• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.142-148
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• 2013

Safety is a major concern in Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). Piping systems in NPPs are very complex and composed of many components such as tees, elbows, expanders and straight pipes. The high pressure and high temperature water flows inside piping components. As high speed water flows inside piping, the pipe wall thinning occurs in various reasons such as FAC (Flow Accelerated Corrosion), LDIE (Liquid Droplet Impingement Erosion) and Flashing. To inspect the wall thinning phenomenon and protect the piping from damages, piping components are checked by UT measurement in every overhaul. During every overhaul, approximately 200~300 components (40,000~60,000 UT data) are examined in NPPs. There are some methods from EPRI for evaluating wear rate of components. However, only few studies have been conducted to find out the raw data reliability for the wear rate evaluation. Securing the reliable raw data is the key factor for a reasonable evaluation. This paper suggests the reliability analysis method for the repeatedly measured data for wear rate evaluation.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.320-325
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• 2016

To perform ultrasonic testing (UT) thickness measurement of the secondary side piping installed in nuclear power plants, the insulation for preventing heat loss should be removed. The type of insulation can be divided into fixed and removable insulation. Fixed and removable insulation have their own strengths and weaknesses. Removable insulation has been installed in the components susceptible to wall thinning caused by FAC and erosion from Shin-Kori unit 1, which commenced its commercial operation in 2011. In this paper, the number of repeated inspections of components and the number of replacements of fixed insulation were estimated and a more economical way was identified based on the manufacturing and installation costs for fixed and removable insulation.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.169-174
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• 2021

In this study, performance tests, a field evaluation, and a life cycle cost (LCC) analysis for high performance coating systems were conducted to prepare a plan to reduce the cost of maintenance coating and contribute to the service life extension of steel bridges by applying high performance coatings to steel bridges that will be constructed in the future. From the deterioration models based on the field evaluation for chlorinated rubber and urethane topcoat systems, which have been applied often, the mean service lives were derived as 20.8 and 26.6 years, respectively. For the other coating systems that have not been applied in practice, the coordination factors were differentially applied with evaluation items. The most durable coating system was predicted to be thermal spray coating (TSC) primer/epoxy intermediate coat/fluoride resin topcoat, with a predicted value as long as 42.2 years. The LCC analysis indicates that partial application of high performance coating, such as TSC and fluoride resin, to specific parts vulnerable to corrosion and ultraviolet ray (UV) is more advantageous than the use of general coating systems.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2019

The purpose of this paper is to present failure analysis, of the heat exchanger tube in a district heating system. SS304 stainless steel is used, as material for the heat exchanger tube. The heat exchanger operates in a soft water environment containing a small amount of chloride ions, and regularly repeats operation and standstill period. This causes concentration of chloride ions on the outer surface of the tube, as well as repeat of thermal expansion, and shrinkage of the tube. As a result of microscopic examination, cracks showed transgranular as well as branched propagation, and many pits were present, at the initiation point of each crack. Energy disperstive spectroscopy analysis showed Fe and O peak, as well as Cl peak, meaning that cracks were affected by Cl ion. Failure of the tube was caused by chloride-induced stress corrosion cracking by thermal stress, high temperature, and localized enrichment of chloride ions.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.495-502
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• 2022

Anodization is a representative electrochemical surface treatment method that can improve both heat resistance and corrosion resistance by forming an anodization film on the surface of the aluminum. However, these properties can be changed after an additional heat treatment process. In this study, Al 6061 was subjected to an anodization process at 60 V for 1 hour, 5 hours, or 9 hours. An additional heat treatment process was performed at 500 ℃ for 30 minutes. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) analysis revealed that the thickness of the anodized film was increased in proportion to the anodization time. Both pore size and pore diameter of the anodized film was also increased after anodization. After an additional heat treatment process, there were no significant changes in the thickness, pore size, or pore diameter of the anodized film. Heat resistance was confirmed through thermal analysis and chemical resistance was evaluated with a potentiodynamic polarization test.

• 인지과학
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.29-51
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• 1994

본 논문의 목적은 영어 관계절의 의미를 분석하여 컴퓨터의 자연언어 처리 및 기계번역에 사용될 수 있는 중간언어(interlanguage)형식으로 의미표시(semantic representation)하려는 것이다.이를 위하여 최근에 미국의 John.F.Sowa를 중심으로 개발되고 있는 개념구조론(Conceptual Structure Theory)에서의 개념도식(conceptual graph)을 이용하였다.우선 개념구조론을 고찰한 후, 영어 관계절을 제한적 의미와 비제한적 의미에 따라 다르게 기술하였는데,제한적 관계절은-표현을 이용하고,비제한 관계절은 동격의 의미와 부사적 의미,그리고 논평적 의미에 따라 다르게 기술하였다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.357-365
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• 2013

기판 집적 도파관(Substrate Integrated Waveguide: SIW) 기술을 이용한 Ka 밴드의 35 GHz용 $4{\times}4$ 평면 배열 안테나를 제시한다. 전체 안테나 구조는 3층의 PCB(Printed Circuit Board) 적층 형태로 구성되며, top PCB에는 45도로 기울어진 직렬 방사 슬롯이 평면 배열로 방사부를 이룬다. 또한, 균일한 전력을 전달하고 안테나 전체 단면적을 최소화하기 위해 middle 및 bottom PCB에는 급전 SIW가 위치한다. 전체 안테나 개구면의 면적은 $750.76mm^2$이며, 유전율 2.2의 RT/Duroid 5880 기판을 적층하여 설계하였다. 각 방사부 및 급전부의 개별적인 전기적 특성은 full-wave 시뮬레이터인 CST MWS를 이용하여 확인하였다. 나아가 제안된 평면 배열 안테나는 대역폭 (490 MHz), 최대 이득(18.02 dBi), 부엽 레벨(-11.0 dB), 교차 편파 레벨(-20.16 dB)의 전기적 특성을 보인다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.675-682
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 두 개의 접지 평판 사각형 개구를 관통하는 대칭 평행 2선 전송 선로에 대하여 접지 평판 개구의 크기 변화가 전송 선로의 특성에 미치는 영향을 검토하였다. 이론 해석에는 상용 툴인 CST MWS를 사용하였으며, 두 개의 사각형 개구의 가로 및 세로 길이 변화에 따른 삽입 손실 특성을 계산하였다. 그 결과, 개구의 가로 길이 및 세로 길이에 따른 삽입 이득 및 삽입 손실 현상을 관찰할 수 있었으며, 접지 평판 사이의 선로 길이는 개구가 선로와 가까이 존재할 때 전체 전송 선로의 길이가 반 파장이 되는 주파수를 주기로 하여 삽입 이득 및 삽입 손실이 주기적으로 나타남을 확인할 수 있었다. 전송 선로 부하단의 삽입 손실 측정 결과를 수치 계산 결과와도 비교하여 이론 해석의 타당성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.117-128
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• 2018

In this paper, compact linear dual polarized series-fed $1{\times}2$ linear and $2{\times}2$ planar arrays antennas for airborne SAR applications are proposed. The proposed antenna design consists of a square radiating patch that is placed on top of the substrate, a quarter wave transformer and $50-{\Omega}$ matched transformer. Matching between a radiating patch and the $50-{\Omega}$ microstrip line is accomplished through a direct coupled-feed technique with the help of an impedance inverter (${\lambda}/4$ impedance transformer) placed at both horizontal and vertical planes, in the case of the $2{\times}2$ planar array. The overall size for the prototype-1 and prototype-2 fabricated antennas are $1.9305{\times}0.9652{\times}0.05106{{\lambda}_0}^3$ and $1.9305{\times}1.9305{\times}0.05106{{\lambda}_0}^3$, respectively. The fabricated structure has been tested, and the experimental results are similar to the simulated ones. The CST MWS simulated and vector network analyzer measured reflection coefficient ($S_{11}$) results were compared, and they indicate that the proposed antenna prototype-1 yields the impedance bandwidth >140 MHz (9.56-9.72 GHz) defined by $S_{11}$<-10 dB with 1.43%, and $S_{21}$<-25 dB in the case of prototype-2 (9.58-9.74 GHz, $S_{11}$< -10 dB) >140 MHz for all the individual ports. The surface currents and the E- and H-field distributions were studied for a better understanding of the polarization mechanism. The measured results of the proposed dual polarized antenna were in accordance with the simulated analysis and showed good performance of the S-parameters and radiation patterns (co-pol and cross-pol), gain, efficiency, front-to-back ratio, half-power beam width) at the resonant frequency. With these features and its compact size, the proposed antenna will be suitable for X-band airborne synthetic aperture radar applications.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제26권10호
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• pp.179-184
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 딥러닝 기반의 순환신경망을 이용하여 선박 연료유 예측을 시도하였다. 해운업에서는 선박 운항비에서 연료유가 차지하는 비중이 가장 크고 가격 변동성도 크기 때문에, 해운 기업은 합리적이고 과학저인 방법으로 연료유를 예측하여 시장경쟁력을 확보할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 순환신경망 모델 3가지(RNN, LSTM, GRU)를 이용하여 싱가폴의 HSFO 380CST 벙커유 가격을 단기 예측하였다. 예측결과, 첫째, 선박 연료유 단기적 예측을 위해서는 장기 메모리를 사용하는 LSTM, GRU보다는 일반적인 RNN 모델의 성능이 우수한 것으로 분석되어, 장기적 정보의 예측 기여가 낮은 것으로 분석되었다. 둘째, 계량경제학 모델을 사용한 선행연구와 비교하여 순환신경망 모델의 예측성능이 우수한 것으로 분석되어 연료유가의 비선형적 특성을 고려한 순환신경망 모델을 통한 예측 연구의 필요성을 확인하였다. 연구의 결과는 선박 연료유의 단기 예측을 통하여 해운기업의 선박 연료유 수급 결정과 같은 의사결정에 도움이 될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.