• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.194-202
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• 2005

This paper proposes a new multi-level energy recovery sustaining driver for AC PDP(Plasma Display Panel), which solves the problems and maintains the merits of the conventional multi-level sustaining driver. While the conventional circuit improves the hard switching in the Weber circuit, there exist parasitic resonant currents in resonant inductors and Vs/2 sustaining period. Comparing the proposed circuit with the conventional circuit, the number of inductors are reduced by half, the parasitic resonant currents in resonant inductors are eliminated, and the hard switching problem is solved by CIM(Current Injection Method). Moreover the voltages across series-connected switching elements in the full bridge circuit are distributed equally by adopting NPC(Neutral Point Clamping) techniques. And circuit operations of the proposed circuit are analyzed for each mode and the validity is verified by the simulations using PSpice program and experimentation with a prototype drive circuit.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.120-128
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• 2011

Recently, safety diagnosis of the existing structures has been emerged as important issue. In particular, systematical and precise safety diagnostics for steel structures for power substation, have been required. Steel structures for power substation are under the periodical impact loads from operations of gas insulated switchgear. These loading condition accelerates damage and aging of structure. The objective of this research is to evaluate damage of structure under periodical impact loads. To evaluate the integrity of structures as organizing mathematical models including the dynamic characteristics of structures, Frequency Domain Decomposition method was choiced and an algorism was proposed. For verifying this methods and algorism, a mathematical model is composed of the development of a variety of reverse analysis and a signal processing technology reflecting physical damage of structures. A series of analysis and test results indicatge that proposed method has a confidence for applying a filed test. Therefore, it is expected to be able to take advantage of system identification to detect damage for the maintenance and management of steel structures under periodical impact loads such as power substation.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.8 no.11
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• pp.523-530
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• 2018

It has been studied over the long time for the high efficiency and high power density of the power converter. It is possible to obtain higher power conversion efficiency and small volume by increasing switching frequency, however, the switching loss is also increased. The soft switching technique can overcome of the above deficiency. The design and analysis method for ZVS(Zero Voltage Switching) Phase Shifte Full bridge converter is presented in this paper. The power transfer depends on the phase difference between two legs of the power stage and the maximum power conversion efficiency is achieved by the optimum leakage inductance value. The waveform of the current and voltage of the operational mode is analysed and the corresponding switch status is plotted as on/off status. A ZVS full bridge converter for a communication rectifier with 2kW output power is implemented and its performance are verified through PSIM software simulation and experimental results.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.3A
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• pp.241-256
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• 2010

This study intends to develop an aerodynamic girder for suspension bridge with width corresponding to 1/70 of the main span length. In the first step of present study, parametric study for the effects of major structural properties on aerodynamic stability of bridges was performed. The span length and natural frequency of bridges were found to be free from girder width, girder height, and aspect ratio of width to height. The empirical equation according to confidence interval was proposed to estimate the natural frequencies of bridges from span length. From the sensitivity analysis, it was revealed that the torsional frequency was dominant parameter among various structural properties that affected flutter velocity mostly. The final aerodynamic bridge section which satisfied the flutter criteria was found from section wind tunnel tests for 30 cross sectional models. The aerodynamic stability of the developed cross section was verified by multimode flutter analysis. The present economical cross section can be used for long span suspension bridge.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.65-72
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• 1993

A numerical method for nonlinear free-surface-wave problem is developed in this paper. The final goal of this study is to simulate the towing tank experiment of a ship model and to partially replace the experiment by the numerical model. The exact problem in the scope of potential flow theory is formulated by a variational principle based on the classical Hamilton's principle. A localized finite element method is used in the present numerical computations which made use of the following two notable steps. The first step is an efficient treatment of the numerical radiation condition by using the intermediate nonlinear-to-linear transition buffer subdomain between the fully nonlinear and linear subdomains. The second is the use of a modal analysis in the final stage of the solution procedures, which enables us to reduce the computation time drastically. With these improvements the present method can treat a much larger computational domain than that was possible previously. A pressure patch on the free surface was chosen as an example. From the present computed results we could investigate the effect of nonlinearity on the down-stream wave pattern more clearly than others, because much larger computational domain was treated. We found, specifically, the widening of the Kelvin angle and the increase of the wave numbers and the magnitude of wave profiles.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.16 no.4 s.82
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• pp.493-500
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• 2004

FREP(Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Panel) are used for strengthening the damaged RC beams due to its good tensile strength, low weight, resistance to corrosion, and easy applicability. This study sets up structure equation for FREP bending reinforcement before and during the usage of RC beam. It finds the difference and finds the mechanical characteristics of rip-off failure that is caused by stress concentration in reinforcement material cutting part to estimate the performance of bending reinforcement. The result of this research can be summarized as two main consequences. The main failure of FREP reinforced concrete beam is rip-off failure and it evaluated rip-off failure of RC reinforcing bean based on the test and analytical conditions of this study. It found that stress was concentrated due to rapid change of bending rigidity in reinforced cutting part as a result of excessive reinforcement thickness of FREP. It resulted in rip-off failure. It means that it should evaluate the rip-off failure when designing reinforcement. It analyzed the reinforcement effect according to reinforced period for FREP. It found that reinforcement effect of P-Type that was reinforced during the usage decreased compared to I-Type that was reinforced before the usage. So when reinforcing a existing structure that is being used, it should consider the stress that is produced due to the fixed load.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.150-158
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• 2010

The operational characteristics of a resonant DC/DC converter, which can harvest thermoelectric energy, is analyzed, depending on the relative magnitudes of the input voltage and the load voltage. The resonant converter consists of LC resonant circuit connected to DC input source and a resonant pulse converter in which the input energy is transferred to the load as the resonant capacitor voltage is peak. The resonant capacitor doubles the input voltage by the resonance phenomenon. By the relative magnitude between the input voltage and the output voltage, the resonant DC/DC converter operates in three different modes. For boost mode, the peak voltage of the resonant capacitor is smaller than the load voltage. For hybrid mode, the peak voltage of the resonant capacitor is bigger than the load voltage and every switching period has both the boost mode and the direct mode. For the direct mode, the input voltage is bigger than the load voltage and the converter transfers directly the input energy to the load without the switching operation. Operation principles and the feasibility of the converter for the thermoelectric energy harvesting are verified with PSPICE simulation and experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.436-441
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• 2009

A fiber optic sensor is prospective to be applied to structural health monitoring. Especially, a fiber Bragg grating(FBG) sensor is one of the most popular sensors for the structural health monitoring. The FBG sensor has several demodulation systems for tracking the shift of the Bragg wavelength. The dynamic bandwidth is dependent on the demodulation system. In this paper, the sensing mechanism is that the slope of the optical spectrum of FBG could be used as its sensitivity when the tunable laser shot the monochromatic laser wavelength at the highest slope point. In this technique, the high sensitivity is guaranteed even though the sensing range is limited. In an example of the application, the composite plate embedding a FBG sensor was manufactured by using an autoclave method and the above sensing mechanism was applied to the composite plate. Firstly, the natural frequencies of the plate were successfully measured by the FBG sensor during the impact hammer test. Secondly, a high-power speaker was used to force the plate to be vibrated at the specific frequency that was one of the natural frequencies. During the shaking, the FBG sensor measures the dynamic characteristics and ESPI was also used to measure the mode shape. From the two dynamic tests, the availability of the FBG sensor system and the ESPI was proven as a technique for measuring the dynamic characteristics of composite structure.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.181-188
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• 2012

The present study on nitrogen-diluted non-premixed counterflow flames with finite burner diameters experimentally investigates the important role of the outer edge flame in flame extinction. Flame stability diagrams mapping the flame extinction response of nitrogen-diluted non-premixed counterflow flames to varying global strain rates in terms of the burner diameter, burner gap, and velocity ratio are explored. There exists a critical nitrogen mole fraction beyond which the flame cannot be sustained, and also the curves of the critical nitrogen mole fraction versus the global strain rate have C-shapes in terms of burner diameter, burner gap, and velocity ratio. In flames with sufficiently high strain rates, the curves of the critical nitrogen mole fractions versus global strain rate collapse into one curve, and the flames can have the 1-D flame response of typical diffusion flames. Three flame extinction modes are identified: flame extinctions through the shrinkage of the outer edge flame with and without an oscillation of the outer edge flame prior to the extinction and flame extinction through a flame hole at the flame center. The measured flame surface temperature and a numerical evaluation of the fractional contribution of each term in the energy equation show that the radial conductive heat loss at the flame edge destabilizes the outer edge flame, and the conductive and convection heat addition to the outer edge from the trailing diffusion flame stabilizes the outer edge flame. The radial conductive heat loss at the flame edge is the dominant extinction mechanism acting through the shrinkage of the outer edge flame.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 1998.02a
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• pp.166-166
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• 1998

반도체 공정에서 기존보다 큰 30cm 웨이퍼훌 이용하기 위해서 기존의 ECR, Helicon, ICP, 등 공정용 고 밀도 플라즈마 원들의 대면적화에 대한 연구가 세계적으로 진행되고 있다 현 상황에서는 평판형 안테 나룰 이용한 TCP가 대면적용 폴라즈마 원의 가장 유력한 후보로 여겨지고 있다 TCP롤 대면적화 하는 데 있어서 중요한 문제점으로는 대면적에서의 큰 안테나 인되턴스로 인한 임피던스 정합과 대면적에서 의 유전울질의 기계적 강도이다. 앓은 유전물질올 사용힐 수 있도록 대면적 TCP 플라즈마 원올 실계 저l작하였고 이차원 가열이론올 이용한 TCPRP code 률 이용하여 안테나의 반경옳 결정하였디 안테나의 인덕턴스 값올 줄이기 위해서는 주m수는 13.56MHz 보다 낮은 4-5MHz 부근에서 작동하는 RF 파워룰 선택하였다 이 파워 서플라이는 보통 사용되는 50n 흩력 입묘$\mid$던스훌 갖는 형태가 Of니라 LC 공진현상 올 이용하여 부하에 파워률 전달하는 형태이다 .. TCP 장치에 사용할 수 있도록 파워 서플라이 흩력 단에 안테나와 직혈로 가변 콘덴서를 달아서 임11I던스 정합올 힐 수 있게 하였다 안테나에 직훌로 달Of줌으 로써 안테니의 인덕턴스훌 훌여주는 효과훌 얻올 수 있다 안테나에 흐르는 전류룰 측정하기 위해서 사 각형 루프로 전류 픽업 코일을 만들었고 진공상태에서 RF 파워률 인가하고 안테나의 전류와 전압을 측정하여 픽업 코일걸과훌 조정하였다. 발생기체로는 헬륨올 사용하였고 1-100mTorr 의 압력범위에서 실험을 하였다 플라즈마롤 빌샘시키고 파워를 증가 시킴에 따라 E-H mode transition 현상이 관찰되었고 그 때의 임계 전류 값을 측정하였다. 압력이 낮올수록 모드 변화가 일어나는 전류의 값이 작았다 임계 전류는 압력에 대해서 선형적인 특성을 보였다 이는 압력이 낮을수록 유도걸힘이 더 잘 된다는 것을 의미한다 1 1 mTorr에서는 H-mode에서 안테나의 전류가 파워훌 증가시킴에 따라 계속 증가하였으니, 압력이 올라 갈수록 조금씩 증가하는 정도가 줄어들고. 100mTorr에서는 포화된 값을 나타냈다 H-mode로 넘어간 후 에는 파워가 증가황에 따라 안테나의 임피던스 값이 모든 압력영역에서 줄어드는 경황을 보였고, 이는 플라즈마의 인덕턴스에 의해서 안테나의 인덕턴스 기 감소되기 때문이다, 파워가 증가할수록 안테U오} 플라즈마 루프사이의 상호걸합이 증가하는 걸로 해석힐 수 있다 안테나의 인되턴스 변화보다는 저항.성 분의 변화가 컸다 하지만 전체 임피던스로 볼 때 저항성분이 상대적으로 작기 때문에 인덕턴스의 감소 가 더 큰 영향을 미치는 걸로 볼 수 있다. 하지만 플라즈마로의 파워 전달에는 저항성분만이 영향올 미 치므로 저항성분의 큰 변화는 파워가 많이 전달될올 의미한다 피워전달 효율을 계산해 본 결과 수 r mTorr 부근이 80-90% 정도의 높은 효율올 보였고 5mTorr 일 때가 가장 좋았다.