• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.379-402
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• 2021

Traditional approaches for structural health monitoring (SHM) seldom take ambient uncertainty (temperature, humidity, ambient vibration) into consideration, while their impacts on structural responses are substantial, leading to a possibility of raising false alarms. A few predictors model-based approaches deal with these uncertainties through complex numerical models running online, rendering the SHM approach to be compute-intensive, slow, and sometimes not practical. Also, with model-based approaches, the imperative need for a precise understanding of the structure often poses a problem for not so well understood complex systems. The present study employs a data-based approach coupled with Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) to correlate recorded response time histories under varying temperature conditions to corresponding damage scenarios. EMD decomposes the response signal into a finite set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). A two-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (2DCNN) is further trained to associate these IMFs to the respective damage cases. The use of IMFs in place of raw signals helps to reduce the impact of sensor noise while preserving the essential spatio-temporal information less-sensitive to thermal effects and thereby stands as a better damage-sensitive feature than the raw signal itself. The proposed algorithm is numerically tested on a single span bridge under varying temperature conditions for different damage severities. The dynamic strain is recorded as the response since they are frame-invariant and cheaper to install. The proposed algorithm has been observed to be damage sensitive as well as sufficiently robust against measurement noise.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.29-43
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• 2023

This study investigates the possibility of damage detection of a real bridge by means of a modal parameter-based finite element (FE) model update. Field moving vehicle experiments were conducted on an actual steel plate girder bridge. In the damage experiment, cracks were applied to the bridge to simulate damage states. A fast Bayesian FFT method was employed to identify and quantify uncertainties of the modal parameters then these modal parameters were used in the Bayesian model update. Material properties and boundary conditions are taken as uncertainties and updated in the model update process. Observations showed that although some differences existed in the results obtained from different model classes, the discrepancy between modal parameters of the FE model and those experimentally obtained was reduced after the model update process, and the updated parameters in the numerical model were indeed affected by the damage. The importance of boundary conditions in the model updating process is also observed. The capability of the MCMC model update method for application to the actual bridge structure is assessed, and the limitation of FE model update in damage detection of bridges using only modal parameters is observed.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제31권11호
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• pp.936-941
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• 2007

This paper is on the influence of gas explosion caused by Vapor Cloud Explosion(VCE). Also, it is to understand the influence of the booth for explosion experiment which is installed to let the trainees for legal education which is managed by IGTT(Institute or Gas Technology Training) know the riskiness of explosion. In this study, the influence of explosion shock wave caused by VCE in enclosure was calculated by using the Hopkinson's scaling law and the accident damage was estimated by applying the influence on the adjacent human into the probit model. As a result of the damage estimation conducted by using the probit model, both the damage possibility of explosion overpressure to human 8 meters away and that of shock wave to hurt 15 meters away showed nothing.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.1108-1117
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• 2005

A robust damage detection method using short-time Fourier transform and beating phenomena is presented as an estimating tool of the healthiness of large structures. The present technique makes use of beating phenomena that manifest themselves when two signals of similar frequencies are added or subtracted. Unlike most existing methods based on vibration signals, the present approach does not require an analytic model for target structures. Furthermore, the main advantage of the proposed method compared to the competing diagnostic method using vibration data is its robustness. The proposed method is not affected by the amplitude of exciting signals and the location of exciting points. From a measuring view point. the location of sensing point have no influence on the performance of the present method. With a view to verifying the effectiveness of this method. a series of experiments are made and the results show its possibility as a robust damage diagnostic method.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.190-194
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• 2011

After the first report that electrons with sub-ionization energy of DNA could cause single strand breaks or double strand breaks to DNA, there have been various studies to investigate the mechanisms of DNA damage by low-energy electrons. In this paper, we examined the possibility of using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to analyze the dissociation patterns of the molecular bonds by electron irradiation on DNA thin films and tried to establish the method as a general tool for studying the radiation damage of biomolecules by low energ yelectrons. For the experiment, pBR322 plasmid DNA solution was formed into the films on tantalum plates by lyophilization and was irradiated by 5-eV electrons. Un-irradiated and irradiated DNA films were compared and analyzed using the XPS technique.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.159-165
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• 2013

ESD damage by Charged Cable Model (CCM) is introduced. Due to its own impedance characteristic unlike Human Body Model (HBM) or Machine Model (MM) electric component can be destroyed even though it is located after typical protection circuit. Possible mechanism of ESD damage to automotive electric control unit (ECU) in vehicle environment by CCM discharge was investigated. Based on investigation, field-returned vehicle whose ECU is expected to be damaged by CCM discharge was tested to reproduce it and similar electric component destruction inside ECU was observed. Suggestions to reduce the possibility of ESD damage by CCM are introduced.

• Journal of Ginseng Research
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.179-183
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• 1996

One exotherm was detected in the intact ginseng seeds containing more than 35% water, but in seeds with 20% there was no exotherm. The shapes of exotherm were remarkably uniform without relation to water content above 35%. The temperature at the initiation of freezing varied from -3.5$^{\circ}C$ to -9.6$^{\circ}C$ with the different water content in the seeds, and the Initial temperature of freezing delayed with the decrease of water content. The resistance damage at low temperature appeared in order of maln body, rhizome, lateral root of 3-year-old yearling rhizome, and fine root of 3-year-old. Ginseng roots didn't receive any damage at -5$^{\circ}C$ for 24 hours. Otherwise they received serious damage below -1$0^{\circ}C$ even for 5 hours'exposure. Hence, alternative low temperature gave more severe damage compared to constant low temperature. This result suggests that the Possibility of receiving injury at low temperature was higher during the thawing season of the early spring than in the winter.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.367-374
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• 2005

최근 들어 자주 발생하는 산림피해는 세계적으로 커다란 이슈가 되고 있으며, 그 중에서도 산불에 의한 피해는 그 자체로서의 피해뿐 만이 아니라, 홍수 등으로 이어지는 2차 피해로 연결이 된다. 또한 산불 등은 자연적인 원인보다는 사람에 의한 인위적인 재해가 많은 것도 주지의 사실이다. 본 연구에서는 위성영상 자료를 이용하기 위한 사전작업으로 근적외 CCD카메라와 분광반사계를 사용한 식생의 분광반사특성을 이용하여 산불의 피해 정도를 파악하고자 하였다. 즉 육안 관측에 의해 산림 피해도를 무(無), 중(中), 강(强)으로 구분하여 산림의 활성도를 평가하여 산림의 소생가능성을 파악하였다. 분광반사계와 근적외 CCD 카메라에 의한 분광 반사 특성간의 상관 관계를 구한 결과, 피해도 무(無), 중(中), 강(强)에서 높은 상관관계를 얻을 수 있었다. 따라서 산불피해 조사시 분광반사계와 근적외 CCD카메라를 병용하여 사용함으로서, 육안으로 관측하기 어려운 산불의 피해를 파악할 수 있었다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제97권6호
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• pp.656-660
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• 2008

본 연구는 숲가꾸기 작업을 위하여 개설된 작업로를 대상으로 노면피해에 영향을 미치는 요인을 평가하여 작업로 노면의 피해예방을 위한 적정 시설기준의 기초자료를 제공하고자 실시하였다. 작업로 노면피해에 영향을 크게 미치는 요인은 시설위치, 종단기울기, 겉보기토질, 산지사면형상, 노폭의 순으로 나타났다. 따라서 종단기울기, 노폭 등 도로 구조적인 요인과 시설위치, 산지사면형상 등 입지적 요인 그리고 겉보기 토질과 같은 도로 구성물질이 노면 피해 발생과 밀접한 연관이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 작업로의 피해발생은 계곡부, 종단기울기 24%이상, 마사토 토질, 요형사면, 노폭 3.0 m이상에서 심한 것으로 나타났고, 안정성은 능선부, 종단기울기 4~24%, 토사지역, 직선형(-)사면, 노폭 3.0 m이하에서 큰 것으로 나타났다. 수량화II류의 판별식의 판별적중률은 79.4%로 상당히 양호한 값으로 나타나 작업로 노면의 양부판정에 활용이 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.115-123
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• 2006

A feasibility of using the topology optimization method for structural damage identification is investigated for the first time. The frequency response functions (FRFs) are assumed to be constructed by the finite element models of damaged and undamaged structures. In addition to commonly used resonances, antiresonances are employed as the damage identifying modal parameters. For the topology optimization formulation, the modal parameters of the undamaged structure are made to approach those of the damaged structure by means of the constraint equations, while the objective function is an explicit penalty function requiring clear black-and-white images. The developed formulation is especially suitable for damage identification problems dealing with many modal parameters. Although relatively simple numerical problems were considered in this investigation, the possibility of using the topology optimization method for structural damage identification is suggested through this research.