• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.365-374
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• 2003

Various deleterious chemicals can be introduced to existing concrete structures from various external sources. The deterioration of concrete by seawater attack is involved in complex processes due to various elements contained in seawater. In the present study, attention was paid to the formation of secondary minerals and characteristics of mineralogical and micro-structural changes involved in concrete deterioration caused by the influence of major seawater composition. The characteristics of deterioration occurred in existing concrete structures was carefully observed and samples were collected at many locations of coastal areas in Busan-Kyungnam. The petrographic, XRD, SEM/EDAX analyses were conducted to determine chemical, mineralogical and micro-structural changes in the aggregate and cement paste of samples. The experimental concrete deteriorations were performed using various chloride solutions (NaCl, CaCl, $MgCl_2$ and $Na_2SO_4$ solution. The experimental results were compared with the observation results in order to determine the effect of major elements in seawater on the deterioration. The alkalies in seawater appear to accelerate alkali-silica reaction (ASR). The gel formed by ASR is alkali-calcium-silica gel which known to cause severe expansion and cracking in concrete. Carbonation causes the formation of abundant less-cementitious calcite and weaken the cement paste. Progressive carbonation significantly affects on the composition and stability of some secondary minerals. Abundant gypsum generally occurs in concretes subjected to significant carbonation, but thaumasite ({$Ca_6/[Si(OH)_6]_2{\cdot}24H_2O$}${\cdot}[(SO_4)_2]{\cdot}[(CO_3))2]$) occurs as ettringite-thaumasite solid solution in concretes subjected to less significant carbonation. Experimentally, ettringite can be transformed to trichloroaluminate or decomposed by chloride ingress under controlled pH conditions. Mg ions in seawater cause cement paste deterioration by forming non-cementitious brucite and magnesium silicate hydrate (MSH).

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.494.1-494.1
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• 2014

태양광은 세계적으로 유망한 에너지 중의 하나이며, 태양광 모듈은 실제 옥외 조건에 따라 다르지만 장기 신뢰성과 수명을 보장하기 위해 최소 20년 이상을 안정적으로 작동될 필요성이 있다. 하지만 실제 태양전지는 옥외에 장기 노출됨에 따라 성능이 저하되며, 그 원인으로는 셀 균열, 부식, 접착 강도 손실 및 박리, 그리고 변색 등이 있다. 본 논문에서는 부식으로 인한 성능 저하를 완화하기 위해 희생금속을 이용하여 태양전지 모듈의 성능 향상에 대해 연구하였다. 태양전지는 4 cell 결정질 실리콘 태양전지 미니 모듈을 이용하였고, 희생금속의 영향을 확인하기 위해 두 종류의 시료를 준비하였다. 한 시료에는 Al 희생금속을 태양전지 리본 위에 부착하였으며, 나머지 한 시료는 비교 시료로 Al 희생금속을 부착하지 않았다. 시료는 $85^{\circ}C$ 85%의 상대습도인 고온고습 조건에서 2500시간을 진행하였다. 그리고 2500시간의 고온고습 시험이 진행된 시료의 전기적 특성을 분석하였다. 시험 결과, 희생금속이 없을 경우 28.8%의 출력 저하가 있었으며, 희생금속이 있을 경우 19.3%의 출력 저하가 확인되었다. 또한, 희생금속이 없을 경우, 충실도는 21.5% 감소하였으며, 단락전류 역시 약 6% 정도 감소하였다. 반면, 희생금속이 있을 경우, 충실도는 16.1%로 감소하였고, 단락전류는 거의 변화가 없었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.238-247
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• 2007

Genetic Algorithms(GA) which searches optimum solution using natural selection and the law of heredity has been applied to learning algorithms in order to estimate performance deterioration of the aircraft gas turbine engine. The compressor, gas generator turbine and power turbine are considered for engine performance deterioration and estimation for performance deterioration of a single component at design point was conducted. As a result of that, defect diagnostics has been conducted. The input criteria for the genetic algorithm to guarantee the high stability and reliability was discussed as increasing learning data sets. As a result, the accuracy of defect estimation and diagnostics were verified with its RMS error within 3%.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.3D
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• pp.325-330
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• 2008

This study carried out the repeated freezing-thawing test in order to understand the long-term degradation mechanism of GFRP dowel bars. The mechanical property measured by shear test. In addition, analyzes repeated freezing-thawing degradation mechanism of GFRP dowel bars by observe the microstructure through Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Gas Physisorption techniques. As the result of test, it was found that the mechanical property didn't decreased as the exposure time to water and repeated freezing-thawing environment. It shows clearly observed microstructure investigations.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.47-52
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• 2013

The higher energy efficiency for ship and the lower pollution for global environment are required strictly. However the performance of marine diesel engine is gradually deteriorated with time. And also the operation condition is varied with sea conditions. Hence the optimization for operating condition of marine engines is needed for energy saving and environment kindly. In this paper, it was attempted to investigate the influence of aging for marine diesel engine. The deterioration of engine performance is assessed by the calculation results of the simulation program for two-stroke marine diesel engine developed by author which was reported before. And three parameters for deterioration of engine performance were considered such as lower efficiency of turbocharger by fouling, increase of blow-by gas due to wear of cylinder liner and getting worse of combustion by poor injection. By the results, it was shown that the influence of engine performance by aging was relatively not so small - 10.4 bar low in Pmax and 3.2% decrease in Pmi.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.563-570
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• 2015

The existing research on the damage detection method for building structures has considered the damages from the excessive loadings such as the earthquake. However, the structural performance of building structures could be reduced due to the deterioration based on the chloride, carbonation during the long-term time. Thus, to effectively manage the healthiness of structures, the deterioration influences on the structures should be checked. In this study, the corrosion of rebars by the chloride is considered as the deterioration factor. To consider the structural performance reduction of the corroded rebars, the yield strength, cross-sectional area, rupture strain of rebars and the compressive strength of cover concrete based on the corrosion level are estimated. These properties of rebars and cover concrete are used for the procedure to evaluate the structural performance reduction of structural member level and the building level. The moment-curvature analysis is performed to evaluate the structural performance reduction of structural member level. Also, the eigenvalue analysis and the pushover analysis are performed to investigate the natural period and mode shape and the strength and deformation performance of buildings, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.7
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• pp.34-41
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• 1999

In this paper, hot carrier induced performance degradation of peripheral circuits in memory devices such as static type imput buffer, latch type imput buffer and sense amplifier circuit has been measured and analyzed. The used design and fabrication of the peripheral circuits were $0.8 {\mu}m$ standard CMOS process. The analysis method is to find out which device is most significantly degraded in test circuits by using spice simulation, and then to characterize the correlation between device and circuit performance degradation. From the result of the performance degradation of static type input buffer, the trip point was increased due to the transconductance degradation of NMOS. In the case of latch type input buffer, there was a time delay due to the transconductance degradation of NMOS device. Finally, hot carrier induced the decrease of half-Vcc voltage and the increased of sensing voltage in sense amplifier circuits have been measured.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.280-282
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• 2002

기존의 네트워크에서는 혼잡상황이 감지된 이후에 네트워크 성능이 급격하게 저하된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하고자 RED(Random Early Detection)기법이 소개되어 게이트웨이에서 혼잡상황에 대하여 능동적으로 대처할 수 있는 알고리즘이 제시되었다. 하지만, RED는 매개변수 설정이라는 문제가 남아있다. 그리하여, 잘못된 변수값 설정으로 인한 네트워크 성능 저하가 현저하게 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 RED를 개선한 Effective RED를 제안한다. Effective RED는 RED 알고리즘의 문제점을 개선하여 네트워크의 상황에 맞추어 동적으로 매개 변수 값을 조정하는 알고리즘이다. 그리고, ns를 이용하여 Effective RED의 성능을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.4-6
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 안티 와인드업(Anti Windup) 제어 성분을 이용하는 약자속(Flux Weakening) 제어기에 있어, 약자속제어기의 제정수 변화가 전체 제어 성능에 미치는 영향에 관하여 분석하고, 그 결과에 근거하여 제정수 변화의 영향을 줄일 수 있는 방법을 제시하였다. 약자속 제어기는 제정수의 변동에 비교적 강인하나 전류제어기가 제정수의 영향을 받아 성능이 저하(Degradation) 될 수 있다. 이러한 성능의 저하는 가상의 능동 저항 성분을 전류 제어기에 도입함으로써 완화될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.787-790
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• 2005

최근 엔터프라이즈 애플리케이션을 개발하는데 있어서 J2EE 이 중심 기술로 부각되었다. J2EE의 핵심 기술이라고 할 수 있는 EJB 는 컴포넌트 기반 분산 객체 시스템을 개발하는데 있어서 생산성 향상 및 유지 보수성 등에 있어서 장점이 있지만, 성능 등에 문제점이 발견되었다. J2EE 기반으로 개발된 엔터프라이즈 애플리케이션의 성능 저하 부분을 측정하여 그 요인을 알아낸다.