• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.44-50
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• 2017

The shaft seal of the reactor coolant pump is installed on the upper side of the rotating shaft of the pump to seal the reactor coolant from flowing out between the rotating shaft and the non-rotating parts. In this study, the loading conditions for the normal operation and faulted conditions are identified and structural integrity evaluation is performed using the finite element stress analysis for the sealing apparatus of the APR 1400 reactor coolant pump. It is confirmed that the stress analysis results satisfy the design criteria at all loading conditions.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.289-296
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• 2003

The evaluation on performance of gel type penetrative water-repellent for durability progress of concrete structure has carried out in this study. And liquid type waterproof agents have been estimated with same method. Also normal concrete that was not applied water-repellent and waterproof agents have been estimated. As results, the penetrative depth of gel type water-repellent were deeper than that of liquid type waterproof agents and those were superior to these in physical and durable performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.91-92
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• 2016

Structural integrity of reinforced concrete structures including nuclear power plants needs to be evaluated on a regular basis. Deterioration inside the concrete structures can be represented by voids. In this study, the varied volume fraction of voids inside mortar specimens was studied as a parameter using ultrasonic testing equipments. Both direct and indirect measurement methods were employed. The results show that there is a clear distinction between the specimens with different void volume fractions.

• Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.311-315
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• 2009

The purpose of this research was to discern how consumers experience the images of sensibility vocabularies for atmosphere of family restaurants and to suggest the applications for restaurant managers and marketers by presenting words that appeal to consumers' needs and emotions. More reliable results were obtained by researching the sensibility vocabularies using free association and stimulus methods. Extracting 8 sensibility words among 28 vocabularies, we constructed the relation of evaluation concepts by using a structural equation model. Overall, the structural equation model, which is a method to select reliable sensibility vocabularies can increase the sensitivity of the model.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.569-576
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• 2001

In this study a procedure for evaluation of performance point using direct displacement-based design method was developed to enhance the applicability of the method. Parametric study has been performed for the natural period of the structure, yield strength, and the stiffness after the first yield. The proposed method was also applied to a 10-story steel frame. To verify the accuracy of the result, the results from capacity spectrum analysis and time history analysis were compared. The results of the proposed method turned out to match well with the results of capacity spectrum method and the time history analysis.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.414-421
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• 1998

The content of this paper consists of two related subjects. One is the assessment of damages in the existing structure and the other is the evaluation of seismic capacity of the structure with damage. A method is presented for damage assessment of existing structures using the modal data measured at limited points by the inverse medal perturbation technique. For efficient damage assessment, the number of the unknown probable damaged members is reduced for each damage identification by grouping the members in the large structure. The aseismic capacity is evaluated for the structure using the results of damage assessment. An example analysis is carried out for a building structure subjected to different earthquake excitations.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.435-442
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• 2002

In a multicell box structure, distortional warping normal stress due to warping of cross section and transverse bending normal stress of walls due to distortion of cross section may consider as significant stresses unless distortion of box section is appropriately restricted. Nevertheless, during the past decades, no evaluation of distortional warping and transverse bending resistances for the multicell box section has been performed owing to geometric complexity and Insufficient information with respect to the distortion of multicell box section. The objective of present study is to evaluate the distortional warping and transverse bending resistances for the distortion of multicell box section and to validate the resistances through box girder analyses using multicell box beam element developed and conventional shell element. This developed box beam element has nine degrees of freedom per node including the effect of distortion.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.413-420
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• 1998

In this study, an expert system is developed to evaluate a safety of tunnel structures. Using a dynamic finite element analysis module, this expert system predicts dynamic responses of a concrete lining surface which a transient force is applied on and estimates the condition between the concrete lining and surrounding ground. The evaluation parameter values of the module are multi-reflected wave frequency and amplitude of the dynamic responses. The multi-reflected wave frequency represents the depth of concrete lining, and the other parameter, the amplitude of the frequency, is utilized for detecting the internal flaws. A comparison of the dynamic responses between numerical and experimental model test verifies an effectiveness of this system. By this expert system, the safety of tunnel structures and the detection of internal flaws of concrete linings are estimated quantitatively.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.162-169
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• 2001

Tubular joints are usually reinforced using thicker can section or ring stiffeners to increase the load carrying capacity. In this paper, a numerical study has been performed for evaluation of axial strength for X-joints with internal ring stiffener, The finite element analysis software was used for nonlinear strength analysis. According to variation of ring geometries, the effect of ring stiffener for X-joints are investigated. Internal ring stiffener is found to be efficient improving ultimate strength of tubular joints. Relations of thickness of ring and axial strength are observed considering geometric parameters of ring stiffeners.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.645-650
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• 2007

According to most studies, assessment of aging structure is trend to detect flaw size by sensor than using existing subjective evaluation by expert for objective evaluation. But Uncertainties existing in the sensor make difference between measured flaw size and actual flaw size, In this paper, Probability of Detection(POD) have been used to quantify the uncertainties and POD is updated by relationship measured flaw size and actual flaw size (Heasler, 1990), also we proposed probabilistic updating approach method to improve measurement accuracy(the difference of measured PDF and actual PDF) by using updated POD.