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DEVELOPMENT OF BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR CFD IN NUCLEAR REACTOR SAFETY

  • Mahaffy, John
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.377-381
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    • 2010
  • In 2007 the Nuclear Energy Agency's Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations published Best Practice Guidelines for the use of CFD in Nuclear Reactor Safety. This paper provides an overview of the document' contents and highlights a few of its recommendations. The document covers the full extent of a CFD analysis from initial problem definition and selection of an appropriate tool for the analysis, through final documentation of results. It provides advice on selection of appropriate simulation software, mesh construction, and selection of physical models. In addition it contains extensive discussion of the verification and validation process that should accompany any high-quality CFD analysis.

Analysis on Housing Energy for Applying Geothermal System in Mongolia (몽골에서의 지열 시스템 적용을 위한 주택 에너지분석)

  • Kim, Jin-Ho;Kim, Joong-Hun;Shin, Seung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.19-23
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    • 2014
  • In the capital of Mongolia where the air quality is getting worse due to the coal consumption used for electricity generation and district heating, the application of geothermal systems in the housing sector is recently designed for high class resort. In this study, the case of applying a geothermal system in a house in Mongolia is examined. The effects of passive house design on the needed heat pump capacity, as well as the annual energy consumption are analyzed. Moreover, as the initial costs, except labor fee, are assumed similar to Korea, cost analysis for several cases is examined, too. From the results, if a house is designed according to passive house standard instead of ASHRAE standard, the heat pump capacity can be expected to be reduced from 16 to 5~6 RT. Furthermore, although the initial cost of architectural cost might increased by 29 M\, the total initial cost is reduced by 14 M\, while the annual energy consumption is reduced by 14%. This is mainly driven by the fact that the geothermal system which serves as the main system to cover the building needs, with a high initial cost for fulfilling the peak requirements.

A Study on the Procurement of Iron Materials and the Production of Ironwork in Constructions of Royal Tombs in the Later Joseon Period -Focused on Sanneung-uigwes- (조선후기 산릉공역의 철물 조달과 철제품 제작 -산릉의궤를 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Sang-Myeong
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.27-40
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to comprehend the procurement system of iron materials and the production process of ironwork in royal tombs constructions in the later Joseon period. For this purpose, sixteen Sanneung-uigwes were analyzed. The following conclusions have been reached through the study. First, it was procuring five types of iron materials in constructions of royal tombs. Sincheol had been supplied up to the mid-18th century. On the other hand, the amount of jeongcheol was increased rapidly. Because of the procurement system of initial tools was changed from bokjeong(a kind of tribute) to self-production in the Noyaso. Second, the government stockpiles were utilized as much as possible than bokjeong to manage the limited construction period and sudden construction start. Third, before moving the site of tombs, the melting furnace was installed in the Gungisi(armament factory). The amount of the melting furnace was increased from 5 to 8 since producing the initial tools in the Noyaso. Fourth, six kinds of master artisans were worked in the field of producing ironwork. Metal worker was assigned to one person per melting furnace. Fifth, the quality of final iron materials was controlled by use. Since the 19th century, it had been produced enhanced ironwork.

A Study on Construction Site of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) System Model for Cloud Computing BIM Service

  • Lee, K.H.;Kwon, S.W.;Shin, J.H.;Choi, G.S.;Moon, D.Y.
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.665-666
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    • 2015
  • Recently BIM technology has been expanded for using in construction project. However its spread has been delayed than the initial expectations, due to the high-cost of BIM infrastructure development, the lack of regulations, the lack of process and so forth. In construction site phase, especially the analysis of current research trend about IT technologies, virtualization and BIM service, data exchange such as drawing, 3D model, object data, properties using cloud computing and virtual server system is defined as a most successful solution. The purpose of this study is enable the cloud computing BIM server to provide several main function such as edit a model, 3D model viewer and checker, mark-up, snapshot in high-performance quality by proper design of VDI system. Concurrent client connection performance is a main technical index of VDI. Through test-bed server client, developed VDI system's multi-connect control will be evaluated. The performance-test result of BIM server VDI will effect to development direction of cloud computing BIM service for commercialization.

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A Study of the Decision Making System in adopting Off-Site Construction Method in the Initial Stage Considering the Building Project Characteristics -Focused on Structure Work of Apartment Housing- (건축 프로젝트 특성을 고려한 초기 단계에서의 Off-Site Construction 공법 도입 여부 의사 결정 시스템 개발 - 공동주택 골조공사 중심으로 -)

  • Lee, Sungho;Cha, Heesung;Son, Bosik
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2022
  • Recently, various problems such as reduced productivity, insufficient inflow of skilled manpower, reduced quality, and concerns about increasing safety accidents have appeared in the domestic construction industry. Stakeholder of construction project are considering the Off-Site Construction (OSC) method rather than the conventional on-site construction as an alternative. Despite the importance of decision making in the early stage of the adoption of OSC, there is a lack of methodologies for rational decision making. In this study, a decision making system has been developed to derive the final construction cost score by deriving the project characteristics, selecting the construction difficulty index, and developing a cost model for each construction method alternatives to calculate the standard construction cost. Using this system, the OSC method can be effectively evaluated in terms of its feasibility in the early stage of construction

Initial Stage of Plan for Urban Residents Participation Community Garden (도시 내 주민참여형 커뮤니티 가든 계획의 초기단계에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Eun-Ji;Lee, Yeun-Sook
    • Proceeding of Spring/Autumn Annual Conference of KHA
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.135-140
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    • 2011
  • Recently, people aim for a healthy environment which enhances quality of life, and also there are communication in green space like therapy garden and weekend farm growing. Meanwhile, in Korea, administrative organizations have leaded to plan and proceed in reference to physical regeneration in local areas, and this had caused social and maintenance problems. The purpose of this study was to introduce a concept of community garden which is regarded as green and community space and to insist on a way of residents participation on plan for community garden and its necessity. For that, there were five ways of residents participation on plan for community garden based on literatured and theoretical contemplation and case studies, and these were subject to construction project of community garden in deteriorated area in Jeonju city. This study can provide improvement guidelines for the initial stage of plan for residents participation community garden.

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Genetic Algorithm Based Design Optimization of a Six Phase Induction Motor

  • Fazlipour, Z.;Kianinezhad, R.;Razaz, M.
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.1007-1014
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    • 2015
  • An optimally designed six-phase induction motor (6PIM) is compared with an initial design induction motor having the same ratings. The Genetic Algorithm (GA) method is used for optimization and multi objective function is considered. Comparison of the optimum design with the initial design reveals that better performance can be obtained by a simple optimization method. Also in this paper each design of 6PIM, is simulated by MAXWELL_2D. The obtained simulation results are compared in order to find the most suitable solution for the specified application, considering the influence of each design upon the motor performance. Construction a 6PIM based on the information obtained from GA method has been done. Quality parameters of the designed motors, such as: efficiency, power losses and power factor measured and optimal design has been evaluated. Laboratory tests have proven the correctness of optimal design.

Development of Clutch Auto Calibration Algorithm for Automatic Transmission Shift Quality Improvement (자동변속기 변속품질 향상을 위한 클러치 자동보정 알고리즘 개발)

  • Jung, Gyuhong
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.47-56
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    • 2020
  • As a shift control of automatic transmission was managed with the electronic control unit (ECU), shift quality which is a measure of shift shock during gear change has markedly improved. However, the initial clutch pressure control of the clutch filling phase should continue to rely on the predetermined control input since the input and output speeds are unchanged until the shifting process attains the inertia phase. It is critical to minimize the clutch response time and control the clutch pressure accurately at the end of clutch fill to achieve quick shift response and smoothness. Advanced transmission companies have adopted an auto calibration method which establishes the databases for the clutch piston fill-up attributes and the frictional characteristics of the disks. In this study, a distinctive auto calibration algorithm for forklift transmission under development is proposed and verified with the real-vehicle test. The experimental calibration results showed consistent turbine dynamics at the initial stage of shifts with the properly calibrated clutch-fill control parameters. By using this technique, it is necessary to finalize the shift control for the various operation conditions.

Compressive Strength and Shrinkage Strain of Slag-Based Alkali-Activated Mortar with Gypsum (석고가 첨가된 슬래그 기반 알카리활성 모르터의 압축강도 및 건조수축 변형률)

  • Yang, Keun-Hyeok;Sin, Jae-Il
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2008
  • Twelve mortars were mixed and tested to explore the effect of gypsum on the compressive strength development and shrinkage strain of alkali-activated mortars. Powder typed sodium silicate and ground granulated blast-furnace slag were employed as alkaline activator and source material, respectively, to produce cementless mortar. The main variables investigated were alkali quality coefficient combining the concentration of activator and main compositions in source material, and the adding amount of gypsum ranged between 1 and 5% with respect to the weight of binder. Initial flow, compressive strength development, modulus of rupture, and shrinkage strain behavior of mortar specimens were measured. In addition, the hydration production of alkali-activated pastes with gypsum was traced using X-ray diffraction and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis combined with scanning electron microscope image. Test results showed that the initial flow of slag-based alkali-activated mortar was little influenced by the adding amount of gypsum. On the other hand, the effect of gypsum on the compressive strength of mortar specimens was dependent on the alkali quality coefficient, indicating that the compressive strength increased with the increase of the adding amount of gypsum until a certain limit, beyond which the strength decreased slowly. Shrinkage strain of mortar tested was little influenced by the adding amount of gypsum because no ettringite as hydration product was generated. However, the adding of gypsum had a beneficial effect on reducing the microcrack in the alkali-activated mortar.

Performance Improvement of Low-cost DR/GPS for Land Navigation using Sigma Point Based RHKF Filter

  • Cho, Seong-Yun;Choi, Wan-Sik
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.1450-1455
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    • 2005
  • This paper describes a DR construction for land navigation and the sigma point based receding horizon Kalman FIR (SPRHKF) filter for DR/GPS hybrid navigation system. A simple DR construction is adopted to improve the performance both of the pure land DR navigation and the DR/GSP hybrid navigation system. In order to overcome the flaws of the EKF, the SPKF is merged with the receding horizon strategy. This filter has several advantages over the EKF, the SPKF, and the RHKF filter. The advantages include the robustness to the system model uncertainty, the initial estimation error, temporary unknown bias, and etc. The computational burden is reduced. Especially, the proposed filter works well even in the case of exiting the unmodeled random walk of the inertial sensors, which can be occurred in the MEMS inertial sensors by temperature variation. Therefore, the SPRHKF filter can provide the navigation information with good quality in the DR/GPS hybrid navigation system for land navigation seamlessly.

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