Damage to the units related to driving and running of the railway vehicle may cause an inevitable accident due to defects and malfunctions in operation. In order to prevent such an accident, a non-destructive diagnostic technology that detects the damage is required. Previous researchers have researched and developed a monitoring system of the infrared thermography method to diagnose the condition of the railway vehicle driving and driving units. A system for monitoring running of the railway vehicle and temperature condition of the drive unit at a vehicle speed of 30 to 100 km/h was constructed, and a study on its applicability was conducted. In this study, a system for diagnosing an abnormal condition of the driving and running units while the vehicle is running with an infrared thermography diagnostic system was installed in the depot and operation route, and evaluation of the abnormal condition of the driving and running units was performed. The results show that the diagnosis system using infrared thermography can be used to identify abnormal conditions in the driving and running units of a railway vehicle. The diagnosis system can effectively inspect the normal and abnormal conditions in operation of a railway vehicle.

In this study, a numerical analysis for predicting the internal pressure of the flight vehicle system with relief valve and N2-injection type cooler was conducted to operate the system safely in an unsteady-state condition. By adopting an incompressible ideal gas equation to computational domain at each time step, internal pressure was calculated without iteration. To increase the accuracy of the numerical analysis results, numerical model was correlated by modifying the volume of the computational domain. To modify the volume of computational domain, internal pressure along time was compared with experimental results. It showed good agreement within system operating time. Air mass flow rate at the relief valve is calculated by interpolating the performance curve data. For accurate and rapid calculation of the internal pressure in an unsteady-state condition, time step size convergence study was conducted additionally. By using a correlated numerical model, Pcr of the relief valve is conducted to remain the flight vehicle system within an internal pressure range of 0.6-2.0 atm, in each flight profile. Finally, specific Pcr of relief valve was applied to the system and the experimental results showed that the internal pressure remained in a safe range.