• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권7호
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• pp.997-1005
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• 2018

The regulatory periodic safety inspection system is one of the most important methods for confirming the safety of nuclear power plants and the defense in depth in nuclear safety is the most important basic means for accident prevention and mitigation. Recently, a new regulatory technology based on risk-informed and safety performance has been developed and used in advanced countries. However, since the domestic periodic inspection system is being used in the same way over 30 years, it is necessary to know how the inspection contributes to the safety confirmation of the nuclear power plants. In this study, the domestic periodic inspection system currently in use was analyzed from the perspective of defense in depth in nuclear safety. In addition, the analysis results were compared to the U.S. NRC's safety inspection system to obtain consistency and lessons in this study. As a result of analysis, the NRC's safety inspections were distributed almost evenly at the all levels of defense in depth, while in the case of domestic inspection, they were heavily focused on the level 1 of defense in depth. Therefore, it appeared urgent to improve the inspection system to strengthen the other levels of defense in depth in nuclear safety.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.803-816
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• 2014

Defense-in-depth is a fundamental safety principle for the design and operation of nuclear power plants. Despite its general appeal, defense-in-depth is not without its drawbacks, which include its potential for concealing the occurrence of hazardous states in a system, and more generally rendering the latter more opaque for its operators and managers, thus resulting in safety blind spots. This in turn translates into a shrinking of the time window available for operators to identify an unfolding hazardous condition or situation and intervene to abate it. To prevent this drawback from materializing, we propose in this work a novel safety principle termed "observability-in-depth". We characterize it as the set of provisions technical, operational, and organizational designed to enable the monitoring and identification of emerging hazardous conditions and accident pathogens in real-time and over different time-scales. Observability-in-depth also requires the monitoring of conditions of all safety barriers that implement defense-in-depth; and in so doing it supports sensemaking of identified hazardous conditions, and the understanding of potential accident sequences that might follow (how they can propagate). Observability-in-depth is thus an information-centric principle, and its importance in accident prevention is in the value of the information it provides and actions or safety interventions it spurs. We examine several "event reports" from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission database, which illustrate specific instances of violation of the observability-in-depth safety principle and the consequences that followed (e.g., unmonitored releases and loss of containments). We also revisit the Three Mile Island accident in light of the proposed principle, and identify causes and consequences of the lack of observability-in-depth related to this accident sequence. We illustrate both the benefits of adopting the observability-in-depth safety principle and the adverse consequences when this principle is violated or not implemented. This work constitutes a first step in the development of the observability-in-depth safety principle, and we hope this effort invites other researchers and safety professionals to further explore and develop this principle and its implementation.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제12C권5호
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• pp.659-664
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• 2005

정보화 시대가 도래함에 따라 세계 각국이 전자정부 구현에 많은 관심을 갖고 있으며, 이미 몇몇 선도 국가들은 다양한 민원서비스 및 행정서비스를 인터넷을 통해 국민들에게 편리하게 제공하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 미 국방성의 종심방어전략(Defense-In-Depth Strategy)과 한국의 전자정부 정보보호전략을 비교$\cdot$평가함으로써 더욱 안전하고 신뢰할 수 있는 전자정부 구현에 이바지 할 수 있는 기반을 제공하고자 한다.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.679-689
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• 2012

2009년 7.7 DDoS 공격은 기존 DDoS공격과는 달리 감염 PC별로 적은 용량의 패킷 전송으로 웹페이지를 마비시켰으며, 또한 HTTP Flooding이라는 공격기법을 활용하여 공격을 성공한 사례였다. DDoS 공격은 시스템을 손상시키는 것이 아니라 일시적으로 서비스의 가용성을 해치는 것이므로, 효과적인 방어를 위해서는 공격자의 공격보다 높은 가용성을 확보하거나, 정확한 방어전략을 실행하여 서비스 시스템의 가용성을 확보하는 방법 등이 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 가용량 증설을 통한 방어기법과 달리, DDoS 공격의 특성에 기반하여 공격을 차단하여 서비스 시스템의 가용성을 확보하는 다단계 방어기법을 활용한 웹사이트 전용 DDoS 방어시스템 구축 방안을 제안한다.

• 한국압력기기공학회 논문집
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.49-58
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• 2018

The regulatory periodic inspection program (PSI) conducted at every overhaul period is the most important process for confirming the safety of nuclear power plants. The PSI for operating nuclear power plants in Korea mainly consist of component level performance check that had been developed based on deterministic approach putting the same degree of importance to all the inspection items. This inspection methodology is likely to be effective for preoperational inspection. However, once the plant is put into service, the PSI must be focused on whether to minimize the risk of accident using defense-in-depth concept and risk insight. The incorporation of defense-in-depth concept and risk insight into the deterministic based safety inspection has not been well studied so far. In this study, two track approaches are proposed to make sure that core damage be avoided: one is to secure success path and the other to block the failure path in a specific event tree of PSA. The investigation shows how to select safety important components and how to set up inspection group to ensure that core damage would not occur for a given initiating event, which results in strengthening defense-in-depth level 3.

• The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.270-277
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• 1999

The ballistic capability of an alumina-rich oxide armor ceramic against a shaped jet was characterized as a function of penetration depth in a layered target structure. The penetration resistance of the ceramic, based upon the determination of penetration velocity, was not equally realized throughout the depth of penetration. It was abnormally low at an early stage of penetration, followed by a sudden increase to reach ~16GPa thereafter. There was no apparent change in such a profile with respect to the lateral size of the specimen. Based upon 2-D flash x-ray radiography and 3-D Hull code simulation, the feasibility of forming a pressure-induced predamnaged zone in front of the jet tip was speculated to foster an increased penetration velocity in the initial stage penetration, resulting in the diminished penetration resistance. The disappearance of such a predamaged zone with penetration was interpreted to restore the resistance of the ceramic in the later penetration stage.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제13권2E호
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• pp.76-82
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• 1994

천해 해저 퇴적물의 특성은 수 미터 깊이에서도 변할 수 있다. 퇴적층에서의 음속 뿐만 아니라 감쇠계수도 퇴적물의 성분과 특성 자체에 의해서 결정되므로 감쇠계수는 퇴적층 깊이에 따라 가변적이라고 여기는 것이 합리적이다. 본 연구에서는 포물선 방정식 기법을 도입한 음향모델을 이용하여 퇴적층 종파 감쇠계수의 변화가 100-805 Hz 대역 음파의 전파에 미치는 영향을 고찰하였다. 대상 해역은 해저면이 사질로 구성되어 있고, 수심과 최적층의 깊이는 각각 40 m, 10m이다. 감쇠계수가 퇴적층 깊이에 따라 일정하게 또는 가변적으로 가정함에 따라 음파의 전파손실은 15 km 거리에서 10dB 까지 차이가 발생한다. 모델에 의하여 계산된 전파손실은 감쇠계수를 퇴적층 깊이에 따라 변하게 할 경우 실측된 전파손실과 잘 일치한다.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2005

Generally, the underwater flight vehicle (UFV) depth control system operates with the following problems: it is a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system because the UFV contains both pitch and depth angle variables as well as multiple control planes, it requires robustness because of the possibility that it may encounter uncertainties such as parameter variations and disturbances, it requires a continuous control input because the system that has reduced power consumption and acoustic noise is more practical, and further, it has the speed dependency of controller parameters because the control forces of control planes depend on the operating speed. To solve these problems, an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller (AFSMC), which is based on the decomposition method using expert knowledge in the UFV depth control and utilizes a fuzzy basis function expansion (FBFE) and a proportional integral augmented sliding signal, is proposed. To verify the performance of the AFSMC, UFV depth control is performed. Simulation results show that the AFSMC solves all problems experienced in the UFV depth control system online.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.36-41
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• 2017

Aero gas turbine engines must demonstrate their ability to be ignited on ground conditions or relighted in flight. The electric spark ignition is usually used in current aero gas turbine engines. Experiments on ignition characteristics relating to spark igniter penetration depth under atmospheric pressure and temperature conditions were conducted on the model combustor which is scaled in 1/18. Exciter was operated during 2 seconds, and successful ignition phenomena were confirmed by the pressure rising sharply in combustor. In addition, instantaneous ignition images were captured by a high-speed camera. It showed kernel propagation and successful ignition events in the sector model combustor. Ignition test results showed that ignition limit with increase in penetration depth of the igniter plug was wider. When the penetration depth of the igniter plug increased under the same fuel injection pressure condition, successful ignition events were obtained in higher differential pressure conditions between inlet and outlet of the combustor. The results demonstrate that the ratio of the combustible mixture, which is exposed to the high temperature environment around the igniter plug tip, increases. Thereby affect the combustor ignition performance.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.5129-5152
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• 2016

Multi-view super-resolution (MVSR) aims to estimate a high-resolution (HR) image from a set of low-resolution (LR) images that are captured from different viewpoints (typically by different cameras). MVSR is usually applied in camera array imaging. Given that MVSR is an ill-posed problem and is typically computationally costly, we super-resolve multi-view LR images of the original scene via image fusion (IF) and blind deblurring (BD). First, we reformulate the MVSR problem into two easier problems: an IF problem and a BD problem. We further solve the IF problem on the premise of calculating the depth map of the desired image ahead, and then solve the BD problem, in which the optimization problems with respect to the desired image and with respect to the unknown blur are efficiently addressed by the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). Our approach bridges the gap between MVSR and BD, taking advantages of existing BD methods to address MVSR. Thus, this approach is appropriate for camera array imaging because the blur kernel is typically unknown in practice. Corresponding experimental results using real and synthetic images demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.