• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2009

Purpose: This study compared the characteristics of the brake response time during the driving task between elderly and younger drivers. Methods: The participants consisted of an elderly group (n=12) and a younger group (n=12). The brake response time (BRT), which consisted of the reaction time (RT) and movement time (MT), was assessed in an actual driving car. The BRT was measured at the initiation and termination of the brake response for the driving task Results: The elderly group showed a significantly longer delay in the initiation and termination of the brake response than the younger group. The BRT correlated significantly with both the RT and MT. However, the RT showed a more significant correlation. Conclusion: A delay in the initiation and termination of the brake response may have clinical implications. A further study will be needed to determine the different factors contributing to the driving performance of elderly drivers.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.329-337
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• 2002

본 연구는 국내에서 차량의 안전주행을 유도하기 위하여 곡선교, 고가차도 등의 포장면에 설치하는 미끄럼방지포장이 강상자형 교량에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위하여 강상자형 교량에서 현장재하시험과 전산구조해석을 실시, 상호 비교함으로서 강상자형 교량의 동적 응답을 분석하였다. 강상자형 교량의 현장재하시험에서는 미끄럼방지포장전후의 고유진동수와 동적처짐을 측정하였으며 전산구조해석에서는 현장재하시험 교량의 제원을 입력값으로 하여 미끄럼방지포장전후의 동적응답을 해석하여 현장재하시험과 상호 비교 분석하였다. 본 연구는 분석한 자료를 바탕으로 미끄럼방지포장과 같은 도로시설물이 교량의 동적응답에 미치는 영향에 대해 기초자료를 제시하는데 그 목적이 있다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.90-96
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• 2016

This study proposes a dynamic reliability analysis of control system as a method of quantitative evaluation of its performance in probabilistic terms. In this dynamic reliability analysis, the failure event is defined as an event that the dynamic response of the structural system exceeds a displacement limit, whereas the conventional reliability analysis method has limitations that do not properly assess the actual time history response of the structure subjected to dynamic loads, such as earthquakes and high winds, by taking the static response into account in the failure event. In this first paper, we discuss the control effect of the viscous damper on the seismic performance of the member-level failure where the failure event of the structural member consists of the union set of time-sequential member failures during the earthquake excitations and the failure probability of the earthquake-excited structural member is computed using system reliability approach to consider the statistical dependence of member failures between the subsequent time points. Numerical results demonstrate that the proposed approach can present a reliable assessment of the control performance of the viscous damper system in comparison with MCS method. The most important advantage of the proposed approach can provide us more accurate estimate of failure probability of the structural control system by using the actual time-history responses obtained by dynamic response analysis.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2010

A solenoid actuator characterized by low price, available small size, and convenience is one of the main components of production equipments requiring compact, high-speed actuators. When the response needs to be under few milli-seconds, sensing the position of the actuator is much harder because of the inherent low inertia. Improvement of the required performance of these actuators can be obtained by the simulation using a mathematical model. In this study, the mathematical model is presented and proved by comparing the responses of the actual solenoid and of the simulation. The position of the actual solenoid was measured by the eddy current sensor. The simulation was executed using SIMULINK$^{(R)}$.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.587-602
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• 2016

In structural reliability analysis, the response surface method is widely adopted because of its numerical efficiency. It should be understood that the response function must approximate the actual limit state function accurately in the main region influencing failure probability where it is evaluated. However, the size of main region influencing failure probability was not defined clearly in current response surface methods. In this study, the concept of sub-region of interest is constructed, and an improved response surface method is proposed based on the sub-region of interest. The sub-region of interest can clearly define the size of main region influencing failure probability, so that the accuracy of the evaluation of failure probability is increased. Some examples are introduced to demonstrate the efficiency and the accuracy of the proposed method for both numerical and implicit limit state functions.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.34-44
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• 1991

In this study, the general solution of heat balance equation including conductive heat loss were suggested and were determined the constants with the results of experiment in hot tunnel in order to derive the general equation for the response time and to investigate the response time index which represent the characteristics of response of sprinkler head in actual fires. Two types of test were considered, the plunge test, in which the air temperature is represented by a step function, and the ramp test, in which the air temperature increases at a constant rate. As a result, simple equations were derived, which can be predicted the response time for the ramp type fire with the rate of temperature rise and gas velocity, for the plunge type fire with temperature and gas velocity. Also other useful data, such as the effective temperature, time constant, response time index and conduction parameter were obtained.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.201-210
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• 2018

The improvement in computing systems and sensor technologies devotes to conduct data-driven structural health monitoring algorithms for existing civil infrastructures. Despite of the development of techniques, the uncertainty oriented from the measurement results in the discrepancy to the actual structural parameters and let engineers or decision makers hesitate to adopt such techniques. Many studies have shown that the modal identification results can be affected by the uncertainties due to the applied methods and the types of loading. This paper aims to compare the performance of modal identification methods using Structural Modal Identification Toolsuite (SMIT) which has been developed to facilitate multiple identification methods with a user-friendly designed platform. The data fed into SMIT processes three stages for the comprehensive identification including preprocessing, eigenvalue estimation, and post-processing. The seismic and white noise response for shear frame model was obtained from numerical simulation. The identified modal parameters is compared to the actual modal parameters. In order to improve the quality of coherence in identified modal parameters, several hurdles including modal phase collinearity and extended modal amplitude coherence were introduced. Numerical simulation conducted on the 5 dof shear frame model were used to validate the effectiveness of using these parameters.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2015

본 논문은 재난대응과 관련이 있는 기관 및 단체의 웹 접근성을 평가 분석한다. 웹 접근성의 법률적 시행에 따라 재난발생의 위급상황에 직간접으로 관여하는 기관 및 단체의 웹 사이트와 콘텐츠도 기준이상의 웹 접근성의 준수 되어야 하기 때문이다. 재난대응기관 및 유관단체의 구체적인 웹 접근성 준수 실태 파악을 위해 평가 도구로 K-WAH4.4를 적용하였으며, 웹 콘텐츠 접근성 지침 2.0에 따라 해당 웹 사이트의 6개 세부지침에 대한 준수가 61.8%로 저조함을 보이고, 웹 접근성을 높이기 위한 개선의 필요성을 제기한다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제62권3호
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• pp.281-289
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• 2017

Damping value has considerable influence on the dynamic and seismic behaviors of bridges. However, currently the constant damping ratios that are prescribed by most bridge seismic design codes can't truly represent the complicated damping character of actual structures. In this paper, a cyclic loading experiment was conducted to study the effect of stress amplitude on material damping of concrete to present an analyzing model of the material damping of concrete. Furthermore, based on the fundamental damping of structure measured under ambient vibration, combined with the presented stress-dependent material damping concrete, the seismic response of a bridge pier was calculated. Comparison between the calculated and experiment results verified the validity of the presented damping model. Finally, a modified design and analysis method for bridge was proposed based on stress-dependent damping theory, and a continuous rigid frame bridge was selected as the example to calculate the actual damping values and the dynamic response of the bridge under different earthquake intensities. The calculation results indicated that using the constant damping given by the Chinese seismic design code of bridges would overestimate the energy dissipation capacity of the bridge.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.35-44
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• 2017

PURPOSES: This study suggests a specific methodology for the prediction of road surface temperature using vehicular ambient temperature sensors. In addition, four kind of models is developed based on machine learning algorithms. METHODS : Thermal Mapping System is employed to collect road surface and vehicular ambient temperature data on the defined survey route in 2015 and 2016 year, respectively. For modelling, all types of collected temperature data should be classified into response and predictor before applying a machine learning tool such as MATLAB. In this study, collected road surface temperature are considered as response while vehicular ambient temperatures defied as predictor. Through data learning using machine learning tool, models were developed and finally compared predicted and actual temperature based on average absolute error. RESULTS : According to comparison results, model enables to estimate actual road surface temperature variation pattern along the roads very well. Model III is slightly better than the rest of models in terms of estimation performance. CONCLUSIONS : When correlation between response and predictor is high, when plenty of historical data exists, and when a lot of predictors are available, estimation performance of would be much better.