• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.929-936
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• 2018

A basic characterization of uranium samples was performed using gamma- and X-ray spectroscopy. The studied uranium samples were eight types of certified reference materials with $^{235}U$ enrichments in the range of 1-97%, and the measurements were performed over 24 h using a high-resolution and high-purity planar germanium detector. A general peak analysis of the spectrum and the $XK_{\alpha}$ region of the uranium spectra was carried out by using HyperGam and HyperGam-U, respectively. The standard reference sources were used to calibrate the spectroscopy system. To obtain the absolute detection efficiency, an effective solid angle code, EXVol, was run for each sample. Hence, the peak activities and isotopic activities were determined, and then, the total U content and $^{234}U$, $^{235}U$, and $^{238}U$ isotopic contents were determined and compared with those of the certified reference values. A new method to determine the model age based on the ratio of the activities of $^{223}Ra$ and $^{235}U$ in the sample was studied, and the model age was compared with the known true age. In summary, the present study developed a method for basic characterization of uranium samples by nondestructive gamma-ray spectrometry in 24 h and to obtain information on the sample age.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.105-117
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• 2015

This paper presents a numerical characterization of real railway overhead cables based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Complete analysis of the aerodynamic coefficients of this type of cross section yields a more accurate modelling of pressure loads acting on moving cables than provided by current approaches used in design. Thus, the characterization of certain selected commercial cables is carried out in this work for different wind speeds and angles of attack. The aerodynamic lift and drag coefficients are herein determined for two different types of grooved cables, which establish a relevant data set for the railway industry. Finally, the influence of this characterization on the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) is proved, the static behavior of a catenary system is studied by means of the finite element method (FEM) in order to analyze the effect of different wind angles of attack on the stiffness distribution.

• Current Applied Physics
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.1261-1267
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• 2018

In this paper, an off-axis digital holographic microscopy compensated with self-hologram rotation is presented. The process is implemented via subtracting the unwrapped phase maps of the off-axis parabolic hologram and its rotation $180^{\circ}$ to eliminate the tilt induced by the angle between the spherical object wave O and the plane reference wave R. Merit of the proposed method is that it can be done without prior knowledge of physical parameters and hence can reconstruct a parabolic hologram of $1024{\times}768$ pixels within tens of milliseconds since it doesn't require a digital reference wave. The method is applied to characterize rough gold bumps and the obtained results were compared with those extracted from the conventional reconstruction method. The comparison showed that the proposed method can characterize rough surfaces with excellent contrast and in realtime. Merit of the proposed method is that it can be used for monitoring smaller biological cells and micro-fluidic devices.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.65-73
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• 2008

모바일 폰에서 사용되고 있는 카메라와 LCD 디스플레이의 정확한 색 재현을 위한 특성화 과정은 많이 알려져 있다. 카메라의 입력 신호인 CIEXYZ 색 자극 값을 LCD의 출력 신호인 CIEXYZ 값으로 정확하게 사상하기 위해서는 카메라와 LCD 특성화, 그리고 색역 사상 과정이 필요하다. 각 장치의 특성화는 입력 신호와 출력 신호 사이의 관계를 추정하는 과정이다. LCD의 경우 출력장치이기 때문에 임의의 입력에 대해 출력 색 자극 값을 측색기를 통해 측정이 가능하나 카메라와 같은 입력 장치인 경우 입력 신호를 생성할 수 없기 때문에 특성화 과정이 부정확하고 출력 신호의 획득과정에서 많은 수작업이 필요로 한다. 더욱이 노이즈에 민감한 카메라의 특성 때문에 색역 사상 후 카메라 모듈 생산 초기에 노이즈에 최적화된 감마 톤 커브가 왜곡이 되어 결과적으로 노이즈가 증가하게 된다. 이러한 문제들을 해결하고자 본 논문에서는 카메라의 출력 신호 획득 시스템과 노이즈 제거를 위한 부분적인 감마 보정 방법을 제안한다. 카메라의 출력 신호는 입력신호 사용되는 칼라 차트를 촬영하여 이미지에서의 패치 값을 읽어 획득한다. 그러나 촬영과정에서의 조명의 영향뿐만 아니라 다수의 카메라모듈에 대해 촬영 시 뷰파인더에서의 차트의 위치에 대한 오차가 발생하게 된다. 이러한 수작업에서 발생하는 오차를 보정하기 위해 카메라의 위치를 조성하는 시스템을 제안한다. 카메라의 위치는 촬영된 이미지로부터 추정 할 수 있으며 카메라의 이동과 위치 추정을 반복적으로 적용하면서 최적의 위치를 찾게 되고, 각 패치의 위치를 추정하여 출력 값을 획득한다. 또한 특성화로 인해 발생하는 노이즈를 줄이기 위하여 카메라의 출력 신호의 밝기 커브를 부분적으로 감마 커브를 조정한다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.590-590
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• 2013

Direct growth of graphene using CVD method has been done on CVD grown boron nitride substrate. From the SEM image, we have shown that the size of grain of graphene could be clearly controlled by varying the amount of injected hydrocarbon. To convince the existence of graphene on boron nitride, XPS and Raman has been checked. Both B1s and N1s peaks in XPS spectra and the Raman peak around 1,370 $cm^{-1}$ demonstrated that boron nitride did remain after high temperature treatment during the graphene growth process. And along the graphene grain boundary, the Raman fingerprint of graphene was neatly appeared.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2007년도 공동학술대회 논문집
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• pp.237-240
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• 2007

The evaluation of shear modulus (or shear wave velocity) profile of site is very important in the various fields of geotechnical engineering. To obtain shear wave velocity profile, various in-situ seismic methods using surface waves have been developed. These surface wave based in-situ seismic methods have their own strength and weakness. In this study, new seismic site characterization method using the harmonic wavelet analysis of wave (HWAW) was proposed to overcome some of weaknesses in the existing surface wave based seismic site characterization methods. HWAW method which is based on time-frequency analysis using harmonic wavelet transform have been developed to determine phase and group velocities of waves. In order to estimate the applicability of HWAW method, field tests were performed. Through field applications and comparison with other test results, the applicability of the proposed method were verified.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제29권1_2호
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• pp.126-131
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• 2002

주어진 문법이 LL 언어를 생성하는가의 문제를 LL 변환 가능성의 관점에서 조사한다. LL 변환 가능 문법을 특징짓기 위해 기존의 방법은 비결정적인(nondeterministic) 복잡한 파서의 생성을 필요로 한다. 이에 기존 방법으로는 LL 언어의 본질에 대한 직관적인 이해가 어렵다. 이 단점을 극복하고자 본 논문에선 파서의 생성 없이 문법 자체의 분석을 통한 문법 유도(derivation)에 근거한 특징화를 제시한다. 새로운 특징화는 LL 언어의 본질에 대한 직관적인 이해를 도울 수 있다.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.249-261
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• 2015

The mechanical characterization of composite materials is nowadays a major interest due to their increasing use in the aeronautic industry. The design of most of these materials is based on their stiffness, which is mainly obtained by means of tensile tests with strain gauge measurement. For thin laminated composites, this classical method requires adequate samples with specific orientation and does not provide all the independent elastic constants. Regarding ultrasonic characterization, especially immersion technique, only one specimen is needed and the entire determination of the stiffness tensor is possible. This paper presents a study of different methods to determine the mechanical properties of transversely isotropic carbon fibre composite materials (gauge and correlation strain measurement during tensile tests, ultrasonic immersion technique). Results are compared to ISO standards and manufacturer data to evaluate the accuracy of these techniques.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.48-56
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• 2011

In this study, we investigated the C-V diagrams and metal surface related to the electrochemistry characterization of metal(nickel, SUS-304). We determined electrochemical measurement by using cyclic voltammetry with a three-electrode system. A measuring range was reduced from initial potential to -1350mV, continuously oxidized to 1650 mV and measured to the initial point. The scan rate were 50, 100, 150, 200 and 250 mV/s. As a result, the C-V characterization of metal using N,N-dimethylacetamide and N,N-dimethylformamide inhibitors appeared irreversible process caused by the oxidation current from the cyclic voltammogram. After adding organic corrosion inhibitors, adsorption film constituted, and the passive phenomena happened. According to the results by cyclic voltammetry method, it was revealed that the addition of inhibitors containing amide functional group enhances the corrosion resistance properties.

• 한국전자파학회지:전자파기술
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2016

In the high-frequency characterizations of planar circuit components, measurement data may not be physical. It is mainly due to resonance effects concerned with discontinuities which are inevitable for a planar component characterization. In this paper, a novel accurate transmission line characterization method is presented that excludes the resonance effects based on measurement data reconfirmation. For the physically obvious data acquisition near the resonance frequencies of a transmission line, the additional lines with different line lengths are fabricated on the same substrate. The test transmission lines are characterized by using vector network analyzer (VNA) in 100 MHz to 26.5 GHz. It is shown that an accurate transmission line characterization can be achieved with the proposed measurement data reconfirmation technique.