• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.8
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• pp.849-855
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• 2012

The effect of electric fields on the response of diffusion flames in a counterflow has been investigated experimentally by varying the AC voltage and frequency. The result showed that the flame was stationary with high AC frequency above the threshold frequency, and it increased with the applied voltage and then leveled off at 35 Hz. Below the threshold frequency, however, the flame oscillated with a frequency that was synchronized with the applied AC frequency. This oscillation can be attributed to the ionic wind effect due to the generation of bulk flow, which arises from the momentum transfer by molecular collisions between neutral molecules and ions, where the ions in the reaction zone were accelerated by the Lorentz force.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.628-628
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• 2015

유역의 형상은 강우, 산사태 등과 같은 지배적인 침식작용과 더불어 지형 지질학적 요인들에 의해 결정되어 진다. 그러므로 유역형상에 대한 공간특성 분석을 위해서는 지형학적 요인과 다양한 침식작용에 대한 분석이 필요하다. 국내 외 많은 연구결과에 의하면 지형학적 인자에 의한 침식 형태는 국부경사와 집수면적의 크기에 의해 다양한 구간으로 나뉘며, 그 특성에 따라 지표침식, 세굴, 산사태 등으로 구분되는 것으로 연구된 바 있다. 일례로 유역 내 세굴과 관련된 지배인자는 집수면적보다는 국부경사에 반대로 지표침식, 산사태는 국부경사보다는 집수면적의 크기에 따라 영향을 받는다. 따라서 지형학적 인자(국부경사, 집수면적)의 임계치(threshold) 산출을 통해 침식특성(불안정지역)을 검토할 수 있으며, 이에 대한 물리적 검증은 여러 연구를 통해 물질플럭스(유량, 에너지)에 대한 Power Law로써 검증된바 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 지형학적 침식특성 분석을 위하여 2006년 집중호우에 의해 광역적 산사태가 발생한 강원도 평창군 진부면 일대의 $10m{\times}10m$ DEM로부터 국부경사, 집수면적을 산출하고 경사-면적한계곡선(Slope-Area Threshold Curve, SATC), 배수면적 확률분포곡선(Probability distribution of Drain Areas Curve, PDAC), 에너지지수 확률분포곡선(Probability distribution of Energy Index Curve, PEIC)를 실제 산사태지점과 중첩하여 도시하였다. 그 결과, 특정 임계구간(Threshold Area, Unstable area, 2~3권역)내에서 산사태 발생지점이 분포하는 것으로 분석되었다. 이를 통해 지형학적 인자만을 고려하여 미계측 유역에 대한 잠재적 불안정지역의 판별이 가능할 것으로 판단되며, 추후 광역적 사면안정해석에 적용 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.48-57
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• 2024

This study aimed to improve utilization of the Class C vinyl waste generated in rural areas based on a preliminary investigation on the use of eco-powder, generated through pyrolysis, as a raw material for plastic. The efficiency of pre-processing treatments in controlling ash content of the generated eco-powder and its effect on the basic properties of manufactured plastic were evaluated. The basic properties included ash content of the compressed eco-powder at different levels of ash content, impact strength, flexural strength, and tensile strength. The experimental results confirmed that pre-processing improved the separation efficiency of soil particles and vinyl waste through physical impact. The eco-powder with ash content of less than or equal to 26% was found to satisfy the target performance during impact strength, flexural strength, and tensile strength evaluation. Thus, it was confirmed that the Class C vinyl waste, having low utilization and recovery rates, could be effectively utilized as a plastic raw material after optimum thermal treatment and physical processing using the eco-powder.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.594-600
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• 2021

Curved beam structures are generally used as components in structures such as railroad bridges and vehicles. The stability analysis of curved beams has been studied by a large number of researchers. Due to the complexities of structural components, it is difficult to obtain an analytical solution for any boundary conditions. In order to overcome these difficulties, the differential quadrature method (DQM) has been applied for a large number of cases. In this study, DQM was used to solve the complicated partial differential equations for buckling analysis of curved beams. The governing differential equation was deduced and solved for beams subjected to uniformly distributed radial loads. Critical loads were calculated with various opening angles, boundary conditions, and parameters. The results of the DQM were compared with exact solutions for available cases, and the DQM gave outstanding accuracy even when only a small number of grid points was used. Critical loads were also calculated for the in-plane inextensional buckling of the asymmetric curved beams, and two theories were compared. The study of a beam with extensibility of the arch axis shows that the effects on the critical loads are significant.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.52-64
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• 2016

The production of nuclear energy from thorium which is non-fissile material was a main issue until the middle of 1970's, because of the thorium's abundance as energy resources, its capability of breeding fissile material U233, and the reduction of long-lived actinides. However, to use thorium as nuclear fuel, some obstacles such as the necessities of external neutron source and long-term neutron irradiation for effective breeding, and the production of high radioactive isotopes in the course of thorium breeding cycle should be overcome. The difficulties to resolve these cons of thorium cycle became the reason of interruption of the related researches in the middle of 1970's. But in the 21st century, the change of societal perspective regarding nuclear energy and the appearance of accelerator-driven nuclear reactor shift those cons into pros and rehabilitate the study of thorium. The high activity of thorium cycle turned out to be a good option as higher resistance and easier detectibility of nuclear proliferation and the employment of subcritical accelerator-driven reactor as external neutron sources is considered to enhance the nuclear safety. In this study we compare the thorium cycle with the currently-used uranium cycle and analyze the technical status and perspective of thorium researches which use accelerator-driven reactors.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.31-35
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• 2010

This paper presents the development of automatic defect detection program using 3D computed tomography image of small solid rocker motor. We applied the neighbor pixel comparison algorithm with beam hardening correction for the recognition of defect. We made the artificial defect specimen in order to decide a standard CT value of defect. The program was tested with 150 small solid rocket motors and it could detect the disbond, crack, foreign material and void. The program showed more reliable and faster results than human inspector's interpretation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1996.05a
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• pp.237-243
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• 1996

최근, 한국원자력연구소에서 개발된 3차원 노심 거동분석 코드인 MASTER$^{[1]}$ 는 노심의 정상 및 과도상태에서 기존의 다른 코드와 비교해서, 보다 정확하면서 빠르게 노심 분석을 할 수 있다. 특히, 노심의 과도상태에서의 해석을 위해서는 간단한 입력체계와 신뢰할 수 있는 결과가 기대되었는데, 기존의 CE사와 KWU사의 코드체계인 ROCS/HERMITE및 MEDIUM/PANBOX는 과도상태에서의 노심 분석을 위해 1차원 및 3차원 과도해석 코드와의 연계로 인한, 부수적인 입력작성 및 정확도를 유지하기 위한 많은 Tuning 작업이 요구되나 MASTER 코드는 정상 및 과도상태에서의 노심 분석을 동시에 할 수 있어, 적은 노력으로 정확한 계산결과를 기대할 수 있다. 그래서, 과도상태에서 MASTER 코드의 신뢰성을 검증하기 위하여 IAEA Benchmark 계산 및 영광1호기의 5주기 노심을 대상으로 RIA(Reactivity Induced Accident) 분석을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는, 미임계 노심에서의 Bank Withdrawal 사고와 전출력 및 영출력에서의 Rod Ejection 사고를 대표적인 RIA사고로서 연구를 수행하였으며, 그 결과를 기존 KWU사 코드인 PANBOX로 수행된 NSAR(Nuclear Safety Analysis Report)$^{[2]}$ 의 결과와 비교하였다. 결과에 의하면, MASTER 코드는 그 정확도를 충분히 신뢰할 수 있으며, NSAR 분석 시에 사용된 군정수, 코드의 해석 방법론 및 초기조건의 불 일치성으로부터 기인된 약간의 차이 외에는 PANBOX의 계산결과와 유사하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.173-180
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• 2014

Compressive sensing is a new signal acquisition paradigm that enables sparse/compressible signal to be sampled under the Nyquist-rate. To fully benefit from its much simplified acquisition process, huge efforts have been made on improving the performance of compressive sensing recovery. However, concerning color images, compressive sensing recovery lacks in addressing image characteristics like energy distribution or human visual system. In order to overcome the problem, this paper proposes a new group-sparsity hard thresholding process by preserving some RGB-grouped coefficients important in both terms of energy and perceptual sensitivity. Moreover, a smoothed group-sparsity iterative hard thresholding algorithm for compressive sensing of color images is proposed by incorporating a frame-based filter with group-sparsity hard thresholding process. In this way, our proposed method not only pursues sparsity of image in transform domain but also pursues smoothness of image in spatial domain. Experimental results show average PSNR gains up to 2.7dB over the state-of-the-art group-sparsity smoothed recovery method.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.216-224
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• 2014

Decrease in dissolved oxygen concentrations associated with temperature fluctuation is an important criteria to evaluate the mortality rate of the species. Based on this parameter, we investigated the survival rate, physiological response and histological change of warty sea squirt. It was found that the survival rate of the warty sea squirt species was 63.3% at $23^{\circ}C$ and 56.6% at $26^{\circ}C$ respectively. However, exposure of six days at $29^{\circ}C$ caused deaths among species, which indicated the 6day-$LT^{50}$ of the tested species to be $24.58^{\circ}C$ ($19.48{\sim}35.48^{\circ}C$). Further, after 11 day of exposure, the dissolved oxygen concentration has been found to decrease, with the survival rate of 20% at $4.0mg\;L^{-1}$ and deaths at $2.0mg\;L^{-1}$, thus 11day-$LC^{50}$ calculated to be $3.88mg\;L^{-1}$ ($3.29{\sim}4.57mg\;L^{-1}$). In addition, decrease in rate of oxygen consumption and excretion of ammonia was also noted at this critical water temperature and dissolve doxygen concentration. Moreover, there has been common histopathological changes were observed in warty sea squirt's gill pouch, digestive tract, and tunic as follows such as: proliferation of epithelial cells, condensation and necrosis, permeation of phagocyte and blood cell, loss of cilium and muscular fiber degeneration. Based on our study results, we suggest that these parameters can also be useful to evaluate the survival rate and physiological response in other species.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.319.1-321
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• 1998

판 구조물의 전달 손실은 효과적인 차음 설계를 위한 필수적인 지표 중 하나이다. 특히, 흡/차음재 부착등 적층에 의한 차음 성능의 변화 예측이 중요하다. 실제의 차음 구조물은 유한한 크기를 갖게 마련인데, 현재까지는무한 판 이론에 제한각이나 경계 손실등을 적용하여 그 값을 산출함으로써 판의 유한효과를 고려하였지만, 해석의 임의성으로 인해 일반적인 적용이 어렵다. 이에 본 연구에서는 흡음재가 부착된 유한한 면적을 갖는 적층판의 음향 전달 손실을 임계 주파수 미만의 주파수 대역에 대해 예측하고 흡음재의 부착에 따른 전달 손실의 변화를 관찰하였다. 판은 무한한 강체 배플위에 있다고 가정하였고, 모드 전개법을 응용하여 개개의 판모드들의 거동을 고려하였다. 여기서 흡음재는 공극질 재료로 가정하여 Biot의 이론을 적용하였다. 해석 결과로부터, 흡음재등이 부착된 적층판에 대해서는 일반적인 제한각의 적용이 어렵고, 그 영향을 충분히 고려할 수 있는 새로운 예측 도구의 필요성을 확인하였다.