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A Study on the Safety Standards DB Building for Track System of Urban Transit System (웹을 이용한 선로시스템 안전기준 DB 구축연구)

  • Lee, Woo-Dong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.10d
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    • pp.261-262
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    • 2006
  • City Train Technology that is large and complex system and consists of mechanical, electronic, electric, materials, computer, communication, civil/track etc. is very important area of railway industry, national fundamental industry. The standardization of city train system as a public transportation method and foundation of national economy is very important in order to do effective operation and to get fundamental technology, and the information system of the standards is required to operate the city train system effectively. By building data base of city train system design knowledge using computer-aided system engineering tool-Cradle, the system development issues and the design solutions are used by all engaged persons, and are managed by modeling and documentation. And this system will support architecture design consistently and effectively by applying this system to formalize early development process, to system requirements and configuration management, to system interface analysis and management and to system behavior analysis etc.. This study is for construction of data base of system design knowledge through making data base of many kinds of standards using CASE tool based on System Engineering Process, and introduces a model to support concurrent engineering for all engineers involved in system development allowing access to standard DB through Web from anywhere and at anytime.

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A Study on the Safety Standards DB Building for Signaling System of Urban Transit System (웹을 이용한 신호시스템 안전기준 DB 구축연구)

  • Lee, Woo-Dong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.10d
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    • pp.259-260
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    • 2006
  • City Train Technology that is large and complex system and consists of mechanical, electronic, electric, materials, computer, communication, civil/track etc. is very important area of railway industry, national fundamental industry. The standardization of city train system as a public transportation method and foundation of national economy is very important in order to do effective operation and to get fundamental technology, and the information system of the standards is required to operate the city train system effectively. By building data base of city train system design knowledge using computer-aided system engineering tool-Cradle, the system development issues and the design solutions are used by all engaged persons, and are managed by modeling and documentation. And this system will support architecture design consistently and effectively by applying this system to formalize early development process, to system requirements and configuration management, to system interface analysis and management and to system behavior analysis etc.. This study is for construction of data base of system design knowledge through making data base of many kinds of standards using CASE tool based on System Engineering Process, and introduces a model to support concurrent engineering for all engineers involved in system development allowing access to standard DB through Web from anywhere and at anytime.

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Conceptual Design on Doorstep Equipments Used for Low and High Level Railway Platforms (저상 및 고상 철도 승강장 겸용 승강문 스텝 개념설계)

  • Park, Min-Heung;Kim, Chul-Su
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.3882-3888
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    • 2012
  • In order to operate trains both mainline railroad platform and metropolitan subway line platform, it is necessary to develop the doorstep equipment of the rolling stock regardless of low(500mm, mainline) and high level platforms(1,135mm, metropolitan subway line) because of the requisite door safety system. In this study, two different types of platforms were examined. On closer examination, it seems that the conceptual design is suitable for telescopic sliding type doorstep equipment to minimize damage to the carbody underframe of railway vehicles and can also minimize the variation of the distance between the railway platform. Furthermore, the operation process and control flowchart of doorstep equipments by stages are proposed by various performance requirements.

Evaluations of the Robustness of Guidance Controller for a Bimodal Tram (바이모달트램 안내제어기의 강인성 평가)

  • Yun, Kyong-Han;Lee, Yong-Sang;Min, Kyung-Deuk;Kim, Young-Chol;Byun, Yeun-Sub
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.60 no.10
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    • pp.1924-1934
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    • 2011
  • This paper is concerned with the robustness evaluations of the guidance controller for a bimodal tram which is being developed by the Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI). The bimodal tram is an all-wheel steered multiple-articulated vehicle as a new kind of transportation vehicle. This vehicle has to be equipped with an automatic guidance system. In [1], such a controller has been recently proposed. However, since the performance is affected by weight change of the vehicle due to number of the passenger, model parameter uncertainties depending on the state of friction and the elasticity of the tire, and a typhoon, the controller designed must be examined with these conditions. As expected, because the vehicle dynamics is highly nonlinear, for the sake of investigating the robustness of the controller we compose two simulation ways based on the vehicle models which are implemented by the ADAMS and the MATLAB/LabVIEW toolboxes. Different uncertainties and a typhoon disturbance have been considered for the simulation conditions. Simulation results are shown.

Investigation of Energy Absorption Property of Glass/Epoxy Composite Tubes with Bevel and Tulip Triggers (베벨 및 튤립 트리거를 갖는 유리섬유 복합소재 튜브의 에너지 흡수특성 평가)

  • Kim, Jung Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.395-401
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    • 2017
  • Energy absorption capabilities and failure modes of circular tubes made of glass/epoxy with two trigger mechanisms were evaluated. Three types of glass/epoxy tubes were fabricated using a hand lay-up method with unidirectional and woven fabric prepregs tapes, and a filament winding method. The one end of the fabricated tubes was machined for the bevel trigger and tulip trigger. Then, crush tests were conducted at 10 mm/min loading speed, wherein the glass/epoxy tubes were crushed by a brittle fracturing mode combined with fragmentation and lamina-splaying modes. The UD glass/epoxy tubes with a bevel trigger and the filament winded tubes with a tulip trigger showed the maximum and minimum specific energy absorptions, respectively, with a difference of 9.3%. The tube with a tulip trigger exhibited a maximum reduction of 5.7% in the initial peak load; the tube with a bevel trigger showed a maximum increase of 2.9% in the specific energy absorption.

Review of Non-Destructive Evaluation Technologies for Rail Inspection (철도 레일의 결함 검출을 위한 비파괴탐상 기술)

  • Han, Soon-Woo;Cho, Seung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.398-413
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    • 2011
  • For railway safety, it is very important to detect damages of rails at their early stage because any undetected damage in a rail can break the rail and cause a serious railway accident. In this paper, several NDT applicable to rail inspections are described. Major damage types in rails are discussed first and the rail inspection technology using conventional piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers, which is widely adopted for damage detection of rails, is explained. Other NDT being researched or tested for rail inspection are also discussed as complementary technologies to the concurrent contact type ultrasonic inspection. Characteristics of each rail inspection technologies are evaluated in order to provide requirements for future development of a new rail inspection method.

A Study on Transient Analysis of Linear Induction Motor with Ununiform Airgap for Shallow-depth Underground Train (저심도철도용 선형유도전동기의 공극 불균일 과도특성 분석 연구)

  • Lee, Hyung-Woo;Park, Chan-Bae;Won, Sunghong
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.62 no.5
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    • pp.723-729
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents an parallel type Linear Induction Motor with ununiform airgap for a shallow-depth underground train with 100‰ grade and 15 m curvature. This parallel type LIM has enough gradability but has inherently ununiform airgap between center and end parts. Consequently, performance when the train passes curved section should be considered with transient analysis. Moreover, general parallel operation, 1C2M which is usually used for train operation, deteriorates LIM performance because of different line velocity between inner and outer LIMs. Transient analysis has many problems such as huge model, lots of meshes, very long calculation time, truncation error and so on. This paper has presented a novel technique using equivalent linear rotating model in order to solve these problems and has analyzed parallel type LIM by using the proposed technique. Finally, LIM performance according to independent operating control has been investigated.

In-situ measurement of railway-traffic induced vibrations nearby the liquid-storage tank

  • Goktepe, Fatih;Kuyuk, Huseyin S.;Celebi, Erkan
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.583-589
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    • 2017
  • In this study, result of a field investigation of railway traffic-induced vibrations is provided to examine acceptability levels of ground vibration and to evaluate the serviceability of a liquid-storage tank. Free field attenuation of the amplitudes as a function of distance is derived by six accelerometers and compared with a well-known half-space Bornitz's analytical solution which considers the loss of the amplitude of waves due to geometrical damping and material damping of Rayleigh. Bornitz's solution tends to overlap vertical free field vibration compared with in-situ measured records. The vibrations of the liquid-storage tank were compared with the USA, Federal Transportation Railroad Administration (FTA) criteria for acceptable ground-borne vibrations and with the criteria in DIN 4150-3 German standard. Comparing the thresholds stated in DIN 4150-3, absolute peak particle velocities are within the safe limits, however according to FTA velocity level at the top of the water tank exceeds the allowable limits. Furthermore, it is intended to indicate experimentally the effect of the kinematic interaction caused by the foundation of the structure on the free-field vibrations.

SHANGHAI URBAN GENERAL LAYOUT AND TRAFFIC SYSTEM (론상해기유철로추뉴재성시쾌속유궤교통 로망중적지위화작용)

  • CHANG SHAO LIANG
    • Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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    • 1995.05a
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 1995
  • It is an objective of Shanghai urban development to quickly build Shanghai into one of the international centres of economy, finance and trade. To fulfil the objective, a rational urban general layout and a satisfactory traffic network are needed. As a metropolis with complete urban functions and specified geographical position, Shanghai must develop a perfect citytown system that best suits its composite urban distribution. In planning the central city, the principle of "open and multi-centred" and "optimization of land use" should be taken into consideration. To build a satisfactory urban traffic network, emphasis should be laid upon the construction of deefwater wharf, air-field and inforation centre. In addition, determination should be made to build a high-speed traffic means including high speed railroad and express highway so that a public traffic network is realised on and above ground, and underground. A solution of traffic preblem in Shanghai lies in good understanding of traffic policy and strenthening of strategic management combined with a rational layout of traffic circulation.

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A Study on the Effective Development of Privately Financed Station Buildings (철도 민자역사의 효율적 개발 방안 연구)

  • Kim Byong-O;Chung Jae-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.9 no.4 s.35
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    • pp.362-370
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    • 2006
  • This study examines the current state of and the problems in privately financed station in Korea, and makes suggestions for improving future development of stations. Problems found in this research are as follows. First. the deployment of resting facilities needs to be planned according to whether the users of privately financed station buildings are electric railway passengers or national railway ones. Second, large scale developments with the object of raising operating revenues should be restrained. Third, there are not sufficient spaces for public benefit such as squares in front of stations. Fourth, the surroundings are congested due to lack of connection to neighboring areas through public transportation. Fifth, the absence of integrated development plans causes many inadequate effects on urban functions and views. Sixth, administrative processes for getting licenses and permits are complicated and relevant authorities are not cooperative. To solve these problems in privately financed station buildings, to contribute to the development of the community and to secure publicness, Many problems are not in station buildings themselves but come from insufficient consideration of relevant factors in constructing the buildings Thus, future development of station buildings and their surrounding areas should be planned in consideration of these problems. We expect that the development of areas surrounding railway stations not only improves railway stations themselves but also leads the environmental reform of urban spaces and activates the local community.