• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1357-1363
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• 1994

A Monte-Carlo simulation model is developed to predict size distribution produced by the coalescence of air bubbles in turbulent shear f1ow. The simulation consists of generating a population of air bubbles into the initial positions at each time step and tracking them by simulating motions and checking collisions. The radial displacement of air bubbles in the simulation model is produced by numerically solving an advective diffusion equation. Longitudinal displacements are generated from the logarithmic flow velovity distribution and the bubble rise velocity. Collision of air bubbles for each time step is detected by a geometric test using their relative positions at the beginning of the time step and relative displacements during the time step. At the end of the time step, the total number of bubbles, their positions, and sizes are updated. The computer program is coded such that minimum storages for sizes and positions of bubbles are required.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.234-237
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• 2001

고온초전도 기기의 냉매로 사용되는 액체질소($LN_2$)의 절연파괴 특성을 평가하고 기존 변압기에 사용되는 변압기유의 절연파괴 특성에 대하여 비교하였다. ��치에 따른 기포발생을 모의하여 순수 액체와 기포가 포함된 액체의 절연내력을 평가하였으며 기포의 거동에 따른 절연내력을 고찰하였다. 또한, 고온초전도 변압기, 케이블 및 한류기 등은 괜치 발생위치가 명확하지 않으므로 기포의 발생위치를 세 부분으로 모의하여 절연파괴 특성을 고찰하였다.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.48-55
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• 2000

A basic research of air bubble locus around the ship hull is performed to know the bubble's behavior which is generated around the hull surface. In this paper. bubble's behavior around the ship hull is calculated and experimented with the variation of bubble size and the location of bubble generation. For the use of the equation for bubble locus, Kawakita's equation which include the effect of bubble buoyancy is adopted. For the numerical simulation. a finite difference method based on the MAC method is used. Also experiments are performed about series 60 hull form at CWC. The results of calculation are compared with those of experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.177-184
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• 2010

This paper presents the electric field analysis for 2[MVA] mold transformer using finite element method. The electric field was calculated for the voltage applied to the mold transformer without voids in the insulating material. Then, it was analysed the maximum electric field when the voids was in the insulating materials. And the starting voltage of partial discharge was predicted due to the voids. The effects of voids in epoxy resin on the electric field were investigated for different sizes, shapes, positions and arrangements of voids.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.1365-1373
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• 1994

A Monte-Carlo simulation model, developed to predict size distribution of air bubbles in turbulent shear flow, is applied to a laboratory-scale problem. Sensitivity to various numerical and physical parameters of the model is analyzed. Practical applicability of the model is explored through comparisons of results with experimental measurements. Bubble size increases with air-water discharge ratio and friction factor. Bubble size decreases with increasing mean flow velocity, but the total bubble surface area in the aeration region remains fairly constant. The effect on bubble size distribution of the longitudinal length increment in the simulation model is negligible. A larger radial length increment yields more small and large bubbles and fewer in between. Bubble size distribution is significantly affected by its initial distribution and the location of air injection. Collision efficiency is introduced to explain the discrepancy between collisions with and without coalescence.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.2005-2006
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• 2011

Due to the advantages of small sizes, more I/O ports, etc., Ball Grid Array (BGA) has been used in the production of printed circuit board (PCB). However, BGA voids can degrade the performance of the board and cause failure. To automatically detect the voids in X-ray image, a novel blob filter that makes use of the local image gradient magnitude is proposed in this paper. The utilization of the local image gradient magnitude makes the proposed filter invariant to the image brightness, void shape, void position, and component interference. Furthermore, different sizes of box filters are employed to analyze the image in multi-scale, and as a result, the proposed blob filter is robust to void size. Experimental results show that the proposed method can obtain void detection accuracy up to 96.104% while keep low false ratio.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.211-216
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• 2012

In the phase boundary estimation problem, the estimation performance depends on the initial guess. However, there is no information on the number of bubbles and those positions for the initial guess in real flows. Therefore, it is very important to set appropriate initial guesses from prior information. In this paper, in order to set initial guesses for estimating the phase boundaries in two-phase flows, first, unknown resistivity distribution was estimated using the difference reconstruction method. After that, an adaptive threshold value was automatically computed using intermodes method. Based on this value, the number of bubbles and the initial position were determined. The numerical experiments have been performed to evaluate the estimation performance of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.59-69
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• 2010

This study is experimentally investigated for characteristics of lightweight air-trapped soils with uniform quality. Previously, EPS (Expanded PolyStyrene) blocks are often used as lightweight embankment, but many problems such as the level difference and cracks were caused by plastic (creep) deformation. So, a new material development is urgent. By means of alternatives, lightweight air-mixed soil using in-situ soils has been developed and applied to fields. In comparison with EPS block, lightweight air-mixed soil has less plastic (creep) deformation in long period, but the strength characteristics are different according to the soils where they are obtained. Therefore, the quality management of lightweight air-mixed soil is very difficult. Therefore in this study, characteristics of lightweight air-trapped soil using a manufactured sand with uniform quality are investigated. To found out the compression and tensile characteristics of lightweight air-tapped soils, unconfined compression test and splitting tensile test are conducted on the specimens prepared with different unit weight, cement-sand ratio and air-pore.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.23-32
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• 2010

This study was especially conducted to find out the characteristics of the lightweight air-mixed soil (slurry density 10 kN/$m^3$) containing silt related to water. Compression strength, permeability, and capillary height of the lightweight air-mixed soil were studied, and also to support these studies, the structure of that soil was analyzed in detail. Air bubbles of various sizes are inside the lightweight air-mixed soil, and its distribution in a location is almost constant. A numerous tiny pores are inside the air bubbles so that the lightweight air-mixed soil can be saturated with water. Porosity is also estimated through the image analysis. Peak strength of the lightweight air-mixed soil is not dependent on water, but behavior of stress-strain is affected by the water. Permeability is about $4.857{\times}10^{-6}cm/sec$, which is a little bit higher than the clay's permeability. Capillary rise occurs rapidly at the beginning of the test until the lapse of 100 minutes and then its increase rate becomes slow. The capillary rise causes the increase of the density of the lightweight air-mixed soil, and thus it is required to pay attention to this phenomenon during structure design and maintenance of the lightweight air-mixed soil.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.190-192
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• 2006

본 논문은 유리의 결함 검사를 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기포 측정에 대한 정의와 기포의 형상을 측정하는 알고리즘을 제시하고, 비젼 시스템을 이용한 검사자동화 시스템에 적용하여 테스트를 하였다. 기포 형상에는 두가지 타입으로 원형 타입과 긴형상 타입으로 구분되며, 이 두가지 타입에 따라 측정 결과 표시 방법이 다르다. 이미지 획득 및 전저리에서는 ccd 카메라를 사용하여 획득한 영상과 결함을 찾기 위해 영상을 이진화를 했으며, 얻어진 이진영상은 chain code 알고리즘을 통해 결함의 면적, 둘레 길이 및 위치등의 정보를 추출한다. 실제 물리적 크기를 정확히 얻기 위해 카메라의 보정을 했다. 광학계의 심도에 비하여 패널의 두께가 두껍기 때문에 하나의 영상으로는 기포의 양질의 영상획득이 불가능하다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 높이를 변화시켜가며 획득한 영상으로 불량형상을 찾아내고, 측정하기 적합한 영상을 획득하는 화상처리 알고리즘도 제안한다. 조명은 기존에 사용한 백라이트 명시야 조명을 사용하였다. 시스템의 결함 검출율은 거의 90%이상의 성능을 나타내고 있다.