• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.187-194
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• 2016

It is necessary to determine reliability indexes of existing railway bridges prior to setting up a proper target reliability index that can be used to introduce a reliability based limit state design method to design practice. Reliability is evaluated for a six PSC-I girder railway bridge, which is one of many representative types of double-track railway bridges. The reliability assessment is carried out for an edge girder subjected to bending moment. In the assessment, the flexural resistance and the fixed-load effect were obtained using existing statistical values from previous research on the introduction of limit state design to road bridge design. On the other hand, the live-load effect was determined using statistical values obtained from field measurement for the Joong-ang corridor, on which heavy freight trains are frequently passing. The reliability assessment is performed by AFOSM(Advanced First Order Second Moment method) for the limit state equation, and a sensitivity analysis for the reliability is performed for each factor of the load and resistance effects.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1289-1295
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• 2015

Electromagnetic wave signals radiated from an antenna are reflected by targets and received through the same antenna. These received signals show different characteristics according to various target materials having different dielectric constants. Therefore, target characteristics can be recognized if we can utilize these return signals efficiently. this method can be applied for discrimination and classification of hazardous materials. In this paper, utilizing these experimentally obtained signals, correlation characteristics are obtained and analyzed for classification and discrimination purposes. Although the correlation method requires the storage of reference signals, it shows very promising results. this correlation method can be applied for classification and discrimination of hazardous materials.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.142-151
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• 2004

A method for the determination of concrete armor unit weights with hydraulic stability and structural stability may be formulated in this paper. The hydraulic stability is analyzed by using Hudson's formula, the structural stability is also studied by evaluation of maximum flexural tensile stresses in armor unit induced by the impact loads and by comparison of those with the tensile resistance strength directly. The applicable criteria for concrete armor units can be represented as a function of design wave heights with return period, armor weights, and tensile strengths for the practical uses. In addition, reliability analyses for two failure modes are carried out to take into account some uncertainties. Finally, a series system for two-failure mode analysis can be made up straightforwardly, by which the optimal weights of armor units can be estimated with the various relative breakages, given the specific target probability of failure under the concepts of reliability-based design method.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.2 s.54
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• pp.39-45
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• 2007

In this study the probability and the reliability-based seismic performance evaluation procedure proposed in the FEMA-355F was applied to a reinforced concrete moment frame building. For the FEMA procedure, which was originally developed for steel moment frame structures, to be applied to other structural systems, the capacity should be re-defined and the factors reflecting the uncertainties related to capacity and demand need to be determined. To perform the evaluation procedure a prototype building was designed per IBC 2003, and inelastic dynamic analyses were conducted applying site-specific ground motions to determine the parameters for performance evaluation. According to the analysis results, distribution of the determined capacities turned out to be relative]y smaller than that of the demands, which showed that the defined capacity was reasonable. It was also shown that the prototype building satisfied the target performance since the determined confidence levels exceeded the otjectives for both local and global collapses.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.545-555
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• 1998

The improvement of process skills has been one of the most important goals in secondary science education. To achieve this goal, it is essential to develop an instrument for evaluating inquiry skills in addition to improving science curricula, inquiry teaching methods, and other educational environment. There are a lot of instruments in testing science process skills in Korea as well as America and Europe. However, it has been difficult to find the instruments that have a characteristic in content and form. The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable instrument for evaluating science process skills using line graph. This study examined the whole body of scientific process and identified 6 component skills. Three or four items for each component process skills were developed and revised by pilot test and field test. The instrument is considered valid and reliable, for the content validity is 78% and the reliability(KR-20) is 0.82. The discrimination index is 0.57 and difficulty index is 0.47, which also suffice the criteria of good test.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.218-225
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• 2009

The present research aims to analyze empirically the effect of group cohesiveness and supervisor trust which tax investigators recognize while performing tax administrative duties on the team commitment and in-role behavior. The result of the analysis showed that tax investigators' higher group cohesiveness and supervisor trust resulted in higher team commitment, and that higher team commitment in turn resulted in higher in-role behavior, thereby raising the efficiency of tax investigators' activities as well as tax payers' satisfaction with tax services. Therefore in order to improve the efficiency of tax organizations and team performance, the managers of the organizations must set solid goals, develop solid strategies appropriate for situation, and make proper compensations for investigators' achievements. In addition, there would have to be an organic improvement In all the relevant areas, including organization, personnel management, work style, compensation and welfare, in order to raise tax investigators' work desire.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.5-11
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• 2015

Recently the necessity of developing the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) for shallow foundation has been raised to implement to the domestic design codes related to geotechnical engineering since the limit state design is requested as international technical standard for the foundation of structures. In this study, applicability of LRFD for shallow foundation on weathered soils was investigated and resistance factor for this case was proposed. The quantitative analyses on the uncertainty and resistance bias for shallow foundation on weathered soil ground were performed by collecting the statistical data about domestic case studies for design and construction of shallow foundation. Reliability analyses for shallow foundation were first performed using FDA (First-order Design value Approach) method. Resistance factors were calibrated using the load factors obtained from the specifications of shallow foundations on weathered soil ground. The influence of the load factors developed in this study on the resistance factors were discussed by comparing with the resistance factor obtained from using AASHTO load factors.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.498-498
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• 2018

가뭄으로 인해 발생할 수 있는 가장 심각한 피해는 용수 부족으로 인한 수자원 시스템의 용수공급 실패이며, 따라서 가뭄 위험도는 사용 가능한 용수의 부족과 관련하여 정량화되어야 한다. 이러한 맥락에서 수자원 시스템의 가뭄 위험도를 평가하기 위해 주로 신뢰도(reliability), 회복도(resiliency) 및 취약도(vulnerability)와 같은 세 가지 이수안전도 평가지표가 사용된다. 이러한 평가지표는 각각 용수공급 실패가 평균적으로 얼마나 자주 발생하는지, 얼마나 오래 지속되는지, 또한 어느 정도의 규모로 발생하는지를 위험도를 정량화하는 것으로, 용수공급 실패사상의 빈도, 지속기간 및 심도를 나타낸다. 본 연구에서 DRI(Drought Risk Index)는 신뢰도, 평가도 및 회복도의 가중평균값으로 정의되며, 이는 지속기간과 심도를 변수로 하는 이변량 가뭄빈도해석과 같은 변수를 공유한다. 본 연구에서는 두 가지 형태의 DRI 를 이용하여 지역 가뭄 위험도 평가 기준 산정 방안을 제시하였다. DRI_O(observed DRI)는 용수부족 시계열을 통해 산정된 공급실패 사상으로부터 산정되며, DRI_D(designed DRI)는 이변량 빈도해석을 통해 산정된 특정 지속기간을 갖는 확률가뭄심도로부터 계산된다. 기후변화 시나리오를 이용해 DRI_O 를 산정함으로써 미래의 이수안전도를 예측할 수 있으며, 이를 DRI_D 와 비교하여 지역의 용수부족으로 인한 가뭄 위험도를 산정하는 방법을 제안하였다. 또한 기존에는 주로 과거 최대 가뭄사상을 목표안전도로 설정하였으나 DRI_D 를 이용하여 보다 현실적인 목표안전도를 설정할 수 있다. 낙동강 권역의 10 개 중권역의 10 개 기후변화 시나리오를 대상으로 분석을 수행한 결과 병성천 유역과 형산강 유역이 각각 최저 및 최고 위험도를 갖는 것으로 분석되었으며, 지역 안전도 기준은 평균적으로 재현기간 5-20 년 사이의 범위를 갖는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.82-88
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• 2018

The decoy defensive weapon system is a one-shot system. Reliability is maintained through periodic inspection and high reliability is required to confirm whether or not the functioning is normal after launch. The maintenance cycle of a decoy was set up without target reliability and reliability prediction during the development period. However, the number of operations in the military has been increasing, necessitating the optimization of the maintenance cycle. Reliability is analyzed using the maintenance data of a decoy operated for several decades and the optimal maintenance cycle is suggested. In chapter 2, data collection and classification methods are presented and analysis methodology is briefly introduced. In chapter 3, the data distribution analysis and fitness verification confirmed that applying the Weibull distribution is the most suitable for the maintenance data of the decoy. In chapter 4, we present the analysis result of percentile, survival probability and MTBF and the optimal maintenance cycle was derived from the reliability analysis. Finally, we suggest the application methods for this paper in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.24-32
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• 2006

Using a deterministic design optimization, the effect of uncertainty can result in violation of constraints and deterioration of performances. For this reason, design optimization is required to guarantee reliability for constraints and ensure robustness for an objective function under uncertainty. Therefore, this study drew Monte Carlo Simulation(MCS) for the evaluation of reliability and robustness, and selected an artificial neural network as an approximate model that is suitable for MCS. Applying to the aero-structural optimization problem of aircraft wing, we can explore robuster optima satisfying the sigma level of reliability than the baseline.