• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.124-129
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• 2016

Recently, global railway car makers are competing desperately in developing high-speed railway vehicles. Ensuring passenger safety during a crash is essential. The design and the manufacturing of energy absorbing components are becoming more and more important. A deformation tube is a typical passive energy absorbing component for railway cars. In the current study the slab method was used to predict the energy absorbing capability of a deformation tube during the early design stage. The usefulness of the prediction method is verified through the comparisons between the results of FE simulations and those of the prediction method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.854-855
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• 2011

Active suspension technology of railway vehicles has received attention as the way to replace the current passive suspension. This paper deals with the dynamic performance of an active suspension system for a railway vehicle. To verify performance of an active suspension, the dynamic performance of the railway vehicle with active suspension system analyzed and compared with conventional suspension system by using the VI-rail program.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.543-550
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• 2011

The development of railway vehicles such as new mechanism of railway vehicle or design parameters of suspension have been used the application of scaled roller rig to the study of railway vehicle dynamics. In this paper, the critical speed was compared between full scale and 1:5 scale of numerical model. And to verify the simulation results, the critical speed was confirmed using the 1:5 scaled roller rig. According to the results, we expect that the developed roller rig will be used in the study for the dynamic characteristics of railway vehicle.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1249-1253
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• 2009

Enhancements of transport capacity in Gyeongbu line are continuous with the operating cost reduction and Korean economic development. Besides, requirements of a people about speed-up and customer service after the opening of high-speed railway(KTX) are being increased nowadays. Therefore, development and effort for speed increase of high-speed railway(KTX) have to be encouraged and supported by the government. In this study, market and technology trends for speed increase of high-speed train in Korea and abroad were investigated. As a result, we suggested to improve the railway infra for speed increase of high-speed train in Gyeongbu line.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.219-222
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• 2009

Green ocean is one of the main issues internationally. Most governments are leading the role in boosting the economy through creating new green market and establishing system of coping with increasing international environmental regulation. Green ocean, which is a solution for the environmental issue of global warming, is applied throughout the industry. Domestic transportation industry including railway is also developing technology for creating green ocean. Transportation must decrease energy consumption at running stages because it shows high environmental loads expecially on using stages during its life cycle. Therefore, There are some tries for developing technologies; new engine through alternative energies, hybrid and lightweight. Railway transportation can not be exception. it is intended for this paper to suggest the direction of manufacturing environmentally friendly railway vehicle through the global warming effect evaluation of several materials being applied to vehicle and comparison of the results.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1793-1798
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• 2009

Railway accidents have caused tremendous casualties and loss of property. In order to reduce the rate of accidents, it is important for the railway operators to elevate their recognition and give effective training as a safety education and training. Through the previous study, we developed regulatory guidance for developing safety education and training program. Then, three educational technology specialists verified it primarily. In this paper, we investigated present condition for running education and training system of domestic railway through result of In-depth interview. And we verified actual reflection through result of Checklist. Finally, improved regulatory guidance for developing safety education and training program was suggested in this study.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.375-380
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• 2004

Vibration of railway vehicle has harmful effect to dynamic performances of railway represented to stability, safety and ride comfort. Hence reduction of vibration has been discussed as an important problem and has been widely investigated. A new technology of vibration control, energy regenerative control, is introduced. Energy regenerative damper using this new vibration control converts vibration energy into other kind of energy that we can utilize. In this paper, this energy regenerative damper is applied to the dynamic absorber and vehicle suspension. And it is evaluated whether the energy regenerative railway vehicle suspension is possible.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.623-629
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• 2005

A technical road map is one of critical research methods which include mid/long term strategies and objectives. There are many of projects conducted using this road map. A technical tree is used at the step of planning of the projects. This research was aimed at reviewing previous systems for conducting researches for and a basis required for improving railway safety in the future by finding out inconsistency arising from physical WBS, which is methodology of defining in existing railway technical trees. In the process of this research, we considered differences between systems safety and prevention as well as natures of them using the established technical tree, and set up plans for improving technical tree to secure railway safety as an integrated system.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.8
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• pp.1457-1465
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• 2016

A RCM approach to maintenance of the catenary system of electric railway is proposed. The proposed RCM approach provides a maintenance-oriented FMECA procedure to derive critical failure modes by analyzing failure effects and a RCM decision logic tree to suggest optimal maintenance works for the derived failure modes. By applying the proposed RCM procedures to the catenary system of high speed railway, it is suggested that strand breaks of dropper and voltage equalizing wire, and trolly wire wear-out are the critical failure modes for whom maintenance works based on condition monitoring should be applied instead of conventional time-based preventive maintenance. It is also proposed by reliability analysis that replacement time of dropper can be reduced from 18 years to 10 years. These results show that the proposed RCM approach can optimize the maintenance procedures of catenary system.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.11b
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• pp.2116-2120
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• 2008

Recently, in the national railway industry there has been interested in the methodology of hazard analysis and risk assessment. The need of safety management system based on the technology of hazard analysis and risk assessment is being extended to identify in advance the weakness and threat factors causing the accident and cope with the accident actively. It is important to manage the risk of railway casualty accidents having a majority of railway accident. Especially, a hazard event of people struck takes the highest proportion of the railway casualty accidents. This paper describes the result of analysis for environment properties such as an age of casualty, time happened, day, month and weather conditions being concerned in the hazard event of people struck.