• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.58 no.1
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• pp.27-32
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• 2009

A technical system generally comprise a number of subsystems and components that are interconnected in such a way that the system is able to perform a set of required function. Because of the complex system structure with serial, parallel and bridged connections, some certain subsystems or components are more critical than the others. The main concern of a reliability engineer is to identify potential failures and to prevent these failures from occurring. In order to prevent fatal failures, proper inspections and maintenance actions for each component are required Considering above objectives of reliability engineers and characteristics of a practical system, several practical method for evaluating system and component reliabilities have developed namely Birnbaum's and Fussell & Vesely's measures. However there are several critical weaknesses in traditional calculation process as the target system gets larger. In this paper, a new technique for calculating component's structural importance is proposed and compared to Birnbaum's with representative system examples (serial, parallel. k out of n, and bridge type).

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.3
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• pp.516-522
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• 2009

The dimmable magnetic ballast which applies the variable inductor needs a switching process for the dimming process, and it consists of mechanical relays because of costs and reliabilities. However, it is hard to operate with correct timing in mechanical relay, so relays reduce their own life time in inductive applications. Moreover this creates a destructive problem at the switching process. The life time reduction of relays means the life time reduction of the ballast. Thus, in this paper, we described the problem at the witching process in the dimmable magnetic ballast with a variable inductor, which consists of relays and the soft AC switching method in order to solve the problems. As result, we achieved the improvement of the life time and reliability of the ballast.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.294-302
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• 1999

Evaluation of Brinell standard hardness tester was carried out to secure its application as a national standard for Brinell hardness. Accuracies and reliabilities in load application, indenter diameter and indentation measurement were tested through evaluation of these components. The accuracies of load application for various loading conditions were within the limit of ISO and KS specifications. Errors in the indentation measurement due to the difference in personnel characters were successfully removed by utilising automatic indentation measurement system. In overall, the tester and the indentation measuring system were found to be eligible as a national standard of Brinell hardness.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.4 no.6
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• pp.25-31
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• 2003

Multistage Interconnection networks (MIN) for the high performance computing and communications must be efficient and reliable. While a number of fault tolerance schemes have been developed, some of them are not efficient enough with respect to all evaluation measures or overheads of others are too significant. In this paper we develop a new efficient fault tolerant MIN which displays high reliability and fault tolerance capability using a simple structure. Structure and reliabilities of Enhanced Cube Network are evaluated and compared with previous designs to show the effectiveness of new design.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.6 no.5
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• pp.555-569
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• 1998

The reliability of antenna tower designed for a n-year design wind speed is determined by considering the variability of the strength of the component members and of the mean wind speed. For obtaining the n-year design wind speed, maximum annual wind speed is assumed to follow Gumbel Type-1 distribution. Following this distribution of the wind speed, the mean and standard deviation of stresses in each component member are worked out. The variability of the strength of members is defined by means of the nominal strength and a coefficient of variation. The probability of failure of the critical members of tower is determined by the first order second moment method (FOSM) of reliability analysis. Using the above method, the reliability against allowable stress failure of the critical members as well as the system reliabilities for a 75 m tall antenna tower, designed for n-year design wind speed, are presented.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.15C no.3
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• pp.199-204
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• 2008

Controller Area Network was developed originally for in-vehicle communication network. But it is now widely used for factory automation because of its properties such as strong noise resistance and high reliabilities. With changing communication environments from peer to peer topology to bus topology, we should check each devices about not only mechanical operations but also electronic or software operations. In this paper, we suggest reliability test environment for CAN based system, which is divided two parts, data correctness and timely delivery.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1992.04a
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• pp.85-88
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• 1992

In general, the strength and stiffness of laminated composite cylinderical shells are very sensitive to the variation of slenderness parameters, some coupling-stiffness parameters, lamination angles, stacking sequence and number of layers. In the paper, the effects of these factors on the strength and buckling reliabilities of GFRP laminated cyclinderical shells are investigated based on the proposed strength and buckling limit state models. It may be concluded that the applicable ranges of the slenderness limits of the strength and buckling failure criteria for laminated composite cylinderical shells should be indentified and incorporated into the design formula with appropriate safety factors which provide uniform consistent reliability for balanced design in practice.

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 2008.03a
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• pp.1125-1131
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• 2008

In this study, Calibration Chamber Tests for cast-in-place piles in sand were performed for measuring behavior properties of piles. These tests were examined effects of various parameters of soil conditions including the relative density($D_R$), the coefficient of earth pressure, and investigated differences between cylindrical pile and taper-shaped pile with the same volumes. The important effect factors of foundation behavior were investigated by considering embedded depth of piles and shapes of piles, and inspected details of lateral behavior of piles. These results were verified reliabilities of each methods for comparing the results estimated with tests and the results by proposed estimating solutions in the past.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.145-156
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• 2007

The performance of speaker identification is severely degraded in noisy environments. Recently probability weighting method based on observation membership was proposed for overcoming the noise problem[1]. In the paper[1] the observation confidence was calculated from SNR with sigmoid function. However, estimating SNR needs additive calculation amount and estimated SNR is corrupted in dynamic noisy environments. In this paper we propose estimation methods of the observation confidence based on score-based reliabilities (SBR) of entropy and dispersion measures. Generally SBRs are obtained from speaker models' probabilities. The proposed methods are evaluated with ETRI speaker recognition DB. We compared the performances of the proposed methods with those in [1][8]. The experimental results show that the proposed methods can be successfully applied for the case where SNR is not available.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.273-276
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• 2004

Report ferroelectric memories based on 0.35$\mu\textrm{m}$ CMOS technology ensuring ten-year retention and imprint at 175$^{\circ}C$. This excellent reliability resulted from newly developed BT-based ferroelectric films with superior reliability performance at high temperatures, and also resulted from robust integration schemes free from ferroelectric degradation due to process impurities such as moisture and hydrogen. The superior reliabilities at high temperature of ferroelectric memories using BT-based films are due to the random orientation by special bake treatments.