• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.13 no.6 s.59
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• pp.415-420
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• 2006

Nanostructured metallic materials are synthesized by bottom-up processing which starts with powders for assembling bulk materials or top-down processing starting with a bulk solid. A representative bottom-up and top-down paths for bulk nanostructured/ultrafine grained metallic materials are powder consolidation and severe plastic deformation (SPD) methods, respectively. In this study, the bottom-up powder and top-down SPD approaches were combined in order to achieve both full density and grain refinement without grain growth, which were considered as a bottle neck of the bottom-up method using conventional powder metallurgy of compaction and sintering. For the powder consolidation, equal channel angular pressing (ECAP), one of the most promising method in SPD, was used. The ECAP processing associated with stress developments was investigated. ECAP for powder consolidation were numerically analyzed using the finite element method (FEM) in conjunction with pressure and shear stress.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.27-37
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• 2011

Presented in this study is a top-down functional modeling procedure and the desired functionalities of energy management system (EMS). For the purpose of top-down modeling for EMS, energy management system is categorized into 7 subsystems based on common functionalities and energy management life cycle. After that, benchmarking analysis of commercially major EMS products is conducted. As a result of this analysis, desired functionalities of each subsystem of EMS are suggested in this study. This study is served as a useful guidance about essential functional requirements of energy management system to the practitioners involved in the development or introduction of EMS.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1996.05d
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• pp.555-560
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• 1996

막대한 연구재원이 소요되는 원자력 개발분야에서 세계 초일류수준을 유지하고 있는 선진 원자력 연구개발사업기관들은 하나같이 종래에 도입한 "원자력 품질보증체제"를 확대시켜 "품질 무한경쟁시대"에 부응하는 "종합적 품질경영체제"를 도입하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 효율적인 연구소 경쟁력제고 방안도출을 위한 노력의 일환으로 현재 Total Quality Management(TQM) 체제를 도입하고 있는 해외의 ORNL(Oak Ridge National Laboratory), AECL(Atomic Energy of Canada Limited), ABB CE(Asea Brown Boveri Combustion Engineering), DNA(Defense Nuclear Agency)등을 방문한 결과를 토대로 연구소적 TQM체제 성공과 실패의 원인을 분석하여 도입당시의 추진조직, 추진전략, 추진효과에 대해 체계적으로 비교 분석하여 한국정서에 부합된 연구소적 성공 TQM체제 모델을 도출코져 시도하였다. 분석결과 이들 기관들은 TQM 추진을 위하여 먼저 단계별로 단기, 중기, 장기 계획을 수립하고, TQM 실무위원회를 구성하여, 최고경영자가 직접지휘하는 Top-down 방식의 TQM 추진으로 품질문제를 사전에 예방하고 있었다. TQM 도입 초기 실무부서로 부터의 적잖은 저항과 애로사항이 도출되어 많은 시행착오를 거쳤으며 지금은 TQM 정착단계에 있었다. 이러한 과정에서 원자력 선진기관들은 전사적인 TQM 교육을 통해 철저한 TQM 마인드를 고취시켰고 전 부서의 업무가 전사적 TQM 차원에서 수행되었다. 우리나라 원자력기관에서의 바람직한 TQM 도입 모델로서 첫째, 전직원 대상 TQM 교육실시를 통한 TQM 인식고취, 둘째, TQM 성공체제로서 "경영품질"에 초점을 맞춘 관리시스템 확보, 셋째, 동서문화 차이를 고려한 Bottom-up '||'&'||' Top-down 혼합방식을 제시하였다.ottom-up & Top-down 혼합방식을 제시하였다.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.325-333
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• 2015

Vision based night-time vehicle detection has been an emerging research field in various advanced driver assistance systems(ADAS) and automotive vehicle as well as automatic head-lamp control. In this paper, we propose night-time vehicle detection method based on multi-class support vector machine(SVM) that consists of thresholding, labeling, feature extraction, and multi-class SVM. Vehicle light candidate blobs are extracted by local mean based thresholding following by labeling process. Seven geometric and stochastic features are extracted from each candidate through the feature extraction step. Each candidate blob is classified into vehicle light or not by multi-class SVM. Four different multi-class SVM including one-against-all(OAA), one-against-one(OAO), top-down tree structured and bottom-up tree structured SVM classifiers are implemented and evaluated in terms of vehicle detection performances. Through the simulations tested on road video sequences, we prove that top-down tree structured and bottom-up tree structured SVM have relatively better performances than the others.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.1401-1406
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• 2013

This study tested the feasibility of observing H/D exchange of intact protein by top-down electron capture dissociation (ECD) mass spectrometry for the investigation of protein structure. Ubiquitin is selected as a model system. Local structural information was obtained from the deuteration levels of c and $z^{\cdot}$ ions generated from ECD. Our results showed that ${\alpha}$-helix region has the lowest deuteration level and the C-terminal fraction containing a highly mobile tail has the highest deuteration level, which correlates well with previous X-Ray and HDX/NMR analyses. We studied site-specific H/D exchange kinetics by monitoring H/D exchange rate of several structural motives of ubiquitin. Two hydrogen bonded ${\beta}$-strands showed similar HDX rates. However, the outer ${\beta}$-strand always has higher deuteration level than the inner ${\beta}$-strand. The HDX rate of the turn structure (residues 8-11) is lower than that of ${\beta}$-strands (residues 1-7 and residues 12-17) it connects. Although isotopic distribution gets broader after H/D exchange which results in a limited number of backbone cleavage sites detected, our results demonstrate that this method can provide valuable detailed structural information of proteins. This approach should also be suitable for the structural investigation of other unknown proteins, protein conformational changes, as well as protein-protein interactions and dynamics.

• Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.111-126
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• 2017

This study analyzes the impacts of agricultural water shortages in Korea using a combined top-down and bottom-up model. A multi-region multi-output agricultural sector model with detailed descriptions of production technologies and water and land resource constraints has been combined with a standard CGE model. The impacts of four different water shortage scenarios were simulated. It is shown that an active adaptation of crop choices occurs in even the regions with relatively abundant water resources in order to respond to the change in relative output prices caused by water shortages. We found that although the losses in production values are not quite large despite water shortages due to the price feedbacks, the loss in GDP is substantial. We show that our combined approach has advantages in deriving region and product specific production effects as well as the overall GDP loss effect of water shortages.

• 한국도로학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.93-102
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• 2008

An energy based crack growth model is developed in this study to simulate the propagation of top-down cracking in asphalt pavements. A viscoelastic fracture mechanics approach, generalized J integral, is employed to model the crack growth of asphalt concrete. Laboratory fatigue crack propagation tests for three different asphalt mixtures are performed at various load levels, frequencies and temperatures. Disk-shaped specimens with a proper loading fixture and crack growth monitoring system are selected for the tests. It is observed from the tests that the crack propagation model based on the generalized J integral is independent of load levels and frequencies, while the traditional Paris' law model based on stress intensity factor is dependent of loading frequencies. However, both models are unable to take care of the temperature dependence of the mixtures. The fatigue crack propagation model proposed in this study has a good agreement between experimental and predicted crack growth lives, which implies that the energy based J integral could be a better parameter to describe fatigue crack propagation of viscoelastic materials such as asphalt mixtures.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.153-159
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• 2004

In this study, a new process to pattern directly on a thin metal layer using improved nano replication printing (nRP) process is suggested to evaluate the possibilities of fabricating a stamp for nano-imprinting. In the nRP process, any figure can be replicated from a bitmap figure file in the range of several micrometers with nano-scaled details. In the process, liquid-state resins are polymerized by two-photon absorption which is induced by femto-second laser. A thin gold layer was sputtered on a glass plate and then, designed patterns or figures were developed on the gold layer by newly developed top-down building approach. Generally, stamps fur nano-imprinting have been fabricated by using the costly electron-beam lithography process combined with a reactive ion-etching process. Through this study, the effectiveness of the improved nRP process is evaluated to make a stamp with the resolution of around 200nm with reduced cost.

• Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.776-783
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• 2011

In a natural water body, a useful ecotechnology to reduce standing crops of phytoplankton is to strengthen the top-down force of zooplankton. However, the predation of fish for zooplankton can make the force weak. This study was conducted to find out the effect of fish on the grazing pressure of zooplankton in the mesocosms established in a eutrophic stream (Kyongan Stream) from October to November in 2010. In the corral with fish, chlorophyll a concentration increased, and a small size cladoceran Bosmina longirostris was dominant. In the corral without fish, chlorophyll a concentration decreased along with the domination of a large cladoceran Daphnia galeata and a large copepod Eudiaptomus japonicus. The size-selective predation of fish appeared to miniaturize the zooplankton community, to narrow their food-size spectrum, and to weaken the top-down force.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.489-503
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• 2022

A 1257-m-long irregular deep foundation pit located in the central of Nanjing, China was constructed using the combined full-width and half-width top-down method. Based on the long-term field monitoring data, this study analyzed the evolution characteristics of the vertical movement of the columns, internal force of the struts, and axial force of the structural beam and slab. The relevance of the three mentioned above and their relationship with the excavation process, structural system, and geological conditions were also investigated. The results showed that the column uplift was within the range of 0.08% to 0.22% of the excavation depth, and the embedded depth ratio of the diaphragm wall and the bottom heave affected significantly on the column uplift. The differential settlement between the column and diaphragm wall remained unchanged after the base slab was cast. The final settlement of the diaphragm wall was twice the column uplift. The internal force of the struts did not varied monotonically but was related to numerous factors such as the excavation depth, number of struts, and environmental conditions. Additionally, the dynamic force and deformation of the columns, beams, and slabs were analyzed to investigate the inherent relationship and variation patterns of the responses of different parts of the structure.