• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제63권6호
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• pp.703-712
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• 2017

The composite blades of offshore wind turbines accumulate structural damage such as fatigue cracking due to harsh operation environments during their service time, leading to premature structural failures. This paper investigates various fatigue crack models for reproducing crack development in composite blades and proposes a stochastic approach to predict fatigue crack evolution and to analyse failure probability for the composite blades. Three typical fatigue models for the propagation of fatigue cracks, i.e., Miner model, Paris model and Reifsnider model, are discussed to reproduce the fatigue crack evolution in composite blades subjected to cyclical loadings. The lifetime probability of fatigue failure of the composite blades is estimated by stochastic deterioration modelling such as gamma process. Based on time-dependent reliability analysis and lifecycle cost analysis, an optimised maintenance policy is determined to make the optimal decision for the composite blades during the service time. A numerical example is employed to investigate the effectiveness of predicting fatigue crack growth, estimating the probability of fatigue failure and evaluating an optimal maintenance policy. The results from the numerical study show that the stochastic gamma process together with the proper fatigue models can provide a useful tool for remaining useful life predictions and optimum maintenance strategies of the composite blades of offshore wind turbines.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.133-143
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• 2015

Civil engineering infrastructure is aging and requires cost-effective maintenance strategies to enable infrastructure systems operate reliably and sustainably. This paper presents an approach for determining risk-cost balanced repair strategy of corrosion damaged reinforced concrete structures with consideration of uncertainty in structural resistance deterioration. On the basis of analytical models of cover concrete cracking evolution and bond strength degradation due to reinforcement corrosion, the effect of reinforcement corrosion on residual load carrying capacity of corroded reinforced concrete structures is investigated. A stochastic deterioration model based on gamma process is adopted to evaluate the probability of failure of structural bearing capacity over the lifetime. Optimal repair planning and maintenance strategies during the service life are determined by balancing the cost for maintenance and the risk of structural failure. The method proposed in this study is then demonstrated by numerical investigations for a concrete structure subjected to reinforcement corrosion. The obtained results show that the proposed method can provide a risk cost optimised repair schedule during the service life of corroded concrete structures.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.212-214
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• 2007

Regenerative energy which is generated during brake periods of DC traction might cause malfunction or destruction of rectifier or any other power conversion devices caused the increment of DC line voltage. Regenerative energy storage system using super-capacitor is one of the method to control the DC line voltage safely. And super-capacitor is very important device as energy storage device. Therefore, In this paper, we designed the regenerative energy storage system using super-capacitor and propose the method about predicting the lifetime of super-capacitor established in storage system. According to the this research, we can estimate the proper replacement moment for the existed super-capacitor due to the safety of the system. And improve the reliability of regenerative energy storage system using super-capacitor.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.166-173
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• 2014

The effects of printed circuit board electroless nickel immersion gold (ENIG) and organic solderability preservative (OSP) surface finishes on the electromigration reliability and shear strength of Sn-3.5Ag Pb-free solder bump were systematically investigated. In-situ annealing tests were performed in a scanning electron microscope chamber at 130, 150, and $170^{\circ}C$ in order to investigate the growth kinetics of intermetallic compound (IMC). Electromigration lifetime and failure modes were investigated at $150^{\circ}C$ and $1.5{\times}10^5A/cm^2$, while ball shear tests and failure mode analysis were conducted under the high-speed conditions from 10 mm/s to 3000 mm/s. The activation energy of ENIG and OSP surface finishes during annealing were evaluated as 0.84 eV and 0.94 eV, respectively. The solder bumps with ENIG surface finish showed longer electromigration lifetime than OSP surface finish. Shear strengths between ENIG and OSP were similar, and the shear energies decreased with increasing shear speed. Failure analysis showed that electrical and mechanical reliabilities were very closely related to the interfacial IMC stabilities.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권12호
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• pp.535-545
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• 2019

함정 무기체계에 탑재되는 회로카드조립체(Printed Board Assembly, 이하 PBA)는 해양 함상이라는 가혹한 환경 조건에서 운용되기 때문에 임무 수행의 중요성과 정비의 어려움 등을 고려하여 높은 신뢰성 확보가 요구된다. 운용 중 PBA 고장 발생 시 신속한 수리부속 보급이 어렵고 임무수행에 영향을 미친다. 개발단계에서 신뢰성 시험이 시제품 제작 이후에 수행되며, 시험 수행을 위해 시간, 장소, 시료, 비용의 확보와 고장부위 식별 등에 많은 노력과 어려움이 따른다. 그리고 MIL-HDBK-217F 규격 등을 토대로 한 신뢰도 예측은 부품단위 고장률에 근거하고 있어 설계(PCB층/재질, 전자부품 배치/상호관계), 사용 환경과 방법, 접합부 구조와 특성(패드 크기/솔더 재질) 등 부품 외적인 고장요인을 고려하고 있지 않다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 고장물리(Physics of Failure, 이하 PoF) 기반 도구를 활용, 신뢰성 물리학 분석(Reliability Physics Analysis, 이하 RPA)을 수행하여 시제품 제작 전 열-기계적 측면의 신뢰성을 향상시키는 방안을 제시한다. RPA 수행과 적용을 통해 PBA의 특화된 다양한 고장메커니즘을 고려한 신뢰성 점검, 신뢰성 취약부위식별, 설계대안 도출, 설계반영 및 시험계획 수립 등 사전 검증을 수행하여 높은 신뢰성을 확보할 수 있다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.327-332
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• 2016

The routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks (RPL) is an internet protocol based routing protocol developed and standardized by IETF in 2012 to support a wide range of applications for low-power and lossy-networks (LLNs). In LLNs consisting of resource-constrained devices, the energy consumption of battery powered sensing devices during network operations can greatly impact network lifetime. In the case of inefficient route selection, the energy depletion from even a few nodes in the network can damage network integrity and reliability by creating holes in the network. In this paper, a composite energy-aware node metric ($RER_{BDI}$) is proposed for RPL; this metric uses both the residual energy ratio (RER) of the nodes and their battery discharge index. This composite metric helps avoid overburdening power depleted network nodes during packet routing from the source towards the destination oriented directed acyclic graph root node. Additionally, an objective function is defined for RPL, which combines the node metric $RER_{BDI}$ and the expected transmission count (ETX) link quality metric; this helps to improve the overall network packet delivery ratio. The COOJA simulator is used to evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme. The simulations show encouraging results for the proposed scheme in terms of network lifetime, packet delivery ratio and energy consumption, when compared to the most popular schemes for RPL like ETX, hop-count and RER.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.94-98
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• 2010

위성용 보조전원 공급기는 임무기간 운용 중 위성체 부하에 전원을 안정적으로 공급하여야 한다. 이 보조전원 공급기는 고 신뢰성을 위해 몇가지 제한 사항을 요구한다. 본 논문에서는 이 제한 사항을 모두 만족 시키도록 보조전원 공급기를 설계하였다. 또 보조전원 공급기를 제어하는 회로는 다수결 판정회로를 사용하여 단일 기점 결함이 없도록 설계하였으며, 이를 증명하기 위해 견본을 제작하였고, 시험되었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제41권9호
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• pp.887-895
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 일반적으로 문틀과 문짝을 연결하여 개폐시 작동하는 부품인 힌지의 가속수명시험법에 대한 연구이다. 힌지는 사용하는 용도에 따라 구조와 고장모드가 상이하며 본 연구에서는 전자파 차폐시설에 사용되는 개폐장치 구성품 중 하나인 힌지에 대해서 고장모드를 분석하고 현장작동조건에서의 이론적 검증과 시험장비에 대한 타당성을 분석하였다. 그리고 형상모수와 가속지수의 추정을 통한 특성수명 예측을 위한 가속수명시험법을 설계하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1929-1950
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• 2020

Reliable and secure data transmission in the application environment assisted by the wireless sensor network is one of the major challenges. Problem like blind forwarding and data inaccessibility affect the efficiency of overall infrastructure performance. This paper proposes routing protocol for forwarding and error recovery during packet loss. The same is achieved by energy and hops distance-based formulation of the routing mechanism. The reachability of the intermediate node to the source node is the major factor that helps in improving the lifetime of the network. On the other hand, intelligent hop selection increases the reliability over continuous data transmission. The number of hop count is factor of hop weight and available energy of the node. The comparison over the previous state of the art using QualNet-7.4 network simulator shows the effectiveness of proposed work in terms of overall energy conservation of network and reliable data delivery. The simulation results also show the elimination of blind forwarding and data inaccessibility.

• KCI Concrete Journal
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.26-32
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• 2001

A simple expected damage cost model is developed and a systematic approach to evaluate the economic effects of seismic hazards to reinforced concrete structures is presented. An expected damage cost function during a specific lifetime is modeled by a Poisson's process with uniform continuous cash flow assumption. It is possible that the proposed method can decouple the damage cost effect from random earthquake events. Thus, expected damage cost function can be formulated as a combination of three independent terms; a present worth factor of Poisson's process, a damage cost interpolation function and a mean occurrence rate of earthquake intensity. The validity of the proposed method is demonstrated by a comparative study of LCC evaluations with the previous study.