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Recent Activities in Space Environment Engineerings in Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

  • Koshiishi, Hideki
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.93.2-93.2
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    • 2011
  • Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has measured space environment and its effects on spacecraft and astronaut since 1987. At present, we have operated space environment monitors onboard one GEO spacecraft, one QZO spacecraft, and two LEO spacecrafts. The obtained space environment data has been gathered into the Space Environment and Effects System database (SEES, http://sees.tksc.jaxa.jp/). In this presentation, measurement result of space environment in low earth orbit obtained by the Daichi satellite from 2006 through 2011 is reported as well as recent activities in space environment engineerings in JAXA. The Technical Data Acquisition Equipment (TEDA) on board the Daichi satellite (Advanced Land Observing Satellite: ALOS) had been operated in low earth orbit at 700 km altitude with 98 degree inclination from February 2006 until April 2011. The TEDA consists of the Light Particle Telescope and the Heavy Ion Telescope. The operation period of the Daichi satellite was through the solar-activity minimum period. The space radiation environment around the Daichi satellite had been almost stable. However, large solar flares followed by CMEs sometimes disturbed the space radiation environment in the orbit of the Daichi satellite. In addition, high speed solar wind often flowed and modulated the electron flux in the horn region. On the other hand, a little variation was seen in the SAA region.

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A Study on the Development of 3rd Stage IGG Blower for Shipbuilding Using CFD (CFD를 이용한 선박용 IGG Blower 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Jing;Yi, Chung-Seub;Jeong, Soon-Jae;Jang, Sung-Cheol;Kim, Chi-Won
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.1309-1314
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    • 2008
  • I.G.G is abbreviation for Inert Gas Generator, High temperature in Cargo Tank it desulfurize, exhausted and froze the gas that combined brimstone element and soot, then supply Inert gas by blower, and mack tank inside incombustible range this is equipment that nip in the bud the explosion. The blower for suppling inactivated gas has big impeller with heavy weight to achieve the high pressure, it causes a delay for first operation time and too much load is delivered to motor, total destruction by fire of motor is happening frequently. On this research, we will reduce the size & weight of impeller and install it with several stage, it makes an effect for reducing the first operation time. We also intend to contribute to efficient IGG blower design by research a flowing & pressure specialty from the diameter of impeller, number of blade, and size of casing.

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A Study on the Emergency Management of Bimodal Tram (바이모달 트램의 재해시 운영관리에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Young-Kon;Yoon, Hee-Taek;Yoon, Jong-Hack
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.118-121
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    • 2008
  • Bimodal tram is a transit with no-step floor for wheel-chaired persons, with docking to the station precisely and moving on schedule like train. Because of the automatic traveling of bimodal tram to search and follow the magnet embedded in roadway, bimodal tram should be careful about rainfall, snow and wind like a car driving on roadway in respect to natural disasters. Though response procedures in emergency are different according to the passengers' boarding, emergency mobilization is needed if any emergency situation happens. Emergency mobilization is the act of preparing for major catastrophic events, which may affect public transportation systems or their service areas, by assembling and organizing resources, including people, equipment, facilities, communications systems, expert technical support, and public information systems and protocols. Mobilization is the process that ensures that the right people will deploy appropriate resources at the correct time. Effective mobilization requires a partnership of local and state agencies. Public transportation operators and systems play vital roles in response to and recovery from emergencies and other unexpected catastrophic events. These systems, and their capabilities to mobilize resources, are profoundly affected by the decisions and directives of others during these activities. In this study, we focused on the emergency management for bimodal tram and reviewed the considerations about infrastructures under natural disasters, especially heavy rainfall.

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A Study on Estimating the Next Failure Time of LNG FPSO Compressor (해양플랜트 LNG FPSO 압축기의 신뢰성 및 회귀분석 기반 고장시점 추정 방법)

  • Cho, Sang-Jae;Jun, Hong-Bae;Shin, Jong-Ho;Choi, Sang-Deok
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.203-213
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    • 2014
  • The O&M (Operation and Maintenance) phase of offshore plants with a long life cycle requires heavy charges and more efforts than the construction phase, and the occurrence of an accident of an offshore plant causes catastrophic damage. So previous studies have focused on design for reliability, and recently many studies have dealt with a maintenance system to prevent unexpected failures. Nowadays due to the emerging ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) and sensor technologies, it is possible to send health monitoring information of important equipment to administrator of an offshore plant in real time, which leads to having much concern on condition based maintenance policy or predictive maintenance. In this study, we have reviewed previous studies associated with condition-based maintenance of offshore plants, and introduced the approaches predicting failures of the compressor which is one of essential mechanical devices in LNG FPSO.

Introduction of Optimized Design of Anchoring System through Design Modification of Pocket and Chain Compressor (설계 개선을 통한 선박의 계류 시스템 최적화 사례 소개)

  • Lee, Jae-Hoon
    • Special Issue of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • 2011.09a
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2011
  • Although the performance of the commercial vessel has been dramatically improved through innovations, there has been no big changes on the traditional anchoring method of commercial vessels, both on design and operation until now. In this paper, two cases of design modifications were introduced for optimized design of pocket type anchor handling, which resulted in improved performance of the vessel's anchoring. From the first time fully balanced type anchors were applied on vessels in Korean shipyard, main design problem on this application was that the anchor doesn't normally slide into the pocket when the anchor fluke is not in line with pocket, as the anchor freely rotates by the swivel on forerunner. In order to prevent the problem, swivel has been deleted on the forerunner to prevent anchor rotation until now, but this solution caused problems such as twist lock of anchor chain, restriction of windlass direction, etc. On this paper, one of the solution is introduced to overcome the design problem by tilting the hawse pipe to some extent, which makes anchor turned at the time anchor ring touches the pocket skirt and that it properly slides into the pocket. Secondly, one of the solution is introduced to overcome misalignment problem between anchor chain cable and roller of chain compressor, which has been frequently occurred, by modification of roller design.

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A Study on Estimating the Next Failure Time of a Compressor in LNG FPSO (LNG FPSO 압축기 고장시간 예측 방안에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Sang-Je;Jun, Hong-Bae;Shin, Jong-Ho;Hwang, Ho-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.12-23
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    • 2014
  • The O&M (Operation and Maintenance) phase of offshore plants with a long life cycle requires heavy charges and more efforts than the construction phase, and the occurrence of an accident of an offshore plant causes catastrophic damage. So previous studies have focused on the development of advanced maintenance system to avoid unexpected failures. Nowadays due to the emerging ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) and sensor technologies, it is possible to gather the status data of equipment and send health monitoring data to administrator of an offshore plant in a real time way, which leads to having much concern on the condition based maintenance policy. In this study, we have reviewed previous studies associated with CBM (Condition-Based Maintenance) of offshore plants, and introduced an algorithm predicting the next failure time of the compressor which is one of essential mechanical devices in LNG FPSO (Liquefied Natural Gas Floating Production Storage and Offloading vessel). To develop the algorithm, continuous time Markov model is applied based on gathered vibration data.

Preventing disaster system of the subaqueous tunnel under the Han river in the Bundang railway (분당선 한강 하저터널의 방재시스템)

  • Kim Yong-Il;Hwang Nak-Yeon;Yoon Young-Hoon;Jie Hong-Keun;Jang Sung-Wook;Kim Dong-Hyun
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.308-327
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    • 2004
  • As use of tunnels and subways increase there also are accidents proportionate to it. Daegu Subway Station fire, Hongjimoon tunnel fire led people to be conscious of disaster protection and as a result, there is a trend to adopt standards for fire protection. Accordingly, this thesis is focused on investigating various fire and water protection related issues for subaqueous tunnel under Ran river. The thesis developed evacuation and disaster prevention plan as fire level increases and have identified the suitability of disaster prevention through evacuation and fire simulation, countermeasure of a water leakage during construction and operation considering the subaqueous tunnel. And we selected EPB shield TBM equipment considering the ground condition and effect of boring hole, and accomplished reasonable water protection design through setting goals using event-tree method, as well as examining model test of boring hole and flooding in heavy rain. Also included structured total system consist of water leakage sensing system, water protection gate, pumping system and fire protection system to respond systematically in emergency.

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A Study for Usability and Designing Manual Controller of a Curtain‐wall Installation Robot (커튼월 설치 로봇 컨트롤러의 설계 및 사용성 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Seung-Yeol;Seok, Jae-Heuck;Han, Jung-Wan;Kim, Byung-Hwa;Han, Chang-Soo
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.71-80
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    • 2006
  • A construction robot has been developed for higher productivity and better safety in various construction fields. Especially, curtain wall is suitable for outer wall material of tall commercial building and apartment complexes. This heavy material is, however, hard to install with a manpower and outdated equipment. For this reason, the prototype of ASCI (Automation System for Curtain wall Installation) was developed. This system has a robot controller(i.e. hand-held remote control unit) for the transfer information signal between human operator and robot system. Although study has been conducted on manual controller of ASCI, hardly any information is known about the operator's opinion. In this study, a questionnaire was completed by operator to get their opinion about aspects which need to design a more comfortable and productive manual controller of construction machinery, robot included. Through the result of study, it is expected that this technical data is contributed to the robot controller design for comfort and productivity of various industrial machinery.

Electrical and Mechanical Strength Properties of Epoxy/Micro Silica and Alumina Composites for Power Equipment (전력기기용, 에폭시/마이크로 실리카 및 알루미나 복합제의 전기적·기계적 파괴 강도 특성)

  • Park, Joo-Eon;Park, Jae-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.31 no.7
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    • pp.496-501
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    • 2018
  • In this study, we prepared 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, and 70 wt% content composites filled in epoxy matrix for two micro silica and three micro alumina types for use as a GIS heavy electric machine. As a filler type of epoxy composite, micro silica composites showed excellent AC breakdown strength properties compared to micro alumina composites in the case of electrical properties of micro silica and alumina. The electrical breakdown properties of micro silica composites increased with increasing filler content, whereas those of micro alumina decreased with increasing filler content. In the case of mechanical properties, the micro silica composite showed improved tensile strength and flexural strength compared with the micro alumina composite. In addition, mechanical properties such as tensile strength and flexural strength of micro silica and alumina composites decreased with increasing filler content. This is probably because O-H groups are present on the surface of silica in the case of micro silica but are not present on the surface of alumina in the case of micro alumina.

A Study on the Control of the Floor Vibration in a Research Building (연구소(硏究所) 건물(建物)의 슬래브 진동(振動) 성능개선(性能改善) 연구(硏究))

  • Baik, In-Whee;Kang, Ho-Sub;Sohn, Young-Kyoo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.75-82
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    • 2007
  • A vibration in the building occurs by influences of the facility equipment and the structural system. As the building recently becomes higher and bigger, the vibration in the floor slab is issued. Specially, the vibration with $4{\sim}8Hz$ frequency is harder to control than any other range of frequency. This vibration easily affects human sensibility and often makes the resonance phenomenon by corresponding with the floor slab's natural frequency when people and heavy equipments move. Moreover, the permission regulations for the vibration of the building are established by building's purposes. However, it is not subdivided in detail and sometimes ambiguous to each client. Even though the vibration could cause negative influences in a research building, there is not the vibration criterion for a research building. Therefore, it is necessary to set up its own vibration criterion with the client before building and to keep checking this vibration criterion under the construction. This study proposes the reasonable control methods and the vibration criterion for floor slab's vibration which are adapted to the R4-project. The R4-project is a research building and a high-rise building also. Accordingly, this study could help to the next similar project in the design and the construction phase.