• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.80-85
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• 1996

An externally applied magnetic field during annealing the $Nd_{2}Fe_{14}B/Fe_{3}B$ based spring magnet was found to enhance the exchange coupling between the hard and soft magnetic grains. More than 30 % increase in remanence values for melt-spun $Nd_{4}Fe_{73.5}Co_{3}(Hf_{1-x}-Ga_{x})B_{18.5}$(x=0, 0.5, 1.0) alloys was resulted from uniform distribution of $Fe_{3}B$, $\alpha$-Fe as well as $(Nd_{2}Fe_{14}B)$, and also from reduced grain size of those phases by 20 %. The result also showed that there is an optimum grain size exhibiting a high coercivity value which will be discussed in terms of previously simulated exchange coupling parameter.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.87-95
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• 2003

The fabrication process and the structure of PIN semiconductor detectors have been designed optimally by simulation for doping concentration and width of p+ layer, impurities re-contribution due to annealing and the current distribution due to guard ring at the sliced edges. The characteristics to radiation response has been also simulated in terms of Monte Carlo Method. The device has been fabricated on n type, $400\;{\Omega}cm$, orientation <100>, Floating-Zone silicon wafer using the simulation results. The leakage current density of $0.7nA/cm^2/100{\mu}m$ is achieved by this process. The good linearity of radiation response to Cs-137 was kept within the exposure ranges between 5 mR/h and 25 R/h. This proposed process could be applied for fabricating a PIN semiconductor detector for measuring individual dose.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.8-15
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• 2007

Freeway corridors consist of urban freeways and parallel arterials that drivers can use alternatively. Ramp metering in freeways and signal control in arterials are contemporary traffic control methods that have been developed and applied in order to improve traffic conditions of freeway corridors. However, most of the existing studies have focused on either optimal ramp metering in freeways, or progression signal strategies between arterial intersections. There have been no traffic control systems in Korea that integrates the freeway ramp metering and arterial signal control. The effective control strategies for freeway operations may cause negative effects on arterial traffic. On the other hand, traffic congestion and bottleneck phenomenon of arterials due to the increasing peak-hour travel demand and ineffective signal operation may generate an accessibility problem to freeway ramps. Thus, the main function of the freeway which is the through-traffic process has not been successful. The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated control model that connects freeway ramp metering systems and signal control systems in arterial intersections. And Optimization of integrated control model which consists of ramp metering and signal control is another purpose. The design of experiment, neural network, and simulated annealing are used for optimization.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.164-172
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• 2004

For a local search algorithm to find a bettor quality solution it is required to generate and evaluate a sufficiently large number of candidate solutions as neighbors at each iteration, demanding quite an amount of CPU time. This paper presents a method of selectively generating only good-looking candidate neighbors, so that the number of neighbors can be kept low to improve the efficiency of search. In our method, a newly generated candidate solution is probabilistically selected to become a neighbor based on the quality estimation determined heuristically by a very simple evaluation of the generated candidate. Experimental results on the problem of load balancing for production scheduling have shown that our candidate selection method outperforms other random or greedy selection methods in terms of solution quality given the same amount of CPU time.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.464-464
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• 2012

수문분야에 있어서 빈도해석의 목적은 특정 재현기간에 대한 발생 가능한 수문량의 규모를 파악하는데 있으며, 빈도해석의 정확도는 적합한 확률분포모형의 선택과 매개변수 추정방법에 의존하게 된다. 일반적으로 각 확률분포모형의 특성을 대표하는 매개변수를 추정하기 위해서는 모멘트 방법, 확률가중 모멘트 방법, 최대우도법 등을 이용하게 된다. 모멘트 방법에 의한 매개변수 추정은 해를 구하기 위한 과정이 단순한 반면, 비대칭형의 왜곡된 분포를 갖는 자료들에 대해서는 부정확한 결과를 나타내게 된다. 확률가중 모멘트 방법은 표본의 크기가 작거나 왜곡된 자료일 경우에도 비교적 안정적인 결과를 제공하는 반면, 확률 가중치가 정수로만 제한되는 단점을 갖고 있다. 그리고 대수 우도함수를 이용하여 매개변수를 추정하게 되는 최우도법은 가장 효율적인 매개변수 추정치를 얻을 수 있는 것으로 알려져 있으나, 비선형 연립방정식으로 표현되는 해를 구하기 위해서는 Newton-Raphson 방법을 사용하는 등 절차가 복잡하며, 때로는 수렴이 되지 않아 해룰 구하지 못하는 경우가 발생되게 된다. 이에 반해, 최근의 Genetic Algorithm, Ant Colony Optimization 및 Simulated Annealing과 같은 Meta-Heuristic Algorithm들은 복잡합 공학적 최적화 문제 있어서 효율적인 대안으로 주목받고 있으며, Hassanzadeh et al.(2011)에 의해 수문학적 빈도해석을 위한 매개변수 추정에 있어서도 그 적용성이 검증된바 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 연 최대강수 자료의 빈도해석에 적용되는 확률분포모형들의 매개변수 추정을 위해 Meta-Heuristic Algorithm을 적용하고자 함에 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 매개변수 추정을 위한 방법으로 Genetic Algorithm 및 Harmony Search를 적용하였고, 그 결과를 최우도법에 의한 결과와 비교하였다. GEV 분포를 이용하여 Simulation Test를 수행한 결과 Genetic Algorithm을 이용하여 추정된 매개변수들은 최우도법에 의한 결과들과 비교적 유사한 분포를 나타내었으나 과도한 계산시간이 요구되는 것으로 나타났다. 하지만 Harmony Search를 이용하여 추정된 매개변수들은 최우도법에 의한 결과들과 유사한 분포를 나타내었을 뿐만 아니라 계산시간 또한 매우 짧은 것으로 나타났다. 또한 국내 74개소의 강우관측소 자료와 Gamma, Log-normal, GEV 및 Gumbel 분포를 이용한 실증연구에 있어서도 Harmony Search를 이용한 매개변수 추정은 효율적인 매개 변수 추정치를 제공하는 것으로 나타났다.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.585-588
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• 2005

Titanium and Titanium alloys are widely used as an orthopedic and dental implant material because of their excellent biocompatibility and mechanical strength. In this study, ECAP Cp-Ti and Cp-Ti were heat treated for different annealing time of 30 min, 90 min and 3 hours. The grain size for each condition was studied. The micro-Vicker hardness test was carried out f3r each different heat treated samples. The micro-Vicker hardness test for ECAP Cp-Ti, Cp-Ti and Cp-Ti (3hr) revealed hardness values of 239.5, 182 and 144 Hv, respectively. The grain size was increased from approximately $70{\mu}m\;to\;300{\mu}m$ with the increase in heat treatment time from 30 min to 3 hours. The heat treated samples were tested for their biocompatibility in simulated body fluid (SBF) and corrosion rates was determined using Polarization Curve test (PCT). The PCT results showed Cp-Ti with comparatively high corrosion potential of -0.18 V and corresponding corrosion current of $2\times10^{-6}$ A, while the corrosion rate in ECAP Cp-Ti and Cp-Ti (30 min annealed) showed very similar results of corrosion potential about -0.47 V with corresponding corrosion current of $7\times10^{-8}$ A.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.34-41
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• 2016

Unlike the commonly used On/Off solenoid, constant attraction force which is independent of plunger displacement is a considerably important characteristic to proportional solenoid of the EPPR Valve. Attraction force uniformity is mainly affected by the internal shape design parameters. Due to a number of shape design parameters, the optimal parameter values are very complex and time consuming to find by trial and error method. Much research has been conducted or are still in progress to find the optimal parameter values by applying various optimization techniques like Genetic Algorithm, Evolution Strategy, Simulated Annealing, or the Taguchi method. In this paper, the design parameters which have primary effects on the attraction force uniformity and the average attraction force are decided by main effects analysis of Design of Experiments. Optimal parameter values are derived using finite-element analysis and a neural network model.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.979-983
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• 2001

Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus is a strictly anaerobic and thermophilic bacterium whose optimum temperature ranges over $65-68^{\circ}C.$ T. ethanolicus was known to contain a bipolar very long chain fatty acyl component such as $\alpha$, $\omega-1316-dimethyloctacosanedioate$, as one of the major membrane components. However, exact physiological role of this unusual component in the membrane remains unknown. Such a very long chain fatty acyl component, $\alpha$, ${\omega}-1316-dimethyloctacosanedioate$, dimethyl ester (DME C30), was isolated, and purified from the membrane of T. ethanolicus. As a function of added concentrations of the $\alpha$, $\omega-1316-dimethyloctacosanedioate$, dimethyl ester (DME C30) or cholesterol into the standard liposomes, the acyl chain ordering effect was investigated by the steady-state anisotropy with 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) as a fluorescent probe. Acyl chain order parameter (S) of vesicles containing DME C30 is higher comparing with phosphatidylcholine (PC) only vesicles. This result was discussed thermodynamically with the aid of the simulated annealing molecular dynamics simulations. Through the investigation of all the possible conformational changes of DME C30 or cholesterol, we showed that DME C30 is very flexible and its conformation is variable depending on the temperature comparing with cholesterol, which is rigid and restricted at overall temperature. We propose that the conformational change of DME C30, not the configurational change, may be involved in the regulation of the membrane fluidity against the changes of external temperature.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.83-109
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• 2013

A simple damper optimization method is proposed to find optimal damper allocation for shear buildings under both target added damping ratio and interstorey drift ratio (IDR). The damping coefficients of added dampers are considered as design variables. The cost, which is defined as the sum of damping coefficient of added dampers, is minimized under a target added damping ratio and the upper and the lower constraint of the design variables. In the first stage of proposed algorithm, Simulated Annealing, Nelder Mead and Differential Evolution numerical algorithms are used to solve the proposed optimization problem. The candidate optimal design obtained in the first stage is tested in terms of the IDRs using linear time history analyses for a design earthquake in the second stage. If all IDRs are below the allowable level, iteration of the algorithm is stopped; otherwise, the iteration continues increasing the target damping ratio. By this way, a structural response IDR is also taken into consideration using a snap-back test. In this study, the effects of the selection of upper limit for added dampers, the storey mass distribution and the storey stiffness distribution are all investigated in terms of damper distributions, cost function, added damping ratio and IDRs for 6-storey shear building models. The results of the proposed method are compared with two existing methods in the literature. Optimal designs are also compared with uniform designs according to both IDRs and added damping ratios. The numerical results show that the proposed damper optimization method is easy to apply and is efficient to find optimal damper distribution for a target damping ratio and allowable IDR value.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.115-126
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• 2016

In the process of ship building, it is known that the maintenance of working period and saving cost are one of the important part during the logistics of blocks transportation. Precise operational planning inside the shipyard plays a big role for a smooth transportation of blocks. But many problems arise in the process of block transportation such as the inevitable road damage during the transportation of the blocks, unpredictable stockyard utilization of the road associated with a particular lot number, addition of unplanned blocks. Therefore, operational plan needs to be re-established frequently in real time for an efficient block management. In order to find the shortest path between lot numbers, there are several representative methods such as Floyd algorithm that has the characteristics of many-to-many mapping, Dijkstra algorithm that has the characteristic of one-to-many mapping, and the A* algorithm which has the one-to-one mapping, but many authors have published without the mutual comparisons of these algorithms. In this study, some appropriate comparison have been reviewed about the advantages and disadvantages of these algorithms in terms of precision and cost analysis of calculating the paths and planning system to operate the transporters. The flexible operating plan is proposed to handle a situation such as damaged path, changing process during block transportation. In addition, an operational algorithm of a vacant transporter is proposed to cover the shortest path in a minimum time considering the situation of transporter rotation for practical use.