• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.291-298
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 외부에서의 탐촉자 스캐닝이 어려운 금속배관의 긴 축방향 결함이나 두께감육 등과 관련된 건전성을 감시하기 위하여 펄스와전류 신호의 피크치와 피크(발생)시간을 이용하는 배열형 탐촉자를 제안하였다. 탐촉자는 관을 따라 외삽형 코일들을 배열하고, 금속배관의 상태를 반영하는 자계는 와전류에 의해 생성되는 자계이므로 원천자계가 직접적으로 센서신호에 영향을 미치는 것을 막기 위하여 코일의 외부를 페라이트로 차폐하였다. 여자코일과 센서코일은 자동적으로 연속해서 위치를 이동하게 되므로 사람이 직접 탐촉자를 주사할 필요는 없다. 두 코일의 위치가 고정되어 있을 때 센서에서 감지되는 펄스와전류 신호에서 피크치와 피크시간을 추출하고, 모든 위치에서 추출되는 이 데이터들을 축적하여 배열형 피크치 신호와 배열형 피크시간 신호를 생성하였다. 수치 모사는 시간영역은 후향차분법으로, 공간은 유한요소법을 사용하여 수행되었다. 모사 결과는 결함의 깊이나 길이가 증가함에 따라 펄스와전류 신호에서 피크치가 증가하며 피크는 더 일찍 나타난다는 것을 보여 주었으며, 이를 활용하여 본 연구에서 제안한 배열신호들은 배열형 탐촉자 내부에서 결함의 깊이나 길이 변화뿐만 아니라 결함의 위치를 반영하는데에도 탁월함을 증명하였다.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.227-232
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• 2013

A number of components installed in the secondary system of nuclear power plants are exposed to aging mechanisms such as FAC (Flow-Accelerated Corrosion), Cavitation, Flashing, and LDIE (Liquid Droplet Impingement Erosion). Those aging mechanisms can lead to thinning of the components. In April 2013, one (1) inch small bore piping branched from the main steam line experienced leakage resulting from wall thinning in a 1,000 MWe Korean PWR nuclear power plant. During the normal operation, extracted steam from the main steam line goes to condenser through the small bore piping. The leak occurred in the downstream of an orifice. A control valve with vertical flow path was placed on in front of the orifice. This paper deals with UT (Ultrasonic Test) thickness data, SEM images, and numerical simulation results in order to analyze the extent of damage and the cause of leakage in the small bore piping. As a result, it is concluded that the main cause of the small bore pipe wall thinning is liquid droplet impingement erosion. Moreover, it is observed that the leak occurred at the reattachment point of the vortex flow in the downstream side of the orifice.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.533-542
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• 2006

In order to assess the integrity of pipes with local thinning area, the plastic strain as well as the elastic strain at the root of thinned region are required particularly when fluctuating load is applied to the pipe. For estimating elastic-plastic strain at local wall thinning area in a straight pipe under tensile load, an estimation model with idealized fully circumferential constant depth wall thinning area is proposed. Based on the compatibility and equilibrium equations a nonlinear estimation equation, from which local elastic-plastic strain can be determined as a function of pipe/defect geometry, material and the applied strain was derived. Estimation results are compared with those from detailed elastic-plastic finite element analysis, which shows good agreements. Noting that practical wall thinning in nuclear piping has not only a circular shape but also a finite circumferential length, the proposed solution for the ideal geometry is extended based on two-dimensional and three-dimensional numerical analysis of pipes with circular wall thinning.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.173-178
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• 2012

To manage the wall thinning of carbon steel piping in nuclear power plants, the utility of Korea has performed thickness inspection for some quantity of pipe components during refueling outages and determined whether repair or replacement after evaluating UT (Ultrasonic Test) data. When the existing UT data evaluation methods, such as Band, Blanket, PTP (Point to Point) Methods, are applied to a certain pipe component, unnecessary re-inspecting situations may be generated even though the component does not thinned. In those cases, economical loss caused by repeated inspection and problems of maintaining the pipe integrity followed by decreasing of newly inspected components may be generated. EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute) in USA has suggested several statistical methods, TPM (Total Point Method), LSS (Least Square Slope) Method, etc. to distinguish whether multiple inspecting components have thinned or not. This paper presents the analysis results for multiple inspecting components over three times based on both NAM (Near Area of Minimum) Method developed by KEPCO-E&C and the other methods suggested by EPRI.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.80-87
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• 2014

The pipelines are apt to erosion or corrosion because of the high-speed flow of water and steam with high temperatures or high pressures. This study was carried out a finite element analysis (FEA) and an experimental for the fracture behavior of T-joint pipes with local wall thinning under internal pressure. Local wall thinning was machined on the pipes in order to simulate erosion and corrosion of the metal. The configurations of the eroded area included an eroded ratio of d/t=0.80~0.963 and an eroded length of l=25 mm, 50 mm, and 102 mm. Three-dimensional elastic-plastic analyses were also carried out using FEA, which accurately simulates failure behaviors. In regards to the relationship between pressure and eroded, the criterion that indicates what can be used safely under operating pressure and design pressure were obtained from FEA. The FEA results were in relatively good agreement with that of the experiment.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.245-252
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• 2016

The pipelines and equipments are degraded by flow-accelerated corrosion (FAC), and a large-scale test facility was constructed for simulate the FAC phenomena in secondary coolant environment of PWR type nuclear power plants. Using this facility, FAC test was performed on weld pipe (carbon steel and low alloy steel) at the conditions of high velocity flow (> 10 m/s). Wall thickness was measured by high temperature ultrasonic monitoring systems (four-channel buffer rod type and waveguide type) during test period and room temperature manual ultrasonic method before and after test period. This work deals with the complex effects of flow velocity on the wall thinning in weld pipe and the test results showed that the higher flow velocity induced different increasement of wall thinning rate for the carbon steel and low alloy steel pipe.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.52-60
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• 2002

Failure criterion is a parameter to represent the resistance to failure of locally wall thinned pipe, and it depends on material characteristics, defect geometry, applied loading type, and failure mode. Therefore, accurate prediction of integrity of wall thinned pipe requires a failure criterion adequately reflected the characteristics of defect shape and loading in the piping system. In the present study, the finite element analysis was performed and the results were compared with those of pipe experiment to develop a sound criterion for failure of internally wall thinned pipe subjected to combined pressure and bending loads. By comparing the predictions of failure to actual failure load and displacement, an appropriate criterion was investigated. From this investigation, it is concluded that true ultimate stress criterion is the most accurate to predict failure of wall thinned pipe under combined loads, but it is not conservative under some conditions. Engineering ultimate stress estimates the failure load and displacement reasonably for al conditions, although the predictions are less accurate compared with the results predicted by true ultimate stress criterion.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제25권7호
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• pp.377-385
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• 2013

In this study, the performance of an impeller according to blade length and pitch angle was studied experimentally by building a variable pitch impeller while changing blade length to review the effect of blade length and pitch angle on a fan's performance. The pitch angle was changed in six steps from $20^{\circ}{\sim}45^{\circ}$ at intervals of $5^{\circ}$ while the blade lengths were changed to 90 mm, 100 mm, 110 mm and 120 mm with an identical airfoil shape while carrying out the experiment. The results are summarized as follows : The air flow per static pressure of axial fans increased linearly with increase of pitch angle, but the high static pressure showed a decrease at a pitch angle of $35^{\circ}$. The shaft power increased proportionally to the pitch angle at all blade lengths; the larger the pitch angle, the larger the measured increase of shaft power. This is because the drag at the fan's front increases with the pitch angle. In the axial fans considered in this research, the flow and incre.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제22권3_1spc호
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• pp.518-524
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• 2013

Recently, probabilistic assessments of nuclear power plant components have generated interest in the nuclear industries, either for the efficient inspection and maintenance of older nuclear plants or for improving the safety and cost-effective design of newly constructed nuclear plants. In the present paper, the partial safety factor (PSF) of wall-thinned nuclear piping is evaluated based on a reliability index method, from which the effect of each statistical variable (assessment parameter) on a certain target probability is evaluated. In order to calculate the PSF of a wall-thinned pipe, a limit state function based on the load and resistance factor design (LRFD) concept is first constructed. As for the reliability assessment method, both the advanced first-order second moment (AFOSM) method and second-order reliability method (SORM) are employed to determine the PSF of each probabilistic variable. The present results can be used for developing maintenance strategies considering the priorities of input variables for structural integrity assessments of wall-thinned piping, and this PSF concept can also be applied to the optimal design of the components of newly constructed plants considering the target reliability levels.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.370-376
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• 2016

구조물 표면은 부식으로 인하여, 크랙이나 감육이 발생할 수 있으며, 이로 인하여 구조물의 파단으로 귀결되어 많은 인명 피해와 재산 손실을 초래할 수 있다. 이에 따라, 박판 구조물이나 배관 구조물과 같이 검사 면적에 비해 두께가 얇은 구조물에 대한 레이저 영상화 기법은 최근 10여년간 꾸준히 연구가 진행되었다. 가장 많이 사용되는 방법으로는 펄스 레이저를 이용한 영상화 시스템이다. 이 방법을 이용하여 평판 구조물, 배관 등 다양한 구조물을 스캐닝하여 비교적 짧은 시간에 원하는 영역을 검사하고 영상화하는 기법이 개발되었다. 하지만, 이 기법은 음파가 결함에 의해 반사되는 반사파를 이용하여 영상화하는 기법으로 검사 위치마다 수 ms의 시간지연이 필요하며, 검사 위치마다 레이저 빔을 집속해주는 렌즈가 필요하여 고가의 복잡한 시스템이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 연속 가진기법을 이용하여 구조물에 정상파(standing wave)를 가진하고, 이 정상파를 위치별로 스캐닝하여 결함을 영상화하는 기술을 제안하였다. 평판 구조물에 두께가 변화하는 결함을 인공적으로 삽입하여, 제안된 기술의 두께 변화 탐지 가능성을 제시하였다.