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Top-Down Crack Modeling of Asphalt Concrete based on a Viscoelastic Fracture Mechanics

  • Kuai, Hai Dong;Lee, Hyn-Jong;Zi, Goang-Seup;Mun, Sung-Ho
    • 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.

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Adapted Sequential Pattern Mining Algorithms for Business Service Identification (비즈니스 서비스 식별을 위한 변형 순차패턴 마이닝 알고리즘)

  • Lee, Jung-Won
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.87-99
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    • 2009
  • The top-down method for SOA delivery is recommended as a best way to take advantage of SOA. The core step of SOA delivery is the step of service modeling including service analysis and design based on ontology. Most enterprises know that the top-down approach is the best but they are hesitant to employ it because it requires them to invest a great deal of time and money without it showing any immediate results, particularly because they use well-defined component based systems. In this paper, we propose a service identification method to use a well-defined components maximally as a bottom-up approach. We assume that user's inputs generates events on a GUI and the approximate business process can be obtained from concatenating the event paths. We first find the core GUIs which have many outgoing event calls and form event paths by concatenating the event calls between the GUIs. Next, we adapt sequential pattern mining algorithms to find the maximal frequent event paths. As an experiment, we obtained business services with various granularity by applying a cohesion metric to extracted frequent event paths.

Estimating Non-Ideal Effects within a Top-Down Methodology for the Design of Continuous-Time Delta-Sigma Modulators

  • Na, Seung-in;Kim, Susie;Yang, Youngtae;Kim, Suhwan
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.319-329
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    • 2016
  • High-level design aids are mandatory for design of a continuous-time delta-sigma modulator (CTDSM). This paper proposes a top-down methodology design to generate a noise transfer function (NTF) which is compensated for excess loop delay (ELD). This method is applicable to low pass loop-filter topologies. Non-ideal effects including ELD, integrator scaling issue, finite op-amp performance, clock jitter and DAC inaccuracies are explicitly represented in a behavioral simulation of a CTDSM. Mathematical modeling using MATLAB is supplemented with circuit-level simulation using Verilog-A blocks. Behavioral simulation and circuit-level simulation using Verilog-A blocks are used to validate our approach.

Systematic Design of High-Resolution High-Frequency Cascade Continuous-Time Sigma-Delta Modulators

  • Tortosa, Ramon;Castro-Lopez, Rafael;De La Rosa, J.M.;Roca, Elisenda;Rodriguez-Vazquez, Angel;Fernandez, F.V.
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.535-545
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    • 2008
  • This paper introduces a systematic top-down and bottom-up design methodology to assist the designer in the implementation of continuous-time (CT) cascade sigma-delta (${\Sigma}{\Delta}$) modulators. The salient features of this methodology are (a) flexible behavioral modeling for optimum accuracy-efficiency trade-offs at different stages of the top-down synthesis process, (b) direct synthesis in the continuous-time domain for minimum circuit complexity and sensitivity, (c) mixed knowledge-based and optimization-based architectural exploration and specification transmission for enhanced circuit performance, and (d) use of Pareto-optimal fronts of building blocks to reduce re-design iterations. The applicability of this methodology will be illustrated via the design of a 12-bit 20 MHz CT ${\Sigma}{\Delta}$ modulator in a 1.2 V 130 nm CMOS technology.

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PSPICE Modeling of Commercial ICs for Switch-Mode Power Supply (SMPS) Design and Simulation

  • Yi, Yun-Jae;Yu, Yun-Seop
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.74-77
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    • 2011
  • PSPICE modeling of a commercial LED driver IC (TOP245P) and PC817A optocoupler is proposed for the switch-mode power supply (SMPS) (applicable to LED driver) design and simulation. An analog behavioral model of the TOP245P IC including the shunt regulator, under-voltage(UV) detection, over-voltage(OV) shut-down and SR flip-flop is developed by using PSPICE. The empirical equation of PC817A current transfer ratio (CTR) is fitted from the datasheet of PC817A. Two types of SMPSs are simulated with the averaged-model and switching-model. The simulation results by the proposed PSPICE models are in good agreement with those in the data sheet and an experimental data.

Exploration of the application possibility of curriculum with mathematical modeling through coding activities

  • Kim, Dong-Joong;Kim, Won;Jung, Jae young;Choi, Sang-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.241-250
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, we propose a direction of teaching method for future generations. In order to suggest such the direction, teaching and learning materials that integrate coding activities and mathematical modeling were developed through top-down and bottom-up processes. Coding and engineering experts and mathematics education experts developed teaching and learning materials through councils (top-down courses) and applied them to 24 high school first graders based on student responses (bottom-up courses). Additionally, the developed curriculum helped students increase interest and motivation and realize conceptual understanding, problem posing, and problem solving in mathematics. On the basis of these results, it provided an idea about how to develop curriculum combining mathematical modeling with coding activities, needed for the fourth industrial revolution.

Relative Importance of Bottom-up vs. Top-down Controls on Size-structured Phytoplankton Dynamics in a Freshwater Ecosystem: II. Investigation of Controlling Factors using Statistical Modeling Analysis (담수성 식물플랑크톤의 크기별 동태에 대한 상향식, 하향식 조절간의 상대적 중요도 조사: II. 통계 모델링 분석을 이용한 조절인자 분석)

  • Song, Eun-Sook;Lim, Jang-Seob;Chang, Nam-Ik;Sin, Yong-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Ecology and Environment
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    • v.38 no.4 s.114
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    • pp.445-453
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    • 2005
  • Relative importance between bottom-up and top-down controls on phytoplankton dynamics was investigated in the Juam Reservoir, Chonnam based on the results from statistical analyses including regression and artificial neural network (ANN) modeling. Effects of nutrients on size-structured phytoplankton dynamics were explored by simple linear regression analysis and relative importance between bottom-up and top-down controls was estimated based on results from the artificial neural network analyses. Although there is a limitation in determining direct grazing effects since chlorophyll a : pheopigments ratios, indirect index for grazing activity rather than grazing rates or herbivores biomass were used, the results from regression analysis showed that nutrients especially orthophosphates were positively correlated with the phytoplankton biomass and chlorophyll a : pheopigments ratios were also positively correlated with the phytoplankton biomass at lower coefficient of determination ($r^2$) compared to orthophosphates. The simulation results from ANN suggested that the bottom-up mechanisms including water temperature and availability of nutrients, especially orthophosphates were more important than top-down mechanisms such as grazing in the phytoplankton dynamics.

Performance Evaluation of Set-top Box Energy Saving using Poisson Process Modeling (포아송 프로세스 모델링을 통한 셋톱박스 에너지 절감 성능 분석)

  • Kim, Yong-Ho;Kim, Hoon
    • Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2011
  • This paper considers a performance analysis of set-top box (STB) power saving schemes. STB converts the signal into content which is then displayed on the television (TV) screen, and there are typically two operation modes: on mode and stand-by mode. The total energy consumption (TEC), a typical measure of power consumption of STB, is defined by the sum of power consumption in each mode. Recently there are some works of STB power saving schemes that transit STB operation modes efficiently, and the mode transition time point of those schemes can be different. Thus it is required to develop a performance evaluation method that reflects mode transition time points of each scheme to get TEC correctly. This paper proposes a performance evaluation method for STB power consumption using Poisson process to consider the mode transition time point. By modeling STB mode transitions as events of Poisson process, the average time duration of STB mode is computed and accordingly the effect of power saving is evaluated. The performance evaluation result shows that the proposed method achieves 1 to 19% improvement in power consumption compared with a conventional performance evaluation method.

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Two-Dimensional Model of Hidden Markov Mesh

  • Sin, Bong-Kee
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.02a
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    • pp.772-779
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    • 2006
  • The new model proposed in this paper is the hidden Markov mesh model or the 2D HMM with the causality of top-down and left-right direction. With the addition of the causality constraint, two algorithms for the evaluation of a model and the maximum likelihood estimation of model parameters have been developed theoretically which are based on the forward-backward algorithm. It is a more natural extension of the 1D HMM than other 2D models. The proposed method will provide a useful way of modeling highly variable image patterns such as offline cursive characters.

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