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Seismic Response of Seismically-Isolated Nuclear Power Plants considering Age-related Degradation of High Damping Rubber Bearing (고감쇠고무 적층받침의 경년열화를 고려한 원전구조물의 지진응답)

  • Park, Junhee;Choun, Young-Sun;Choi, In-Kil
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.131-138
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    • 2013
  • The high damping rubber bearings contributed to reduce a seismic force transmitted to upper structures, the material properties of rubber changes with time and the rubber with age-related degradation can affect the seismic response of structures and equipments. Therefore the seismic response of structure considering age-related degradation of isolators should be evaluated. In this paper, the stiffness and damping for isolators were defined using the aging data proposed by other researchers. The reactor containment building and the auxiliary building were selected to conduct the nonlinear analysis and the natural frequency, maximum responses, floor response spectrum(FRS) were evaluated with time using the four earthquakes with different frequency contents. According to the analysis results, the seismic responses are increased by the age-related degradation of isolators and the detail inspections should be conducted up to 20 years because it was presented that the change of FRS was high during this period.

Seismic Analysis of Traveling Sea Water Screen (해수여과장치의 내진해석)

  • Kim, Heung-Tae;Lee, Young-Shin;Park, Young-Moon
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.289-294
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    • 2011
  • In this study, the seismic analysis of traveling sea water screen for nuclear power plant was performed using finite element model. For qualification of traveling sea water screen, the response spectrum analysis was performed using the given operating basis earthquake(OBE) and safe shutdown earthquake(SSE) floor response spectrum. Dynamic analysis of water sea traveling screen was performed using finite element method. The analytical maximum displacements of traveling sea water screen were 2.5 mm under OBE condition and 4.6 mm under SSE condition. The maximum stresses of traveling sea water screen were 24 MPa under OBE condition and 44 MPa under SSE condition, that this results were 18 %, 27% of yield strength of material. Thus, it can shown that the structural integrity of traveling sea water screen has a stable structure for seismic load conditions.

Influencing Factors on Numerical Simulation of Crash between RC Slab and Soft Projectile (RC슬래브와 연성충격체의 충돌시뮬레이션 영향인자 분석)

  • Chung, Chul-Hun;Lee, Jung-Whee;Kim, Sang-Yun;Lee, Jae-Ha
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.591-599
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    • 2011
  • This study investigates influencing factors on numerical crash simulation between RC slab and soft projectile using explicit dynamic method. Considered experimental test is the MEPPEN II/4 test, which has been conducted at the end of the years 70' in Germany as one of the numerous experimental test related to design of nuclear power plants. LS-DYNA software is adopted for numerical study, and influencing factors such as constitutive model of concrete, strain rate effect of steel and concrete, support modeling method, etc. are investigated. More reasonable simulation results can be achieved through appropriate consideration of these factors, especially of constitutive model of concrete material since this factor affects most among the investigated factors.

The Analysis of the APT Prelude by Big Data Analytics (빅데이터 분석을 통한 APT공격 전조 현상 분석)

  • Choi, Chan-young;Park, Dea-woo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.1129-1135
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    • 2016
  • The NH-NongHyup network and servers were paralyzed in 2011, in the 2013 3.20 cyber attack happened and classified documents of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd were leaked on december in 2015. All of them were conducted by a foreign country. These attacks were planned for a long time compared to the script kids attacks and the techniques used were very complex and sophisticated. However, no successful solution has been implemented to defend an APT attacks(Advanced Persistent Threat Attacks) thus far. We will use big data analytics to analyze whether or not APT attacks has occurred. This research is based on the data collected through ISAC monitoring among 3 hierarchical Korean Defense System. First, we will introduce related research about big data analytics and machine learning. Then, we design two big data analytics models to detect an APT attacks. Lastly, we will present an effective response method to address a detected APT attacks.

The Research for Cyber Security Experts (사이버보안 전문가 양성을 위한 연구)

  • Kim, Seul-gi;Park, Dea-woo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.1137-1142
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    • 2017
  • Cyber hacking attacks and cyber terrorism are damaging to the lives of the people, and in the end, national security is threatened. Cyber-hacking attacks leaked nuclear power cooling system design drawings, cyber accidents such as hacking of Cheongwadae's homepage and hacking of KBS stations occurred. The Act on Information and Communication Infrastructure Protection, Promotion of Information and Communication Network Utilization and Information Protection, and the Personal Information Protection Act remove the responsibility for cyber attacks, but it is difficult to prevent attacks by hackers armed with new technologies. This paper studies the development of cyber security experts for cyber security. Build a Knowledge Data Base for cyber security professionals. Web hacking, System hacking, and Network hacking technologies and evaluation. Through researches on the operation and acquisition of cyber security expert certification, we hope to help nurture cyber security experts for national cyber security.

A Review on Size, Shape and Velocity of a Bubble Rising in Liquid (총설: 액체 중에서 상승하는 기포의 크기, 형상 및 속도)

  • Park, Sung Hoon
    • Particle and aerosol research
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2017
  • Accurate prediction of size, shape and velocity of a bubble rising through a liquid pool is very important for predicting the particulate removal efficiency in pool scrubbing, for designing engineering safety features to prepare for severe accidents in nuclear power plants, and for predicting the emission of fission products from MCCI (molten core-concrete interaction) process during severe accidents. In this review article, previous studies on the determination of the size, shape and rising velocity of a bubble in liquid are reviewed. Various theoretical and parameterization formulas calculating the bubble size, shape and velocity from physical properties of liquid and gas flowrate are compared. Recent studies tend to suggest simple parameterizations that can easily determine the bubble shape and rising velocity without iteration, whereas iteration has to be performed to determine the bubble shape and velocity in old theories. The recent parameterizations show good agreement with measured data obtained from experiments conducted using different liquid materials with very diverse physical properties, proving themselves to be very useful tools for researchers in related fields.

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF THE HYDROGEN-STEAM BEHAVIOR IN THE APR1400 CONTAINMENT DURING A HYPOTHETICAL TOTAL LOSS OF FEED WATER ACCIDENT (APR1400의 급수완전상실사고 시 격납건물 내에서 수소와 수증기의 3차원 거동에 대한 수치해석)

  • Kim Jongtae;Hong Seong-Wan;Kim Sang-Baik;Kim Hee-Dong
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.10 no.3 s.30
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    • pp.9-18
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    • 2005
  • During a hypothetical severe accident in a nuclear power plant (NPP), hydrogen is generated by the active reaction of fuel-cladding and steam in the reactor pressure vessel and released with steam into the containment. In order to mitigate hydrogen hazards possibly occurred in the NPP containment, hydrogen mitigation system (HMS) is usually adopted. The design of the next generation NPP (APR1400) designed in Korea specifies 26 passive autocatalytic recombiners and 10 igniters installed in the containment for the hydrogen mitigation. in this study, the analysis of the hydrogen and steam behavior during a total lose of feed water (TLOFW) accident in the APR1400 containment has been conducted by using the CFD code GASFLOW. During the accident, a huge amount of hot water, steam, and hydrogen is released in the in-containment refueling water storage tank (IRWST). The current design of the APR1400 includes flap-type dampers at the IRWST vents which are operated depending on the pressure difference between inside and outside of the IRWST. it was found that the flaps strongly affects the flow structure of the steam and hydrogen in the containment. The possibilities of a flame acceleration and transition from deflagration to detonation (DDT) were evaluated by using Sigma-Lambda criteria. Numerical results indicate the DDT possibility could be heavily reduced in the IRWST compartment when the flaps are installed.

CCDP Evaluation of the Eire Area of NPPs Using Eire Model CEAST (화재모델 CFAST를 이용한 원전 화재구역의 CCDP평가)

  • Lee Yoon-Hwan;Yang Joon-Eon;Kim Jong-Hoon;Noh Sam-Kyu
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.64-71
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    • 2004
  • This paper describes the result of the pump room fire analysis of the nuclear power plant using CFAST fire modeling code developed by NIST. The sensitivity studies are performed over the input parameters of CFAST: the constrained or unconstrained fire, Lower Oxygen Limit (LOL), Radiative Fraction (RF), and the opening ratio of the fire doors. According to the results, a pump room fire is the ventilation-controlled fire, so it is adequate that the value of LOL is 10% which is also the default value. It is anlayzed that the Radiative Fraction does not affect the temperature of the upper gas layer. It is appeared that the integrity of the cable located at the upper layer is maintained except for the safety pump at the fire area and the Conditional Core Damage Probability (CCDP) is 9.25E-07. It seems that CCDP result is more realistic and less uncertain than that of Fire Hazard Analysis (FHA).

Bioremediation of Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Heavy metals in contaminated marine sediments at filed scale study using biostimulant ball (오염연안저질에 함유된 PAH와 중금속의 생물정화를 위한 생물활성촉진제의 현장적용)

  • Woo, Jung-Hui;Subha, Bakthavachallam;Song, Young-chae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.132-134
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    • 2016
  • The Study mainly focused on bioremediation of 16 types PAHs and heavy metals in contaminated marine sediments at filed scale study using slow release biostimulant ball (BSB) was investigated. In our experiment, filed scale study ($1m{\times}1m$) was performed and the effect of BSB on PAHs and heavy metals were analysed. BSB size and distance were determined and optimum size and distance were 3cm and 5.5cm respectively. BSB containing nutrients of acetate, nitrate and sulphate which can enhance the activity of microorganism to increase degrading capacity of PAHs and enhance the heavy metals stabilization also to decrease bioavailability. PAHs containing 16 types of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 rings compound PAHs were found and to degrade upto 100% in 2, 3 rings, upto 90 to 94% in 4 and 5 rings and 6 ring compound was degrade up to 70%. For heavy metals stabilization percentage was increased using BSB sediment and exchangeable portion was decreased and residual portion was increased in all analysed heavy metals. BSB enhance the PAHs degradation and stabilization of heavy metals percentages. BSB is a promising method for remediation of PAHs and heavy metals in contaminated marine sediments.

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Systematic Evaluation of Fault Trees using Real-Time Model Checker (실시간 모델 체커를 이용한 풀트 트리의 체계적 검증)

  • 지은경;차성덕;손한성;유준범;구서룡;성풍현
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.29 no.12
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    • pp.860-872
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    • 2002
  • Fault tree analysis is the most widely used saftly analysis technique in industry. However, the analysis is often applied manually, and there is no systematic and automated approach available to validate the analysis result. In this paper, we demonstrate that a real-time model checker UPPAAL is useful in formally specifying the required behavior of safety-critical software and to validate the accuracy of manually constructed fault trees. Functional requirements for emergency shutdown software for a nuclear power plant, named Wolsung SDS2, are used as an example. Fault trees were initially developed by a group of graduate students who possess detailed knowledge of Wolsung SDS2 and are familiar with safety analysis techniques including fault tree analysis. Functional requirements were manually translated in timed automata format accepted by UPPAAL, and the model checking was applied using property specifications to evaluate the correctness of the fault trees. Our application demonstrated that UPPAAL was able to detect subtle flaws or ambiguities present in fault trees. Therefore, we conclude that the proposed approach is useful in augmenting fault tree analysis.