• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.286-292
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• 2003

Voice activity detection (VAD) is a process that separates the noise region from silence or noise region of input speech signal. Since unvoiced consonant signals have very similar characteristics to those of noise signals, it may result in serious distortion of unvoiced consonants, or in erroneous noise estimation to can out VAD without paying special attention on unvoiced consonants. In this paper, we propose a method to extract in an explicit way the boundaries between unvoiced consonant and noise in fluent speech so that more exact VAD could be performed. The proposed method is based on histogram in frequency domain which was successfully used by Hirsch for noise estimation, and a1so on similarity measure of frequency components between adjacent frames, To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, experiments on unvoiced consonant boundary extraction was performed on seven kinds of noisy speech signals of 10 ㏈ and 15 ㏈ SNR respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.12-17
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• 2006

A steam generator of nuclear power plant has thousands of thin tubes. These tubes play an important role in maintaining the pressure boundary between the primary and secondary side of nuclear power plant. The steam generator tube is easy to be damaged because of the severe operating conditions such as the high temperature and pressure. Therefore, tremendous efforts are made to assess the structural integrity of the steam generator tubes. The eddy current test is the most popular non-destructive test to assess the integrity of the tubes. However, the eddy current test has the limitation to size the flaw accurately because the eddy current signal behavior depends on the total volume of flaw. This paper shows the possibility that the ultrasonic test method can be applied to detect the flaws in the steam generator tubes and to measure them quantitatively. From the test results, it is expected that if the ultrasonic test is put to practical use in the steam generator tube inspection, the inspection results will be improved.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.251-260
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• 2001

Damage Profess of CFRP laminates under monotonic tensile test was characterized by the correlation between Acoustic Emission(AE) and Ultrasonic Test(UT). The amplitude distribution of AE signal from a specimens is an aid to the determination of the extent of the different fracture mechanism such as matrix crack, debonding, fiber pullout and fiber fracture as load is increased. In addtion, the characteristics of ultrasonic amplitude attenuation are useful lot analysis of the different type of fracture mechanism. Different orientation of carbon fiber reinforced plastic specimens were used to investigate the AE amplitude range and ultrasonic amplitude attenuation. Finally, loading-unloading tests were carried out to check Felicity effect. During the tests, ultrasonic amplitude attenuation was investigated at the same time and compared with AE parameters. The result showed that two parameters of both AE and UT could be effectively used for analysis of fracture mechanism in CFRP laminates.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.23-30
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• 2012

This paper proposes an improved steganalysis method to detect the existence of secret message. Firstly, we magnify the small stego noise by multiplying the speckle noise to a given image and then we estimate the denoised image by using the soft thresholding method. Because the noises are not perfectly eliminated, some noises exist in the estimated cover image. If the given image is the cover image, then the remained noise will be very small, but if it is the stego image, the remained noise will be relatively large. The parent-child relationship in the wavelet domain will be slighty broken in the stego image. From this characteristic, we extract the joint statistical moments from the difference image between the given image and the denoised image. Additionally, four statistical moments are extracted from the denoised image for the proposed steganalysis method. All extracted features are used as the input of MLP(multilayer perceptron) classifier. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms previous methods in terms of detection rates and accuracy.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.101-112
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• 2012

The Donggwanwangmyo Shrine was built in the period of Joseon Dynasty in 1602. There are Clay Statues (Gwanwo, Jangbi, Woojanggun, Juchang, Jojaryoung and so on) enshrined in the inside of the main hall. Original color of these Clay Statues are deteriorated by inorganic pollutant like dust. And the origanal forms were damaged during several process of restorations and repaintings. This study carried out XRD, SEM-EDS, P-XRF and chromaticity measurement for characterization of pigments which painted on Clay Statues. As a result, cinnabar, hematite and red lead were used to paint in pigments for the red and brown colors. Light red pigment was made by gypsum with these minerals that make colors. Graphite and gold were used to color of black and gold pigment, respectively. Green pigment is identified of malachite, atacamite and glauconite. Blue pigment which is clearly painted on Clay Statues is interpreted a morden industrial pigment that were painted at repair work. White pigments are detected calcite, gypsum and silver white. Orpiment and litharge were used to color of yellow and light yellow pigment.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.103-110
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• 2013

Since its development in the United Kingdom, the stapler has been used extensively to bind books. Staples comprising almost entirely of iron, first made in the early 1900s, are used to staple the cores of books. These staples change the colour of paper to brown and this browned paper ultimately crumbles. Basic research is being performed on solutions to prevent the deterioration in the quality of paper in the area around the staples. In this study, the cause of this browning of paper in the area was investigated. SEM-EDS, optical microscopy and FT-IR were used to analyze a browned area of three paper samples. It was found that the browned area had shortened fibres. In addition, iron was detected in this area. The corrosion of this iron led to this area of the paper being partially covered by iron(III) oxide, the product of the corrosion, as determined by FT-IR spectroscopy.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.46-53
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• 2010

A Compton X-ray backscatter technique has been developed to quantitatively assess impact damage in quasi-isotropic laminated composites made by a drop-weight tester. X-ray backscatter imaging system with a slit-type camera is constructed to obtain a cross-sectional profile of impact-damaged laminated composites from the electron-density variation of the cross section. A nonlinear scattering model based on Boltsman equation is introduced to compute Compton X-ray backscattering field for the defect assessment. An adaptive filter is also used to reduce noises from many sources including quantum noise and irregular distributions of fibers and matrix in composites. Delaminations masked or distorted by the first delamination are detected and characterized effectively by the Compton X-ray backscatter technique, both in width and location, by application of error minimization algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.104-104
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• 2011

ZnO는 3.37 eV의 넓은 에너지 밴드갭을 갖는 투명 전도성 반도체이며 우수한 전기적, 광학적 특성으로 인해 광원소자 개발을 위한 새로운 물질로 많은 주목을 받아왔다. 더욱이, ZnO는 쉽게 나노구조 형성이 가능하기 때문에 이를 응용한 가스센서, 염료감응태양전지, 광검출기 등의 소자 개발이 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 최근에는 GaN 기반 발광다이오드 (light emitting diode, LED)의 광추출 효율을 향상시키기 위한 ZnO 나노구조 응용에 관한 연구가 보고되고 있다. GaN 기반 LED의 경우 반도체 물질과 공기 사이의 높은 굴절률 차이로 인하여 낮은 광추출 효율을 나타낸다. 이를 해결하기 위한 방법으로 표면 roughening, texturing 등 에칭공정을 이용해 광추출 효율을 개선하려는 연구들이 보고되고 있으나, 복잡한 공정과정을 필요로 하고 에칭공정에 의한 소자 표면 손상으로 전기적 특성이 나빠질 수 있다. 반면 전기화학증착법으로 성장된 ZnO 나노구조를 이용할 때, 보다 간단한 방법으로 쉽고 빠르게 나노구조를 형성할 수 있고 낮은 공정온도를 가지기 때문에 소자의 전기적 특성에 큰 영향을 주지 않는다. 수직방향으로 잘 정렬된 ZnO 나노구조를 갖는 LED의 경우 내부 Fresnel 반사 손실을 효과적으로 줄여 발광 효율을 크게 향상시킬 수 있다. 따라서, ZnO 나노구조의 성장제어 및 성장특성을 분석하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 ITO glass 위에 ZnO 나노구조를 성장하고 그 특성을 분석하였다. ITO glass 기판 위에 RF magnetron 스퍼터를 사용하여 Al 도핑된 ZnO (AZO)를 얇게 증착한 후 전기화학증착법으로 ZnO 나노구조를 성장하였다. 농도, 인가전압, 공정시간 등 다양한 공정조건을 변화시키면서 성장 메커니즘을 분석하였고, scanning electron microscope (SEM) 및 X-ray diffraction (XRD)을 통하여 구조 및 결정성 등을 분석하였다. 또한, UV-Visible-NIR spectrophotometer를 사용하여 투과율을 실험적으로 측정하여 ZnO 나노구조의 광학적 특성을 분석하였고, rigorous coupled wave analysis (RCWA) 방법을 사용하여 계면에서 발생하는 내부 반사율을 계산함으로써 나노구조의 효과를 이론적으로 분석하였다.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.87-94
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• 2007

Reuse of recycled aggregate from demolished concrete structure is beneficial and necessary from the viewpoint of environmental preservation and effective utilization of resources. The most important mechanical properties of recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) are the compressive strength, the tensile and the flexural strengths, the bond strength and the elastic modulus of such concrete. In particular, the stress-strain relation and fracture process of RAC in compression is especially important in theoretical and numerical analysis as well as engineering design of RAC structures. In this paper, to clarify the characteristics of fracture process in RAC, acoustic emission(AE) method is applied to detect micro-cracking in concrete under compression. From AE parameters, it is found that cracking and fracture behaviors in recycled aggregate concrete fairly differ from that of normal and recycled sand concrete.

• Journal of Aquaculture
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.171-178
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• 1997

Infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNY) is an economically important fish pathogen since it causes the high-mortality disease in early stage of hatchery-reared fishes. In order to develop a rapid, sensitive and highly specific detection method for IPNV, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was carried out using the oligonucleotide primers selected from the sequence of VP2, a major capsid polypertide of IPNV. As little as 40ng of purified IPNV dsRNA was detected by RT-PCR amplification, but no amplification products were obtained when nucleic acid genomes from other fish pathogens such as IHNV were used as RT-PCR templates. in situ RT-PCR methods are useful for the rapid and sensitive identification of IPNV.