• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.236-239
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• 2016

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.199-206
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• 2015

Regular high-strength carbon steel is currently the most commonly used pipe material for onshore and offshore pipelines. The corrosion of offshore pipelines is a major problem as they age. The collapse of these structures as a result of corrosion may have a heavy cost is lives and assets. Therefore, their monitoring and screening is a high priority for maintenance, which may ensure the integrity and safety of a structure. Monitoring risers and subsea pipelines effectively can be accomplished using eddy current inspection to detect the average remaining wall thickness of corroded low-alloy carbon steel pipelines through corrosion scaling, paint, coating, and concrete. A test specimen for simulating the offshore pipeline is prepared as a standard specimen for an analysis and experiment with differential bobbin eddy current sensors. Using encircling coils, the signals for the defect in the simulated specimen are analyzed and evaluated in experiments. Differential bobbin eddy current sensors can diagnose the defects in a specimen, and experiments have been carried out using the developed bobbin eddy current sensor. As a result, the most optimum coil parameters were selected for designing differential bobbin eddy current sensors.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제87권3호
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• pp.211-219
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• 2023

The structural health of a pipeline is usually assessed by visual inspection. In addition to the fact that this method is expensive and time consuming, inspection of the whole structure is not possible due to limited access to some points. Therefore, adopting a damage detection method without the mentioned limitations is important in order to increase the safety of the structure. In recent years, vibration-based methods have been used to detect damage. These methods detect structural defects based on the fact that the dynamic responses of the structure will change due to damage existence. Therefore, the location and extent of damage, before and after the damage, are determined. In this study, fuzzy genetic algorithm has been used to monitor the structural health of the pipeline to create a fuzzy automated system and all kinds of possible failure scenarios that can occur for the structure. For this purpose, the results of an experimental model have been used. Its numerical model is generated in ABAQUS software and the results of the analysis are used in the fuzzy genetic algorithm. Results show that the system is more accurate in detecting high-intensity damages, and the use of higher frequency modes helps to increase accuracy. Moreover, the system considers the damage in symmetric regions with the same degree of membership. To deal with the uncertainties, some error values are added, which are observed to be negligible up to 10% of the error.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권12호
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• pp.2019-2029
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• 2001

Up to now a wide variety of researches on inpipe inspection robots have been introduced, but it still seems to be difficult to construct a robot providing mobility sufficient to navigate inside the complicated configuration of underground pipelines. This paper introduces a robot called MRINSPECT IV(Multifunctional Robotic Crawler for inpipe inSPECTion IV) for the inspection of urban gas pipelines with a nominal 4-inch inside diameter. The proposed robot can freely move along the basic configuration of pipelines such as along horizontal or vertical pipelines. Moreover it can travel along reducers, elbows, and steer in the branches by modulating the speeds of driving modules. Especially, its capability for steering in tile three-dimensional pipeline configuration has a competative edge over the other ones and provides excellent mobility in navigation. Its critical points in the design and construction are introduced and results of experiments are given.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.143-148
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• 2019

Numerous pipe lines can be found on various plant-based industrial sites. These pipelines should be periodically checked for defects. Most of these pipelines are internally inaccessible and difficult to visually inspect. Therefore, the inspection is being carried out with the help of non-contact inspection equipment such as ultrasonic flaw detection equipment. The use of ultrasonic flaw detection equipment can raise time and efficiency issues. In order to solve this problem, we will study the basic technology necessary for the development of automated inspection system equipped with ultrasonic measuring equipment and verify the validity through the fabrication of the demonstration device.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.129-135
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• 2018

도시가스배관에 대한 효율적인 안전관리를 위해서 33개 도시가스사로부터 입력된 데이터를 체계적으로 관리하고 분석함으로써, 가스안전관리 관련 대내 외적 업무를 효과적으로 수행하기 위하여 도시가스배관 종합관리시스템을 구축하였다. 시스템에 업로드된 배관정보 데이터는 KGS Code에 명시된 기준에 의해서 위험지수로 표현되고, 이를 통하여 진단우선순위가 도출됨으로써 배관 안전관리가 수행되고 있다. 하지만 위험지수를 선정하는 배점방식이 매우 단순하고 관련 근거도 부족할 뿐만 아니라, 다수의 중복 순위로 인해 진단대상 선정에 대한 신뢰성이 높지 않다. 이에 신뢰도 기반 설계 및 평가법을 기반으로 한 프로그램을 개발하여 합리적으로 위험도 및 위험순위를 도출하였다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.725-736
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• 2016

There is a growing concern on the improvement of water distribution pipeline for multi-regional water supply system in Korea along with its aging infrastructure. Rehabilitation of large diameter pipeline is more efficient in cost and time compared to replacement with trenching. The procedure for rehabilitation are diagnosis, cleaning, spraying coating material, and final inspection. The internal state of pipeline was carefully diagnosed and got C grade, which required rehabilitation. We found that 17,274,787,000 Korean won could be saved after pipe surface coating because of increased C coefficient of Hazen-Williams equation. Optimal coating material was D polyurea. We also found optimal distance between spraying nozzle and pipe wall to be 70 - 80 cm, which were critical factors for coating quality. This study also illustrated the time for spray drying to be more than 30 min. These results could be used in the quality control process during rehabilitation of aged pipelines.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.108-113
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• 2009

자기 누설 탐상 검사법은 지하에 매설된 가스 배관을 검사하기 위해 가장 널리 사용되고 있는 비파괴검사 방법 중의 하나이다. 자기 누설 탐상 시스템이 지하에 매설된 배관을 통과하게 되면 배관은 영구자석에 의해 착자된다. 배관의 부식이나 결함이 있는 경우 배관의 단면적이 변화하기 때문에 이 부분에서 누설자속이 변화한다. 홀 센서에 의해 검출되는 누설자속 신호로부터 결함의 길이, 폭, 깊이 등과 같은 결함의 형상을 판별하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 홀 센서를 통해 검출된 축 방향과 반경 방향 신호를 이용하여 결함의 길이를 추정하는 여러 알고리즘을 제시하고, KOGAS 모의 시험배관에 만든 실제 결함에 대해 결함의 길이 추정성능을 비교 분석하였다. 실제 데이터에 대한 추정 성능 비교를 위해 한국가스공사의 모의시험배관에 인공결함을 제작하여 사용하였다. 축 방향 및 반경 방향 신호에 대해 각각 최소값 혹은 첨두값의 80%와 90%를 기준으로 길이를 추정하였을 경우 가장 좋은 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2002

This paper presents simple models for flow and the PIG dynamics when it passes through a $90^{\circ}$ curved section of pipeline. The simulation has been done with two different operational boundary conditions. The solution fur non-linear hyperbolic partial equations for flow is given by using MOC. The Runge-Kuta method is used to solve the initial condition equation fur flow and the PIG dynamics equation. The simulation results show that the proposed model and solution can be used fur estimating the PIG dynamics when the pig runs in the pipeline including curved section. In this paper, dynamic modeling and its analysis for the PIG flow through $90^{\circ}$ curved pipe with compressible and unsteady flow are studied. The PIG dynamics model is derived by using Lagrange equation under assumption that it passes through 3 different sections in the curved pipeline such that it moves into, inside and out of the curved section. The downstream and up stream flow dynamics including the curved sections are solved using MOC. The effectiveness of the derived mathematical models is estimated by simulation results fur a low pressure natural gas pipeline including downward and upward curved sections. The simulation results show that the proposed model and solution can be used for estimating the PIG dynamics when we pig the pipeline including curved section.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.134-141
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• 2011

최근 사회 기반 시설물에서 구조물의 안전성 및 적정 성능 수준을 확보하기 위하여 구조물의 결함 빛 노후화에 의한 성능 저하 등을 상시적으로 모니터링하기 위한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 이 중 배관 구조물은 국가 주요 자원의 수송을 책임지는 핵심 사회 기반 시설물임에도 불구하고 지중에 매립된다는 위치적 특성 상 상시적으로 구조물의 상태를 모니터링하기는 매우 어렵다. 또한 배관 구조물에서는 내부 미세 균열에서부터 국부 좌굴, 볼트 풀림, 피로 균열 등과 같이 다양한 형태의 손상이 복합적으로 발생 가능하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 이러한 복합 손상을 효율적으로 진단하기 위하여 압전센서를 이용한 자가 계측 회로 기반의 유도 초음파 계측 시스템을 복합 손상 진단에 적용하였다. 유도 초음파 자가 계측으로부터 특정 중심 주파수에 해당하는 구조물의 웨이블렛 응답을 계측한다. 복합 손상을 유형별로 분류하기 위하여 유도 초음파 계측으로부터 추출한 특성을 이용하여 손상지수를 계산하고 이를 지도학습 기반 패턴인식 기법에 적용한다. 제안된 기법의 적용성 검토를 위하여 배관 구조물에 인위적으로 다중 손상을 생성시켜 시험을 수행하였다.