• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권5호
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• pp.1083-1095
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• 2016

The design of Prototype Gen-IV Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor (PGSFR) has been developed and the validation and verification (V&V) activities to demonstrate the system performance and safety are in progress. In this paper, the current status of test activities is described briefly and significant results are discussed. The large-scale sodium thermal-hydraulic test program, Sodium Test Loop for Safety Simulation and Assessment-1 (STELLA-1), produced satisfactory results, which were used for the computer codes V&V, and the performance test results of the model pump in sodiumshowed good agreement with those in water. The second phase of the STELLA program with the integral effect tests facility, STELLA-2, is in the detailed design stage of the design process. The sodium thermal-hydraulic experiment loop for finned-tube sodium-to-air heat exchanger performance test, the intermediate heat exchanger test facility, and the test facility for the reactor flow distribution are underway. Flow characteristics test in subchannels of a wire-wrapped rod bundle has been carried out for safety analysis in the core and the dynamic characteristic test of upper internal structure has been performed for the seismic analysis model for the PGSFR. The performance tests for control rod assemblies (CRAs) have been conducted for control rod drive mechanism driving parts and drop tests of the CRA under scram condition were performed. Finally, three types of inspection sensors under development for the safe operation of the PGSFR were explained with significant results.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1003-1005
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• 1998

We present the implementation of a Lagrangian Relaxation based large scale thermal Unit Commitment problem. The problem is decomposed into thermal subproblem by using Lagrangian multipliers. The thermal subproblem is solved by using dynamic programmmg. we perform a numerical test using the thermal system of KEPCO over a week (168 hours) period. The programming language used for the test program is C. The result is compared with the priority list method.

• Geosystem Engineering
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.326-334
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• 2018

Underground water-sealed gas storage caverns have become the primary method for strategic storage of LPG. Previous studies of excavation blasting effects on large-scale underground water-sealed gas storage caverns are rare at home and abroad. In this paper, the blasting excavation for underground water-sealed propane storage caverns in Yantai was introduced and field tests of blasting vibration were carried out. Field test data showed that the horizontal radial velocity had a major controlling effect in the blasting vibration and frequencies would not cause the vibration velocity concentration effects. In terms of the influence of blasting vibration on adjacent caverns, the dynamic finite element model in LS-DYNA soft was established, whose reliability was verified by field test data. The numerical results indicated the near-blasting side was primary zone for the structural failure and tensile failure tended to occur in the middle of the curved wall on the near-blasting side. Meanwhile, the safety criterions for adjacent caverns based on stress wave theory and according to statistic relationship between peak effective tensile stress and peak particle velocities were obtained, respectively. Finally, with Safety Regulations for Blasting in China (GB6722-2014) taken into account, a final safety criterion was proposed.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2016

In this study, a restoring viscous damper is introduced for X-type damper system which is designed for the seismic response control of large spatial structures. A nonlinear numerical model for its behavior is developed using the result of dynamic loading tests. The X-type damper system is composed of restoring viscous dampers and connecting devices such as adjustable wire bracing, where the damping capacity of the system is controllable by changing the number of the dampers. The restoring viscous damper is devised to exert main damping force in tension direction, which is effective to prevent the buckling of bracing subjected to compressive axial force. To evaluate the performance of the proposed damper, dynamic cyclic loading tests are performed by using manufactured dampers at full scale. In order to construct the numerical model of the damper system, its model parameters are first identified using a nonlinear curve fitting method with the test data. The numerical simulations are then performed to validate the accuracy of the numerical model in comparison with the experimental test results. It is expected that the proposed system is effectively applicable to various building structures for seismic performance enhancement.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.467-475
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• 2012

지오그리드에 의해 부분 보강 및 전면 보강된 2가지 타입의 블록식 보강토 옹벽으로 지지된 철도노반의 열차하중 전달 메카니즘을 조사하기 위해 정 동적 열차하중 재하실험을 수행하였다. 실험 노반은 높이 2.6m, 폭 5m, 뒷 길이 6m로 구축하였으며, 소정의 위치에 토압계, 변위계 및 변형율계를 설치하였다. 실험결과, 2가지 타입의 블록식 보강토 옹벽으로 지지된 철도노반에서의 벽체 변위 양상 및 보강 정도에 따른 연직 토압의 차이를 확인하였다. 또한 동적 열차하중 재하시 벽체 상부에서 변형율이 감소하는 현상을 볼 수 있었으며, 열차하중 재하에 의한 잔류 변형율 및 변형율 증분은 현행 설계기준에 비해 매우 작은 값을 보이고 있었다.

• 한국지반환경공학회 논문집
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• 제13권11호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2012

암반의 불연속면은 암반의 역학적 거동에 영향을 미치는 중요한 요소 중 하나이다. 편마암으로 이루어진 비탈면은 광범위한 범위에서 변성작용을 받아 형성되는 편마암생성과정과 엽리가 존재하는 이방성 구조 때문에 지질구조가 복잡하다. 본 연구대상 지역의 경우 절취공사 이전에 실시된 시추조사에서는 양호한 암반으로 조사되었으나, 약 20m 이상의 대절취공사를 수행하는 중인장균열이 약 170m 구간에 걸쳐 발생하였다. 인장균열 원인분석을 위하여 지표지질조사, 시추조사, 전기비저항탐사, 시추공영상촬영 등을 실시하였다. 전기비저항탐사와 지표지질조사를 통하여 광역에 걸친 단층대의 규모를 추정할 수 있었고, 종합분석한 결과 대규모의 단층활면 및 단층점토가 발견되었다.

• Ocean Systems Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.17-28
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• 2011

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the efficacy of modeling a surface effect ship's air-cushion flexible seal utilizing a two-dimensional beam under steady state conditions. This effort is the initial phase of developing a more complex three-dimensional model of the air-seal-water fluid-structure interaction. The beam model incorporates the seal flexural rigidity and mass with large deformations while assuming linear elastic material response. The hydrodynamic pressure is derived utilizing the OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamic (CFD) solver for a given set of steady-state flow condition. The pressure distribution derived by the CFD solver is compared with the pressure required to deform the seal beam model. The air pressure, flow conditions and seal geometry are obtained from experimental analysis. The experimental data was derived from large-scale experimental tests utilizing a test apparatus of a canonical surface effect ship's flexible seal in a towing tank over a variety of test conditions.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.185-198
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• 2003

The concept of performance based seismic design has been gradually accepted by the earthquake engineering profession recently, in which the cost-effectiveness criterion is one of the most important principles and more attention is paid to the structural performance at the inelastic stage. Since there are many uncertainties in seismic design, reliability analysis is a major task in performance based seismic design. However, structural reliability analysis may be very costly and time consuming because the limit state function is usually a highly nonlinear implicit function with respect to the basic design variables, especially for the complex large-scale structures for dynamic and nonlinear analysis. Understanding statistical properties of the structural inelastic deformation, which is the aim of the present paper, is helpful to develop an efficient approximate approach of reliability analysis. The present paper studies the statistical properties of the maximum elastoplastic story drift of steel frames subjected to earthquake load. The randomness of earthquake load, dead load, live load, steel elastic modulus, yield strength and structural member dimensions are considered. Possible probability distributions for the maximum story are evaluated using K-S test. The results show that the choice of the probability distribution for the maximum elastoplastic story drift of steel frames is related to the mean value of the maximum elastoplastic story drift. When the mean drift is small (less than 0.3%), an extreme value type I distribution is the best choice. However, for large drifts (more than 0.35%), an extreme value type II distribution is best.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제57권5호
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• pp.951-968
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• 2016

Long-span cross-strait bridges extending into deep-sea waters are exposed to complex marine environments. During the construction stage, the flexible freestanding bridge towers are more vulnerable to environmental loads imposed by wind and wave loads. This paper presents an experimental investigation on the dynamic responses of a 389-m-high freestanding bridge tower model in a test facility with a wind tunnel and a wave flume. An elastic bridge model with a geometric scale of 1:150 was designed based on Froude similarity and was tested under wind-only, wave-only and wind-wave combined conditions. The dynamic responses obtained from the tests indicate that large deformation under resonant sea states could be a structural challenge. The dominant role of the wind loads and the wave loads change according to the sea states. The joint wind and wave loads have complex effects on the dynamic responses of the structure, depending on the approaching direction angle and the fluid-induced vibration mechanisms of the waves and wind.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.203-215
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• 2018

본 연구는 통행자의 통행패턴이 도착지의 토지이용패턴에 따라 변화하는 특징을 반영하여 대규모 동적 O/D를 구축하는 방법을 제안하였다. 기존 동적 O/D 추정 방법 관련 연구들을 살펴보면 자료수집의 어려움으로 소규모 지역에 국한하여 적용 가능하거나, 고속도로망 혹은 대중교통망 등 특정 교통망에 제한하여 O/D를 구축하는 등 한계가 존재한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 빅데이터 시대에 발맞추어 쉽게 수집, 이용이 가능한 교통 관련 자료들을 기반으로 분석 지역의 범위 제약 없이 동적 O/D를 추정하는 기법을 제시하였다. 군집 분석(Clustering Analysis) 기법을 이용하여 군집별 도착시간 기준 통행분포 비율로 출발시간 통행분포 비율을 산정하고 첨두 출발시간 분포함수를 추정하였다. 추정된 분포함수를 조사자료에 적용하여 비교 검증을 진행해본 결과 통계적으로 유의하게 나타났다.