• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.91-92
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• 1999

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.273-282
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• 2023

Probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) has been widely used to evaluate the seismic risk of nuclear power plants (NPPs). However, studies on seismic PSA for process plants, such as gas plants, oil refineries, and chemical plants, have been scarce. This is because the major disasters to which these process plants are vulnerable include explosions, fires, and release (or dispersion) of toxic chemicals. However, seismic PSA is essential for the plants located in regions with significant earthquake risks. Seismic PSA entails probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA), event tree analysis (ETA), fault tree analysis (FTA), and fragility analysis for the structures and essential equipment items. Among those analyses, ETA can depict the accident sequence for core damage, which is the worst disaster and top event concerning NPPs. However, there is no general top event with regard to process plants. Therefore, PSA cannot be directly applied to process plants. Moreover, there is a paucity of studies on developing fragility curves for various equipment. This paper introduces PSA for gas plants based on FTA, which is then transformed into Bayesian network, that is, a probabilistic graph model that can aid risk-informed decision-making. Finally, the proposed method is applied to a gas plant, and several decision-making cases are demonstrated.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.530-535
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• 2008

After train fire accident in Daegue, many research on train fire safety improvement have been carrying out. Since many alternative fire safety measures can be applied in our railway system, the effect of the each safety measure must be quantified prior to the safety investment. In order to estimate the effects of each safety measure quantitatively, fault trees and event trees are constructed in this study. Results can be applied for cost-benefit analysis or sensitivity analysis for safety measures in risk assessment process.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.654-662
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• 2016

As the number of gates and basic events in fault trees increases, it becomes difficult to calculate the exact probability of the top event. In order to overcome this difficulty the BDD methodology can be used to calculate the exact top event probability for small and medium size fault trees in short time. Fault trees are converted to BDD by using CUDD library functions and a failure path search algorithm is proposed to calculate the exact top event probability. The backward search algorithm is more efficient than the forward one in finding failure paths and in the calculation of the top event probability. This backward search algorithm can reduce searching time in the identification of disjoint failure paths from BDD and can be considered as an effective tool to find the cut sets and the minimal cut sets for the given fault trees.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.605-613
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• 2007

In order to overcome the difficulties of quantitative risk analysis such as complexity of model, we propose a systematic methodology for risk quantification of railway system which consists of 6 steps: The identification of risk factors, the determination of major scenarios for each risk factor by using event tree, the development of supplementary fault trees for evaluating branch probabilities, the evaluation of event probabilities, the quantification of risk, and the analysis in consideration of accident situation. In this study, in order to address the feasibility of the propose methodology, this framework is applied to the prototype risk model of nation-wide railway level crossings. And the quantification result based on the data of 2005 in Korea will also be presented.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.205-216
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• 2024

Recently, seismic Probabilistic Safety Assessment (PSA) methods have been developed for process plants, such as gas plants, oil refineries, and chemical plants. The framework originated from the PSA of nuclear power plants, which aims to assess the risk of reactor core damage. The original PSA method was modified to adopt the characteristics of a process plant whose purpose is continuous operation without shutdown. Therefore, a fault tree, whose top event is shut down, was constructed and transformed into a Bayesian Network (BN), a probabilistic graph model, for efficient risk-informed decision-making. In this research, the fault tree-based BN from the previous research is further developed to consider the multi-hazard of earthquake-induced fire and explosion (EQ-induced F&E). For this purpose, an event tree describing the occurrence of fire and explosion from a release is first constructed and transformed into a BN. And then, this BN is connected to the previous BN model developed for seismic PSA. A virtual plot plan of a gas plant is introduced as a basis for the construction of the specific EQ-induced F&E BN to test the proposed BN framework. The paper demonstrates the method through two examples of risk-informed decision-making. In particular, the second example verifies how the proposed method can establish a repair and retrofit strategy when a shutdown occurs in a process plant.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 1997.05a
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• pp.127-132
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• 1997

미국에서는 모든 원전(원자력발전소) 에서 확률론적 안전성 평가 (PSA)를 실시하여 각 원전의 취약점 등을 파악하고 취약한 부분의 보강에 힘써 왔다. 근래에는 PSA나 개별원전평가(IPE)에서 구축한 각 원전의 PSA 모델, 즉, 고장수목 (FT)이나 사건수목(ET)등을 원전의 운전, 정비, 규제 등에 활용하기 위한 연구 및 실제활용이 활발하다. 우리나라는 확률론적 안전성 평가 (PSA)를 고리 3.4호기, 영광 3,4 호기등 여러 원전에서 실시하여 가동중인 원전에서는 취약한 부분을 찾아내어 보완하였으며, 건설 중인 원전의 경우에는 설계 개선에 이바지하여 왔다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.339-345
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• 2002

FTA(Fault free Analysis)는 시스템 고장을 발생시키는 사상(event)과 그의 원인과의 인과관계를 논리기호(AND 와 OR)를 사용하여 나뭇가지 모양의 그림으로 나타낸 고장수목(Fault Tree)을 만들고, 이에 의거하여 시스템의 고장확률을 구함으로써 문제가 되는 부분을 찾아내어 시스템의 신뢰성을 개선하는 정량적 고장해석 및 신뢰성 평가 방법이다.(중략)

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.48-54
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• 2012

Building above-ground membrane LNG storage tanks have been recently actively reviewed because they have advantages in ease of large capacity, environmental friendliness, and low possibility of gas leakage of the inner tank (slow increase of leakage speed). In this paper, the safety of membrane LNG storage tanks was ensured through comparative risk assessment of full-containment LNG storage tanks and membrane LNG storage tanks by using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA). Risk assessment results showed that both types of tanks have very similar level of risk except for the membrane storage tanks without additional safety equipments (early model).

• Landscaping Tree
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• s.111
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• pp.10-16
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• 2009

순천만에 가면, 붉은 노을과 하얀 갈대 그리고 그 사이로 난 S자 물길이 황금빛으로 물들면 작은 물새들이 하늘 가득 날아오르고, 진객 흑두루미, 재두루미와 하얀 백조들이 날개짓하는 세계 5대 연안습지를 자랑하는 천혜의 고장 순천에서 바다와는 먼 산골에다 멋진 조경수 농장을 조성, 새로운 관광명소로 떠오른 유상석 사장의 상명수목원을 찾았다.