• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.681-697
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• 2009

Limited, noisy data in vibration testing is a hindrance to the development of structural damage detection. This paper presents a method for optimizing sensor placement and performing damage detection using finite element model updating. Sensitivity analysis of the modal flexibility matrix determines the optimal sensor locations for collecting information on structural damage. The optimal sensor locations require the instrumentation of only a limited number of degrees of freedom. Using noisy modal data from only these limited sensor locations, a method based on model updating and changes in the flexibility matrix successfully determines the location and severity of the imposed damage in numerical simulations. In addition, a steel cantilever beam experiment performed in the laboratory that considered the effects of model error and noise tested the validity of the method. The results show that the proposed approach effectively and robustly detects structural damage using limited, optimal sensor information.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.311-325
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• 2008

Noting that damage occurrence of offshore jacket platforms is concentrated in two structural regions that are in the vicinity of still water surface and close to the seabed, a damage detection method by using only partial measurement of vibration in a suspect region was presented in this paper, which can not only locate damaged members but also evaluate damage severities. Then employing an experiment platform model under white-noise ground excitation by shaking table and using modal parameters of the first three modes identified by a scalar-type ARMA method on undamaged and damaged structures, the feasibility of the damage detection method was discussed. Modal parameters from eigenvalue analysis on the structural FEM model were also used to help the discussions. It is demonstrated that the damage detection algorithm is feasible on damage location and severity evaluation for broken slanted braces and it is robust against the errors of baseline FEM model to real structure when the principal errors is formed by difference of modal frequencies. It is also found that Z-value changes of modal shapes also play a role in the precise detection of damage.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.283-289
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• 2023

The apnea-hypopnea index is widely regarded as a measure of the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition characterized by recurrent episodes of apnea or hypopnea during sleep that induce airway collapse. OSA is a catastrophic problem due to the wide range of health issues it can cause, including cardiovascular disease and memory loss. This review was conducted to clarify the roles of various imaging modalities, particularly cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), in the diagnosis of and preoperative planning for OSA. Unfortunately, 2-dimensional imaging techniques yield insufficient data for a comprehensive diagnosis, given the complex anatomy of the airway. Three-dimensional (3D) imaging is favored as it more accurately represents the patient's airway structure. Although computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging can depict the actual 3D airway architecture, their use is limited by factors such as high radiation dose and noise associated with the scans. This review indicates that CBCT is a low-radiation imaging technique that can be used to incidentally identify patients with OSA, thereby facilitating early referral and ultimately enhancing the accuracy of surgical outcome predictions.

• Korean Journal of Radiology
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.1018-1023
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• 2020

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has reached global pandemic status as announced by the World Health Organization, which currently recommends reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) as the standard diagnostic tool. However, although the RT-PCR test results may be found negative, there are cases that are found positive for COVID-19 pneumonia on computed tomography (CT) scan. CT is also useful in assessing the severity of COVID-19 pneumonia. When clinicians desire a CT scan of a patient with COVID-19 to monitor treatment response, a safe method for patient transport is necessary. To address the engagement of medical resources necessary to transport a patient with COVID-19, our institution has implemented the use of mobile CT. Therefore, we report two cases of COVID-19 pneumonia evaluated by using mobile cone-beam CT. Although mobile cone-beam CT had some limitations regarding its image quality such as scatter noise, motion and streak artifacts, and limited field of view compared with conventional multi-detector CT, both cases had acceptable image quality to establish the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia. We report the usefulness of mobile cone-beam CT in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.

• 항공우주정책ㆍ법학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.211-253
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• 2005

최근 경기도 화성군 매향리사격장과 김포공항 인근의 주민들이 제기한 소음피해에 대한 위자료청구소송에서 대법원은 각각 원고 승소 판결을 내렸다. 오랜 기간 공항과 군용사격장 인근에 거주하면서 소음피해로 고동을 입은 주민들에 대하여 처음으로 법적인 구제를 하였다는 점에서 큰 의미를 찾을 수 있다. 위 두 판결에서 대법원은 원고의 입증책임을 가볍게 하였다. 대법원의 이러한 판결 내용은 전국 각지의 군용비행장과 공항 인근 주민들에게 큰 영향을 미쳐 이미 많은 이들이 유사한 소송을 제기하였거나 준비 중에 있다. 매향리사격장사건과 김포공항사건에서 법원은 과실 책임의 법리를 적용하여 사격장과 공항의 설치관리자인 국가가 소음방지시설의 설치의무 또는 위험방지의무를 충실히 수행하지 아니하였으므로 과실 또는 영조물의 설치관리상의 하자가 있음을 인정하고 이로 인해 발생한 소음에 의해 정신적 고통 및 생활방해가 있었다는 인과관계의 입증아래 가해행위의 위법성을 인정하여 피고의 배상책임을 인정할 수도 있었다. 그러나 매향리사격장사건과 김포공항사건에서 법원은 수인한도론을 영조물의 설치관리상의 하자유무를 판단하는데 활용하였고 위법성여부의 판단에마저 사용함으로써 선수인한도론을 채용한 것으로 보인다. 선수인한도론은 무과실책임의 법리를 마찬가지의 효과를 갖는 것으로써 과실 책임의 법리를 일반원칙으로 하고 무과실책임을 특수입법이 존재하는 경우에 예외적으로 인정하는 우리 민법의 일반원리에 부합하지 않는다. 환경침해의 경우 피해자구제의 필요성이 강조된다고는 하나 법관에 의한 법의 자의적인 변경까지 허용될 수는 없는 것이다. 이번 판결에서 법원은 소음피해자들의 피해를 구제하여 구체적 타당성 있는 판결을 내렸다고 자부할 수는 있으나 결론을 도출하는데 사용한 법리가 지나치게 넓어 결과적으로 당해 판결은 사회적으로 타당하지 못한 판결이 될 기능성이 높아졌다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.427-440
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• 2017

One of the suitable structural damage detection methods using vibrational characteristics are damage-index-based methods. In this study, a damage index for identifying damages in plate structures using frequency response function (FRF) data has been provided. One of the significant challenges of identifying the damages in plate structures is high number of degrees of freedom resulting in decreased damage identifying accuracy. On the other hand, FRF data are of high volume and this dramatically decreases the computing speed and increases the memory necessary to store the data, which makes the use of this method difficult. In this study, FRF data are compressed using two-dimensional principal component analysis (2D-PCA), and then converted into damage index vectors. The damage indices, each of which represents a specific condition of intact or damaged structures are stored in a database. After computing damage index of structure with unknown damage and using algorithm of lookup tables, the structural damage including the severity and location of the damage will be identified. In this study, damage detection accuracy using the proposed damage index in square-shaped structural plates with dimensions of 3, 7 and 10 meters and with boundary conditions of four simply supported edges (4S), three clamped edges (3C), and four clamped edges (4C) under various single and multiple-element damage scenarios have been studied. Furthermore, in order to model uncertainties of measurement, insensitivity of this method to noises in the data measured by applying values of 5, 10, 15 and 20 percent of normal Gaussian noise to FRF values is discussed.

• 한국보건간호학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.121-130
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• 1997

The community health nursing process is essential in providing community health nursing service to the community. It helps to identify community health problems. to prioritize problems, to provide service. and to evaluate service results. However. it is very rare to find a study which applies the community health nursing process. This study intended to apply the community health nursing process to a urban community. The focus of the study was a community consisting of 533 families in a region of Seoul. The study process was as follows: 1) The data was collected by conducting interviews with community leaders and by collecting surveys from the people of the community. 2) The data was summarized and analyzed. 3) The community nursing diagnosis was identified. 4) The nursing diagnosis was prioritized. 5) The general and specific objectives for service were identified. 6) A specific nursing plan was set up. 7) A detailed evaluation plan was established. Four community nursing diagnoses were identified from the community. 1) The utilization rate of health center was found to be low due to lack of knowledge about the health center and low accessibility. 2) High trafic accident rate due to narrow roads. 3) High prevalence of chronic disease due to inappropriate health behavior. 4) High noise level and foul smell due to inappropriate waste management. Among the four community nursing diagnoses. 'High prevalence of chronic diseases was identified as a priority community nursing problem. The criteria for prioritizing community nursing problems were as follows: number of people involved, fragility of clients. severity of the problem. availability. of resources. concern of the people. readiness of nurses. relevance to the national policy. This study describes the general and specific objectives to solve the high prevalence of chronic health problems. nursing plans. and an evaluation plan.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제54권1호
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• pp.105-119
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• 2015

Structural damage detection using modal strain energy (MSE) is one of the most efficient and reliable structural health monitoring techniques. However, some of the existing MSE methods have been validated for special types of structures such as beams or steel truss bridges which demands improving the available methods. The purpose of this study is to improve an efficient modal strain energy method to detect and quantify the damage in complex structures at early stage of formation. In this paper, a modal strain energy method was mathematically developed and then numerically applied to a fixed-end beam and a three-story frame including single and multiple damage scenarios in absence and presence of up to five per cent noise. For each damage scenario, all mode shapes and natural frequencies of intact structures and the first five mode shapes of assumed damaged structures were obtained using STRAND7. The derived mode shapes of each intact and damaged structure at any damage scenario were then separately used in the improved formulation using MATLAB to detect the location and quantify the severity of damage as compared to those obtained from previous method. It was found that the improved method is more accurate, efficient and convergent than its predecessors. The outcomes of this study can be safely and inexpensively used for structural health monitoring to minimize the loss of lives and property by identifying the unforeseen structural damages.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.605-628
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• 2008

In bridge structures, damage may induce an additional deflection which may naturally contain essential information about the damage. However, inverse mapping from the damage-induced deflection to the actual damage location and severity is generally complex, particularly for statically indeterminate systems. In this paper, a new load concept, called the positive-bending-inspection-load (PBIL) is proposed to construct a simple inverse mapping from the damage-induced deflection to the actual damage location. A PBIL for an inspection region is defined as a load or a system of loads which guarantees the bending moment to be positive in the inspection region. From the theoretical investigations, it was proven that the damage-induced chord-wise deflection (DI-CD) has the maximum value with the abrupt change in its slope at the damage location under a PBIL. Hence, a novel damage localization method is proposed based on the DI-CD under a PBIL. The procedure may be summarized as: (1) identification of the modal flexibility matrices from acceleration measurements, (2) design for a PBIL for an inspection region of interest in a structure, (3) calculation of the chord-wise deflections for the PBIL using the modal flexibility matrices, and (4) damage localization by finding the location with the maximum DI-CD with the abrupt change in its slope within the inspection region. Procedures from (2)-(4) can be repeated for several inspection regions to cover the whole structure complementarily. Numerical verification studies were carried out on a simply supported beam and a three-span continuous beam model. Experimental verification study was also carried out on a two-span continuous beam structure with a steel box-girder. It was found that the proposed method can identify the damage existence and damage location for small damage cases with narrow cuts at the bottom flange.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.821-827
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• 2015

태양 흑점 폭발로 인해 방출되는 전자파는 지구상 낮 지역의 전파 통신에 장애를 일으킨다. 전세계에서 사용하는 태양 흑점 폭발 경보의 등급은 Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite의 X선 세기에 따라 분류되고, 통신 장애를 판단한다. 하지만 태양과 직하점이 지구 자전에 따라 변하기 때문에 동일한 경보라도 통신 장애 영향은 같지 않다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 단파 통신을 전파 스펙트럼으로 수신하고, 통신 두절 여부를 모니터링하는 시스템을 개발하였다. 이 시스템은 단파 스펙트럼을 실시간 측정한 후 매분마다 자동으로 신호대 잡음비를 산출하고, ITU 권고의 간섭기준에 비교하여 통신 두절 시간을 산출한다.