• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.369-376
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• 2002

The dielectric properties of cereal grains such as short-grain rough rice, brown rice and barley with various moisture contents were determined by measuring the attenuation and phase shift of the microwave signal trough the grain samples at 9.5GHz. The microwave free-space transmission measurement system consisted of sample holder, horn antenna and network analyzer. Dielectric constant and loss factor of grain samples increased with moisture content and bulk density and agreed well with previous research results. Moisture density, which is defined as the product of moisture content and bulk density, was proposed as a bulk density and variety compensation factor. The technique for measurement of dielectric properties based on free-space transmission may be useful for other particulate materials.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.42 no.10
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• pp.785-793
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• 2009

Numerical model which can simulate the surge tank for unsteady flow was developed in the present study. Furthermore, reliability model which can calculate the probability of pipe breakage regarding unsteady effect was developed. For the risk estimation of pipe breakage and functional estimation of surge tank, probability of pipe breakage for pipe network with surge tank was calculated regarding unsteady effect. From the results, it was found that unsteady flow significantly increase the probability of pipe breakage and surge tank considerably decrease probability of pipe breakage as damping out the pressure oscillations.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.163-173
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• 1998

Nuclear medicine emission computed tomography(ECT) can be very useful to diagnose early stage of neuronal diseases and to measure theraputic results objectively, if we can quantitate energy metabolism, blood flow, biochemical processes, or dopamine receptor and transporter using ECT. However, physical factors including attenuation, scatter, partial volume effect, noise, and reconstruction algorithm make it very difficult to quantitate independent of type of SPECT. In this study, we quantitated the effects of attenuation and scatter using brain SPECT and three-dimensional brain phantom with and without applying their correction methods. Dual energy window method was applied for scatter correction. The photopeak energy window and scatter energy window were set to 140ke${\pm}$10% and 119ke${\pm}$6% and 100% of scatter window data were subtracted from the photopeak window prior to reconstruction. The projection data were reconstructed using Butterworth filter with cutoff frequency of 0.95cycles/cm and order of 10. Attenuation correction was done by Chang's method with attenuation coefficients of 0.12/cm and 0.15/cm for the reconstruction data without scatter correction and with scatter correction, respectively. For quantitation, regions of interest (ROIs) were drawn on the three slices selected at the level of the basal ganglia. Without scatter correction, the ratios of ROI average values between basal ganglia and background with attenuation correction and without attenuation correction were 2.2 and 2.1, respectively. However, the ratios between basal ganglia and background were very similar for with and without attenuation correction. With scatter correction, the ratios of ROI average values between basal ganglia and background with attenuation correction and without attenuation correction were 2.69 and 2.64, respectively. These results indicate that the attenuation correction is necessary for the quantitation. When true ratios between basal ganglia and background were 6.58, 4.68, 1.86, the measured ratios with scatter and attenuation correction were 76%, 80%, 82% of their true ratios, respectively. The approximate 20% underestimation could be partially due to the effect of partial volume and reconstruction algorithm which we have not investigated in this study, and partially due to imperfect scatter and attenuation correction methods that we have applied in consideration of clinical applications.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.311-316
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• 2002

On this study, to develop the impact absorbing system for spreader, we operated the dynamic response for models of three types consisting of spring and oil damper by the finite element analysis. Also, in the three types of impact absorbing system, we set the restricted stroke of piston to the static variables and the optimum design was operated to have the minimum value of the reaction force for the impact. As the result, the direct model of two degree of freedom system has lowest value, the model of one degree of freedom system has higher value than that and the parallel model of two degree of freedom system has the highest value. And we studied the effect that the change of spring constant and damping coefficient affect to the reaction force and as the result of the optimum design, we found that reaction force has the lowest value in the each of models.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.204-207
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• 2011

We developed a time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect microscope system to investigate ultrafast magnetization dynamics. Based on the pump-probe method, 0.1-ps time resolution was achieved by use of a fs Ti:Sapphire laser. The magnetization dynamics was then measured on Pt/Co/Pt thin films with various Co thicknesses. All the samples exhibited ultrafast demagnetization within a few ps by direct heating of pump laser. Some thicker samples showed precessional motion of magnetization, from which the Gilbert damping constant was determined based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation.

• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2017

The understanding of the pressure associated with air blast, which travels through air, and its effect on surface and underground structures is highly important. It is necessary to determine the pressure change with time and distance for a computer simulation of the explosion impact on a structure. From the previous studies, many empirical equations for estimating the parameters related to the pressure change. In this study, the empirical equations for predicting peak overpressure, duration of positive phase, impulse, minimum negative pressure, duration of negative pressure, arrival time, and decay constant were reviewed and analyzed. Also, the pressure changes predicted from the Kingery equation, which is the most commonly used, and from the other empirical equations were compared.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1991.04a
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• pp.133-138
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• 1991

일반적으로 고무를 비롯한 점탄성재료는 형상 및 크기를 적절히 조절함으로 써 한 방향 이상으로의 원하는 스프링상수를 얻을 수 있으며, 금속에 비하여 내부 마찰에 의한 에너지 발산이 매우 크기 때문에 강제 진동시의 진폭저감 및 충격에 따른 자유진동의 감쇠에 널리 이용되고 있다. 이와 같은 진동감쇠 에 점탄성재료를 효과적으로 사용하기 위해서는 복소탄성계수 즉, 탄성계수 와 손실계수를 정확하게 알아내는 것이 필요하다. 점탄성재료의 복소탄성계 수는 주파수, 온도 및 변형률등에 따라 변하므로 이와 같은 사용조건의 함수 로 구해야 한다. 복소탄성계수를 실험적으로 구하는 방법은 여러가지가 있으 며 실험의 용이성과 관심대상에 따라 적절한 방법을 선택하게 된다. 본 연구 에서는 주파수변화에 따른 복소탄성계수를 임피던스법으로 집중질량 모형을 이용하여 구하려고 할 때, 실험데이타로부터 보다 정확한 결과를 얻기 위하 여 적절한 시편의 크기를 결정하는 방법을 제시하고자 한다. 이를 위해서 시 편내의 파동전달효과와 포아송비와 관련된 양단제한효과 그리고 정하중시 압축변형에 대한 시편의 좌굴등을 고려하여 이론적으로 해석하였으며 실험 적으로도 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.94-100
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• 2009

In diesel engines, it is inevitable that the torsional vibration is produced by the fluctuation of engine torque. Therefore, it is necessary to establish preventive measures to diminish the torsional vibration. The sleeve spring type damper is one of the preventive measures for reducing the torsional vibration. In this study, a closed form equation to predict spring constant of the sleeve spring and torsional characteristic of the torsional vibration damper was proposed to calculate stiffness of the damper and verified their availability through the finite element analysis. The theoretical values have a good agreement with the results obtained by the finite element analysis. The results obtained from the equation derived enable the designers in actual fields to be more efficient.

• Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.25-29
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• 2003

We suggest a method that vectorially composes 3-component earthquake records in the frequency domain, to reduce the uncertainties in the analysis of the Fourier amplitude spectrum. The use of the Fourier amplitude spectrum composed from 3 components has two advantages. First, it provides a more accurate estimate of seismic moment by eliminating the vector-partition term that appears in individual component. Second, it provides more accurate estimates of seismic moment, corner frequency, high-frequency decay constant($χ$) .etc., by enhancing the shape of the Fourier amplitude spectrum. The latter is especially useful in the analysis of small earthquakes with low signal-to-noise ratios.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.242-248
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• 2011

By applying analytic method to the uniform model, the intrinsic and scattering quality factor ($Q_i^{-1}$ and $Q_s^{-1}$) was separated for the southeastern part of Korean Peninsula. The Multiple Lapse Time Window Analysis method was used to fit theoretical values with observations obtained 759 earthquake data. While previous study for the Korean Peninsula showed very low $Q_i^{-1}$ and $Q_s^{-1}$ reflecting inactive seismicity, southeastern Korea exhibited relatively high $Q_i^{-1}$ and $Q_s^{-1}$ values interpreted as higher seismicity than the other region in the peninsula.