• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2006

Premature cracking of the epoxy coatings applied on ship's ballast tanks(BT) can lead to damage of ship's hulls. To avoid this, it's important to have clear understanding of the underlying mechanism and primary factors of the coating crack. In this study, the efforts were made to clarify the integrated effects of main factors, i.e., initial coating shrinkage, thermally induced strain, steel-structural strain and the intrinsic coating flexibility at the initial and after aging, to the early cracking phenomena of epoxy coating in the ship's ballast tank. The coating crack is caused by combination of thermal stress, structural stress, and internal stresses which is closely related to chemical structures of the coatings. On the other hand, thermal stresses and dimensional stabilities would rarely play a major role in coating crack for ballast tank coatings with rather large flexibility. Crack resistance of the coatings at early stages can be estimated roughly by measuring internal stress, FT-IR and $T_g$ value of the coatings. A new screening test method was also proposed in this study, which can be possibly related to the long-term resistance of epoxy-based paints to cracking.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.475-486
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• 2023

Ballast particles have an irregular shape and are discrete in nature. Due to the discrete nature of ballast, it exhibits complex mechanical behaviour under loading conditions. The discrete element method (DEM) can model the behaviour of discrete particles under a multitude of loading conditions. DEM is used in this paper to simulate a series of three-dimensional direct shear tests in order to investigate the shear behaviour of railway ballast and its interaction at the microscopic level. Particle flow code in three dimension (PFC3D) models the irregular shape of ballast particles as clump particles. To investigate the influence of particle size distribution (PSD), real PSD of Indian railway ballast specification IRS:GE:1:2004, China high-speed rail (HSR) and French rail specifications are generated. PFC3D built-in linear contact model is used to simulate the interaction of ballast particles under various normal stresses, shearing rate and shear box sizes. The results indicate how shear resistance and volumetric changes in ballast assembly are affected by normal stress, shearing rate, PSD and shear box size. In addition to macroscopic behaviour, DEM represents the microscopic behaviour of ballast particles in the form of particle displacement at different stages of the shearing process.

• 해양환경안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 해양환경안전학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.79-83
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• 2006

선박에서 발생되는 밸러스트수를 전처리하기 위하여 수중에 포함되어 있는 입자상 오염물질과 수중생물체를 자동역세척 여과 장치를 이용하여 처리한 결과를 나타내었다. 밸러스트수를 처리하기 위한 전처리의 장점은 입자상의 오염물질을 제거하여 후처리공정의 처리효과를 높이는데 있다. 시료 중의 고형물 농도가 15mg/L 일때 1RPM 에서 여과저항은 3.0bar 이고 3RPM 에서는 2.8bar, 6RPM 에서는 2.6bar로 나타나 회전속도 증가에 따른 여과저항은 감소하여 10RPM 이상에서는 2.5 bar 일정하게 유지되었다. 여과저항은 회전속도 보다는 시료중의 고형물의 농도의 영향이 큰 것으로 나타났다. 필터의 막힘현상으로 역세 회복압력과 역세간격은 시간의 경과에 따라 조금씩 감소하고 처리유량도 감소하는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. 회분식 여과처리공정은 자동 역세척을 수행하는 공정에 비해서 처리효율의 저하가 일어났다 여과처리를 통하여 $70{\mu}m$ 이상의 식물성 플랑크톤과 동물성 플랑크톤을 포함하는 수중생물체를 제거할 수 있었다. 실험 결과를 통하여 밸러스트수 처리에 적용 가능한 기술임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.82-90
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• 2003

The advance in technology of the CWR in Korea has led the establishment of the CWR on the sharp curve (i.e. less than R=600m). As thermit welding used in the sharp-curved construction site is carried out on the curve track, it is difficult to adjust a curve shape accurately and these difficulties have occurred in a number of cases. Therefore, in this study, the lateral buckling analysis of CWR track was carried out considering the actual ballast resistance force. In addition, the cant and vertical resistance force in ballast was considered in order to predict the initial behaviour of bucking in track under the more accurate method.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1085-1101
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• 2015

Changes in substructure conditions, such as ballast fouling and subgrade settlement may cause the railway quality deterioration, including the differential geometry of the rails. The objective of this study is to develop and apply a hybrid cone penetrometer (HCP) to characterize the railway substructure. The HCP consists of an outer rod and an inner mini cone, which can dynamically and statically penetrate the ballast and the subgrade, respectively. An accelerometer and four strain gauges are installed at the head of the outer rod and four strain gauges are attached at the tip of the inner mini cone. In the ballast, the outer rod provides a dynamic cone penetration index (DCPI) and the corrected DCPI (CDCPI) with the energy transferred into the rod head. Then, the inner mini cone is pushed to estimate the strength of the subgrade from the cone tip resistance. Laboratory application tests are performed on the specimen, which is prepared with gravel and sandy soil. In addition, the HCP is applied in the field and compared with the standard dynamic cone penetration test. The results from the laboratory and the field tests show that the cone tip resistance is inversely proportional to the CDCPI. Furthermore, in the subgrade, the HCP produces a high-resolution profile of the cone tip resistance and a profile of the CDCPI in the ballast. This study suggests that the dynamic and static penetration tests using the HCP may be useful for characterizing the railway substructure.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제17권5호통권78호
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• pp.519-526
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• 2005

혹서기에 레일의 높은 온도 상승(최대 $60^{\circ}C$)으로 인해 장대레일 궤도에는 매우 큰 압축력이 작용하게 된다. 이러한 압축력은 장대레일 궤도의 좌굴을 발생시키기도 한다. 본 연구에서는 장대레일 궤도의 좌굴에 영향을 미치는 많은 요소들 중에서 도상 횡저항력 그리고 도상 종저항력이 궤도 좌굴에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위한 연구를 수행하였다. 또한 줄틀림과 궤간틀림의 민감도를 분석하였다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.8-14
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• 2013

Although there are various factors that threaten the security of ships, one of the most harmful is corrosion. It is not easy to find corroding areas and the status of corrosion, even though corrosion causes serious problems such as submergence and marine pollution as a result of leaking oil and polluted water. To monitor the corrosion of ships, non-destructive inspection, weight loss coupons, electrical resistance, linear polarization resistance, zero resistance ammeter, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy have been developed. However, these methods require much time to detect corrosion, and most are not appropriate for real time monitoring. Coating, sacrificial anode, and impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) methods have been developed to control corrosion. The ICCP and sacrificial anode methods are the most popular ways to prevent ship corrosion. However, ICCP is only appropriate for the outside of a ship and cannot be used for complex structures such as ballast tanks because these are composed of many separate chambers. Sacrificial anodes have to be replaced periodically. This paper proposes an integrated corrosion monitoring and control system (ICMCS) that can detect corrosion in real time and is appropriate for complex structures such as ballast tanks. Because the system uses titanium for an anode, exhausted anodes do not need to be replaced.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.173-178
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• 2016

콘크리트 교량 상에 고속철도의 자갈 궤도가 시공될 경우 장대 레일의 종방향 변위가 고정된 반면 교량 바닥판 슬래브의 종방향 변위가 고정되지 않고, 온도 하중과 외부 하중에 의해 교량과 레일의 상대 변위가 발생한다. 현재 장대 레일 자갈 궤도에 대한 종방향 저항력(KR C-08080, UIC code 774-3)은 교량의 종방향 변위와 자갈 궤도와 콘크리트 슬래브 사이의 마찰력을 고려하고 있지 않다. 또한 종방향 저항력 값은 다소 보수적이어서 철도교의 장경간 및 연속화에 불리한 요소로 작용하고 있다. 따라서 실제의 거동을 보다 효과적으로 반영하기 위해 장대 레일의 종저항력은 콘크리트 슬래브와 궤도 사이의 추가적인 강성을 고려해야 한다. 본 연구에서는 콘크리트 바닥판과 도상 궤도를 모사한 실대형 실험체(mock-up test specimen)를 제작하여, 교량 상에 설치된 도상 궤도의 종저항력을 측정하였고, 또한 차륜 하중의 재하 유무에 대해서도 그 거동을 평가하였다. 실험 결과, 최대 종저항력은 현재의 코드와 유사한 경향을 보였으나, 한계 변위까지의 강성은 현재의 코드보다 실험 결과가 작게 측정되는 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1999년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.621-625
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• 1999

Rosen type piezoelectric transformer for LCD backlight operated at high voltage and low current, may not be sucessfully used for illuminating general fluorescent lamps because low voltage and high current are required. In this study, the piezoelectric transformer with width vibration mode operated at low voyage and high current was designed for the application of fluorescent lasso ballast. The step-up ratio and efficiency as a function of the load resistance in the piezoelectric transformer indicated that the transformer can be effectively used for the electronic ballast for low profile fluorescent lamp.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.741-748
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• 2005

형광램프용 전자식 안정기의 효율개선 및 램프의 수명연장을 위하여 강유전체 커패시터와 시간지연스위칭회로로 구성된 절전모듈을 개발하고 적용하였다. 절전모듈에 사용된 강유전체 세라믹스를 이용하여 형광램프의 부저항특성과 최적화를 시키고, 시간지연회로를 통하여 점등초기 예열형에서 비예열형으로 스위칭시켜 점등 중 필라멘트에서 소비되는 전력을 제거함으로써 약 2W의 소비전력을 감소시켜 효율개선을 실현하였으며, 역기전력 제거기능을 통하여 점등 초기 형광램프 필라멘트에 가해지는 충격을 최소화함으로써 형광램프의 수명을 연장시켰다.