• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.37-45
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• 2006

The viscoelastic properties of blends of melamine-formaldehyde (MF) resin and poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) for engineered flooring used on the Korean traditional ONDOL house floor heating system were investigated by dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA). Because MF resin is a thermosetting adhesive, the effect of MF rein was shown across all thermal behaviors. The addition of PVAc reduced the curing temperature. The DMTA thermogram of MF resin showed that the storage modulus (E') increased as the temperature was further increased as a result of the cross-linking induced by the curing reaction of the resin. The storage modulus (E') of MF resin increased both as a function of increasing temperature and with increasing heating rate. From isothermal DMTA results, peak $T_{tan{\delta}}$ values, maximum value of loss modulus (E") and the rigidities (${\Delta}E$) of MF/PVAc blends at room temperature as a function of open time, peak $T_{tan{\delta}}$ and maximum loss modulus (E") values were found to increase with blend MF content. Moreover, the rigidities of the 70:30 and 50:50 MF/PVAc blends were higher than those of the other blends, especially of 100% PVAc or MF. We concluded that blends the MF/PVAc blend ratios correlate during the adhesion process.

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.17-26
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• 2004

We examine rigorous computations on microstructural as well as rheological properties of concentrated dispersions of bidisperse colloids. The NVT Monte Carlo simulation is applied to obtain the radial distribution function for the concentrated system. The long-range electrostatic interactions between dissimilar spherical colloids are determined using the singularity method, which provides explicit solutions to the linearized electrostatic field. The increasing trend of osmotic pressure with increasing total particle concentration is reduced as the concentration ratio between large and small particles is increased. From the estimation of total structure factor, we observe the strong correlations developed between dissimilar spheres. As the particle concentration increases at a given ionic strength, the magnitude of the first peak in structure factors increases and also moves to higher wave number values. The increase of electrostatic interaction between same charged particles caused by the Debye screening effect provides an increase in both the osmotic pressure and the shear modulus. The higher volume fraction ratio providing larger interparticle spacing yields decreasing high frequency limit of the shear modulus, due to decreasing the particle interaction energy.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.325-343
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• 2016

A total stress-based bounding surface model is developed to predict the undrained behaviour of saturated soft clays under cyclic loads based on the anisotropic hardening modulus field and bounding-surface theories. A new hardening rule is developed based on a new interpolation function of the hardening modulus that has simple mathematic expression and fewer model parameters. The evolution of hardening modulus field is described in the deviatoric stress space. It is assumed that the stress reverse points are the mapping centre points and the mapping centre moves with the variation of loading and unloading paths to describe the cyclic stress-strain hysteresis curve. In addition, by introducing a model parameter that reflects the accumulation rate and level of shear strain to the interpolation function, the cyclic shakedown and failure behaviour of soil elements with different combinations of initial and cyclic stresses can be captured. The methods to determine the model parameters using cyclic triaxial compression tests are also studied. Finally, the cyclic triaxial extension and torsional shear tests are performed. By comparing the predictions with the test results, the model can be used to describe undrained cyclic stress-strain responses of elements with different stress states for the tested clays.

• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2003

In discontinuous composite mechanics, shear lag theory is one of the most popular model because of its simplicity and accuracy. However, it does not provide sufficiently accurate strengthening predictions in elastic regime then the fiber aspect ratio is small. This is due to its neglect of stress transfer across the fiber ends and the stress concentrations that exist in the matrix regions near the fiber ends. To overcome this shortcoming, a more simplified shear lag model introducing the stress concentration factor which is a function of several variables, such as the modulus ratio, the fiber volume fraction, the fiber aspect ratio, is proposed. It is found that the modulus ratio($E_f$/$E_m$) is the essential variable among them. Thus, the stress concentration factor is expressed as a function of modulus ratio in the derivation. It is found that the proposed model gives a good agreement with finite element results and has the capability to correctly predict the values of interfacial shear stresses and local stress variations in the small fiber aspect ratio regime.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2009

이 논문에서는 오차 확률 밀도와 델타 함수 사이의 유클리드 거리를 최소화하는 기준을 소개하고 이 기준에 근거한 새로운 CMA 형태의 블라인드 등화 알고리듬을 제안하고 있다. 제안한 기준에 나타나는 오차 항 대신에 constant modulus error를 대치하여 블라인드 알고리듬을 완성하였고 이 알고리듬은 블라인드 등화 환경에서 탁월한 수렴성능과 정상상태의 자승평균오차 성능 특성을 보였으며, 오차 신호 값이 0 값에 보다 집중된 밀도함수 형태를 나타냈다. 시뮬레이션 결과로부터, 이 제안된 방식은 멀티 포인트 통신에서 블라인드 등화를 위한 신뢰성 있는 알고리듬으로 사용될 수 있음을 보이고 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.525-537
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• 2016

Data hiding is a wide field that is helpful to secure network communications. It is common that many data hiding researchers consider improving and increasing many aspects such as capacity, stego file quality, or robustness. In this paper, we use an audio file as a cover and propose a reversible steganographic method that is modifying the sample values using modulus function in order to make the reminder of that particular value to be same as the secret bit that is needed to be embedded. In addition, we use a location map that locates these modified sample values. This is because in reversible data hiding it needs to exactly recover both the secret message and the original audio file from that stego file. The experimental results show that, this method (measured by correlation algorithm) is able to retrieve exactly the same secret message and audio file. Moreover, it has made a significant improvement in terms of the following: the capacity since each sample value is carrying a secret bit. The quality measured by peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC), and Similarity Index Modulation (SIM). All of them have proven that the quality of the stego audio is relatively high.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2019

본 논문은 QAM 신호의 전송시 비선형 통신 채널에서 발생되는 부호간 간섭을 최소화시켜 Qos를 개선할 수 있는 블라인드 등화 알고리즘인 CM-MMA (Constellation Matching-MMA)와 RMMA (Region-based MMA)의 성능 비교에 관한 것이다. 적응을 위한 탭 계수 갱신에서 CM-MMA는 기존 MMA 비용 함수에 sinusoidal power function의 constellation matching error 항을 부가되어 nonconstant modulus 신호의 오차를 이용하며, RMMA는 nonconstant modulus 등화기 출력 constellation을 4-QAM의 constant modulus 신호로 변환한 후 오차를 이용하게 된다. 이와 같은 오차 신호에 의해 이들은 상이한 적응 성능을 가지므로, 논문에서는 이들 알고리즘의 적응 등화 성능을 비교하며 이를 위하여 등화기 출력 성상도, 잔류 isi, 최대 찌그러짐과 SER을 적용하였다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과 RMMA가 CM-MMA 보다 수렴 속도, 잔여량 및 잡음 강인성의 모든 성능에서 우월함을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.2770-2781
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• 1996

Longitudinal shear modulus of continuous fiber reinforced 2-phase composites is predicted by theoretical and numerical analysis methods. In this paper, circular, hexagonal and rectangular shapes of reinforced fiber are considered using unit cell concept. And fiber array is regular rectangular and hexagonal fiber arrangement. Longitudinal shear modulus is a function of fiber distribution pattern and fiber volume change. It is found that the rectangular array has a higher longitudinal shear modulus than the hexagonal one. Also, the rectangular fiber shape in lower fiber volume fraction and the circular fiber shape in higher fiber volume fraction show the higher longitudinal shear modulus. And it has been found that the theoretical and numerical predictions of the longitudinal shear modulus give a good agreement with the experimental data at lower fiber volume fraction. Both the distance and stress transfer between the fibers are discussed as the major determing factors.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2009년도 세계 도시지반공학 심포지엄
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• pp.933-943
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• 2009

Axial loads and shaft resistances can be calculated by load transfer analysis using strain data with load level. In load transfer analysis, the elastic modulus of concrete is a one of the most important parameters to consider. The elastic modulus, $E_{50}$, suggested by ACI (American Concrete Institute), has been commonly used. However, elastic modulus of concrete shows nonlinear stress-strain characteristic, so nonlinearity should be considered in load transfer analysis. In this paper, a load transfer analysis was performed by using data obtained from bi-directional pile load tests for four cases of drilled shafts. For consideration of nonlinearity, elastic modulus was calculated by both the Fellenius method and the nonlinear method, assuming the stress-strain relation of concrete to be a quadratic function, and then, the calculated elastic modulus was applied to the estimation of shaft resistance. The calculated shaft resistances were compared with the result obtained using the constant elastic modulus of ACI code. It was found that the f-w curves are similar to each method, and elastic modulus and shaft resistances decreased as strain increased. Moreover, shaft resistances estimated from elastic modulus considering nonlinearity were 5~15% different than those obtained using the constant elastic modulus.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.701-712
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• 2009

In this paper, we study the simultaneous approximation to functions in $C^m$[0, 1] by neural networks with a squashing function and the complexity related to the simultaneous approximation using a Bernstein polynomial and the modulus of continuity. Our proofs are constructive.