• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.229-236
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• 2017

This paper deals with the design and implementation of an efficient topology for cascaded multilevel inverters with reduced part counts. In the proposed design, a well-established basic unit is first developed. The series extension of this unit results in the formation of the proposed multilevel inverter. The proposed design minimizes the number of power electronic components including insulated-gate bipolar transistors and gate driver circuits, which in turn cuts down the size of the inverter assembly and reduces the operating power losses. An explicit control strategy with enhanced device efficiency is also acquired. Thus, the part count reductions enhance not only the economical merits but also the technical features of the entire system. In order to accomplish the desired operational aspects, three algorithms are considered to determine the magnitudes of the dc voltage sources effectively. The proposed topology is compared with the conventional cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter topology, to reflect the merits of the presented structure. In continue, both the analytical and experimental results of a cascaded 31-level structure are analyzed. The obtained results are discussed in depth, and the exemplary performance of the proposed structure is corroborated.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권1A호
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• pp.25-37
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• 2008

역량스펙트럼 방법은 그래픽적인 방법으로 간단하게 지진해석을 수행한다. 개발 초기에 역량스펙트럼 방법은 빌딩구조물에 주로 사용되었으나 최근에는 교량구조물에도 사용할 수 있도록 확장되었다. 역량스펙트럼 방법은 비탄성 정적해석으로부터 구한 역량곡선과 유효감쇠 혹은 강도감소계수를 사용하여 선형탄성 설계스펙트럼을 감소시켜 구한 요구도 스펙트럼에 기반을 두고 있다. 본 논문에서는 감소된 요구도 스펙트럼은 강도감소계수에 대한 몇 개의 제안식을 사용하여 구한 비탄성 요구도 스펙트럼을 사용한다. 역량스펙트럼 해석에 대한 강도감소계수의 영향은 세가지 종류의 대칭 및 비대칭 교량에 대하여 평가하였다. 몇 개의 강도감소계수를 적용한 역량스펙트럼 방법의 정확성을 평가하기 위하여, 역량스펙트럼 방법에 의한 최대변위를 8개의 인공지진에 의한 비탄성 시간이력해석 결과와 비교하였다. 강도감소계수 제안식 중 SJ 제안식에 의한 역량스펙트럼 해석의 최대변위가 비탄성 시간이력해석 결과와 가장 일치하는 결과를 나타냄을 알 수 있었다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.443-462
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• 2015

Some model building codes stipulate that the design displacement of a building can be computed using the elastic static analysis results multiplied by the deflection amplification factor, $C_d$. This approach for estimating the design displacement is essential and appealing in structural engineering practice when nonlinear response history analysis (NRHA) is not required. Furthermore, building codes stipulate the consideration of accidental torsion effects using accidental eccentricity, whether the buildings are symmetric-plan, or asymmetric-plan. In some model building codes, the accidental eccentricity is further amplified by the torsional amplification factor $A_x$ in order to minimize the discrepancy between statically and dynamically estimated responses. Therefore, this warrants exploration of the reliability of statically estimated design displacements in accordance with the building code requirements. This study uses the discrepancy curves as a way of assessing the reliability of the design displacement estimates resulting from the factors $C_d$ and $A_x$. The discrepancy curves show the exceedance probabilities of the differences between the statically estimated design displacements and NRHA results. The discrepancy curves of 3-story, 9-story, and 20-story example buildings are investigated in this study. The example buildings are steel special moment frames with frequency ratios equal to 0.7, 1.0, 1.3, and 1.6, as well as existing eccentricity ratios ranging from 0% to 30%.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.635-659
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• 2015

In this study, natural frequency analysis of a large deflected cantilever laminated composite beam fixed at both ends, which forms the case of a pre-stressed curved beam, is investigated. The laminated beam is considered to have symmetric and asymmetric lay-ups and the effective flexural modulus of the beam is used in the analysis. In order to obtain the pre-stressed composite curved beam case, an external vertical concentrated load is applied at the free end of a cantilever laminated composite beam and then the loading point of the deflected beam is fixed. The non-linear deflection curve of the flexible beam undergoing large deflection is obtained by the Reversion Method. The curved laminated composite beam is modeled by using the Finite Element Method with a straight-beam element approach. The effects of orientation angle and vertical load on the natural frequency parameter for the first four modes are examined and the results obtained are given in graphics. It has been found that the effect of the load parameter, which forms the curved laminated beam, on the natural frequency parameter, almost disappears after a certain value of the load parameter. This certain value differs for each laminated curved beam and each vibration mode.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.1091-1114
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• 2015

The adequacy of a number of advanced earthquake Intensity Measures (IMs) to predict the structural damage of earthquake resistant 3D R/C buildings is investigated in the present paper. To achieve this purpose three symmetric in plan and three asymmetric 5-storey R/C buildings are analyzed by nonlinear time history analysis using 74 bidirectional earthquake records. The two horizontal accelerograms of each ground motion are applied along the structural axes of the buildings and the structural damage is expressed in terms of the maximum and average interstorey drift as well as the overall structural damage index. For each individual pair of accelerograms the values of the aforementioned seismic damage measures are determined. Then, they are correlated with several strong motion scalar IMs that take into account both earthquake and structural characteristics. The research identified certain IMs which exhibit strong correlation with the seismic damage measures of the studied buildings. However, the degree of correlation between IMs and the seismic damage depends on the damage measure adopted. Furthermore, it is confirmed that the widely used spectral acceleration at the fundamental period of the structure is a relatively good IM for medium rise R/C buildings that possess small structural eccentricity.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2017

Historical earthquakes have shown that successive seismic events may occur in regions of high seismicity. Such a sequence of earthquakes has the potential to increase the damage level of the structures, since any rehabilitation between the successive ground motions is practically impossible due to lack of time. Few studies about this issue can be found in literature, most of which focused their attention on the seismic response of SDOF systems or planar frame structures. The aim of the present study is to examine the impact of seismic sequences on the damage level of 3D multistorey R/C buildings with various structural systems. For the purposes of the above investigation a comprehensive assessment is conducted using three double-symmetric and three asymmetric in plan medium-rise R/C buildings, which are designed on the basis of the current seismic codes. The buildings are analyzed by nonlinear time response analysis using 80 bidirectional seismic sequences. In order to account for the variable orientation of the seismic motion, the two horizontal accelerograms of each earthquake record are applied along horizontal orthogonal axes forming 12 different angles with the structural axes. The assessment of the results revealed that successive ground motions can lead to significant increase of the structural damage compared to the damage caused by the corresponding single seismic events. Furthermore, the incident angle can radically alter the successive earthquake phenomenon depending on the special characteristics of the structure, the number of the sequential earthquakes, as well as the distance of the record from the fault.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.17-29
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• 2012

The effects of strain rate and preferential diffusion of $H_2$ on flame extinction are numerically studied in interacting premixed syngas-air flames with fuel compositions of 50% $H_2$ + 50% CO and 30% $H_2$ + 70% CO. Flame stability diagrams mapping lower and upper limit fuel concentrations at flame extinction as a function of strain rate are examined. Increasing strain rate reduces the boundaries of both flammable lean and rich fuel concentrations and produces a flammable island and subsequently even a point, implying that there exists a limit strain rate over which interacting flame cannot be sustained anymore. Even if effective Lewis numbers are slightly larger than unity on extinction boundaries, the shape of the lean extinction boundary is slanted even at low strain rate, i.e. $a_g=30s^{-1}$ and is more slanted in further increase of strain rate, implying that flame interaction on lean extinction boundary is strong and thus hydrogen (as a deficient reactant) Lewis number much less than unity plays an important role of flame interaction. It is also shown that effects of preferential diffusion of $H_2$ cause flame interaction to be stronger on lean extinction boundaries and weaker on rich extinction boundaries. Detailed analyses are made through the comparison between flame structures with and without the restriction of the diffusivities of $H_2$ and H in symmetric and asymmetric fuel compositions. The reduction of flammable fuel compositions in increase of strain rate suggests that the mechanism of flame extinction is significant conductive heat loss from the stronger flame to ambience.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.1093-1100
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• 2008

블록 암호를 설계하는 방식으로 크게 Feistel 구조와 SPN 구조로 나눌 수 있다. Feistel 구조는 암호 및 복호 알고리즘이 같은 구조이고, SPN구조는 암호 및 복호 알고리즘이 다르다. 본 논문에서는 암호와 복호 과정이 동일한 SPN 구조 블록 암호 알고리즘을 제안한다. 즉 SPN 구조 전체를 짝수인 N 라운드로 구성하고 1 라운드부터 N/2라운드까지는 정함수를 사용하고, (N/2)+1 라운드부터 N 라운드까지는 역함수를 사용한다. 또한 정함수 단과 역함수 단 사이에 대칭 블록을 구성하는 대칭 단을 삽입한다. 본 논문에서 정함수로는 안전성이 증명된 AES의 암호 알고리즘을, 역함수로는 AES의 복호 알고리즘을 사용하고, 대칭 단은 32 비트 회전과 간단한 논리연산을 사용하여 비선형성을 증가시켜 바이트 또는 워드 단위의 공격에 강하게 한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 암호와 복호가 동일한 대칭 구조 SPN 알고리즘은 하드웨어 구성이 간단한 장점을 가지므로 제한적 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어 환경인 스마트카드와 전자 칩이 내장된 태그와 같은 RFID 환경에서 안전하고 효율적인 암호를 구성할 수 있다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.177-182
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• 2007

본 논문은 InGaP/GaAs HBT 공정을 통해 제작한 적응성궤환 잡음제거시스템용 낮은 위상잡음을 갖는 LC 차동 전압제어 발진기를 제안합니다. 전압제어 발진기는 필터링 기술을 포함한 향상된 공진 탱크 구조를 갖습니다. 비대칭 인덕터 대칭 캐패시터 구조로 제안된 전압제어 발진기의 출력 가변 범위는 207 MHz입니다. 출력 전력은 balun과 케이블 손실을 포함하여 -6.68 dBm입니다. 10 kHz, 100 kHz, 1 MHz에서의 위상잡음은 각각 -102.02, -112.04 그리고 -130.4 dBc/Hz입니다. 이 전압제어 발진기는 총 $0.9{\times}0.9mm^2$ 면적 내에 집적화되었습니다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.329-342
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• 2017

In this paper, the dispersion characteristics of elastic waves propagation in sandwich nano-beams with functionally graded (FG) face-sheets reinforced with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is investigated based on various high order shear deformation beam theories (HOSDBTs) as well as nonlocal strain gradient theory (NSGT). In order to align CNTs as symmetric and asymmetric in top and bottom face-sheets with respect to neutral geometric axis of the sandwich nano-beam, various patterns are employed in this analysis. The sandwich nano-beam resting on Pasternak foundation is subjected to thermal, magnetic and electrical fields. In order to involve small scale parameter in governing equations, the NSGT is employed for this analysis. The governing equations of motion are derived using Hamilton's principle based on various HSDBTs. Then the governing equations are solved using analytical method. A detailed parametric study is conducted to study the effects of length scale parameter, different HSDBTs, the nonlocal parameter, various aligning of CNTs in thickness direction of face-sheets, different volume fraction of CNTs, foundation stiffness, applied voltage, magnetic intensity field and temperature change on the wave propagation characteristics of sandwich nano-beam. Also cut-off frequency and phase velocity are investigated in detail. According to results obtained, UU and VA patterns have the same cut-off frequency value but AV pattern has the lower value with respect to them.