• International Journal of Safety
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.36-40
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• 2011

Personnel maintaining or repairing the railway tracks or signaling facilities around tracks may experience the sensory disorder when doing maintenance works at the trackside of railway for long time. In this case personnel maintaining at the trackside may collide with the train since they cannot recognize the approach of motor-car although it approaches to the vicinity of maintenance workplace because of the sensory block phenomenon occurred due to their long hours of continued monotonous maintenance work. In order to prevent such motor-car accidents that may occur because railway track workers are unable to recognize the approaching train, the safety alarm equipment is developed to make the approaching motor-car send radio signals and bidirectional detection mechanism between approaching train and trackside personnel. It shows the possibility of utilization in various forms of safety equipment for workers only to the safety helmet to be worn by the maintenance workers while using the configuration of transmitting/receiving sides. In the paper it is represented new alarm equipment, which is the bone-anchored speaker-based safety helmet to be worn by the maintenance workers.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.23-33
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• 2012

Recent technological advances in the domestic railway industry have turned out to deliver a profound impact on the forefront of other industries as well. Furthermore, the introduction of the high-speed railway systems has made it possible to travel around our country in a day, thereby changing our life styles a lot. However, it has been well recognized that many factors can cause unanticipated accidents during the operation. One of the causes is known to be the human errors made by the train operators in locomotive cabs. The problem is getting more serious as the trains run at high speed. As such, the objective of this paper is on how to improve the work environment of the locomotive cabs. Our approach is based on the systems engineering methodology. Specifically, we first identify the context and scope of the problem to be solved. We then continue our effort in deriving the requirements set to accomplish the improvement. These results are utilized in constructing a computer-aided management system for test and evaluation intended for the improvement. The approach taken and the results obtained in this paper is expected to make a contribution on the route to keeping our nation's technologies on the competitive edges in the high-speed railway systems industry.

• International Journal of Safety
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2010

When doing maintenance works at the trackside of railway, the method which delivers information on approaching of train to maintenance workers through alarm devices such as the flag or indication light, etc., is being used by locating persons in charge of safety alarm in addition to the maintenance workers at fixed distances in the front and rear of the workplace. Workers maintaining at the trackside may collide with the train since they cannot recognize the approach of train although it approaches to the vicinity of maintenance workplace because of the sensory block phenomenon occurred due to their long hours of continued monotonous maintenance work. The clash or rear-end collision accidents between many maintenance trains called motor-cars can be occurred since there are cases where the signal systems for safe operation of motor-car such as track circuit etc. are blocked or not operated normally. We developed the new safety equipment for protection of trackside maintenance workers using radio frequency signals and bidirectional detection mechanism. The developed safety equipment must analyze the several operational mechanism for each different operation situations. In this paper the analysis results are represented.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2006년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.238-244
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• 2006

The Light Collision Safety Device is used to protect the important part of trains and passengers at the low velocity accidents. The Light Collision Safety Device comprises mainly tension bolts, shear bolts and an energy absorber. The work mechanism of this device is that first, the tension bolts break at designed collapse load and second, the energy absorber absorb rest collision energy. In this paper, the tension bolt characteristics were validated by the simple tension test using the FEM(Finite Element Method) and the characteristic of the two types of energy absorber were compared by using the load-displacement curves and absorbed energy. Last, in order to determine integrated load-displacement curve of tension bolts and the energy absorber, the unified analysis was conducted by using the FEM.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.634-639
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• 2004

Under light collision accidents, the energy absorption strategy for the coupler and expansion tube of the TTX(Tilting Train Express) initial design is established in the paper. Also, 1st shearing bolts are designed. When the absorbed energy of the coupler reaches its maximum, the connecting bolts between the coupler and the car body are sheared off not to transmit the impact force to the car body structure. To absorb more energy after the lst shearing bolts work, a expansion tube is designed conceptually and installed at the rear part of the coupler. Using Hyper-Mesh and LS-DYNA, pre/post processing and light collision analyses are preformed, respectively.

• 한국도시철도학회논문집
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.249-257
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• 2018

교통사상사고 원인 중 선로근접 및 무단통행으로 인한 사고가 많이 발생하고 있다. 운행선 근접공사 시 열차운행에 지장을 주지 않고, 작업자의 안전확보 및 작업효율을 높이기 위해 철도선로용 안전펜스가 사용되고 있다. 하지만 철도선로에 적용되는 레일저부형 안전펜스는 열차주행 시 안전펜스의 간섭여부를 확인할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 철도선로용 안전펜스의 열차운행 시 지장여부를 확인하기 위하여 국내에서 운행되고 있는 열차들과 안전펜스 설치 시 이격간격을 분석하였다. 또한, 국내 열차종류별 열차 풍압에 대한 횡방향 하중조건을 산정하여 철도선로용 안전펜스의 설치간격에 따른 수치해석을 수행하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 철도선로용 안전펜스의 적정 이격거리는 차량한계로부터 200mm 이상을 확보하고, 열차풍압을 고려한 철도선로용 안전펜스의 적정 설치간격을 산정할 필요가 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.13-22
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• 2024

2021년 1월 8일, 「중대재해처벌 등에 관한 법률」이 법사위를 통과하고 2022년 1월부터 본격적으로 시행되고 있다. 하지만 여전히 건설현장에서의 안전사고는 끊이지 않고 있으며, 이에 건설현장 근로자들의 안전의식을 향상시킬 수 있는 방안을 논의할 필요성이 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 건설현장 근로자들을 대상으로 한 설문조사를 통해 자료를 수집하고, 작업장의 조직풍토가 근로자들의 안전의식 수준에 미치는 영향을 연구하였다. 연구결과, 작업장의 조직풍토 중 조직의 구조성, 자율성 보장과 감독자의 배려 요인이 근로자의 안전의식 향상에 정적 영향을 미치고 있었다. 이를 토대로 본 연구자는 현장작업 진행시에 작업의 상황, 내용 등에 따라 일부 작업수행에 대한 권한을 근로자에게 위임하며, 성과에 따른 인센티브 보상제를 겸비할 것 등의 제언을 제시하였다.