• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.5 no.1 s.15
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• pp.1-10
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• 2003

The objective of pavement design, just as with the design of other structures, is to obtain the most economical designs at specified levels of reliability. Methods that yield designs with different levels of reliability are undesirable, and over the course of time design approaches in the U.S. and Europe have converged toward the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) format in order to assure uniform reliability. At present the LRFD format has been implemented in concrete, steel, wood and bridge design specifications. In this paper, reliability theories are used to illustrate the development of an LRFD format for Mechanistic-Empirical (M-E) design of flexible pavements as an alternative of its reliability module. It is shown in this paper that ten candidate pavement sections designed with a reliability level using the AASHTO design guide (1986) do not have uniform structural reliability in terms of pavement mechanistic distress such as fatigue cracking and the uniform reliability can be achieved by using the LRFD format.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.121-125
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 자동적인 퍼지 규칙 생성을 위해 퍼지 균등화(Fuzzy Equalization)와 유전알고리즘(Genetic Algorithm)을 이용한 TSK 퍼지 시스템의 구축을 다룬다. Pedrycz에 의해 제안된 퍼지 균등화 방법은 수치적인 데이터로부터 확률분포함수를 구축한 후 전체공간상에서 이들을 적절히 표현할 수 있는 소속함수를 생성한다. 이렇게 구축된 각 입력에 대한 소속함수는 유전알고리즘에 의해 입력공간이 분할되며 결론부 파라미터는 최소자승법에 의해 추정되어 진다. 제안된 방법은 그리드 분할로 인해 규칙의 수가 증가하는 문제를 해결하고 학습데이터와 검증데이터에 의해 타당한 입력공간분할과 퍼지 규칙을 생성할 수 있다. 시뮬레이션의 예로서 Box-Jenkins의 가스로 데이터의 모델링에 적용하여 제안된 방법의 유용성을 알 수 있다.

• Journal of Legislation Research
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• no.41
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• pp.201-228
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• 2011

In 97hu2200, the Supreme Court of Korea suggested five requirements to apply the doctrine of equivalents, i.e. identity of problem-solving principles, interchangeability, ease of interchangeability, exception of known arts and file-wrapper estoppel. There have been arguments on whether the standard of ease of interchangeability could be regarded as the same as the obviousness standard in deciding patentability. The side who thinks that they are different (hereinafter, the side of difference) considers that the standard of ease of interchangeability is narrower than the obviousness standard. This side criticizes the side who thinks that they are the same each other (hereinafter, the side of the same) on the reason that doctrine of equivalents can be overly expanded. On the other hand, 'the side of the same' argues that every accused invention having no inventive step from the perspective of the patented invention should be considered to infringe. 'The side of the same' points that if the standard of ease of interchangeability is considered as narrower than the obviousness standard, 'grey area' should exist where the patent law cannot work. The difference between the two side may cause contradictory results in the decision of infringement under the doctrine of equivalents. Because 'the side of difference' construes claims narrowly than 'the side of the same,' an accused invention in the grey area is not regarded to infringe. 'The side of the same,' however, considers the accused invention to fall into the scope of the patent under the doctrine of equivalents. This paper concludes that the standard of ease of interchangeability should be regarded as the same as the obviousness standard from the perspective of economics of innovation.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.918-928
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• 2013

The inequitable flow distribution to flocculation basins is an important problem faced in many water treatment plants. This is caused by the structure of a distribution channel, the height differences of outlet weirs etc. But, a modified approach for the structures has no effectiveness to achieve flow equality. The aim of this study is to reduce the inequality by adopting optimized inlet valve opening (%) of the flocculation basins using DOE (Design of Experiments) and RSA (Response Surface Analysis). The inlet valve openings (%) and inflow distributions (%) of 6 paralleled basins were set as factors (X) and characteristics(Y) respectively. 2 level factorial experiments and RSA were conducted for optimization and regression analysis (Y = f(X) + Const.). Adopting the optimized inlet valve opening (%) at field, standard deviation of flow distribution (%) and effluent turbidity was declined from 3.80% to 0.42% and from 0.29 NTU to 0.03 NTU respectively.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.55 no.spc1
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• pp.1197-1210
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• 2022

Recently, users' complaints on drinking water quality are increasing according to emerging interest in the drinking water service issues such as pipe aging and various water quality accidents. In the case of drinking water quality complaints, not only the water pollution but also the inconvenience on the chlorine residual for disinfection are included, thus various efforts, such as rechlorination treatment, are being attempted in order to keep the chlorine concentration supplied evenly. In this research, for a more accurate water quality simulation of water distribution network, the water quality reaction coefficients were estimated, and an optimization method of chlorination/ rechlorination scheduling was proposed consideirng satisfaction of water quality standards and chlorine residual equalization. The proposed method was applied to a large-scale real water network, and various chlorination schemes were comparatively analyzed through the grid search algorithm and optimized based on the suitability and uniformity of supplied chlorine residual concentration.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.6A
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• pp.581-590
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• 2010

This study introduces a layered sectional analysis for a PSC girder with a vaiable cross section and curved tendons. To consider the shear equilibrium at a concrete layer with curved tendons, the shear stress distribution has been computed at each section. In addition, to improve the convergence to the solution, a system identification technique is newly adopted in the solution process for strain computation. To examine the feasibility of the proposed approach, a static load test has been conducted for a full scale PSC girder with variable cross section. The prediction shows a good agreement with experiment. It is seen that a uniform cross section has the same moment capacity with a variable cross section while the variable cross section has more shear capacity than the uniform cross section. It is also noted that the maximum displacement of a variable cross section is a little smaller than a uniform cross section.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2010.07a
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• pp.422-423
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• 2010

직렬 연결된 배터리는 각 셀의 내부 화학적 특성 차이로 인해 동일 전류로 충전 및 방전 과정을 진행하여도 셀 간에 미세한 전압 차이가 발생한다. 이러한 셀 간 전압 불균형은 배터리 셀에 해로운 영향을 끼치게 되는데, 2차 전지의 경우 배터리 용량의 변화를 야기한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 배터리 운용 범위를 제한하는 보호회로가 있지만 보호회로는 직렬 연결된 배터리 셀 중 가장 전압이 높거나 가장 낮은 셀을 기준으로 충전과 방전 사이클을 종료시키므로 배터리 팩의 용량을 최대한으로 사용하지 못하게 하는 문제를 발생시킨다. 배터리 균등화 회로는 셀 간의 전압 차이를 줄여 배터리의 최대 용량을 사용하고자 하는 목적을 가진다. 저항을 기반으로 하는 수동적인 방법과는 달리 스위칭 소자를 이용하는 능동적인 방법에서는 스위칭으로 인해 입출력 전압 변동이 발생하여 컨버터 내부에 흐르는 전류가 수시로 변하는 문제가 생긴다. 위 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 본 논문에서는 배터리 균등화 회로에 전하 제어(Charge control)기법을 제안하고, 그에 따른 회로 설계 요소를 제시한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.41-45
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• 1985

A suboptimum block quantization method is investigated for efficent transform coding. In our study the following method has appeared as suboptimum. At first, optimum bit allocation is done assuming the varances of the transform coefficients are known. Secndly, a varance estimation algorithm which results from the approximate equations governing the optimum vit alllocation is applied. The better performance of the proposed block quantization method has been confirmed by simulations based on varous pdf assumptions. the results indicate that the proposed method yields overall improvements of about 25% in NMSE for both the symmetric nonuniform and uniform quantizer at the coding rate of 1 bit/pel.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.129-133
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• 1995

A new approach to the analysis of thin. rectangular window giass glass supported on flexible gaskets. and subjected to uniform lateral pressures was evolved. Based on the Von Karman theory of plates and using the finite difference method. a computer program which determines the deflections and stresses in simply supported thin glass plates was developed.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.81-88
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• 2015

In midst of electrical energy consumption on the rise due to the industrial development and the improved quality of living, medium capacity and multi boilers which use gas that is comparatively low cost and can be supplied reliably are simulated for energy consumption using the partial load data obtained from the experiment. Economic analysis that considers initial and operation costs is carried out based on the Annual equal payment method.