Sung Kyun Kwan
University
Safety & Structural Integrity Research Center
300 Cheonchun-Dong
Suwon 440-746
Korea
I. Member Institution
Safety and Structural Integrity Research
Center
Sungkyunkwan University
II. Contact Person
Young-Jin Kim
Director, Safety and Structural Integrity Research Center
Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering
300, Ch’onch’on-dong, Jangan-gu
Suwon, Kyonggi-do 440-746, Korea
yjkim@yurim.skku.ac.kr
+82-331-290-5274 (tel )
+82-331-290-5276 (fax)
Sung-Jin Song
NDE Group Leader,
fety and Structural Integrity Research Center
Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering
300, Ch’onch’on-dong, Jangan-gu
Suwon, Kyonggi-do 440-746, Korea
yjkim@yurim.skku.ac.kr
+82-331-290-7451 (tel )
+82-331-290-5276 (fax)
III. Profile of Institution
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) was
established 600 years ago on the current site as the first
institute of higher learning in Korea. The history of higher
education in Korea can be traced back to Taehak, which was
founded in Kokuryo in 372 A.D. It was, however, in 1398 that
King Taejo in Chosun Kingdom founded Sungkyunkwan (SKK), the
predecessor of SKKU, and equipped it with all the necessary
facilities to be considered a university: headquarters, lecture
halls, libraries, dormitories and temples, among many others.
For over 500 years from its foundation, SKK had been the cradle
of most of the distinguished scholars and statemen in Chosun
Kingdom. As the highest of national institutes, SKK was
susceptible to political changes throughout its history. Its
forced degradation during the Japanese occupation was SKKU's
darkest period.
Shortly after the liberation of Korea, SKKU
embarked on a massive program to regain its suspended glory,
building the University's modern campus on the site of SKK. SKKU
is now made up of 13 colleges, 10 graduate schools, 30 research
institutes and 2 affiliated educational facilities. It now has
20,000 full-time students. Since 1978, the University's new,
modern Natural Sciences Campus located in Suwon has been
operational. This Natural Sciences Campus offers a wide range of
facilities with educational and research equipment for
undergraduate and graduate students in the Colleges of Sciences,
Engineering, Life Science and Natural Resources, Pharmacy, and
Medicine.
The Safety and Structural Integrity Research
Center (SAFE) was established in June, 1997 at Sungkyunkwan
University (SKKU), Suwon, Korea as an Engineering Research
Center (ERC) designated by the Korea Science and Engineering
Foundation (KOSEF). In modern society we rely more on advanced
technology-intensive industrial facilities such as nuclear and
fossil power plants, heavy and petrochemical industries, and
pipelines. These high performance facilities serve as the
fundamental base of modern society. Advanced technology, on the
other hand, is a major source of threats to the safety of the
global society. In fact, the world has recently experienced
catastrophic failures of industrial facilities which have
brought a great amount of losses in life and money. Korea has
not been an exception. Thus, currently in the global society
there is very strong need for the development of advanced
technologies that can evaluate the safety of industrial
facilities very accurately. In deed, SAFE was born to address
such public concern with the very close cooperation among
various institutes including not only KOSEF and SKKU but also
more than 30 industries and 12 universities in Korea.
SAFE has defined the four key technologies of
safety evaluation; safety diagnosis (nondestructive evaluation),
material degradation, structural analysis and fracture
mechanics, and is carrying out research on each field by
inviting highly reputable scholars from other nations around the
world. In addition, SAFE is also performing various activities
including the followings; cooperation with industry for the
application of newly developed techniques in practice,
international collaboration with worldwide leading institutions
for performing cooperative researches, and education and
training engineers.
NDE ACTIVITIES
1.
Principal Mission of NDE Activities
SAFE has four major objectives:
* Research
and development of the advanced NDE technology for safety
diagnosis systems for industrial facilities such as nuclear and
fossil power plants, heavy and petrochemical industries, and
pipelines
* Education
and training of qualified NDE engineers
*
Establishment of a major, national
focal point for advanced NDE technology transfer to industry
* International collaboration of
advanced NDE technology
2.
Technological Environment
SAFE serves organizations at the regional,
national and international level. The core of the research
support is from the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF)
and various institutions including, for examples, Korea
Institute of Machinery and Metals, Korea Research Institute of
Standards and Sciences, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute,
and Korea Institute for Nuclear Safety. Also more than thirty
companies and institutes in Korea are participating in consortia
of SAFE on safety evaluation of industrial facilities.
3.
Departments/Centers Involved
in NDE
The work of SAFE is conducted by a mix of
faculty, students, and full-time professional scientists and
engineers. Since SAFE is a national-wide research center
designated by KOSEF, SAFE is able to draw faculty and students
from any university in Korea. Current principal investigators
who participate in the NDE area of SAFE are invited from several
universities such as Sungkyunkwan University, Yonsei University
and Inha University. Faculty and student can involve, in part,
in SAFE by the project base, too. Academic departments from
which faculty and students participate SAFE include Mechanical
Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Computer
Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering.
4.
Number of Scientific
Personnel in Various Categories
Principal Investigators
Faculty - 6
Adjunct Faculty - 0
Full Time Researchers - 0
Engineers - 0
Postdoctoral Students - 0
Graduate Students - 40
Undergraduate Students – 8
5.
Internet/Networking
Institutional Web Site:
Currently;
http://mecha.skku.ac.kr/~SAFE
Will be changed (in a couple of
weeks);
http://safe.skku.ac.kr
Contact Person for Computer
Networking:
Byung-Hyun Choi
Mechatronics Lab
School of Mechanical Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University
300, Ch’onch’on-dong, Jangan-gu,
Suwon, Kyonggi-do 440-746, Korea
Phone: +82-331-290-7481
Fax: +82-331-290-5849
E-mail:
SAFE@mecha.skku.ac.kr
Contact Person for
Web Site Content Development and Maintenance
Hyoukryeol Choi
Assistant professor
Safety and Structural Integrity Research Center
and School of Mechanical Engineering
Sungkyunkwan University
300, Ch’onch’on-dong, Jangan-gu,
Suwon, Kyonggi-do 440-746, Korea
Phone: +82-331-290-7449
Fax: +82-331-290-5849
E-mail:
hrchoi@mecha.skku.ac.kr
Web Site Hardware, Software Information
Currently;
Server platform: Sun Workstation (Ultra SPARC
1)
Operating System: UNIX
Server software: Apache
Type of connection to the Internet:
Local (on campus): Ethernet
Institution: T-1
Will be upgraded (in a couple of
weeks);
Server platform: IBM PC Compatible (Pentium
II)
Operating System: Windows NT 4.0 Server
Server software: Apache or MS Personal Website
Type of connection to the Internet:
Local (on campus): Ethernet
Institution: T-1
a. Undergraduate
Sungkyunkwan University does not offer an
undergraduate major or minor in NDE.
But, School of Mechanical Engineering
offers a NDE Specific Course and various department
including School of Mechanical Engineering offer many
supporting disciplinary courses.
NDE Specific Course
Supporting Disciplinary
Courses
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Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
-
Digital Signal Processing.
-
Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
-
Image Processing
-
Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
-
Fuzzy Theory.
-
Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
-
Artificial Intelligence
-
Metallurgical
Engineering.
-
Testing of Engineering
Materials
-
Metallurgical
Engineering.
-
Defects in Metals
-
Metallurgical
Engineering.
-
Fracture Analysis
-
Metallurgical
Engineering.
-
Mechanical Behavior of
Materials
-
Mechanical Engineering.
-
Solid Mechanics
-
Mechanical Engineering.
-
Computer Aided
Engineering
-
Mechanical Engineering.
-
Engineering Design
-
Mechanical Engineering.
-
Mechanical Vibration
-
Mechanical
Engineering
-
Stress
Analysis
-
Mechanical
Engineering.
-
Welding
Engineering
-
Mechanical
Engineering.
-
Robotics
-
Civil
Engineering.
-
Structural
Analysis
-
Civil
Engineering.
-
Remote
Sensing
NDE Minor
The NDE
minor consists of a required course sequence, a selection of
two NDE specific courses, and two supporting courses. Only
two of those courses (or six hours) may be counted both
against the minor and against any other degree
requirements. The remainder are courses the student pursing
the minor must add to h is or her academic program.
Required course sequence is a survey lecture and laboratory
on nondestructive testing.
b.
Graduate Program
Even though there
is no major or minor in NDE in the graduate (post
baccalaureate) program in Sungkyunkwan University, a variety
of opportunities for pursuing graduate work, specializing in
NDE, exist in all departments (or schools) of engineering.
Students are allowed to take a broad variety of courses
including those listed below. A thesis is required in most
cases for an MS degree. The Ph.D. program requires the
submission of a dissertation. The minimum number of credits
(from related courses) is 24 for a Masters degree and 36 for a
Ph.D. Examples of NDE related course are as follows.
NDE Specific Courses
Supporting Disciplinery
Courses
- Department of Physics. Ultrasonic
Acoustics
- Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. Numerical Analysis of Electromagnetics
I
- Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. Numerical Analysis of Electromagnetics
II
- Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. Advanced Digital Signal Processing
- Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. Image Processing
- Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. Neural Networks
- Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering. Pattern Recognition
- Department of Advanced Materials. Advanced
Fracture Mechanics
- Department of Advanced Materials. Advanced
Defects in Materials
- Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Fatigue Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Fracture Mechanics I
- Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Fracture Mechanics II
- Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Advanced Finite Element Method
I
- Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Advanced Finite Element Method II
- Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Signal Processing
- Department of Civil Engineering. Fracture
Mechanics of Concrete
- Department of Civil Engineering. Boundary
Element Method
- Department of Civil Engineering. Wave
Dynamics
- Department of Industrial Engineering.
Reliability Engineering
c. Continuing Education Programs
·
SAFE has short courses
(offered once a year) for NDE engineers and inspectors. The
short courses are aimed at providing hands-on instruction in
advanced theories and practices, and include:
-
Ultrasonics
-
Acoustic Emission
-
Noise and Vibration
d. Meshing with Vocational Training
Programs - Collaboration with Community Colleges, Etc.
Industry
There are currently no program in existence
at SAFE that involve meshing with vocational training programs.
e.
Exchanges
Faculty who is
currently leaving for a sabbatical of six months or more is
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