• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.1439-1447
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• 2023

The fuel cycle characteristics of the IVG.1M reactor were studied within the framework of the research reactor conversion program to modernize the IVG.1M reactor. Optimum use of the nuclear fuel and reactor was achieved through routine methods which included partial fuel reloading combined with scheduled maintenance operations. Since, the additional problem in planning the fuel cycle of the IVG.1M reactor was the poisoning of the beryllium parts of the core, reflector, and control system. An assessment of the residual power and composition of spent fuel is necessary for the selection and justification of the technology for its subsequent management. Computational studies were performed using the MCNP6.1 program and the neutronics model of the IVG.1M reactor. The proposed scheme of annual partial fuel reloading allows for maintaining a high reactor reactivity margin, stabilizing it within 2-4 β_eff for 20 years, and achieving a burnup of 9.9-10.8 MW × day/kg U in the steady state mode of fuel reloading. Spent fuel immediately after unloading from the reactor can be placed in a transport packaging cask for shipping or safely stored in dry storage at the research reactor site.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.376-384
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• 2023

Purpose: The Armed Forces Trauma Center of Korea was established in April 2022. This study was conducted to report our 1-year experience of treating soldiers with open fractures of the lower extremity. Methods: In this case series, we reviewed the medical records of 51 Korean soldiers with open fractures of the lower extremity between April 2022 and March 2023 at a trauma center. We analyzed patients with Gustilo-Anderson type II and III fractures and reported the duration of transportation, injury mechanisms, injured sites, and associated injuries. We also presented laboratory findings, surgery types, intensive care unit stays, hospital stays, rehabilitation results, and reasons for psychiatric consultation. Additionally, we described patients' mode of transport. Results: This study enrolled nine male patients who were between 21 and 26 years old. Six patients had type II and three had type III fractures. Transport from the accident scene to the emergency room ranged from 75 to 455 minutes, and from the emergency room to the operating room ranged from 35 to 200 minutes. Injury mechanisms included gunshot wounds, landmine explosions, grenade explosions, and entrapment by ship mooring ropes. One case had serious associated injuries (inhalation burn, open facial bone fractures, and hemopneumothorax). No cases with serious blood loss or coagulopathies were found, but most cases had a significant elevation of creatinine kinase. Two patients underwent vascular reconstruction, whereas four patients received flap surgery. After rehabilitation, six patients could walk, one patient could move their joints actively, and two patients performed active assistive movement. Eight patients were referred to the psychiatry department due to suicidal attempts and posttraumatic stress disorder. Conclusions: This study provides insights into how to improve treatment for patients with military trauma, as well as medical services such as the transport system, by revising treatment protocols and systematizing treatment.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.885-894
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• 2023

Setting RAM target value for a defense system plays a crucial role in the development and design phases and the production phase as well. It is apparent that the achieved RAM target value can help maximizing the combat capability of a defense system and improving its performance throughout the system's life cycle from acquisition phase to disposal. Usually a defense system operates according to its OMS/MP (Operational Mode Summary / Mission Profile) and it consists of several subsystems which are supposed to be operated at each utilization rate under its operating conditions and the mission profiles assigned. In this study, a method of setting RAM target value is proposed for a defense system that are composed of several independent subsystems considering their utilization rates and the mission profiles assigned. And the case study of applying the proposed method of setting RAM target value to system A is dealt with.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.200-206
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• 2024

Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique has been used for the elemental composition of the soils. In this technique, a high energy laser pulse is focused on a sample to produce plasma. From the spectroscopic analysis of such plasma plume, we have determined the different elements present in the soil. This technique is effective and rapid for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of all type of samples. In this work a Q-switched Nd: YAG laser operating with its fundamental mode (1064 nm laser wavelength), 5 nanosecond pulse width, and 10 Hz repetition rate was focused on soil samples using 10 cm quartz lens. The emission spectra of soil consist of Iron (Fe), Calcium (Ca), Titanium (Ti), Silicon (Si), Aluminum (Al), Magnesium (Mg), Manganese (Mn), Potassium (K), Nickel (Ni), Chromium (Cr), Copper (Cu), Mercury (Hg), Barium (Ba), Vanadium (V), Lead (Pb), Nitrogen (N), Scandium (Sc), Hydrogen (H), Strontium (Sr), and Lithium (Li) with different finger-prints of the transition lines. The maximum intensity of the transition lines was observed close to the surface of the sample and it was decreased along the axial direction of the plasma expansion due to the thermalization and the recombination process. We have also determined the plasma parameters such as electron temperature and the electron number density of the plasma using Boltzmann's plot method as well as the Stark broadening of the transition lines respectively. The electron temperature is estimated at 14611 °K, whereas the electron number density i.e. 4.1 × 10¹⁶ cm^-3 lies close to the surface.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.139-145
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• 2024

Purpose: This study examined the influence of a metal artifact reduction (MAR) tool, sharpening filters, and their combination on the diagnosis of vertical root fracture (VRF) in teeth with metallic posts using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). Materials and Methods: Twenty single-rooted human premolars - 9 with VRF and 11 without - were individually placed in a human mandible. A metallic post composed of a cobalt-chromium alloy was inserted into the root canal of each tooth. CBCT scans were then acquired under the following parameters: 8 mA, a 5×5 cm field of view, a voxel size of 0.085 mm, 90 kVp, and with MAR either enabled or disabled. Five oral and maxillofacial radiologists independently evaluated the CBCT exams under each MAR mode and across 3 sharpening filter conditions: no filter, Sharpen 1×, and Sharpen 2×. The diagnostic performance was quantified by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), sensitivity, and specificity. These metrics were compared using 2-way analysis of variance with a significance level of α=5%. Intra- and inter-examiner agreement were assessed using the weighted kappa test. Results: Neither MAR nor the application of sharpening filters significantly impacted AUC or specificity (P>0.05). However, sensitivity increased when MAR was combined with Sharpen 1× and Sharpen 2× (P=0.015). The intra-examiner agreement ranged from fair to substantial (0.34-0.66), while the inter-examiner agreement ranged from fair to moderate (0.27-0.41). Conclusion: MAR in conjunction with sharpening filters improved VRF detection; therefore, their combined use is recommended in cases of suspected VRF.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.677-684
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• 2024

본 논문에서는 태양광 시스템 적용을 위한 PWM 제어 기반의 승압형 DC-DC 컨버터 설계 방법을 연구하였다. 스위칭 모드 방식의 승압형 DC-DC 컨버터의 동작원리를 분석하였으며 기본적인 설계 방법을 연구하였다. 태양광 시스템 적용을 위해 가변 입력 조건 하에서 컨버터의 출력 전압이 목표 전압을 추종할 수 있도록 PWM 제어를 기반으로 하는 출력 전압 궤환 제어 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 제안된 알고리즘의 유효성을 검증하기 위한 절차로서 입력 전압 DC 10V를 DC 30V로 승압하여 출력하는 하나의 궤환 출력 전압을 가지는 승압형 DC-DC 컨버터의 시작품을 설계, 제작하였다. 성능 평가 시험에서 오실로스코프와 LCD의 출력전압이 기준 전압에 대한 1[%] 이내의 오차율을 보임으로써 목표 출력전압을 정확하게 추종함을 확인하였다.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.451-464
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• 2022

고준위방사성폐기물 처분장은 심지층 처분시스템으로 사용후핵연료를 취급하는 특성상 고온, 방사선 및 지하수 등의 복합적인 환경조건에 노출되어 있다. 지속적인 노출에 의해 시간이 지남에 따라 구조물의 균열 및 열화가 발생할 수 있다. 한편 고준위방사성폐기물 처분장은 초장기 기대수명이 요구되며 이에 따른 장기적인 구조물 건전성 모니터링이 필수적이다. 구조물 건전성 모니터링에는 가속도계, 토압계, 변위계 등 다양한 센서들이 활용될 수 있으며, 이 중 일반적으로 피에조센서가 사용된다. 따라서 피에조센서의 내구성 평가를 바탕으로 고내구성 센서를 개발할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 피에조센서의 내구성 평가 및 수명예측을 위한 가속수명시험을 설계하였다. 문헌연구를 바탕으로 단일 스트레스 인자에 대한 가속 스트레스 수준 수 및 각 수준 별 시료 수를 선정하였다. 또한 고준위방사성폐기물 처분장 환경조건에서 발생할 수 있는 피에조센서의 고장모드 및 고장메커니즘을 분석하였다. 온도 스트레스 인자에 대한 최대 가혹조건 탐색 실험을 두 가지 방법으로 제안하였으며 피에조센서의 신뢰도 높은 동작한계를 도출하였다. 이를 이용하여 가속수명시험의 합리적인 가속 스트레스 수준을 설정하였다. 본 연구에서 제시된 최대 가혹조건 탐색 실험방법은 경제적이며 실용적인 아이디어를 담고 있으며, 추후 피에조센서의 가속수명시험 설계에 널리 활용될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 지역연구
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.65-78
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• 1993

In this study, the significant and enduring concentration of federal R&D spending in metro-scale clusters across the nation is treated as evidence of the operation of a distinct industrial infrastructure defined by the ability of R&D performers to attract external funding and pursue the sophisticated project work demanded. It follows, then, that the agglomerative potential of these R&D concentrations -- performers and their support infrastructures -- requires a search for economic impacts guided by a different stimulative effects attributable to federal R&D spending may be that substantial subnational economic impacts are routinely obscured and diluted by research designs that seek to discover impacts either at the level of nation-scale economic aggregates or on firms or specific industries organized spatially. Therefore, this study proceeds by seeking to link the locational clustering of federal contract R&D spending to more localized economic impacts. It tests a series of models(X-IV) designed to trace federal contract R&D spending flows to economic impacts registered at the level of metro-regional economies. By shifting the focus from funding sources to recipient types and then to sector-specific impacts, the patterns of consistent results become increasingly compelling. In general, these results indicated that federal R&D spending does indeed nurture the development of an important nation-spanning advanced industrial production and R&D infrastructure anchored primarily by two dozed or so metro-regions. However, dominated as it is by a strong defense-industrial orientation, federal contract R&D spending would appear to constitute a relatively inefficient national economic development policy, at least as registered on conventional indicators. Federal contract R&D destined for the support of nondefense/civilian(Model I), nonprofit(Model II), and educational/research(Mode III) R&D agendas is associated with substantially greater regional employment and income impacts than is R&D funding disbursed by the Department of Defense. While federal R&D support from DOD(Model I) and for-profit(Model II) and industrial performer(Model III) contract R&D agendas are associated with positive regional economic impacts, they are substantially smaller than those associated with performers operating outside the defense industrial base. Moreover, evidence that the large-business sector mediates a small business sector(Model VI) justifies closer scrutiny of the relative contribution to economic growth and development made by these two sectors, as well as of the primacy typically accorded employment change as a conventional economic performance indicator. Ultimately, those regions receiving federal R&D spending have experienced measurable employment and income gains as a result. However, whether or not those gains could be improved by changing the composition -- and therefore the primary missions -- of federal R&D spending cannot be decided by merely citing evidence of its economic impacts of the kind reported here. Rather, that decision turns on a prior public choice relating to the trade-offs deemed acceptable between conventional employment and income gains, the strength of a nation's industrial base not reflected in such indicators, and the reigning conception of what constitutes national security -- military might or a competitive civilian economy.

• 멤브레인
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.39-46
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• 2000

분리막 접촉기를 통한 이산화탄소의 흡수거동 예측을 위한 공정모사를 위해 시스템의 흡수제로 탄산칼륨 수용액을 선정하였고, 시스템에서의 이산화탄소와 관련된 가역반응을 고려하였으며, 사용된 반응속도상수, 평형상수, 용해도 그리고 확산계수는 탄산이온의 농도와 온도의 함수로 사용하였다. 또한 분리막 접촉기 공정모사를 위한 조작 조건으로 중공사막의 기공상태는 비젖음성 조건을 선택하였으며, 이러한 조작조건하에서 이산화탄소 분리거동을 다양한 공정변수 즉, 흡수제의 농도와 유속, 혼합기체의 압력변화에 대해 고찰하였다. 흡수제의 농도가 증가함에 따라 촉진수송에 의한 이산화탄소의 흡수거동을 확인할 수 있었고, 흡수제의 유속 증가에 따라 이산화탄소의 흡수속도가 점차 증가함을 확인할 수 있었으며, 분리막 접촉기에서 혼합기체의 압력변화가 흡수속도에 미치는 영향 및 흡수제의 재사용에 따른 흡수속도를 확인할 수 있었다. 이러한 공정모사를 통해 분리막 접촉기의 구성 및 조작에 필요한 각각의 인자들이 흡수속도에 미치는 영향과 예측, 이를 통한 적절한 조작조건의 도출 가능성을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TE
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.59-64
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• 2002

ISM 대역을 사용하는 RFID 시스템에서 대상물에 장착되는 태그는 내장된 컨트롤러와 메모리를 동작시키기 위해서 소형 안테나로부터 들어온 전파 신호를 쇼트키 다이오드로 정류하여 전원으로 사용하게 된다. 반도체 소자의 비선형성에 의한 고조파 성분과 안테나의 고차 모드의 공진으로 여기되는 불요파는 태그의 성능 저하를 가져온다. 본 논문에서는 2차 고조파 성분을 제거함으로써 시스템 효율을 개선하기 위하여 "스터브 I 형 DGS 슬롯 구조"를 이용한 새로운 형태의 저역통과 필터를 구현하였다. 스터브 폭과 I 형 슬롯의 연결 폭을 조정하여 최적의 통과대역 및 저지대역 주파수 특성을 갖도록 설계하고 제작하였다. 제작된 저역통과 필터의 측정결과는 차단 주파수는 3.25 GHz 이고 2.4 GHz~2.5 GHz 의 대역에서 삽입손실은 -0.29~-0.3 dB 이고 반사손실은 -27.688~-33.665 dB 로 비교적 양호한 특성을 보여주고 있으며, 2배 고조파의 대역인 4.9 GHz 에서의 저지특성은 약 -19.367 dB를 보여준다. 이 구조의 필터를 이용하여 RFID, WLAN 등의 응용에 적용되어 고조파와 불요파를 제거함으로서 시스템 효율의 개선에 사용할 수 있을 것이다.