• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.95-107
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• 2022

This paper introduces a novel, rigorous, and efficient probabilistic methodology for the performance-based optimal design (PBOD) of semi-active tuned mass damper (SATMD) for seismically excited nonlinear structures. The proposed methodology is consistent with the modern performance-based earthquake engineering framework and aims to design reliable control systems. To this end, an optimization problem has been defined which considers the parameters of control systems as design variables and minimization of the probability of exceeding a targeted structural performance level during the lifetime as an objective function with a constraint on the failure probability of stroke length damage state associated with mass damper mechanism. The effectiveness of the proposed methodology is illustrated through a numerical example of performance analysis of an eight-story nonlinear shear building frame with hysteretic bilinear behavior. The SATMD with variable stiffness and damping have been designed separately with different mass ratios. Their performance has been compared with that of uncontrolled structure and the structure controlled with passive TMD in terms of probabilistic demand curves, response hazard curves, fragility curves, and exceedance probability of performance levels during the lifetime. Numerical results show the effectiveness, simplicity, and reliability of the proposed PBOD method in designing SATMD with variable stiffness and damping for the nonlinear frames where they have reduced the exceedance probability of the structure up to 49% and 44%, respectively.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.597-609
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• 2023

One of the applicable methods for the stabilization of soil walls is the nailing system which consists of tensile struts. The stability and safety of soil nail wall systems are influenced by the geometrical parameters of the nailing system. Generally, the determination of nailing parameters in order to achieve optimal performance of the nailing system for the safety of soil walls is defined in the framework of optimization problems. Also, according to the various uncertainty in the mechanical parameters of soil structures, it is necessary to evaluate the reliability of the system as a probabilistic problem. In this paper, the optimal design of the nailing system is carried out in deterministic and probabilistic cases using meta-heuristic and reliability-based design optimization methods. The colliding body optimization algorithm and first-order reliability method are used for optimization and reliability analysis problems, respectively. The objective function is defined based on the total cost of nails and safety factors and reliability index are selected as constraints. The mechanical properties of the nailing system are selected as design variables and the mechanical properties of the soil are selected as random variables. The results show that the reliability of the optimally designed soil nail system is very sensitive to uncertainty in soil mechanical parameters. Also, the design results are affected by uncertainties in soil mechanical parameters due to the values of safety factors. Reliability-based design optimization results show that a nailing system can be designed for the expected level of reliability and failure probability.

• 시스템엔지니어링학술지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.32-45
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• 2023

Implementing Severe Accident Management (SAM) strategies is crucial for enhancing a nuclear power plant's resilience and safety against severe accidents conditions represented in the analysis of Station Blackout (SBO) event. Among these critical approaches, the In-Vessel Retention (IVR) through External Reactor Vessel Cooling (IVR-ERVC) strategy plays a key role in preventing vessel failure. This work is designed to evaluate the efficacy of the IVR strategy for a high-power density reactor APR1400. The APR1400's plant is represented and simulated under steady-state and transient conditions for a station blackout (SBO) accident scenario using the computer code, ASYST. The APR1400's thermal-hydraulic response is analyzed to assess its performance as it progresses toward a severe accident scenario during an extended SBO. The effectiveness of emergency operating procedures (EOPs) and severe accident management guidelines (SAMGs) are systematically examined to assess their ability to mitigate the accident. A group of associated key phenomena selected based on Phenomenon Identification and Ranking Tables (PIRT) and uncertain parameters are identified accordingly and then propagated within DAKOTA Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) framework until a statistically representative sample is obtained and hence determine the uncertainty bands of key system parameters. The Systems Engineering methodology is applied to direct the progression of work, ensuring systematic and efficient execution.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.1105-1114
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• 2021

최근 급상승한 암호 화폐의 인기로 인해 암호 화폐 채굴 악성코드인 크립토재킹 위협이 증가하고 있다. 특히 웹 기반 크립토재킹은 피해자가 웹 사이트에 접속만 하여도 피해자의 PC 자원을 사용해 암호 화폐를 채굴할 수 있으며 간단하게 채굴 스크립트만 추가하면 되기 때문에 공격이 쉽고 성능 열화와 고장의 원인이 된다. 크립토재킹은 피해자가 피해 상황을 인지하기 어렵기 때문에 크립토재킹을 효율적으로 탐지하고 차단할 수 있는 연구가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 크립토재킹의 대표적인 감염 증상과 스크립트를 지표로 활용하여 효과적으로 크립토재킹을 탐지하는 프레임워크를 제안하고 평가한다. 제안한 크립토재킹 탐지 프레임워크에서 행위 기반 동적 분석 기법으로 컴퓨터 성능 지표를 학습한 K-Nearest Neighbors(KNN) 모델을 활용했고, 스크립트 유사도 기반 정적 분석 기법은 악성 스크립트 단어 빈도수를 학습한 K-means 모델을 크립토재킹 탐지에 활용했다. 실험 결과에 따르면 KNN 모델은 99.6%의 정확도를 보였고, K-means 모델은 정상 군집의 실루엣 계수가 0.61인 것을 확인하였다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.465-479
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• 2021

One of the important causes of building and infrastructure failure, such as bridges on pile foundations, is the placement of the piles in liquefiable soil that can become unstable under seismic loads. Therefore, the overarching aim of this study is to investigate the seismic behavior of a soil-pile system in liquefiable soil using three-dimensional numerical FEM analysis, including soil-pile interaction. Effective parameters on concrete pile response, involving the pile diameter, pile length, soil type, and base acceleration, were considered in the framework of finite element non-linear dynamic analysis. The constitutive model of soil was considered as elasto-plastic kinematic-isotropic hardening. First, the finite element model was verified by comparing the variations on the pile response with the measured data from the centrifuge tests, and there was a strong agreement between the numerical and experimental results. Totally 64 non-linear time-history analyses were conducted, and the responses were investigated in terms of the lateral displacement of the pile, the effect of the base acceleration in the pile behavior, the bending moment distribution in the pile body, and the pore pressure. The numerical analysis results demonstrated that the relationship between the pile lateral displacement and the maximum base acceleration is non-linear. Furthermore, increasing the pile diameter results in an increase in the passive pressure of the soil. Also, piles with small and big diameters are subjected to yielding under bending and shear states, respectively. It is concluded that an effective stress-based ground response analysis should be conducted when there is a liquefaction condition in order to determine the maximum bending moment and shear force generated within the pile.

• STI Policy Review
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.54-86
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• 2015

The study examines the U.S. Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, with a focus on the recent Reauthorization, and compares, in the political context, the U.S. and East Asian countries-Japan, Korea and Taiwan-that adopted the U.S. SBIR program. For the systematic analysis and cross-country comparison, the study employs Kingdon (2003)'s framework-his political theory and Garbage Can Model-to identify political participants and processes underlying the SBIR Reauthorization and to analyze the differences in problem, policy, and politics streams between the U.S. and East Asian countries. For the cross-country comparison, specifically, the study uses various data sources such as OECD, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions, and World Value Survey. Based on the analysis outcomes, implications of U.S. practices on East Asian countries are extracted as follows. East Asian countries tend to: Have higher entrepreneurial aspiration while lower entrepreneurial activity and attitude than the U.S.; bear higher long term orientation and uncertainty avoidance while lower individualism than the U.S.; and have greater expectations of technology development and higher confidence in political parties while participating less in political action than the U.S. Drawing on the differences, the following policy recommendations are suggested. East Asian countries should: Improve entrepreneurs' access to resources (in particular, financial resource) in order to link their high entrepreneurial aspiration to actual entrepreneurial activities; cultivate failure-tolerating culture and risk-taking entrepreneurs, for instance, by providing a second chance to SBIR-participating businesses that failed to materialize their innovative ideas; and leverage their high expectations of new technology in order to take bold actions regarding their SBIR programs, and update the programs by drawing out constructive dialogues between SBIR stakeholders.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.215-227
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• 2018

Supplemental passive control devices are widely considered as an important tool to mitigate the dynamic response of a building under seismic excitation. Nevertheless, a systematic method for strategically placing dampers in the buildings is not prescribed in building codes and guidelines. Many deterministic and stochastic methods have been proposed by previous researchers to investigate the optimum distribution of the viscous dampers in the steel frames. However, the seismic performances of the retrofitted buildings that are under large earthquake intensity levels or near collapse state have not been evaluated by any seismic research. Recent years, an increasing number of studies utilize genetic algorithms (GA) to explore the complex engineering optimization problems. GA interfaced with nonlinear response history (NRH) analysis is considered as one of the most powerful and popular stochastic methods to deal with the nonlinear optimization problem of damper distribution. In this paper, the effectiveness and the efficiency of GA on optimizing damper distribution are first evaluated by strong ground motions associated with the collapse failure. A practical optimization framework using GA and NRH analysis is proposed for optimizing the distribution of the fluid viscous dampers within the moment resisting frames (MRF) regarding the improvements of large drifts under intensive seismic context. Both a 10-storey and a 20-storey building are involved to explore higher mode effect. A far-fault and a near-fault earthquake environment are also considered for the frames under different seismic intensity levels. To evaluate the improvements obtained from the GA optimization regarding the collapse performance of the buildings, Incremental Dynamic Analysis (IDA) is conducted and comparisons are made between the GA damper distribution and stiffness proportional damping distribution on the collapse probability of the retrofitted frames.

• 한국연안방재학회지
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.119-131
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• 2017

Global warming under the influence of climate change and its direct impact on glacial and sea level are known issue. However, there is a lack of research on an indirect impact of climate change such as coastal structure design which is mainly based on a frequency analysis of water level under the stationary assumption, meaning that maximum sea level will not vary significantly over time. In general, stationary assumption does not hold and may not be valid under a changing climate. Therefore, this study aims to develop a novel approach to explore possible distributional changes in annual maximum sea levels (AMSLs) and provide the estimate of design water level for coastal structures using a multiple non-crossing quantile regression based nonstationary frequency analysis within a Bayesian framework. In this study, 20 tide gauge stations, where more than 30 years of hourly records are available, are considered. First, the possible distributional changes in the AMSLs are explored, focusing on the change in the scale and location parameter of the probability distributions. The most of the AMSLs are found to be upward-convergent/divergent pattern in the distribution, and the significance test on distributional changes is then performed. In this study, we confirm that a stationary assumption under the current climate characteristic may lead to underestimation of the design sea level, which results in increase in the failure risk in coastal structures. A detailed discussion on the role of the distribution changes for design water level is provided.

• 기술혁신연구
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.1-26
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• 2020

전 세계적인 코로나19의 확산으로 인해, 진단시약 등과 같은 감염병 의료 및 의료기기 신제품이 비약적으로 개발·출시되고 있으며, 이의 빠른 수급을 위해 각 국가들은 수입규제를 완화하거나 신속한 인·허가를 위한 정책을 펼치고 있다(NIDS, 2020). 반면, 신종 감염병과 관련 없는 신개발 의료기기의 경우 오히려 시험검사 등 지연 및 취소되는 사례가 발생하고 있는 등 여전히 엄격한 인·허가규제를 통해 시장에 진출하고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 의료기기신제품이 시장에 진출하면서 마주하게 되는 정부소관법률에 특화하여 규제강도 영향요인을 도출하고 규제강도를 분석하여 규제대응 프레임워크를 제안하였다. 연구방법은 문헌연구, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis(FMEA)기법 적용, 전문가인터뷰(1차):아이디어수집, 전문가인터뷰(2차) : 타당성검증의 방법으로 진행하였으며, FMEA기법의 적용프로세스를 통해 우선 규제단계별 영향요인의 발생영향도와 규제사무 유형별 부담영향도를 곱하여 규제요인의 중요도를 구하고, 규제영향 심각도를 곱하는 방식으로 규제강도 정량화방법을 제시하였다. 시사점은 최근 해외 주요 국가들 및 우리나라 정부가 코로나19에 따른 신개발의료기기의 신속한 인·허가를 위한 특별규제정책 및 완화정책을 펼치며 적극적으로 대응하고 있는 시점에 본 연구에서 제안된 프레임워크를 통해 향후 기존 의료기기 신제품의 인·허가 정책 규제프로세스에도 보다 적극적이며 선제적인 대응이 될 수 있도록 규제의 개선방향과 규제대응 방안이 이루어지길 기대한다.

• 벤처창업연구
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.253-270
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• 2023

스타트업에게 전문보육과 투자를 동시에 제공함으로써 스타트업의 생존율을 크게 개선하여 주목을 받고 있는 액셀러레이터의 투자결정요인에 대한 연구는 점점 확대되고 있다. 그러나 선행 연구들은 초기 단계로 투자결정요인 개발 시 이론적 기반을 갖추지 못한 상황으로 유사 투자자인 엔젤투자자나 벤처캐피탈의 투자결정요인을 사용하고 있으며 실증연구를 통해 중요도와 우선순위를 분석하는 단계에 머물고있다. 따라서 본 연구는 선행연구에서 비즈니스 모델 혁신 프레임워크를 기반으로 개발된 액셀러레이터 투자결정요인을 사용하여 투자결정요인의 변별력과 유효성을 국내 최초로 실증 검증하였다. 이를 위해 먼저 액셀러레이터의 스타트업 투자 성공과 실패의 판단 기준을 스케일업 이론을 기반으로 설정한 후 국내 14개 액셀러레이터의 22명의 투자전문가를 대상으로 설문조사를 시행한 결과 액셀러레이터의 스타트업 투자 후 스케일업에 성공한 스타트업 52개사, 스케일업에 실패한 스타트업 45개사 등의 총 97개 스타트업의 유효한 자료를 확보하였으며 이 두 그룹 간의 액셀러레이터 투자결정요인별 평균 차이를 검증하기 위해 독립표본 t-검정을 실시하였다 분석 결과 총 21개의 투자결정요인 중 9개(43%) 요인에서 평균 차이를 확인함으로써 비즈니스 모델 혁신 프레임워크 기반의 액셀러레이터의 투자결정요인이 실무적으로 액셀러레이터가 성공 가능한 스타트업을 발굴하고 투자의사결정을 하는데 상당한 변별력을 보유한 것으로 확인하였다. 또한 스타트업의 업종별 혁신의 특성을 고려하여 연구 대상 스타트업 표본을 제조업 분야 스타트업과 서비스업 분야 스타트업으로 구분하여 분석한 결과 제조업 분야 스타트업에서는 비즈니스 모델, 전략, 동적역량 요인에서 평균 차이가 발생한 반면 서비스업 분야 스타트업은 동적역량 요인에서만 평균 차이가 발생하였다. 본 연구는 비즈니스 모델 혁신 프레임워크를 기반으로 도출한 액셀러레이터 투자결정요인의 실무적 유효성을 실증연구를 통해 국내 최초로 검증하였다는 점에서 학문적 시사점이 크며, 액셀러레이터에게 투자의사결정을 위한 이론적 근거와 세부 투자결정요인에 대한 구체적인 정보를 제공함으로써 효과적인 투자를 할 수 있게 한다는 점에서 실무적 가치가 높다.