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Edge-Effect Reduction Technique to Compute the Backscattering from Randomly Rough Conducting Surfaces (거친 도체 표면 후방 산란 계산을 위한 모서리 효과 저감 기법)

  • Hwang, Ji-Hwan;Kweon, Soon-Koo;Oh, Yisok
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.585-591
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    • 2014
  • An improved numerical scattering model with the 2-dimensional moment method including roof-top basis and a modified window-function to reduce edge-effect is presented in this study. The roof-top basis function is used to depict randomly positioned surface currents and increase an efficiency of the moment method. To reduce the edge-effect which occurs at the end of numerically generated surfaces, an enhanced window-function which is weighted by incident angle variable is proposed. To validate an proposed 2-dimensional scattering model and numerical analysis techniques for randomly rough surfaces, computational results are compared and analyzed to SPM(Small Perturbation Model) as well.

Analysis of Propagation Environments for Indoor Wireless Communication Systems at THz Frequencies (THz 실내 무선 통신시스템을 위한 전파환경 분석)

  • Lee, Won-Hui;Chung, Tae-Jin
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2010
  • Short-range wireless communication systems are expanding at rapid rate, finding application in offices and homes. Development of wireless local network is accompanied by steady increase in the demand for ever higher data rates. This in turn entails the necessity to develop communication systems which operate at higher frequencies. It can be expected that short-rage wireless communication networks will soon push towards the THz frequency range. We use a 3D ray-launching for analysis of propagation environments at the indoor fixtures. We extended the approach from the modeling of the reflectivity of optically thick, smooth building materials at THz frequencies to materials with a rough surface. The simulation result of propagation environment is similar to average received power of reference paper. The RMS delay spread was calculated to be 9.11 ns in a room size of $6m(L){\times}5m(W){\times}2.5m(H)$ for the concrete plaster.

A Study on the Meaning of New Brutalism in Sigurd Lewerentz's Late Church Architecture (지구르트 레버렌츠의 후기 교회당 건축에 나타난 뉴 브루탈리즘의 의미에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Hyon-Sob
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.65-80
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this paper is to investigate into the meaning of the New Brutalism sensed in the late church buildings of the Swedish architect Sigurd Lewerentz (1885-1975). St Mark's (1956-64) and St Peter's (1962-66) churches, his grand finale designs, have a unique architectural vocabulary of rough brickwork. The brick treatment is the basis on which Reyner Banham (1966) discussed him concerning the New Brutalism, and the point that this research focuses on. This paper explores the brutalist character of the buildings from two aspects - interpretational level of individual buildings and historical level of a broader view. First, the character of two churches could be interpreted with the phrase of 'play between brutality and sacredness'. The rough surface of brick and mortar in the buildings symbolises brutality and the vault of their chapels' ceiling sacredness. And the two characteristics meet and play on the rough vault surface. Second, in the historical point of view, this paper argues that the buildings made a giant leap for Swedish modern architecture, which had been at a deadlock owing to the compromising attitude of the New Empiricism since 1940s. And the Swedish New Empiricism (or the New Humanism), spread to Britain as "Welfare State architecture" after World War II, brought about reaction of the young British architects such as the Smithsons and became the background that made the new brutalist mood. However, considering that the term of the New Brutalism was first used in Sweden by Hans Asplund, Lewerentz's brutalist late churches - which seemingly had nothing to do with the British nor the Corbusian lineage - are also meaningful in that they confirmed the tendency in its homeland. In conclusion, this paper argues that St Mark's and St Peter's churches with the brutalist characteristics should be regarded as crucial buildings not only in Lewerentz's personal career but also in Swedish and international architectural history.

Surface Roughness Impact on Francis Turbine Performances and Prediction of Efficiency Step Up

  • Maruzewski, Pierre;Hasmatuchi, Vlad;Mombelli, Henri-Pascal;Burggraeve, Danny;Iosfin, Jacob;Finnegan, Peter;Avellan, Francois
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.353-362
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    • 2009
  • In the process of turbine modernizations, the investigation of the influences of water passage roughness on radial flow machine performance is crucial and validates the efficiency step up between reduced scale model and prototype. This study presents the specific losses per component of a Francis turbine, which are estimated by CFD simulation. Simulations are performed for different water passage surface roughness heights, which represents the equivalent sand grain roughness height. As a result, the boundary layer logarithmic velocity profile still exists for rough walls, but moves closer to the wall. Consequently, the wall friction depends not only on roughness height but also on its shape and distribution. The specific losses are determined by CFD numerical simulations for each component of the prototype, taking into account its own specific sand grain roughness height. The model efficiency step up between reduced scale model and prototype value is finally computed by the assessment of specific losses on prototype and by evaluating specific losses for a reduced scale model with smooth walls. Furthermore, surveys of rough walls of each component were performed during the geometry recovery on the prototype and comparisons are made with experimental data from the EPFL Laboratory for Hydraulic Machines reduced scale model measurements. This study underlines that if rough walls are considered, the CFD approach estimates well the local friction loss coefficient. It is clear that by considering sand grain roughness heights in CFD simulations, its forms a significant part of the global performance estimation. The availability of the efficiency field measurements provides an unique opportunity to assess the CFD method in view of a systematic approach for turbine modernization step up evaluation. Moreover, this paper states that CFD is a very promising tool for future evaluation of turbine performance transposition from the scale model to the prototype.

Wave Propagation characteristic from Composite structures (복합형 구조에서의 전자파전파 특성)

  • Yoon, Kwang-Yeol
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.343-348
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    • 2011
  • With the rapid and wide-spread use of mobile communications much attention has been focussed on propagation in the urban area crowed with buildings. It is often surrounded by hills, forests, and mountains. The importance of surface scattering interference between transmitters and receivers on the rough surfaces has been interested and investigated. Therefore, a prediction method is necessary to estimate the influence of rough surfaces on microwave radio propagation. Moreover, most of the mobile communications are performed based on the digital communication system rather than the analog one. In this case, we must pay more careful attention to the signal delay caused by the phase delay due to the multi-path propagation. In this paper we have analyzed numerically scattering of electromagnetic waves from Composite structures by using FVTD (Finite Volume Time Domain) method. We consider two different types of rough surfaces such as periodic and composite structures.

Diffusion-hydraulic properties of grouting geological rough fractures with power-law slurry

  • Mu, Wenqiang;Li, Lianchong;Liu, Xige;Zhang, Liaoyuan;Zhang, Zilin;Huang, Bo;Chen, Yong
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.357-369
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    • 2020
  • Different from the conventional planar fracture and simplified Newton model, for power-law slurries with a lower water-cement ratio commonly used in grouting engineering, flow model in geological rough fractures is built based on ten standard profiles from Barton (1977) in this study. The numerical algorithm is validated by experimental results. The flow mechanism, grout superiority, and water plugging of pseudo plastic slurry are revealed. The representations of hydraulic grouting properties for JRCs are obtained. The results show that effective plugging is based on the mechanical mechanisms of the fluctuant structural surface and higher viscosity at the middle of the fissure. The formulas of grouting parameters are always variable with the roughness and shear movement, which play a key role in grouting. The roughness can only be neglected after reaching a threshold. Grouting pressure increases with increasing roughness and has variable responses for different apertures within standard profiles. The whole process can be divided into three stationary zones and three transition zones, and there is a mutation region (10 < JRCs < 14) in smaller geological fractures. The fitting equations of different JRCs are obtained of power-law models satisfying the condition of -2 < coefficient < 0. The effects of small apertures and moderate to larger roughness (JRCs > 10.8) on the permeability of surfaces cannot be underestimated. The determination of grouting parameters depends on the slurry groutability in terms of its weakest link with discontinuous streamlines. For grouting water plugging, the water-cement ratio, grouting pressure and grouting additives should be determined by combining the flow conditions and the apparent widths of the main fracture and rough surface. This study provides a calculation method of grouting parameters for variable cement-based slurries. And the findings can help for better understanding of fluid flow and diffusion in geological fractures.

Novel velocity detection of moving object with rough surface vertically illuminated by self-mixing laser diode

  • Shibata, Takaaki;Shinohara, Shigenobu;Ikeda, Hiroaki;Yoshida, Hirofumi;Sumi, Masao
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1994.10a
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    • pp.494-497
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    • 1994
  • We propose a novel velocity detection method of moving object based on a speckle pattern on the target surface using a self-mixing laser diode (SMLD). By this measurement, it was confirmed that the speckle signal has its waveform independent of the target velocity, and has its averaged frequency directly proportional to the target velocity. So it will be possible to detect the velocity of the target transversely translating against the laser light beam using a compact measuring system.

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Effect Of Cut Depth On Rough Quality And Energy Consumption When Turing Cylindrical With The Pinacho S-90/200 Lathe

  • Sang Van Nguyen;Fadhli Ranuharja
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.101-107
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    • 2023
  • Machine tools are widely used in mechanical manufacturing corporations, as well as in engineering courses at universities in Vietnam. The PINACHO S-90/200 lathe is particularly popular. This paper aims to research and select an optimal cutting depth to minimize power costs and ensure surface roughness quality when machining upper plain cylindrical turning products with the PINACHO S-90/200 lathe on C45 steel material.

Estimation of the sea surface wind from surface reverberation signals

  • Na, Jung-Yul;Kim, Sang-Kyun
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.15 no.2E
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 1996
  • From the reverberation signals received in the shallower water, the surface scattered signals are identified by using the multipath eigneray model that provides launch angles, grazing angles and transmission loss from the high frequency directional source to and from the rough surface. For small scale surface waves, the perturbation method is used to compute the backscattering strength for various grazing angles and wind speeds. A scheme to inversely estimate the wind speed, by which the observed surface reverberation levels are produced, has been tested. In result, for low grazing angles the perturbation method can be used to predict the backscattering stregth, thereby the surface wind can be indirectly estimated.

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