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A Study on the Development of Large Aluminum Flange Using Casting/Forging Process (주조/단조 기술을 이용한 대형 알루미늄 플랜지 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, Won-Byeong;Wang, Sin-Il;Seo, Myeong-Gyu;Jo, Jong-Rae
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.25 no.9
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    • pp.1438-1443
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    • 2001
  • The significance of the casting/forging process for reducing the production cost of large components is being noted in these days. This casting/forging process is a method of forging a workpiece preformed by casting into the final shape. In this study, the casting/forging process has been applied in manufacturing a large aluminum flange in order to reduce press capacity and material cost. Firstly, a hot compression test was performed with cast cylindrical billets in order to determine the optimum forging condition of the aluminum flange. The optimum range of forging temperature of Al 5083 was from 420$\^{C}$ to 450$\^{C}$. The suitable strain rate was 1.5 sec(sup)-1. The deformation amount of a preform of a preform in a forging process is a key role in the mechanical properties of casting/forging products. In order to find the change of mechanical properties according to effective stain of cast aluminum billets, a hot upsetting test were performed with rectangular blocks and then a uniaxial tensile test was performed with specimens cut from the upsetted billets. The tensile strength and the elongation of cast/upsetted aluminum billets were increased largely until the effective strain was 0.7. FE analysis was performed to determine the configurations of case preform and die for an aluminum flange. In the FE analysis, the forging load-limit was fixed 1500ton for low equipment cost. The cast preform was designed so that the effective stain around the neck of a flange exceeded 0.7. From the result of FE analysis, optimal configurations of the cast preform and the die were designed for a large flange. The filling and solidification analysis for a sound cast-preform was carried out with MAGMA soft. In the forging experiment for an aluminum flange, it was confirmed that the optimal configuration of the cast preform predicted by FE analysis was very useful. The cast/forged products using designed preform were made perfectly without any defects.

A Genetic Algorithm for Materialized View Selection in Data Warehouses (데이터웨어하우스에서 유전자 알고리즘을 이용한 구체화된 뷰 선택 기법)

  • Lee, Min-Soo
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.11D no.2
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    • pp.325-338
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    • 2004
  • A data warehouse stores information that is collected from multiple, heterogeneous information sources for the purpose of complex querying and analysis. Information in the warehouse is typically stored In the form of materialized views, which represent pre-computed portions of frequently asked queries. One of the most important tasks of designing a warehouse is the selection of materialized views to be maintained in the warehouse. The goal is to select a set of views so that the total query response time over all queries can be minimized while a limited amount of time for maintaining the views is given(maintenance-cost view selection problem). In this paper, we propose an efficient solution to the maintenance-cost view selection problem using a genetic algorithm for computing a near-optimal set of views. Specifically, we explore the maintenance-cost view selection problem in the context of OR view graphs. We show that our approach represents a dramatic improvement in terms of time complexity over existing search-based approaches that use heuristics. Our analysis shows that the algorithm consistently yields a solution that only has an additional 10% of query cost of over the optimal query cost while at the same time exhibits an impressive performance of only a linear increase in execution time. We have implemented a prototype version of our algorithm that is used to evaluate our approach.

Optimization of Dual Layer Phoswich Detector for Small Animal PET using Monte Carlo Simulation

  • Y.H. Chung;Park, Y.;G. Cho;Y.S. Choe;Lee, K.H.;Kim, S.E.;Kim, B.T.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2003.09a
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    • pp.44-44
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    • 2003
  • As a basic measurement tool in the areas of animal models of human disease, gene expression and therapy, and drug discovery and development, small animal PET imaging is being used increasingly. An ideal small animal PET should have high sensitivity and high and uniform resolution across the field of view to achieve high image quality. However, the combination of long narrow pixellated crystal array and small ring diameter of small animal PET leads to the degradation of spatial resolution for the source located at off center. This degradation of resolution can be improved by determining the depth of interaction (DOI) in the crystal and by taking into account the information in sorting the coincident events. Among a number of 001 identification schemes, dual layer phsowich detector has been widely investigated by many research groups due to its practicability and effectiveness on extracting DOI information. However, the effects of each crystal length composing dual layer phoswich detector on DOI measurements and image qualities were not fully characterized. In order to minimize the DOI effect, the length of each layer of phoswich detector should be optimized. The aim of this study was to perform simulations using a simulation tool, GATE to design the optimum lengths of crystals composing a dual layer phoswich detector. The simulated small PET system employed LSO front layer LuYAP back layer phoswich detector modules and the module consisted of 8${\times}$8 arrays of dual layer crystals with 2 mm ${\times}$ 2 mm sensitive area coupled to a Hamamatsu R7600 00 M64 PSPMT. Sensitivities and variation of radial resolutions were simulated by varying the length of LSO front layer from 0 to 10 mm while the total length (LSO + LuYAP) was fixed to 20 mm for 10 cm diameter ring scanner. The radial resolution uniformity was markedly improved by using DOI information. There existed the optimal lengths of crystal layers to minimize the variation of radial resolutions. In 10 cm ring scanner configuration, the radial resolution was kept below 3.4 mm over 8 cm FOV while the sensitivity was higher than 7.4% for LSO 5 mm : LuYAP 15 mm phoswich detector. In this study, the optimal length of dual layer phoswich detector was derived to achieve high and uniform radial resolution.

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Numerical Analysis-Based Design of PEMFC Channel, Fabrication of Channels, and Performance Test Using SU-8 (수치해석을 통한 PEMFC 채널의 설계와 SU-8을 이용한 채널 제작 및 성능 평가)

  • Choi, In-Jea;Wang, Hak-Min;Choi, Kap-Seung;Kim, Hyung-Man
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.349-354
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    • 2010
  • Fuel cells have attracted enormous interest as new power sources because the cells can be used to solve the problem of environmental pollution as well as the natural-resource exhaustion problem. In this study, hydrogen-gas flow in microchannels of different shapes was numerically analyzed to improve the efficiency of a microfuel cell. Flow characteristics in six microchannels of different shapes but under identical boundary conditions were simulated. The analysis result shows that the flow characteristics such as velocity, uniformity, and flow rate, greatly depend upon the channel shape. This implies that the efficiency of microfuel cell can be expected to be increased by adopting the optimal configuration of channel shape for hydrogen-gas flow. The experimental results show that power density of a PEMFC with a microflow channel is higher than that of a PEMFC without a microflow channel; however, a durable catalyst is required in MEA.

A Study on Dispersed Concentration pattern of Biotechnology Companies Location: Case of Pharmaceutical enterprises (바이오기업의 분산적 집중형 입지패턴에 관한 연구: 제약기업을 사례로)

  • Choi, Yu-Mi;Kang, Myoung-Gu
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.671-683
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    • 2011
  • The technical development of transportation and communication increases freedom of location choice. This higher freedom allows to company can pursues bigger profit than before. Company's separated spatial configurations tend to go to most optimal location, so some places showed unexpected agglomeration. This study conducted to prove "dispersed concentration" for specific example, pharmaceutical enterprises, in real business world. As a result, separation of spatial configuration clearly observed as product output goes bigger and R&D's depth goes deeper. And spatial concentration of each function was found. Most headquarters are located in Seoul, R&D centers make agglomeration at some spaces. Plants' location concentrated until 1990s, but, in 2000s, plants expand out of metropolitan area.

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Test & Evaluation for the Configuration Optimization of Thrust Chamber in 70 N-class N2H4 Thruster (Part II: Pulse-mode Performance According to the Chamber Length Variation) (70 N급 하이드라진 추력기의 추력실 최적설계와 시험평가 (Part II: 추력실 길이변화에 따른 펄스모드 성능특성))

  • Jung, Hun;Kim, Jong Hyun;Kim, Jeong Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.50-57
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    • 2014
  • A ground hot-firing test (HFT) was conducted to take out the optimal design configurations for the thrust chamber of 70 N-class liquid rocket engine under development. Monopropellant grade (purity: ${\geq}98.5%$) hydrazine was adopted as a propellant for the HFT, and three kinds of thrust chambers having characteristic lengths ($L^*$) of 2.79, 2.95, and 3.13 m were selected for their performance evaluation. It is revealed through the test and evaluation that the increase of the $L^*$ leads to a performance degradation in the test condition specified, and pulse response performance of the development model shows superior characteristics to commercialized hydrazine thrusters.

Smart mobile support for HTML5-based real-time Community Case Management System Development (스마트 모바일 지원을 위한 HTML5 기반의 사례관리 실시간 커뮤니티 시스템 개발)

  • Lee, Bong Soo;Kim, Bong Han;Oh, Dong Sik
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.10 no.10
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    • pp.289-294
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we take advantage of the characteristics of mobile smartphones can be serviced without the constraints of time and space, and Study was developed by a variety of mobile services were done in a traditional offline can be implemented in real-time Case Management Community. To this end, in addition to general PC/laptop, smart mobile until the configuration interface provide the same environment for HTML5 Web Switching and Optimal Network on the same device-specific browser Size to the implementation of the next generation of Web standards, HTML5-based integrated case management Web and Mobile Web. Hybrid App Development OS supports various kinds of smart devices based on SenchaTouch Mobile Framework between the server real-time synchronization and message through the implementation of the Push Notification function, administrators and guardians real-time two-way communication between the subjects is a real-time implementation of the system was implemented Case Management Community.

Joint Destination-Relay Selection and Antenna Mode Selection in Full-Duplex Relay Network

  • Tang, Yanan;Gao, Hui;Su, Xin;Lv, Tiejun
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.2831-2847
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, a joint destination-relay selection and antenna mode selection scheme for full-duplex (FD) relay network is investigated, which consists of one source node, N FD amplify-and-forward (AF) relays and M destination nodes. Multiple antennas are configured at the source node, and beamforming technique is adopted. Two antennas are employed at each relay, one for receiving and the other for transmitting. Only one antenna is equipped at each destination node. In the proposed scheme, the best destination node is firstly selected according to the direct links between the source node and destination nodes. Then the transmit and receive mode of two antennas at each relay is adaptively selected based on the relaying link condition. Meanwhile, the best relay with the optimal Tx/Rx antenna configuration is selected to forward the signals. To characterize the performance of the proposed scheme, the closed-form expression of the outage probability is derived; meanwhile, the simple asymptotic expressions are also obtained. Our analysis shows that the proposed scheme obtains the benefits of multi-relay diversity and multi-destination diversity. Moreover, extra space diversity in the medium SNR region can be achieved due to the antenna selection at the relay. Finally, Monte-Carlo simulations are provided to consolidate the analytical results, and show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

An Intelligent Framework for Test Case Prioritization Using Evolutionary Algorithm

  • Dobuneh, Mojtaba Raeisi Nejad;Jawawi, Dayang N.A.
    • Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.89-95
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    • 2016
  • In a software testing domain, test case prioritization techniques improve the performance of regression testing, and arrange test cases in such a way that maximum available faults be detected in a shorter time. User-sessions and cookies are unique features of web applications that are useful in regression testing because they have precious information about the application state before and after making changes to software code. This approach is in fact a user-session based technique. The user session will collect from the database on the server side, and test cases are released by the small change configuration of a user session data. The main challenges are the effectiveness of Average Percentage Fault Detection rate (APFD) and time constraint in the existing techniques, so in this paper developed an intelligent framework which has three new techniques use to manage and put test cases in group by applying useful criteria for test case prioritization in web application regression testing. In dynamic weighting approach the hybrid criteria which set the initial weight to each criterion determines optimal weight of combination criteria by evolutionary algorithms. The weight of each criterion is based on the effectiveness of finding faults in the application. In this research the priority is given to test cases that are performed based on most common http requests in pages, the length of http request chains, and the dependency of http requests. To verify the new technique some fault has been seeded in subject application, then applying the prioritization criteria on test cases for comparing the effectiveness of APFD rate with existing techniques.

Development of a 6 degrees-of-freedom micro stage for ultra precision positioning (초정밀작업을 위한 6자유도 마이크로 스테이지의 개발)

  • Kim, Kyung-Chan;Kim, Soo-Hyun;Kwak, Yoon-Keun
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.372-379
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    • 1998
  • A new 6 degrees-of-freedom micro stage, based on parallel mechanisms and actuated by using piezoelectric elements, has been developed for the application of micro positioning such as semiconductor manufacturing devices, high precision optical measurement systems, and high accurate machining. The micro stage structure consists of a base platform and an upper platform(stage). The base platform can effectively generates planar motion with yaw motion, while the stage can do vertical motion with roll and pitch motions with respect to the base platform. This separated structure has an advantage of less interference among actuators. The forward and inverse kinematics of the micro stage are discussed. Also, through linearization of kinematic equations about an operating point on the assumption that the configuration of the micro stage remains essentially constant throughout a workspace is performed. To maximize the workspace of the stage relative to fixed frame, an optimal design procedure of geometric parameter is shown. Hardware description and a prototype are presented. The prototype is about 150mm in height and its base platform is approximately 94mm in diameter. The workspace of the prototype is obtained by computer simulation. Kinematic calibration procedure of the micro stage and its results are presented.