• International Journal of Railway
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.13-25
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• 2013

Railpad prevents damage of the tie and ballast by reducing the impact and high frequency vibration, which occurs when a vehicle load transfers to a tie. But elasticity of the railpad can decrease under vehicle load and over usable period. If that happens, railpad will become stiffer. Increase in stiffness of the railpad also translates into a rise in track maintenance cost because it accelerates the damage of the track. In this study, accelerated heat ageing test was performed to predict an expectable lifetime of the railpad. As a result, it was predicted to be about sixteen years at $25^{\circ}C$ that life time of railpad using NR rubber from Arrhenius relationship. Also, it was predicted to be about thirty-two days at $100^{\circ}C$. At this time, a standard rate of thickness change is approximately within 12%.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.83-95
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• 2020

Because sensor nodes have limited resources in wireless sensor networks, data aggregation can efficiently reduce communication overhead and extend the network lifetime. Although many existing methods are particularly useful for data aggregation applications, they incur unbalanced communication cost and waste lots of sensors' energy. In this paper, we propose a privacy-preserving, energy-saving data aggregation scheme (EBPP). Our method can efficiently reduce the communication cost and provide privacy preservation to protect useful information. Meanwhile, the balanced energy of the nodes can extend the network lifetime in our scheme. Through many simulation experiments, we use several performance criteria to evaluate the method. According to the simulation and analysis results, this method can more effectively balance energy dissipation and provide privacy preservation compared to the existing schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Reliability Society Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.265-269
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• 2005

Cox's proportional hazards model (PHM) has been widely applied in the analysis of lifetime data, and it can be characterized by the baseline hazard function and covariates influencing systems' lifetime, where the covariates describe operating environments (e.g. temperature, pressure, humidity). In this article, we consider the constant baseline hazard function and a discrete random variable of a covariate. The estimation procedure is developed in a parametric framework when there are not only complete data but also incomplete one. The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is employed to handle the incomplete data problem. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the accuracy and some properties of the estimation results.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.67-72
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• 2021

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require an enormous number of sensor nodes (SNs) to maintain processing, sensing, and communication capabilities for monitoring targeted sensing regions. SNs are generally operated by batteries and have a significantly restricted energy consumption; therefore, it is necessary to discover optimization techniques to enhance network lifetime by saving energy. The principal focus is on reducing the energy consumption of packet sharing (transmission and receiving) and improving the network lifespan. To achieve this objective, this paper presents a novel improved energy-efficient cluster-based routing protocol (IECRP) that aims to accomplish this by decreasing the energy consumption in data forwarding and receiving using a clustering technique. Doing so, we successfully increase node energy and network lifetime. In order to confirm the improvement of our algorithm, a simulation is done using matlab, in which analysis and simulation results show that the performance of the proposed algorithm is better than that of two well-known recent benchmarks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.1139-1140
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• 2013

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.267-268
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.27-43
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• 2003

Reliability Lifecycle from Concept to In-Service Operation and Maintenance. Reliability management must consider - SAFETY - SERVICE REQUIREMENTS. Reliability targets/objectives can be specified at feasibility stage. Reliability analysis to support design process. Reliability assessment to support reliability growth or contractual demonstration. Maintenance optimisation to improve reliability during lifetime of operation. Lessons learnt incorporated into next generation of trains.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2006.05b
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• pp.1215-1220
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• 2006

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07d
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• pp.1956-1958
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• 1999

The analysis of hole injection efficiency at the p+/n-drift layer junction in non-punchthrough IGBT structure is presented. This analysis takes into account carrier concentration variations by conductivity modulation. Good agreement between this analysis and simulation is found over a wide range of carrier lifetime and current density. The proposed analytical model of the hole injection efficiency as a function of collector width, collector concentration has been verified by device simulator, ATLAS.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.438-442
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• 2014

Channel length dependence of NBTI (negative bias temperature instablilty) and CHC (channel hot carrier) characteristics in PMOSFET is studied. It has been considered that HC lifetime of PMOSFET is larger than NBTI lifetime. However, it is shown that CHC degradation is greater than NBTI degradation for PMOSFET with short channel length. 1/f noise and charge pumping measurement are used for analysis of these degradations.