• 한국안전학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.144-149
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• 2015

This study aims to quantitatively evaluate failure pressure of wall-thinned elbow under combined load along with internal pressure, by conducting real-scale burst test and finite element analysis together. For quantitative evaluation, failure pressure data was extracted from the real-scale burst test first, and then finite element analysis was carried out to compare with the test result. For the test, the wall-thinning defect of the extrados or intrados inside the center of 90-degree elbow was considered and the loading modes to open or close the specimen maintaining a certain load or displacement were applied. Internal pressure was applied until failure occurred. As a result, when the bending load was applied under the load control condition, the intrados of the defect was more affected by failure pressure than the extrados, and the opening mode was more vulnerable to failure pressure than the closing mode. When the bending load was applied under the displacement control, it was hardly affected by failure pressure though it was slightly different from the defect position. The result of the finite element analysis showed a similar aspect with the test. Moreover, when major factors such as material properties and pipeline thickness were calibrated to accurate values, the analytical results was more similar to the test results.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2006

본 논문은 배관에 대한 유동해석과 구조해석을 연계하여 감육부 최심점에서의 국부응력변화를 평가하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제시하였다. 이를 위해 배관 크기, 감육깊이 및 길이 등 3가지 변수를 고려한 해석모델을 적용하고, 침부식 또는 유동가속부식에 취약한 배관계통에서의 2가지 대표적 유체유동을 적용시켜 배관에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 또한 유체의 흐름은 정상상태 비압축성 유동으로 가정하였고, 그 결과값을 감육배관 최심점에서의 국부응력을 구하기 위해 수행한 유한요소해석의 초기조건으로 적용하였다. 이러한 방법으로 구한 감육부에서의 압력분포와 기존의 단순 내압만을 고려한 경우와 상이하며, 그 결과를 비교하여 나타내었다. 향후 본 논문은 발전소설비나 가스설비의 배관건전성 평가에 참고자료로 적용 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

배관은 사용기간 중에 여러 가지 열화에 의해 손상을 받으며, 그 중 감육(두께감소)이 발생하게 되면 심각한 결과를 초래할 수 있다. 따라서, 배관시스템의 보전유지를 위해서는 감육되어진 배관의 강도를 평가하는 것이 중요하다. 어떤 재료가 외부 응력 등에 의해 파괴 혹은 변형된다면 그 특징적인 탄성파가 변형메카니즘에 따라 여러 가지로 다르게 나타날 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 감육을 가지는 배관에서 감육결함의 길이 및 깊이를 다르게 상정하였을 때 나타나는 AE신호들에 대해 Wavelet Transform시스템을 이용하여 평가하였다. 또한,실배관의 굽힘시험을 통하여 기계적인 강도를 평가하였다. 결과로부터, 감육의 깊이비(d/t)의 정도에 따라 주파수 성분을 구별하는 것이 가능하였다.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2008년도 춘계학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.9-9
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• 2008

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.28-34
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• 2003

In the present study, three-dimensional finite element analysis was performed to investigate the effects of internal wall thinning defect on the failure pressure of elbow in the piping system and to develop the failure pressure evaluation model. From the results of finite element analysis, the failure pressure was derived by employing local stress criteria, and the effects of thinning location, bend radius, and defect geometry on the failure pressure of internally wall thinned elbow were investigated. Also, based on these investigations and previous model developed to estimate the failure pressure of elbow with an external pitting defect, the failure pressure evaluation model to be applicable to the elbow containing an internal thinning defect was proposed and compared with the results of finite element analysis. The failure pressure calculated by the model agreed well with the results of finite element analysis.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제26권11호
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• pp.55-61
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• 2009

The wall thinning defect of nuclear power pipe is mainly occurred by the affect of the flow accelerated corrosion (FAC) of fluid. This type of defect becomes the cause of damage or destruction of in carbon steel pipes. Therefore, it is very important to measure defect which is existed not only on the welding part but also on the whole field of pipe. This study use dual-beam Shearography, which can measure the out-of-plane deformation and the in-plane deformation by using another illuminated laser beam and simple image processing technique. And this study proposes Infrared thermography, which is a two-dimensional non-contact nondestructive evaluation that can detect internal defects from the thermal distribution by the inspection of infrared light radiated from the object surface. In this paper, defect of nuclear power pipe were, measured using dual-beam shearography and infrared thermography, quantitatively evaluated by the analysis of phase map and thermal image pattern.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.173-178
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• 2012

To manage the wall thinning of carbon steel piping in nuclear power plants, the utility of Korea has performed thickness inspection for some quantity of pipe components during refueling outages and determined whether repair or replacement after evaluating UT (Ultrasonic Test) data. When the existing UT data evaluation methods, such as Band, Blanket, PTP (Point to Point) Methods, are applied to a certain pipe component, unnecessary re-inspecting situations may be generated even though the component does not thinned. In those cases, economical loss caused by repeated inspection and problems of maintaining the pipe integrity followed by decreasing of newly inspected components may be generated. EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) in USA has suggested several statistical methods, TPM (Total Point Method), LSS (Least Square Slope) Method, etc. to distinguish whether multiple inspecting components have thinned or not. This paper presents the analysis results for multiple inspecting components over three times based on both NAM (Near Area of Minimum) Method developed by KEPCO-E&C and the other methods suggested by EPRI.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2015

Pipe wall-thinning by flow-accelerated corrosion (FAC) and various types of erosion is a significant and costly damage phenomenon in secondary piping systems of nuclear power plants (NPPs). Most NPPs have management programs to ensure pipe integrity due to wall-thinning that includes periodic measurements for pipe wall thicknesses using ultrasonic tests (UTs). Nevertheless, thinning evaluations are not easy because the amount of thickness reduction being measured is often quite small compared to the accuracy of the inspection technique. U.S. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) had proposed Total Point Method (TPM) as a thinning occurrence evaluation method, which is a very useful method for detecting locally thinned pipes or fittings. However, evaluation engineers have to discern manually the measurement data because there are no numerical algorithm for TPM. In this study, numerical algorithms were developed based on non-parametric and parametric statistical method.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.321-331
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• 2015

냉각 위상잠금 적외선열화상 기법을 이용하여 원전 배관 루프시스템의 가열결함 검출의 선행연구를 통하여 냉각결함 검출조건의 적용에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 배관의 결함가공은 감육 길이, 감육 깊이를 변화시켜 결함조건을 가공하여 루프시스템을 제작하였다. 사용된 장비는 적외선열화상 카메라와 냉각장치를 사용하였으며 냉각장치와 대상 루프시스템과의 거리는 2m로 고정시켜 실험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과의 분석을 위하여 냉각온도 분포, 위상데이터를 확보하고, 이를 분석하여 결함 길이를 측정하였다. 냉각결함 검출조건은 적외선열화상 데이터보다 위상잠금 적외선열화상 데이터가 측정 결과의 신뢰도가 높았다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.8-17
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• 2003

Fracture behaviors of pipes with local wall thinning are very important for the integrity of nuclear Power Plant. In Pipes of energy Plants, sometimes, the local wall thinning may result from severe erosion-corrosion (E/C) damage. However, the effects of local wall thinning on strength and fracture behaviors of piping system were not well studied. In this paper, the monotonic bending tests were performed of full-scale carbon steel pipes with local wall thinning. A monotonic bending load was applied to straight pipe specimens by four-point loading at ambient temperature without internal pressure. From the tests, fracture behaviors and fracture strength of locally thinned pipe were manifested systematically. The observed failure modes were divided into four types; ovalization. crack initiation/growth after ovalization, local buckling and crack initiation/growth after local buckling. Also, the strength and the allowable limit of piping system with local wall thinning were evaluated.