• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.379-386
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• 2012

A symptom-based procedure with a critical safety function monitoring system has been established to reduce the operator's diagnosis and cognitive burden since the Three-Mile Island (TMI) accident. However, it has been reported that a symptom-based procedure also requires an operator's cognitive efforts to cope with off-normal events. This can be caused by mismatches between a static model, an emergency operating procedure (EOP), and a dynamic process, the nature of an ongoing situation. The purpose of this study is to share the evidence of mismatches that may result in an excessive cognitive burden in conducting EOPs. For this purpose, we analyzed simulated emergency operation records and observed some operator behaviors during the EOP operation: continuous steps, improper description, parameter check at a fixed time, decision by information previously obtained, execution complexity, operation by the operator's knowledge, notes and cautions, and a foldout page. Since observations in this study are comparable to the results of an existing study, it is expected that the operational behaviors observed in this study are generic features of operators who have to cope with a dynamic situation using a static procedure.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.92-102
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• 2017

The analysis of steam generators as an interface between primary and secondary circuits in light water nuclear power plants is crucial in terms of safety and design issues. VVER-1000 nuclear power plants use horizontal steam generators which demand a detailed thermal hydraulics investigation in order to predict their behavior during normal and transient operational conditions. Two phase flow field simulation on adjacent tube bundles is important in obtaining logical numerical results. However, the complexity of the tube bundles, due to geometry and arrangement, makes it complicated. Employment of porous media is suggested to simplify numerical modeling. This study presents the use of porous media to simulate the tube bundles within a general-purpose computational fluid dynamics code. Solved governing equations are generalized phase continuity, momentum, and energy equations. Boundary conditions, as one of the main challenges in this numerical analysis, are optimized. The model has been verified and tuned by simple two-dimensional geometry. It is shown that the obtained vapor volume fraction near the cold and hot collectors predict the experimental results more accurately than in previous studies.

• 한국지진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지진공학회 2003년도 추계 학술발표회논문집
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• pp.303-310
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• 2003

Small-scale models have been frequently used for experimental evaluation of seismic performance because of limited testing facilities and economic reasons. However, there are not enough studies on similitude law for analogizing prototype structures accurately with small-scale models, although conventional similitude law based on geometry is not well consistent in the inelastic seismic behavior. When fabricating prototype and small-scale model of reinforced concrete structures by using the same material, added mass is demanded from a volumetric change and scale factor could be limited due to size of aggregate. Therefore, it is desirable that different material is used for small-scale models. Thus, a modified similitude law could be derived depending on geometric scale factor and equivalent modulus ratio. In this study, compressive strength tests are conducted to analyze equivalent modulus ratio of micro-concrete to normal-concrete. Equivalent modulus ratios are divided into elastic, weak nonlinear and strong nonlinear phases, which are based on ultimate strain level. Therefore, an algorithm adaptable to the pseudodynamic test, considering equivalent three phase similitude law based on seismic damage levels, is developed. In addition, prior to tile experiment, it is verified numerically if tile algorithm is applicable to the pseudodynamic test.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2019

Few studies have been conducted regarding theoretical turning force modelling while considering cutting constant. In this paper, a new cutting force modelling technique was suggested which considers the specific cutting force coefficients for turning. The specific cutting force is the multiplication of the cutting force coefficient and uncut chip thickness. This parameter was used for experimental modelling and prediction of theoretical cutting force. These coefficients, which can be obtained by fitting measured average forces in several conditions, were used for the formulation of three theoretical cutting forces for turning. The cutting force mechanism was verified in this research and its results were compared with each of the experimental and theoretical forces. The deviation of force was incurred by a small amount in this model and the predicted force considering feed rate, nose radius, and radial depth shows a physical behavior in main force, normal force, and feeding force, respectively. Therefore, this modelling technique can be used to effectively predict three turning forces with different tool geometries considering cutting force coefficients.

• 국제강구조저널
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1541-1559
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• 2018

This paper addresses the dynamic loading characteristics of the shock tube onto sandwich steel beams as an efficient and accurate alternative to time consuming and complicated fluid structure interaction using finite element modeling. The corrugated sandwich steel beam consists of top and bottom flat substrates of steel 1018 and corrugated cores of steel 1008. The corrugated core layers are arranged with non-uniform thicknesses thus making sandwich beam graded. This sandwich beam is analogous to a steel beam with web and flanges. Substrates correspond to flanges and cores to web. The stress-strain relations of steel 1018 at high strain rates are measured using the split-Hopkinson pressure. Both carbon steels are assumed to follow bilinear strain hardening and strain rate-dependence. The present finite element modeling procedure with an improved dynamic impulse loading assumption is validated with a set of shock tube experiments, and it provides excellent correlation based on Russell error estimation with the test results. Four corrugated graded steel core arrangements are taken into account for core design parameters in order to maximize mitigation of blast load effects onto the structure. In addition, numerical study of four corrugated steel core placed in a reverse order is done using the validated finite element model. The dynamic behavior of the reversed steel core arrangement is compared with the normal core arrangement for deflections, contact force between support and specimen and plastic energy absorption.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.459-471
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• 2022

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to increase prediction accuracy for an anomaly interval identified using an artificial intelligence-based time series anomaly detection technique by establishing a pre-processing process. Methods: Significant variables were extracted by applying feature selection techniques, and anomalies were derived using the TadGAN time series anomaly detection algorithm. After applying machine learning and deep learning methodologies using normal section data (excluding anomaly sections), the explanatory power of the anomaly sections was demonstrated through performance comparison. Results: The results of the machine learning methodology, the performance was the best when SHAP and TadGAN were applied, and the results in the deep learning, the performance was excellent when Chi-square Test and TadGAN were applied. Comparing each performance with the papers applied with a Conventional methodology using the same data, it can be seen that the performance of the MLR was significantly improved to 15%, Random Forest to 24%, XGBoost to 30%, Lasso Regression to 73%, LSTM to 17% and GRU to 19%. Conclusion: Based on the proposed process, when detecting unsupervised learning anomalies of data that are not actually labeled in various fields such as cyber security, financial sector, behavior pattern field, SNS. It is expected to prove the accuracy and explanation of the anomaly detection section and improve the performance of the model.

• 한국학교ㆍ지역보건교육학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.47-59
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• 2023

Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify risk factors of alcohol use disorder among Korean adults. Methods: Cross-sectional exploratory study based on data collected from Data from the 6th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2015 were performed in this study. There were 3,248 participants who were 2,558 normal drinkers while 690 had alcohol use disorder. Decision tree analysis were used to exam socio-demographic and health-related factors to predict alcohol use disorder. Results: As a result of decision tree analysis, the predictive model for factors related to alcohol use disorder in Korean adults presented with 8 pathways. The significant predictors of alcohol use disorder were age, gender, smoking, marital status, and house income. Male smokers whose household income is 'high' or 'low' are most vulnerable to alcohol use disorders. Conclusions: This study indicates that need to consider health behavior and house income when we practice prevention policies and health education of alcohol use disorder.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.1052-1065
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• 2024

Advanced Pressurized Water Reactors (APWRs) and Boiling Water Reactors (BWRs) employ a suppression pool as a heat sink to prevent containment overpressure. Steam can be discharged into the pool through multi-hole spargers or blowdown pipes in both normal and accident conditions. Direct Contact Condensation (DCC) creates sources of momentum and heat. The competition between these two sources determines the development of thermal stratification or mixing of the pool. Thermal stratification is of safety concern as it reduces the cooling capability compared to a completely mixed pool condition. In this work we develop a scaling approach to prediction of the thermal stratification in a water pool induced by steam injection through spargers. Experimental data obtained from large-scale pool tests conducted in the PPOOLEX and PANDA facilities, as well as simulation results obtained using validated codes are used to develop the scaling. Two injection orientations, namely radial injection through multi-hole Sparger Head (SH) and vertical injection through Load Reduction Ring (LRR), are considered. We show that the erosion rate of the cold layer can be estimated using the Richardson number. In this work, scaling laws are proposed to estimate both the (i) transient erosion velocity and (ii) the stable position of the thermocline. These scaling laws are then implemented into a 1D model to simulate the thermal behavior of the pool during steam injection through the sparger.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2004

흙의 이방적 변형 특성은 파괴 이전 상태의 변형 거동을 정확히 이해하기 위한 중요한 특성 중 하나이다. 최근 활발히 이루어지고 있는 실험적 연구 결과는 사질토fl서 나타나는 이방적 탄성계수가 직교 이방 탄성이론으로 표현될 수 있으며, 또한 각 방향의 수직 탄성계수가 해당 방향의 수직 응력에 의한 지수 함수로 표현될 수 있음을 보여준다. 이러한 사질토의 탄성계수 이방성은 입자의 미시역학적 특성과 밀접한 관계가 있다. 사질토는 수많은 입자에 의해 구성된 입상체이므로 각 입자간의 접촉면에서 나타나는 힘-변위 관계가 거시적 인 입상체의 응력-변형률 관계를 지배한다. 따라서 사질토의 변형을 입자 간 상호 작용으로 해석하는 미시역학적 접근 방법은 흙의 이방적 변형 특성을 연구하는 가장 좋은 방법 중 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 미시 역학 이론을 토대로 흙의 이방적 탄성 변형 특성을 예측하는 수치해석 프로그램을 개발하였다. 실제 토립자의 불규칙한 접촉면 상태를 간략하게 모사할 수 있는 접촉 모델을 제시하였다. 삼축 시험 등의 일반적인 역학 시험으로부터 얻을 수 있는 거시적 탄성 응력-변형률 관계로부터, 미시역학 모델에 필요한 변수를 결정할 수 있는 해석해를 유도하였다 실내 시험을 통해 구할 수 있는 거시적 탄성계수와 해석해를 이용하여 모델 변수를 구하는 방법을 구체적으로 제시하였다.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.359-366
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• 2007

최근들어 내구성에 대한 사회적, 공학적 중요성이 부각됨에 따라, 염해 및 탄산화에 대한 연구가 집중되고 있다. 일반적으로 침지된 구조물의 경우를 제외하고는 염해와 탄산화는 동시에 발생하게 되는데, 탄산화 영역에서는 염화물 거동이 일반콘크리트에서의 염화물 거동과 다르게 평가된다. 그리고 콘크리트 구조에 발생된 균열은 단일열화 뿐 아니라 복합열화의 진전에도 큰 영향을 미치게 된다. 본 연구의 목적은 염화물 확산과 침투 그리고 이산화탄소 유입에 따른 탄산화 거동을 고려하여, 복합열화에 노출된 건전부 및 균열부 콘크리트 구조물의 열화 해석을 수행하는데 있다. 먼저 초기재령 콘크리트의 다상 수화 발열 모델 및 공극 구조 형성 모델을 도입한 염화물 확산 및 침투를 고려한 염화물 이동 모델을 이용하였다. 이후 탄산화 해석을 통하여 탄산화 영역 진전에 따라 변화하는 공극 분포, 포화도 및 고정화 염화물의 해리를 모델링하여 복합 열화 모델을 개발하였으며 개발된 모델은 기존의 실태 조사 결과 및 실험 결과와 비교하여 그 적용성을 검증하였다. 한편 선행된 연구 결과인 균열부의 염화물 및 탄산화 거동을 고려하여, 보통포틀랜트시멘트 (OPC; ordinary portland cement) 및 혼화재 (슬래그)를 사용한 콘크리트에 대한 복합열화 거동을 시뮬레이션 하였다. 그 결과 건전부 및 균열부에 대하여 복합열화 저항성을 평가할 수 있는 복합열화 천이 영역 (CCTZ)를 제안하였으며, 혼화재를 사용한 콘크리트가 OPC를 사용한 콘크리트에 비하여 복합열화 저항성이 우수함을 해석적으로 구명하였다.