• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권9호
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• pp.3506-3513
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• 2023

In this paper, we demonstrate the neutron attenuation of dry cask shielding materials using the S670e helium-4 detector manufactured by Arktis Radiation Ltd. In particular, two materials expected to be applied to the TN-32 dry cask manufactured by ORANO Korea and KORAD-21 by the Korea Radioactive Waste Agency (KORAD) were utilized. The measured neutron attenuation was compared with our Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport simulation results, and the difference is given as the root mean square (RMS). For the fast neutron case, a rapid decline in neutron counts was observed as a function of increasing material thickness, exhibiting an exponential relationship. The discrepancy between the experimentally acquired data and simulation results for the fast neutron was maintained within a 2.3% RMS. In contrast, the observed thermal neutron count demonstrated an initial rise, attained a maximum value, and exhibited an exponential decline as a function of increasing thickness. In particular, the discrepancy between the measured and simulated peak locations for thermal neutrons displayed an RMS deviation of approximately 17.3-22.4%. Finally, the results suggest that a minimum thickness of 5 cm for Li-6 is necessary to achieve a sufficiently significant cross-section, effectively capturing incoming thermal neutrons within the dry cask.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.300-308
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• 1995

The effect of nitrogen finishing for the control of coating weight in a nitrogen sealing box on the coating surface property in hot dip galvanizing process has been studied. The coated surface is free of oxide marks and edge overcoated. The coating uniformity is excellent ; the standard deviation of the coating thickness along width of the specimen was $1~1.2\mu\textrm{m}$ in the box whereas $2.5~3\mu\textrm{m}$ in the air. Considering surface quality of the coating such as oxide mark, edge overcoated and zinc dust, the oxygen content between 40 and 200 ppm was suggested in the box in addition the oxygen content of at least 40 ppm or the minimum dew point of $-27^{\circ}C$ is required to prevent a zinc vaporization.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.17-26
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• 1993

Process fault diagnosis is a complicated matter because quality control problems can result from a variety of causes. These causes include problems with electrical components, mechanical components, human errors, job justification errors, and air conditioning influences. In order to make the system run smoothly with minimum delay, it is necessary to suggest heuristic remedies for the detected faults. Hence, this paper describes a heuristic methodology of fault diagnosis that is performed using statistical patterns generated by quality characteristics The proposed methodology is described briefly as follows: If a sample pattern generated by random variables is similar to the number of prototype patterns, the sample pattern may be matched by any prototype pattern among them to be resembled. This concept is based on the similarity between a sample pattern and the matched prototype pattern. The similarity is calculated as the weighted average of squared deviation, which is expressed as the difference between the relative values of standard normal distribution to be transformed by the observed values of quality characteristics in a sample pattern and the critical values of the corresponding ones in a matched prototype pattern.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.54-60
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• 2004

Flammable substances are frequently used chemical industry processes. An accurate knowledge of the ALTs(Autoignition Temperatures) is important in developing appropriate prevention and control measures in industrial fire protection. The AITs describe the minimum temperature to which a substance must be heated, without the application of a flame or spark, which will cause that substance to ignite. The AITs are dependent upon many factors, namely initial temperature, pressure, volume, fuel/air stoichiometry, catalyst material, concentration of vapor, ignition delay. This study measured relationship between the AITs and the ignition delay times by using ASTM E659-78 apparatus for methanol and ethanol. The A.A.P.E.(Average Absolute Percent Error) and the A.A.D.(Average Absolute Deviation) of the experimental and the calculated delay times by the AITs for methanol were 14.59 and 1.76 respectively. Also the A.A.P.E. and the A.A.D. of the experimental and the calculated delay times by the ATIs for ethanol were 8.33 and 0.88.

• International Journal of CAD/CAM
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.9-19
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• 2012

Generation of optimum planar B-spline curve in terms of minimum deviation and required fairness to approximate a target shape defined by a strip-shaped unorganized 2D point cloud is studied. It is proposed to use the location of control points as variables within the geometric optimization framework of point distance minimization. An adaptive simulated annealing heuristic optimization algorithm is developed to iteratively update an initial approximate curve towards the target shape. The new implementation comprises an adaptive cooling procedure in which the temperature change is adaptively dependent on the objective function evolution. It is shown that the proposed method results in an improved convergence speed when compared to the standard simulated annealing method. A couple of examples are included to show the applicability of the proposed method in the surface model reconstruction directly from point cloud data.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.711-717
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• 2007

Location information will become increasingly important for future Pervasive Computing applications. Location tracking system of a moving device can be classified into two types of architectures: an active mobile architecture and a passive mobile architecture. In the former, a mobile device actively transmits signals for estimating distances to listeners. In the latter, a mobile device listens signals from beacons passively. Although the passive architecture such as Cricket location system is inexpensive, easy to set up, and safe, it is less precise than the active one. In this paper, we present a passive location system using Cricket Mote sensors which use RF and ultrasonic signals to estimate distances. In order to improve accuracy of the passive system, the transmission speed of ultrasound was compensated according to air temperature at the moment. Upper and lower bounds of a distance estimation were set up through measuring minimum and maximum distances that ultrasonic signal can reach to. Distance estimations beyond the upper and the lower bounds were filtered off as errors in our scheme. With collecting distance estimation data at various locations and comparing each distance estimation with real distance respectively, we proposed an equation to compensate the deviation at each point. Equations for proposed algorithm were derived to calculate relative coordinates of a moving device. At indoor and outdoor tests, average location error and average location tracking period were 3.5 cm and 0.5 second, respectively, which outperformed Cricket location system of MIT.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.584-593
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• 2018

유도전동기를 고효율로 제어하기 위한 다양한 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 그 중에서 단위전류당 최대토크 제어기는 최소한의 고정자 전류로 원하는 토크를 제공하기 때문에 유도전동기 드라이브에서 고효율의 동작을 제공한다. 이는 유도전동기를 수학적으로 정밀하게 표현하는 대안모델을 기반으로 제어기가 설계되었기 때문이다. 그러나, 온도 변화에 따른 회전자 저항의 변이는 대안모델의 파라미터와 실제의 유도전동기의 파라미터의 불일치가 발생하여 단위전류당 최대토크 성능을 심각하게 저해하고 단위전류당 최대토크 제어 조건을 만족하지 못하게 하게 있다. 이러한 유도전동기의 운전시에 발생하는 열적 상승으로 인한 파라미터 값의 변화를 고려하는 단위전류당 최대토크적응 제어기가 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 단위전류당 최대토크적응 제어기가 다수의 운전영역에서도 최소의 고정자 전류로 원하는 토크를 성취하는지를 검토하였다. 실험을 통한 연구에서 회전자의 온도가 증가하더라도 다수의 운전영역에서 25Nm의 토크 명령에서 5%의 차이가 존재하더라도 토크 명령을 정확하게 추구하고 또한, 원하는 토크를 최소한의 고정자 전류로 얻어짐을 확인함으로써 단위전류당 최대토크적응 제어기의 우수성을 검증하였다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.22-30
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• 2008

본 논문은 헬리콥터 기동비행문제를 비선형 최적제어기법으로 정식화 하고 이를 indirect method를 적용하여 해석하는 기법에 대해 연구하였다. 주어진 기동비행 경로에 대한 오차를 벌칙함수 형태의 가격(비용, 목적)함수로 채택하고 이를 최소화하도록 정식화하면 기동비행은 구속조건이 없는 최적제어문제로 정식화 된다. 정식화 결과로 얻어지는 이점 경계값 문제는 Multiple Shooting Method (MSM)을 적용하여 해석하였다. 본 논문은 shooting node의 수와 상태변수의 초기화 방법 등이 수치해법에 주는 영향을 분석하여 수렴성 확보에 필요한 조건을 식별하고 수렴반경을 증가시킬 수 있는 방안에 초점을 두었다. 연구결과는 헬리콥터와 같이 불안정한 시스템의 최적제어 문제에 indirect method를 적용하는 경우 수치해법의 안정성과 수렴성을 확보할 수 있는 방법을 제시한다.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.346-352
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• 2017

본 연구는 사과 '후지'의 과실 횡경 예측 모델을 개발하고 검증하고자, 수원지역에서 2000년부터 2014년까지의 연차간 과실 생장과 기상을 포함한 환경요인들을 분석하였다. 2000년부터 2014년까지의 평균 만개일은 4월 28일이었고, 만개 후 수확일까지의 성숙일수는 평균 181일이었다. 만개 후 약 36일 이후부터의 과실 생장은 단일 S자 곡선이었으며, 과실 횡경에 영향을 미치는 환경요인들은 BIO2, 9월강수량, 4월 최고 최저 평균기온, 8월 최저기온, 그리고 4월의 생육도일이었다. 그 중에서, 서로 간의 요인이 교차 상관관계를 나태내지 않는 BIO2와 9월 강수량을 각각 다른 요인들과 조합하여 모델을 만들었다. 선발된 모델 중에서 AICc가 92.61이며 보정된 $R^2$ 값이 0.53으로 가장 적합도가 높았던 모델을 선택하였으며 그 최종 모델식은 19.33095+(5.76242${\times}$BIO2)-(0.01891${\times}$9월강수량)+(2.63046${\times}$4월최저온도)이었다. 이 모델을 2000년부터 2014년까지의 실측치와 비교하였는데, 사과 '후지'과실 횡경의 실측치와 예측치의 평균차이는 ${\pm}2.9mm$, 표준편차는 3.54였다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.10-18
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• 2010

To provide necessary information for future environmental monitoring of smelting and litharge making industries in Korea, environmental monitoring dataset of air lead concentration of 4 lead industries(1 primary smelting, 2 secondary smelting and 1 litharge making industry) were analyzed from 1994 to 2007. Data were compared using geometric mean and standard deviation with minimum and maximum values according to year of measurement, type of lead industries and type of operation of lead industries. The geometric mean and standard deviation of air concentration for a total of 1140 samples in all lead industries for overall 14 years were 70.7${\mu}g/m^3$ and 5.51 with minimum of 1${\mu}g/m^3$ and maximum of 9,185 ${\mu}g/m^3$. The overall geometric means of air concentration were above the permissible exposure levels(PEL) until year of 2001 and thereafter they were remained at the level of half of PEL. The geometric means of primary smelting, secondary smelting and litharge making industry for overall 14 years were 21.7${\mu}g/m^3$(number of samples: 353), 82.5${\mu}g/m^3$(number of samples: 357) and 164.2 ${\mu}g/m^3$(number of samples: 430) respectively. In primary smelting industry, the highest geometric mean air concentration was 35.4 ${\mu}g/m^3$ in the secondary smelting operation; followed by casting operation (24.9 ${\mu}g/m^3$) and melting operation (14.9 ${\mu}g/m^3$), respectively. On the other hand, in secondary smelting industries, the highest geometric mean air concentration was 125.4${\mu}g/m^3$ in melting operation; followed by casting operation (90.5${\mu}g/m^3$) and pre-treatment operation (43.4${\mu}g/m^3$), respectively. However, in litharge making industries, there were no significant differences of geometric mean air concentrations between litharge operation and stabilizer operation. The proportion of over PEL (50${\mu}g/m^3$) was highest in litharge industry and followed by secondary smelting industries. However The proportions of over PEL(${\mu}g./m^3.$) were decreased by the years of environmental monitoring. The significant reduction of mean air lead concentration since year of 2000 was observed due to more active environmental engineering control and new introduction of new operation in manufacturing process, but may be also influenced by non-engineering method such as reduction of operation hours or reduction of exposure time during actual environmental measurement by industrial hygienist according to more strict enforcement of occupational and safety law by the government.