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Implementing an Application Tool of Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) for Highway Maintenance and Rehabilitation in California, USA

  • Kim, Changmo;Lee, Eul-Bum
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.376-380
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    • 2015
  • Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) for highway projects is known as an effective analytical technique that uses economic principles to evaluate long-term alternative investment options, especially for comparing the values of alternative pavement design structures and construction strategies. In the Unites States, the 2012 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) amended the United States Code to mandate that the United States Government Accountability Office (GOA) conducts a study of the best practices for calculating life-cycle costs and benefits for the federally funded highway projects in 2013. The RealCost 2.5CA program was developed and adapted as an official LCCA tool to comply with regulatory requirements for California state highway projects in 2013. Utilization of this California-customized LCCA software helps Caltrans to achieve substantial economic benefits (agency cost and road user cost savings) for highway projects. Proper implementation of LCCA for roadway construction and rehabilitation would deliver noticeable savings of agency's roadway maintenance cost especially in developing counties where financial difficulties exist.

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The development standard research for railway safety software (철도 안전 소프트웨어를 위한 개발 기준 연구)

  • Lee, Young-Jun;Kim, Jang-Yoel;Cha, Kyung-Ho;Cheon, Se-Woo;Lee, Jang-Soo;Kwon, Ki-Choon;Jung, Ui-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.968-973
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    • 2007
  • The systems such as the railway control system, satellite control system and nuclear power plant control system are the safety critical systems because the failure of them could lead to risk significant events. These softwares of digital systems must follow the life cycle process from the beginning of software development to guarantee their safety and reliability. The NRC(Nuclear Regulatory Commission) Reg Guide of nuclear fields, the RTCA/DO-178B standard which is used to acquire the certification for software in industrial aero field in European Union and United State, the DEF STAN 00-55 standard for the safety of electronic weapon in England, the IEC 601-1-4 for medical equipment and the IEC 62279 for railway system recommended the development life cycle. This paper introduces the development process and compares each other. Also it indicates applicable development criteria for the software of systems related to railway fields and describes the detailed procedure of development criteria. We describe the procedure to make the software development criteria in nuclear filed. For the software development related to railways, the process from plan phase to maintenance phase must be satisfied. The safety and reliability is guaranteed through these standards.

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Methods of Extracting and Providing R&D Documentation Guideline for Licensing Medical Device Software

  • Kim, DongYeop;Lee, Byungjeong;Lee, Jung-Won
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2019
  • The safety and performance of medical device software is managed through life-cycle processes, which represent the entire process of research and development (R&D). The life-cycle process of medical device software is represented by an international standard called IEC 62304, ISO/IEC 12207. In order to license the product, the manufacturer must have document artifacts that comply with the IEC 62304 standard. However, these standards only describe the content of the activity and do not provide a method or procedure for documentation. Therefore, this paper suggests R&D documentation guidelines that assist medical device software developers to have R&D documents conforming to the standards. For this purpose, this study identifies the requirements related to documentation among the requirements existing in the standard and extracts them in the form of guidelines showing only the core information of the requirements. In addition, through the Web framework implemented based on this research, the developer can evaluate whether the technical documents are written in accordance with the R&D document guidelines. Medical device software manufacturers can efficiently produce high-quality research and development documents through R&D documentation guidelines, and they can have standards-compliantresearch and development documentation required for licensing procedures.

Applying a Life-Cycle Assessment to the Ultra Pure Water Process of Semiconductor Manufacturing

  • Tien, Shiaw-Wen;Chung, Yi-Chan;Tsai, Chih-Hung;Yang, Yung-Kuang;Wu, Min-Chi
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.173-189
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    • 2005
  • A life-cycle assessment (LCA) is based on the attention given to the environmental protection and concerning the possible impact while producing, making, and consuming products. It includes all environmental concerns and the potential impact of a product's life cycle from raw material procurement, manufacturing, usage, and disposal (that is, from cradle to grave). This study assesses the environmental impact of the ultra pure water process of semiconductor manufacturing by a life-cycle assessment in order to point out the heavy environmental impact process for industry when attempting a balanced point between production and environmental protection. The main purpose of this research is studying the development and application of this technology by setting the ultra pure water of semiconductor manufacturing as a target. We evaluate the environmental impact of the Precoat filter process and the Cation/Anion (C/A) filter process of an ultra pure water manufacturing process. The difference is filter material used produces different water quality and waste material, and has a significant, different environmental influence. Finally, we calculate the cost by engineering economics so as to analyze deeply the minimized environmental impact and suitable process that can be accepted by industry. The structure of this study is mainly combined with a life-cycle assessment by implementing analysis software, using SimaPro as a tool. We clearly understand the environmental impact of ultra pure water of semiconductor used and provide a promotion alternative to the heavy environmental impact items by calculating the environmental impact during a life cycle. At the same time, we specify the cost of reducing the environmental impact by a life-cycle cost analysis.

A Configuration Change Control Procedure for Software Maintenance (소프트웨어 유지보수를 위한 형상변경통제절차)

  • Choe, Gwang-Jun;Kim, Gi-Bong;Jin, Seong-Il
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.4 no.11
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    • pp.2745-2755
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    • 1997
  • Many large-scale enterprises have developed software systems to build management information system for their business. However, it is hard to maintain share ability of data, compatibility of operation methedology, and interoperability among subsystems when the development project progresses since each distributed team prepares a development plan for its subsystem and must have poor communication problem among those teams. We must apply software configuration management to the whole life cycle of the software system in order to solve those Problems. We need a model and a repository in order to execute configuration management on configuration products like document, data, and source code which are generated through the life cycle of software development. In this paper, we suggest a model for configuration change control where cross- referencing among life cycle Phases and data-sharing are highlighted, and define ER model to use IRDS(Information Resource Dictionary system) and IRD schemas.

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Low Cycle Fatigue Life Evaluation of External Grooved C-shaped Specimen (외경홈을 지닌 C형 시험편의 저주기 피로수명평가)

  • Lee, Song-In
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.199-208
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    • 1997
  • A local strain approach was applied to an external single and double grooved C-shaped specimen in order to evaluate and predict the fatigue crack initiation life by using low cycle fatigue properties. The low cycle fatigue properties were determined from the strain-controlled fatigue tests using smooth cylindrical axial specimens. Fatigue crack initiation life was evaluated by a life prediction software, FALIPS, based on the local strain approach. The fatigue life was significantly influenced by the mean stress, and SWT parameter represented the fatigue life effectively. The predicted fatigue crack initiation life was then compared to the experimental fatigue life evaluated from the C-shaped fatigue test specimens. A good correlation was found between the experimental and predicted fatigue lives within factors of 2 and 4 for the single and double grooved C-shaped specimens respectively. Also, experimental fatigue life of the double grooved specimen was 10-12 times longer than that of the single grooved specimen.

Quality Control of the Educational Contents based on Life Cycle (생명주기 기반 교육용 콘텐츠 질 관리)

  • Lim, Jae-Hyun;Kim, Chi-Su
    • Journal of The Korean Association of Information Education
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.483-495
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, to establish a way controlling educational contents, range of contents for quality control are offered. And a life-cycle suitable for present circumstance has defined and successive quality control process has suggested supporting development and use of the contents through analyzing the life cycle of its software and previous contents. A life cycle is defined as whole process from formation of contents to its extinction. The developing process includes stages of planning, designing, manufacturing, and the applying process includes evaluation, circulation and management. Suitable quality control guidelines for each process have established and offered. Aim of this paper is also to develop a model which is applicable to developers as well as supporters who help the developing process.

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CALS/EC Development Process Standardization Progress Direction (CALS/EC 개발 프로세스 표준화 발전방향)

  • 최헌준;이윤희
    • Proceedings of the CALSEC Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.149-161
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    • 1998
  • For the purpose of developing CALS/EC, it was surveyed ISO/IEC 12207 that was international standard and IEEE/EIA 12207 that was national standard in U.S.A and then peformed analysis comparing with MIL-STD-498 it was called origin of DoD software development process. Also it was surveyed software life cycle Process using doemstic defense area now Software life cycle process based on MIL-STD-498 in defense area was not yet includ the concept of new development philosophy like iterative development and process management according to the characteristics of project. For the purpose of improving software life cycle in defense area, first refined the process. And then on this study it was recommended accomodation of incremental and evolutionary development approach and the method of tailoring based on MIL-STD-498 was able to select and apply the process on the characteristics of project.

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