• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.365-374
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• 2001

In order to examine the in-reactor performance of very-high-density dispersion fuels for high flux performance research reactors, U-l0wt.%Mo microplates containing centrifugally atomized powder were irradiated at low temperature. The U-l0wt.%Mo dispersion fuels show stable in- reactor irradiation behaviors even at high burn-up, similar to U$_3$Si$_2$ dispersion fuels. The atomized U-l0wt.%Mo fuel particles have a fine and a relatively uniform fission gas bubble size distribution. Moreover, only one of third of the area of the atomized fuel cross-sections at 70a1.% burn-up shows fission gas bubble-free zones, This appears to be the result of segregation into high Mo and low Mo.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.218-225
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• 1999

Flow visualization study has been conducted to simulate the turbulent dispersion behavior of a crossflow jet physically under the conditions of various thermal stratification in a wind tunnel. A smoke jet with the constant ratio of the jet to freestream velocity is injected normally to the cross flow of the thermally stratified wind tunnel(TSWT) for flow visualization. The typical natures of the smoke dispersion under different thermal stratifications such as neutral, weakly stable, strongly stable, weakly unstable, strongly unstable and inversion layer are successfully reproduced in the TSWT. The Instantaneous velocity and temperature fluctuations are measured by using a cold and hot-wire combination probe. The time averaged dispersion behaviors, the centerline trajectories, the spreading angles and the virtual origins of the cross jet are deduced from the edge detected images with respect to the stability parameter. All the general characteristics of the turbulent dispersion behavior reveal that the definitely different dispersion mechanisms are inherent in both stable and unstable conditions. It is conjectured that the turbulent statistics obtained in the various stability conditions quantitatively demonstrate the vertical scalar flux plays a key role in the turbulent dispersion behavior.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.895-901
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• 2023

Oxide-dispersion- strengthened nickel alloys with Hf additions are expected to present high temperature mechanical properties and durable helium resistance based on first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Energetic and charge density evaluations of the helium behaviors were performed in Ni matrix, Y₂Hf₂O₇ oxide and the oxide/matrix interface. With the presence of coherent Y₂Hf₂O₇ in Ni matrix, chances of helium bubbles in Ni can be greatly diminished. The helium atoms shall occupy the interfacial site initially, then diffuse into in the octahedral sites of Y₂Hf₂O₇, and these oxide-captured He atoms prefer to separate individually. Much higher diffusion barrier of He in Y₂Hf₂O₇ than in nickel is related to the strong hybridization between interstitial He-1s and nearest-neighboring O-2p orbitals.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.62-68
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• 2019

The optoelectronic display units such as TFT-LCD or OLED require many thin optical plastic films and their mass manufacturing processes employ CO2 laser cutting of those thin films in a large quantity. However, laser film cutting could generate fume particles through melt shearing, vaporization, and chemical degradation and those particles could be of great concern for film surface contamination. In order to appreciate the fume particle dispersion behaviors in laser film cutting, this study relies on random particle simulations by probabilistic distributions of particle size, ejection velocity and angles coupled with Basset-Boussinesq-Oseen model of particle trajectory in low Reynolds number flows. Here, up to one million particles of random sampling have been tested to effectively show fume particles dispersed on the film surface. The computational results could show that particular range of fume particle size could easily disperse into the pixel region of processed optical films.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1286-1290
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• 2004

This paper proposes a Distributed Autonomous Robotic System (DARS) based on an Artificial Immune Network (AIN) and a Classifier System (CS). The behaviors of robots in the system are divided into global behaviors and local behaviors. The global behaviors are actions to search tasks in environment. These actions are composed of two types: aggregation and dispersion. AIN decides one between these two actions, which robot should select and act on in the global. The local behaviors are actions to execute searched tasks. The robots learn the cooperative actions in these behaviors by the CS in the local. The relation between global and local increases the performance of system. Also, the proposed system is more adaptive than the existing system at the viewpoint that the robots learn and adapt the changing of tasks.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.151-156
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• 2005

This paper proposes a Distributed Autonomous Robotic System(DARS) based on an Artificial Immune System(AIS) and a Classifier System(CS). The behaviors of robots in the system are divided into global behaviors and local behaviors. The global behaviors are actions to search tasks in given environment. These actions are composed of two types: aggregation and dispersion. AIS decides one among these two actions, which robot should select and act on in the global. The local behaviors are actions to execute searched tasks. The robots learn the cooperative actions in these behaviors by the CS in the local one. The proposed system will be more adaptive than the existing system at the viewpoint that the robots learn and adapt the changing of tasks.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.495-500
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• 2019

When a new fuel is developed, various mechanical properties are absolutely necessary for a safety analysis of the fuel for the licensing and prediction of its mechanical behavior during operation and accident conditions. In this paper, a mechanically equivalent surrogate plate of U-Mo dispersion fuel is presented using tungsten, substitute material of U-Mo particle. A surrogate plate, composed of tungsten/aluminum dispersion meat and aluminum alloy cladding, is manufactured with the same fabrication process with that of fuel plate except that a tungsten powder is used instead of U-Mo powder. A modal test showed that the surrogate plate and fuel plate have similar dynamic characteristics, and a tensile test demonstrated the similarity of the material property up to the yield strength range. The conducted tests proved that the surrogate tungsten plate has equivalent mechanical behaviors with that of a fuel plate, which leads to the acceptable use of a surrogate fuel assembly using tungsten/aluminum dispersion meat in various mechanical tests. The surrogate fuel assembly can be utilized for various out-of-pile characteristic tests, which are necessary for the licensing achievement of a research reactor that uses U-Mo dispersion fuel as a driver.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.251-257
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• 2010

This paper deals with the attenuation and dispersion of ultrasound in bubbly liquids. Bubble clouds in liquid are formed by a variety of mechanisms, leading to different bubble sizes and spectra. Our aim is to investigate how bubble sizes and spectra affect the attenuation and dispersion characteristics of bubbly liquids. Especially, we highlight the attenuation and dispersion behaviors of nano-bubbles, which have not been reported elsewhere. Computations show that the attenuation and dispersion characteristics of bubbly liquids depend heavily on the quality factors of constituent bubbles. The present study is expected to facilitate in-depth understanding of sound propagation in bubbly liquids.

• Proceedings of the Korean Ceranic Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.80.2-80
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.66-66
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• 2005