• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.288-289
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04b
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• pp.179-181
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• 2006

각 원자력 발전소에서는 정밀성, 안전성을 확인하는 검사의 중요성을 인식하여 LPMS(Loose Part Monitoring System)을 사용하여 사고 징후를 조기에 감지하여 이에 대한 예방조치를 가능케 함으로써 설계기준 사고 발생을 사전에 방지할 수 있게 한다. 또한 이 기술은 신호 측정 및 분석 등의 기반기술 개발을 통하여 건전성 감시 기술의 신뢰성을 향상 시키고 있다. LPMS(Loose Part Monitoring System)기술은 재료, 기기, 구조물 등의 성질과 내부조직을 변화시키거나 파괴하지 않고, 배관내부에 흐르는 금속 파편들을 찾아내어 정밀성, 안전성, 신뢰성을 확보하기 위하여 검사기술이 적용되고 있다. 그러나 이 방법은 배관내의 이물질의 충격이 발생해야 감지가 가능하고, 이물질의 모양이나 사이즈를 확인하기에는 어려움이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 배관외부에서 자기장을 인가하여, 배관내의 이물질에 변화하는 자기장을 홀센서로 측정하여 기존의 LPMS 방식을 보완하는 시스템을 개발하기 위해, 배관에 필요한 자기장 발생장치를 설계하고, 이물질을 검출하기 위한 검출 감도향상에 대해 연구하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.165-170
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• 2014

Shear horizontal (SH) waves propagate as a type of plate wave in a thin sheet. The dispersion characteristics of SH waves can be used for signal analysis. Therefore, SH-waves are useful for monitoring the structural health of a thin-sheet-structure. An electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT), which is a non-contact ultrasonic transducer, can generate SH-waves easily by varying the shape and array of magnets and coils. Therefore, an EMAT can be applied to an automated ultrasonic testing system for structural health monitoring. When used as a sensor, however, the EMAT has a weakness in that electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise can occur easily in the automated system because of motors and electric devices. Alternatively, a fiber optic sensor works well in the same environment with EMI noise because it uses a light signal instead of an electric signal. In this paper, a fiber Fabry-P$\acute{e}$rot interferometer (FFPI) was proposed as a sensor to receive the SH-waves generated by an EMAT. A simple test was performed to verify the performance of the FFPI sensor. It is thus shown that the FFPI can receive SH-wave signals clearly.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.185-201
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• 2018

Nuclear power plants(NPP) are constructed and operated to ensure safety against natural disasters and man-made disasters in all processes including site selection, site survey, design, construction, and operation. This paper will introduce a series of efforts conducted in Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., to assure the safety of nuclear power plant against earthquakes and other natural hazards. In particular, the present status of the earthquake, fault, and slope safety monitoring system for nuclear power plants is introduced. A earthquake observatory network for the NPP sites has been built up for nuclear safety and providing adequate seismic design standards for NPP sites by monitoring seismicity in and around NPPs since 1999. The Eupcheon Fault Monitoring System, composed of a strainmeter, seismometer, creepmeter, Global Positioning System, and groundwater meter, was installed to assess the safety of the Wolsung Nuclear Power Plant against earthquakes by monitoring the short- and long-term behavioral characteristics of the Eupcheon fault. Through the analysis of measured data, it was verified that the Eupcheon fault is a relatively stable fault that is not affected by earthquakes occurring around the southeastern part of the Korean peninsula. In addition, it was confirmed that the fault monitoring system could be very useful for seismic safety analysis and earthquake prediction study on the fault. K-SLOPE System for systematic slope monitoring was successfully developed for monitoring of the slope at nuclear power plants. Several kinds of monitoring devices including an inclinometer, tiltmeter, tension-wire, and precipitation gauge were installed on the NPP slope. A macro deformation analysis using terrestrial LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) was performed for overall slope deformation evaluation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.476-486
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• 2004

This paper is the second part of the study on the development of a smart active layer (SAL) sensor, which consists of two parts. As mentioned in the first paper, structural health monitoring (SHM) is a new technology that is being increasingly applied at the industrial field as a potential approach to improve cost and convenience of structural inspection. Recently, the development of smart sensor is very active for real application. This study has focused on preparation and application study of SAL sensor which is described with regard to the theory and concept of the SAL sensor in the first paper. In order to detect elastic wave, smart piezoelectric sensor, SAL, is fabricated by using a piezoelectric element, shielding layer and protection layer. This protection layer plays an important role in a patched network of distributed piezoelectric sensor and shielding treatment. Four types of SAL sensor are designed/prepared/tested, and these details will be discussed in the paper In this study, SAL sensor ran be feasibly applied to perform structural health monitoring and to detect damage sources which result in elastic waves.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10c
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• pp.271-273
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• 2002

증기발생기(SG : Steam Generator)는 다수의 세관으로 구성되어 원자로에서 발생한 열을 이용하여 발전기 터빈을 구동시키는 원동력인 증기를 생성해 주는 기능을 하는 원자력발전소의 핵심 설비이다. 증기발생기 세관의 건전성을 확보하기 위해 매주기 계획예방정비, 즉 가동중 검사마다 정기적인 와전류 검사를 수행하고, 검사결과에 따라 전열관 보수 등과 같은 제반 조치를 취하고 있다. 현재 검사데이터 DB 구축은 일부 발전소에 개발되어 운영 중에 있고, 세관 DB와는 별도로 통계정보만을 관리하는 증기발생기 성능관리시스템이 운영되고 있으며, 또한 각 발전소마다 수질을 계측하여 수화학 성분을 감시하는 수질관리시스템이 운용되고 있다. 이러한 이원화된 DB 및 시스템을 통합하고 연계하여 전 원전의 증기발생기를 종합적으로 관리 할 수 있는 시스템의 필요성이 대두되었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 현장에 보관되어 있는 모든 세관 검사데이터를 취득하여 대용량 데이터베이스를 설계 및 구축하고 이기종의 분산된 수질관리시스템 DB를 연계하여, 증기발생기의 설계/제작부터 검사결과 Mapping, 추이 분석을 통한 수명 평가에 이르는 전 과정을 통합 관리할 수 있는 시스템을 설계하고 그 구현방안을 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.299-307
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• 2009

Emerging fiber optic sensor technologies have shown great potential to overcome the difficulties associated with conventional sensors. Fiber optic sensors are immune to EM noise and electric shock and thus can be used in explosion-prone areas. Several kinds of fiber optic sensors have been developed over the last two decades to take advantage of these merits. There have also been many field applications of fiber optic sensors for structural health monitoring as NDT/HDE. However, very few sensors, particularly a load cell have been successfully commercialized. This Paper Presents a load cell using fiber Bra99 gra1ing (FBG) sensors. The shape of the load cell is a link type, and three FBG sensors are used for measuring strains at three different points. Especially, these strains are processed with a differential method in order to exclude common mode noise such as temperature. Moreover, the sensitivity, the linearity and the resolution of the load cell were successfully verified from the experiment of tension test.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.3220-3226
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• 2011

In order to monitor internal risk factors such as fire, terror, etc. on the subway station, the surveillance systems using CCTV and various kinds of sensors have been implemented and recently, introduction of surveillance systems using an advanced IT technology, sensor network technology is tried on several areas. Since 2007, Korean government has made an effort to develop the intelligent surveillance and monitoring system, which can monitor fire, intrusion, passenger congestion, health-state of structure, etc., by using wireless sensor network technology and intelligent video analytic technique. For that purpose, this study carried out field wireless communication environment test on Chungmuro Station of Seoul Metro on the basis of ZigBee that is considered as a representative wireless sensor network before field application of the intelligent integrated surveillance system being developed, arranged and analyzed and ZigBee based wireless communication environment test results on the platform and waiting room of Chungmuro Station on this paper. Results of wireless spectrum analysis on the platform and waiting room showed that there is no radio frequency overlapped with that of ZigBee based sensor network and no frequency interference with adjacent frequencies separated 10MHz or more. As results of wireless data transmission test using ZigBee showed that data transmission is influenced by multi-path fading effect from the number and flow rate of passengers on the platform or the waiting room rather than effects from entrance and exit of the train to/from the platform, it should be considered when implementing the intelligent integrated surveillance system on the station.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.46 no.9
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• pp.767-773
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• 2018

In many cases, modern aircraft are equipped with data acquisition system which checks the structural integrity of the aircraft. The analysis of the vibration data collected with the system is generally performed in dependence on a skilled expert who is familiar with aircraft design. Therefore, it is difficult to provide a representative and objective defect identification standard for general users. In this paper, we shows that it is possible to identify the type of maneuvers and faults by using the Principal Component Analysis(PCA) method in the vast vibration data collected during aircraft operation without using the existing aircraft design analysis. We classified the ROK Army aircraft vibration data for maneuvers and faults types, and applied the PCA to the classified data. Our result shows that it is possible to develop an objective maneuver/fault identification method without design analysis for general users.

• The Korean Journal of Financial Studies
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.61-99
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• 2005

신용평가제도는 오늘날 그 영향력이 강력해져 사실상 세계자본시장의 문지기역할을 하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같이 신용평가기관의 중요성과 영향력의 증대와 더불어 이들 평가기관의 활동에 대한 비판과 감시가 커지고 있는 이때에 아직 선진수준에 미치지 못하는 국내신용평가기관들의 현황과 평가체계를 살펴보고 선진국의 신용평가기관들과 비교해 봄으로써 앞으로 나아갈 방향을 모색해보고자 하였다. 국내 신용평가기관들의 현황을 살펴본 결과 신용평가절차에 있어서 기준이 경영상태, 성장성, 그리고 재무구조의 건전성에 있어야 함에도 불구하고 이러한 기본적인 요인들의 영향력은 미미한 반면, 비공개적이고 불투명하며 비경제적인 요인들이 중요한 비중을 차지하고 있었다. 이에 반하여 선진신용평가기관들의 분석결과는 그 신뢰도에 믿음을 가질 수 있고, 대내외적인 공신력을 인정받고 있으며, 평가과정이 매우 주관적이어서 그 내용을 모두 공개하지 않지만, 국내의 신용평가과정보다는 투명성을 인정받고 있다는 것도 사실이다. 따라서 국내신용평가기관들의 나아갈 바를 살펴보면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 비재무적 요인의 평가기준에 대한 인식의 재정립이 요구되고 있다. 장기적인 시각으로 비재무적 요인에 대한 평가기준과 방법에 대한 체계의 정립이 요구되며, 전문적이고 객관적이면서도 뚜렷한 평가기관의 주관이 있는 평가가 이루어져야 할 것이다. 둘째, 신용평가방법과 기준의 강화로 대외적인 공신력을 얻도록 해야 한다. 이를 위한 방안의 하나로 성장성, 수익성, 그리고 안정성 비율 모두를 반영할 수 있는 신용평가모형을 개발하고, 자기자본비율의 대폭적인 상승이나 현금흐름의 양호여부, 경제적 부가가치(EVA), 고정장기적합률의 이행기준의 설정 등에 대한 평가기준의 재정립이 강구되어야 할 것이다.