• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권10호
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• pp.3897-3908
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• 2022

High-fidelity nuclear data libraries and neutronics simulation tools are essential for the development of fast reactors. The IAEA coordinated research project on "Neutronics Benchmark of CEFR Start-Up Tests" offers valuable data for the qualification of nuclear data libraries and neutronics codes. This paper focuses on the verification and validation of the CEFR start-up modelling using OpenMC Monte-Carlo code against the experimental measurements. The OpenMC simulation results agree well with the measurements in criticality, control rod worth, sodium void reactivity, temperature reactivity, subassembly swap reactivity, and reaction distribution. In feedback coefficient evaluations, an additional state method shows high consistency with lower uncertainty. Among 122 relative errors in the benchmark of the distribution of nuclear reaction, 104 errors are less than 10% and 84 errors are less than 5%. The results demonstrate the high reliability of OpenMC for its application in fast reactor simulations. In the companion paper, the influence of cross-section libraries is investigated using neutronics modelling in this paper.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.50-58
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• 2017

비선형 시스템 제어에 TSK 퍼지 모델을 이용하는 연구가 많다. 그러나 비선형 시스템을 TSK 퍼지 모델로 표현하기 위해서는 대상 시스템의 비선형 동특성 방정식을 알고 있거나 시스템으로부터 실험으로 입출력 공간에 충분히 분포된 데이터를 얻을 수 있어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 비선형 시스템의 TSK 퍼지 모델링에 계단 입력 응답과 GA만을 이용하는 방법을 제안한다. 연구 대상인 시스템은 제어 입력에 비선형인 경우와 출력에 비선형인 두 경우로 하였다. 제어 입력에 비선형인 경우 여러 입력 값에 대한 계단 입력 응답 데이터들로 모델링 하며, 제어 입력에 비선형인 경우에는 계단 입력 응답 데이터와 제어 입력 값이 0인 경우 응답 데이터를 이용하여 모델링 한다. 또한 제안한 방법으로 구해진 TSK 퍼지 모델로부터 퍼지 제어기를 설계하는 방법도 제시한다. 제안한 방법들을 예제들에 적용하여 모의 실험한 결과 원하는 제어 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제78권2호
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• pp.145-161
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• 2021

Dynamic compaction of Aluminum powder using gas detonation forming technique was investigated. The experiments were carried out on four different conditions of total pre-detonation pressure. The effects of the initial powder mass and grain particle size on the green density and strength of compacted specimens were investigated. The relationships between the mentioned powder design parameters and the final features of specimens were characterized using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models using the Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) algorithm were also developed to predict the green density and green strength of compacted specimens. Furthermore, the desirability function was employed for multi-objective optimization purposes. The obtained optimal solutions were verified with three new experiments and ANN models. The obtained experimental results corresponding to the best optimal setting with the desirability of 1 are 2714 kg·m-3 and 21.5 MPa for the green density and green strength, respectively, which are very close to the predicted values.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.120-121
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• 2001

연구의 목적은 콘크리트 결함 발견을 위하여 탄성파를 사용하여 구조물의 속도전파 단면도를 영상화시키고 그 결과를 분석하고자 하였다. 탄성파의 전파 양상을 유한요소법을 이용하여 이론모형에서 계산하고, 그 이론을 실험실의 구조물 모형에 적용하여 토모그램을 작성하였다. 또한 초동 주시를 5개 단계로 선택하여 역산을 행하였으며 계산된 탄성파 속도전파 단면도를 비교하여 가장 편리하고 정확한 초동주시 발췌법을 제시하였으며, 이러한 초동주시에 의해서 모형실험을 행하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권10호
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• pp.4759-4780
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• 2017

Full Dimension multiple input multiple output (FD-MIMO) architecture employs a planar array design at the Base Station (BS) to provide high order multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) via simultaneous data transmission to large number of users. With FD-MIMO, the BS can also adjust the beam direction in both elevation and azimuth direction to concentrate the energy on the user of interests while minimizing the interference leakage to co-scheduled users in the same cell or users in the neighboring cells. In a typical highly populated macrocell environment, modelling the elevation angular characteristics of three-dimensional (3D) channel is critical to understanding the performance limits of the FD-MIMO system. In this paper, we study the throughput performance of FD-MIMO system with varying elevation angular spread and inter-element spacing using a 3D spatial channel model. Our results show that for a typical urban scenario, horizontal beamforming with correlated antenna spacing achieves optimal performance but by restricting the spread of elevation angles of departure, elevation beamforming achieves high array gain with wide inter-element spacing. We also realize significant gains due to spatial array processing via modelling the elevation domain and varying the inter-element spacing for both the transmitter and receiver.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.319-336
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• 2015

Life cycle performance of corrosion affected RC structures is an important and challenging issue for effective infrastructure management. The accurate condition assessment of corroded RC structures mainly depends on the effective evaluation of deterioration occurring in the structures. Structural performance deterioration caused by reinforcement corrosion is a complex phenomenon which is generally uncertain and non-decreasing. Therefore, a stochastic modelling such as the gamma process can be an effective tool to consider the temporal uncertainty associated with performance deterioration. This paper presents a time-dependent reliability analysis of corrosion affected RC structures associated bond strength degradation. Initially, an analytical model to evaluate cracking in the concrete cover and the associated loss of bond between the corroded steel and the surrounding cracked concrete is developed. The analytical results of cover surface cracking and bond strength deterioration are examined by experimental data available. Then the verified analytical results are used for the stochastic deterioration modelling, presented here as gamma process. The application of the proposed approach is illustrated with a numerical example. The results from the illustrative example show that the proposed approach is capable of assessing performance of the bond strength of concrete structures affected by reinforcement corrosion during their lifecycle.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.55-64
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• 2005

본 연구는 사면의 모니터링을 위한 데이터 획득을 위하여 수치사진측량기법을 이용한 실험결과를 제시한 것이다. 근거리 디지털 영상을 도로 암반사변의 모니터링에 적용하기 위하여 수치사진 측량 워크스테이션 상에서 수치고도모형(DEM) 및 정사영상을 작성하고, 3차원 모델링 등 실제적인 사변의 형태를 시각화하였다. 이러한 수치사진측량 생성자료들은 기존 사면의 형태와 특성을 정확하게 조사, 분석하여 각종 공학적 데이터를 추출하고 사변의 DB화 및 사변의 진단과 평가를 위한 객관적이며 과학적인 자료로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.229-240
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• 2019

The physical models are useful to understand the soil behaviour. Hence, these tools allow validating analytical theories and numerical data. This paper addresses the design, construction and implementation of a physical model able to simulate the soil liquefaction under different cyclic actions. The model was instrumented with a piezoelectric actuator and a set of transducers to measure the porewater pressures, displacements and accelerations of the system. The soil liquefaction was assessed in three different grain size particles of a natural sand by applying a sinusoidal signal, which incorporated three amplitudes and the fundamental frequencies of three different earthquakes occurred in Colombia. In addition, such frequencies were scaled in a micro shaking table device for 1, 50 and 80 g. Tests allowed identifying the liquefaction susceptibility at various frequency and displacement amplitude combinations. Experimental evidence validated that the liquefaction susceptibility is higher in the fine-grained sands than coarse-grained sands, and showed that the acceleration of the actuator controls the phenomena trigging in the model instead of the displacement amplitude.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1992년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.256-261
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• 1992

Acquisition of 3D points is an essential process for modelling of physical 3D objects. Although Coordinate Measuring Machine(CMM) is most accurate for this purpose, it is very time consuming. To enhance the data aquisition speed for scuptured surfaces, active vision with reflecctometric method was used for our system. A fter the data acquisition, the system automatically generates cutting tool path for the 3-axis milling of the object. The fullyintegrated system from the data acquisition to the NC-code generation was implemented with IBN-PC/386 and necessary hardwears.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2005년도 추계 학술대회논문집(수송기계편)
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• pp.33-33
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• 2005