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Development of a Live-line Insulator Inspection Tool System for 154 kV Power Transmission Lines

  • Lee, Jae-Kyung;Park, Joon-Young;Cho, Byung-Hak;Oh, Ki-Yong
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.23-33
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    • 2012
  • The current paper deals with a new live-line insulator inspection tool system that will be used by the Korea Electric Power Corporation for its 154 kV power transmission lines in 2011. Unlike the existing contact type tools, the developed inspection tool automates parts of the insulator inspection process using a sensor and an actuator. The tool sustains its weight independently, not by a lineman. In addition, the inspection tool measures the insulation resistance of an insulator together with its distribution voltage, thus providing more information for analysis and diagnosis. Such characteristics improve the system's operation efficiency, measurement reliability, and usability. We confirmed its effectiveness through live-line field tests with actual power transmission lines.

FRACTIONAL POLYNOMIAL METHOD FOR SOLVING FRACTIONAL ORDER POPULATION GROWTH MODEL

  • Krishnarajulu, Krishnaveni;Krithivasan, Kannan;Sevugan, Raja Balachandar
    • Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.869-878
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    • 2016
  • This paper presents an ecient fractional shifted Legendre polynomial method to solve the fractional Volterra's model for population growth model. The fractional derivatives are described based on the Caputo sense by using Riemann-Liouville fractional integral operator. The theoretical analysis, such as convergence analysis and error bound for the proposed technique has been demonstrated. In applications, the reliability of the technique is demonstrated by the error function based on the accuracy of the approximate solution. The numerical applications have provided the eciency of the method with dierent coecients of the population growth model. Finally, the obtained results reveal that the proposed technique is very convenient and quite accurate to such considered problems.

A Methodology for Estimating Reliability and Development Cost of a New Liquid Rocket Engine -focused on Staged Combustion Cycle with LOX/LH2 (액체로켓엔진의 신뢰도 및 개발비용 추정 방법 -LOX/LH2 다단연소 사이클을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Kyungmee O.;Hwang, Junwoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.42 no.5
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    • pp.437-443
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    • 2014
  • Engine is one of the most important parts in a rocket for completing its mission successfully. In this paper, we provide a methodology for estimating reliability and development cost of a liquid rocket engine newly developed. To estimate reliability, a baseline engine is selected considering factors whose effects on reliability are unquantifiable. Then reliability of a baseline engine is adjusted to reflect the effect of factors that can be modeled quantitatively. Using the previous Transcost engine cost expressed in terms of mass and the number of hot firing tests, the engine development cost is reexpressed in reliability and thrust requirements. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the application of the methodology to a turbopump rocket engine using staged combustion cycle with LOX/LH2 propellant.

Thermal Shock Cycles Optimization of Sn-3.0 Ag-0.5 Cu/OSP Solder Joint with Bonding Strength Variation for Electronic Components (Sn-3.0 Ag-0.5 Cu/OSP 무연솔더 접합계면의 접합강도 변화에 따른 전자부품 열충격 싸이클 최적화)

  • Hong, Won-Sik;Kim, Whee-Sung;Song, Byeong-Suk;Kim, Kwang-Bae
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.152-159
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    • 2007
  • When the electronics are tested with thermal shock for Pb-free solder joint reliability, there are temperature conditions with use environment but number of cycles for test don't clearly exist. To obtain the long term reliability data, electronic companies have spent the cost and times. Therefore this studies show the test method and number of thermal shock cycles for evaluating the solder joint reliability of electronic components and also research bonding strength variation with formation and growth of intermetallic compounds (IMC). SMD (surface mount device) 3216 chip resistor and 44 pin QFP (quad flat package) was utilized for experiments and each components were soldered with Sn-40Pb and Sn-3.0 Ag-0.5 Cu solder on the FR-4 PCB(printed circuit board) using by reflow soldering process. To reliability evaluation, thermal shock test was conducted between $-40^{\circ}C\;and\;+125^{\circ}C$ for 2,000 cycles, 10 minute dwell time, respectively. Also we analyzed the IMCs of solder joint using by SEM and EDX. To compare with bonding strength, resistor and QFP were tested shear strength and $45^{\circ}$ lead pull strength, respectively. From these results, optimized number of cycles was proposed with variation of bonding strength under thermal shock.

A Study of Validity of Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire(AAQ) for Korean Elderly (노화태도척도(AAQ)의 한국 노인 적용을 위한 타당성 연구)

  • Kim, Jung-Hyun;Kim, Wook
    • 한국노년학
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    • v.32 no.4
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    • pp.1181-1197
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    • 2012
  • This study aims to validate the Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire(AAQ), which was recently developed in foreign countries, for Korean elderly. Using a sample of 320 older individuals living in Seoul, Gyeonggi, Chungcheong areas, statistical analyses including item analysis, exploratory factor analysis, convergent validity analysis were attempted to AAQ which composed of three factors with 24 items. In result, the three factor model of AAQ(including psychosocial loss, physical change, and psychological growth) were reconstructed in which new three factors(psychological loss, social loss, and change and growth in body and mind) were confirmed and three items were deleted. Reliability and convergent validity of AAQ-21 were confirmed. AAQ-21 would be useful to researchers and practitioners working with older adults for systematically assessing the attitudes to aging of older individuals and thus contribute to development of social policies and welfare programs for the elderly.

Reliability Verification of Battery Disconnecting Unit (BDU 신뢰성 검증)

  • Yoon, Hye-Lim;Ryu, Haeng-Soo;Ji-Hong;Hong-Tae, Park
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2011.07a
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    • pp.866-867
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    • 2011
  • As part of the green growth, The Green Car has attracted wide attention. Types of the Green Car are Electric Vehicle, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Fuel Cell Vehicle and Clean Diesel Vehicle. Of these, The electric vehicle is equipped with the BDU(Battery Disconnecting Unit). BDU is supplying stable battery power and blocking it to protect electrical system of the electric vehicle. The BDU consists of electric components such as current sensor, fuse and pre-charge resistor. These must pass Voltage withstand test, Salt mist test, Thermal shock test, Vibration test and Short-circuit test commonly to verify reliability of the electric components. In addition, The current sensor should be verified whether normal operation. The breaking capacity of fuse should be verified. The durability of pre-charge resistor should be verified by supplying battery power and blocking it repeatedly. The reliability of BDU as well as the electric vehicle is secured by verifying the reliability of electric components. In addition, It will contribute to the acceleration and promotion of Green Car Technology.

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A Study on the Imperfect Debugging of Logistic Testing Function (로지스틱 테스트함수의 불완전 디버깅에 관한 연구)

  • Che, Gyu-Shik;Moon, Myung-Ho;Yang, Kye-Tak
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.119-126
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    • 2010
  • The software reliability growth model(SRGM) has been developed in order to estimate such reliability measures as remaining fault number, failure rate and reliability for the developing stage software. Almost of them assumed that the faults detected during testing were eventually removed. Namely, they have studied SRGM based on the assumption that the faults detected during testing were perfectly removed. The fault removing efficiency, however, is imperfect and it is widely known as so in general. It is very difficult to remove detected fault perfectly because the fault detecting is not easy and new error may be introduced during debugging and correcting. Therefore, We want to study imperfect software testing effort for the logistic testing effort which is thought to be the most adequate in this paper.

The Comparative Study for NHPP Software Reliability Growth Model Based on Non-linear Intensity Function (비선형 강도함수를 가진 NHPP 소프트웨어 신뢰성장 모형에 관한 비교 연구)

  • Kim, Hee-Cheul
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2007
  • Finite failure NHPP models presented in the literature exhibit either constant, monotonic increasing or monotonic decreasing failure occurrence rates per fault (intensity function). In this paper, intensity function of Goel-Okumoto model was reviewed, proposes Kappa (2) and the Burr distribution, which maked out efficiency application for software reliability. Algorithm to estimate the parameters used to maximum likelihood estimator and bisection method. For model determination and selection, explored goodness of fit (the error sum of squares) The methodology developed in this paper is exemplified with a software reliability real data set introduced by NTDS (Naval Tactical Data System)

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Reliability of Maintained Hull Girders of Two Bulk Carrier Designs Subjected to Fatigue and Corrosion

  • Soares, C.Guedes;Garbatov, Y.
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.27-41
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    • 1999
  • The objective of the paper is to study the impact of changing the traditional hull design of bulk carriers by providing them with a double hull while keeping the same deadweight. It is demonstrated that by introducing the double hull the structural reliability is increased throughout the entire life and also the extend of the needed repair is reduced. The results are obtained with recently developed mathematical tools for the reliability assessment of ship hulls subjected to the existence of multiple cracks both in the stiffeners and in the plating and it models the crack growth process. The effect of corrosion is represented as time dependent. The long-term stress range acting on the elements is defined as a function of the local transverse pressure of the internal cargo and outside sea water combined with the stresses resulting from the longitudinal bending of the hull, which is a combined with the stresses resulting from the longitudinal bending of the hull, which is a combineation of horizontal and vertical bending moments. The effect of maintenance actions is modelled as a stochastic process. The results show that a different design of the midship section improves the structural safety and also the economy with respect to structural repair of bulk carriers.

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Optimal Release Time of Software System having a Fixed Operational Period (일정한 사용기간을 갖는 Software System의 최적방출정책)

  • 최명호;윤덕균
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.13 no.22
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 1990
  • This paper deals with software Release policy having a Fixed Operational period after a Software System is released. The underlying Software Reliability Growth is described by J-M Model Optimal of Software Release Time minimizing Total Expected Cost is Obtained.

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