• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.49-53
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• 2017

Formant frequencies depend on the position of tongue, the shape of lips, and larynx. In the auditory system, the external ear canal is an open-end resonator, which can modify the voice characteristics. This study investigates the effect of the real ear on formant frequencies. Fifteen subjects ranging from 22 to 30 years of age participated in the study. This study employed three corner vowels: the low central vowel /a/, the high front vowel /i/, and the high back vowel /u/. For this study, the voice of a well-educated undergraduate who majored in speech-language pathology, was recorded with a high performance condenser microphone placed in the upper pinna and in the ear canal. Paired t-test showed that there were significant difference in the formant frequencies of F1, F2, F3, and F4 between the free field and the real ear. For /a/, all formant frequencies decreased significantly in the real ear. For /i/, F2 increased and F3 and F4 decreased. For /u/, F1 and F2 increased, but F3 and F4 decreased. It seems that these voice modifications in the real ear contribute to interpreting voice quality and understanding speech, timbre, and individual characteristics, which are influenced by the shape of the outer ear and external ear canal in such a way that formant frequencies become centralized in the vowel space.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2000년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1273-1279
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• 2000

A new concept of piezoelectric smart panels for noise reduction in wide band frequencies is proposed and their possibility is experimentally investigated. The proposed panels are based on active and passive methods. They use piezoelectric smart structure technology for active noise reduction at low band frequencies and passive sound absorbing materials for mid-range of noise frequencies. To prove the concept of piezoelectric smart panels, an acoustic measurement experiment was performed. The smart panels exhibit a good noise reduction in middle and high frequency ranges due to the mass effects of absorbing materials or/and the air gap. The use of piezoelectric smart panel renders noise reduction large at resonance frequency. Another concept of smart panel that uses piezoelectric damping is experimentally investigated. Since piezoelectric dampings can reduce vibration and noise at resonance frequencies with simple shunt circuit, they have merits in terms of economy and simplicity. Dissipated energy method(DEM) is adopted to tune the shunt circuit precisely in piezoelectric dampings. Noise reduction at multiple resonance frequencies is demonstrated.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.940-950
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• 2011

This paper reports a filtered velocity feedback(FVF) controller, which is an alternative to direct velocity feedback(DVFB) controller. The instability problems at high frequencies due to non-collocated sensor/actuator configuration with the DVFB can be alleviated by the proposed FVF controller. The FVF controller is designed to filter out the unstable high frequency response. The dynamics of a clamped plate under forces and moments and the FVF controllers are formulated. The stability of the control system and performance are investigated with the open loop transfer function(OLTF). It is found that the FVF controller has a higher gain margin than the corresponding DVFB controller owing to the rapid roll-off behavior at high frequencies. Although the gain margin cannot be fully utilized because of the enhancement at the high frequencies, the vibration at the modes lower than the tuning frequency is well controlled. This performance of the FVF controller is shown to be improved from that of the DVFB controller. It is, however, noted that the stability around the tuning frequency is very sensitive so that the enhancement in vibration level should be followed. The reduction performance at low frequencies using the FVF controller should be compromised with the enhancement in the vibration at high frequencies while designing the controller.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2017

Recently, there are various researches using inaudible high frequencies like as wireless communication based smart devices, data transmission algorithm, indoor positioning trace technologies. However, when they use high frequencies of inaudible range, they have a problem that the accuracy of data transmission with high frequencies was low because of interference from ambient noise in our real life. To solve this problem, in this paper, we proposed an application based on smart phone and server system for collection of ambient noise and detection of robust high frequency range. The server system could detect the robust high frequency range from statistical analysis of collected noise and the robust high frequency could avoid interference from ambient noise. We tested the proposed application's ability to gather noise and high frequencies for a certain period of time to evaluate performance. According to the testing results, we confirmed that the proposed application and server system could detect a robust high-frequency range via noise analysis in real life. Therefore, the proposed application and server could be a useful technology for future research on inaudible high frequencies.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.372-376
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• 2008

We report experimental results on the correlations between welding penetration depth and the frequencies of the radiation from the welding pool. Various welding samples such as SUS304, brass, SUS316, etc. have been investigated with 2 kW CW Nd:YAG laser welding machine. The radiation signals from the plume generated by the interactions between the welding sample and laser with respect to the defocusing length was measured with fiber system collecting the plume signal. Analysis of the frequencies by using fast Fourier transform (FFT) shows that the penetration depth is deep as plume signal frequencies are low, shallow penetration depth for high frequencies. Frequencies up to 250 Hz for obtained signals can be analyzed with the discrete FFT. This is the useful method fur closed loop control of the laser power with respect to the welding penetration depth and is used for real time inspection of the welding quality.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.551-565
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• 2023

Coupled porous curved beams, due to their low weight and high flexibility, have many applications in engineering. This study investigates the vibration behavior of coupled porous curved beams in different boundary conditions. The system consists of two curved beams connected by a mid-layer of elastic springs. These beams are made of various materials, such as homogenous steel foam, and composite materials with PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) and SWCNT (single-walled carbon nanotube) used as the matrix and nanofillers, respectively. To obtain equivalent material properties, the role of mixture (RoM) was employed, followed by the implementation of the porosity function. The system's governing equations were obtained by employing FSDT and Hamilton's law. To investigate thermal vibration, temperature was implemented as a load in the governing equations. The GDQ method was used to solve these equations. To demonstrate the applicability of the GDQ method in calculating the frequencies of the system and the correctness of the developed program, a validation study was conducted. After validation, numerous examples were presented to investigate the behavior of single and coupled curved beams in various material properties and boundary conditions. The results indicate that the frequencies of the curved beams and the system depend highly on the amount of porosity (n) and the distribution pattern. The system frequencies decreased with an increase in the porosity coefficient. The stiffness of the springs had no effect on the first mode frequency but increased frequencies of other modes in a specific range. The frequencies of the system decreased with an increase in environmental temperature.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.403-410
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• 2016

금속으로 이루어진 물질의 경우에는 고유하며 명백한 공진 주파수를 가지고 있다. 이러한 성질을 이용하여, 공장에서 만들어진 제품의 품질 테스트를 실행할 수 있다. 해당 제품에 충격을 가하고 이로부터 발생되는 소리나 진동의 주파수를 고성능의 장비를 이용하여 측정하게 된다. 범용 컴퓨터나 DSP 기반의 단독 시스템들이 이를 위해서 사용되며 이러한 장비들은 들고 다니기에 크기가 너무 크고 구축비용이 많이 든다. 본 논문에서는 TI의 MSP430 계열의 MCU를 이용하여 개발된 시스템에 대하여 소개하고자 한다. 초저전력의 MSP430 MCU들은 큰 용량의 배터리가 필요 없으므로 매우 작은 크기의 주파수 분석기를 제작하는 것이 가능하게 한다. 제안된 시스템은 검사원이 쉽게 장비를 가지고 다닐 수 있어야 하고 정확도를 다소 희생하더라도 작은 개발비용이 요구되는 환경에 사용될 수 있을 것이다. 제안된 시스템은 론치패드를 이용하여 개발되었으며, 인위적이거나 자연스런 소리의 주파수를 매우 높은 정확도로 판별 할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.93-103
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 저주파수 영역에서 유전상수 측정시 발생할 수 있는 왜곡효과를 규명하고, 함수비에 따른 사질토의 유전상수 변화를 실수부와 허수부를 구분하여 조사하였다. 축전기 형태의 셀에서 유전상수를 측정하는 경우 100kHz 이하의 주파수 영역에서 전극분극효과에 의하여 실제 매질의 유전상수보다 크게 측정되었기 때문에 전극 분극효과에 의한 영향을 배제하기 위해서는 100kHz 이상의 주파수에서 유전상수가 평가되어야 하는 것으로 판단되었다. 함수비에 따른 사질토의 유전상수를 평가한 결과 체적함수비 증가에 따라 연속적인 증가경향을 나타내었다. 이는 유전상수 실수부의 경우에는 사질토에서 발생하는 분극이 단위체적당 쌍극자 모멘트에 비례하기 때문이며, 유전상수 허수부의 경우에는 함수비 증가에 따른 전도손실량이 증가하기 때문이다. 그러나 유전상수 실수부에서의 체적함수비에 따른 증가경향은 공간전하분극의 영향이 크지 많은 1MHz 이상의 주파수 영역에서 유효한 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.557-565
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• 2020

원자로의 출력신호를 감시하는 노외중성자속감시계통의 열화상태를 점검하기 위해서는 원자로에서 방출되는 중성자 펄스를 감지하여 처리하는 전자카드에서 주파수형태로 감지하여 전압으로 변환한 후 대수 형태의 직류전압 값을 얻는 방법을 이용한다. 실제로 원전에서 적용하는 방법으로서는 주파수 카운터와 flip-flop 조합으로 이 과정을 수행하거나, 또는 다이오드펌프와 캐패시터의 조합을 이용하는 방법을 쓰며, 아직도 이 방법이 일반적으로 쓰이고 있다. 이 방법들은 높은 주파수에서는 신뢰성이 높으나 낮은 주파수에는 오차가 크고 측정시간도 오래 걸린다는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 고출력대의 고주파수 범위뿐만 아니라 중위출력 범위 주파수대, 그리고 극히 저출력 범위에 속해 있는 취약주파수대인 0.21 Hz~2 kHz 범위의 낮은 주파수대에 이르는 광범위한 주파수를 대수직류전압으로 신뢰성 높게 변환시킬 수 있는 장치를 개발하였다. 개발된 선택회로의 신뢰성을 확인하기 위하여 원전에서 사용되는 실제의 데이터값을 적용하여 테스트하였으며, 그 결과를 분석하여 선택회로의 정당성을 입증하였다.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.2995-2996
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• 2007

We found that there exists a flow inside a droplet in AC electrowetting, which is distinct from DC electrowetting. In order to investigate the origin of the flow inside the droplet, we performed an experiment and numerical simulation. It is conjecture, based on the results of the experiment and numerical simulation, the flow is caused by the so called induced-charge electroosmosis at high frequencies, and by droplet oscillation at low frequencies.