• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.131-157
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• 2014

Special track systems used to divert a train to other directions or other tracks are generally called 'railway turnout'. A traditional turnout system consists of steel rails, switches, crossings, steel plates, fasteners, screw spikes, timber bearers, ballast and formation. The wheel rail contact over the crossing transfer zone has a dip-like shape and can often cause detrimental impact loads on the railway track and its components. The large impact also emits disturbing noises (either impact or ground-borne noise) to railway neighbors. In a brown-field railway track where an existing aged infrastructure requires renewal or maintenance, some physical constraints and construction complexities may dominate the choice of track forms or certain components. With the difficulty to seek for high-quality timbers with dimensional stability, a methodology to replace aged timber bearers in harsh dynamic environments is to adopt an alternative material that could mimic responses and characteristics of timber in both static and dynamic loading conditions. A critical review has suggested an application of an alternative material called fibre-reinforced foamed urethane (FFU). The full-scale capacity design makes use of its comparable engineering characteristics to timber, high-impact attenuation, high damping property, and a longer service life. A field trial to investigate in-situ behaviours of a turnout grillage system using an alternative material, 'fibre-reinforced foamed urethane (FFU)' bearers, has been carried out at a complex turnout junction under heavy mixed traffics at Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia. The turnout junction was renewed using the FFU bearers altogether with new special track components. Influences of the FFU bearers on track geometry (recorded by track inspection vehicle 'AK Car'), track settlement (based on survey data), track dynamics, and acoustic characteristics have been measured. Operational train pass-by measurements have been analysed to evaluate the effectiveness of the replacement methodology. Comparative studies show that the use of FFU bearers generates higher rail and sleeper accelerations but the damping capacity of the FFU help suppress vibration transferring onto other track components. The survey data analysis suggests a small vertical settlement and negligible lateral movement of the turnout system. The static and dynamic behaviours of FFU bearers appear to equate that of natural timber but its service life is superior.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.37 no.7
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• pp.709-716
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• 2013

A fan filter unit (FFU) is a device which supplies clean air from the ceiling in a clean room. With an increase in its size, velocity variation occurs within the exhaust plane and this damage the product quality or productivity. Hence, a guide vane is installed inside the device to enhance the velocity uniformity. Because the vane reduces the flow rate for a given pumping power, an optimum design is required to achieve velocity uniformity while minimizing the flow rate reduction at the same time. To find a geometry that satisfies these requirements, a series of numerical simulations has been conducted while changing the angle and length of the guide vanes. By changing the geometry of the side guide vane, the velocity uniformity increased by 3.7% and the flow rate decreased by 1.5%. For the center guide vane, the velocity uniformity increased by 2.9% and the flow rate decreased by 0.7%.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.28-36
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• 2020

The storage environment of a Japanese woodblock print collection was assessed for organic acids. The active air sampling method was used to collect organic acid emissions in the low microgram range from areas of a selected woodblock print with different pigments, following which an off-gassing mitigation strategy based on the fan filter unit(FFU) system was investigated. Research findings revealed that the off-gassing behavior of woodblock prints is significantly impacted by storage practices and to a lesser degree by the pigments. The FFU system can be used as a mitigation strategy, but the permanence of the results depends on the storage conditions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.778-784
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• 2002

FFU are used increasingly by the microeleceronics industry to provide clean recirculating air for the fabrication of integrated circuits and laminar flow air. There may be several hundred ffu in a large cleanroom, covering 100% of the ceiling area. Hence, there is of often knowledge in the inside and outside of the country the flu give rise to noise & vibration trouble to microelectronics industry. Noise ＆ Vibration control for satisfication about noise ＆ vibration criteria in TFT-LCD factory cleanroom be in need of exact noise & vibration data of accurence from utility & equipment that can be exert a bad influence upon cleanroom. In this pater, hence we found out noise and vibration properities of ffu by using experimental method. And, we performed noise ＆ vibration analysis about noise it vibration level in cleanroom using semiempirical method for quantative approach about noise ＆ vibration level in cleanroom.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2008.11b
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• pp.2600-2605
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• 2008

Turbo-fans for a FFU unit should be aerodynamically designed to provide the FFU system with the given flow-rate at the lowest rotational-speed by considering the interaction effect with the FFU casing. In this study, slim and highly efficient turbo-fans are designed to satisfy the given performance at the specific speed by using the hybrid-stacking method of an inducer and a 2D-bladed turbo fan. The mean-line analysis, cascade theory, and CFD technique are all together applied to control the passage areas on the meridional plane from the inlet to the exit of the blade. Furthermore, the torque control algorithm is adopted to improve the performances within the constraints by the motor rpm-torque characteristics, and the resulting measured performances of mock-up fans are discussed.

• Air Cleaning Technology
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• v.3 no.3 s.11
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• pp.12-25
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• 1990

• Air Cleaning Technology
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• v.20 no.4 s.79
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• pp.19-32
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.121-121
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 반도체 제조의 Diffusion 공정설비의 FFU (Fan Filter Unit) 진동에 의해 발생한 wafer 불량 현상을 규명 및 개선하였다. EFEM(Equipment Front End Module)의 Loading 부에 장착된 FOUP(Front Opening Unified Pod)에 들어 있는 Wafer 들이 설비 EFEM 하부로 떨어져 깨지거나 FOUP 내에서 겹침 현상이 발생하는 것을 확인하였다. 이에 생산현장의 모든 Diffusion 공정 설비를 조사하였으며, 그 결과 A 사(社)의 특정 설비에서만 발생되는 현상임을 확인하였다. 해당 A사(社)설비군에서만 월 평균 10 건의 Slot Mapping Error 가 발생하였으며, 이로 인해 Wafer가 재 제조된 매수가 월 평균 53 매로 확인되었다. 따라서 본 연구는 A 사(社)설비에서 발생하는 Mapping Error 의 원인 규명 및 개선을 위해 추진되었다. 총 12 개의 항목을 불량 발생 원인 후보 군으로 선정 후 예비 진단한 결과 FFU(Fan Filter Unit)에 의한 문제 발생 가능성이 가장 높을 것으로 추정되었다. 이에 따라 4 개의 서로 다른 물리적 환경/조건에서 진동을 측정하였으며, 최종 평가 결과 Motor 와 Blade 의 불균형에서 기인한 진동이 설비의 loader 부에 직접적으로 영향을 주는 것을 확인하였다. 진동 문제를 해결하기 위해 고 RPM blade 에서 저 RPM 및 유량 감소를 보완할 수 있는 신규모델로 교체하였다. 신규 Module(blade/motor) 장착 후 Load port 에서의 진동 측정 결과 개선 전 대비 91% 감소하였으며, 결과적으로 Slot mapping error 발생 건수가 50% 이상 감소되는 효과와 Wafer 재 제조 매수도 월 평균 약 43% 감소하는 효과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Air Cleaning Technology
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.30-43
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• 2017

• Air Cleaning Technology
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• v.18 no.3 s.70
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• pp.47-54
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• 2005