• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.105-111
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• 2007

A finite element analysis scheme is proposed to assess the dynamic response due to impulse excitation of ocean mining pipe system. Transient dynamic response analysis based on the proposed scheme was carried out for various types of impulses, and the magnitude of cable tension induced by impulse was discussed by using a model of 'Segero', a special purpose ship of KT-Submarine as well as ROV carrier 'Onnuri' A qualitative, prospective guideline for the relevant marine operation is obtained.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.6D
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• pp.905-913
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• 2008

Recently, concrete tracks are introduced into high-speed railroads as an alternative to ballast tracks. Concrete tracks are superior to ballast tracks in the aspect of durability, maintenance and safety. However, deteriorated stiffness of railroad bed and settlement of soft ground induced by trapped or seepage water lead to problems in safety of train operation. In this research, flexural rigidity of concrete tracks was employed as an index of track displacement and a new seismic technique called FRACTAL (Flexural-Rigidity Assessment of Concrete Tracks by Antisymmetric Lamb Waves) method was proposed to delineate flexural rigidity of concrete tracks in a 2-D image. In this paper, to establish theoretical background, parametric research was performed using numerical simulations of stress-wave tests at concrete tracks. Feasibility of the FRACTAL technique was proved at a real concrete track for Korean high-speed trains. Validity of the FRACTAL technique was also verified by comparing the results of impulse-response tests performed at the same measurement array and the results of DC resistivity survey performed at a shoulder nearby the track.

• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.111-122
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• 1997

The calculation of phase velocities in Spectral-Analysis -of-Surface -Waves (SASW) meas urements requires unwrapping phase angles. In case of layered systems with strong stiffness contrast like a pavement system, conventional phase unwrapping algorithm to add in teger multiples of 2n to the principal value of a phase angle may lead to wrong phase volocities. This is because there is difficulty in counting the number of jumps in the phase spectrum especially at the receiver spacing where the measurements are in the transition Bone of defferent modes. A new phase interpretation scheme, called "Impulse Response Fil traction ( IRF) Technique," is proposed, which is based on the separation of wave groups by the filtration of the impulse response determinded between two receivers. The separation of a wave group is based on the impulse response filtered by using information from Gabor spectrogram, which visualizes the propagation of wave groups at the frequency -time space. The filtered impulse response leads to clear interpretation of phase spectrum, which eliminates difficulty in counting number of jumps in the phase spectrum. Verification of the IRF technique was performed by theoretical simulation of the SASW measurement on a pavement system which complicates wave propagation.opagation.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.151-158
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• 2004

In this paper, an inverse filtering technique for the digital filter model is proposed. This technique enables us to obtain a stable non-causal m inverse filter by transforming (approximating) it to a causal stable inverse system. In practice, a causal FIR approximation to this inverse filter is proposed. It can be shown that the impulse response of the inverse filter for all-pass systems is simply the mirror image of the impulse response for the system. Specially, due to this symmetric property of the impulse response of all-pass systems, the proposed technique is more useful for all-pass systems than other systems. In order to illustrate the proposed inverse filtering technique, four examples are presented. Two of them are for all-pass filters. The other two examples are for IIR and FIR filters. Also, computer simulations demonstrate that the proposed technique works very well.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.185-189
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• 2009

Integrated analysis of GPR, impact echo and impulse response for detection of the rear cavity of concrete was performed on the test-bed which was made in the same scale and component ratio to the real concrete structure. GPR survey may roughly delineate the location of the cavity, but applying the IE and IR technique to the test-bed, the location was clearly identified.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.338-346
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• 2009

Integrated analysis of GPR, impact echo (IE) and impulse response (IR) was performed to detect the rear cavity of concrete for a test-bed which was made with the same scale and component ratio to the real concrete structure. The test-bed was designed to be capable of observing various response reflecting the existence of iron reinforcing bar and cavity. GPR survey did not clearly resolve the existence of the cavity, although distinguishable responses were observed in the presence of the cavity. In contrast, IE and IR method showed distinct responses, indicating the existence of the cavity. Finally, integrated application of the three methods makes it possible to exactly identify the location of the cavity, although the iron reinforcing bar made a little variation of response.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.792-798
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• 2002

The spectrum of impulse response signal from an impulse hammer testing is widely used to obtain frequency response function (FRF) of the structure. However the FRFs obtained from impact hammer testing have not only leakage errors but also finite record length errors when the record length for the signal processing is not sufficiently long. The errors cannot be removed with the conventional signal analyzer which treats the signals as if they are always steady and periodic. Since the response signals generated by the impact hammer are transient and have damping, they are undoubtedly non-periodic. It is inevitable that the signals be acquired for limited recording time, which causes the finite record length error and the leakage error. In this paper, the errors in the frequency response function of multi degree of freedom system are formulated theoretically. And the method to remove these errors is also suggested. This method is based on the optimization technique. A numerical example of 3-dof model shows the validity of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.97-105
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• 2001

현장타설말뚝의 건전도 평가에서 충격반향, 충격응답기법과 같은 비검측공 시험법을 적용하는 사례가 점차로 증가되는 추세에 있다. 비검측공시험법의 적용성을 체계적으로 평가하기 위해 수행된 일련의 연구결과 중에서 본 논문에서는 시험법의 결함탐지 능력을 평가하기 위해 수행된 해석적 연구결과에 관해 논한다. 이 연구에서는 시험법의 결함탐지능력에 대한 제반 영향인자 중에서 결함의 유형, 위치 및 크기의 영향을 평가하고자 하였다. 이를 위해서 여러 가지 조건에서 말뚝머리에 작용하는 충격하중에 대한 흙-말뚝 구조의 동적응답을 ABAQUS를 이용한 유한요소법으로 해석하였다. 이로부터 얻은 신호를 충격반향 혹은 충격응답기법으로 처리.분석하여 각 시험법의 결함탐지 능력을 평가해 보았다. 연구결과 이들 두 기법 모두 결함의 위치와 유형은 비교적 정확하게 탐지하는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 충격응답기법을 이용하여 추정한 결함 크기는 신뢰도가 매우 낮았다. 이 문제를 해소하여 시험법의 적용성을 향상시키기 위해서는 측정된 동적응답신호를 이용하여 적절한 역계산 기법을 개발하여 적용할 필요가 있다는 결론을 얻었다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.4 no.1 s.6
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• pp.57-62
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a channel estimation method by impulse signal train in OFDM. In order to estimate the channel response, 4 impulse signals are generated and transmitted during one OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) symbol. The intervals between the impulse signals are all equal in time domain. At the receiver, the impulse response signals are summed and averaged. And then, the averaged impulse response signal is zero padded and fast Fourier transformed to obtain the channel estimation. The BER performance of the proposed method is compared with those of conventional estimation method using the long training sequence in fast fading environments. The simulation results show that the proposed method improves by 3 dB in terms of Eb/No, compared with the conventional method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.1025-1031
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• 2006

In this paper, a deconvolution filtering method for all-pass systems based on FIR approximation is proposed. The proposed method enables us to obtain a causal stable deconvolution filter by FIR approximating a non-causal stable deconvolution filter to a causal stable one. As we can see in this paper, the impulse response of the deconvolution filter for all-pass system is simply the mirror image of the impulse response for all-pass system itself. Due to this symmetric property between all-pass system itself and its deconvolution Inter, this method can be applied to all-pass systems without special limitation of the system's order. In order to verify the performance of the proposed method. computer simulation results for 1st-, 2nd- and 400th-order all-pass systems are included.