Jo Jul 18, 2022
The research team led by Pae Ho Rim, a section head at the Faculty of Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering, has developed a program for checking structural designs of ships.
This program will put checking of structural designs of ships on an IT basis, thus improving checking accuracy and reducing time and effort for checking.
This program consists of input module and check module for structural design.
In the input module, structural design data for checking are input with substructures of a ship hull as a unit. Design data for substructures include information about the locations and dimensions of plates and stiffeners, components of the substructure.
Check module is composed of 3 parts; knowledge base, rule check and redundant size check. In addition, it has an automatic making function of structural design check report. Rules and examples of design check are saved in the knowledge base.
At present, checking of structural design of ships is being conducted manually by many experts in naval architecture, involving a great deal of time and effort.
In contrast, this program needs only one expert to finish design checking with 100% accuracy within 2 days.
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Jo Jul 17, 2022
The research group led by Ri Ju Hyok, a section head at the Faculty of Heat Engineering, has succeeded in designing and manufacturing a cascade cryogenic refrigerator for new material development and cryogenic environmental experiment.
Operated by the cascade refrigeration cycle, it is composed of two refrigeration cycles ― hot cycle and cold cycle. In the hot cycle, middle refrigerants are used, and in the cold cycle, low refrigerants are used. Each cycle is an individual refrigeration system using one refrigerant each.
Evaporation of the refrigerant in the hot cycle is used for condensation of the refrigerant in the cold cycle. The two cycles are connected by an evaporator-condenser that functions as a condenser for the cold cycle and as an evaporator for the hot cycle. The heat gained from the cold cycle is transferred to the refrigerant in the hot cycle that transfers the heat to the environment. The hot cycle is composed of a hot cycle compressor, an air cooling condenser, a throttle valve and an evaporator-condenser, etc. while the cold cycle is made up of a cold cycle compressor, a capillary tube, an evaporator, an expansion vessel, an evaporator-condenser, etc.
An evaporator-condenser can be designed and manufactured as a high efficiency plate or a dual tube heat exchanger.
This cascade cryogenic refrigerator, which provides a temperature range of -40℃~-160℃, has wide applicability to several fields including machine, chemical and electronic industries, biological and metallic material engineering, public health, national defence and sports.
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Jo Jul 8, 2022
Cha Myong Song, a researcher at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, has completed the principle and method for stabilizing voltage from no-load state to normal load state.
Although existing 3 harmonics exciting synchronous generators realized the stabilization of voltage by changing the structure of pole shoes, they failed to provide a reasonable value range of 3 harmonics flux density.
According to the new method, 3 harmonics flux density and the output power of 3 harmonics winding and exciting winding are decided and the windings are connected to exciting regulation resistors in order to improve the efficiency of the generator and decrease voltage changing rate. The 3 harmonics exciting synchronous generator, which consists of 1 harmonics winding, 3 harmonics winding, full-wave recification circuit, exciting winding, exciting regulation resistor, guarantees enough self exciting and decreases voltage changing rate by regulating the parameters of 3 harmonics winding, exciting winding, pole structure and exciting regulation resistors.
If 3 harmonics flux density is much higher than 1 harmonics flux density, voltage waveform gets non-sinusoidal, and if much lower, self exciting may not occur. Therefore, 3 harmonics flux density should be defined within the range of 4~6% of 1 harmonics flux density by the field analysis method.
The parameters of 3 harmonics winding and exciting winding should be defined to be reasonable by the equivalent circuit method.
The efficiency of the generator and the exciting stability depend on the designs of 3 harmonics winding and exciting winding.
The 3 harmonics exciting synchronous generator is low in manufacturing cost and ensures enough self exciting in it. Its voltage changing rate decreases to 1.4% and its efficiency improves to 90.9%.
This method of voltage stabilization is also applicable to small independent gas generators.
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Jo Jun 28, 2022
NTC (Negative Temperature Coefficient) thermistors are widely used in industrial applications for temperature measurement, control and compensation. One important problem in the use of NTC thermistors is to overcome aging phenomenon. Their electrical properties change with time particularly when the temperature increases and it is the main reason why they are unable to be used at temperatures above 150℃.
Aging of electrical properties is attributable to non-equilibrium states that exist inherently in semiconducting NTC ceramics.
Sol-gel auto combustion is an advanced process that is widely used in nano-powder synthesis such as magnetic material.
Yu Nam Chol, a researcher at the Science Engineering Institute, successfully prepared Fe0.8Mn1.54Ni0.66O4 nano-ceramics by sol-gel auto combustion and observed the microstructure and phase of these samples by using Scanning Electron Microscope and X-Ray Diffraction. The results showed that powdered Fe0.8Mn1.54Ni0.66O4 ceramics pre-fired at 800℃ and sintered at about 1 050℃ had more compact and uniform spinel structure. In addition, the investigation of the electrical characteristics of these thermistors manufactured at different sintering temperatures proved that the sample sintered at 1 200℃ was suitable for the improvement of the properties of thermistors. It was also shown that the thermistor annealed for 72 hours at 450~550℃ in N2 atmosphere had aging ratio of less than 0.7%.
The details about this are carried in his paper “Preparation of Fe-Mn-Ni-O Nano-Ceramics by sol-gel auto combustion for NTC thermistor” presented to the SCI Journal “International Journal of Materials”.
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Jo Jun 26, 2022
Ri Yong Ho, a section head at the Faculty of Heat Engineering, has developed an instrument that can measure and analyze vibration of rotating machinery such as steam turbine generators real-time.
As a steam turbine generator is composed of rotors that are supported by their pedestals, vibration state of all the pedestals should be measured and analyzed at the same time by a multi-channel instrument.
The multi-channel vibration instrument acquires vibration signals of up to 16 channels at high speed at the same time and transmits them to the computer so that one can measure and analyze vibration state of all the pedestals of turbine generators, diagnose vibration fault and decrease vibration level by taking necessary measures like balancing.
The multi-channel vibration instrument is composed of analog signal processing circuit, key-phase pulse input circuit, digital signal processing circuit, USB communication circuit and power supply circuit.
The analog signal processing circuit does overvoltage protection, filtering and amplification of vibration signals, and then sends them to the digital signal processing circuit.
Digital signal processing is performed by a microchip, in which AD conversion of 16-channel analog signals, measurement of the rotating speed and vibration phase by key-phase pulse, saving of vibration waveforms and communication control take place.
The acquired vibration waveforms of 16 channels are transmitted immediately to the microchip which has USB communication function by means of parallel communication mode and then they are real-time transmitted to computers through USB ports.
In the power supply circuit, AC 220V power is converted to stable direct current voltages 5V and ±12V and then supplied to every signal processing circuit.
The computer performs digital filtering and integral of multi-channel vibration waveforms received from the vibration instrument, transforms vibration acceleration signals into vibration velocity signals and vibration displacement signals, calculates vibration amplitude to measure vibration level, and then makes vibration analyses such as spectrum analysis by fast Fourier transformation, phase analysis and trend analysis.
Besides, it can perform one-plane balancing and two-plane balancing by method of influence coefficient, so field balancing of steam turbine generators can be realized.
We can measure pedestal vibration by linking this instrument with piezoelectric acceleration sensors and electromagnetic speed sensors, and shaft vibration is also measurable when it is connected with eddy displacement sensors.
The measurement range is 0~200㎛ in the case of pedestal vibration and 0~500㎛ in the case of shaft vibration, and the measurement accuracy is 2%.
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Jo Jun 25, 2022
The research group led by Pae Ho Rim, a section head at the Faculty of Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering, has developed an experiment device for measuring natural frequency of a ship hull.
The device measures the natural frequency of a ship hull model by the principle that resonance occurs when natural frequency is coincident with the frequency of forced vibration caused by decentration mass.
The device consists of ship hull model, vibration generator, unit for motor velocity control, frequency sensor, acceleration sensor, amplification and integration circuit, communication interface, user interface, etc.
The model is 1.2 metres long, 0.1 metres wide and 0.1 metres high. The cross section is rectangular and the bow and stern assume a pyramidal form.
The user interface shows the graphs and values of real-time signals of revolution, displacement, acceleration and velocity.
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