• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.136-141
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• 2004

A torsional guided wave mode was applied to detect a crack in a pipe. An array of electromagnetic acoustic transduce. (EMAT that can generate and receive torsional guided ultrasound with the frequency of 200kHz was designed and fabricated for testing a pipe of 2.5 inch diameter Artificial notches with various depths were fabricated in a bent feeder pipe mock-up and the detectability was examined from the distance of 2m of the specimen. The axial notches with the depth of 5% of wall thickness were successfully detected by a torsional mode (T(0,1)) generated by the EMAT However, it was found that the depth of defects was not related to the signal amplitude.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.377-383
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• 2009

Ionic polymer-metal composite (IPMC) actuator generates bending actuation via ion/water flux to the cathode side under an electric field. Polyelectrolytes in IPMC should possess high water-retention capability, proton conductivity, and Young's modulus. In this study. for endowing IPMCs with these properties, Nafion-alumina composite membranes containing $\alpha$- or $\gamma$-aluminas of $4{\sim}8$ wt% were prepared. Mechanical moduli of Nafion-alumina composite membranes were $7{\sim}3$ MPa higher than that of Nafion, with the slight decrease in proton conductivity. At DC 3 V. the actuation performance of the Nafion-$\alpha$-alumina (8 wt%)-IPMC was superior to that of the typical Nafion-IPMC. exhibiting 2.7 times the displacement with an enhanced blocking force. The enhanced actuation performance with the Nafion-$\alpha$-alumina composite membranes was attributed to the higher proton conductivity, the elevated ion/water flux, and the lower interfacial electric resistance of platinum electrodes and membrane, compared with those containing $\gamma$-alumina.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.1-6
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• 2007

In wireless mesh networks (WMNs), the end-to-end throughput of a flow decreases drastically according to the traversed number of hops due to interference among different hops of the same flow in addition to interference between hops of different flows with different paths. This paper proposes a distributed multi-channel assignment scheme based on hops (DMASH) to improve the performance of a static WMN. The proposed DMASH is a novel distributed multi-channel assignment scheme based on hops to enhance the end-to-end throughput by reducing interference between channels when transmitting packets in the IEEE 802.11 based multi-interface environments. The DMASH assigns a channel group to each hop, which has no interference between adjacent hops from a gateway in channel assignment phase, then each node selects its channel randomly among the channel group. Since the DMASH is a distributed scheme with unmanaged and auto-configuration of channel assignment, it has a less overhead and implementation complexity in algorithm than centralized multi-channel assignment schemes. Simulation results using the NS-2 showed that the DMASH could improve remarkably the total network throughput in multi-hop environments, comparing with a random channel assignment scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.4801-4806
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• 2012

There are still problems have to solve for safety of driving comparing to the upgraded convenience of advanced vehicle. Most traffic accident is by uncareful driving cause of interface operations which are directive reasons of it in controlling the complicate multimedia device. According to interesting in smart automobile, various approaches for safe driving have been studied. The current multimedia interface embedded in vehicle is lacking the safety due to loss the sense and operation capacity by instantaneous view movement. In this paper, we propose a safe dialing system for safe driving to control dial and search dictionary by hand-gesture. The proposed system improved the user convenience and safety in automobile operation using intuitive gesture and TTS(Text to Speech).

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.596-605
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• 2016

Since the Denial of Service Attack against multiple targets in the Korean network in private and public sectors in 2009, Korea has spent a great amount of its budget to build strong Internet infrastructure against DDoS attacks. As a result of the investments, many major governments and corporations installed dedicated DDoS defense systems. However, even organizations equipped with the product based defense system often showed incompetency in dealing with DDoS attacks with little variations from known attack types. In contrast, by following a capacity centric DDoS detection method, defense personnel can identify various types of DDoS attacks and abnormality of the system through checking availability of service resources, regardless of the types of specific attack techniques. Thus, the defense personnel can easily derive proper response methods according to the attacks. Deviating from the existing DDoS defense framework, this research study introduces a capacity centric DDoS detection methodology and provides methods to mitigate DDoS attacks by applying the methodology.

• Composites Research
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.310-315
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• 2017

In this study, we have investigated microstructure, mechanical properties and wear characteristic of aluminum metal matrix composites with a high volume fraction and uniformly dispersed SiC particles which produced by a liquid pressing process. The volume fraction of bimodal SiC/Al7075 composite was 12% higher than that of the monomodal SiC/Al7075 composite and a compressive strength is increased about 200 MPa. As a result of the abrasion test, the wear width and depth of the bimodal SiC/Al7075 composite were $285.1{\mu}m$ and $0.45{\mu}m$, respectively. The coefficient of friction of bimodal SiC/Al7075 was 0.16.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.45 no.7
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• pp.45-52
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• 2008

In typical cellular systems using frequency reuse scheme, the terminal suffers a performance degradation due to the intercell interference signals from adjacent cells as the terminal moves toward the cell boundary. In this paper, a signal transmission and reception scheme which achieve spatial multiplexing and beamforming gain from a distributed MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) channel using multiple-antenna terminal is proposed for the spectral efficiency enhancement in a multi-cell downlink environment, when geographically separated base stations cooperatively transmit signals. In particular, we analyze the effective signal-to-interference ratio and spectral efficiency of the proposed scheme for different frequency reuse patterns and for varying numbers of receive antennas, and compare with the performance of the MRC (maximal ratio combining) reception scheme in typical cellular systems. We evaluate the amount of transmission efficiency of the scheme by comparing the performance near the cell boundary where the strong intercell interference is experienced.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.226-234
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• 2022

With advances in autonomous vehicles and networked control, there is a growing interest in the consensus control of a multi-agents system to control multi-agents with distributed control beyond the control of a single agent. Since consensus control is a distributed control, it is bound to have delay in a practical system. In addition, it is often difficult to have a very accurate mathematical model for a system. Even though a reinforcement learning (RL) method was developed to deal with these issues, it often experiences slow convergence in the presence of large uncertainties. Thus, we propose a slide RL which combines the sliding mode control with RL to be robust to the uncertainties. The structure of a sliding mode control is introduced to the action in RL while an auxiliary sliding variable is included in the state information. Numerical simulation results show that the slide RL provides comparable performance to the model-based consensus control in the presence of unknown time-varying delay and disturbance while outperforming existing state-of-the-art RL-based consensus algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2020.06a
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• pp.301-301
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• 2020

물은 보다 나은 삶을 살아가는데 있어 매우 중요한 자원이며, 안전하고 깨끗한 물을 공급받는 것은 국민 생활 영위에 반드시 필요한 부분이다. 국내 주요 수자원은 하천수를 통해 확보하고 있으며, 안전한 수자원 공급을 위해서는 하천관리를 통한 수질오염사고에 대비한 대책 수립이 필요하다. 국내에서는 페놀, 황산 등 독성오염물질 유출로 인한 수질오염사고가 발생한 바 있고, 그 피해액이 수백억에 달한다. 이러한 수질오염사고로 인한 피해액을 감소시키고 안전한 수자원 공급을 유지하기 위해서는 오염물질의 거동을 이해하고 예측하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 국내하천의 경우, 대부분 하폭 대비 수심비가 크기 때문에 오염물질이 2차원 혼합특성을 나타낸다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 하천 내 오염물질의 2차원적 혼합거동을 해석할 수 있는 수치모형을 개발하고자 하며, 현장에 적합한 해석기법을 검토하고 모형 개발 방향을 결정하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 하천 내 수질오염사고 발생 시 신속하고 정확한 수질 분석 및 예측을 목표로 오염물질 혼합해석에 주로 활용되는 격자기반 모형과 입자추적 기반 모형의 프로토타입을 개발했다. 용존성 오염물질을 대상으로 격자 기반 및 입자 기반 혼합해석 모형을 개발했으며, 오염물질의 주입형태와 하천 내 유속 분포를 가정해 혼합해석을 수행했다. 격자 기반 모형의 경우, 경계조건과 분산계수의 결정이 필요하고 수렴/발산 문제로 인해 모형의 안정적 실행을 위한 조건 수립이 필요하다. 입자 기반 모형의 경우에도 입자 수에 따른 계산시간 개선이 필요하지만, 입력조건 결정이 간편하고 분산계수 입력이 필요 없어 신속한 모의조건 설정이 가능하다. 오염물질 혼합해석 모형 개발을 위한 해석기법 검토 결과, 신속한 수질 분석 및 예측 결과를 제공하기 위해서는 계산시간 개선을 전제로 모의조건 설정이 용이한 입자 기반 모형이 가장 적합한 것으로 판단된다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.2B
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• pp.161-170
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• 2006

A tracer test technique using a radioisotope was proposed to investigate pollutant mixing characteristics in rivers. The main advantages of radioisotope as a tracer in field tests are that it can be detected easily, and that its detection range is quite large. Also, using the radioisotope, the amount sorbed by the bed material and the biota may be a minimum. Field tracer tests were conducted at seven different sites in natural rivers with various meandering pattern. Based on the acquired data, the behavior of the tracer cloud in the intermediate-field was examined two-dimensionally, and dispersion coefficients were calculated using several evaluation methods. Results revealed that the tracer cloud was transported skewed to the outer bank and dispersion coefficients in bends were larger than those in straight reaches.