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Design of AEM FSS-Radome for Array Antenna (배열 안테나용 AEM형 FSS 레이돔 설계)

  • Kim, Sang-Keun;Lee, Gi-Tae;Seo, Il-Seong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.22 no.12
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    • pp.1180-1183
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we present a design of AEM radome with frequency selective surface using unit-cell EM simulation method and verified the performance of AEM radome by the radiation pattern measurements of $16{\times}16$ array-antenna. Measured results under near-field condition showed a good agreement with the simulation and far-field measured ones. And there were no radiation pattern variation between antenna only and antenna with AEM radome. From these results, we verified that AEM radome with frequency selective surface can be a solution to reduce the RCS of conventional mast and radar.

Ignition Transient Investigation of Rocket Motor

  • Chang, Suk-Tae;Sam M. Han;John C. Chai
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.45-54
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    • 2000
  • Ignition transient is a. very rapid process lasting only in the order of 100 milliseconds and therefore it is difficult to measure all relevant ballistic properties. Numerical simulation is thus useful to quantify some of these hard to measure flow and ballistic properties. One-dimensional model was employed to study the effects of aging using simplified aging scenarios for both N-H sustainer and booster motors. Also the effects of newly designed igniter on the ignition of N-H sustainer was simulated. Radiation effects could be significant in terms of energy flux increase to the propellant surface and the energy exchange between the combustion gas itself. One dimension implementation of radiation showed significant effects for rear-mounted igniter. Implementation of radiation effects into 2-D axi-symmetric numerical model was completed and its effects on the N-H sustainer were examined. To have a reliable prediction of computer model on ignition transient, accurate chemical property data on the propellant and igniter gas are required. It was found that such property data on aged N-H motors are not available. Chemical aging model can be used to predict to some degree of accuracy effects of aging on chemical and mechanical properties. Such a model was developed, albeit 2-dimensional, to study migration of moisture through a representative solid rocket motor configuration.

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UV-B-Induced Changes in Carbohydrate Content and Antioxidant Activity in Rice Seedling

  • Sung Jwa-Kyung;Lee Su-Yeon;Park So-Hyun;Jang Byoung-Choon;Lee Sang-Min;Lee Yong-Hwan;Choi Du-Hoi;Song Beom-Heon
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.50 no.2
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    • pp.84-90
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    • 2005
  • The effects of UV-B radiation on the seedling growth, carbohydrate metabolism and antioxidants activities of rice (Oryza sativa L.) were investigated under environmentally controlled chamber. Supplementary UV­B radiation reduced dry matter as well as leaf area, there­fore, relative growth rates (RGR) of seedlings were decreased by up to half compared to control. Photosynthetic products such as soluble sugars and starch were rapidly and significantly reduced by within 1 day of enhanced UV-B radiation due to the inhibition and degradation of photosynthetic processes and thylakoid membrane integrity. In our study, nonstructural carbohydrate levels were proved to be a main indicator on UV-B­induced stress. The behavior of SOD, CAT, APX and POD activities was monitored in the leaves of rice seedlings subjected to UV-B radiation. Under UV-B treatments, SOD activity was initially increased, whereas CAT and POD activities were slowly and slightly increased. However, APX activity showed no presumable results with an increase of UV-B dose. In leaves of rice seedlings, supplementary UV-B radiation caused an increase in free putrescine and spermidine, however spermine remained unaltered, although 24-hrs UV-B treatment slightly increased. This result presumes that an excess UV-B dose may induce ethylene biosynthesis (senescence) rather than polyamine biosynthesis (defense).

A study on Protector Performance Evaluation According to X-ray Scattering Distribution of Portable Radiation System (이동형 방사선 발생장치 차폐물 설치에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyong-Gyun;Sung, Dong-Keon;Cho, Kyong-Mi;Kim, Sang-Beom;Kim, Jae-Young;Choi, Jun-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.85-92
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    • 2009
  • This study, "The study about performance evaluations of mobile cover for X-ray's diffusion and distribution in mobile radiation" is based on the rules of mobile defense apparatus for radiation producer in 2006. To use the mobile cover for X-ray for diagnosis has been compulsory in common wards except operation rooms, emergency rooms and intensive care units. we have confirmed the effect in arbitrary shielding material after Qualitiy Control was carried out for accuracy in an experiment of mobile photographing equipment. The performance evaluation was conducted with the fabrics of selenium, 0.2 mmPb, 0.1 mmPb and aluminiums. Considering the result, we choosed 0.1 mmPb and attached cover to mobile photographing equipment. We have finished making the cover after drew up the draft to attach cover to mobile photographing equipment through the modeling and the structural analysis. the process of the study is that we assembled the manufactured structures and carried out the practical experiment to take the photograph after attaching the fabric of 0.1 mmPb to mobile photographing equipment. It is need of additional thesises hereafter that we compare the result between the part to improve for safety besides convenience in photographic experiment about clinical radiation and the effect of covering the diffusion in condition attached the cover.

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ACA: Automatic search strategy for radioactive source

  • Jianwen Huo;Xulin Hu;Junling Wang;Li Hu
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.8
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    • pp.3030-3038
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    • 2023
  • Nowadays, mobile robots have been used to search for uncontrolled radioactive source in indoor environments to avoid radiation exposure for technicians. However, in the indoor environments, especially in the presence of obstacles, how to make the robots with limited sensing capabilities automatically search for the radioactive source remains a major challenge. Also, the source search efficiency of robots needs to be further improved to meet practical scenarios such as limited exploration time. This paper proposes an automatic source search strategy, abbreviated as ACA: the location of source is estimated by a convolutional neural network (CNN), and the path is planned by the A-star algorithm. First, the search area is represented as an occupancy grid map. Then, the radiation dose distribution of the radioactive source in the occupancy grid map is obtained by Monte Carlo (MC) method simulation, and multiple sets of radiation data are collected through the eight neighborhood self-avoiding random walk (ENSAW) algorithm as the radiation data set. Further, the radiation data set is fed into the designed CNN architecture to train the network model in advance. When the searcher enters the search area where the radioactive source exists, the location of source is estimated by the network model and the search path is planned by the A-star algorithm, and this process is iterated continuously until the searcher reaches the location of radioactive source. The experimental results show that the average number of radiometric measurements and the average number of moving steps of the ACA algorithm are only 2.1% and 33.2% of those of the gradient search (GS) algorithm in the indoor environment without obstacles. In the indoor environment shielded by concrete walls, the GS algorithm fails to search for the source, while the ACA algorithm successfully searches for the source with fewer moving steps and sparse radiometric data.

A Study on Miniaturization of a Log-Periodic Dipole Array Antenna (대수주기 다이폴 배열 안테나의 소형화 연구)

  • Ham, Hyung-Jun;Ryu, Hong-Kyun;Park, Beom-Jun;Park, Young-Ju;Lee, Kyu-Song;Woo, Jong-Myoung
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.25 no.7
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    • pp.709-720
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we studied miniaturization of LPDA(Log-Periodic Dipole Array) antenna used for VHF and UHF bands. To miniaturize the LPDA antenna, in this study, the radiation elements in a low frequency were changed into a triangular meander structure which has small current cancelation effect at feed part. For the triangular meander structure, an isosceles triangular and right triangular meander structures were proposed and the LPDA antennas were miniaturized by using the two meander structures. Also, the simulated and measured results were compared for the two miniaturized LPDA antennas. As a result, the isosceles triangular meander and right angle triangular meander structure applied LPDA antennas were reduced up to 60.5 % and 72.4 % compared a basic LPDA antenna, respectively. Consequently, we confirmed that the triangular meander structure is suitable for miniaturization of a LPDA antenna.

Electromagnetic Interference Suppression Method of Motor Assembly for Aircraft Application (항공용 모터 조립체의 전자기 간섭 감쇠 방안)

  • Kim, Jee-Heung;Ryu, Hong-Kyun;Park, Beom-Jun;Park, Young-Ju
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.351-358
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    • 2018
  • In this study, we propose a method of suppressing the leakage noise signal of motor assembly through the test. The motor assembly is mounted on outside of the aircraft to rotate an antenna and must satisfy RE102 requirement on MIL-STD-461F in terms of electromagnetic interference. It is confirmed by RE102 test result hat the leakage noise signal of the equipment occurs due to external influx through the power and control cable and rotation of the motor. And it is ascertained that the part where internal/external physical shielding is difficult to rotate is the leakage path. To reduce the leakage noise signal, the electrical ground reinforcement and the electric shielding structure considering the operation of the equipment is applied and it is verified that the requirement is satisfied. Finally, we verified that required specification are met by applying circular corrugated choke with interlocking shapes and conductive grease to the noise leakage path.

A Study of Improvement the Surface Properties of $Hg_{l-x}Cd_xTe$ material by using Electro-Chemical Reduction (전기화학적 환원법에 의한 $Hg_{l-x}Cd_xTe$ 재료의 표면특성 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Don;Kim, Bong-Heub;Kang, Hyung-Boo;Choi, Kyung-Ku;Jeoung, Yong-Taek;Park, Hee-Sook;Kim, Hong-Kook
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1994.07b
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    • pp.1280-1282
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    • 1994
  • The method of passivation for protecting the $Hg_{l-x}Cd_xTe$ surface is important device fabrication process, because the surface components are highly reactive leading to its chemical and electrical instability. Especially, the material of which composition is x=0.2 or 0.3, is narrow bandgap semiconductor and used as detector of infrared radiation. The device performance of narrow bandgap semiconductors are largely governed by the properties of the semiconductor surface. The electro-chemical processing of $Hg_{l-x}Cd_xTe$ allows rigorous control of the surface chemistry and provides an in-situ monitor of surface reaction. So electro-chemical reduction at specific potential can selectively eliminate the undesirable species on the surface and manipulated to reproducibly attain the desired stoichiometry. This method shows to assess the quality or chemically treated $Hg_{l-x}Cd_xTe$ good surface.

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The Study on Phase Transition Pressure of Donor doped Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 Ceramics with Diamond Anvil Cell (다이아몬드 엔빌 셀을 이용한 Donor doped Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 세라믹스의 상전이 압력 연구)

  • Cho, Kyung-Ho;Ko, Young-Ho;Seo, Chang-Eui;Kim, Kwang-Joo
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.48 no.5
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    • pp.471-478
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    • 2011
  • Investigations of crystal structure and phase transition of $Pb(Zr_{0.52}Ti_{0.48})O_3$ ceramics doped with A-site substitution impurity (La, Nd) or B-site substitution impurity (Sb, Nb) at 2 mol% concentration were carried out. X-ray diffraction patterns of impurities doped $Pb(Zr_{0.52}Ti_{0.48})O_3$ ceramics have been measured at pressures up to ~5 GPa with diamond anvil cell and synchrotron radiation. The patterns were obtained at room temperature using methanol-ethanol mixture as pressure-transmitting media. In order to refine the crystal structure, Rietveld analysis has been performed. The structures of impurities doped $Pb(Zr_{0.52}Ti_{0.48})O_3$ ceramics are tetragonal in space group P4mm at ambient pressure and are transformed into a cubic phase in space group Pm$\bar{3}$m as the pressure increases. In this study, when A-site substitution donor $La^{3+}$ or $Nd^{3+}$ ion was added to $Pb(Zr_{0.52}Ti_{0.48})O_3$ ceramics, the phase transition phenomena showed up at the pressure of 2.5~4.6 GPa, but when B-site substitution donor $Nb^{5+}$ or $Sb^{5+}$ ion was added to it, the phase transition appeared at relatively lower pressure of 1.7~2.6 GPa.

Design of Uni-directional Optical Communication Structure Satisfying Defense-In-Depth Characteristics against Cyber Attack (사이버공격에 대비한 심층방호 특성을 만족하는 단방향 광통신 구조 설계)

  • Jeong, Kwang Il;Lee, Joon Ku;Park, Geun Ok
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.2 no.12
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    • pp.561-568
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    • 2013
  • Instrumentation and control system in nuclear power plant performs protecting, controling and monitoring safety operation of Nuclear Power Plant. As cyber attack to the control equipment of instrumentation and control system can cause reactor shutdown and radiation release, it is required to design the instrumentation and control system considering cyber security in accordance with regulatory guides and industrial standards. In this paper, we proposed a design method of uni-directional communication structure which is required in the design of defense-in-depth model according to regulatory guides and industrial standards and we implemented a communication board with the proposed method. This communication board was tested in various test environments and test items and we concluded it can provide uni-directional communication structure required to design of defense-in-depth model against cyber attack by analyzing the results. The proposed method and implemented communication board were applied in the design of SMART (system-integrated modular advanced reactor) I&C (instrumentation and control) systems.