• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.27-35
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• 2008

At low normal stress levels tensile strength of sand varies with either saturation or suction of soil in an up-and-down manner with a peak tensile strength that can occur at any degree of saturation. A theory that accurately predicts tensile strength of wet sand is presented. A closed form expression for tensile strength unifies tensile strength characteristics in all three water retention regimes: pendular, funicular, and capillary. Three parameters are employed in the theory; namely, the Internal friction angle (at low normal stress) ${\phi}_t$, the inverse value of the air-entry pressure ${\alpha}$, and the pore size spectrum parameter n. It is shown that the magnitude of peak tensile strength is dominantly controlled by the ${\alpha}$ parameter. The saturation at which peak tensile strength occurs only depends on the pore size spectrum parameter n.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.241-251
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• 2007

The observed spectra from Odaesan earthquake were fitted to a point-source spectral model to evaluate the source spectrum and spatial features of the modelling error. The source spectrum was calculated by removing from the observed spectra the path and site dependent responses (Yun, 2007) that were previously revealed through an inversion process applied to a large accumulated spectral dataset. The stress drop parameter of one-corner Brune's ${\omega}^2$ source model fitted to the estimated source spectrum was well predicted by the scaling relation between magnitude and stress drop developed by Yun et al. (2006). In particular, the estimated spectrum was quite comparable to the two-corner source model that was empirically developed for recent moderate earthquakes occurring around the Korean Peninsula, which indicates that Odaesan earthquake is one of typical moderate earthquakes representative of Korean Peninsula. Other features of the observed spectra from Odaesan earthquake were also evaluated based on the commonly treated random error between the observed data and the estimated point-source spectral model. Radiation pattern of the error according to azimuth angle was found to be similar to the theoretical estimate. It was also observed that the spatial distribution of the errors was correlated with the geological map and the $Q_0$ map which are indicatives of seismic boundaries.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2511-2517
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• 2009

Recently, a FMCW radar is used for the various purposes in the short range detection and tracking of targets. The main advantages of a FMCWradar are the comparative simplicity of implementation and the low peak power transmission characterizing the very low probability of signal interception. Since it uses the frequency modulated continuous wave for transmission and demodulation, the received beat frequency represents the range and Doppler information of targets. Detection and extraction of useful information from targets are performed in this beat frequency domain. Therefore, the resolution and accuracy in the estimation of a beat spectrum are very important. However, using the conventional FFT estimation method, the high resolution spectrum estimation with a low sidelobe level is not possible if the acquisition time is very short in receiving target echoes. This kind of problems deteriorates the detection performance of adjacent targets having the large magnitude differences in return echoes and also degrades the reliability of the extracted information. Therefore, in this paper, the model parameter estimation methods such as autoregressive and eigenvector spectrum estimation are applied to mitigate these problems. Also, simulation results are compared and analyzed for further improvement.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.66-72
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• 2000

We have scanned the several seismic traces of earthquakes and blasts observed from the digital new type seismograph instruments of KMA from Jan. 2000 to Aug. 2000. From these data, good quality data which have high signal/noise ratio were selected and they were transformed into ascii data from binary data(mini-seed format). The hypo71 program and P-S was applied in order to determine the location of epicenter, origin time and the magnitude. From these data, the 18 earthquakes and 3 blasts, 207 seismic records consist of 359 directional components were calculated. Using theses ground acceleration data, acceleration, velocity, and displacement response spectrums of the structures were calculated and they could be represented in a picture by the form of tripartite response spectrum. In the result, response spectrums of the 359 directional components of the above seismic data records were obtained respectively.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07c
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• pp.1820-1822
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• 2004

In this study, major research fields are classified as ozone generation system for dry cleaning wafer of etched silicon wafer, dry cleaning process of etched silicon wafer which includes SEM analysis and ESCA analysis. The following results are deduced from each experiment and analysis. The magnitudes of carbon and silicon were similar to the survey spectrum of silicon wafer which does not cleaning, but magnitude of oxygen was much bigger Because UV light activates oxygen molecules in the oxide film on the silicon wafer.

• The Journal of Information Technology
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2005

Investigations of high frequency current transformer(HF-CT) waveform characteristics of the surface leakage on kaolin polluted EPDM polymer insulators have been performed. This work is part of a program aimed at examining the potential for HF-CT waveform characteristics analysis to provide information about the environment contaminants and environment condition of polymer insulators. The investigation reported examined the HF-CT waveform characteristics at high frequencies. The use of high frequency measurements for on-line applications reduces electrical inference. This work was peformed utilizing HF-CT to monitor of surface polluted discharge. It was found that HF-CT waveform frequency spectrum, magnitude depend on importantly the duration of the surface discharge activity.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.179-187
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• 2012

This paper presents a novel method for estimating reliable noise spectral magnitude for acoustic background noise suppression where only a single microphone recording is available. The proposed method finds noise estimates from spectral magnitudes measured at line spectral frequencies (LSFs), under the observation that adjacent LSFs are near the peak frequencies and isolated LSFs are close to the relatively flattened valleys of LPC spectra. The parameters used in the proposed method are LPC coefficients, their corresponding LSFs, and the gain of LPC residual signals, so it suits well to LPC-based speech coders.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.316-318
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• 2003

간질성 폐질환(Interstitial Lung Disease) 컴퓨터지원진단(Computer-Aided Diagnosis： CAD)시스템은 방사선의사들이 흉부 X-ray영상에서 석회화와 섬유화를 탐지하고자 적용하였다. 진단 중에 발생할 수 있는 오진율을 줄이고 간질성 폐질환이 존재하는 폐야에서 이상유무를 판단하여 검출을 표시하도록 하였다. 본 논문에서는 디지털 흉부영상에서의 간질성 폐질환을 검출하기 위해 폐 텍스처(texture)의 물리적 척도를 측정하기 위한 방법을 제안한다. 2차원의 푸리에 변환으로부터 얻어지는 파워스펙트럼(power spectrum) 분석에 기반을 두는 방법으로 각각의 ROI(Region Of Interest)에서 구한 평균제곱자승오차(Root Mean Sguare: RMS)와 파워스펙트럼의 첫 번갠 모멘트(Moment)는 폐 텍스처의 밀도변동의 크기(magnitude)와 섬세함(fineness)을 나타낸다. 실험결과 다양한 간질성폐질환을 가진 비정상 폐 텍스처의 RMS와 첫 번째 모멘트와는 차이가 있었다. 디지텔 흉부영상으로부터 계산되어진 정량화된 텍스처의 척도는 방사선의사의 간질성 폐 질환을 진단함에 효율적인 질환 탐지를 가능하게 하였으며 진단율을 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.46-56
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• 2008

A numerical model analysis was performed to analyze the motion and mooring tension response of submersible fish cage systems in irregular waves and currents. Two systems were examined: a submersible cage mooring with a single, high tension mooring and the same system, but with an additional three point mooring. Using a Morison equation type model, simulations of the systems were conducted with the cage at the surface and submerged. Irregular waves(JONSWAP spectrum) with and without a co-linear current with a magnitude of 0.5m/s were simulated into the model as input parameters. Surge, heave and pitch dynamic calculations were made, along with tension responses in the mooring lines. Results were analyzed in both the time and frequency domains and linear transfer functions were calculated.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.117-118
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• 1986

It is well known that nonlinear propagation characteristics of the wave in the tissue may give very useful information for the medical diagnoisis. In this paper, a new method to detect nonlinear propagation characteristics of the internal vibration in the tissue for the low frequency mechanical vibration by using bispectral analysis is proposed. In the method, low frequency vibration of f0( = 100Hz) is applied on the surface of the object, and the waveform of the internal vibration x (t) is measured from Doppler frequency modulation of silmultaneously transmitted probing ultrasonic waves. Then, the bispectra of the signal x (t) at the frequencies (f0, f0) and (f0, 2f0) are calculated to estimate the nonlinear propagation characteristics as their magnitude ratio, w here since bispectrum is free from the gaussian additive noise we can get the value with high S/N. Basic experimental system is constructed by using 3.0 MHz probing ultrasonic waves and the several experiments are carried out for some phantoms. Results show the superiority of the proposed method to the conventional method using power spectrum and also its usefulness for the tissue characterization.