• 한국안전학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.11-15
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• 2004

The fretting-fatigue by leaking is one of the significant degradation in steam generator tubes. In this study, the burst pressure of inclined damaged steam generator tubes were obtained from three criterions by using the finite element method. The analysis results were also compared with the experiment data from published references and they showed a good agreement with the experiment data.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.329-334
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• 2006

This paper presents the evaluation of LPG (Liquefied petroleum gas) regulators for home use. For the evaluation, several properties of the regulators were experimentally analyzed, such as the operation of safety device, the adjusting and lock-up pressure, the adjusting spring and the diaphragm, with respect to the used time of the regulators. Experimental results showed that the initial operation performances of regulators were degraded with increase of the service time and also showed that the degradation of the performance and material property could become serious after about six-year-use of the regulators.

• Safety and Health at Work
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.42-48
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• 2017

Background: As one of the most frequently occurring accidents in a chemical plant, a fire accident may occur at any place where transfer or handling of combustible materials is routinely performed. Methods: In particular, a jet fire incident in a chemical plant operated under high pressure may bring severe damage. To review this event numerically, Computational Fluid Dynamics methodology was used to simulate a jet fire at a pipe of a compressor under high pressure. Results: For jet fire simulation, the Kemeleon FireEx Code was used, and results of this simulation showed that a structure and installations located within the shelter of a compressor received serious damage. Conclusion: The results confirmed that a jet fire may create a domino effect that could cause an accident aside from the secondary chemical accident.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2023

가스계량기의 검침방식이 발전하면서 원격검침이 가능한 스마트 가스 계량기(누출점검용 계량기 및 다기능 안전 계량기)가 사용되고 있다. 이러한 계량기는 부가기능으로 수집하는 유량 및 압력 데이터를 활용하여 누출 판단을 하는 기능이 있다. 유량 데이터를 이용한 누출판단 기능은 실제 현장에서 유효한 사례가 있지만 압력 데이터 기반 누출 판단 기준은 누출로 인한 압력 값 변화뿐만 아니라 여러 요인(정압기 압력 크기, 인접 계량기 연계, 인접 주택 사용량, 계량기 위치 등)으로 압력 크기 변화(레벨)가 있는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 스마트 가스계량기에서 수집되는 압력데이터를 활용하여 누출여부를 판단 할 수 있는 기법으로 압력 데이터 전처리 방법과 누출 여부 관련 압력 값 범위 기준, 누출판단 기법 및 적용 사례 검증을 통해 개발하였다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.285-290
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• 2006

자동차에 있어서 안전은 가장 중요한 설계 인자이다. 자동차 타이어 압력은 자동차 안전에 중요한 요소로 알려져 있다. 능동적 안전 측면에서, 타이어공기압검지장치(TPMS)는 아주 중요한 요소라 할 수 있다. RF 통신 기능을 갖고 타이어 내부에서 타이어 압력을 모니터링하는 장치는 광범위한 운전영역에서 정회한 압력을 검지하는 효과적 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 타이어 압력 및 온도보상 특성 관계를 조사하였다. 본 연구를 통하여, 차량 조건과 주행 변수를 고려한 TPMS 제어 로직의 가이드 라인을 설정할 수 있었다.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.266-271
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• 2012

본 연구는 빠르게 대중화 되어가는 철도의 주행안전성과 승차감 개선을 목적으로 수행하였다. 가스압접을 실시하는 장대레일의 강도 안전성을 확보하기 위하여 인장시험과 회전굽힘시험을 실시했다. 실험을 통하여 가스 압접부의 인장강도를 결정하는 요소는 가해진 압력보다 업셋길이의 변화에 기인하며, 업셋길이가 늘어남에 따라서 취성파괴에서 연성파괴가 발생하는 것을 관찰했다. 파단면의 조직검사를 통해 그 면에 존재하는 취성파면의 유무에 따라서 강도 안전성을 용이하게 평가할 수 있었다. 회전굽힘시험 결과 업셋길이 25mm에서 373MPa의 우수한 피로한도가 나타났으며, 무한수명을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.793-803
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• 2021

The small PWR has been paid more and more attention due to its diversity of application and flexibility in the site selection. However, the large core power density, the small containment space and the rapid accident progress characteristics make it difficult to control the containment pressure like the traditional PWR during the LOCA. The pressure suppression system has been used by the BWR since the early design, which is a suitable technique that can be applied to the small PWR. Since the configuration and operating conditions are different from the BWR, the pressure suppression system should be redesigned for the small PWR. Conducting the experiments on the scale down test facility is a good choice to reproduce the prototypical phenomena in the test facility, which is both economical and reasonable. A systematic scaling method referring to the H2TS method was proposed to determine the geometrical and thermohydraulic parameters of the pressure suppression containment response test facility for the small PWR conceptual design. The containment and the pressure suppression system related thermohydraulic phenomena were analyzed with top-down and bottom-up scaling methods. A set of the scaling criteria were obtained, through which the main parameters of the test facility can be determined.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권10호
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• pp.3677-3691
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• 2023

Since containment building is the major shielding structure to ensure safety of nuclear power plant, the structural behavior and ultimate pressure capacity of containments must be studied in depth. This paper addresses ambiguous issue of determining free-field position for liner failure by suggesting an expanded free-field region and comparing internal pressure capacities obtained by test data, conservative assumption and suggested free-field region. For this purpose, a practical approach to determine the free-field position for the evaluation of liner tearing is carried out. The maximum principal strain histories versus internal pressure capacities among different free-field positions at various azimuths and elevations are compared with those at the equipment hatch as a conservative assumption. The comparison shows that there are considerable differences in the internal pressure capacity at liner failure within the expanded free-field region compared to the vicinity of the equipment hatch. Additionally, this study proposes an approximate correlation with conservative factors by considering the expanded free-field ranges and material characteristics to determine realistic failure criteria for liner. The applicability of the proposed correlation is demonstrated by comparing the internal pressure capacities of full-scale containment buildings following liner failure criteria according to RG 1.216 and an approximate correlation.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2002

Cycle life tests have been carried out to evaluate the influence of safety valve pressure on valve regulated lead/acid batteries under deep cycling applications. Batteries were cycled at 5 hour rates at 100% DOD, and safety valve pressure was set to 1.08 and 2.00 bar, respectively. The batteries lost 248.3 g and 235.3 g of water for each case after about 1,200 cycles, but the cyclic performances of the batteries were comparable. Most of the gas of the battery during discharging was hydrogen, and the oxygen concentration increased to 18% after 3 hours of charging. The micro structure of the positive active materials was completely changed and the corrosion layer of the positive grid was less than $50{\mu}m$, regardless of the pressure of the safety valve after cycle life tests. The cause of discharge capacity decrease was found to be water loss and the shedding of the positive active materials. The pressure of safety valve does not give little effect to the cyclic performances and the failure modes of the gelled electrolyte valve-regulated lead acid batteries.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.401-406
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• 2011

This study presents the stress safety analysis of a cylinder, which is manufactured by a tempered ASTM D2, tempered SM45C and normalized SM45C materials, respectively. The inner diameter of three cylinder models are 85mm, 95mm, and 11 Omm and the total length of a cylinder is 2,365mm for a high pressure injection molding machine. The FEM computed results show that the inner diameter of 85mm with a thick thickness of 62.5mm may produce the injection pressure of 325MPa and the inner diameter of 110mm with 50mm thickness reduces up to the injection pressure of 220MPa because of a reduced thickness of a cylinder. These injection pressures are enough for a high pressure injection molding machine assembled by ASTM D2 cylinder. And also, an injection cylinder manufactured by a tempered SM45C material in which is low priee may produce 225MPa injection molding pressure and this may sufficiently endure stress safety compared to that of ASTM D2 cylinder material. Thus, this study recommends that tempered SM45C cylinder is appropriated for a mild injection molding machine as an alternative cylinder material when the safety strength and low prices are considered. But the normalized SM45C cylinder material does not meet a stress safety of yield strength in general.