• Transactions of the Korean Society of Pressure Vessels and Piping
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.145-156
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• 2021

Ultrasonic Nanocrystal Surface Modification (UNSM) is a peening technology that generates elastic-plastic deformation on the material surface to which a static load of a air compressor and a dynamic load of ultrasonic vibration energy are applied by striking the material surface with a strike pin. In the UNSM-treated material, the structure of the surface layer is modified into a nano-crystal structure and compressive residual stress occurs. When UNSM is applied to welds in a reactor coolant system where PWSCC can occur, it has the effect of relieving tensile residual stress in the weld and thus suppressing crack initiation and propagation. In order to quantitatively evaluate the compressive residual stress generated by UNSM, many finite element studies have been conducted. In existing studies, single-path UNSM or UNSM in a limited area has been simulated due to excessive computing time and analysis convergence problems. However, it is difficult to accurately calculate the compressive residual stress generated by the actual UNSM under these limited conditions. Therefore, in this study, a minimum finite element peening analysis area that can reliably calculate the compressive residual stress is proposed. To confirm the validity of the proposed analysis area, the compressive residual stress obtained from the experiment are compared with finite element analysis results.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.170-180
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• 2017

The study used jet water flow, ultra-sonication and ozonation system units to investigate impact of the unit components on water quality of stagnant Yeo-cheon River reach, Korea. Samples were collected at six locations, before operation and after 1, 3 and 6 hrs of operation. By operating the water flow unit only, dissolved oxygen increased as high as 90% after 3 hr at 25 m downstream of the device and Chl-a was reduced by 80%. Incorporating sonication, greater than 80% of Chl-a was removed even at 100 m distance from the device. Besides, total dissolved phosphorus was reduced from an average value of $420({\pm}70){\mu}g/L$ before ultrasonic irradiation to $160({\pm}40){\mu}g/L$ after the treatment. Releasing ozone into the flow with sonication, Chl-a was considerably removed from the water column and ammonia nitrogen was also decreased to average value of $20{\mu}g/L$ from $60{\mu}g/L$. However, as only $3{\ast}10^{-3}mg/L$ of ozone was used for safety purpose and due to brief reaction time it takes, effect of integrating ozone to the system covered limited area. Generally, combining sonication to jet flow is promising in preventing algal bloom formation since it has effectively removed Chl-a from the water column.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1556-1557
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• 2011

변압기의 고체 절연이 열화 되거나 불순물 및 수분이 혼입되어 임계치 이상의 고전계가 인가되면 결합부분에서 부분방전이 발생한다. 현재 변압기에서 부분방전을 검출하기 위해서는 부싱탭을 이용하거나 전류센서, 초음파센서 등을 이용하여 부분방전을 검출하고 있지만 전기적인 부싱탭이나 전류센서를 이용한 검출 방법은 주변 잡음의 영향을 많이 받고 초음파법은 감도가 낮다는 단점을 가지고 있다. 이에, UHF 방식을 이용한 부분방전 검출 기술이 전력기기의 초기 고장진단을 발견하는 효과적인 방법으로 인식되고 있다. 최근에는 이러한 UHF 진단방식의 높은 감도, 외부노이즈에 대한 적은 영향, 온라인 측정의 가능성의 장점으로 전력용 변압기에도 적용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 전력 변압기에서 PD 진단에 적합한 UHF 센서의 개발에 대해서 소개한다. 제안된 UHF 센서는 광대역(500 ~ 1,500MHz)에서 측정이 가능하며 감도가 우수하며 특정 대역에서 공진점을 가지는 다중 공진 모노폴 안테나 타입이다. 안테나 시뮬레이션 및 해석을 통해 유중 부분방전을 모의하여 감도 측정을 실시한 결과 제안된 UHF 센서가 전력용 변압기의 부분방전 측정에서 높은 감도를 나타냈으며, 기존 측정 방식의 단점을 보완할 수 있는 방안으로서 전자파를 이용한 부분방전 측정에 대한 기초연구를 실시하여 변압기 운전중에 전자파 측정에 의한 부분방전 감시가 가능한 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.193-195
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• 2008

에폭시-층상실리케이트 나노콤포지트의 여러 가지 특성인 전기적, 기계적, 구조적 특성에 대해서 많은 연구가 진행되었고, 그에 대한 특성 향상을 가져왔다. 그러나 절연성능에 대한 평가는 우수하지만 열적특성 중열전도에 대한 영향은 그히 부족한 상태였다. 열적특성은 열적열화의 원인이 되어 신뢰성에 크게 영향을 준다. 여러종류 Organoclay(10A, 15A, 20A, 30B, 93A)의 에폭기-층상실리케이트 나노콤포지트 Tg 분석결과 10A의 경우 우수한 열적특성을 나타내었다. DNA 점탄성 및 기계적 손실측정에서도 10A의 경우 고온부($140^{\circ}C$) 탄성계수 및 기계적손실 피르가 가장작고, 고온으로 이동되어 발생된 경우로 열적 특성이 우수함을 알 수 있었다. 열전도 측정결과 강력초음파를 적용한 경우와 미적용의 경우 열전도측정으로 볼 때 전반적으로 초음파 적용 경우 열전도향상이 크게 증가된 결과를 얻었다. 향후 몰드 및 함침절연의 전력기기 적용시 유용한 자료로 이용이 가능하여, 더욱더 많은 연구가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.105-111
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• 1997

Before application of the angular spectrum method to calculate acoustic fields in stratified water, its efficiencies and errors were analyzed by using a virtual boundary in homogeneous water. As the results, it was confirmed that the angular spectrum method was able to calculate an acoustic field rapidly though some errors due to the limitation of reference field size and number of data in FFT ware included. A modified method combined the angular spectrum with Lommel's approximation, which was newly proposed in this paper, was useful to reduce the errors.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.115-122
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• 2010

Most of intelligent services provided today work based on the users' location. Numerous devices for indoor localization services have their own characteristic functions and operating systems, we need the interoperability and diversity of middleware to connect and control these devices. The indoor localization method using existing inertial sensors are relatively less efficient because of additional cost according to the size of space. Accordingly, the indoor user localization method proposed in this study supports integrated services using OSGi framework, an open source project, and solves problems in inertial sensor based on accurate distance to a specific object measured using ultrasonic sensor. Furthermore, it reduces errors resulting from difference in response rate by adding the reliability item.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.720-724
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• 2008

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the PM10 removal efficiencies of an Air-washer and an Ultrasonic humidifier by mock-up experiments. The concentrations of PM10 were measured at 5 minute intervals using $\beta$-Ray method. The average PM10 removal efficiency of the Air-washer was 79.8%, while the PM10 concentrations increased with the operation of Ultrasonic humidifier. In the case of operating the Air-washer, the R.H(Relative Humidity) level of the test room was maintained at around 45%, regardless of initial R.H condition. The R.H of the test room with Ultrasonic humidifier was influenced by the initial R.H condition.

• Journal of dental hygiene science
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.603-611
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• 2015

This research is aimed at cutting off hearing loss and other harmful factors due to noise and providing basic material for noise reduction plan. As the research method, this research assessed noise by measuring acoustic pressure level and frequency in various situation of non-treatment and treatment. As the measurement result, average noise degree of high speed handpiece of non-treatment, ultrasonic waves scaler, and low speed handpiece showed 58~66 dB(A). Average noise degree of scaling of treatment, tooth elimination, and denture adjust showed 73~81 dB(A). The result is inferior to recognized standards of noise induced hearing loss. But the result of assessing this with (noise rating) NR curve was NR-73~78, which exceeded general workplace noise standard. This level can cause hearing loss when exposed to a long time. Therefore, treatment office noise during dental treatment can cause psychological and physical damage in dental clinic employees, and it is urgently required to establish systematic and active noise reduction plan.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.130-136
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• 2009

Turbine, which is one of major components in nuclear power plants, requires reliable nondestructive inspections. But, accessibility of transducers is limited and interpretation of acquired signals is not easy at all due to the complication. So, in this study, we have fabricated mock-up specimens of real size and shape. we applied pulse-echo method and time-of-flight diffraction(TOFD) method for precise inspection of turbine key and wheel bore. And phased array ultrasonic testing method was adopted for wheel dovetail of turbines by using mock-up. Furthermore, an automatic scanner system was developed for in-service inspection of the developed methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.50-55
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• 2012

This paper proposes an optima] many-core processor architecture that meets the requirements of low power and high performance for different ultrasonic image resolutions in hand-held ultrasonic devices. To identify the optimal many-core architecture, seven different PE configurations are simulated for processing ultrasonic images in terms of execution performance and energy consumption. Experimental results indicate that the highest energy efficiencies are achieved at PEs=1,024, 64, and 256 for ultrasonic images at $256{\times}256$, $320{\times}240$, and $800{\times}480$ resolutions, respectively. In addition, the maximum area efficiencies are obtained at PEs=256 (for $256{\times}256$ and $800{\times}480$ image resolutions) and 64 (for $320{\times}240$ image resolution).