농가의 핵심 농기계 이용 만족도를 조사·분석한 결과, 수입산이 국산 대비 트랙터는 1.2배, 콤바인 1.3배, 이앙기 1.4배 높은 것으로 나타났다. 즉 가격과 사후봉사를 제외한 작업성능, 조작편이성, 내구성, 고장빈도에서 높은 만족도를 보였고, 이는 전자유압제어, 파워트레인 및 변속기 설계, 신소재, 저소음 캐빈 등 기술수준의 차이가 반영된 결과로 여겨진다. 국산 농기계의 품질향상을 통한 적극적인 대응이 필요한 것으로 판단된다. 대리점을 대상으로 한 핵심 농기계의 부품 및 소모품에서 고장·수리 빈도수가 높게 나타났다. 트랙터는 주요 4개 부위에서 85.3%, 콤바인은 5개 부위에서 89.6%, 이앙기는 3개 부위에서 80.5%가 발생한 것으로 분석되었다. 그리고 제조사를 대상으로 한 수입산 대비 국산의 기술수준이 중소형 트랙터, 4조 콤바인 및 6조 이앙기는 근접하였으나, 트랙터는 60-100%, 콤바인 70-100%, 이앙기 70-95%로 평가되었다. 또한 국산의 문제점으로 트랙터는 내구성과 조작편이성, 콤바인은 내구성, 이앙기는 조작편이성을 가장 큰 문제로 인식되고 있다. 농가, 대리점 및 제조사의 조사결과를 종합해보면, 농가 및 대리점에서는 품질 개선과 내구성 향상이 시급하다고 응답하는 반면에, 제조업체는 주로 작업성능과 조작편이성 향상 기술개발에 역점을 두고 있어 현장과 괴리감을 보였다. 따라서 제조사에서는 농가와 대리점의 애로사항을 설계·생산에 적극 반영해야 할 것으로 판단된다. 특히, 수입산 농기계 대비 국산의 가장 큰 문제점은 잔고장으로 대표되는 품질 문제로 분석 되었다. 이는 제조사 입장에서 농기계 판매의 계절성에 따른 경영악화와 소량 생산으로 인한 한정적인 제품원가 절감요소가 낳은 결과로 판단된다. 제조사 입장에서는 시장의 가격경쟁력 강화를 위해 자체적으로 기종별 부품 공용화와 다량 구매 부품의 원가절감 전략을 구사하고 있는데, 이로 인해 오히려 품질 저하와 농가 불만 증가를 초래, 점진적인 시장점유율 하락을 인지하면서도 부품개발 등에 적극적으로 대응하지 못하고 있는 것으로 나타났다.

온도상승에 대한 낙엽성 목본식물종의 식물계절반응을 알아보기 위하여 동일지역에서 채종된 종자를 기반으로 야외 (대조구)와 온도가 최저생육온도 (약 4.8℃) 이상으로 유지되는 온실 (처리구)에서 우리나라 주요 낙엽수 39종을 재배하며, 잎의 식물계절변화를 1년 동안 관찰하고. 이를 식물의 현재 분포범위와 관련지어 설명하였다. 잎이 돋는 개엽기는 평균적으로 야외에서 5월 1∼3일이었고, 온실처리구에서는 12월 13일∼1월 7일이었으며, 잎이 지는 낙엽기는 평균적으로 야외에서 10월 11∼26일이었고, 온실에서는 10월 30일∼11월 13일이었다. 이처럼 온도상승으로 개엽기는 119∼140일 빨라졌으며, 낙엽기는 3∼32일 늦춰졌다. 그리고 잎의 생육기간은 야외대조구보다 온실에서 평균 148일 증가하였다. 온도상승조건인 온실에서 재배된 신갈나무와 졸참나무는 1년 동안 낙엽기가 없이 생육기만 지속되는 상록성으로 변하였으며, 또한 팥배나무의 개엽기는 야외보다 빨라졌으나 그 폭은 가장 적었고, 낙엽기는 오히려 앞당겨져 생육기간의 증가폭이 가장 적었다. 그러나 온도상승에 대한 낙엽수 잎의 식물계절학적 반응은 식물의 현재 분포범위와는 연관성이 없었다. 이는 낙엽수 잎의 표현형이 과거의 환경보다 현재의 생육조건에 더 민감하게 반응한 것으로 사료된다.

As a system complexity increases and technology innovation progresses rapidly, leasing the equipment is considered as an important issue in many engineering areas. In practice, many engineering fields lease the equipment because it is an economical way to lease the equipment rather than to own the equipment. In addition, as the maintenance actions for the equipment are costly and need a specialist, the lessor is responsible for the maintenance actions in most leased contract. Hence, the lessor should establish the optimal maintenance strategy to minimize the maintenance cost. This paper proposes two periodic preventive maintenance policies for the leased equipment. The preventive maintenance action of policy 1 is performed with a periodic interval, in which their intervals are the same until the end of lease period. The other policy is to determine the periodic preventive maintenance interval minimizing total maintenance cost during the lease period. In addition, this paper presents two decision-making models to determine the preventive maintenance strategy for leased equipment based on the lessor’s preference between the maintenance cost and the reliability at the end of lease period. The structural properties of the proposed decision-making model are investigated and algorithms to search the optimal maintenance policy that are satisfied by the lessor are provided. A numerical example is provided to illustrate the proposed model. The results show that a maintenance policy minimizing the maintenance cost is selected as a reasonable decision as the lease term becomes shorter. Moreover, the frequent preventive maintenance actions are performed when the minimal repair cost is higher than the preventive maintenance cost, resulting in higher maintenance cost.

An aircraft engine is supposed to be used for a specified lifespan, and it is reused through the depot maintenance for a major overhaul when its cumulative service life reaches the lifespan. However, the depot maintenance takes a long time due to the complexity of its process, and thus to continuously operate aircraft, spare engines are required to substitute engines under renovation. Considering the limited capacity of the depot, the uniformity of the quantity and cycle of engines entering the depot maintenance provides an opportunity to the decrease of the spare engines and the improvement of aircraft availability. It is the purpose of engine life management. Furthermore, in establishing flight plans, the time for essential maintenance activities, such as pre/post-flight inspection, servicing, the preparation for next flight, has to guarantee. Especially, fighters additionally require much time for installing weapons for their mission. That is, the rearming procedure can be left out if the adjoining missions are identical. Otherwise, the rearming time is varyingly spent depending on the types of adjacent duties. Therefore, this study proposes the mathematical model for an aircraft-mission assignment considering engine life management and maintenance schedule, and it is formulated based on the time-space network. Moreover, to verify and validate the model, an example was developed by applying realistic aircraft operating environment and simulation to perform air operations for several days was fulfilled. The experimental results presented flight plans corresponding to the purpose of this study, such as engine life management and the assurance of maintenance time.

The corrugated steel plate culvert structure was developed and actively developed in the United States in the 1930s and was introduced into the domestic scene in the 1970s. Currently, about 1,000 corrugated steel structures were being used for expressway concrete passage culverts and waterway culverts. Compared to concrete materials that require a basic curing time, corrugated steel plates could be assembled and backfilled, so that the construction speed is fast and the economics were excellent. However, as the number of public years has elapsed, problems in maintenance have been found. Therefore, there is a growing interest in the stability of corrugated steel plate structures. Therefore, in this study, the improvement for the efficient maintenance of the corrugated steel structure constructed on the expressway was examined.

The reinforced retaining wall was introduced in the late 1980s and has been actively used since the 1990s in Korea 's expressway construction. At the beginning of the introduction, proper stiffeners and backfill materials were used and compaction management was thoroughly carried out, which was recognized as an economical and excellent workability method. However, the current understanding of reinforced earth retaining walls about 30 years old is a negative image such as inadequate reinforcement materials, backfill materials, insufficient compaction, and insufficient drainage system. In this way, the reinforced earth retaining walls that have been constructed in the midst of the negative perception are about 1,000 at the expressway site, and about 1000 will be completed in a few years and about 2,000 will be used. Most of the problems of reinforced earth retaining wall were found during maintenance, and countermeasures are suggested by tracing back to what problems were observed in the design and construction of the observed phenomena. The retaining walls to be installed in future maintenance should be minimized in designing and constructing to prevent problems. It is estimated that such a problem can be solved by changing the recognition. Therefore, in this study, damage cases of reinforcement retaining wall which is frequently occurred in the expressway of Korea were analyzed to derive the preventive maintenance method of reinforced earth retaining walls. Then, the problems and countermeasures were analyzed for each type of damage.

Since 2011, a total length of national highway in Korea is 13,797km and 97.6% of total length of national highway system is paved. Particularly, most of national highway has been paved as asphalt concrete pavement. Currently, many maintenance techniques, such as overlay and surface treatments, are applied on existing pavements depending on the failure levels of pavements. One of maintenance techniques is a hot in-place recycling (HIR) that shows features of cost effective and better performance because of the use of 100% recycling of reclaimed asphalt of existing pavement. HIR is widely used in Europe countries and the U.S. It is recommended to rehabilitate the old and distressed asphalt pavement because it is suitable from the environmental perspective and convenient to use when a road is paved. Since 2002, HIR as a maintenance method has been used to rehabilitate the distressed asphalt pavement in National highway in Korea. Recently, a new HIR system, which consists of three pre-heaters, two recycler and one paver, is introduced in maintenance project in National highway. In this paper, HIR mixtures collected from a new HIR system in the field are tested to evaluate their performance in the laboratory test. First, the reclaimed asphalt (RAP) materials and HIR mixtures are collected in the field project site. Second, the quality evaluation of RAP materials, HIR mixtures and rejuvenator are conducted in the laboratory. Test results of RAP materials and HIR mixtures are satisfied with national specification. Rejuvenator used in the project site is classified as RA-5. Based on the limited teste results, it would be concluded that a new HIR system could be produced a satisfied HIR mixtures in the maintenance projects of National highway.

As mentioned at the Davos World Economic Forum in 2016, there is now a worldwide wave of waves of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The flow of government policy and R & D research is also focused on fostering industries based on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Research in the field of geotechnical engineering can also be a research that lags behind trends if it is not merged with the technology related to the fourth industrial revolution in the future. Therefore, this study analyzed the applicability of the fourth industrial revolution technology in the field of expressway maintenance.

Recently, maintenance science has been promoted and many advanced equipments have been developed such as GPR surveying, automatic gauging robot, bridge deck inspection robot. And the government - led policy on the fourth industrial revolution affects the R & D field of science and technology, and science for all fields remains a challenge. However, the equipment that has been developed so far is applied separately to each field, so that it is not possible to grasp the state of the entire structure. Therefore, in this study, the applicability of BIM and image information mapping technology in expressway maintenance was analyzed. To accomplish this, a basic analysis was conducted to identify the characteristics of the equipment developed for the current structure inspection and to build a platform to manage the collected data collectively.

In this study, The recent national interest is focused on the welfare of the people, and new projects in the construction sector are being reduced, and the aging of infrastructure is not getting attention. In domestic case, most of the infrastructures were built in the 1970s to 1980s, and the road extension is also steadily increasing. Therefore, the costs to bridge maintenance from around 2010 by a similar route to that of advanced countries are also 4 times And it is time to pay attention to maintenance as well as construction. Therefore, a study was carried out on the valuation method considering bridge condition evaluation, which is a part of BIM library building and assembly program development. The proposed value evaluation method will be used as an index of the existence of bridges by comparing the cost required for maintenance and reinforcement of the target bridges and the costs required for dismantling and disposal in the bridge management system of the future program

PURPOSES: Case studies of an asphalt-overlay project with a performance-based contract method were conducted on a national highway in Korea to evaluate the effect of the method on asphalt pavement maintenance. This study evaluated the procedure of the performance-based contract method. METHODS: In this study, an asphalt-pavement maintenance project for a national highway was assessed with a performance-based contract to investigate the advantage of the new contract procedures. This is the first trial applying the performance-based contract to a pavementrehabilitation project in Korea. In the four case studies, the warranty period of the performance-based contract was designed for seven years. The research team monitored the construction site to compare the normal contract method with the performance-based contract method. The case studies’project sites were investigated after the end of the construction. RESULTS : Based on the limited case studies, the performance-based contract method could extend the service life of the asphalt pavement and reduce the pavement-maintenance budget because the quality control was well managed by the contractors. However, a few construction laws would be necessary to apply the performance-based contract method in the future. CONCLUSIONS : Using the performance-based contract, the construction company made great efforts to guarantee the warranty period and to apply the optimal maintenance method, based on the pavement distress condition. The contractor and the agency would need to understand the new performance-based contract system for it to be activated. Therefore, a proper education program for the performancebased contract system would be needed to educate the stakeholders regarding the procedures and their effects on the pavement management and maintenance.

Porcine spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs) prefer three-dimensional (3D) culture systems to 2D ones for the maintenance of self-renewal. Of the many 3D culture systems, agar-based hydrogels are candidates for supporting porcine SSC self-renewal, and there are various types of agar powder that can be used. In this study, we sought to identify an agar-based 3D hydrogel system that exhibited strong efficacy in the maintenance of porcine SSC self-renewal. First, 3D hydrogels with different mechanics were prepared with various concentrations of Bacto agar, lysogeny broth (LB) agar, and agarose powder, and the 3D hydrogel with the strongest alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity and greatest increase in colony size was identified for the different types of agar powder. Second, among the porcine SSCs cultured in the different 3D hydrogels, we analyzed the colony formation, morphology, and size; AP activity; and transcription and translation of porcine SSC-related genes, and these were compared to determine the optimal 3D hydrogel system for the maintenance of porcine SSC self-renewal. We found that 0.6% (w/v) Bacto agar-, 1% (w/v) LB agar-, and 0.2% (w/v) agarose-based 3D hydrogels showed the strongest maintenance of AP activity and the most pronounced increase in colony size in the culture of porcine SSCs. Moreover, among these hydrogels, the strongest transcription and translation of porcine SSC-related genes and largest colony size were detected in porcine SSCs cultured in the 0.2% (w/v) agarose-based 3D hydrogel, whereas there were no significant differences in colony formation and morphology. These results demonstrate that the 0.2% (w/v) agarose-based 3D hydrogel can be effectively used for the maintenance of porcine SSC self-renewal.

For the German energy transition, offshore wind energy is a significant factor of success. The number of installed offshore wind energy turbines is steadily increasing. Currently, the subject matter of offshore wind energy turbine maintenance and its optimization is increasingly in the focus of research and development work. The present contribution examines the logistics of offshore wind energy turbine maintenance and the impact of the actual sea state and of sea state forecasts. To this end, the coordination processes between the players involved in the planning of service operations will be presented and analysed. Based on this, the impact of the quality of wave height forecasts on operation decisions and the mean time to repair will be determined as well as the availability of the turbines at different forecast quality levels. Proceeding on the basis of these results, the concept of a decision-making support system for operative logistics planning will be presented.

PURPOSES : The purpose of this study is to investigate the stresses of the middle slab in a double-deck tunnel owing to the slab lift to replace the underlying elastic pads during maintenance workMETHODS: The middle slab was divided into three different sections: typical section, expansion joint section, and emergency passageway section. Finite element analysis models of these three sections of middle slab were developed, and the stress distribution and maximum stresses were obtained using the models when the middle slab was lifted to replace the underlying elastic pads. Various slab lifting methods were examined in this study such as one-, two-, and multiple-point lifts, distributed lifts, and one or both slab side edge lifts.RESULTS: When the slab side edge is lifted, the longitudinal stresses of the slab are almost the same as the principal stresses. This implies that the governing stresses are the longitudinal stresses. The maximum stresses with both-edge lifts are generally smaller than those with one-edge lifts at all three sections of middle slab.CONCLUSIONS: If the middle slab in a double-deck tunnel is lifted for maintenance, the slab should be lifted at multiple points along the longitudinal direction to reduce the tensile stresses.