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Design of a Wideband Substrate-Integrated Waveguide (SIW) Frequency Selective Surface (광대역 특성을 가지는 SIW 주파수 선택 표면 설계)

  • Oh, Semyoung;Lee, Hanjun;Lee, Gil-Young
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.107-111
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    • 2014
  • An SIW cavity is a useful tool to design an FSS which shows a rapid roll-off rate and insensitivity to polarizations and incident angles of electromagnetic waves. However, due to its high Q-factor, the FSS also shows narrow bandwidth which is undesirable for high-capacity communication. To address this drawback, we propose a novel technique to enhance the bandwidth while maintaining similar frequency response characteristics and minimizing the increase of the overall thickness of the SIW cavity FSS. In order to verify the performance of the technique, simulated frequency responses will be provided. Also, a parameter which affects the bandwidth will be studied. Finally the stability to polarizations and incident angles will be observed through the simulated results.

Damage assessment of structures - an US air force office of scientific research structural mechanics perspective

  • Giurgiutiu, Victor
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.135-146
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents the perspective of the Structural Mechanics program of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) on the damage assessment of structures for the period 2006-2009 when the author was serving as Program Manager at AFOSR. It is found that damage assessment of structures plays a very important role in assuring the safety and operational readiness of US Air Force fleet. The current fleet has many aging aircraft, which poses a considerable challenge for the operators and maintainers. The nondestructive evaluation technology is rather mature and able to detect damage with considerable reliability during the periodic maintenance inspections. The emerging structural health monitoring methodology has great potential, because it will use on-board damage detection sensors and systems, will be able to offer on-demand structural health bulletins. Considerable fundamental and applied research is still needed to enable the development, implementation, and dissemination of structural health monitoring technology.

The relationship between job demands and safety motivation, and the moderating effect of A-type trait in Korean Air Force (공군조종사의 직무요구와 안전동기의 관계 및 A형 성격의 조절효과에 관한 연구)

  • Woo, Sang Cheon;Ahn, Kwan Young
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.67-74
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    • 2015
  • This paper reviewed the relationship between job demands and safety motivation, and the moderating effect of A-type trait in Korean Air Force. Based on the responses from 722 responses, the results of multiple regression analysis appeared as follow; 1) role overload effects positively and role ambiguity effects negatively on intrinsic safety motivation. 2) role conflict effects negatively on extrinsic safety motivation. 3) role ambiguity effects negatively on intrinsic safety motivation in B-type than in A-type trait.

Numerical Study of an External Store Released from a Fighter aircraft

  • Han, Cheol-Heui;Yoon, Young-Hyun;Cho, Hwan-Kee;Lee, Sang-Hyun
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03a
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    • pp.374-377
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    • 2008
  • The prediction of the separation trajectories of the external stores released from a military aircraft is an important task in the aircraft design area having the objective to define the operational and release envelopes. This paper presents the results obtained for store separation by employing commercial sorftwares, FLUENT and CFD-FASTRAN. FLUENT treats the rigid body motion by employing the remeshing scheme. CFD-FASTRAN uses the chimera(overset) grid and interpolations. It was found that, for the prediction of the trajectories and behavior of the stores separated from the wing, both codes shows the good agreement with the experimental results.

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A Wind Tunnel Study on Influences of ILS Tower on Wind Speed Measurement (계기착륙장치 타워가 풍속관측에 미치는 영향에 관한 풍동실험연구)

  • Choi, Cheol-Min;Kim, Kye-Hwan;Kim, Young-Chul;Kwon, Kybeom
    • Atmosphere
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.513-517
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    • 2013
  • In this study, it is first intended to simulate the vertical profile of atmospheric flow in a short wind tunnel. In order to accomplish it, proper devices are designed properly to reduce freestream flow momentum and it is confirmed from the measured velocity profile using hot-wire anemometer that momentum flux of the tunnel free stream can be reduced and desired atmospheric boundary can be created. Second, experiments are performed to identify influences of a surrounding structure measuring correct wind velocity by an anemometer, which are located nearby due to area limitation in actual airport and correction factors are proposed from experimental results. One of findings is that in order to limit the velocity attenuation due to a nearby structure under 10%, wind velocity measuring equipment should be installed at least 6 times of the structure height away from the structure of concern.

Numerical Study of an External Store Released from a Fighter aircraft

  • Han, Cheol-Heui;Yoon, Young-Hyun;Cho, Hwan-Kee;Lee, Sang-Hyun
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.374-377
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    • 2008
  • The prediction of the separation trajectories of the external stores released from a military aircraft is an important task in the aircraft design area having the objective to define the operational and release envelopes. This paper presents the results obtained for store separation by employing commercial sorftwares, FLUENT and CFD-FASTRAN. FLUENT treats the rigid body motion by employing the remeshing scheme. CFD-FASTRAN uses the chimera(overset) grid and interpolations. It was found that, for the prediction of the trajectories and behavior of the stores separated from the wing, both codes shows the good agreement with the experimental results.

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Analysis of Dynamic Behavior of Spiral Grooved Air-Dynamic Bearings (나선홈을 가진 공기 동압베어링의 동역학적 거동 해석)

  • 신용호;최우천
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.498-501
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    • 2000
  • Air dynamic bearings are inherently unstable in dynamic behavior due to the varying angle of a force produced and the nonlinear characteristics of stiffness. In this study, such dynamic behavior is obtained and compared with experimental results. A body axis coordinate system is employed to avoid the change of a moment of inertia. FDM is used to calculate the pressure distribution on the bearing surface and then the force acting on the rotor was calculated by integrating the pressure distribution. By integrating accelerations which are calculated from the equations of motion using the 4th order Runge-Kutta method, the pose of the bearing at each time step is obtained.

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Mean Drift Force Acting on a Floating OWC Wave Power Device (부유식 OWC 파력발전 챔버의 파 표류력해석)

  • HONG Do-Chun;HONG Sa-Young;HONG Seok-Won
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.373-376
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    • 2002
  • The drift force acting on a floating OWC chamber in waves is studied taking account of fluctuating air pressure in the air chamber. A velocity potential in the water due to the free surface oscillating pressure patch is added to the conventional radiation-diffraction potential problem. The potential problem inside the chamber is formulated by making use of the Green integral equation associated with the Rankine Green function while the outer problem with the Kelvin Green function. The drift forces as well as the chamber motions are calculated taking account of the air pressure in the chamber.

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ANALYSIS OF THE VLASOV-POISSON EQUATION BY USING A VISCOSITY TERM

  • Choi, Boo-Yong;Kang, Sun-Bu;Lee, Moon-Shik
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.501-516
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    • 2013
  • The well-known Vlasov-Poisson equation describes plasma physics as nonlinear first-order partial differential equations. Because of the nonlinear condition from the self consistency of the Vlasov-Poisson equation, many problems occur: the existence, the numerical solution, the convergence of the numerical solution, and so on. To solve the problems, a viscosity term (a second-order partial differential equation) is added. In a viscosity term, the Vlasov-Poisson equation changes into a parabolic equation like the Fokker-Planck equation. Therefore, the Schauder fixed point theorem and the classical results on parabolic equations can be used for analyzing the Vlasov-Poisson equation. The sequence and the convergence results are obtained from linearizing the Vlasove-Poisson equation by using a fixed point theorem and Gronwall's inequality. In numerical experiments, an implicit first-order scheme is used. The numerical results are tested using the changed viscosity terms.

ROTATION IMPLEMENTATION OF A CIRCULAR CYLINDER IN INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW VIA STAGGERED GRID APPROACH

  • Xiao Mingqing;Lin Yuan;Myatt James H.;Camphouse R. Chris;Banda Siva S.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.22 no.1_2
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    • pp.67-82
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we present a finite difference method for the implementation of the rotation of a circular cylinder in the incompressible flow field by solving the two-dimensional unsteady Navier-Stokes equations. The approach is to use staggered grid method so that the accuracy and order of convergence of the associated algorithms can be maintained. The proposed method is easy to be implemented and is effective. A set of simulations for the flow dynamics is provided to show the computational results.