• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.467-472
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• 2006

This paper deals with the applicability of long-gauge deformation fiber optic sensors (FOS) to prestressed concrete structures. A main motivation is the desire to monitor the deflection of the railway bridges without intervenes of the signal intensity fluctuations. A 25 m long, 1.8 m deep PSC girder was fabricated compositely with 22 cm thick reinforced concrete deck. Two pairs of 3 m long-gauge sensors are attached to the prestressed concrete girder with parallel topology. Using the relationship between curvature and vortical deflection and the quadratic regression of curvatures at the discrete point, it is possible to extrapolate the deflection curve of the girder. The estimated deflection based on the developed method is compared with the results using conventional strain gauges and LVDTS. It has been demonstrated that the proposed instrumentation technique is capable of estimating the vertical deflection and neutral axis position of the prestressed concrete girder up to weak nonlinear region.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.370-378
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• 2004

An autonomous pipeline inspection gauge system has been developed for determining position, orientation, curvature, and deformations such as dents and wrinkles of operating pipelines by Korea Gas Company and Seoul National University. The most important part of several subsystems is the Strapdown Inertial Measurement Unit (SIMU), which is integrated with velocity and distance sensors, weld detection system, and digital recording device. The Geometry Pipeline Inspection Gauge (GeoPIG) is designed to operate continuously and autonomously for a week or longer in operating gas pipelines. In this paper, the design concepts, system integration, and data processing/analysis method for the PIG will be presented. Results from the recent experiment for a 58 kilometer gas pipeline will be discussed.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1996년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.721-725
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• 1996

The microfabricated test structures were used in order to evaluate the stress characteristics in films. The test structures were fabricated using surface micromachining technique, including HF vapor phase etching as an effective release method. The fabricated structures were micro strain gauge, cantilever-type vernier gauge and bridge for stress measurement, and cantilever for stress gradient measurement. The strain was measures by observing the deformation of the structures occurred after release etching and the amount of deformation can be detected by micro vernier gauge, which has gauge resolution of 0.2${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. The detection principles and the degree of precision for the measured strain were also discussed. The characteristics of residual stress in LPCVD polysilicon films were studied using these test structures. The stress gradient due to the stress variation through the film thickness was calculated by measuring the deflection at the cantilever free end.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제43권9호
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• pp.781-787
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 목자판과 수면이 포함되도록 촬영된 두 장 이상의 연속적인 영상으로부터 수면의 연속적인 움직임에 의해 픽셀의 농도변화가 발생하는 지점을 수면으로 인식하여 수위를 계측하는 방법을 개발하였다. 이 방법의 성능을 검증하기 위하여 목자판이 오염된 경우와 물이 투명하여 물속이 투시되는 경우에 대하여 실내 및 현장 실험을 실시하였다. 두 경우의 실험결과에서 모두 기존 수면인식방법에서는 오염된 부분과 물속 투시된 부분을 수면으로 잘못 인식하였으나, 새로운 방법에서는 수면을 정확하게 인식하여 올바른 수위를 측정할 수 있었다. 따라서 새로운 수면인식방법을 이용하면 기존 영상수위계의 수면인식 정확도를 향상시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.899-905
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• 2012

FMCW 레이더 방식의 레벨게이지는 비 접촉성, 원거리 계측과 다양한 형상으로 구현이 가능한 장점 때문에 많은 연구와 개발이 되어왔으나 cm급의 고 해상도를 얻기 위해서는 GHz의 넓은 대역폭이 필요한 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 협대역 시스템으로 광대역 성능을 얻을 수 있는 톱니파 형태의 송신 파형을 제안하였다. 이 방식은 STFT(Short-time fourier transform)로 짧은 구간으로 나누어 처리하고 단일 정현파의 주파수 추정 알고리즘으로 해상도를 개선하고 있으며 실험을 통하여 300MHz의 FMCW레이더에서 8배까지 거리해상도가 개선되는 것을 보였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.194-201
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• 2008

In the present study, fuel system matching was analyzed, and a characteristic chart for common use for design-related parts is presented. Based on the characteristic chart thus presented, controlled fuel system matching was tested for a 35-liter fuel system, and actual mass product movement coils were applied to validate the test. The keynote of the present research is the use of the characteristic chart to devise a preferred fuel system matching method. Through the present study, it will be possible to design standard parts for efficient fuel system matching in the near future.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.389-403
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• 2016

Structural deflection can be identified from measured strains from long gague sensors, but the sensor layout scheme greatly influences on the accuracy of identified resutls. To determine the optimal sensor layout scheme for accurate deflection identification of the tied arch bridge, the method of optimal layout of long-gauge fiber optic sensors is studied, in which the characteristic curve is first developed by using the bending macro-strain curve under multiple target load conditions, then optimal sensor layout scheme with different number of sensors are determined. A tied arch bridge is studied as an example to verify the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method for static and dynamic deflection identification.

• 센서학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.308-316
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• 2008

For the measurement of liquid level in ship's cargo tank, ballast tank, fuel oil tank and fresh water tank, several types of gauge meter are used such as tubular type, magnetic float type, reflex type transparent type and welding pad type. Among them, magnetic float type gauge meter is environmental friendly device because it is free of power source and maintenance. The main obstacle of the device is relatively large error bound. In this paper, finite element method is used to design and analysis of the magnetic float type gauge meter. The operation of reed switch according to the magnetic field has been successfully described and agreed well with experimental measurement. The optimum geometry with combination of permanent magnet and reed switches are designed to achieve 98 % accuracy of fluid level.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.525-540
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• 2015

Spatial distribution of precipitation has been estimated based on the local gauge correction (LGC) with a fixed inverse distance weighting (IDW), which is not optimized in taking effective radius into account depending on the radar error. We developed an algorithm, improved local gauge correction (ILGC) which eliminates outlier in radar rainrate errors and optimize distance power for IDW. ILGC was statistically examined the hourly cumulated precipitation from weather for the heavy rain events. Adjusted radar rainfall from ILGC is improved to 50% compared with unadjusted radar rainfall. The accuracy of ILGC is higher to 7% than that of LGC, which resulted from a positive effect of the optimal algorithm on the adjustment of quantitative precipitation estimation from weather radar.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2008

Rainfall data from three different types of rain gauge system have been collected for the summertime rain event at Mokpo in the Korean peninsula. The rain gauge system considered in this paper is composed of three tipping-bucket rain gauges with 0.1, 0.2, and 0.5 mm measuring resolutions, the Optical Rain Gauge (ORG), and the PARSIVEL (PARticle SIze and VELocity). The PARSIVEL rainfall rate has been considered as the reference for comparison since it gave good resolution and performance on this event. Comparison with the PARSIVEL rainfall rate gives the results that the error and temporal variation of rainfall rate are simultaneously reduced with increasing the averaging interval of rainfall rate or decreasing the size of tipping bucket. This suggests that the estimated rainfall rate must be optimized, differently for the type of tipping-bucket rain gages, by minimizing the averaging interval of rainfall rate under the condition satisfying the given performance of rainfall rate.