Pipe for water supply is one of the important parts that supply water to home, factory and so on. Water leakage in pipe for water supply due to deterioration, ground sinking and earthquake leads to enormous economical loss. Therefore, pipe for water supply should be designed to satisfy the requirement of, for instance, structural stability and fatigue durability. The purpose of this study was to investigate the fatigue durability of flexible joint for relaxing the impact due to earthquake and ground sinking. For this purpose, flexible joint was simulated using dynamic characteristics and fatigue life. As the results, the problem of fatigue durability may occur when flexible joint and pipe for water supply are treated as rigid body in simulation. Thus it means that the role of packing in flexible joint is very important and packing should be designed as optimal conditions that are considered fatigue durability as well as waterproof.

The pipe for water supply is essential part among SOC (Social Overhead Capital) fields. Pipe for water supply is mainly damaged by deterioration of pipe, earthquake, ground sinking and so on. The leakage of water have been led to enormous economical loss in our country. The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural stability of flexible joint for relaxing impact due to earthquake and ground sinking. For this purpose, flexible joint was simulated using tensile load and internal pressure. As the results, flexible joint for structural stability was needed the tensile load of below 3 ton and internal pressure of below 60 kgf/cm2. However, it is considered that real flexible joint should be applied more high safety factor than that of simulation result because of combined stress.

A fire sprinkler system is very important to extinguish fire in the building. The sprinkler system initiates sprinkler discharge if the detection system identifies a developing fire and opens the pre-action valve. However, pre-action fire sprinkler systems mainly installed in the underground parking lot at the apartment complex do not properly operate at fire if the connection type of fire sprinkler systems does not properly installed and operated. This study identified the relationship between fire dispersion & damage and the connection type of water supply in the sprinkler system from many fire cases at the apartment complex in South Korea. In addition, this study also identified the water supply differences and characteristics between South Korea and foreign countries. The main purpose of this study is also to improve the water connection types in the sprinkler system that can reduce the potential failures of pre-action valve operation through electrical signal system. The study also suggests the improvement plan for water connection types in pre-action fire sprinkler system that can minimize potential failure of pre-action fire sprinkler system. The suggestions for revising the fire safe standard in South Korea includes letting the water supply pipe of sprinkler system water inlet connect to the second side of pre-action valve and the water flow device that can minimize potential failure of sprinkler system.

According to this research, it was confirmed that safety coefficient is useful tool to rationally quantify structural deterioration of pipe. In addition, it could perform simple and rapid evaluation escaping from confinement by time and budget, and it can be utilized as a tool to set up policy for future water supply.

상수관망에서 관파괴가 발생할 경우 제수밸브의 차폐를 통하여 일정 부분의 상수관망이 다른 부분으로부터 격리되게 된다. 이러한 영역을 segment라고 정의하고 이에 대한 다양한 연구가 진행되었다. segment에 포함되는 상수관은 물흐름이 차단되기 때문에 단수가 발생하게 된다. 또한 segment의 차폐에 의해서 추가적으로 단수가 되는 영역이 발생할 수 있고 이러한 영역을 unintended isolation(UI)으로 정의된다. 상수관망을 운영하는 측면에서 관파괴는 피할 수 없는 문제이기 때문에 관파괴가 발생할 경우 단수에 의한 피해를 최소화하는 것이 중요하다. 이를 위해서는 대규모 피해를 야기하는 대규모 segment가 발생하지 않도록 해야 한다. 그러나 대규모 segment는 상수관망의 구조(water supply network topology)와 제수밸브의 배치에 따라 발생한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 대규모 segment를 파악하고 적절한 위치에 제수밸브를 추가하여 대규모 segment를 분할하는 방안을 제시하여 관파괴에 따른 상수관망의 피해를 최소화하는 방안을 제시하였다. 대규모 segment 분할을 위한 모형은 네가지 모듈로 구성되어 있다. 첫 번째는 상수관망에 존재하는 모든 segment를 정의하고 segment와 연관된 UI를 정의하는 모듈이다. 두 번째 모듈은 정의된 segment별로 단수피해를 정량화하여 segment별 등급을 부여하는 모듈이다. 세 번째는 단수피해기준 대규모 segment별로 분할을 위한 제수밸브 위치 결정 모듈이다. 네 번째 모듈은 추가된 제수밸브에 의한 상수관망 피해 저감효과를 분석하는 상수관망 신뢰도 산정 모듈이다. 세 번째 모듈의 경우 수학적인 방법이 아닌 상수관망 운영주체가 직접 적용할 수 있도록 다섯 가지 기준을 제시하여 적정 제수밸브 위치를 결정하도록 하였다. 제안된 모형을 이스라엘의 실제 상수관망에 적용하여 적용성을 검증하였다.