• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.7893-7901
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• 2015

It is important to the periodic collection and analysis of the maintenance and management information of bridges for a more safe and efficient management of the bridges. To enhance the reliability and ease of acquisition of the bridge inspection information that is the basis for a strategy for safe and economic management using the bridge management system (BMS), this study develops a smart phone application for bridge inspection and ensures the actual applicability of the application. The developed application that is linked with the BMS for life-cycle management of bridges is possible to real-time query, modify and transmit of the maintenance-related information, and the application is able to greatly relieve the time and cost for the bridge inspection through the automatic creation of site inspection reports. The proposed method using the application is directly or indirectly expected to be very high effects of value improvement, such as ease of use, improved accuracy, sustainability of information, and future utilization, compared to conventional inspection method.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.45 no.4
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• pp.62-66
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• 2012

An effective management of reservoir, an agricultural infrastructure, requires an establishment of a good management system by means of unification of managing entity; training of manpower and their deployment for scientific management by expert group; carrying out repair / strengthening works based on periodic in-depth inspection results. In particular, continuous budget allocation as well as cultivating good management mind of managing entity are essential for undertaking periodic precise and / or in-depth inspections for assessing the functionality / safety of facilities and proper repair / strengthening works for satisfying the up-to-date facilty standarda and changing environmental conditions.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.11
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• pp.1748-1751
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• 2012

This paper describes the background of the electrical safety emergency dispatch system and analyzes the operational status of the system. This system is to provide the enhanced electrical safety service to general-purpose electrical equipment users. Annual average of about 6 million cases have been implemented since 2005. In order to enhance electrical safety service and more effectively prevent electrical disasters in future, institutional expansion of the electrical safety emergency dispatch system with keeping budget is necessary. If periodic inspections with a remote monitoring system is applied, the effect of electrical safety will be improved.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.2076-2077
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• 2007

To find out abnormal electrical conditions, periodic inspections for residential houses are being performed every 3 years. According to data from KESCO, the number of uninspected houses is rising as the number of empty houses during normal working hours is rising by dramatic increase in the number of nuclear families and double income families. As a result, potential hazards are increased by them. In this paper, a model of a national electric safety network is presented. In the model, functions for ubiquitous environments were partially realized.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.32-37
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• 2004

Application of bonding by adhesives can be found in many industries, particularly in advanced technological domains such as aeronautical and space, automobile and electronics industries. Periodic inspection with conventional ultrasonic NDE techniques is capable of indicating the presence and possible location of crack. Continuous ultrasonic attenuation monitoring has potential to supply information. This article discusses the use of pulse-echo ultrasonic testing for the inspection of adhesive bonds between metal sheets. The method is based on the measurement of the reflection coefficient at the metal/adhesive interface. By means of a control experiment it is shown that Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation in Adhesive Joints are evaluated together with Ultrasonic Testing and Fracture Testing.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.152-158
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• 2003

A machine-vision guided inspection system with go-no gauges for inspecting eggcrate assemblies in steam generators is considered. To locate the gauge at the right place, periodic corrective actions for its position and traveling direction are required. We present a machine vision algorithm for determining inserting position and traveling direction of the go-no gauge. The overall procedure of the algorithm is composed of camera calibration, eggcrate image preprocessing, grid-height adjustment, intersection point estimation between two intersecting grids, and adjustment of position and traveling direction of the gauge. The intersection point estimation is performed by using linear regression with a constraint. A test with a real eggcrate specimen shows the feasibility of the algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.667-670
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• 2001

For major structural components periodic inspections and integrity assessments are needed for the safety. However, many flaws are undetectable because sampling inspection is carried out during in-service inspection. Probabilistic integrity assessment is applied to take into consideration of uncertainty and variance of input parameters arise due to material properties and undetectable cracks. This paper describes a Probabilistic Fracture Mechanics(PEM) analysis based on the Monte Carlo(MC) algorithms. Taking a number of sampling data of probabilistic variables such as fracture toughness value, crack depth and aspect ratio of an initial surface crack, a MC simulation of failure judgement of samples is performed. For the verification of this analysis, a comparison study of th PFM analysis using a commercial code, mathematical method is carried out and a good agreement was observed between those results.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.7
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• pp.1295-1297
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• 2008

Large-sized flat-panel displays are widely used for PC monitors and TV displays. In this paper, frequency domain pre-filter algorithms are presented for detection of defects in large-sized Thin Film Transistor-Liquid Crystal Display(TFT-LCD) panel surfaces. Frequency analysis with 1-D, 2-D FFT methods for extract the periodic patterns of lattice structures in TFT-LCD is performed. To remove this patterns, frequency domain band-stop filters were used for eliminating specific frequency components. In order to acquire only defected images, 2-D inverse FFT methods to inverse transform of frequency domain images were used.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.149-150
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a novel defects inspection algorithm for TFT-LCD panels. We first compensate the distorted image caused by the camera distortion and the uneven illumination environment using the least squares method and the bezier surface. We find a starting point of each pattern. The reference frame, made by subtract method using several clean patterns, is compared to each pattern to find defects. The simulation example shows that our algorithm not only inspects the defects well, but also is robust to the 1-pixel error.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.113-120
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• 1999

Due to the heterogeneous nature of a concrete, periodic inspections are compulsory to maintenance of quality of concrete structures. The major object of this study is to analyze and investigate experimentally the experimental equation for the estimate of compressive strength of prestressed concrete. In this study, surface hardness method, ultrasonic method are investigated to evaluate strength of concrete specimens. Specimens are cast in laboratory and cores are cut from specimens in order to estimate the accurate strength. These values are used to compare with calculated values from test data. The result shows that the proposed equation can reproduce the results at prestressed concrete beam girders more appropriately than previous equations.