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Validation of time domain seakeeping codes for a destroyer hull form operating in steep stern-quartering seas

  • Van Walree, Frans;Carette, Nicolas F.A.J.
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.9-19
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    • 2011
  • The paper describes the validation of two time domain methods to simulate the behaviour of a destroyer operating in steep, stern-quartering seas. The significance of deck-edge immersion and water on deck on the capsize risk is shown as well as the necessity to account for the wave disturbances caused by the ship. A method is described to reconstruct experimental wave trains and finally two deterministic validation cases are shown.

Design of Soundproof Facilities for the Test Track (경부고속철도 시험선구간의 방음시설 설계현황)

  • ;;;J.P. Clairbois;D. Gardin
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.361-368
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    • 1998
  • This paper sums up the study of the soundproof facilities to be placed on the test track section within the Seoul-Pusan H.S.T project. The objective of this study is to determine optimum design of soundproof including height, length, location, sound absorbing materials for test track(chonan-taejon). This paper shows the model to design the shape and materials of noise barrier for high speed trains(TGV, ICE, etc). Noise prediction is to be conducted by MITHRA. Various parameters affecting the noise propagation outdoors are surveyed and discussed in relation to H.S.T. noise.

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Are Flywheels Right for Rail?

  • Read, M.G.;Smith, R.A.;Pullen, K.R.
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.139-146
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    • 2009
  • Vehicle braking in non-electrified rail systems wastes energy. Advanced flywheel technology presents a way to capture and reuse this braking energy to improve vehicle efficiency and so reduce the operating costs and environmental impact of diesel trains. This paper highlights the suitability of flywheels for rail vehicle applications, and proposes a novel mechanical transmission system to apply regenerative braking using a flywheel energy storage device. A computational model is used to illustrate the operation and potential benefits of the energy storage system.

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Investigation of Characteristics of Rip Current at Haeundae Beach based on Observation Analysis and Numerical Experiments (관측자료 분석과 수치모의에 의한 해운대 이안류 발생 특성 연구)

  • Yoon, Sung Bum;Kwon, Seok Jae;Bae, Jae Soek;Choi, Junwoo
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.32 no.4B
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    • pp.243-251
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    • 2012
  • To investigate the characteristics of rip current occurring at Haeundae beach, observations obtained from a buoy and a CCTV were analyzed and numerical experiments were conducted. During observed rip-current events, the CCTV images showed that a couple of wave-trains, which are close to regular waves with slightly different directions, propagated to the beach, and wavelet analyses of data from the buoy showed very narrow-banded spectra with a peak frequency. From the evidences, it was inferred that a known mechanism of generating rip current due to the nodal line area of honeycomb-patterned wave crest was one of the significant factors of rip current occurrences of Haeundae beach. The mechanism has been explained by the following: When two wave-trains with slightly different directions propagate to a beach, wave crests of the incident wave-trains form honeycomb pattern due to nonlinear interaction. The nodal lines of honeycomb pattern are developed in the cross-shore direction. And longshore currents flow toward the nodal line area which has very low wave energy. Consequently their mass flux is expelled through the area toward the sea direction. To confirm the generation, numerical experiments were performed using a nonlinear Boussinesq equation model. In the cases with two incident wave-trains with slightly different directions and with a monochromatic wave propagating over a submerged shoal, it was seen that the honeycomb pattern of wave crests was well developed, and thus rip currents were evolved along the nodal lines.

Improved Algorithm for Fully-automated Neural Spike Sorting based on Projection Pursuit and Gaussian Mixture Model

  • Kim, Kyung-Hwan
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.4 no.6
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    • pp.705-713
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    • 2006
  • For the analysis of multiunit extracellular neural signals as multiple spike trains, neural spike sorting is essential. Existing algorithms for the spike sorting have been unsatisfactory when the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) is low, especially for implementation of fully-automated systems. We present a novel method that shows satisfactory performance even under low SNR, and compare its performance with a recent method based on principal component analysis(PCA) and fuzzy c-means(FCM) clustering algorithm. Our system consists of a spike detector that shows high performance under low SNR, a feature extractor that utilizes projection pursuit based on negentropy maximization, and an unsupervised classifier based on Gaussian mixture model. It is shown that the proposed feature extractor gives better performance compared to the PCA, and the proposed combination of spike detector, feature extraction, and unsupervised classification yields much better performance than the PCA-FCM, in that the realization of fully-automated unsupervised spike sorting becomes more feasible.

The Study on the Optimum Design of Acoustic Interference Model by Genetic Algorithm (유전자 알고리즘을 이용한 음향 간섭 모델 최적화 설계)

  • Lee, Jae-Hwan;Jang, Kang-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.18-23
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    • 2003
  • The Objective of this research is to find the optimal design of the Noise Reduction Interference Model (NRIM) which is recently invented. Without optimization, the NRIM has been successful to reduce the urban noise induced by trains and automobiles. While it is used with the barrier on the road, there is a strong desire to reduce noise more. Yet the only remedy is to make the barrier higher with cost increase. Therefore, the optimal design is necessary to reduce noise while maintaining the barrier height. More efficient Genetic Algorithm is used to find the optimal shape of NRIM with the reduction of noise lever up to 15 dB. also BEM is used to verify the optimal design results.

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Torsional Vibration Analysis of a Spur Gear Pair with the Variable Mesh Stiffness (기어이의 변동물림강성을 고려한 비틀림진동해석)

  • Ryu, Jae-Wan;Han, Dong-Chul;Choi, Sang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.99-108
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    • 1999
  • A four-degree-of-freedom non-linear model with time varying mesh stiffness has been developed for the dynamic analysis of spur gear trains. The model includes a spur gear pair, two shafts, two inertias representing load and prime mover. In the model, developed several factors such as time varying mesh stiffness and damping, separation of teeth, teeth collision, various gear errors and profile modifications have been considered. Two computer programs are developed to calculate stiffness of a gear pair and transmission error and the dynamic analysis of modeled system using time integration method. Dynamic tooth and mesh forces, dynamic factors are calculated. Numerical examples have been given, which shows the time varying mesh stiffness ha a significant effect upon the dynamic tooth force and torsional vibrations.

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Feature Extraction on a Periocular Region and Person Authentication Using a ResNet Model (ResNet 모델을 이용한 눈 주변 영역의 특징 추출 및 개인 인증)

  • Kim, Min-Ki
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.22 no.12
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    • pp.1347-1355
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    • 2019
  • Deep learning approach based on convolution neural network (CNN) has extensively studied in the field of computer vision. However, periocular feature extraction using CNN was not well studied because it is practically impossible to collect large volume of biometric data. This study uses the ResNet model which was trained with the ImageNet dataset. To overcome the problem of insufficient training data, we focused on the training of multi-layer perception (MLP) having simple structure rather than training the CNN having complex structure. It first extracts features using the pretrained ResNet model and reduces the feature dimension by principle component analysis (PCA), then trains a MLP classifier. Experimental results with the public periocular dataset UBIPr show that the proposed method is effective in person authentication using periocular region. Especially it has the advantage which can be directly applied for other biometric traits.

Dynamic Wheel/Rail Contact Force due to Rail Irregularities (레일의 상하방향 불규칙성에 의한 차륜과 레일의 동 접촉력)

  • 이현엽
    • Journal of KSNVE
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.616-622
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    • 1998
  • An analytical method has been developed to estimate the dynamic contact force between wheel and rail when trains are running on rail with vertical irregularities. In this method, the effect of Hertzian deformation at the contact point is considered as a linearized spring and the wheel is considered as an sprung mass. The rail is modelled as a discretely-supported Timoshenko beam, and the periodic structure theory was adopted to obtain the driving-point receptance. As an example, the dynamic contact force for a typical wheel/rail system was analysed by the method developed in this research and the dynamic characteristics of the system was also discussed. It is revealed that discretely-supported Timoshenko beam model should be used instead of the previously used continuously-supported model or discretelysupported Euler beam model, for the frequency range above several hundred hertz.

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Harmonic Analysis Model based on PSCAD/EMTDC

  • Lee, Han-Min;Lee, Chang-Mu;Jang, Gil-Soo;Kwon, Sae-Hyuk
    • KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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    • v.4A no.3
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents the model for an AC electric railway system using the PSCAD/EMTDC program. It is composed of a scott-transformer, an auto-transformer, catenary and electric trains, etc. After obtaining the models of the fundamental elements describing the AC electric railway system and its behavior, we have analyzed and tested an actual AC electric railway system focused on the amplification of harmonic current to verify the proposed model. The simulation results from the proposed approach and the measurement data from the test are described.