• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.551-557
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• 2014

Ideally, it is preferable to obtain the fracture characteristics of a piping from the fracture toughness of real pipes. However, a fracture toughness test on real pipes not only incurs much expense, but is very difficult to perform. Therefore fracture toughness tests have been carried out with standard specimens instead of real pipes. But, the estimates of fracture toughness obtained from standard specimens are more conservative than those of real pipes owing to the difference in the constraint effect between real pipes and standard specimens. Therefore, we have been studied with equivalent stress gradient specimen (ESG) which is designed to behave equally compared to real pipe about stress gradient on crack tip. In this study, we will evaluate fracture characteristics of equivalent stress gradient specimen by using analytical methods and compare with those of real pipe. And finally investigate suitability of equivalent stress gradient specimen.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2008년도 추계학술대회A
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• pp.281-286
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• 2008

Wall thinning defect due to flow accelerated corrosion is one of major aging phenomena in most power plant industries, and it results in reducing load carrying capacity of the piping systems. A failure testing system was set up for real scale elbows containing various simulated wall thinning defects, and monotonic in-plane bending tests were performed under internal pressure to find out the failure behavior of thinned elbows. Various finite element models were generated and analysed to figure out and simulate the behavior for other thinning shapes and loading conditions. This paper presents the decreasing trends of load carrying capacity according to the thinning dimensions which were revealed from the investigation of finite element analysis results. A mechanical integrity evaluation model for thinned elbows was proposed, also. This model can be used to calculate the TES plastic load of thinned elbows for general internal pressure, thinning location, and in-plane bending direction.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.647-657
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• 2012

원자력 배관 시스템은 엄격한 설계기준에 따라 제작 되었음에도 불구하고, 장기 사용에 따라 발생하는 감육 및 균열에 의한 파손 사례가 보고되고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 스테인리스강 배관 시험체의 단조하중 및 반복하중 재하실험을 실시하여 국부 감육과 균열의 손상유무 및 0%, 35%, 75%의 손상정도가 배관의 파괴거동에 미치는 영향을 실험적으로 검토하였다. 본 실험에서는 실제 원자력 발전소에서 사용되고 있는 직경 3인치 TP316 스테인리스강 엘보우와 직관 배관을 대상으로 하여, 인위적으로 곡관부와 용접부에 0%, 35%, 75%의 국부적인 감육과 균열을 도입하고 20MPa의 내압을 가한 후 재하실험을 실시하였다. 그 결과, 국부 감육 및 균열의 손상정도가 파괴모드, 최대하중, 반복회수 및 에너지흡수율에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 평가하였다. 그리고 휨 모멘트를 이용하여 ASME의 결함 허용기준을 평가하였다.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.119-125
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• 2021

Subsea pipelines are widely used to transport hydrocarbons from ultra-deep seawater to facilities on the coast. A sandwich pipe is a pipe-in-pipe system in which the annulus between the two concentric steel pipes is filled with polymer cores and fillers for insulation and structural reinforcement. Sandwich pipeline is always exposed to complex loading such as bending moment, bulking, internal and external pressures caused by installation, operation and environmental factors. This research provides insights into the structural integrity of sandwich pipeline exposed to complex loading conditions using a linear matching method (LMM). The finite element model of the sandwich pipeline has been generated from previous research, and the model validation is performed by comparing the results of the linear analysis between the two models. The temperature dependent material properties are used to simulate the behavior of real pipeline, and the elastic-perfectly plastic (EPP) model has been taken into account for the material non-linearity. Numerical results provide comprehensive insights into the structural response of the sandwich pipeline under monotonic and cyclic loading and provide notable points about the evaluation of the plastic collapse limit and the elastic shakedown limit of the sandwich pipeline.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제34권9호
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• pp.1293-1298
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 인공감육엘보에 대해 내압 및 굽힘의 복합하중을 작용시킨 실 배관 실증실험으로부터 생성한 회전각 대비 모멘트 곡선으로부터 감육결함 엘보에서 소성변형이 시작되는 1 배탄성구배법에 기초한 OES 탄성하중과 2 배탄성구배법에 기초한 TES 소성하중의 거동 및 상관관계를 살펴보았다. ASME 에서도 제시하고 있는 TES 소성하중은 균열손상에 따른 배관계통 구조 건전성 상실을 배제하면서도 지속사용을 허용할 수 있는 대체 관리 기준으로서 적합한 것으로 판단된다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.22-33
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• 1986

The application and development of on-line monitoring technology of AE to surveillance of crack propagation will contribute to the structural integrity of reactor pressure vessel and piping system. This research has been performed in order to obtain the evaluation technology for source location of AE and the analysis for the AE signal of the welded specimen. AE is detected by 4-channels AE system during pressurization in small pressure vessels. The cracking of artificial defects can be accurately located and categorized in real time. The welded specimens have more events rate and higher amplitude than the weldless less specimens, and the events rate have a peak around the yield point and just before the failure under tensile test.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2015

Pipe wall-thinning by flow-accelerated corrosion and various types of erosion is significant damage in secondary system piping of nuclear power plants(NPPs). All NPPs in Korea have management programs to ensure pipe integrity from degradation mechanisms. Ultrasonic test(UT) is widely used for pipe wall thickness measurement. Numerous UT measurements have been performed during scheduled outages. Wall-thinning rates are determined conservatively according to several evaluation methods developed by Electric Power Research Institute(EPRI). The issue of reliability caused by measurement error should be considered in the process of evaluation. The reliability analysis method was developed for single and multiple measurement data in the previous researches. This paper describes the application results of reliability analysis method to real measurement data during scheduled outage and proved its benefits.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.66-72
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• 2002

Fracture behaviors of pipes with local wall thinning are very important for the integrity of nuclear power plant. However, effects of local wall thinning on strength and fracture behaviors of piping system were not well studied. Acoustic emission(AE) has been widely used in various fields because of its extreme sensitivity, dynamic detection ability and location of growing defects. In this study, we investigated failure modes of locally wall thinned pipes and AE signals by bending test. From test results, we could be divided four types of failure modes of ovalization, crack initiation after ovalization, local buckling and crack initiation after local buckling. And fracture behaviors such as elastic region, yielding region, plastic deformation region and crack progress region could be evaluated by AE counts, accumulative counts and time-frequency analysis during bending test. The result of the frequency range is expected to be basic data that can inspect plants in real-time.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.147-152
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• 2002

It has tried to predict dynamic response and establish answering about global or local dynamic problem in structures using experimental and analysis method. One of such a try, it be proposed Semi-Empirical Method that reduce error element of input information about dynamic analysis using dynamic experimental study and measurement data in the basis of real-structure. In this paper, the dynamic response problem about piping system that be set-up THERMOWELL produce flow fluid dynamic force using Semi-Empirical Method

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.83-89
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• 2005

Most domestic fossil power plants have exceeded 100,000 hours of operation with the severe operating condition. Among the critical components of fossil power plant, high temperature steam pipe systems have had a many problems and damage from unstable displacement behavior because of frequent start up and shut down. In order to prevent the serious damage and failure of the critical pipe system in fossil power plants, 3-dimensional displacement measurement system was developed for the on-line monitoring. Displacement measurement system was developed with a use of a LVDT type sensor and two rotary encoder type sensors. This system was installed and operated on the real power plant successfully.