• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.294-301
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• 2021

As the number of cases of performance degradation owing to corrosion of plant during processing in industries increases, the cost of maintaining industrial factory is increasing year by the year. Most of the materials of the facilities are consist of stainless steel (SS) such as austenite SS, ferrite SS, martensite SS, and duplex SS. Among them austenite SS is cheap and has excellent corrosion resistance and heat resistance. Corrosion is the consumption and change of metals by altering chemical and electrical reactions. The types of SS corrosion include pitting corrosion, crevice corrosion, galvanic corrosion, stress corrosion cracking, and thermal corrosion. The corrosion of SS is not only investigated various environmental factors but also the measurement of the corrosion rate. Therefore, it aims to understand comprehensive corrosion rates in various environments using qualitative, quantitative and electrochemical methods.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.1251-1260
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• 2019

The water-cooled WCLL blanket is one of the possible candidates for the blanket of the fusion power reactors. The plasma-facing first wall manufactured from the reduced-activation ferritic-martensitic steel Eurofer97 will be cooled with water at a typical pressurized water reactor (PWR) conditions. According to new estimates, the first wall will be exposed to peak heat fluxes up to $7MW/m^2$ while the maximum operated temperature of Eurofer97 is set to $550^{\circ}C$. The performed analysis shows the capability of the designed flat first wall concept to remove heat flux without exceeding the maximum Eurofer97 operating temperature only up to $0.75MW/m^2$. Several heat transfer enhancement methods (turbulator promoters), structural modifications, and variations of parameters were analysed. The effects of particular modifications on the wall temperature were evaluated using thermo-hydraulic three-dimensional numerical simulation. The analysis shows the negligible effect of the turbulators. By the combination of the proposed modifications, the permitted heat flux was increased up to $1.69MW/m^2$ only. The results indicate the necessity of the re-evaluation of the existing first wall concepts.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제25권12호
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• pp.1777-1783
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• 2021

대단위 신재생 에너지 발전단지의 효율적인 유지관리를 위해 드론의 활용이 점차 증가하고 있다. 오래전부터 태양광 패널을 드론으로 촬영하여 패널의 유실 및 오염 등을 관리하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 열화상카메라를 장착한 드론을 이용하여 획득된 태양광패널 이미지에서 아크, 단선, 크랙 등의 고장 유무를 판별하기 위해 시멘틱세그멘테이션 기법을 이용한 분류모델을 제안한다. 또한 적은 데이터셋으로도 강인한 분류 성능을 보이는 U-Net의 튜닝을 통해 효율적인 분류모델을 구현하였다.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2023

Background: Firefighting involves exposure of firefighters to risks related to this activity, serious injuries, and occupational diseases are recorded. There are other consequences such as thermal and emotional stress. This systematic review is proposed in order to analyze the risks and consequences faced by these workers and thus provide elements to improve safety management systems in institutions. Method: A descriptive observational study of systematic literature review on the risks and consequences of exposure to firefighters' activity was proposed, and the information was analyzed and described based on the available data and according to the variables determined. Results: The studies showed data on mechanical, physical, chemical, psychosocial risks, workers' perception and resilience, and epidemiological data. Information related to firefighters' activity on falls and slips, exposure to noise, and high concentrations of carbon monoxide is detailed. In addition, the relationship between burnout, cognitive, and physical fatigue as adverse effects on health and performance is mentioned. Conclusions: Among the preventive measures, the use of personal protective equipment is suggested, incorporation in prevention programs of information on exposure to risk factors, as well as the implementation of models that can predict the perception of workers, additionally, the generation of management systems with safety climate models for fire departments.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.980-992
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• 2024

Steam line break accident (SLB) in the nuclear reactor is one of the representative Non-LOCA accidents in which thermal-hydraulics and neutron kinetics are strongly coupled each other. Thus, the multi-scale and multi-physics approach is applied in this study in order to examine a realistic safety margin. An entire reactor coolant system is modelled by system scale node, whereas sub-channel scale resolution is applied for the region of interest such as the reactor core. Fuel performance code is extended to consider full core pin-wise fuel behaviour. The MARU platform is developed for easy integration of the codes to be coupled. An initial stage of the steam line break accident is simulated on the MARU platform. As cold coolant is injected from the cold leg into the reactor pressure vessel, the power increases due to the moderator feedback. Three-dimensional coolant and fuel behaviour are qualitatively visualized for easy comprehension. Moreover, quantitative investigation is added by focusing on the enhancement of safety margin by means of comparing the minimum departure from nucleate boiling ratio (MDNBR). Three factors contributing to the increase of the MDNBR are proposed: Various geometric parameters, realistic power distribution by neutron kinetics code, Radial coolant mixing including sub-channel physics model.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2023년도 가을학술발표대회논문집
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• pp.51-52
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• 2023

Recently, heat island and dry island phenomena occur frequently due to land surface development and excessive energy consumption in urban areas. As a result, the surface temperature of the building and the entire temperature of its surroundings are increased, and as a result, the durability of the building is rapidly deteriorated. In order to suppress these causes, a method of maintaining the temperature of road heating wires was implemented as a temporary measure, but this did not predict climate change. Therefore, this study is a method to measure the compressive strength, density, and thermal conductivity of light weight concrete using waste glass foam beads. After fabricating a simple chamber, the temperature and humidity of the inside and outside were measured with an Arduino device in consideration of external factors. Therefore, if waste glass foam beads made through proper mixing are constructed in the urban center, the quality of the urban can be improved.

• Composites Research
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.83-87
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• 2018

An object in the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is affected by many environmental conditions unlike earth's surface such as, Atomic oxygen (AO), Ultraviolet Radiation (UV), thermal cycling, High Vacuum and Micrometeoroids and Orbital Debris (MMOD) impacts. The effect of all these parameters have to be carefully considered when designing a space structure, as it could be very critical for a space mission. Polybenzimidazole (PBI) is a high performance thermoplastic polymer that could be a suitable material for space missions because of its excellent resistance to these environmental factors. A thin coating of PBI polymer on the carbon epoxy composite laminate (referred as CFRP) was found to improve the energy absorption capability of the laminate in event of a hypervelocity impact. However, the overall efficiency of the shield also depends on other factors like placement and orientation of the laminates, standoff distances and the number of shielding layers. This paper studies the effectiveness of using a PBI coating on the front bumper in a multi-shock shield design for enhanced hypervelocity impact resistance. A thin PBI coating of 43 micron was observed to improve the shielding efficiency of the CFRP laminate by 22.06% when exposed to LEO environment conditions in a simulation chamber. To study the effectiveness of PBI coating in a hypervelocity impact situation, experiments were conducted on the CFRP and the PBI coated CFRP laminates with projectile velocities between 2.2 to 3.2 km/s. It was observed that the mass loss of the CFRP laminates decreased 7% when coated by a thin layer of PBI. However, the study of mass loss and damage area on a witness plate showed CFRP case to have better shielding efficiency than PBI coated CFRP laminate case. Therefore, it is recommended that PBI coating on the front bumper is not so effective in improving the overall hypervelocity impact resistance of the space structure.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.13-19
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to extract the major factors related to the deterioration mechanism of white organic light-emitting diodes(WOLED) by performing accelerated testing of temperature, voltage, time, etc., and to develop an accelerated life test(ALT) model. The measurement results of the brightness of the WOLED exhibited that their average brightness tended to increase as the operating voltage increased and that the half-life period of the brightness appeared after approximately 400 hours when the operating voltage was 20V and the ambient temperature was $85^{\circ}C$. It could be seen that although the WOLED showed comparatively the same brightness when the initial acceleration began after the operating voltage was applied to it, its brightness changed excessively after the WOLED's thermal storage had been made. In addition, it was observed that the half-life period was reduced as the ambient temperature and applied voltage increased. The strength of the WOLED which had been maintained in the range of visible light at the maximum load was reduced by the deterioration of the organic light emitting material due to the influence of the operating voltage and temperature, and the reduction of emitted light was small at low voltage and temperature. It could be seen that the failure of the WOLED during the ALT was caused by wear due to load accumulation over time, and that Weibull distribution was appropriate for the life distribution and acceleration was established between test conditions. From the WOLED analysis, it is thought that factors influencing the brightness deterioration are voltage, temperature, etc., and that comprehensive analysis considering discharge control, dielectric tangent margin, etc., would further increase the reliability.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.671-679
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• 2022

국내 탄약 시험장과 군의 포탄 사격 훈련장은 잦은 사격과 폭발 실험으로 인해 충격파와 파편 등의 유해인자가 발생한다. 이에 따라 지역 주민의 민원이 급증하고 있으며 근접한 시설물과 인명피해의 위험이 크다. 최근 건설된 탄약 시험장은 부지확보 제한에 따라 반경 300 m 이내의 좁은 지역에서 화포 사격 및 로켓 추진기관 연소시험 시설을 구축하였으나 적절한 방호구조물이 없어 시설물 피해가 누적되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 화포 사격 및 로켓추진기관 실험 간 발생하는 소음, 진동, 충격파, 열 효과 등 유해인자에 대한 정량적 데이터를 측정하고 폭발 압력 특성을 분석하여 탄약 시험장의 강재 방호구조물 적용 연구를 수행하였다.

• 공업화학
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.416-422
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• 2009

강구조 건축물은 화재시 화염을 차단하기 위한 목적으로 내화재료를 사용하고 있다. 일반적으로 모든 건축 구조용 재료는 시간이 경과할수록 초기의 성능이 열화되기 때문에 이들의 유지관리가 필요하다. 내화 피복재는 건축물의 화재에 대한 내구성능은 내화피복재에 의존하기 때문에 건축물에서 매우 중요한 재료라 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 내화피복재로서의 알칼리 규산염의 합성 및 합성한 알칼리 규산염의 물성에 대해 연구하였는데, 알칼리 규산염의 종류로는 potassium silicate, sodium silicate, lithium silicate으로 하였으며, 기본적으로 몰 비율의 변화를 주어 합성하였다. 합성한 알칼리 규산염의 내화특성을 확인하기 위하여 용해도 포비도, 열 분석, 결정학적 분석, 차열성능 및 차염성능에 대해 시험하였다. 연구결과, 합성한 알칼리 규산염의 용해도, 포비도는 칼륨 실리케이트, 소디움 실리케이트, 리튬실리케이트의 순서로 나타났으며, 열분석에 의한 무게 손실은 소디움 실리케이트와 리튬 실리케이트가 칼륨 실리케이트 보다 큰 것으로 나타났다. 또한 화재 시 가장 중요한 차열성능과 차염성능에 대해KS 기준을 만족하는 것은 소디움 실리케이트 3.3 몰 배합으로 나타났는데, 내화피복재로서 우수한 성능을 발휘하였다.