• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제48권5호
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• pp.507-530
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• 2023

The number of studies investigating the response of concrete-filled tubes (CFTs) under shear has been very limited in the literature. This lack of research has been traditionally reflected in international design standards as rather conservative shear strength predictions for CFTs. The dearth of research on the shear response is even more pronounced for the case of concrete-filled stainless steel tubes (CFSSTs). In line with this, the present study investigates the shear response of circular and square CFSSTs using advanced finite element (FE) analysis. A thorough review of the previous studies on the shear response of carbon steel CFTs is provided along with a summary of past experimental programmes as well as the developed and codified design methods. A comprehensive numerical study is then conducted considering a wide range of circular and square, austenitic and lean duplex CFSSTs with different concrete infills and shear span-to-depth ratios. The effect of the tail length on the shear response is investigated and the minimum required tail length for achieving full shear capacity is established. The simulations are also used to highlight the importance of the dilation of the concrete core in the shear response of concrete-filled tubes and its relationship with the utilised boundary conditions. Furthermore, the numerical results are compared in detail with the predictions of design approaches developed previously for carbon steel CFTs and their accuracy and applicability to the stainless steel counterpart are demonstrated and recommendations are made accordingly.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제48권5호
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• pp.547-564
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• 2023

This study investigates the effect of bolt preloading on the rotational stiffness of stainless steel end-plate connections. An experimental programme incorporating 11 full-scale joint specimens are carried out comparing the behaviours of fully pre-tensioned (PT) and snug-tightened (ST) flush/extended end-plate connections, made of austenitic or lean duplex stainless steels. It is observed from the tests that the presence of bolt preloading leads to a significant increase in the rotational stiffness. A parallel finite element analysis (FEA) validated against the test results demonstrates that the geometric imperfection of end-plate has a strong influence on the moment-rotation response of preloaded end-plate connections, which is crucial to explain the observed "two-stage" behaviour of these connections. Based on the data obtained from the tests and FE parametric study, the performance of the Eurocode 3 predictive model is evaluated, which exhibits a significant deviation in predicting the rotational stiffness of stainless steel end-plate connections. A modified bi-linear model, which incorporates three key properties, is therefore proposed to enable a better prediction. Finally, the effect of bolt preloading is demonstrated at the system (structure) level considering the serviceability of semi-continuous stainless steel beams with end-plate connections.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.451-455
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• 2017

Echinostoma cinetorchis is an oriental intestinal fluke causing significant pathological damage to the small intestine. The aim of this study was to determine a full-length cDNA sequence of E. cinetorchis endoribonuclease (RNase H; EcRNH) and to elucidate its molecular biological characters. EcRNH consisted of 308 amino acids and showed low similarity to endoribonucleases of other parasites (<40%). EcRNH had an active site centered on a putative DDEED motif instead of DEDD conserved in other species. A recombinant EcRNH produced as a soluble form in Escherichia coli showed enzymatic activity to cleave the 3'-O-P bond of RNA in a DNA-RNA duplex, producing 3'-hydroxyl and 5'-phosphate. These findings may contribute to develop antisense oligonucleotides which could damage echinostomes and other flukes.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 송수화기를 사용하지 않고도 통화 가능한 핸즈프리 통화방식에서 스피커의 출력신호가 마이크로 입력되는 음향반향(acoustic echo)을 효과적으로 제거할 수 있는 음향반향 제거기가 적용된 핸즈프리 전화기의 구현에 관하여 연구한다. 적응필터만을 적용한 기존의 음향반향 제거기는 반향신호와 동시통화의 문제를 동시에 해결하는데 있어서 많은 어려움을 갖고 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 modified NLMS 알고리즘이 적용된 적응필터, 두 개의 독립된 망각인자(forgetting factor)를 이용하여 원단신호의 음성구간을 정확하게 검출하는 VAD, 마이크신호와 잔여반향신호의 상호상관계수를 이용하여 동시통화 구간을 신속하고 정확하게 판단하기 위한 동시통화 검출기, 그리고 VAD와 동시통화 검출기를 이용한 출력제어부로 구성된 음향반향 제거기를 제안한다. 이러한 구조의 음향반향 제거기가 적용된 핸즈프리 전화기는 기존의 핸즈프리 전화기와 차별되게 반향도 없고 동시통화도 원활한 성능을 보여준다.

• 융합보안논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2009

현재의 동영상 파일은 WMV(Window Media Video)형식과 같은 극일 포맷과 압축 기술들이다. 이 같은 파일 포맷과 압축 기술을 이용한 동영상들은 화질과 압축율에 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이에 본 논문은 Macromedia(Adobe 사가 인수함)사에서 개발한 FLV(Flash Video)와는 다른 FLY 솔루션 EZ-MOV를 설계 및 구현하였다. EZ-MOV는 다음과 같은 장점들을 가지고 있다. 첫째, FLV플레이어가 배속이 가능하며 자체 DRM이 내장 죄어 있어서 불법 녹화가 불가능하고 둘째, WMV 형식 파일을 FLV로 인코딩시에 최대한 50%까지 무손실로 압축이 가능하며 셋째, 버퍼링 없는 동영상 스트리밍이 가능하다. 넷째, 스트리밍 서버 없이도 FLV 파일을 스트리밍으로 서비스가 가능하다. 다섯째, 다운로드와 스트리밍을 병행한 동영상 서비스도 가능하다. 여섯째, 양방향으로의 서비스도 가능하다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제9권12호
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• pp.1337-1344
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• 2014

디지털 가입자회선과 같은 통신에서 반향 제거기의 목적은 수신 경로에서 하이브리드 회로에 의해 누출되는 전송 신호를 보상하는 것이다. 일반적으로 전이중 통신에서 사용되는 반향 제거기는 지엽적인 신호에 의해 동작되는 적응 시스템이며, 최소 평균 제곱 알고리듬으로 구현된 반향 제거기가 많이 사용되어 왔지만 적은 계산 양의 장점을 가지는 반면에 느린 수렴 성능을 보인다. 또한, 반향 제거기의 길이는 성능과 수렴속도에 직접적인 영향을 미치며, 긴 시간동안 변화하는 반향을 제거하기 위해서는 반향 제거기의 계수 개수가 커야 하는데, 이것은 적응 필터의 수렴 속도를 감소시킨다. 본 논문에서는 통신 채널에서의 반향 제거에 대한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 순방향 알고리듬과 역방향 알고리듬의 가중 결합으로 구성된 양방향 최소 평균 제곱 알고리듬을 사용하여 반향 제거기의 최적의 계수를 계산한다. 마지막으로 수학적 해석 및 모의실험을 통해 제안한 반향 제거기가 계산 양의 증가가 없이 거의 동일한 계산 양으로 기존의 반향 제거기보다 수렴 속도가 빠르다는 사실을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.984-995
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• 1996

Data errors according to the various noises caused in the satellite communication links are corrected by the Viterbi decoding algorithm which has extreme error correcting capability. In this paper, we designed and implemented a convolutional encoder and Viterbi decoder ASIC which is used to encode the input data at the transmit side and correct the errors of the received data at the receive side for use in the VSAT communication system. And this chip may be used in any BPSK, QPSK, or OQPSK transmission system. The ambiguity resolver corrects PSK modem ambiguities by delaying, interting, and/or exchanging code symbol to restore their original sequence and polarity. In case of previous decoding system, ambiguity state(AS) of data is resolved by external control logic and extra redundancy data are needed to resolve AS. But, by adopting decoder proposed in this paper, As of data is resolved automatically by internal logic of decoder in case of continuous mode, and by external As line withoug extra redudancy data in burst mode case. So, decoding parts are simple in continuous mode and transmission efficiency is increased in bust mode. The features of this chip are full duplex operation with independent transmit and receive control and clocks, start/stop inputs for use in burst mode systems, loopback function to verify encoder and decoder, and internal or external control to resolve ambinguity state. For verification of the function and performance of a fabricated ASIC chip, we equiped this chip in the Central and Remote Earth Station of VSAT system, and did the performance test using the commerical INTELSAT VII under the real satellite link environmens. The results of test were demonstrated the superiority of performance.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.403-410
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• 2010

The switched Ethernet has many features for real-time communications such as providing traffic isolation, large bandwidth, and full-duplex links, and so on. The switched Ethernet, however, cannot guarantee the timely delivery of a real-time message because message delay increases when collisions occurs at the output ports and message loss can even occur due to the overflow at the output buffer. Recently, many research efforts have been done to use the switched Ethernet as an industrial control network. In the industrial control network, sensors periodically sense the physical environment and transmit the sensed data to an actuator, and the periodic messages from sensors to actuators have typically real-time requirements such that those messages must be transmitted within their deadlines. This paper first suggests a feasible condition for EDF (Earliest Deadline First)-based scheduling of periodic messages on a synchronized switched Ethernet and a message scheduling algorithm which satisfies the proposed feasible condition. Pedreiras, et al. [10] suggested a feasible condition for message scheduling on the Ethernet (shared media Ethernet), but there has been no research result on the scheduling condition on the switched Ethernet until now. We compared the real-time message scheduling capacity between the Ethernet and the switched Ethernet by simulation. The simulation result shows that the message scheduling capacity of the Ethernet has almost remained constant as the number of nodes on the network increases, but, in the case of the switched Ethernet, the message scheduling capacity has increased linearly according to the number of nodes on the network.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2018

3D 프린팅 기반의 교육용 콘텐츠 제작과 보급은 창의적 문제 해결의 코딩 교육을 리드하고 활성화하는데 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 논문에서는 아두이노를 활용하여 특화된 기능을 제공하는 8비트 MCU 기반 제어 보드 및 3D 프린팅 기반의 다양한 융합 콘텐츠를 개발하였다. 개발된 제어 프로그램은 양방향 통신을 기본 지원하므로 다양한 모니터링 패킷 지원으로 초당 10회 이상 수행한다. 또한, 다양한 정보 전달을 위한 최적화된 통신 프로토콜을 사용하여 여러 콘텐츠 제어가 가능해진다. 개발된 제어 보드와 3D 프린팅으로 제작된 콘텐츠들은 코딩의 원리와 개념을 교육하는 프로그래밍 교육 도구로 유용하게 활용할 수 있다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.5343-5364
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• 2016

Considering the tradeoff between energy consumption and outage behavior in buffer-aided relay selection, a novel energy-efficient buffer-aided optimal relay selection scheme with power adaptation and Inter-Relay Interference (IRI) cancellation is proposed. In the proposed scheme, energy consumption minimization is the objective with the consideration of relay buffer state, outage probability and relay power control, in order to eliminate IRI. The proposed scheme selects a pair of optimal relays from multiple candidate relays, denoted as optimal receive relay and optimal transmit relay respectively. Source-relay and relay-destination communications can be performed within a time-slot, which performs as Full-Duplex (FD) relaying. Markov chain model is applied to analyze the evolution of relay buffer states. System steady state outage probability and achievable diversity order are derived respectively. In addition, packet transmission delay and power reduction performance are investigated with a specific analysis. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme outperforms other relay selection schemes in terms of outage behavior with power adaptation and IRI cancellation in the same relay number and buffer size scenario. Compared with Buffer State relay selection method, the proposed scheme reduces transmission delay significantly with the same amount of relays. Average transmit power reduction can be implemented to relays with the increasing of relay number and buffer size, which realizes the tradeoff between energy-efficiency, outage behavior and delay performance in green cooperative communications.