To ensure radiological safety margin in the transport and storage of spent nuclear fuel, it is crucial to perform source term and shielding analyses in advance from the perspective of conservation. When performing source term analysis on UO2 fuel, which is mostly used in commercial nuclear power plants, uranium and oxygen are basically considered to be the initial materials of the new fuel. However, the presence of impurities in the fuel and structural materials of the fuel assembly may influence the source term and shielding analyses. The impurities could be radioactive materials or the stable materials that are activated by irradiation during reactor power operation. As measuring the impurity concentration levels in the fuel and structural materials can be challenging, publicly available information on impurity concentration levels is used as a reference in this evaluation. To assess the effect of impurities, the results of the source term and shielding analyses were compared depending on whether the assumed impurity concentration is considered. For the shielding analysis, generic cask design data developed by KEPCO-E&C was utilized.

Level 3 driving, which enters full-fledged autonomous driving, is becoming more common. And research on autonomous driving is growing rapidly. Therefore, there is a need for a hardware platform to implement autonomous driving, but the actual vehicle price is too high and the implementation conditions are very limited, so its usability is inevitably reduced. In this study, by providing an easy-to-access hardware platform for anyone to support autonomous driving research, compatibility with software platforms can be increased. As a result of this study, it is possible to conduct hardware platform and software platform education at the same time. Through this, trial and error due to errors in each of the two platforms can be reduced. In addition, various sensors, such as camera sensors and LiDAR sensors, were installed on the hardware platform, and a hardware platform capable of testing autonomous driving for education and R&D was conducted not only outdoors but also indoors with little external environmental impact.

PURPOSES: This paper presents the development and evaluation of the smart hardware-in-the-loop systems (SMART-HILS) that evaluate traffic signal operations of a new real-time traffic signal control system called SMART SIGNAL at the traffic management center (TMC) level. METHODS: The layouts of the hardware and software components of the SMART-HILS were introduced in this study and its performance was tested using real-time traffic signal operation algorithms embedded in the SMART SIGNAL control server by utilizing the VISSIM simulation model. In this study, the SMART-HILS management software was developed using .NET programming language. Fewer random seed numbers were used for the test scenarios by conducting statistical tests to address the shortcomings of a longer time due to the adoption of the simulation time as the real-time by the TMC server. RESULTS : It was determined that SMART-HILS can communicate with TMC and VISSIM for both upload and download directions within acceptable time constraints and evaluate new design algorithms for traffic signal timing. CONCLUSIONS : In practice, traffic engineers can utilize SMART-HILS for testing the traffic signal operation alternatives before their selection and implementation. This application could increase the productivity of traffic signal operation.

Building hardware joints are welded in most cases, which have risks of fire and explosion. Besides, the secondary damage of the destruction of the welded parts can be caused by the horizontal displacement of the structure due to earthquake or wind load. This paper compared the horizontal displacement following abilities of welded building hardware and non-welded building hardware. To do this, We conducted actual formation shake table test, and checked on the horizontal displacement following ability of structure by comparing their responses to earthquake load. We made the 2m-high framework to examine the responses of the actually constructed building hardwares, and analyzed the displacement responses of the welded-typed, non-welded-typed, and cruciform bracket building hardwares. We conducted the test by increasing acceleration rate until displacement reached 40mm corresponding to allowable relative story displacement II. The result of the test showed that the building hardware using welding work made cracking and breakage on welded connections of welded building hardware, but non-welded building hardware with no use of welding work and cruciform bracket building hardware make no problem, and that non-welded building hardware is superior to that of the welded building hardware in the horizontal displacement following ability due to earthquake or wind load.

This paper presents the results of test observations toward a point source, 4C39.25, for observation modes with various bandwidths and numbers of IF streams in order to examine a reliability of the Daejeon hardware correlator performance for correlating VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) data obtained with the several observation modes of the KVN (Korean VLBI Network). We used a DiFX software correlator (DiFX) as a reference, for investigating the output visibilities from the Daejeon corelator. It is found that the band shapes of the output visibilities from two correlators are similar to each other and the correlated flux density for each baseline obtained from the Daejeon hardware correlator is lower by 3 - 7% than that from the DiFX. The flux difference is attributed to the limitation of FPGA resources and the difference of fringe rotation algorithm of the Daejeon hardware correlator. The conversion factor, 0.93 ~ 0.97, is proposed for future correlation with the Daejeon hardware correlator.

We report results of the performance evaluation of a new hardware correlator in Korea, the Daejeon correlator, developed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). We conduct Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations at 22 GHz with the Korean VLBI Network (KVN) in Korea and the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA) in Japan, and correlated the aquired data with the Daejeon correlator. For evaluating the performance of the new hardware correlator, we compare the correlation outputs from the Daejeon correlator for KVN observations with those from a software correlator, the Distributed FX (DiFX). We investigate the correlated flux densities and brightness distributions of extragalactic compact radio sources. The comparison of the two correlator outputs shows that they are consistent with each other within < 8%, which is comparable with the amplitude calibration uncertainties of KVN observations at 22 GHz. We also find that the 8% difference in flux density is caused mainly by (a) the difference in the way of fringe phase tracking between the DiFX software correlator and the Daejeon hardware correlator, and (b) an unusual pattern (a double-layer pattern) of the amplitude correlation output from the Daejeon correlator. The visibility amplitude loss by the double-layer pattern is as small as 3%. We conclude that the new hardware correlator produces reasonable correlation outputs for continuum observations, which are consistent with the outputs from the DiFX software correlator.

집안에는 많은 생활가구가 었다. 그중 가장 큰 부피를 차지하는 생활가구기 장롱 또는 붙박이장 이다. 본 논문에서는 장롱이냐 붙박이장으로부터 주부, 영아, 어린이들에게 발생하는 손가락 및 발가락 손상을 미연에 방지하기 위한 안전성을 확보하기 위한 기술이다 선진국에서는 가정에서 발생하기 쉬운 부분에 대하여 하이테크 기술을 접목하여 가구용 하드웨어를 개발하여 실용화를 추구하고 있으나 아직 우리나라에서는 이러한 하이테크 기술을 적용한 하드웨어 개발이 초기 상태이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 기존의 슬라이딩 도어의 문제점을 개선하여 신체 손상 방지 및 거실 내에서 소옴이 적은 하드웨어를 개발하여 실용화하고자 하였다.

The purposes of this study are to survey stereotypes of control-display relationships for seven principal controls in passenger cars using the paper-pencil and hardware tests, and to examine stereotype strength of the paper-pencil test through comparing the stereotypes for the controls derived by the two methods. Ninety two and 60 college-aged students participated in the paper-pencil test and the real car simulation of the hardware test, respectively. There are dominant motion-directions for all controls in the paper-pencil test, while in the hardware test, there are dominant motion-directions for six controls including head light, high beam, door window, ignition key, door key and door lock controls. The stereotypes of motion-directions for six controls obtained by the paper-pencil test were the same as or similar to those by the hardware test. It was inferred from this that the congruence of the stereotypes by the two methods might be attributed to two simple motion-direction principles of 'clockwise for increase' and 'upward for increase.' Although it is known that the hardware test would be best for obtaining accurate stereotypes between controls and displays, this study implies that if the paper-pencil test is well designed, the paper-pencil test can produce the same results as the hardware test at low cost and without consuming time.

Estimating optimum hardware capacity of an e-learning system is very important process to grasp reasonable size of designing technique architecture and budget during step of ISP(information strategic planning) and development. It hugely influences cost an

  This research relates to the patent application tendency about the hardware platform of the intelligent robot among the robotics industry in which the market is more and more expanded. The patent about the hardware field of intelligent robot was analyze

  In this paper, we described the existing methodology of product safety analysis and proposed a Petri-nets based method to analyze product safety systematically. The proposed method can be used to find the defects of hardware/software and the error of hu

Burn-in is a test procedure to find and eliminate the inherent initial failure of a product during or at the final stage of production process. Software testing is the validation and verification process which is used to cut off the faults from a software. The two have the common function and objective of "debugging". This article summarizes some significant models on the optimal hardware and software burn-in time, and provides the relevant paper lists. The need for the development of the unified burn-in policy of a hardware-software system is addressed.addressed.

The hardware and the software of the prototype telemtry system to monitor the behavior of the fish are designed. This system consistes of five parts I. e. three omni-directional hydrophones, three ultrasonic receivers, a single board computer for the signal processing, two RF transceivers for the data communication, and a personnel computer. The sensitivty of the hydrophones is -170dB(re 1V/μPa), the gain and the 3dB receiving bandwidth of the ultrasonic receivers are 115dB and 1500Hz respectively, and the sampling period is 33.3μsec in the signal processing part. The positioning error of the system using hyperbolic method is estimated to be less than 0.2m in case that the pinger locates inside of the baselines. The perfomance of the system considering a practical use was examined by numerical simulation and a water tank test of a pinger tracking experiment. In results, the system developed in prototype was confirmed that it could be useful for monitoring the behavior of fish in the limited water area.

리모델링 시장이 커짐에 따라 품질이 우수한 건축물의 내장재 및 외장재들이 개발되고 있다. 개발된 내장재 및 외장재를 건축물의 구조체에 시공하기 위해서 구조체에 하지 철물을 설치하여야 한다. 건축물의 내장재 및 외장재 설치, 데크, 무대 및 마루 등의 시공 시 지지해주 는 하부 구조물을 하지철물이라 한다. 하지 철물은 수평재와 수직재를 현장에서 용접 접합을 하여 구조체에 설치하는 방법이 주로 사용되었다. 일반적인 용접접합 방식의 시공은 용접 불씨에 의한 화재 발생으로 인명 및 재산 손실 문제와 전문용접공 부족으로 인한 비전문 용접공 시공에 따른 내구성 저하 문제 등이 발생하고 있다. 하지철물의 시공방법도 안전사고 및 시공의 용이성을 위하여 용접 접합 방법에서 무용접 접합 방법 으로 개선되어지고 있다. 이는 화재예방 가설재와 소화장비 및 인원이 불필요하고 볼트조립으로만 시공이 가능하여 인건비 절감과 공기단축 이 가능하다. 이에 용접을 사용하지 않는 무용접 하지 트러스 공법을 이용하여 접합부 거동을 실험하여 검증하고자 한다. 또한, 무용접 접합방 법으로 시공 시 볼트 체결부분에서 틀어짐 현상이 발생하기도 하여 이를 보완하는 방법으로 각관, 유격방지 브라켓, 파스터, 홈볼트 체결을 통 하여 일반 볼트접합인 각관, 화스너, 홈볼트 조립방법에서 좌우간의 틀어짐 현상을 방지하고 부재간의 미끄러짐 현상을 제어할 수 있도록 하는 시스템을 적용하여 접합부의 거동을 평가하고자 한다. 그 결과 무용접 접합방식의 하지철물 골조는 지진하중저항시스템에서 내진등급에 따라 요구되는 허용 층간변위각 0.01∼0.02 보다 매우 큰 부재각까지 변형한 것으로 나타나 충분한 변형성능을 확보하고 있음을 알 수 있었다.