• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.511-518
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• 1999

Though not very often, a train accident can cause large number of fatality. As a result, public concern about its safety is increasing nowadays. Tn this paper, the structural crashworthiness of Korean High Speed Train trailer was examined through FE analysis. Crash analyses on energy absorbing part and safety zone were carried out to determine each section force. Rollover analysis was performed to observe the amount of intrusion in the passenger's area in case of rollover accident.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.583-588
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• 1998

Large extrusions of aluminium alloy can be more general and useful as structural material of rolling stocks to reduce weight and labor cost than mild steel and stainless steel. Our company is studying aluminium coach body will be made of 6005A and A5083 alloy. In this paper, at first detailed finite element analysis is carried out to calculate the orthotropic material properties of aluminium extrusions. And then global strength evaluation of coach body is carried out according to UIC 566 OR code.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 1998.11a
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• pp.589-594
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• 1998

Heat and fluid flow in the motor block room of a motorized car is numerically simulated. The motorized car, composed of a motor block room and a passenger room, supplies additional Power to achieve the design speed. A motor block, a transformer, and a fan are equipped in the motor block room. Flow phenomena in the ducts on the motor block and power transformer are investigated. Also, the three dimensional heat and fluid flow in the motor block room is simulated to give a qualitative information of the flow characteristics.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.1357-1365
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• 2011

Reliability analysis-based maintenance system has the merit than elapsed time-based preventive maintenance system. First, it is possible to active handling of rolling stocks failures. In the past, Failure handling activities began when after increase failures rapidly. But if we can continuous manage of reliability than changing of failure tendency can know more quickly. Second, It is possible to using maintenance resources effectively. We can look forward to cost reduction to distributing of much less failures parts's maintenance resources. KORAIL builds reliability system called KTX-RCM for operating high-speed rolling stocks. But existing rolling stocks have not reliability system from the past. Fortunately, KORAIL started ERP system called KOVIS at 2007. KOVIS includes maintenance data for reliability analysis. So in this study analysis failure data for getting reliability number about existing passenger car. And we desire to maintenance connection plan.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.4528-4535
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• 2014

In this paper, a distributed evacuation system based on the positioning information of subway passengers is proposed. Recently, the subway station is becoming complicated by combining with shopping malls, and movie theaters. Compared to the increasing complexity of subway stations, evacuation systems are less complex. Subway passengers in each cell were estimated to use the access point in the subway cells and statistics information. The evacuation route is provided through a direction indicator and push alarm of a smart phone based on estimated the number of passengers and exit information of the subway station. Based on this schemes, a quick and safe evacuation system of subway passengers was proposed. The number of connection passengers was estimated using AP with OpenWrt embedded OS installed. The average error rate of the number of passenger was confirmed to be 15%, 17% and 23% at the confidence parameter of $1{\sigma}$, $2{\sigma}$, and $3{\sigma}$, respectively, through a simulation. The possibility of the system through a simple experiment was examined.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.9 no.3 s.34
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• pp.291-297
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• 2006

The present study investigated the effect of fire suppression using a mid-low pressure water mist in a carriage fire. The fire extinguishing time and temperature distributions below ceiling in the enclosed compartment of $2.9m{\times}2.8m{\times}5.0m$ were measured by stopwatch and k-type thermocouples for various fire positions. The numerical simulations were extensively performed using. Fire Dynamics Simulator(FDS, Ver. 4.0) code and the predictions were compared with experimental data. The prediction results showed good agreement with the measured maximum temperature in the all cases. Whereas the predicted temperature was about $40^{\circ}C$ higher than the measured one after operating of water mist. The predicted fire extinguishing times were compared with those of measured data. Fires are extinguished within 200 seconds at the experiment in Case 2 and Case 3. But in Case 1 fire was not extinguished in the numerical simulation. The reason of the discrepancy between predicted and measured data was that a simple suppression algorithm has been implemented in FDS. Also, various databases of fire properties for combustible materials and more elaborate model considering the water mist were required fur better predictions of the cooling and suffocation effect.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.313-336
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• 2007

Unlike a conventional railway system, a high-speed rail system experiences various aerodynamic problems in tunnel sections. Trains running at a high speed in a small tunnel, when compared with the open field, face significant air pressure, resulting in reduced operating stability and fast change in pressure inside the tunnel. These phenomena further cause some unexpected problems such as the passengers onboard feeling an aural discomfort and an impulsive noise at the tunnel exit. To solve these problems, this paper introduces analysis of aerodynamic characteristics for determination of tunnel cross section. The optimum cross-section that satisfies the criteria of aural discomfort was reviewed through lots of numerical simulation analysis. Also, the pressure inside the passenger car of a train operating on Kyungbu HSR line was measured, and the pressure inside the tunnel and the micro-pressure waves at tunnel exit were measured at Hwashin 5 Tunnel. At the same time, a test of train operation model was performed and then the measurement results and test results were compared to verify that various parameters used as input conditions for the numerical simulations were appropriate.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.554-559
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• 2011

Braking performance of a trainset that consists of a locomotive and several coaches and/or wagons is influenced by that of the locomotive as well as each coach or wagon. For trains to safely travel on a railway, trains must be provided with sufficient distance where to stop. Thus, replacing coaches or wagons needs calculating, measuring the braking performance such as a stopping distance or a deceleration. The task is further complicated if there are many kinds of trains with different braking performance characteristics. The accurate calculation is subject to acquire accurate information on the existing cars. Moreover, the initiation of braking by a driver or the geometry of the track affects as complicated factors. In this paper, based on the braking performance test conducted for US-SCRRA coaches, introduced several factors assumed to influence the result and the compensating methodology.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.250-253
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• 2007

The purpose of this research is focussed on the numerical predictions of the heat and smoke propagations for a passenger train fire in an underground subway tunnel for different air supply and extraction flowrates. The analysis is performed for one of the stations on subway line #5 in Seoul under the emergency operation mode for different air supply and extraction flowrates. Five different the air supply and extraction flowrates are considered for the numerical analyses. The numerical results show that the air supply and extraction flowrates affect the smoke control performance significantly by improving the smoke removal performance for the balanced control of air supply and smoke extraction and for the unbalanced control with lager smoke extraction than air supply.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.81-93
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• 1999

열차운용이라 함은 열차의 출발과 도착 시간을 나타내는 열차번호들에 여러 객차들로 구성된 하나의 열차를 일컫는 열차 다이아(train DIAgram)들을 여러 제약조건을 고려하여 배정함으로서 열차 번호가 열차 다이아에 의해 운행될 수 있도록 열차운용 다이아를 작성하는 작업이다. 이러한 작업을 다수의 스케줄링 전문가들이 스케줄링 할 경우 많은 시간과 노력을 감수해야만 하며, 전문가의 실수로 인해 오류가 발생할 가능성이 있다. 뿐만 아니라, 복잡한 스케줄의 특성상 운용 비용이 적게 드는 스케줄 결과를 이끌어 내기가 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 열차운용 시스템을 구성하기 위해서 현재 철도청에서 사용하는 시스템을 분석하여, 열차운용 스케줄링 시스템을 모델링 하였고, 이에 모델링한 시스템을 바탕으로 CSP(Constraint Satisfaction Problems: 제약조건 만족 문제) 해결 기법을 적용하여 계산시간 및 계산 복잡성 면에서 효율적인 스케줄링을 행함과 동시에 비용 최적 함수를 적용함으로서 열차 운용 비용이 최소가 되는 열차운용 스케줄링 시스템을 구현하였다. 더불어, 시스템모델 검증과정의 하나로 과거 운용되었던 새마을호 열차시간표와 열차 데이터를 사용하여 열차 운용 및 운용 비용의 최적화를 실험하였다.