• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.183-190
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• 2003

Rail breaks and derailments can cause a huge loss to rail players due to loss of service, revenue, property or even life. Maintenance has huge impact on reliability and safety of railroads. It is important to identify factors behind rail degradation and their risks associated with rail breaks and derailments. Development of mathematical models is essential for prediction and prevention of risks due to rail and wheel set damages, rail breaks and derailments. This paper addresses identification of hazard modes, estimation of probability of those hazards under operating, curve and environmental condition, probability of detection of potential hazards before happening and severity of those hazards for informed strategic decisions. Emphasis is put on optimal maintenance and operational decisions. Real life data is used for illustration.

• 건축역사연구
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2021

During the latter part of Joseon Dynasty, Local Confucian School(Geochanghyanggyo) had served as a government school and left many official documents on the educational construction. The construction of Local Confucian School(Geochanghyanggyo), which was recorded in official documents, was diverse, and most of them were reconstructed. Construction-works recorded in an official document was drafted in two ways. One was in the same format as the accounting records and the other was written in the diary format by date. The construction cost was mainly financed by selling the land owned. Of course, with the help of the government, they could receive some of the essential timber and expenses for the construction. The management and maintenance of educational construction was entrusted by a manager called 'Chaji(次知)'. Then there were employees called 'Jeonjik(殿直)' and 'Gojik(庫直)' and they were paid for their work.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 4th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management Organized by the University of New South Wales
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• pp.597-602
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• 2011

A robust asset management methodology is essential for effective decision-making of maintenance, repair and rehabilitation of a bridge network. It can be achieved by a computer-based bridge management system (BMS). Successful BMS development requires a reliable bridge deterioration model, which is the most crucial component in a BMS, and an optimal management philosophy. The maintenance optimization methodology proposed in this paper is developed for a small bridge network with limited structural condition rating records. . The methodology is organized in three major components: (1) bridge health index (BHI); (2) maintenance and budget optimization; and (3) reliable Artificial Intelligence (AI) based bridge deterioration model. The outcomes of the paper will help to identify BMS implementation problems and to provide appropriate solutions for managing small bridge networks.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.301-311
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• 2024

This paper proposes a deep convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM)-based crack growth prediction technique for predictive maintenance of structures. Since cracks are one of the critical damage types in a structure, their regular inspection has been mandatory for structural safety and serviceability. To effectively establish the structural maintenance plan using the inspection results, crack propagation or growth prediction is essential. However, conventional crack prediction techniques based on mathematical models are not typically suitable for tracking complex nonlinear crack propagation mechanism on civil structures under harsh environmental conditions. To address the technical issue, a field data-driven crack growth prediction technique using ConvLSTM is newly proposed in this study. The proposed technique consists of the four steps: (1) time-series crack image acquisition, (2) target image stabilization, (3) deep learning-based crack detection and quantification and (4) crack growth prediction. The performance of the proposed technique is experimentally validated using a concrete mock-up specimen by applying step-wise bending loads to generate crack growth. The validation test results reveal the prediction accuracy of 94% on average compared with the ground truth obtained by field measurement.

• 한국건설관리학회논문집
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.69-77
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• 2006

지난 1-2년간 서울의 강남 재건축 아파트 단지 및 분당, 용인을 중심으로 진행된 주택가격 폭등 현상이 정부의 잇단 주택안정대책 발표 이후 급속히 진정되고 있다. 정부의 강력한 정책의지에 따라 무분별하게 추진되던 재건축사업이 상당기간 침체될 것으로 예상되며 이에 따라 그 대안으로 등장한 리모델링의 활성화가 예상되고 있다. 그럼에도 불구하고 리모델링에 비해 재건축을 선호하는 경향이 강한 것에는 공동주택의 유지관리에 대한 비효율성으로 인한 문제점도 상당히 작용하고 있다고 보여진다. 이에 본 연구는 전문가를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하고 이를 AHP 기법을 적용하여 유지관리의 결정식을 제시하였다. 또한 효율적인 유지관리가 될 수 있는 방안을 보수보강 기법 선정, 유지관리 실적의 시스템화, 효율적 관리 체계구축 등을 통해 제시하고 이에 따른 기대효과를 언급하였다. 이를 통해 현재의 유지관리 체계 수립 및 이행 기준을 합리적으로 마련하는데 일조할 것으로 사려된다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.1186-1194
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• 2009

The objective of this study was to estimate the optimum dietary essential amino acid pattern for male Taiwan country chicks. A series of experiments was conducted with chicks, 14 d of age, for 2 wks. A basal synthetic diet was established using a dose response test for all essential amino acids referring to the broiler requirements recommended by NRC (1994). Twelve chicks were sacrificed at the beginning to provide initial body nitrogen data, and every group of six birds received the basal diet or a diet with a deficiency in a single essential amino acid in twenty one treatments by intubation according to their daily metabolic body weight (MBW). Deposited body nitrogen was determined using comparative slaughtering. According to the daily intake from the limiting amino acid per unit of MBW and the body nitrogen accretion rates for every two deficient groups with the same limiting amino acid but at different levels, a corresponding straight line was computed for each essential amino acid to intersect with a horizontal line made by the body nitrogen accretion rate of the control group. The x coordinate of the intersection represented the daily requirement for growth plus maintenance based on MBW corresponding to the essential amino acid. The amino acid ratios can be considered as the optimum pattern of dietary essential amino acids. The results, expressed with respect to lysine = 100, were arginine 105, methionine 81, histidine 34, tryptophan 18, leucine 103, phenylalanine 135, isoleucine 69, threonine 65 and valine 79. This pattern could be utilized to compute the dietary requirements (g/kg feed) for all essential amino acids by multiplying by the requirement of a single essential amino acid cited from the literature.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1196-1202
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• 2007

In construction of high speed railway, the fan shape is limited to achieve reduction of required travel time and concrete railway which has structural stability and induces small maintenance cost with allowable ground settlement is recently applied. So construction of concrete railway on soft ground in which considerable ground settlement occurs increases and settlement management in soft ground section is required. Field monitoring on ground movement and integrated geotechnical information system which manages construction, design, and field monitoring data are essential for settlement management of concrete railway subgrade. Site investigation data are also required due to future repair work. Therefore in this study, integrated geotechnical information system for construction and maintenance of concrete railway is developed. The developed system consists of a database and an application program. The database contains site investigation, construction, design, and field monitoring data throughout a railway. Application program performs various functions on managing and utilizing information in the database with graphic visualization of output. And by providing integrating information with comprehensible visual displays, the applicability and effectiveness of the developed system for construction and maintenance management were confirmed.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.24-34
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• 2014

In order to manage essential parts that are required for the repairable parts services performed at the military maintenance depots, the United States Air Force developed the Repairability Forecasting Model (RFM). In the RFM, if the requirements of the parts are assumed to follow the normal probability distribution after applying means from the past data to the replacement rate and lead times, the chance of the AWP (Awaiting Parts) occurring is 50%. In this study, to counter the uncertainties of requirements and lead times from the RFM, the safety level concept is considered. To obtain the safety level for requirements, the binomial probability distribution is applied, while the safety level for lead time is obtained by applying the normal probability distribution. After adding this concept, the improved RFM is renamed as the ARFM (Advanced RFM), and by conducting the numerical stimulation, the effectiveness of the ARFM, minimizing the occurrence of the AWP, is shown by increasing the efficiency of the maintenance process and the operating rate of the weapon system.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.357-361
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• 2022

Employing the available technologies and utilizing the advanced means to improve the level of health care provided to citizens in their various locations. Citizens have the right to get a proper health care services despite the location of their residency or the distance from the health care delivery centers, a goal that can be achieved by utilizing air ambulance systems. In such systems, aircrafts and their life spans are the essential component, the flight duration of the aircraft during its life span is determined by the maintenance schedule. This research, enhances the air ambulance systems by presenting a proposal that maximizes the aircraft flight duration during its life span. The enhancement will be reached by developing a set of algorithms that handles the aircraft maintenance problem. The objective of these algorithms is to minimize the maximum completion time of all maintenance tasks, thus increasing the aircraft operation time. Practical experiments performed to these algorithms showed the ability of these algorithms to achieve the desired goal. The developed algorithms will manage the maintenance scheduling problem to maximize the uptime of the air ambulance which can be achieved by maximizing the minimum life of spare parts. The developed algorithms showed good performance measures during experimental tests. The 3LSL algorithm showed a higher performance compared to other algorithms during all performed experiments.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.130-137
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• 2017

교량의 목표 수명 동안 통행 안전성을 유지하기 위해서는 적정한 보수보강 예산의 확보와 확보된 예산의 합리적인 배분이 필요하다. 기존의 단순 교량 규모 기반 예산 배분 방식을 개선하여 다양한 영향인자를 고려한 합리적인 예산 배분 결정 체계를 제안하였다. 전체 교량을 하위 관리주체별로 일정한 관리 수준이 확보되도록 교량의 보수보강 예산을 적정하게 배분하기 위하여 과거 보수보강 이력에 기초한 조치율 모델과 단위 비용 모델을 개발하였다. 제안된 모델을 이용하여 관리주체별 적정 예산 배분 비율 결정 방법을 제안하고 사례 분석을 수행하였다. 교량의 보수보강 예산 배분의 영향 인자로 교량 규모뿐만 아니라 종별 현황과 현재 안전등급, 공용년수가 고려되어야 적정 예산 배분이 이루어지는 것으로 나타났다. 개발된 방법을 활용하여 관리 주체별 예산 소요를 명확하게 반영한 예산 분배를 시행함으로서 불필요한 예산 낭비를 방지하고 예산 배분의 합리적인 근거를 제공할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.