• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.159-167
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to accurately estimate the wind-induced responses of a tall building structure for using the estimated responses in the process of calculating the optimal force of an active control device. Kalman filter was used for the estimation process and a 3-storied model structure on a shaking table was tested for the verification of the estimation accuracy. The system matrices of the model were constructed based on the mode parameters obtained by the system identification. The estimated displacement matched up well with the measured one. Finally, the wind-induced responses of a real 39-storied building structure excited by the typhoon MUIFA were estimated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.241-247
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• 2015

Deflection and deformation occur easily in structures with long length, such as bridges and pipelines. Shape monitoring is required for ensuring their structural health. A fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor can be used for monitoring a large-scale structure because of its advantage of multiplexing. In this study, FBG sensors were used for monitoring a composite beam structure, and its strains were measured at multiple points. Thereafter, a shape estimation technique based on the strains was studied. Particularly, a three-dimensional shape estimation technique was proposed for accurate structural health monitoring. A simple experiment was conducted to verify the performance of the shape estimation technique. The result revealed that the estimated shape of the composite beam structure was in agreement with the actual shape obtained after the deformation of the specimen. Additionally, the deflection at a specific point was verified by comparing the estimated and actual deformations measured using a micrometer.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.787-793
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a new single carrier - frequency domain equalization (SC-FDE) structure to cope with narrow band interference. In the conventional SC-FDE structure, when a high-power narrow band interference exists, channel estimation and data recovery is difficult. To relieve from this problem, this paper proposes a new SC-FDE frame structure to enable frequency-domain channel estimation in the environments that exist narrow band interference. Specifically, in the conventional method, the channel estimation is performed in time-domain first and from that, the frequency-domain channel is obtained by Fourier transform. In contrast, we proposed a new SC-FDE structure to enable frequency-domain channel estimation directly from received signals without time-domain channel estimation. The receiver performance improvement is verified through computer simulation. According to the results, the proposed technique can detect the signal with less than 2 dB loss compared with jammer-free environments, while the conventional method does not communicate with each other.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.85-92
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• 1998

The block matching algorithm is the most popular motion estimation method in image sequence coding. In this paper, we propose a VLSI architecture. for implementing a recently proposed fast bolck matching algorith, which uses spatial correlation of motion vectors and hierarchical searching scheme. The proposed architecture consists of a basic searching unit based on a systolic array and two shift register arrays. And it covers a search range of -32~ +31. By using the basic searching unit repeatedly, it reduces the number of gatyes for implementation. For basic searching unit implementation, a proper systolic array can be selected among various conventional ones by trading-off between speed and hardware cost. In this paper, a structure is selected as the basic searching unit so that the hardware cost can be minimized. The proposed overall architecture is fast enough for low bit-rate applications (frame size of $352{\times}288$, 3Oframes/sec) and can be implemented by less than 20,000 gates. Moreover, by simply modifying the basic searching unit, the architecture can be used for the higher bit-rate application of the frame size of $720{\times}480$ and 30 frames/sec.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.13-19
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• 2010

In this paper, we study a new estimation system for the prediction of steam generator tube defects. In the previous research works, defect size estimators were independently designed for each defect types in order to estimate the defect size. As a result, the structure of estimation system is rather complex and the estimation performance gets worse if the classification performance is degraded for some reason. This paper studies a new estimation system that does not require the classification of defect types. Although the previous works are expected to achieve much better estimation performance than the proposed system since it uses the estimator specialized in each defect, the performance difference is not so large. Therefore, it is expected that the proposed estimator can be effectively used for the case where the defect type classification is imperfect.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.113-119
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• 1989

Methods for identification of modal properties of linear structures are presented. The extended Kalman filtering technique is employed. The state equation is formulated by two different ways, namely by the time domain and frequency domain approaches. Verifications are carried out by using the simulated records of ground acceleration and structural response. Then the techniques are applied to the estimation of modal parameters of a scaled model for a 3-story building which is installed on a shaking table.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.71-79
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• 2023

It is not efficient to install a maintenance system that measures seismic acceleration and displacement on all bridges and buildings to evaluate the safety of structures after an earthquake occurs. In order to maintain this, an on-site investigation is conducted. Therefore, it takes a lot of time when the scope of the investigation is wide. As a result, secondary damage may occur, so it is necessary to predict the safety of individual structures quickly. The method of estimating earthquake damage of a structure includes a finite element analysis method using approved seismic information and a structural analysis model. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the seismic information generated at arbitrary location in order to quickly determine structure damage. In this study, methods to predict the ground response spectrum and acceleration time history at arbitrary location using linear estimation methods, and artificial neural network learning methods based on seismic observation data were proposed and their applicability was evaluated. In the case of the linear estimation method, the error was small when the locations of nearby observatories were gathered, but the error increased significantly when it was spread. In the case of the artificial neural network learning method, it could be estimated with a lower level of error under the same conditions.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.87-94
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• 1999

Empirical design is still used to avoid a structural damage because impact phenomenon and structural behaviour due to wave impact load can not examined accurately. The damage due to wave impact load is largely affected by impact pressure impulse and impact load area. The objective of this study is, as the second step, to develop an efficient scantling program of bow flare structure, and to predict its impact load area by comparing maximum dented deformations at center of idealized panel structure model of bow flare structure of 300k DWT VLCC using LS/DYNA3D code, which will be used for its verification of dynamic structural analysis, as the next step. Through this study, the impact load area was estimated as $1.5s{\times}1.5s$ stiffener space(s) in the case of panel with stiffeners and as $2.5s{\times}2.5s$, with stringers, under impact pressure curve with peak height 6.5MPa, tail height 1.0MPa, and duration time 5.0msec.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.545-548
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• 2003

MIMO-OFDM 시스템은 다중 안테나 송신을 통하여 시스템의 capacity를 극대화 하지만, 이를 위해서는 정확한 채널계수 값의 추정을 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서는 MIMO-OFDM시스템을 위한 채널계수 추정기법으로서 Space-Time Coding(STC)에 기반을 둔 방식을 제안한다. 제안된 채널 계수 추정 기법을 위해 필요한 심볼 구조, frame 구조를 IEEE 802.11a 시스템에 적용하였다. VBLAST 기법이 적용된 IEEE 802.11a 기반의 4 by 4 MIMO-OFDM 시스템에 대한 모의 실험을 통하여 제안된 방법의 성능과 기존의 방법의 성능을 coded BER를 통해 비교 분석해 보았다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.204-207
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• 2003

MIMO-OFDM 시스템은 다중 안테나 송신을 통하여 시스템의 capacity를 극대화하지만, 이를 위해서는 정확한 채널 계수 값의 추정을 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서 는 MIMO-OFDM 시스템을 위한 채널계수 추정기법으로서 Space-Time Coding(STC)에 기반을 둔 방식을 제안한다. 제안된 채널계수 추정기법을 위해 필요한 심볼구조, frame 구조를 IEEE 802.11a 시스템에 적용하였다. VBLAST 기법이 적용된 IEEE 802.11a 기반의 4 by 4 MIMO-OFDM 시스템에 대한 모의실험을 통하여 제안된 방법의 성능과 기존의 방법의 성능을 coded BER를 통해 비교 분석해 보았다.