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Effect of Process Conditions on the Microstructure of Particle-Stabilized Al2O3 Foam

  • Ahmad, Rizwan;Ha, Jang-Hoon;Hahn, Yoo-Dong;Song, In-Hyuck
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.278-284
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    • 2012
  • $Al_2O_3$ foam is an important engineering material because of its exceptional high-temperature stability, low thermal conductivity, good wear resistance, and stability in hostile chemical environment. In this work, $Al_2O_3$ foams were designed to control the microstructure, porosity, and cell size by varying different parameters such as the amount of amphiphile, solid loading, and stirring speed. Particle stabilized direct foaming technique was used and the $Al_2O_3$ particles were partially hydrophobized upon the adsorption of valeric acid on particles surface. The foam stability was drastically improved when these particles were irreversibly adsorbed at the air/water interface. However, there is still considerable ambiguity with regard to the effect of process parameters on the microstructure of particle-stabilized foam. In this study, the $Al_2O_3$ foam with open and closed-cell structure, cell size ranging from $20{\mu}m$ to $300{\mu}m$ having single strut wall and porosity from 75% to 93% were successfully fabricated by sintering at $1600^{\circ}C$ for 2 h in air.

Handling of Harvested Broiler (육계 출하 후 관리)

  • Kim Dong-Hun;Yoo Young-Mo;Cho Soo-Hyun;Park Beom-Young;Kim Yong-Kon;Lee Jong-Moon
    • Food Science of Animal Resources
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.424-432
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    • 2004
  • The handling and transport of broiler birds from farm to the processing factory is known to cause injury and dead. The preslaughter period can be compromised through thermal stress, emotional stress, starvation, dehydration, metabolic exhaustion, trauma to the skin and bone fraction resulting in bruising and dead. This paper focuses on the control points of individual post Harvest stages by reference to recent literature. In catching, the injuries and deads are caused from fracture of bone, skin damage and hipbone dislocation. It can be improved by training the catchers. The primary factor of dead during transportation is from thermal stress. It is related to stocking density, type of crate and vehicle, ventilation and transportation time. Of the factors, the ventilation is very important. The holding place should be built with consideration of protection from the hostile external environment. There were not much progresses in this area, however, many researches are conducting to focus on animal welfare in European Union. Recently, it is rapidly changed in marketing custom from whole carcass to portion cut in Korea. This means the increase of economic loss due to the mishandling at post harvest. The systematic approach is demanded for this area.

A Study on the high temperature oxidation behavior of zirconia plasma coatings on Haselloy X (Zirconala 용사된 Hastelloy X의 고온산화거동)

  • 김재철;신억균;박영규;최시경;김길무
    • Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.285-297
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    • 1997
  • Finned segment, with which are lined inner wall of the turbine combustors, are subject to severe degradation when they are exposed to a hostile environmment at elevated temperature. To protect the finned segment from this environment and to maintain good mechanical properties of components at high temperature, they are preferred to be coated. The most governing factor for the durability of coatings used in the high temperature is the microstructure of coatings; these are splat from, distibution of microcacks, size and distribution of pores, thickness of coating layer, adhesion between coating layer, and oxidation of band coating. In this study, based on the evaluation of the imported finned segment, new finned segment segment was manufactured with optimum plasma spraying parameters, and their properties were examined. Using $ZrO_2(8wt$Y_2O_3)$,/TEX> powder for ceramic coating and 67Ni-22Cr-10Al-0.5Y mixing powder for bond coating, thickness of ceramic and bond coating layer were varied in order to find optimum condition, the results showed that B2T4(bond coating : 100~250$\mu\textrm{m}$, ceramic coating : 250~300$\mu\textrm{m}$) was the best among the specimens tested. Compared to the imported finned segment, B2T4 has better bond strength, hardness, and isothermal and cyclic oxidation resistance.

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A Study of Hangul Text Steganography based on Genetic Algorithm (유전 알고리즘 기반 한글 텍스트 스테가노그래피의 연구)

  • Ji, Seon-Su
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.7-12
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    • 2016
  • In a hostile Internet environment, steganography has focused to hide a secret message inside the cover medium for increasing the security. That is the complement of the encryption. This paper presents a text steganography techniques using the Hangul text. To enhance the security level, secret messages have been encrypted first through the genetic algorithm operator crossover. And then embedded into an cover text to form the stego text without changing its noticeable properties and structures. To maintain the capacity in the cover media to 3.69%, the experiments show that the size of the stego text was increased up to 14%.

An Information Extraction Approach for Spoken Language Understanding in a Hostile Environment. (열악한 환경의 음성 언어 이해를 위한 정보 추출 접근 방식)

  • Eun, Ji-Hyun;Lee, Chang-Ki;Lee, Gary Geun-Bae
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 2004.10d
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    • pp.20-24
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    • 2004
  • 본 논문에서는 환경 잡음과 원거리 음성 입력 그리고 노인 발화 등의 열악한 음성 인식 환경에서의 음성 언어이해(spoken language understanding)를 위한 정보 추출 접근 방식에 대해 논하고 있다. 정보 추출의 목적은 미리 정의된 slot에 적절한 값을 찾는 것이다. 음성 언어 이해를 위한 정보 추출은 필수적인 요소만을 추출하는 것을 목적으로 하는 개념 집어내기(concept spotting) 접근 방식을 사용한다. 이러한 방식은 미리 정의된 개념 구조 slot에만 관심을 가지기 때문에. 음성 언어 이해에서 사용되는 정보 추출은 언어를 완전히 이해한다기보다는 부분적으로 이해하는 방식을 취하고 있다. 음성 입력 언어는 주로 열등한 인식 환경에서 이루어지기 때문에 많은 인식 오류를 가지고 이로 인해 텍스트 입력에 비해 이해하기 어렵다. 이러한 점을 고려하여, 특정 정보에 집중함으로써 음성 언어를 이해하고자 시도하였다. 도로 정보 안내 영역을 대상으로 한 실험에서 텍스트 입력(WER 0%)과 음성 입력(WER 39.0%)이 주어졌을 때, 개념 집어내기 방식의 F-measure 값은 각각 0.945, 0.823을 나타내었다.

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A Study on a Geometrical Analysis for the Manual Mode of an Advanced Teleoperator System (지적 원격조작시스템의 수동모드 개선을 위한 기하학적 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sun-Yo;Kim, Chang-Dae;Park, Se-Gwon
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.31-44
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    • 1988
  • If an error occurs in the automatic mode when the advanced teleoperator system performs a task in hostile environment then the automatic mode changes into the manual mode. The operation by the control program and the operation by a human recover the error in the manual mode. The system resumes the automatic mode and continues the given task. It is necessary to improve the manual mode in order to make the best use of a man-robot system, as a part of the human interface technique. Therefore, the error recovery task is performed by combining the operation by the control program representing autonomy of a robot and the operation by a human representing versatility of a human operator effectively in the view point of human factors engineering. The geometric inverse kinematics is used for the calculation of the robot joint values in the operation by the control program. The singularity operation error and the parameter operation error often occur in this procedure. These two operation errors increase the movement time of the robot and the coordinate reading time, during the error recovery task. A singularity algorithm, parameter algorithm and fuzzy control are studied so as to remove the disadvantages of geometric inverse kinematics. And the geometric straight line motion is studied so as to improve the disadvantages of the operation by a human.

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Particle filter-assisted ad hoc routing in a multi-hop wireless ad hoc network for multi-robots

  • Doh, Nak-Ju Lett;Nam, Chang-Joo;Lee, Suk-Kyu;Kim, Hwang-Nam
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.312-316
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    • 2010
  • We describe in this paper how to facilitate ad hoc routing with a particle filter in a hostile radio environment for multi-hop wireless ad hoc networks that connect multi-robots. The proposed scheme increases a connection's throughput by exploiting alternative links without going through the procedure of route discovery when link failure happens among multi-robots' networking. The scheme is implemented by using a particle filter to find strongly connected nodes. The filter estimates the probability distribution function in a sample-based manner with N particles. The particles are associated with a weight which represents the probability of the corresponding node to be the node with the best link. At every step of the estimation, the weights of particles are calculated and particles are resampled based on the weights. Since a node with the strongest link status possesses the largest number of particles, we take this node to forward the packets.

A Study on Detection of Underwater Ferromagnetic Target for Harbor Surveillance (항만 감시를 위한 수중 강자성 표적 탐지에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Minho;Joo, Unggul;Lim, Changsum;Yoon, Sanggi;Moon, Sangtaeck
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.350-357
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    • 2015
  • Many countries have been developing and operating an underwater surveillance system in order to protect their oceanic environment from infiltrating hostile marine forces which intend to lay mines, conduct reconnaissance and destroy friendly ships anchored at the harbor. One of the most efficient methods to detect unidentified submarine approaching harbor is sensing variation of magnetism of target by magnetic sensors. This measurement system has an advantage of high possibility of detection and low probability of false alarm, compared to acoustic sensors, although it has relatively decreased detection range. The contents of this paper mainly cover the analysis of possible effectiveness of magnetic sensors. First of all, environmental characteristics of surveillance area and magnetic information of simulated targets has been analyzed. Subsequently, a signal processing method of separating target from geomagnetic field and methods of estimating target location has been proposed.

Efficient subcarrier allocation for OFDM transmission in multi-services application (다중 서비스 환경을 위한 효율적인 OFDM 부채널 배정 방법)

  • Lee, Jong-Hun;Song, Sang-Seop
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.40-47
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    • 2006
  • The next-generation mobile communication system are required to provide high-data-rate and high quality transmission over hostile radio channels. Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing(OFDM) technique regarded as a most promising solution in mobile environment. This paper considers the issue of efficient subcarrier allocation for OFDM system in multi-service application. Proposed algorithm can consider channel gain of each service and divide subchannel. Proposed method considers priority of service and divide more subchannels in high priority service. When proposed algorithm compares with existent algorithm, the convergence rate improves and the calculation amount is decreased.

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Analysis and performance of offshore platforms in hurricanes

  • Kareem, Ahsan;Kijewski, Tracy;Smith, Charles E.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 1999
  • Wind effects are critical considerations in the design of topside structures, overall structural systems, or both, depending on the water depth and type of offshore platform. The reliable design of these facilities for oil fields in regions of hostile environment can only be assured through better understanding of the environmental load effects and enhanced response prediction capabilities. This paper summarizes the analysis and performance of offshore platforms under extreme wind loads, including the quantification of wind load effects with focus on wind field characteristics, steady and unsteady loads, gust loading factors, application of wind tunnel tests, and the provisions of the American Petroleum Institute Recommended Practice 2A - Working Stress Design (API RP 2A-WSD) for the construction of offshore structures under the action of wind. A survey of the performance of platforms and satellite structures is provided, and failure mechanisms concerning different damage scenarios during Hurricane Andrew are examined. Guidelines and provisions for improving analysis and design of structures are addressed.