• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.42-42
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• 2003

목적 : 조사면 크기에 따른 금속쐐기와 가상쐐기에 의한 6 MV 와 15 MV 엑스선의 출력 및 상부와 하부 에 설치하는 금속쐐기의 출력을 비교하고자 한다. 대상 및 방법 : Varian Clinac21EX(미국)는 두부의 상부와 하부에 설치하는 각각의 금속쐐기와 제한기에 의한 가상쐐기 기능을 가지고 있다. 금속쐐기의 쐐기각은 네 가지 (15$^{\circ}$, 30$^{\circ}$, 45$^{\circ}$, 60$^{\circ}$)이며 투과력에 무관하게 한 쐐기각에 대한 쐐기는 사하부는 각 1 개이고, 가상쐐기는 일곱 가지 ($10^{\circ}$, 15$^{\circ}$, 20$^{\circ}$, 25$^{\circ}$, 30$^{\circ}$, 45$^{\circ}$, 60$^{\circ}$) 이다. 각 쐐기에 대하여 3$\times$3～20$\times$20 $\textrm{cm}^2$ 의 조사면 크기에서 6 및 15 MV 엑스선의 쐐기출력인수 (wedge field output factor)를 $d_{max}$와 10 $\textrm{cm}^2$ 깊이에서 측정하였다. 조사면크기와 측정깊이에 따른 쐐기출력인수의 변화추이를 관찰하였다. 쐐기출력인수 O $F_{Wdg}$는 다음과 같다. O $F_{Wdg}$(r)= $D_{Wdg}$(r)/ $D_{op}$ ( $r_{0}$) 여기서 $r_{0}$와 r은 각각 민조사면의 기준조사면크기, 쐐기조사면크기이다. 하부쐐기에 대한 상부쐐기의 출력인수의 상대적인 백분율 차이, %ROD=l00$\times$(O $F_{upWdg}$/O $F_{lowWdg}$ lowWdg/ - 1)를 구하였다. 조사면크기와 깊이에 따른 %ROD의 변화추이를 평가하였으며 쐐기 각각에 대하여 출력인수를 측정해야하는지 평가하였다. 결과 : 금속쐐기에 대한 쐐기출력인수는 방사선의 투과력과 깊이에 관계없이 조사면 크기가 커짐에 따라 증가하였으나 가상쐐기의 쐐기출력인수는 쐐기각이 작은 경우에는 조사면크기가 커짐에 따라 증가하다가 감소하였으며 최대값을 보이는 조사면크기는 쐐기각이 커짐에 반하여 감소하였으며 투과력에 관계없이 60。 쐐기에 대해서는 조사면 크기가 4 cm(A/P=1) 이상에서 조사면크기가 커짐에 따라 감소하였다. 6 MV 엑스선 에 대한 10 cm 깊이에서 15。 쐐기와 15 MV 엑스선에 대한 10 cm 깊이에서 45。 쐐기의 A/P 가 1.5보다 작은 조사면을 제외하고는 조사면의 크기가 커짐에 따라 %ROD는 감소하였다. $d_{max}$에서는 15。 쐐기와 30。 쐐기에 대해서는 %ROD가 음수였으며 절대값이 증가하였다. 이는 곧 조사면의 크기가 커짐에 따라 상부쐐기의 쐐기출력계수가 하부쐐기와 접근하고 드디어는 상부쐐기의 출력인수가 하부쐐기의 출력인수보다 작아질 수도 있다는 것을 의미하고 있다. 또한 %ROD 는 쐐기각이 클수록 변화가 컸으며, 조사면 크기가 커짐에 따라 10 cm 깊이에서보다 $d_{max}$에서 더 급하게 감소하였다. %ROD 는 6 MV 엑스선에 대해서는 -0.52～4.18 % 였고, 15 MV 엑스선에 대해서는 -0.44-4.18 % 였다. 결론 : 두 가지 투과력의 엑스선이 방출되는 선형가속기의 상하부 쐐기와 가상쐐기의 출력인수를 측정하여 비교하였다. 결과에서 얻어진 결론은 아래와 같다. 1. 조사면의 크기가 커짐에 따라 금속쐐기의 출력계수 는 증가하였으나 가상쐐기의 경우는 증가하다가 감소하거나 큰 쐐기각에 대해서는 감소만 하였다. 2. 상부쐐 기와 하부쐐기는 쐐기출력인수가 4% 이상 차이가 날 수 있으므로 독립적으로 측정하여 이용하여야 할 것이다.것이다.다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.355-360
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• 2006

The damping force of a jaw pad is determined by the displacements of main part when two lockers are locked, after the damping angle of a locker was set up in the wedge type rail damp for a container crane. In this time, of the resistance of wedge frame generates due to several factors, the damping angle of a locker to display the initial clamping force will be changed because of the reduction of displacement of extension bar. This resistance is determined by the eccentric distance between the roller and the wedge, and by the gap between the wedge frame and outer frame. In this study we measured the tensile force of both extension bar through the performance test of the prototype rail damp in order to evaluate the effect of the resistance of wedge frame on the damping force of the wedge type rail clamp.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• v.1
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• pp.357-362
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• 2006

The wedge type rail clamp compresses with small clamping force at first, and with large clamping force when the wind speed increases because of the wedge working. At this time in order to display the wedge working, the rail clamp slips along a rail. If the supporter is not installed in the rail clamp when the wind speed increases more and more, the structure will occur overload which leads the structure to fracture. So the supporter has to be installed in the rail clamp. The proper position of this supporter is determined by the initial clamping force and the wege angle. Therefore in this study we adopted 5-kinds of wedge angle as the design parameters, and carried out the finite element analysis, in order to analyze the relationship between the initial clamping force and the proper position of supporter in the wedge type rail clamp.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.31 no.1 s.117
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• pp.65-70
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• 2007

The wedge type rail clamp compresses with small clamping force at first, and with large clamping force when the wind speed increases bemuse of the wedge working. At this time in order to display the wedge working, the rail clamp slips along a rail. If the supporter is not installed in the rail clamp when the wind speed increases more and more, the structure will occur overload which leads the structure to fracture. So the supporter has to be installed in the rail clamp. The proper position of this supporter is determined by the initial clamping force and the wege angle. Therefore in this study we adopted 5-kinds of wedge angle as the design parameters, and carried out the finite element analysis, in order to analyze the relationship between the initial clamping force and the position of supporter in the wedge type rail clamp.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.247-252
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• 2005

The wedge type rail clamp has the operating mechanism: First, the jaw pad clamps a rail with small clamping force Next as the wind speed increases, the clamping force of the jaw pad is increased by the wedge. In order to design the wedge type rail clamp, we need to determine the proper wedge angle to minimize the sliding distance of a roller and the proper clamping angle of a locker to generate the initial clamping force of a jaw pad. The researches for the proper wedge angle have conducted, and in this study we conducted the investigation to determine the proper clamping angle of a locker in the rail clamp with wedge angle of $10^{\circ}$. Because the initial damping force of the jaw pad was determined by the clamping angle of the locker, in order to carry out the clamping force of a jaw pad, we measured the locking force applied to a locker with respect to the clamping angle of a locker, such as $3^{\circ},\;4^{\circ},\;5^{\circ},\;6^{\circ},\;$ using a pressure gauge, and compared the results with the FEA results.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.237-246
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• 2004

Even though the wedge factor was defined by ICRU, RTPS uses other definition different from the wedge factor to consider the wedge effect to correct dose. Because the factors with different concept are defined in a very different way, replacement of different factor could make severe error of dose and is unacceptable because their values are very different from each other. Radiotherapy machine installed in department includes physical wedges and function of dynamic wedge by upper jaws, and Eclipse and Pinnacle$^{3}$ such as RTPS are used. The wedge factors, relative wedge output factors and wedge field output factors of physical wedges and dynamic wedges were measured by an ionization chamber in water phantom. They are analyzed and compared in according to wedge position, field size, wedge angle, X-ray quality, measurement condition. Wedge factor, relative wedge output factors and wedge field output factors of dynamic wedges comparing physical wedges have an effect of several factors. Main factors effecting to the factors of dynamic wedges were field size and wedge angle. Beam quality of X-ray introduces a few effect to the factors. Because the factors related to wedge and defined with different concepts are different from each other, to reduce dose error it should be input by values proper to RTPS.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.29 no.8 s.104
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• pp.735-740
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• 2005

In this paper, we designed a wedge type rail-clamp which can protect container crane from sudden wind blast with constant clamping force regardless of the operating period. When we design wedge type rail clamp, it is important to determine an angle of wedge which prevent rotating of jaw and for smooth operation when wind blows. Therefore, this paper suggest a process to decide an angle of wedge within proper range obtained by experimental analysis as well as FEA of the wedge type rail clamp. A model with $6^{\circ}$ wedge angle is the most proper model to use in rail clamp bemuse it generated satisfactory clamping force and rotating angle underdesign specification.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.8-15
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• 2004

Supersonic jets impinging on $60^{\cire}$ wedge were investigated to obtain fundamental design data for jet deflector It was of interest to study flow phenomena such as shock interaction and separation induced by shear layer. Experiments using supersonic cold flow system were conducted for Schlieren flow visualization and measurement of surface pressure. Numerical results were compared with the experimental results. The major parameters are underexpansion ratio, distance from nozzle to apex and design Mach number. Flow conditions were obtained for the wedge shock to attach on or detach from the wedge. The dominant feature of flow-field is shock pattern induced by the Interaction between the wedge shock and the barrel shock.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.159-165
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• 2009

The Strain Wedge Model is useful method for horizontal bearing capacity calculation considering interaction of pile and ground deformation. However, application case of the Strain Wedge Model is rare and the strain wedge model of plenty of verification is needed on multi layered ground in Korea. In this present study, to conduct laboratory model test and numerical analysis for verification of Strain Wedge Model, adapt model that could describe the interaction of pile and ground deformation on multi layered ground. In model test, it was performed to estimate the behavior characteristics on pile under lateral load and to analyze the relationship between load and deformation. In addition, it was fulfilled to measure the skin friction on pile using strain gauge and to decide the ground passive resistance wedge using skin friction. Numerical analysis was performed to verify laboratory model test results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.209-210
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• 2006