• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.273-282
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• 2012

A new effective methodology for optimizing the enrichment of low-enriched zones as well as gadolinia fuel ($UO_2/Gd_2O_3$) rod designs in PLUS7 fuel assemblies was developed to minimize the maximum peak power in the core and to maximize the cycle lifetime. An automated link code was developed to integrate the genetic algorithm (GA) and the core design code package of ALPHA/PHOENIX-P/ANC and to generate and evaluate the candidates to be optimized efficiently through the integrated code package. This study introduces an optimization technique for the optimization of gadolinia fuel rod designs in order to effectively reduce the peak powers for a few hot assemblies simultaneously during the cycle. Coupled with the gadolinia optimization, the optimum enrichments were determined using the same automated code package. Applying this technique to the reference core of Ulchin Unit 4 Cycle 11, the gadolinia fuel rods in each hot assembly were optimized to different numbers and positions from their original designs, and the maximum peak power was decreased by 2.5%, while the independent optimization technique showed a decrease of 1.6% for the same fuel assembly. The lower enrichments at the fuel rods adjacent to the corner gap (CG), guide tube (GT), and instrumentation tube (IT) were optimized from the current 4.1, 4.1, 4.1 w/o to 4.65, 4.2, 4.2 w/o. The increase in the cycle lifetime achieved through this methodology was 5 effective full-power days (EFPD) on an ideal equilibrium cycle basis while keeping the peak power as low as 2.3% compared with the original design.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.326-335
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 직교 주파수분할다중화(orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; OFDM)의 변조된 신호열에서 항상 최소화된 첨두전력 대 평균전력비(peak-to-average power ratio; PAPR)를 보장할 수 있는 블록부호가 제안된다. 제안된 최소 PAPR 부호(minimum PAPR code; MPC) 부호화 과정은 씨앗부호어(seed codeword) 검색, 레지스터 요소의 순회천이(circular shifting), 그리고 비트반전(bit inversion)으로 이루어진다. 시간영역 전송신호열의 첨두 포락선전력(peak envelope power; PEP)이 레지스터에 저장된 부호어의 순회천이와 부호의 비트반전에 대하여 변화되지 않음을 보였다. 이러한 성질에 기반하여 체계적인 MPC 부호화 규칙이 제안되었다. 제안된 부호 규칙으로 MPC 부호화를 위한 조견표(look-up table)의 크기를 대폭 감소시킬 수 있다.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 단일 주파수 망을 이용하는 AT-DMB 시스템에서의 효율적인 송신기 검출을 위한 확산코드 슬라이싱 기술을 제안하였다. 각 송신 단말기 신호에 상관특성이 좋은 고유의 확산코드를 AT-DMB 프레임의 Null 심벌의 일부에 나누어 할당하고, 수신기에서는 송신 단말기의 고유 코드를 이용하여 다른 단말기의 신호 간섭 상황 하에서도 원하는 신호를 검출하여 수신할 수 있게 한다. 제안된 기법에 의해 얻어진 송신기 정보는 주파수를 효율적으로 사용하기 위한 기술인 SFN 구현을 위해 필요하다. 본 논문의 결과는 무선 디지털 방송 통신 시스템 구현에 적용될 수 있다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권2호
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• pp.359-374
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• 2024

A high-fidelity numerical analysis methodology was proposed for evaluating the fuel rod cladding integrity of a Prototype Gen IV Sodium Fast Reactor (PGSFR) during normal operation and Design basis events (DBEs). The MARS-LMR code, system transient safety analysis code, was applied to analyze the DBEs. The results of the MARS-LMR code were used as boundary condition for a 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis. The peak temperatures considering HCFs satisfied the cladding temperature limit. The temperature and pressure distributions were calculated by ANSYS CFX code, and applied to structural analysis. Structural analysis was performed using ANSYS Mechanical code. The seismic reactivity insertion SSE accident among DBEs had the highest peak cladding temperature and the maximum stress, as the value of 87 MPa. The fuel cladding had over 40 % safety margin, and the strain was below the strain limit. Deformation behavior was elucidated for providing relative coordinate data on each active fuel rod center. Bending deformation resulted in a flower shape, and bowing bundle did not interact with the duct of fuel assemblies. Fuel rod maximum expansion was generated with highest stress. Therefore, it was concluded that the fuel rod cladding of the PGSFR has sufficient structural safety margin during DBEs.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.38-41
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• 2014

Fixture units and the diversity curve are used, in order to determine the required size of water supply pipe. However, the values of the National Plumbing Code, International Plumbing Code and National Standard Plumbing Code of America are not the same. The objective of this study is to comparatively analyze the fixture units and the peak flows of a 10th story office building, at any instant of time, according to the three codes.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.338-347
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• 2015

The multi-carrier transmission signal in Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) has a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR), which results in nonlinear distortion and deteriorative system performance. An n-tuple selective mapping method is proposed to reduce the PAPR, in this paper. This method generates $2^n$ sequences of an original data sequence by adding n-tuple of n PAPR control bits to it followed by an interleaver and error-control code (ECC) to reduce its PAPR. The convolutional, Golay, and Hamming codes are used as ECCs in the proposed scheme. The proposed method uses different numbers of the n PAPR control bits to accomplish a noteworthy PAPR reduction and also avoids the need for a side-information transmission. The simulation results authenticate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.310-319
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• 1997

A finite element analysis of a trunnion pipe anchor is presented. The structure is analyzed for the case of internal pressure and moment loadings. The stress results are categorized into the average (membrane) stress, the linearly varying (bending) stress and the peak stress through the thickness. The resulting stresses are interpreted per Section III of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code from which the Primary(B$_1$), Secondary(C$_1$) and Peak(K$_1$) stress indices for pressure, the Primary (B$_2$), Secondary(C$_2$) and Peak(K$_2$) stress indices for moment are developed. Based on the comparison between stress value by stress indices derived in this paper and stress value represented by the ASME Code Case N-391-1, the empirical equations for stress indices are effectively used in the piping stress analysis. Therefore, the use of empirical equations can simplify the procedure of evaluating the local stress in the piping design stage.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제32권12A호
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• pp.1219-1225
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• 2007

본 논문은 4개의 송신 안테나를 사용 할 경우 임의의 QAM 변조 방식과 준정지 Rayleigh 페이딩 채널 환경에서 최대 다이버시티 이득을 획득하고 더불어 full-rate을 획득하는 새로운 QO-STBC(quasi-orthogonal space-time block code)를 제안한다. 특히 제안된 부호는 기존의 MDC-QO-STBC(minimum decoding complex QO-STBC)와 같이 준직교 특성을 만족하여 수신단에서 2개의 실수 심벌들로 구성된 4개의 그룹들에 대하여 각각 독립적인 ML(maximum likelihood) 복호가 가능하다는 장점을 갖는다. 전산 실험 결과 제안된 부호는 모든 변조 방식들에 대하여 MDC-QO-STBC와 동일한 비트 오율(BER) 성능을 보여준다. 하지만 제안된 부호는 모든 송신 안테나들에서 성상 회전 이전의 신호들에 비해 PAPR(peak-to-average power ratio) 값들이 증가하는 기존의 MDC-QO-STBC와 달리 오직 2개의 송신 안테나들에서만 PAPR의 증가가 발생하도록 수정 가능하며 따라서 실제 송신 시스템 구현 시 훨씬 큰 이점을 갖게 된다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제36권11호
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• pp.21-33
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 국내 내진설계기준 공통적용사항(MOIS, 2017)의 지반증폭계수를 활용하여 지표면 최대가속도를 산출하는 방법의 적절성을 검토하기 위해 포항지역 전역의 시추공을 대상으로 1차원 등가선형해석프로그램을 통해 지반응답해석을 수행하였다. 지반응답해석을 위한 지진파는 내진설계기준 공통적용사항에 따라 지진 재현주기 500년, 1000년, 2400년의 표준설계응답스펙트럼에 맞추었고, 지반데이터는 국토지반정보 포털시스템을 활용하여 확보하였다. 그 결과 내진설계기준 공통적용사항에서 제시하는 응답스펙트럼과 지반응답해석에서 얻어진 응답스펙트럼은 지반분류에 상관없이 대략적으로 일치하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 하지만, 증폭계수를 활용하여 지표면최대가속도를 산출할 경우 지반응답해석에서 얻어진 결과와 상당한 차이를 나타내는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2007

Recently, Mc(Multi-code) modulation/demodulation(modem) technique has been explored for high speed data transmission in wireless environment. The conventional Mc modem generates some side effects such as allocating Walsh codes, which motivates to propose a novel Mc modem method with sub-code. Our proposed system should expanded the size of sub-code to provide high-rate data transmission, which also affect adversely to the performance of the system with high PAPR(Peak to Average Power Ratio). Thus, in this paper, we propose a novel pre-coded Multi-Dimensional HCOC(High Capacity Orthogonal Code) Mc modem technique to reduce the high PAPR, which enables the performance improvement. This proposed system can be easily designed by concatenating HCOC Mc modem with the generic Mc modem. The pre-coding technique that is used in this paper is CAC(Constant Amplitude Coding), that helps the system maintain the constant transmission power and reduce the maximum transmission power.