• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.128-134
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a new lumped Wilkinson power divider which is designed to have lower quality-factors in the impedance transformation. Therefore, it can provide wider bandwidth than the conventional one. Moreover, the proposed power divider consists of fewer number of elements so that the circuit size can be further reduced. Simulation results show that the proposed lumped power divider allows a 50% wider bandwidth in the return loss and isolation performance. The conventional and new Wilkinson power was designed and fabricated based on the derived equations at 2.0 GHz. In the measurement, the proposed divider achieved a good performance with an input return loss ($S_{11}$) of -23.0 dB, an isolation ($S_{23}$) of -29.0 dB and an insertion loss ($S_{21}$) of -3.12 dB at the design frequency with wider bandwidth than the conventional one.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.190-195
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• 2017

This paper proposes a method to detect rail broken through impedance measurement. In general, broken rails are detected in real time using the track circuit, but the proposed method not only detects the broken rails but also estimates positions of broken areas by measuring the rail impedance. To electrically insulate one side of the rail, parallel resonance is made by adding a capacitor; then, the impedance of the other rail is measured. If the measured impedance has an inductive value, there is no broken area of rail. However if the measured impedance has a capacitive value, the rail is broken. The proposed method is modeled using a transmission line; it is shown that the modeling can estimate the position of the broken rail according to the impedance value. The rail impedance is measured by the proposed method for a 60m simple rail model, and it is verified that the presence of a broken rail changes the rail impedance.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.62-69
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• 2010

This paper presents the dependances of transient grounding impedances of counterpoises on the soil structures and the injected point of impulse currents. The transient and conventional grounding impedances of the 25 and 50[m] counterpoises buried in the soil with different resistivity were measured and analyzed as a function of the rise time of impulse currents. As a result, the transient grounding impedances give an inductive behavior, and the trend of the conventional grounding impedances is similar to that of the transient grounding impedances. The ground resistance of counterpoises is irrespective to the injected of impulse current, but the transient and conventional grounding impedances in a short time range especially depend on the soil resistivity and position of the injected point of impulse currents.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.85-89
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• 1997

In this paper, the imdedance for each layer using triple cepstrum signal processing for reflected ultrasonic signal from the multilayer structure has been analyzed. The reflection coefficient can be obtained from the amplitude and the polarity of the peaks in the triple cepstrum, and then the impedance of each layer has been reconstructed by the reflection coefficient. In this experiment, four types of multilayers consisting of different metal layers were manufactured. The reflected signals from the multilayer structure have been detected by pulse-echo method. The impedances have been reconstructed by triple cepstrum technique. The experimental results have been in good agreement with the theoretical results.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.15 no.12 s.91
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• pp.1147-1151
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• 2004

A novel impedance model is proposed fur the rectangular power plane along with the analytic impedance expression derived from it. The power plane is modeled as a section of a rectangular waveguide with appropriate boundary conditions around its periphery. As a result, the derived impedance expression based on the proposed model has the one-dimensional series form, which is simpler and computationally more efficient than the existing formula based on cavity model of the power plane.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.119-125
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• 2011

A novel circuit structure of dual-band bandstop filters is proposed in this paper. This structure comprises two shunt-connected tri-section stepped impedance resonators with a transmission line in between. Theoretical analysis from the equivalent circuit and design procedures are described. We represented graphs for filter design from the derived synthesis equations by resonance condition of circuits. Notably, advantages of the proposed filter structure are compact size in design, wide range of realizable resonance frequency ratio, and more realizable impedances.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.85-91
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• 2015

We investigated the structure of inductive coupler and its magnetic coupling to increase the transmission coefficient for power line communication. A Rogowski coil, which is an air-cored inductive coupler, and a magnetic cored coupler were fabricated to analyze the transmission coefficient for different coupler parameters. This paper proposes the impedance matching method using lumped elements and an impedance transformer to increase the transmission coefficient. In the experiment, the transmission coefficient of the proposed system was increased in both narrowband and broadband cases, and a trade-off between the transmission coefficient and the bandwidth was shown. This method will be useful for the further study of impedance matching with the load variation.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.415-420
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• 1999

본 연구의 목적은 SEA모델링 기법을 이용하여 시스템 응답 특성을 예측 하는데 있어서 연견 손실 계수(coupling loss factor). 내부 손실 계수(internal loss factor)와 같은 주요 변수의 값을 압전 지능 구조물을 이용하여 도출 하는 .것이다. 관심 주파수 대역에서 임피던스(impedance) 해석기를 이용해 압전 지능 구조물의 임피던스를 측정하고 랜덤 가진 시 압전 지능 구조물의 부하전압을 측정, 시스템에 가해지는 전기적 파워를 구하였다. 이 값을 전기-기계적 연결 계수(electro-mechanical coupling coefficient)를 이용 기계적 파워로 상사 시키고 이때 시스템에 저장되는 에너지를 가속도계를 이용해 측정 하였다. 이 결과 값을 이용하여 연결 손실 계수와 내부 손실 계수를 구하여 보았다. 또한 이론식을 이용하여 얻은 이론 값과 기존의 가진기(shaker)를 이용하여 얻은 실험 값과 비교 분석 하였다.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.94-94
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• 2011

배관 구조물에서는 내부 미세 균열에서부터 국부 좌굴, 볼트 풀림, 피로 균열 등과 같이 다양한 형태의 손상이 복합적으로 발생 가능하다. 이러한 복합 손상은 배관 구조물의 누수, 누유 등의 사고를 야기할 수 있다. 하지만 기존의 단일 스케일 계측 시스템으로부터 복합 손상에 의한 실시간 누수를 진단하기는 매우 어렵다. 본 연구 단계에서는 누수를 야기하는 복합 손상을 효율적으로 진단하기 위하여 선행 연구에서 제안된 압전센서를 이용한 자가 계측 회로 기반의 다중 스케일 계측 시스템을 구조물의 복합 손상 진단에 적용하였다. 자가 계측 회로 기반 다중 스케일 계측 시스템은 크게 두 가지 형태의 신호를 계측한다. 첫 번째 스케일은 임피던스 계측으로부터 특정 주파수 대역폭에 대한 구조 응답을 계측하며, 두 번째 스케일은 유도 초음파 계측으로부터 단일 중심 주파수에 해당하는 구조물의 응답을 계측한다. 복합 손상을 손상 유형별로 분류하기 위하여 E/M 임피던스(Electro-mechanical impedance)및 유도 초음파(Guided wave) 계측으로부터 추출한 특성을 이용하여 2차원 손상지수를 계산하고 이를 지도학습 기반 패턴인식 기법(Supervised learning based pattern recognition) 중 확률론적 신경망 기법(Probabilistic Neural Network, PNN)에 적용한다. 제안된 기법의 적용성 검토를 위하여 파이프 구조물에 인위적으로 다중 손상을 생성시켜 시험을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서 제안된 기법이 실제 배관 구조물에 성공적으로 적용된다면 손상 부재의 거동 및 구조물 성능의 손상에 대한 영향을 효율적으로 진단하고 평가함으로써 배관 구조물의 효과적인 유지관리가 가능할 것으로 예상된다.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.230-237
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• 2022

It is essential that service life of reinforced concrete structures in economic and safety aspects should be secured. It is well-known that chloride attack is a typical deterioration mechanism in field concrete structures. To prevent serious accidents like collapse, many studies have been conducted to increase resistance of chloride ingress using concrete mixed with GGBS. The usage of GGBS concrete is nowadays mandatory. Since most concretes in the field are unsaturated, study regarding chloride absorption is necessary, but many studies have focused on the chloride diffusion phenomenon. Methods for evaluating chloride absorption are cost and improper in the field. It is necessary to develop a simple method for evaluating chloride absorption in practice. This study evaluated resistance of chloride ingress in GGBS concretes with impedance measurement and absorption test. From the results, it was confirmed that the contents of absorbed chloride were linearly correlated with the measured electrical resistivities (or conductivities) in the concrete. At the end of the test, the electrical conductivities were 250.8 S/m (w/b=0.4) and 303.1 S/m (w/b=0.6) for PC concretes, and 2.6 S/m (w/b=0.4) and 64.4 S/m (w/b=0.6) for GGBS concretes, respectively. Considering influencing factors for chloride absorption and impedance measurement, chloride ingress into concrete is mainly affected by pore structures due to replacement of GGBS. Especially, formations of pore structure are different with binder, thereby binders should be considered in building reinforced concrete structures exposed to chloride environments.