• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.512-525
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• 2000

Designers are frequently faced with multiple quality issues in injection molded parts. These issues are usually In conflict with each other, and thus tradeoff needs to be made to reach a final compromised solutions. The objective of this study is to develop an automated injection molding design methodology, whereby part defects such as warpage and weld line are optimized. The features of the proposed methodology are as follows: first, Utility Function approach is applied to transform the original multiple objective problem into single objective problem. Second is an implementation of a direct search-based Injection molding optimization procedure with automated consideration of process variation. The Space Reduction Method based on Taguchi's DOE(Design Of Experiment) is used as a general optimization tool in this study. The computational experimental verification of the methodology was partially carried out for a can model of Cavallero Plastics Incorporation, U. S. A. Applied to production, this study will be of immense value to companies in reducing the product development time and enhancing the product quality.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.495-505
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• 2006

A class of robust control for flexible joint manipulators with nonlinearity mismatched uncertainty is designed based on Lyapunov approach. The uncertainties are unknown but their values are within certain prescribed sets. No statistic information of the uncertainties is imposed. The control which utilizes state transformation via virtual control is proposed. The resulting robust control guarantees practical stability for the transformed system and later the stability for the original system is proved. The designed robust control is implemented by experiments in a 2-link flexible joint manipulator.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.30A no.2
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• pp.76-85
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• 1993

This paper describes the design of a technology-independent logic, function, and timing extraction system from SPICE-like network descriptions. Technology-independent extraction mechanism is provided in the form of technology files containing the rules for constructing logic gates and functional blocks. The designed system can be more effectively used in cell-based design by describing the cells to be extracted. Timing extraction is performed by using a linear RC gate delay model which takes interconnection delay into account. Experimental results show that estimated delay is within 10 percents for logic gate circuits when compared with SPICE. Through higher-level design descriptions obtained by extraction, design cycles can be considerably reduces.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.277-296
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• 2002

A research investigation of single bolt lap-plate connection load-deformation behavior is presented. Each important characteristic of this behavior is evaluated and two methods for analytically approximating the behavior are developed and presented. The first of these methods is a component method in which the behavior of the connection is modeled as a combination of the behavior of the parts. The second method utilizes a number of parametric relationships that relate the connection parameters to coefficients of two non-linear continuous analytical curves. The test results from four independent experimental programs that investigated the behavior of single bolt lap-plate connections are used in the development and verification of these methods.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.136-143
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• 2001

In this study, a numerical analysis for soil-pile interaction systems in multi-layered half planes under a forced vibration is presented. The soil-pile interaction system is divided into two parts, so called near field and far field. The near field soil using finite elements and piles using beam elements are modeled. The far field soil media is implemented using boundary elements those can automatically satisfy the condition of wave radiation. These two fields are numerically coupled by imposing displacement compatibility condition at the interface between the near field and the far field. For the verification, the forced vibration test was simulated and the response under horizontal and vertical harmonic loads at the pile cap in the layered half plane was determined. The results are compared to the theoretical and experimental results of the literatures to verify the proposed soil-pile interaction analysis formulation.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.52-59
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• 2004

In this paper, the efficacy of the MR damper-based control systems for vibration suppression of stay cables has been experimentally investigated. The performance of the several control strategies for the semiactive control system, such as the clipped-optimal control, the Lyapunov stability theory-based control, the maximum energy dissipation and the modulated homogeneous friction, has been compared with that of the passive-type control systems employing MR dampers. To do this, the full-scale stay cable, which is the same as used for the in-service cable-stayed bridge in Korea, is considered. The acceleration and the displacement of the stay cable as well as the damping force of the MR damper are measured. The velocity of the cable at the damper location, which is needed for some control algorithms, is obtained by differentiating the measured displacement. The damping ratios of the cable system employing the MR damper, which can be estimated by the Hilbert transform-based method, shows effectiveness of each control strategy considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.454-458
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• 2001

A new model utilizing a transfer function was proposed in the previous paper for analizing motion errors of hydrostatic tables. Validity of the proposed method was theoretically verified as the calculated motion errors were compared with the results by conventional multi pad method. In this paper, relationship between form error of rail and motion errors of hydrostatic table is analized theoretically in order to comprehand so-called 'averaging effect of oil film'. Experiments on the motion errors of hydrostatic table is conducted with 3 different rails, and the results are compared with the results calculated by Transfer Function Method. The results show good agreement. From the results, it is verified that TFM is very effective to analize the motion errors of hydrostatic table.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.438-442
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• 2007

Sidewall curl is the curvature that results from non-uniform through-thickness strain present in the sheet stamping process which involves material flow over a die radius. In order to understand and control curl for tight fit-up tolerances, an analytical model that can provide a reliable measure for the amount of curl would be very helpful. In this study, a model is developed based on the moment-curvature relationship during bending-under-tension operations. For the verification of analytical model, sidewall curl is experimentally measured after deformation of a strip using a bending-under-tension test system. The results show a consistent relationship between the theoretically predicted value and the experimentally obtained one, especially in regions of high curl.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.217-218
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• 2009

This experimental work is to verify the previously developed prediction model for self-consolidating concrete (SCC) formwork pressure. A new apparatus was devised to simulate formwork pressure in laboratory, and experiments were performed for one SCC mix. The predicted pressure with the calibrated parameters were compared with the pressure measured under continuous and discrete pouring. The calibrated parameters have a specific trend over loading time, and the calculated pressure accurately simulates the real pressure varying over time.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.321-328
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• 1990

For the reliability analysis of Sin/Hip silicon nitride, such as Weibull modulus m, scale parameter $\sigma$0, and Batdorf crack density coefficient kB were obtained by 4-point MOR test. And its theoretical failure probabilities under arbitrary stress state were predicted using finite element analysis and KARA II reliability analysis program, which was programmed for both surface adn volume flaws. For the verification of this theoretical results, the experimental failure probabilities were measured using ring-to-ring tests at room temperature as well as 4-point MOR tests at 100$0^{\circ}C$, and were compared with theoretical failure probabilities.