossein
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.1796-1816
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    • 2020
  • The health and safety of elderly and disabled patients who cannot live alone is an important issue. Timely detection of sudden events is necessary to protect these people, and anomaly detection in smart homes is an efficient approach to extracting such information. In the real world, there is a causal relationship between an occupant's behaviour and the order in which appliances are used in the home. Bayesian networks are appropriate tools for assessing the probability of an effect due to the occurrence of its causes, and vice versa. This paper defines different subsets of random variables on the basis of sensory data from a smart home, and it presents an anomaly detection system based on various models of Bayesian networks and drawing upon these variables. We examine different models to obtain the best network, one that has higher assessment scores and a smaller size. Experimental evaluations of real datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

ALUMINUM SPACE FRAME B.I.W. OPTIMIZATION CONSIDERING MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN CONSTRAINTS

  • KIM B. J.;KIM M. S.;HEO S. J.
    • International Journal of Automotive Technology
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.635-641
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents an ASF (Aluminum Space Frame) BIW (Body in White) optimal design, which minimizes weight and satisfies multidisciplinary constraints such as static stiffness, vibration characteristics, low-/high-speed crash, and occupant safety. As only one cycle CPU time for all the analyses is 12 hours, the ASF design having 11-design variable is a large scaled problem. In this study, ISCD-II and conservative least square fitting method were used for efficient RSM modeling. Likewise, the ALM method was used to solve the approximate optimization problem. The approximate optimum was sequentially added to remodel the RSM. The proposed optimization method uses only 20 analyses to solve the 11-design variable problem. Moreover, the optimal design can achieve $15.6\%$ weight reduction while satisfying all the multidisciplinary design constraints.

The Section Design of Press Door Impact Beam for Improving Bending Strength (굽힘 강도 향상을 위한 프레스 도어 임팩트 빔의 단면 설계)

  • Jo, Kyeongrae;Kang, Sungjong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.74-81
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    • 2017
  • The door impact beam of the side-impacted vehicle plays a key role in securing occupant safety by preventing intrusion from the impacting vehicle. Despite the low production cost, the press door impact beam has been adopted sparingly because of the strength inferiority. In this study, the design technologies of the press beam aimed at improving bending strength were investigated. First, the effect of the section shape and size was examined. Next, thickness and material strength were increased. Also, the TRB beam application was simulated by varying combined thickness. Some TRB beams with reduced weight exhibited bending strength over the strength of the pipe beam. Then, the beam with a closed center section also showed remarkably enhanced maximum bending strength.

CRASHWORTHY DESIGN AND EVALUATION ON THE FRONT-END STRUCTURE OF KOREAN HIGH SPEED TRAIN

  • Koo, J.S.;Youn, Y.H.
    • International Journal of Automotive Technology
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.173-180
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    • 2004
  • An intensive study was conducted for the crash worthy structural design of the recently developed Korean High Speed Train (KHST). Two main design concepts were set up to protect both crews and passengers from serious injury in heavy collision accidents, and to reduce damage to the train itself in light collision accidents. A collision against a movable 15-ton rigid obstacle at 110 kph was selected from train accident investigations as the accident scenario for the heavy collisions. A train-to-train collision at the relative velocity of 16 kph was used for the light collision. The crashworthiness behaviors of KHST were numerically evaluated using FEM. Analysis results using 1-D collision dynamics model of the full rake consist and 3-D shell element model of the front end structure showed good crashworthy responses in a viewpoint of structural design. Occupant analyses and sled tests demonstrated that KHST performed well enough to protect occupants under the considered accident scenarios. Finally our numerical approaches were evaluated by a real scale collision test.

Dynamic Analysis of Automobile Collisions with Friction (마찰력이 수반된 자동차 충돌의 동역학적 해석)

  • Han, I.H.
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 1994
  • The most commonplace of collisions that directly affect people is that of vehicles. Safety studies have noted a correlation between vehicle occupant injury severity and velocity changes. Methods for estimating collision velocity changes are discussed here. This topic is part of what is referred to as accident reconstruction. Only planar collisions are considered. When a vehicle collides with another, impact dynamics with friction should be considered. This paper presents a general analysis methodology of impact. must dynamics incorporating friction. The presence of friction between sliding contacts during the impact makes the problem difficult since the events such as reverse sliding or sticking, which may occur at different times throughout the impact, must be determined. This paper uses the results of RICSAC experiments for verifying the developed methodology. The analysis and experimental results agree well.

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Vehicle Dynamic Analysis Using Virtual Proving Ground Approach

  • Min, Han-Ki;Park, Gi-Seob;Jung, Jong-An;Yang, In-Young
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.7
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    • pp.958-965
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    • 2003
  • Structural integrity of either a passenger car or a light truck is one of the basic requirements for a full vehicle engineering and development program. The results of the vehicle product performance are measured in terms of ride and handling, durability, noise/vibration/harshness (NVH), crashworthiness and occupant safety. The level of performance of a vehicle directly affects the marketability, profitability and, most importantly, the future of the automobile manufacturer In this study, we used the virtual proving ground (VPG) approach for obtaining the dynamic characteristics. The VPG approach uses a nonlinear dynamic finite element code (LS-DYNA3D) which expands the application boundary outside the classic linear static assumptions. The VPG approach also uses realistic boundary conditions of tire/road surface interactions. To verify the predicted dynamic results, a single lane change test has been performed. The prediction results were compared with the experimental results, and the feasibility of the integrated CAE analysis methodology was verified.

Development of Vehicle Door Impact Beam by Hot Stamping (핫스탬핑에 의한 자동차 도어 임팩트빔의 개발)

  • Yum, Young-Jin;Kim, Jong-Gook;Lee, Hyun-Woo;Hwang, Jung-Bok;Kim, Sun-Ung;Kim, Won-Hyuck;Yoo, Seung-Jo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 2008
  • A hot stamping technology of vehicle door impact beam made of thin sheet steel has been developed, with the aim of ensuring occupant safety in a side collision. This technology has been implemented to increase the strength of vehicle body parts and to reduce not only the weight of door impact beam but also the number of work processes. Mechanical tests were performed to obtain material properties of hot-stamped specimen and those were used as input data in stamping and structural simulation for optimal design of door impact beam. Strength of hot-stamped door impact beam increased to the value 102% higher than that of conventional pipe-shaped door impact beam and structural simulation showed that hot-stamped door impact beam achieved 28% weight reduction.

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Development of Side Impact Crash Simulation Methodology and Its Applications (측면충돌모의시험 방법 개발과 응용)

  • 하영호
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.101-109
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    • 2000
  • Occupant protection in the side impact of a car became one of the most important issues of car crashworthiness due to high injury level in a side impact crash. An accurate simulation of the side impact crash is an essential tool for the reduction of development time and cost for side impact safety system. This paper describes a new test methodology that can accurately generate the crash pulses of a vehicle and a door in a very cost-effective manner, and then evaluates the injury values of the dummy for the various sled pulses. This test methodology is simple and easy to approach because the door velocity is controlled by the hydraulic actuator and brake and the seat velocity is only adjusted by the friction force of the hydraulic brake. The superiority of the proposed test methodology is proven by the evaluation of dummy's injury values according to the change of the pressure of the hydraulic brake and by the application as a tool for the development of side airbag.

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