• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.1391-1404
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• 2016

Peninsular Malaysia lying on the stable Sunda Plate has traditionally been considered safe with low to moderate seismicity. However, far field Sumatran mega-earthquakes have been shown to be capable of triggering ground motions felt in high rise structures in the major Malaysian cities while seismic impact from local earthquakes of moment magnitude 3.8 have reportedly induced nominal structural damages to nearby buildings. This paper presents an overview of the recent seismic activities in and around Peninsular Malaysia with reference to prominent earthquakes generated by far field interplate and local intraplate sources. Records of ground motion data and seismic hazard assessment (SHA) results available in the literature have been analyzed and discussed. The peak ground acceleration (PGA) values from historical records for few local intraplate events were observed to be higher than those for the events from Sumatran Subduction Zone. This clearly points to the need for a detailed and comprehensive SHA incorporating both far field and local sources. Such an analysis would contribute the knowledge required for secure and reliable infrastructure design and safeguard the Malaysian people and economy.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.191-195
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• 2022

We investigate the lateral far-field pattern characteristics, including divergence angle change and far-field pattern analysis as output power increases, of narrow-emitter-width 850 nm GaAs/AlGaAs laser diodes (LDs). Each LD has a cavity of 1200 and 1500 ㎛ and narrow emitter width of 2.4 ㎛ for the top and 4.6 ㎛ for the bottom. The threshold currents are 35 and 40 mA, and L-I kinks appear at power levels of 326 and 403 mW, respectively. The divergence angle tends to increase due to the occurrence of first-order lateral mode and the thermal lensing effect. But with the L-I kink, the divergence angle decreases and the far-field pattern becomes asymmetric. This is due to coherent superposition between the fundamental and the first-order lateral mode. We provide detailed explanations for these observations based on high-power laser diode simulation results.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.103-118
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• 1993

The near field is discretized into finite elements, and the far field into infinite elements. Closed form far-field solutions to three fundamental problems are used as the shape functions of the infinite elements. Such infinite elements are capable of transmitting all surface and body waves. An efficient scheme to integrate numerically the stiffness and mass matrices of these elements in presented. Results agree closely with those obtained by others.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.8-18
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• 2002

Formulation of the far-field method for the prediction of time-mean hydrodynamic force and moment acting on a 3-D surface-piercing body in waves is reviewed. It is found that the inequality between the weight of the floating body and its buoyancy force permits the replacement of the fluid particles inside the control surface by the fluid particles outside the control surface. Under such circumstances, momentum exchanges across the control surface make the time-mean value of the time rate of the momentum of the fluid inside the control surface non-vanishing. It is a second-order quantity which is hard to calculate by the far-field method. The drift forces and moments on half-immersed ellipsoids are calculated by both the far-field method and the near-field method. The discrepancy between two numerical results is presented and discussed.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1752-1761
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• 2000

This paper describes the far-field estimation using the near-field measurement data. Measurement in far-field region gives us the acoustical characteristics of the source but in general measurement is made in near-field such as acoustic water tank or anechoic chamber, so far-field acoustical characteristics of the source should be predicted from near-field data. In this case, the number of measurement points in the near field which relates to the accuracy of the predicted field and the amount of data processing, should be optimized. Existing papers say that measurement points is proportional to kL and depends on geometry and directivity of the source. But they do not give us any definite criterion for the required number of measurement points. Boundary Collocation Method which is one of the far-field prediction methods, is analyzed based on Helmholtz integral equation and Green function and it has been found that the number of measurement points is optimized as 0.54kL which is about one half of the existing results.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2006

안테나 복사 특성을 효과적으로 측정하는 방법 중 하나인 안테나 근역장 측정 알고리즘의 개선을 논한다. 로렌츠 상호작용 원리와 상호작용 표기법을 이용하여 근역장-원역장 변환공식의 핵심인 프로브 교정 알고리즘을 간략히 유도한다. 제안된 일반적인 프로브 교정 방정식과 제작된 시스템을 사각 혼안테나에 대한 평면주사법에 적용하여 근역장 복사 패턴을 얻고 이를 원역장 복사 패턴과 비교하여 복사 특성이 유사한 것을 보인다. 이를 통해 본 논문의 접근법이 매우 간단하면서도 대부분의 안테나 측정에 유용하게 쓰일 수 있는 것을 보인다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.31-37
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• 1999

본 논문은 근거리 음장 측정 자료로부터 원거리 음장 예측을 위한 기술에 대한 것이다. 음원의 음장 분포 특성은 원거리에서 측정된 자료의 해석으로 이루어지는 것이 일반적 방법이나, 음향수조 또는 무향실과 같은 제한된 공간에서는 근거리 영역에서 측정이 이루어지는 경우가 발생한다. 따라서 근거리 영역에서의 측정으로부터 원거리 음장이 예측되어야 한다. 이 경우 음원을 둘러싼 근거리 음장의 측정점수는 원거리 음장 예측치의 정확도와 자료 처리의 계산량과 상관된다. 기존 연구 결과는 최적측정점수는 음원의 kL에 비례하고 음원의 기하학적 형태 또는 지향특성에 따라 kL의 의존성이 다르게 나타난다고 되어 있으나 정확한 기준이 없다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 최적측정지점수에 대한 기준을 유도하기 위해 Helmholtz 적분식과 Green 함수를 근간으로 한 원거리 음장 예측 기술인 경계배치법(Boundary Collocation Method)을 분석하여 최적측정점수는 kL이 증가함에 따라 0.54kL로 수렴한다는 결과를 얻었다. 기존의 연구 결과 보다 최적측정점수를 1/2 정도로 줄였다.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.367-392
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• 2020

The specific characteristics of near-field earthquake records can lead to different dynamic responses of bridges compared to far-field records. However, the effect of near-field strong ground motion has often been neglected in the seismic performance assessment of the bridges. Furthermore, damage to horizontally curved multi-frame RC box-girder bridges in the past earthquakes has intensified the potential of seismic vulnerability of these structures due to their distinctive dynamic behavior. Based on the nonlinear time history analyses in OpenSEES, this article, assesses the effects of near-field versus far-field earthquakes on the seismic performance of horizontally curved multi-frame RC box-girder bridges by accounting the vertical component of the earthquake records. Analytical seismic fragility curves have been derived thru considering uncertainties in the earthquake records, material and geometric properties of bridges. The findings indicate that near-field effects reasonably increase the seismic vulnerability in this bridge sub-class. The results pave the way for future regional risk assessments regarding the importance of either including or excluding near-field effects on the seismic performance of horizontally curved bridges.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.391-405
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• 2020

The use of passive energy dissipation devices has been widely used in the construction industry to minimize the probability of damage occurred under intense ground motion. In this study, collapse margin ratio (CMR) and fragility curves are the main parameters in the assessment to characterize the collapse safety of the structures. The assessment is done on three types of RC frame structures, incorporating three types of dampers, viscoelastic, friction, and BRB dampers. The Incremental dynamic analyses (IDA) were performed by simulating an array of 20 strong ground motion (SGM) records considering both far-field and near-field seismic scenarios that were followed by fragility curves. With respect to far-field ground motion records, the CMR values of the selected frames indicate to be higher and reachable to safety margin more than those under near-field ground motion records that introduce a high devastating impact on the structures compared to far-field excitations. This implies that the near field impact affects the ground movements at the site by attenuation the direction and causing high-frequency filtration. Besides that, the results show that the viscoelastic damper gives better performance for the structures in terms of reducing the damages compared to the other energy dissipation devices during earthquakes.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.266-269
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• 2012

The most recently IGBT (insulated gate bipolar mode transistor) devices are in the most current conduction capable devices and designed to the big switching power device. Use this number of the devices are need to high voltage and low on-state voltage drop. And then in this paper design of field stop IGBT is insert N buffer layer structure in NPT planar IGBT and optimization design of field stop IGBT and trench field stop IGBT, both devices have a comparative analysis and reflection of the electrical characteristics. As a simulation result, trench field stop IGBT is electrical characteristics better than field stop IGBT.