• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.46.2-46.2
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• 2013

The neutral component of the interstellar medium (ISM) is segregated into the cold neutral medium (CNM) and warm neutral medium (WNM) as a result of thermal instability. It was found that the CNM--WNM evaporation interface, across which the CNM undergoes thermal expansion, is linearly unstable to corrugational disturbances, in complete analogy with the Darrieus-Landau instability (DLI) in terrestrial flames. To explore dynamical consequences of the DLI in the ISM, we perform a linear stability analysis of the DLI including the effect of thermal conduction as well as nonlinear hydrodynamic simulations. We find that the DLI is suppressed at short length scales via heat transport. The linear growth time of the fastest growing mode is proportional to the square of the evaporation flow speed of the CNM relative to the interface and is typically >10 Myr. In the nonlinear stage, perturbations grow into cusp-like structure protruding toward the WNM, and soon reach a steady state where the evaporation rate is increased by a factor of 2 compared to the initial state. We demonstrate that the amplitude of the interface distortion and enhancement in evaporation rate are determined primarily by the density ratio between the CNM and WNM. Given quite a long growth time and highly subsonic velocities at saturation, the DLI is unlikely to play an important role in the ISM dynamics.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02c
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• pp.25-29
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• 2008

A virtual prototyping (VP) system provides realistic 3D images of product. A virtual prototype, however, can only be operated using traditional input device like keyboards or mice and cannot present physical interface of the product. This paper describes a haptic dial system for virtual prototyping, which integrates haptic effects with virtual user interface to facilitate product development. A user can interface the virtual prototype with the motor-driven haptic dial with feeling like operating mechanical dial. This system will help product designers sketch user interfaces during the whole stage of product design.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.515-531
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• 2020

Due to the construction difficulties of steel reinforced concrete (SRC), a new composite structure of steel and steel fiber reinforced concrete (SSFRC) is proposed for solving construction problems of SRC. This paper aims to investigate the bond properties and composition of interfacial bond stress between steel and steel fiber reinforced concrete. Considering the design parameters of section type, steel fiber ratio, interface embedded length and concrete cover thickness, a total of 36 specimens were fabricated. The bond properties of specimens were studied, and three different methods of calculating interfacial bond stress were analyzed. The results show: relative slip first occurs at the free end; Bearing capacity of specimens increases with the increase of interface embedded length. While the larger interface embedded length is, the smaller the average bond strength is. The average bond strength increases with the increase of concrete cover thickness and steel fiber ratio. And calculation method 3 proposed in this paper can not only reasonably explain the hardening stage after the loading end curve yielding, but also can be applied to steel reinforced high-strength concrete (SRHC) and steel reinforced recycled coarse aggregate concrete (SRRAC).

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.133-140
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• 2015

Neural stimulating implantable medical devices (IMDs) have been widely used to treat neurological diseases or interface with sensory feedback for amputees or patients suffering from severe paralysis. More recent IMDs, such as retinal implants or brain-computer interfaces, demand higher performance to enable sophisticated therapies, while consuming power at higher orders of magnitude to handle more functions on a larger scale at higher rates, which limits the ability to supply the IMDs with primary batteries. Inductive power transmission across the skin is a viable solution to power up an IMD, while it demands high power efficiencies at every power delivery stage for safe and effective stimulation without increasing the surrounding tissue's temperature. This paper reviews various wireless neural stimulating systems and their power management techniques to maximize IMD power efficiency. We also explore both wireless electrical and optical stimulation mechanisms and their power requirements in implantable neural interface applications.

• International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.94-101
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• 2006

A theoretical investigation to find thermodynamically optimum design conditions of conduction-cooled Peltier current leads is performed. A Peltier current lead (PCL) is composed of a thermoelectric element (TE), a metallic lead and a high temperature superconductor (HTS) lead in the order of decreasing temperature. Mathematical expressions for the minimum heat flow per unit current crossing the TE-metal interface and the minimum heat flow per unit current from the metal lead to the joint of the metal and the HTS leads are obtained. It is shown that the temperature at the TE -metal interface possesses a unique optimal value that minimizes the heat flow to the joint and that this optimal value depends on the material properties of the TE and the metallic lead but not the joint temperature nor electric current. It is also shown that there exists a unique optimal value for the joint temperature between the metal and the HTS leads that minimizes the sum of the power dissipated by ohmic heating in the current leads and the refrigerator power consumed to cool the lead, for a given length of the HTS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1994.04a
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• pp.443-448
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• 1994

As a basic step of interfacing CAD and CAM, it is required to convert thedrawing data into manufacturing information automatically. In this study the developed system carries out feature recognition from the orthographic views of press mold containing various pockets. Using rhe recognized output data, 3 dimension- al model is built using ADS and AME in order to check the result of recognition. The system consists of 4 main parts, suchas, Preprocessing, Coordinate handling, Feature recognition and 3D-modeling. The system shows a good application example which can interface the design and manufacturing stage in CAD/CAM system on PC level

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.101-106
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• 2001

The integrated design system for injection molding has been studied. The current CAD system do not provide mold designers with necessary function for CAD/CAPP/CAE interface except the geometric modeling capability. This paper describes a feature-based CAD system for mold and moldbase design which enables the concurrent design and CIM, with integrated design procedure, at the initial design stage of injection molding A new design methodology and resulting feature data files for this design system are also discussed.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.67-73
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• 2000

This paper describes a scheduling support system for a plant where the machine environment may be modeled as non-identical parallel machine lines (NPML). That is, there are a number of stages in series with various different-capability-machines at each stage. Arriving continuously are jobs with their specific due dates, processing times and candidate processing machines. We’ve developed a real-time scheduling module in conjunction with a supporting production information system which supplies necessary data to the module. This scheduling module is one of the 9 modules in this system, and is composed of both a scheduling interface and a production monitoring interface. This module allows users to generate many candidate schedules by selecting their business policies. The selective arguments which are available consist of allocation costs, batch sizes and machine selection intervals. They are now being implemented at a powder metallurgy plant.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.711-715
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• 1995

In the concept design stage of the product design process, it is desirable that a designer makes alternative designs sufficiently, examines and analyzes them, and finally determines an appropriate design. To efficiently investigate several alternative designs, it should be facilitated to modify the model and transfer the model data to analysis program. In this research, a concept design process for tank is automated using I-DEAS feature-based modeling system from SDRC. Additionally, the facility for the pre-estimation of the performance of product, the useful volume calculation, the mass calculation, the confirmation of the allowable workspae, and the interface to analysis propram are developed using API functions of OPen-link and Open-data. Graphic User Interface (GUI) makes it extrmely easy to utilize functions.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.443-445
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• 2006

In this paper, we present a model-driven approach to RTOS(Real Time Operating System)-based embedded software development and an automated tool that can produce RTOS-specific code. we defined generic RTOS APIs(Application Programming Interface) that are not bound to any specific RTOS but can provide most of typical RTOS services. The generic RTOS APIs can be used as a means for describing application's RTOS-related behavior from design stage. Out tool, called Trans-PI, is able to produce specific 'C' code aimed at POSIX(Portable Operating System Interface for UNIX)-complicant RTOSs. And it is also configurable to target other RTOSs that do not conform to the POSIX standard.