Since early 1950’s fracture mechanics has brought significant impact on structural integrity assessment in a wide range of industries such as power, transportation, civil and petrochemical industries, especially in nuclear power plant industries. For the last two decades, significant efforts have been devoted in developing defect assessment procedures, from which various fitness-for-purpose or fitness-for-service codes have been developed. From another aspect, recent advances in IT (Information Technologies) bring rapid changes in various engineering fields. IT enables people to share information through network and thus provides concurrent working environment without limitations of working places. For this reason, a network system based on internet or intranet has been appeared in various fields of business. Evaluating the integrity of structures is one of the most critical issues in nuclear industry. In order to evaluate the integrity of structures, a complicated and collaborative procedure is required including regular in-service inspection, fracture mechanics analysis, etc. And thus, experts in different fields have to cooperate to resolve the integrity problem. In this paper, an integrity evaluation system on the basis of cooperative virtual reality environment for reactor pressure vessel which adapts IT into a structural integrity evaluation procedure for reactor pressure vessel is introduced. The proposed system uses Virtual Reality (VR) technique, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) and knowledge based programs. This system is able to support 3-dimensional virtual reality environment and to provide experts to cooperate by accessing related data through internet. The proposed system is expected to provide a more efficient integrity evaluation for reactor pressure vessel.
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ASME/JSME 2004 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference
July 25–29, 2004
San Diego, California, USA
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- Pressure Vessels and Piping Division
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0-7918-4671-7
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Development of an Integrity Evaluation System on the Basis of Cooperative Virtual Reality Environment for Nuclear Power Plant
J. C. Kim,
J. C. Kim
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
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J. B. Choi,
J. B. Choi
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
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Y. H. Choi
Y. H. Choi
Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety, Daejon, Korea
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J. C. Kim
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
J. B. Choi
Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea
Y. H. Choi
Korean Institute of Nuclear Safety, Daejon, Korea
Paper No:
PVP2004-2585, pp. 231-235; 5 pages
Published Online:
August 12, 2008
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Kim, JC, Choi, JB, & Choi, YH. "Development of an Integrity Evaluation System on the Basis of Cooperative Virtual Reality Environment for Nuclear Power Plant." Proceedings of the ASME/JSME 2004 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. Experience With Creep-Strength Enhanced Ferritic Steels and New and Emerging Computational Methods. San Diego, California, USA. July 25–29, 2004. pp. 231-235. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/PVP2004-2585
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