• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.39 no.11
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• pp.905-911
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• 2015

In this study, to examine the effect of a hole size change(smaller hole diameter) in the outer region of the lower-support-structure-bottom plate(LSSBP) on the reactor core-inlet flow-distribution, simulations were conducted with the commercial CFD software, ANSYS CFX R.15. The predicted results were compared with those of the original LSSBP. Through these comparisons, it was concluded that a more uniform distribution of the mass flow rate at the core-inlet plane could be obtained by reducing the hole size in the outer region of the LSSBP. Therefore, from the nuclear regulatory perspective, design change of the hole pattern in the outer region of the LSSBP may be desirable in terms of improving both the mechanical integrity of the fuel assembly and the core thermal margin.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.842-849
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to determine the possibility of using Agarum cribrosum as a natural health food source. To accomplish this purpose, the contents of the general and antioxidant activities of Agarum cribrosum were measured. The contents of carbohydrate, crude protein, crude lipid and ash were 45.4%, 15.0%, 2.3% and 33.1%. The calories of Agarum cribrosum were 262.3 kcal and total dietary fiber of Agarum cribrosum was 34.0%. The protein contained a total of 18 different kinds of amino acids. The content of amino acids was 12,402.42 mg/100 g. The K was the largest mineral followed by Ca, Na and Mg, implying that Agarum cribrosum is an alkali material. The antioxidant activity of Agarum cribrosum was assessed by various radical scavenging assays using DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl), FRAP (ferric ion reducing antioxidant power), reducing power, and ABTS (2,2'-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid)). All antioxidant activity of Agarum cribrosum extract increased the concentration of the dependents. Total phenolic contents of Agarum cribrosum extract were $34.1{\pm}2.56mg/g$, and total flavonoids contents were estimated at $4.9{\pm}0.26mg/g$. General nutrients and other antioxidant bioactive materials in Agarum cribrosum were also potential materials for good health food. It is expected that a follow-up study of Agarum cribrosum through developing processed food and evaluation of their functional properties would provide useful information or sources of functional foods.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.531-537
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• 2016

The damage and fracture of machine or structure are caused by the crack happened from the defect existed at the inside of material. The properties of crack propagation and growth characteristic must be considered because there are many cases at which these cracks are densely existed. Therefore, this study investigates the fracture property due to the position of crack and hole inside the standard compact tension (C. T.) specimen. When the concentrated load is applied eccentrically at the standard C. T. specimen, the fracture mechanical behavior due to the existence or non-existence and the position of hole near crack is investigated. As the result of analysis study, model 3 (in case of the distance of 2mm on the horizontal direction between the end part and hole as the specimen model existed with one hole near the crack) has the maximum deformation, stress and deformation energy of the most values among three models. As the distance between the crack and hole inside the specimen becomes nearer, the maximum stress becomes higher in cases of three models. Apart from the number of holes, it is seen that the maximum stress becomes higher near the crack when the hole exists near the crack inside the specimen. If the hole inside the machine or the mechanical structure is punctured by using the result of this study, it is thought that the occurred breakage or breakdown can be prevented by reducing the fracture stress happened at the specimen.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.74-84
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• 2004

Purpose: Since I-125 emits low energy (27-35 keV) radiation, thinner crystal and collimator could be employed and, hence, it is favorable to obtain high quality images. The purpose of this study was to derive the optimized parameters of I-125 SPECT using a new simulation tool, GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission). Materials and Methods: To validate the simulation method, gamma camera developed by Weisenberger et al. was modeled. Nal(T1) plate crystal was used and its thickness was determined by calculating detection efficiency. Spatial resolution and sensitivity curves were estimated by changing variable parameters for parallel-hole and pinhole collimator. Peformances of I-125 SPECT equipped with the optimal collimator were also estimated. Results: in the validation study, simulations were found to agree well with experimental measurements in spatial resolution (4%) and sensitivity (3%). In order to acquire 98% gamma ray detection efficiency, Nal(T1) thickness was determined to be 1 mm. Hole diameter (mm), length (mm) and shape were chosen to be 0.2:5:square and 0.5:10:hexagonal for high resolution (HR) and general purpose (GP) parallel-hole collimator, respectively. Hole diameter, channel height and acceptance angle of pinhole (PH) collimator were determined to be 0.25 mm, 0.1 mm and 90 degree. The spatial resolutions of reconstructed image of the I-125 SPECT employing HR:GP:PH were 1.2:1.7:0.8 mm. The sensitivities of HR:GP:PH were 39.7:71.9:5.5 cps/MBq. Conclusion: The optimal crystal and collimator parameters for I-125 Imaging were derived by simulation using GATE. The results indicate that excellent resolution and sensitivity imaging is feasible using I-125 SPECT.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.53 no.5
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• pp.570-575
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• 2015

The green algae have cellulose as a main structural component of their cell wall and the cellulose content in green algae is much higher than other marine algae such as brown algae and red algae. Furthermore, green algae do not contain lignin in their cell wall and store starch as food in their plastids. Thus, it was investigated that the effect of hydrothermal pretreatment process utilizing microwave irradiation for Ulva pertusa Kjellman, a division of green algae, which is expected to be utilized for bioenergy production, on the enzymatic hydrolysis. The hydrothermal temperature have an effect on the pretreatment of Ulva pertusa Kjellman, but the effect of power of microwave irradiation is negligible. The rate of enzymatic hydrolysis was increased as the hydrothermal temperature increased until $140^{\circ}C$. The enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated Ulva pertusa Kjellman under the optimum pretreatment conditions (50 W of microwave irradiation power and $150^{\circ}C$ of hydrothermal temperature) with cellulase, ${\alpha}$-amylase, and Novozyme 188 having ${\beta}$-glucosidase acitivity resulted in the saccharification of 96 wt% of total carbohydrate in Ulva pertusa Kjellman during 3 hrs, while it took 24 hrs for the enzymatic hydrolysis of untreated Ulva pertusa Kjellman. It confirmed that the hydrothermal pretreatment was effective on Ulva pertusa Kjellman for the enzymatic hydrolysis.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.45-45
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• 2020

하천 횡단구조물 하류부에서는 고유속 및 ±압력에 의해 하상재료가 유실되는 세굴현상이 발생한다. 이러한 세굴을 방지하기 위해 횡단구조물 하류부에는 석재, 콘크리트 및 콘크리트 블록 등을 설치 및 포설하여 하상보호공을 설치한다. 하상보호공을 설치하면 설치된 부분은 세굴이 방지 되지만, 하상보호공 끝단 이후에는 지반이 노출되어 있어 노출된 지반에서 고유속 흐름 및 압력변화에 의한 세굴이 발생하는 경우가 많다. 이에 본 연구에서는 하상보호공 끝단 즉, 하상이 노출된 지반에서 압력변화에 따라 하상재료가 유실되므로 압력에너지를 감쇄시키기 위한 하상보호장치를 개발하였다. 개발한 하상보호장치는 본래 다수개가 열을 지어 메트릭스 형태로 설치되도록 하여야 하지만 실험 여건상 단일체로 수리실험을 진행하였다. 하상보호장치는 상판과 하판이 조립된 형태이며 상판과 하판 사이에 이격공간이 구비되어있다. 하상보호장치 검증을 위해 상판과 하판에 쓰이는 판은 수로재질과 같은 아크릴로 제작하였으며, 하상재료의 공극률을 반영하여 다공성 판으로 제작하였다. 다공판의 전체 구멍 면적 대비 판 면적은 35 % 로 동일하다. 상판 구멍 지름 15.0 mm, 4.5 mm 2가지로 제작하였으며, 하판 구멍 지름 3.0 mm 으로 동일하다. 압력변화가 큰 곳에서 작은 곳으로 물이 이동하게 되므로 고유속 수리조건에서 상판과 하판 사이에서의 압력변화를 측정하기 위해 판 중간에 압력계를 설치하였다. 하상보호장치 설치지점 앞 0.3 m 부근에 PIV를 설치하여 유속을 측정하였다. 실험결과 상판의 구멍 직경(15.0 mm)이 클 경우 상판부 압력이 하판부로 전달되어 하판에서 측정되는 압력이 증폭 되었으며, 상판의 다공성 구멍 직경(4.5 mm)이 작을 경우 상판부에서 하판부로 전달되는 압력이 감소하여 하판에서 측정되는 압력이 감소하였다. 상판과 하판의 다공성 구멍의 직경을 적절한 사이즈로 조절하면 상판부의 압력이 하판부로 전달되는 것을 막고 압력에 의해 하상에서 흡출되는 유사를 막을 수 있는 것으로 판단되며 추후 상판과 하판의 다공성판 구멍 직경의 상대적 차이에 따른 압력 감소효율에 관한 연구가 필요하다고 판단된다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.475-481
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• 2014

The aim of this work was to develop the gamma camera system for small animal gamma imaging and environmental radiation monitoring imaging using a parallel hole collimator and pinhole collimator. The small gamma camera system consists of a CsI(Tl) scintillation crystal with 6 mm in thickness and $50{\times}50mm$ in area coupled with a Hamamatsu H8500C PSPMT, are resistive charge divider, pre-amplifiers, charge amplifiers, nuclear instrument modules (NIMs), an analog to digital converter and a computer for control and display. We have developed a radiation monitoring system composed of a combined pinhole gamma camera and a charge-coupled devices (CCD) camera. The results demonstrated that the parallel hole collimator and pinhole collimator gamma camera designed in this study could be utilized to perform small animal imaging and environmental radiation monitoring system. Consequently in this paper, we proved that our gamma detector system is reliable for a gamma camera which can be used as small animal imaging and environmental radiation monitoring system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.1632-1642
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• 1992

When a blind hole of small diameter is drilled in the field of residual stress, strain relieved around the hole is function of magnitude of stress, patterns of stress distribution and hole geometry of diameter and depth. Relieved strain coefficients can be calculated from FEM analysis of relieved strain and actual stress. These relieved strain coefficients make it possible to measure residual stress which vary along the depth in the subsurface of stressed material. In this study, the calibration tests of residual stress measurement are carried out by drilling a hole incrementally on the cantilever or on the tensile test bar. Residual stresses can be determined from measured strains around a shallow hole by application of power series method. For the sake of reliable measurement of residual stress, much efforts should be done to measure relieved strains and hole depth more accurately comparing with conventional procedures of gage subject to the external load. Otherwise linear equations converting strains into stresses may yield erratic residual stresses because of ill-conditions of linear equations. With accurate measurements of relieved strains, residual stress even if varying along the depth can be measured. It is also possible to measure residual stress in the thin film of material by drilling a shallow hole.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.168-169
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• 2002

일반적인 광섬유가 실리카로 만들어진 클래딩과 이보다 약간 굴절률이 높은 코어로 구성되어 있는 것과는 달리 광자결정 광섬유(photonic crystal fiber 또는 다공성 광섬유(holey fiber))는 코아와 클래딩이 순수 실리카로 구성되어 있다 클래딩의 효과를 주기 위해 광섬유 축을 따라서 규칙적인 공기구멍 다발을 형성하여 준다. 광자결정 광섬유는 특이한 광학적 특성 때문에 최근에 활발히 연구되어 지고 있다. 공기구멍의 구조를 조절함으로써 넓은 파장 영역에서 단일 모드로 진행하고(1), 아주 큰 분산을 갖게 할 수 lT고, hem 반경을 조절 할 수 있으며, 특이한 분산 특성과 이의 조절이 가능하다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1991.04a
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• pp.77-86
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• 1991

레이저 빔이갖고있는 spatial coherence 특성에 의해서 렌즈를 이용하여 집광시키면 집광부에서 고출력 밀도를 얻을 수 있다. 이와같이 집광된 레이저 빔을 재료의 표면에 조사하면 재료로 부터 미세량을 용융, 증발시키므로 일반적인 방법으로는 가공이 어려운 단단한 재료의 절단과 미세 구멍가공이 가능하게된다. 본 논문에서는 출력, 펄스 수, defoucsing, pulse on-time, 보조가스 압력등을 변화 시키면서 드릴링 실험을 수행하고, 각 실험 조건에서의 구멍 형상과 깊이를 측정함으로써 가공 변수들의 process sensitivity를 평가하였다.