• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.125-137
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• 2009

Acoustic emission-based techniques are being used for the nondestructive inspection of mechanical systems used in service. For reliable fault monitoring related to the crack growth, it is important to identify the dynamical characteristics as well as transient crack-related signals. Widely used methods which are based on physical phenomena of the three damage stages for detecting the crack growth have a problem that crack-related acoustic emission activities overlap in time, therefore it is insufficient to estimate the exact crack growth time. The proposed pattern recognition method uses the dynamical characteristics of acoustic emission as inputs for minimizing false alarms and miss alarms and performs the temporal clustering to estimate the crack growth time accurately. Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective for practical use because of its robustness to changes of acoustic emission caused by changes of pressure levels.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.28-36
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• 2010

We have garnered 3,593 data of gas accidents reported for 12 years from 1995, and then analyzed the LPG vaporizer accidents according to their types and causes based on the classified database. According to the results the gas rupture has been the most common accident followed by the release, explosion and then fire accidents, the most frequent accident-occurring sub-cause is LPG check floater faults. In addition, we have applied the Poisson Probability Functions to predict the most-likely probabilities of fire, explosion, release and rupture with the LPG vaporizer in the upcoming 5 years. In compliance with Poisson Probability Functions results, in the item which occurs below 3 "LPG-Vaporizer-Fire", in the item which occurs below 5 "LPG-Vaporizer-Products Faults-Check Floater" and the item which occurs below 10 appeared with "LPG-Vaporizer-Products Faults". From this research we have assured the successive database updating will highly improve the anticipating probability accuracy and thus it will play a key role as a significant safety- securing guideline against the gas disasters.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.172-183
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• 1994

In the multidatabase systems(MDBS), local autonomy and global consistency are important issues. Global consistency could be maintained by a global concurrency control algorithm and a global recovery algorithm. In this thesis, we propose a global concurrency control algorithm to ensure local autonomy and to guarantee global serializability, and a global recovery algorithm which is possible to recover the multudatabase from any failures. The proposed global concurrency control algorithm uses bottom-up approach, based on three-level transaction processing model. It can produce a local history that the execution order of subtransactions is identical to their serialization order by using dummy-operations in the server when an indirect conflict is caused between subtransactions due to local transactions. At the global module, it can efficiently validate global serializability of global transactions by checking global serializability only for the global transactions which conflict with each other.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.254-263
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• 2012

The survivability of warship is assessed by susceptibility, vulnerability and recoverability. Essentially, a vulnerability assessment is a measure of the effectiveness of a warship to resist hostile weapon effects. Considering the shot line and its penetration effect on the warship, present study introduces the procedural aspects of vulnerability assessments of warship. Present study also considers the prediction of penetration damage to a target caused by the impact of projectiles. It reflects the interaction between the weapon and the target from a perspective of vulnerable area method and COVART model. The shotline and tracing calculation have been directly integrated into the vulnerability assessment method based on the penetration equation empirically obtained. A simplified geometric description of the desired target and specification of a threat type is incorporated with the penetration effect. This study describes how to expand the vulnerable area assessment method to the penetration effect. Finally, an example shows that the proposed method can provide the vulnerability parameters of the warship or its component under threat being hit through tracing the shotline path thereby enabling the vulnerability calculation. In addition, the proposed procedure enabling the calculation of the component's multi-hit vulnerability introduces a propulsion system in dealing with redundant Non-overlapping components.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.42 no.5
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• pp.398-405
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• 2014

Recently the embedded software has been widely applied to the safety-critical systems in aviation and defense industries, therefore, the higher level of reliability, availability and fault tolerance has become a key factor for its implementation into the systems. The integrity of the software can be verified using the static analysis tools. And recent developed static analysis tool can evaluate code integrity through the mathematical analysis method. In this paper we detect the autocode error and violation of coding rules using the formal verification tool, Polyspace(R). And the fundamental errors on the flight control law model have been detected and corrected using the formal verification results. As a result of verification process, FBW helicopter control law autocode can ensure code integrity.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.173-182
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• 2003

In equivalent static nonlinear analysis and in energy-based design, the structures are generally transformed into an equivalent SDOF system. In this study the seismic energy demands in multi story structures, such as three-, eight-, and twenty-story steel moment-resisting frames(MRF), buckling restrained braced frames(BRBF) and a damage tolerant braced frame(DTBF), are compared with those of equivalent single degree of freedom(ESDOF) systems. Sixty earthquake ground motions recorded In different soil conditions, which are soft rock, soft soil, and neat fault, were used to compute the input and hysteretic energy demands in model structures. In case the modal mass coefficient is less than 0.8, the effects of higher modes are considered in the process of converting into ESDOF According to the analysis results, the hysteretic and input energies obtained from 3 story and 8 story MRF and DTBF agreed well with the results from analysis of equivalent SDOF systems. However in the 20 story BRBF the results from ESDOF underestimated those obtained from the original structures.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.90-98
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• 2020

Modern vehicles are evolving from manual to automatic driving. As the ratio of electrical equipment and software increases inside the vehicle, vehicles that support autonomous driving are becoming another open computer system that can communicate with the outside. The safety of the vehicle means the safety of both the passenger and the non-passenger. It is not clear whether the safety problem of ultimate autonomous vehicles can be solved by the current solution of computer systems related to fault tolerance and security. Autonomous vehicles should not be dangerous to people after they are released to the market, so it is necessary to proactively diagnose all the risks that can be predicted with current technology. This paper examines the current developments of autonomous vehicles and analyzes their dangers that threaten driving safety, as well as their countermeasures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.146-146
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• 2017

현대의 스마트폰 및 태블릿pc등을 가능하게 만든 집적 기술 중의 하나는 3차원 집적 회로(3D-IC)와 같은 패키징 기술이다. 이러한 첨단 3차원 집적 기술은 메모리집적을 통한 대용량 메모리 모듈 개발뿐만 아니라, 메모리와 프로세서의 집적, high-end FPGA, Back side imaging (BSI) 센서 모듈, MEMS 센서와 ASIC 집적, High Bright (HB) LED 모듈 등에 적용되고 있다. 3D-IC의 3차원 모듈 제작 시에는 기존에 발생하지 않았던 여러 가지 파괴 모드들이 발생하고 있는데 Thermal/Photonic Emission 장비 등 기존의 2차원 결함분리 (Fault Isolation) 기술로는 첨단의 3차원 적층 제품들에서 발생하는 불량을 비파괴적으로 혹은 3차원적으로 분리하는 것이 불가능하므로, 비파괴 3차원 결함 분리 기술은 향후 선행 제품 적기 개발에 매우 필수적인 기술이다. 본 연구는 3D-IC 반도체의 비파괴적 내부결함 검사를 위하여 가시광선-근적외선 대역(351nm~1770nm)의 InGaAs (Indium Galium Arsenide) 계열 영상검출기 (imaging detector)를 사용하여 분광 시스템 광학 설계를 통한 초분광 영상 기반 검출 모듈을 제작하였다. 제작된 초분광 영상 기반 검출 모듈을 이용하여 구리 회로 위에 실리콘 웨이퍼가 3단 적층 된 반도체 더미 샘플의 초분광 영상을 촬영하였으며, 촬영된 초분광 영상에 대하여 Chemometrics model 기반의 분석기술을 적용하여 실리콘 웨이퍼 내부의 집적 구조에 대한 검사가 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.131-156
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• 1998

Cooperative query answering is a research effort to develop a fault-tolerant and intelligent database system using the semantic knowledge base constructed from the underlying database. Such knowledge base has two aspects of usage. One is supporting the cooperative query answering Process for providing both an exact answer and neighborhood information relevant to a query. The other is supporting ongoing maintenance of the knowledge base for accommodating the changes in the knowledge content and database usage purpose. Existing studies have mostly focused on the cooperative query answering process but paid little attention on the dynamic knowledge base maintenance. This paper proposes a multi-level knowledge representation framework called Knowledge Abstraction Hierarchy (KAH) that can not only support cooperative query answering but also permit dynamic knowledge maintenance. The KAH consists of two types of knowledge abstraction hierarchies. The value abstraction hierarchy is constructed by abstract values that are hierarchically derived from specific data values in the underlying database on the basis of generalization and specialization relationships. The domain abstraction hierarchy is built on the various domains of the data values and incorporates the classification relationship between super-domains and sub-domains. On the basis of the KAH, a knowledge abstraction database is constructed on the relational data model and accommodates diverse knowledge maintenance needs and flexibly facilitates cooperative query answering. In terms of the knowledge maintenance, database operations are discussed for the cases where either the internal contents for a given KAH change or the structures of the KAH itself change. In terms of cooperative query answering, database operations are discussed for both the generalization and specialization Processes, and the conceptual query handling. A prototype system has been implemented at KAIST that demonstrates the usefulness of KAH in ordinary database application systems.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.105-113
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• 2002

As the number of pedestrian accident increases, the reconstruction of an accident becomes important to find the source of the fault. Generally, accidents are reconstructed by the intuition of experts or primitive physics. A reconstruction method is proposed using sophisticated optimization technology. At first, a dynamic simulation model is established for the accident environment. Occupant analysis for automobile crashworthiness is employed. The situation before an accident is identified by optimization. The impact velocity and the position of the pedestrian are utilized as design variables. The design variables are found by minimizing the difference between the simulation and the real accident. The optimization process is performed by linking an occupant analysis program MADYMO to an optimization program VisualDOC. Since the involved analysis is dynamics and highly nonlinear, response surface method is selected for the optimization process. Problems are solved for various situations.