• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.52-69
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• 2002

The WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant), located 42km east of Carlsbad, New Mexico (NM), in bedded salt 655m below the surface, is a mined repository constructed by the US DOE for the permanent disposal of transuranic (TRU) wastes generated by activities related to defence of the US since 1970. Its historical disposal operation began in March 1999 following receipt of a final permit from the State of NM after a positive certification decision for the WIPP was issued by the EPA in 1998, as the first licensed facility in the US for the deep geologic disposal of radioactive wastes. The CCA (Compliance Certification Application) for the WIPP that the DOE submitted to the EPA in 1966 was supported by an extensive performance assessment (PA) carried out by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), with so-called 1996 PA. Even though such PA methodologies could be greatly different from the way we consider for HLW disposal in Korea largely due to quite different geologic formations in which repository are likely to be located, a review on lots of works done through the WIPP PA studies could be the most important lessons that we can learn from in view of current situation in Korea where an initial phase of conceptual studies on HLW disposal has been just started. The objective of this art report is an overview of the methodology used in the recent WIPP PA to support the US DOE WIPP CCA and some relevant results completed by SNL.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2015.08a
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• pp.229.2-229.2
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• 2015

전자현미경은 전자빔을 이용하여 나노 수준의 분해능으로 초미세 구조물을 관찰할 수 있는 측정 장치이다. 이러한 전자를 소스로 사용하는 현미경에서 전자총의 특성을 파악하는 것은 전자현미경의 광학계를 설계하거나 그 성능을 평가할 때 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서 제작한 전자총 평가 시스템은 전자총의 특성인 각전류밀도와 가상 전자원 크기를 측정할 수 있다. 이러한 특성을 정확하게 도출하기 위해서는 우선 가상 전자원의 위치를 알아야 한다. 전자총 평가 시스템은 전자총에서 방출된 전자빔을 형광 스크린에 조사하여 전자빔을 가시광선으로 변환하고, 형광 스크린 반대편에서 광학 현미경 렌즈가 장착된 카메라를 이용하여 빛으로 변환된 전자빔을 촬영하여 영상으로 획득 할 수 있다. 본 발표는 이렇게 획득한 영상에서 MathWorks(R)사의 MATLAB(R) 소프트웨어를 이용하여 물리적인 거리를 도출하기 위하여 사용하는 영상처리기법을 소개한다. 사용한 영상처리는 픽셀을 기반으로 계산하였으며, 취득 영상의 잡음을 제거하는 방법, 형광 스크린에서 획득한 전자빔에서 전자빔의 중심점 찾는 방법 및 이동한 전자빔의 거리를 계산하는 방법 등이 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.41-42
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• 2014

최근 우리나라에서는 새로운 항만설계 혹은 변경 등을 함에 있어 해상교통안전진단을 우선적으로 실시하여 해상교통의 안전을 도모하고 있다. 이 해상교통안전진단은 자연환경 및 해상교통조사, 선박조종시뮬레이션, 해상교통류 시뮬레이션, 계류안전성, 그리고 안전대책 등으로 구성되어 있다. 그 중 선박조종과 관련된 선박조종시뮬레이션이 아주 중요하다. 이것은 해당 항만에서 선박 조종을 담당하는 도선사 혹은 선장들에게 직접적인 관련이 있기 때문이다. 선박조종시뮬레이션에서 근접도 평가는 항로 혹은 접이안 조선의 안전도를 평가하는 중요한 요소이다. 그러나 근접도 평가는 시뮬레이션의 횟수를 얼마 이상으로 할 때 제대로 된 평가를 할 수 있는가 하는 점은 밝혀져 있지 않다. 중심극한정리에 따르면 30회 이상이면 표본 집단은 정규분포를

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.295-297
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• 2005

CEC, 근접방어무기체계, 지휘통제체계 등에 사용되는 위협평가시스템은 자동위협평가, 방어구역 위협지수, 무기할당 등의 공통된 기능을 포함하고 있고, 시스템 환경의 변화 또는 성능 향상에 따라 수시로 업그레이드가 요구된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 생산성 향상과 중복투자 방지로 인한 비용감소 효과를 거둘 수 있는 제품계열 방법론을 위협평가시스템 개발에 적용하는 방안을 제안한다. 위협평가시스템의 제품계열 방법론 적용을 위해 핵심자산 개발 프로세스를 수행하여 제품계열 영역지정, 핵심자산, 제품계획을 정의한다. 제품계열 영역지정은 Feature 모델링을 이용하여 공통점과 차이점을 식별하고, 핵심자산은 아키텍처 설계 중심으로, 그리고 각 핵심자산의 부착 프로세스를 종합하여 제품계획을 수립한다.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.28-41
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• 2011

Regulation of Escape and fire-prevention of Building of South Korea were enacted as a part of building codes in 1962. Since it was enacted, the law has gone through many changes. In this study, evaluated the fire safety of the law about the case of a hotel that the fire risk are expected to be higher whenever it was changed. As a result, the current law has gotten better in tire safety since it was enacted. However, especially it could be confirmed that the evacuation safety is insufficient in the lower level of hotel building. In the case of accommodation, because the occupants become aware of fire lately, they have not enough time to escape. Therefore, this study suggests that it is needed to come up with an effective counterplan about the interior finish materials, fire door and fire compartments that the smoke layer descending time is longer.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.157-164
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• 2016

The performance of convective heat transfer in rod bundle flow was experimentally evaluated using a twist-vane spacer grid. A $4{\times}4$ square-arrayed rod bundle was prepared as the test section, with a pitch-to-diameter ratio(P/D) of ~1.35. To check the convective heat transfer performance, the circumferential and longitudinal variations in rod-wall temperatures were measured downstream of the twist-vane spacer grid. In the circumferential measurements, the rod-wall temperature toward the twist-vane tip showed the lowest value, which might be due to the deflected water flow caused by the twist-vane. On the other hand, the wall temperature of the longitudinal measurements near the twist-vane spacer grid decreased dramatically, which implies that the convective heat transfer performance was enhanced. A heat transfer enhancement of ~35 % was achieved near downstream of the twist-vane spacer grid, as compared with the upstream value. Based on the present experimental data, a correlation for predicting the heat transfer performance of a twist-vane spacer grid was proposed.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.13 no.6 s.58
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• pp.166-175
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• 2009

An experimental study was carried out to estimate the flexural performance of steel fiberreinforced self-compacting concrete. Seven slabs with three different steel fiber-reinforced concretes were prepared to make beam specimens. After proper curing period, each slab was cut to five beams with a diamond saw. The beam specimen was tested with displacement control method to obtain load-deflection curve. As the results, the self-compacting concrete beam showed higher flexural strength, ductility and toughness index compared to the normal concrete beam. This means that steel fiber-reinforced self-compacting concrete can be used more widely in the field of architecture and civil engineering because of its self-compactability and good mechanical properties.

• Composites Research
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.38-45
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• 2011

In this paper, we present an optimization method for the single Dallenbach-layer type microwave absorbers composed of E-glass fabric/epoxy composite laminates. The composite prepreg containing carbon nanotubes (CNT) was used to control the electrical property of the composites laminates. The design technology using the genetic algorithm was used to get the optimal thicknesses of the laminates and the filler contents at various center frequencies, for which the numerical model of the complex permittivity of the composite laminate was incorporated. In the optimal design results, the content of CNT increased in proportion to the center frequency, but, on the contrary, the thickness of the microwave absorbers decreased. The permittivity and reflection loss are measured using vector network analyzer and 7 mm coaxial airline. The influence of the mismatches in between measurement and prediction of the thickness and the complex permittivity caused the shift of the center frequency, blunting of the peak at the center frequency and the reduction of the absorbing bandwidth.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.24 no.12
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• pp.1639-1645
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a virtual full-duplex relaying scheme based on data ferrying using two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). By utilizing high mobility of two UAVs, the proposed relaying scheme can make each UAV communicate with a source node or a destination node when the UAV is near the source node or the destination node. The proposed relaying scheme can overcome the performance limitations of the half-duplex relaying and the implementation constraints of the full-duplex relaying. In addition, we propose an algorithm to shift the center point of two UAVs' trajectory with consideration of inter-relay interference (IRI). We show the simulation results of our proposed trajectory's center point shift algorithm. From the simulation results, it is shown that our proposed relaying scheme can achieve higher end-to-end spectral efficiency (SE) than the conventional static relaying scheme.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.6-11
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• 2016

This study analyzed the performance of smoke exhaustion installed to secure the life safety from the smoke each opening modes, as performing the simulation on the Jeju regions generating to strong windy using CONTAM. We assessed the effectiveness of the system under conditions of high external winds as well as an ambient wind conditions. It also assessed the relative effectiveness of opening all vents versus opening only those vents which served rooms in which the fire was located. This study revealed external winds exerted a substantial impact on the performance of the smoke ventilation system. It was found that opening the ventilation system in the room containing the fire resulted in a greater performance than opening vents in both fire in all rooms. The reduced performance of the smoke ventilation system upon the opening of all vents is thought to be due to the intrusion of outside air, and the establishment of unfavorable air circulation, caused by the negative pressure generated in the building.