• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1037-1043
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• 2007

The railroad systems with the ballast tracks have been widely used for a long time. But recently, the use of the slab track is being increased gradually with a technical developments. So, this paper deals with the appliance of the slab tracks on the railroad bridges. Firstly, review the design criteria of the railroad bridges related to the slab tracks for the stability and serviceability, based on DIN and EURO code. Then, perform the analysis of the railroad prestressed concrete bridges, and check whether the results of the analysis satisfy the design criteria. Finally, find the construction condition of bridges that all the design criteria are satisfied. As a result, to maintain the stability and serviceability of the bridges, bridges must have some restrictions, including a time of installation of the slab tracks. So, the construction schedule for the erection of the bridges will be carefully considered in case of the concrete railroad bridges with the slab tracks.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 전기기기 및 에너지변환시스템부문
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• pp.234-236
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• 2007

Even though the existing train route controlling method, using track circuits, ensures the sufficient number of operation, it still has problems such as discordance between train numbers which was planned for operating and train numbers being operated on the track, and allowing only one train entering for one route. To solve those problems, we study and develop the Smart train route controlling system which uses the real-time informations of train positions. This system enables improve the coefficient of utilization in a certain train route controlling section, and the safety level of train route controlling, but we should ensure satisfying reliability of data about tracks operated by trains. In addition, there is a need to protect accidents caused by erroneous information of train position, by reflecting changes of tracks, for example maintenance, improvement, expansion of tracks. In this paper, we describes data structure of a developed program which required to change CAD files to wiring diagrams and to generate them to data of tracks. And we show the result that the simulator, using the data structure, controls speed and route of trains without problems.

• International Journal of Railway
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.8-15
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• 2014

Recently, in the total railroad construction field, concrete slab tracks have been adapted in place of ballast tracks. Because ballast tracks need frequent maintenance and are difficult to handle due to increasing maintenance costs, eventually concrete slab tracks were selected as an alternative. However, owing to the hydration heat reactions and temperature-affected shrinkage of the concrete, a variety of studies to solve maintenance problems related to concrete slab tracks are underway. This study analyzed characteristics of TQI values evaluating track irregularity, investigated the relationship between crack progress and TQI, and then evaluated the correlation between the two values. Through our analysis, we found that there is a need to supplement the problems of the current method and develop a track evaluation index which takes cracking into account. We also concluded that TQI is the main decision-making tool in track maintenance.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.1370-1376
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• 2015

Generally, an autotransformer(AT) feeding system consists of double tracks, up and down, with the trolley wire and feeder wire of the up and down tracks connected in the sectioning post(SP). Consequently, load current or fault current flows on two tracks based on catenary impedance characteristics, making it difficult to estimate catenary impedance accurately. This paper presents a technique for the estimation of catenary impedance using boosting current compensation based on the current division characteristics of an AT feeding system to improve the operation performance of impedance relay. To verify the technique, we model an AT feeding system through a power analysis program (PSCAD/EMTDC) and simulate various operation and fault conditions. Through the simulation, we confirmed that the proposed technique has estimated catenary impedance with a similar degree of accuracy to the actual catenary impedance

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권7호
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• pp.1444-1450
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• 2011

An analysis of the causes of railroad crossing accidents reveals that most train collision accidents that occur when safety crossing devices are functioning normally occur because vehicles either experience engine failure on the tracks or because drivers were not notified of the coming train, in which case they get trapped on the tracks when the crossing barriers descend. To prevent such an accident, obstacle detection device by using laser beams detecting the presence of obstacle and crossing bar direction controller by moving direction detection sensor using the Earth's magnetic field detection technology are used in the railroad crossing. Despite using the obstacles detector and crossing bar direction controller in the railroad crossing, the equipments for the railroad crossing does not prevent accidents completely. Therefore, this research has studied new method that can detect obstacles through image analyze and alternate existing equipments. There will be excellent effect to be preventing railroad crossing accident by developing a reliable and new obstacle detecting device.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.581-586
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• 2008

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2006년도 정기 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.240-247
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• 2006

Piezoelectric sensor-based health monitoring technique using a two-step support vector machine (SYM) classifier is discussed for damage identification of a railroad track. An active sensing system composed of two PZT patches was investigated in conjunction with both impedance and guided wave propagation methods to detect two kinds of damage of the railroad track (one is a hole damage of 0.5cm in diameter at web section and the other is a transverse cut damage of 7.5cm in length and 0.5cm in depth at head section). Two damage-sensitive features were extracted one by one from each method; a) feature I: root mean square deviations (RMSD) of impedance signatures and b) feature II: wavelet coefficients for $A_0$ mode of guided waves. By defining damage indices from those damage-sensitive features, a two-dimensional damage feature (2-D DF) space was made. In order to minimize a false-positive indication of the current active sensing system, a two-step SYM classifier was applied to the 2-D DF space. As a result, optimal separable hyper-planes were successfully established by the two-step SYM classifier: Damage detection was accomplished by the first step-SYM, and damage classification was also carried out by the second step-SYM. Finally, the applicability of the proposed two-step SYM classifier has been verified by thirty test patterns.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.28-37
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• 1999

Many residential areas are situated near to railroad tracks so that a railroad noise has been one of the major environmental issues. In this paper two important aspects have been investigated in order to properly evaluate the railroad vehicle noise : sound power levels for different types and sound propagation characteristics of the railroad vehicles. For noise source characteristics of railroad vehicles, sound power values for various types of trains that are in active service have been measured. In this paper, domestic railroad vehicles are measured and compared with high speed train(TGV). Based on sound power information of railway vehicles, prediction on the sound pressure level and equivalent noise level near to railway areas have been evaluated.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.457-465
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 기존선 속도향상을 위한 곡선부 개량 시 승차감을 고려한 최적평면선형범위에 대한 평가방안을 제시하였다. 또한 다양한 선형설계 초기조건들이 허용개량범위와 승차감 측면에서 최적선형 범위에 미치는 영향을 파악하기 위한 매개변수 해석을 수행하였다. 이와 더불어 현재 경부고속선에 부설되어 있는 선형조건들 중 가장 작은 곡선반경을 가진 평면선형들에 대하여 최적 개량범위를 검토하였다. 해석결과, 주요 초기선형설계변수인 곡선반경과 캔트가 클수록 허용개량범위와 최적선형범위가 넓어짐을 알 수 있었으며, 경부고속선 자갈도상구간에 부설되어 있는 R7000/R8000의 경우에도 선형측면에서는 약간의 개량으로도 속도향상이 가능함을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권6D호
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• pp.905-913
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• 2008

최근 고속전철의 자갈도상에 대한 대안으로 콘크리트 슬래브궤도가 도입되어 고속전철 신규노선에 시공되고 있다. 콘크리트 슬래브궤도는 자갈도상에 비해 내구성, 유지관리 측면에서의 경제성, 열차운행의 안정성 등의 측면에서 우위에 있지만, 우수 및 지하수로 인한 노반강성의 저하, 연약한 원지반의 침하 등으로 인한 슬래브궤도의 처짐은 열차안정성에 치명적인 결함이 된다. 본 연구에서는 슬래브궤도의 처짐 지표로서 슬래브궤도의 휨강성을 설정하고, 슬래브궤도의 휨강성을 2차원 영상으로 표현할 수 있는 FRACTAL (Flexural-Rigidity Assessment of Concrete Tracks by Antisymmetric Lamb Waves) 기법이라는 비파괴 탄성파 기법을 제안하였다. 이론적 근거 확보를 위하여 콘크리트 슬래브궤도에서의 탄성파 시험을 수치해석적으로 모사하여 영향인자 연구를 수행하였고, FRACTAL 기법의 적용성 평가를 위하여 실제 고속전철 슬래브궤도에 적용하여 보았다. 그리고 FRACTAL 시험측선과 동일 측선에서 Impulse-Response 기법과 인접지반에서 전기비저항시험을 수행하여, FRACTAL 기법의 신뢰성을 검증하였다.