• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.13 no.6 s.58
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• pp.204-211
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• 2009

In this study, the optimal method is applied to strengthening of RC hollow slab bridges using external prestressing. The Queen-post and King-post shapes are considered to find the effective tendon configurations. In order to achieve the objective rating factor, the optimal configurations and tendon forces are obtained by using the Sequential Unconstrained Minimization Technique (SUMT). The object function for optimal strengthening is constituted with the dimensionless function of material costs. The constraints are formulated by design specification and the rating factor. The validity of this study is presented by the analysis of the results of strengthening of the RC hollow slab bridges.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.806-814
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• 2009

This paper reviews a study about sound reflection control using an active sound absorber. An active sound absorber includes sound transmitting and receiving piezocomposite sensor layers molded by water tight epoxy, and connected with a feedback controller. The multi-layer sensors and the controller consists a closed feedback loop, whose intrinsic characteristics shows excellent impedance matching performance within specified frequency band, and consequently, minimizes reflection waves. Multilayer sound transmission model is derived based on one dimensional model, and its performance is verified with experiment using a pulse tube setup.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.393-401
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose an evaluation scheme of the coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) of constituents in composite materials using an inverse analysis. The size of constituents typically is about a few micrometers, which makes the identification of material properties difficult as well as the measurement results inaccurate. The proposed inverse analysis scheme, which is combined with the Mori-Tanaka method for predicting an equivalent CTE of composite materials, provides the CTE of the constituents in a straightforward manner by minimizing the cost function defined in lamina scale with the steepest descent method. To demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed scheme, the CTEs of several fibers (glass fiber, P75, P100, and M55J) embedded in matrix are evaluated and compared with experimental results. Furthermore, we discuss the effects of uncertainty of laminar and matrix properties on the prediction of fiber properties.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.127-137
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• 1992

For the real-time control of a multi-purpose reservoir in case of a storm, it is absolutely necessary to forecast accurate flood inflows through a good rainfall-runoff model by calibrating the parameters with the on-line rainfall and water level data transmitted by the telemetering systems. To calibrate the parameters of a runoff model. the trial and error method of manual calibration has been adopted from the subjective view point of a model user. The object of this study is to develop a automatic calibration method using an optimization technique. The pattern-search algorithm was applied as an optimization technique because of the stability of the solution under various conditions. The object function was selected as the sum of the squares of differences between observed and fitted ordinates of the hydrograph. Two historical flood events were applied to verify the developed technique for the automatic calibration of the parameters of the storage-function rainfall-runoff model which has been used for the flood control of the Soyanggang multi-purpose reservoir by the Korea Water Resources Corporation. The developed method was verified to be much more suitable than the manual method in flood forecasting and real-time reservoir controlling because it saves calibration time and efforts in addition to the better flood forecasting capability.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2012

Probabilistic design methods have been used as a design standard in Korea and abroad for achieving reasonable design by considering the statistical uncertainties of soil properties. In this study, the following techniques for reflecting geotechnical uncertainty are analyzed: quantification of the uncertainties of geotechnical random variables, and consideration of economic feasibility in design by minimizing the uncertainties related to the number of samples. To quantify the uncertainties, the techniques were applied to soil properties obtained from samples collected and tested in the field. The results showed an underestimation of the standard deviation by the 3-sigma approach in comparison with calculations using data from the samples. This finding indicates that economical design is possible in terms of probability. However, when compared with the Bayesian approach, which does not consider the number of samples, variability in the 3-sigma approach is underestimated for some variables. This finding also indicates a safety issue, whereas the number of samples based on the Bayesian approach showed the lowest variance. The variance of the probability density function showed a marked decrease with increasing number of samples, to converge at a certain level when the number exceeds 25. Of note, the estimation of values is more reliable for random variables having low variability, such as soil unit weight, and can be obtained with a small number of samples.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.29B no.11
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• pp.56-64
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• 1992

The sum-of-product type MVL (Multiple-valued logic) functions can be directly transformed into the exclusive-sum-of-literal-product(ESOLP) type MVL functions with a substitution of the OR operator with the exclusive-OR(XOR) operator. This paper presents an algorithm that can reduce the number of minterms for the purpose of minimizing the hardware size and the complexity of the circuit in the realization of ESOLP-type MVL functions. In Boolean algebra, the joinable true minterms can form the cube, and if some cubes form a cube-chain with adjacent cubes by the insertion of false cubes(or, false minterms), then the created cube-chain can become a large cube which includes previous cubes. As a result of the cube grouping, the number of minterms can be reduced artificially. Since ESOLP-type MVL functions take the MIN/XOR structure, a XOR circuit and a four-valued MIN/XOR dynamic-CMOS PLA circuit is designed for the realization of the minimized functions, and PSPICE simulation results have been also presented for the validation of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.125-131
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a homogeneous multisensor-based navigation algorithm for a mobile robot, which is intelligently searching the goal location in unknown dynamic environments with moving obstacles using multi-ultrasonic sensor. Instead of using "sensor fusion" method which generates the trajectory of a robot based upon the environment model and sensory data, "command fusion" method by fuzzy inference is used to govern the robot motions. The major factors for robot navigation are represented as a cost function. Using the data of the robot states and the environment, the weight value of each factor using fuzzy inference is determined for an optimal trajectory in dynamic environments. For the evaluation of the proposed algorithm, we performed simulations in PC as well as real experiments with mobile robot, AmigoBot. The results show that the proposed algorithm is apt to identify obstacles in unknown environments to guide the robot to the goal location safely.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.563-564
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• 2011

본 논문에서 우리는 unequal loss protection(ULP) 알고리즘을 기반으로 패킷이 손실될 수 있는 망 환경에서 인지적으로 재구성된 영상의 왜곡을 최소화하는 방법을 제안한다. 알고리즘에는 2가지의 주요 요인이 있다. 첫째, 인간 시각 체계의 균일하지 않은 분포의 함수로 압축된 영상에 가중치를 준다. 둘째, 패킷은 오류 전파가 일어나지 않도록 하면서 각각의 group of picture(GOP)내에서 시간적인 중요성이 할당된다. 프레임의 인지적인 중요성과 GOP의 계층적인 중요성을 동시에 고려하여, 제안하는 ULP알고리즘은 인간 시각적으로 가장 중요한 지역의 크기를 식별하여 효율적인 forword error correction(FEC) 알고리즘을 수행한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 1986.07a
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• pp.147-158
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• 1986

본 논문에서는 북한강 수계의 소양강댐 및 최근에 건설된 남한강 수계의 충주댐의 홍수조절 모형을 개발하였으며, 그 방법으로는 mini-max Dynamic Programming(DP)에 의한 Optimization기법을 사용하였다. 즉 각댐의 유입량을 이용하여 소양강댐 및 충주댐에서의 최대 방류량을 최소화시키는 목적 함수를 사용하였으며, 각 댐 및 하도의 특성에 따른 제약 조건을 고려하였다. DP에 의한 소양강댐 및 충주댐의 최적 운영 결과를 조절율과 이용율을 사용하여 Simulation방법중 Technical ROM, Rigid ROM, Linear Decision Rule(LDR)과 비교한 결과 모든 빈도에 대해서 DP에 의한 방법이 더 좋은 것으로 나타났다. 소양강댐의 각 빈도별 유입량에 대한 방류 형태중, 5년 빈도의 경우에는 방류를 전혀 하지 않아도 저수위가 홍수위 198m를 넘지 않으므로 사실상 5년 빈도의 홍수에 대해서는 저수지 조작이 필요없다. 충주댐의 각 빈도별 유입량에 대한 방류 형태는 초반부와 후반부에서는 방유량-유입량으로 방출하고 중반부에서는 일정한 양을 방류한다. 이에 따라 저수위도 초반부와 후반부에서는 각각 제한수위 138m와 홍수위 145m로 유지된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.644-646
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• 1998

대용량의 지형을 실시간에 가시화하기는 어려운 문제이다. 따라서, 지형을 구성하는 메쉬를 간략화하여 다단계 상세도(Level-Of-Detail)를 가진 모델 생성이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 지형 간략화를 위해 에너지의 특성과 주변 정보를 이용한 에지 축약(Edge Collapse) 기반의 단순한 간략화 알고리즘을 제시한다. 기본적인 접근 방법으로는 기하학적인 메쉬 구성요소들 중에서 에지의 특성에 따라 제거 기준을 설정한 후 간략화해 나간다. 속도 향상을 위해 에지 축약 이후의 새로운 점 위치 계산을 에지의 종류에 따라 구분하여 단순하게 계산하였고, 간략화를 위한 제거 기준도 비교적 간단한 기준으로 설정하였다. 간략화 이후에도 원래 지형의 위상(topology)을 유지 할 수 있는 단순한 기법을 제시하고 있다. 실험 결과에서 두 가지 지형 모델에 대해서 정점 제거 방법과의 비교 결과, 간략화된 지형 모델에서의 에러를 최소화하였고, Heckbert가 제안한 방법과의 비교에서는 개선을 하였음을 알 수 있다.