• 한국신뢰성학회지:신뢰성응용연구
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.63-91
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• 2006

According to the rapid development of science technologies, a life and development cycle of products are getting shorter and structures and functions become more complex so that the reliability requirement of customers is getting greater for components in the products. However, most domestic mechanical components are manufactured by small and medium-sized companies, who are manufacturing in poor economic and technical condition. Because of this, assessment technologies and equipment to predict and guarantee the reliability are very weak. For this reason, it is the fact that many customers neglect the domestic mechanical components which fail to win the reliability. Korean government has been trying to eliminate the problem by establishing 18 reliability assessment centers in 2000 and performing R-Mark certification promotion and constructions of the foundation for reliability assessment to rebuild the reliability on the domestic components and materials. Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials has been designated as a supervising organization for reliability assessment in the machinery filed for 5 years. In this paper, we would like to introduce effective and systematized 12 steps of reliability substantiation test on mechanical components with know-how we achieved during the period.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.79-86
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• 2024

Scientific exploration of how occupational health risks relate with occupational illnesses are essential for mitigating health-related issues in industries. This study analyzed the risk scores obtained by occupational health risk assessments at 3,172 manufacturing companies and examined their effects on occupational illness. Statistical analyses revealed that companies with an occupational health manager (scored 89.1 out of 100) had significantly higher activity scores of health management compared to those without (78.2). However, companies with a history of occupational illness (79.1) or those classified as high-risk industries (85.2) had significantly lower activity scores than their counterparts (81.7, 87.3). In addition, regression analyses using factor analysis showed that latent risk factors such as cardiovascular disease/job stress, health management, and musculoskeletal problem significantly influenced the risk of occupational illness. The activity factors such as health management, work environment management, and regulatory complaisance significant impacted the reduction of occupational illness. The findings of this study can be used to improve the occupational health risk assessment method and utilized in effectively managing occupational risks in industries.

• 한국의상디자인학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.31-46
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• 2018

This study was carried out to offer basic data that can be used for outdoor wear production for active senior males, emerging as a new consumer bracket in the era of rapid aging. To this end, this study modified and complemented the patterns of outdoor jackets for active senior males based on existing outdoor jackets that received the most excellent evaluation. On the basis of the research outdoor wear wearing assessment results, this study confirmed those areas to be modified and proposed areas to be considered in manufacturing outdoor wear for this demographic. As a result of existing outdoor wear's wearing assessment, the jacket of brand B was shown to be the most excellent one. This study actually designed research outdoor wear patterns by modifying the problematic parts through the addition and subtraction of spare length or circumference in the sections where fit satisfaction was low by referring to the selected brands' patterns. The research outdoor wear was designed by referring to the preferred outdoor types and colors that were highlighted in the previous survey result of consumer wearing reality, based on the designs of the outdoor wear receiving the most excellent assessment in wearing assessment. Fabric that specially glued two-layered mesh that bonded the thin membrane of synthetic resin with polyester fabric was used as the material in this study. Wearing assessment was conducted by comparing the manufactured research outdoor wear and the existing outdoor wear selected as excellently assessed outdoor wear. Consequently, this study verified that the wearing fit of the research outdoor wear was more excellent in most items. This study proposed final patterns for outdoor jackets suitable for active senior males through the modification of several items that required improvements as per the wearing assessment of the research outdoor wear.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.317-327
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• 2021

산업단지는 국내 경제성장에 큰 역할을 담당해왔으나, 대단위 면적 개발사업 및 제조업 관련 산업시설의 집적지로서 조성 및 운영 과정에서 다양한 환경문제를 초래하기도 한다. 본 연구에서는 2009년~2019년간 이루어진 국내 산업단지 개발사업에 대한 환경영향평가 결과를 활용하여 산업단지 개발 동향 및 입지 특성의 변화, 산업단지 개발로 야기되는 환경 영향을 파악하였다. 특히 산업단지 개발에 따른 산림 훼손 정도를 분석하였으며, 산업단지와 도심지역과의 인접 정도 및 노출 인구의 변화를 정량적으로 도출하여 이를 통한 입지 특성의 변화를 중점적으로 고찰하였다. 연구대상 기간 내 국내 산업단지의 개발은 지속적인 감소 추세에 있으며, 주요 개발지역은 경기, 경남 및 경북, 충남 및 충북으로 확인되었다. 산업단지 개발로 인한 평균 산림 훼손 면적은 감소 추세에 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 산업단지의 영향권 내 주거시설 및 민감계층 이용시설 분포현황과 노출 인구는 지속적으로 증가하는 것으로 도출되었다. 본 연구는 비교적 장기간에 걸친 국내 산업단지 개발사업에 대한 환경영향평가 결과를 토대로 개발사업으로 인한 환경적 영향을 분석하고 특히, 입지 특성변화를 정량적·시계열적으로 도출하였다는 점에서 의의가 있는 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2021년도 학술발표회
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• pp.455-455
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• 2021

The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) as an environmental impact assessment tool has received increasing attention over the years. Unlike the water footprint (WF) and carbon footprint (CF) assessments whose focus is only on a single environmental aspect, the LCA systematically analyzes the different impacts along the entire life cycle, making possible the identification of potential environmental tradeoffs. In Korea, LCA has drawn much attention from both industry and academia since the mid-90s. However, the level of Korea-related LCA studies with respect to different sectors in the past 20 years has not been analyzed. This study, therefore, sought to assess the status of environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies in Korea, with a view to understanding the current level of sustainability reporting and identify potential research gaps. Online searches of English written articles published between 2000 and 2019 were conducted on Google, Google scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science databases using the Keywords "life cycle assessment", "lca", and "Korea." At the end of the search, about 88 LCA related studies were identified for Korea within the study period. Majority of these studies focused on the construction (49%) and energy (31%) sectors with fewer environmental studies on the transportation (9%), manufacturing (8%), agriculture (2%), and information and communication (1%) industries. Based on publication trend, results show that LCA studies in Korea have been on the rise in the past 20 years, even though the number of publications has not followed a constant pace. In comparison with the economic sectors of the country, reports show an inadequacy in the coverage of major industries of growing economic relevance like the tourism, health, and agriculture, suggesting a need to further increase and improve LCA related studies in these sectors.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제27권7호
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• pp.677-685
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 국내외에서 법적, 제도적 측면의 외적 정비뿐만 아니라, 학계 및 산업계의 제품별 사례분석 및 적용 측면에서 활발한 연구가 진행되고 있는 LCA와 DfE기법을 제조공정에 적용하였다. 구체적으로, 지게차 제조공정을 대상으로 LCA 기법을 적용하여 환경부하가 가장 큰 제조공정을 규명하고, 그 공정에 DfE 기법을 적용하여 친환경적인 제조공정을 설계하였다. 지게차 제조공정에 대해 LCA를 수행한 결과, 영향범주별로는 생태독성과 인간독성에 대해, 그리고 공정별로는 제관공정과 도장공정에서 환경부하가 크게 나타났다. 제관공정에서 환경부하를 줄이기는 현실적으로 어렵기 때문에, 도장공정에서 발생하는 환경부하를 저감하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 지게차의 도장공정에 기존에 사용하고 있는 용제형 도료의 고형분 함량을 늘려 high solid형 도료를 개발하여 적용한 결과, 환경영향(LCA의 환경영향지수)가 20% 저감되었다. 또한, VOC발생량은 약 32%, 도료 사용량은 약 20%의 저감효과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2017

Small valves including ball valves, gate valves and butterfly valves have been adopted in the fields of steam power generation, petrochemical industry, carriers, and oil tankers. Butterfly valves have normally been applied to fields where in narrow places installing the existing valves such as gate valves and ball valves have proven difficult due to the surrounding area and the heavier of these valves. Butterfly valves are used to control the mass flow of the piping system under low pressure by rotating the circular disk installed inside. The butterfly valve is benefitted by having simpler structure in which the flow is controlled by rotating the disc circular plate along the center axis, whereas the weight of the valve is light compared to the gate valve and ball valve above-mentioned, as there is no additional bracket supporting the valve body. The manufacturing company needs to acquire the performance and life test equipment, in the case of adopting the improving factors to detect leakage and damage on the seat of the valve disc. However, small companies, which are manufacturing the industrial valves, normally sell their products without the life test, which is the reliability test and environment test, because of financial and manpower problems. Furthermore, the failure mode analysis of the products failed in the field is likewise problematic as there is no system collecting the failure data on sites for analyzing the failures of valves. The analyzing and researching process is not arranged systematically because of the financial problem. Therefore this study firstly tried to obtain information about the failure data from the sites, analyzed the failure mode based on the field data collected from the customers, and then obtained field data using measuring equipment. Secondly, we designed and manufactured the performance and life test equipment which also have the real time monitoring system with the naked eye for the butterfly valves. The concept of this equipment can also be adopted by other valves, such as the ball valve, gate valve, and various others. It can be applied to variously sized valves, ranging from 25 mm to large sized valves exceeding 3000 mm. Finally, this study carries out the life test with square wave pressure, using performance and life test equipment. The performance found out that the failures from the real time monitoring system were good. The results of this study can be expanded to the other valves like ball valves, gate valves, and control valves to find out the failure mode using the real time monitoring system for durability and performance tests.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.203-210
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• 2010

For the development of a better product which fits to the target user population, physical workloads such as reach and visibility are evaluated using digital human simulation in the early stage of product development; however, ergonomic workload assessment mainly relies on visual observation of reach envelopes and view cones generated in a 3D graphic environment. The present study developed a quantitative assessment method of physical workload in a digital environment and applied to the evaluation of a Korean utility helicopter (KUH) cockpit design. The proposed assessment method quantified physical workloads for the target user population by applying a 3-step process and identified design features requiring improvement based on the quantified workload evaluation. The scores of physical workloads were quantified in terms of posture, reach, visibility, and clearance, and 5-point scales were defined for the evaluation measures by referring to existing studies. The postures of digital humanoids for a given task were estimated to have the minimal score of postural workload by finding all feasible postures that satisfy task constraints such as a contact between the tip of the index finger and a target point. The proposed assessment method was applied to evaluate the KUH cockpit design in the preliminary design stage and identified design features requiring improvement. The proposed assessment method can be utilized to ergonomic evaluation of product designs using digital human simulation.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.131-140
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• 2012

Though there might exist not a few differences between cyclic works and atypical works, many researchers have applied the same assessment techniques that used for repetitive works, which may result introduce bias in their conclusions. This research aimed to verify whether there exist non-negligible work characteristics and/or dissimilarity among works with different work nature and whether one of the most prevalent assessment techniques for assessing ergonomic hazards of musculoskeletal disorders, REBA, can be applied to atypical works. For a general hospital, an automobile repair shop, and two auto-part assembly plants which manufactures quite different parts, a questionnaire survey and field investigation and ergonomic assessment were carried out and analyzed statistically with reference to the 3rd Quantification technique. The results showed that there exist remarkable difference between physical factors in cyclic works and atypical non-cyclic works. As for repetitive work, body posture was significant factors affecting on musculoskeletal disorders while atypical works seemed to have none which implied that the necessity of taking psychosocial factors into account for assessment of hazards. Complain rate in repetitive works was highest shoulder, back, and neck or wrist in sequence. However, there existed no consistent trend in complain rate in atypical works. And, though weight of manufacturing objects was a common factor that can partly explain musculoskeletal complain, time duration was significant in atypical work whereas repeatability and body posture were significant in repetitive works. As being the results, to summarize, it could be said that application of conventional ergonomic assessment techniques regardless of repetitiveness would be fruitless, and that the necessity of a unique methodology focused on atypical non-cyclic works should not be neglected.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제67권3호
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• pp.474-478
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• 2018

The use of metals such as aluminum and titanium and the related industrial facilities have been continuously increasing to meet the requirements of the improvement of high-tech products due to the development of industry, and explosion of metal dust. Semiconductor process Metal dust is essential, but research is insufficient. The purpose of this study is to identify risk by analyzing the quantitative risk such as maximum explosion pressure and minimum explosion concentration applied international test standard in order to select the semiconductor process facilities handling dust and to predict possible risk of accidents.