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A Study on FMEDA Process for SIL Certification : A Case Study of a Flame Scanner (SIL 인증을 위한 FMEDA 프로세스 연구 : 화염검출기 사례를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Sung Kyu;Kim, Yong Soo
    • IE interfaces
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.422-430
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    • 2012
  • In this article, we introduced the estimation method by 'Safety Integrity Level'(SIL) for the criterion of safety assurance and performed a case study on a flame scanner. SIL requires probabilistic evaluation of each set of equipment used to reduce risk in a safety related system. FMEDA(Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis) method is widely used to evaluate the safety levels and provides information on the failure rates and failure mode distributions necessary to calculate a diagnostic coverage factor for a part or a component. Basically, two parameters resulting from FMEDA are used for SIL classification of the device : SFF(Safe Failure Fraction) and PFD(Probability of Failure on Demand). In this case study, it is concluded that the flame scanner is designed to fulfill the condition of SIL 3 in the aspect of SFF and PFD.

Development of Program for Estimation of Direct or Indirect Loss Cost Due to Industrial Disaster (산업재해로 인한 직.간접 손실비용 산출 프로그램 개발)

  • 최광만;서재민;임차순;류병태;고재욱
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2001
  • In this study the main elements which can be commonly adopted to every kind of business are selected through the research, case-study, benchmarking common items of a direct or indirect loss cost. As a result of the development of a program for evaluating loss cost a case or accumulated data can be easily managed through estimating the direct and indirect loss cost as tell as the ratio between directs and indirect cost. The program is fit to case-study and we are compared direct cost with indirect cost. Automatically, this program showed ratio between directs and indirect cost for style, scale of accident The person in charge of safety and hygiene can have better chances to get into management also the owner or the CEO can recognize the importance of management of safety and hygiene. So this can guide the company to invest in a prevention of disaster and to adopt a safety and hygiene management promote the prevention activity of a company, and finally decrease the accident rate in the country.

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Case Study on the Improvement of Cosmetic Product Safety (화장용 제품안전 개선의 사례연구)

  • 정국삼;윤상원
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.130-135
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    • 1998
  • One aspect of customer dissatisfaction, safety or more correctly, the lack of product safety has received particular attention in courts and in legislatures, especially in the developed countries. Therefore, many companies have always regarded safety elements as an essential part of product manufacturing. In this paper, the case study on the product safety of infant cosmetics manufactured by a small-medium enterprise is presented. We have focused our study on safety level and control system of product safety, also analyzed the product defects caused by mixing process and all departments. It is found that the product defects(Complaints, Enquiries) is considerably decreased. These results could be used to deal with a product recall which companies hope never happens to them.

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A Running Safety Assessment for Curved Section for a Railway Vehicle (철도차량의 곡선 구간별 주행안전성 평가)

  • Lee, Seung-Il;Lee, Hi-Sung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.18 no.12
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    • pp.1301-1309
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    • 2008
  • The curved portion fur each section running safety evaluation interpretation according to the track condition for improving the curved portion passage rate of a vehicle by using the multibody analysis model of the Saemaeul train was carried out. As a result, The excess of cant reaches the bad effect to the running safety in case the radius of curvature is small. In case the radius of curvature was large, we could confirm that the deficiency of cant reached the bad effect to the running safety. In the curved portion, the circular curve section most badly showed the running safety. The deficiency of curve length reaches the bad to the running safety. In the curved portion, the circular curve section most badly showed the running safety. Therefore the track condition(cant, transition curve length, etc) can reach the bad effect to the running safety of a vehicle, the exact design is required.

A Systematic Method for Independent Safety Assessment of Railway System by Applying NOR-STA Tool (NOR-STA 도구를 활용한 체계적 철도시스템 독립안전성 평가 방안)

  • Jung Kyou Um;Peom Park;Young Min Kim
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.29-38
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    • 2023
  • Independent Safety Assessment (ISA) is a third-party assessment that is to confirm that the system satisfies the safety requirements in the defined operational context. The process of this assessment often brings about many complex arguments that should be supported by evidence and justification. The communication between arguments and evidence is of the most importance in the context of safety case. This study illustrates how NOR-STA can be used for ISA process, showing the effective structure of safety compliance. The study outlines the steps to breaks down the top goal into many elements such as arguments, sub-goals, justification, context and assumptions. It concludes that the evidence-based safety conformance process utilizing NOR-STA provides a more effective and systematic representation of the independent safety assessment process in conformance cases.

The Impact of Safety Requirements on Shipbuilding

  • Kuo, Chen-gi
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 1997
  • The paper begin by examining shipbuilding in the context of competitiveness, specification and cost-effectiveness before considering the impact of safety requirements in the its operations. The basis of the safety case approach is then given, and its application to shipbuilding is illustrated by an example based on the use of staging in ship construction. The key conclusion is that the safety case approach provides the management with a technique for treating potential hazards in shipbuilding so that their risks can be kept within an acceptable level.

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A Study on the Structural Reform of Urban Transit Vehicle Considering Elevation of Fire Safety (화재안전성을 위한 도시철도 차량의 구조개선)

  • Lee, Keun-Oh;Kim, Kyu-Joong
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.21 no.5 s.77
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    • pp.22-27
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    • 2006
  • Even though the interior of urban transit vehicle has been changed as a preventing measure against fire to make it inflammable, there remains a possibility of fire breaking out in case of gasoline etc being brought in the subway. However, there is also the possibility that in case if fire toxic gas is generated and hot air spreads in carriage it will prove very dangerous for people sitting inside. This is a comparative study where we compare simulation results with model examining the time and direction the fire spreads when it breaks out. Also there is vertical distribution of temperature in carriage where the fire spreads out. This study is about demonstrating how to establish smokeless system in urban vehicle, about its necessity, and about vehicle system restructuring. This study also makes an effort to find more advanced method for efficient fire safety in trains. In existing vehicles, in case of fire, the smoke can't go out when doors are closed and hence it spreads in whole train. Even though the method of using ventilation or exhaust established inside the carriage to throw smoke out is much better than the way of opening end doors in each carriage, this study is trying to do research on second way. Through simulation we see that in second case, even though not as good as the first one, smoke can exit through gates. Even though the first method is better, the second can also be uses to let fire out. We can know that in the first case as the smoke can exit out faster, it provides more safety for people. So this system provides better fire safety condition.

Analytical study on safety factor of concrete pole installed in sloped ground (콘크리트 전주의 경사지 전도 안전율에 관한 해석 연구)

  • Shin, Dong-Geun;Yoon, Ki-Yong;Lee, Seung-Hyun;Kang, Young-Jong
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.433-436
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    • 2007
  • We analyzed the sloped ground safety factor, which is not presented in the design specification, using a computational analysis program L-Pile Plus 13.8. To achieve this we chose a required parameter set and a level ground safety factor presented in the design specification, and then determined its values comparing with the change of the safety factor according to the parameter. Using these parameters, we estimated the sloped ground safety factor for the slope of 35 degrees considering the improvement value of the slope presented in the design specification. As a result of this analysis, we obtained the smaller safety factor by about 0.7 times than the case of the level ground and verified that a number of concrete poles fail to assure 1 degree of the safety factor. We, therefore, concluded that an adjustment of the embedment depth is required in the case of the sloped ground.

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Stability Analysis of the Slopes (사면의 안정해석에 관한 연구)

  • 강우욱;조성섭;지인택
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.58-70
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    • 1989
  • The paper compared the Bishop methed to the Fellenius method in the analysis of slope stability. Laboratory model test was carried out in the case of seepage flow considered. The results obtained from this study were summarized as follows; 1. The slice pieces of 10 were enough to analysis the slope stability. 2. The safety factor. by the Fellenius method was lower than the Bishop method by the 96 to 97% in the case of no seepage flow and by the 95 to 96% in the case of seepage flow considered. 3. Besides the parameter of soil and slope, the safety factor of slope was influenced by the height of slope. This phenomena was distinct in the height of height less than 10 meters. 4. In the case of clay, there was no difference in the safety factor of slope between Fellenius and Bishop rnethod. The safety factors of slope with the seepage flow considered were lower than those with no see-page flow. 5. The influence of cohesion on the safety factor was more significant in the Bishop method than in the Fellenius method. 6. The slope failure of model test of A and B soil samples with high permeability coefficient was taken place slightly in vicinity of toe by the concentration of stress and gradually increased 7. Under condition of same slope height, the shapper the slope, the shorter the radius and the center of critical circle appered downward and finally failure of slope occured inside the slope.

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Integrated control of an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle considering the safety of propulsion system

  • Chengkun, Lv;Juntao, Chang;Lei, Dai
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-18
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    • 2023
  • This paper investigates the integrated control of an air-breathing hypersonic vehicle considering the safety of propulsion system under acceleration. First, the vehicle/engine coupling model that contains a control-oriented vehicle model and a quasi-one-dimensional dual-mode scramjet model is established. Next, the coupling process of the integrated control system is introduced in detail. Based on the coupling model, the integrated control framework is studied and an integrated control system including acceleration command generator, vehicle attitude control loop and engine multivariable control loop is discussed. Then, the effectiveness and superiority of the integrated control system are verified through the comparison of normal case and limiting case of an air-breathing hypersonic scramjet coupling model. Finally, the main results show that under normal acceleration case and limiting acceleration case, the integrated control system can track the altitude and speed of the vehicle extremely well and adjust the angle deflection of elevator to offset the thrust moment to maintain the attitude stability of the vehicle, while assigning the two-stage fuel equivalent ratio to meet the thrust performance and safety margin of the engine. Meanwhile, the high-acceleration requirement of the air-breathing hypersonic vehicle makes the propulsion system operating closer to the extreme dangerous conditions. The above contents demonstrate that considering the propulsion system safety will make integrated control system more real and meaningful.