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항공기 주익구조물의 피로균열 진전 해석 및 실험을 위한 응력 스펙트럼 알고리즘 개발 (Stress Spectrum Algorithm Development for Fatigue Crack Growth Analysis and Experiment for Aircraft Wing Structure)

  • 천영철;장윤정;정태진;강기원
    • 대한기계학회논문집A
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    • 제39권12호
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    • pp.1281-1286
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    • 2015
  • 항공기는 다양한 임무를 수행함으로써 장기간 운영 시 비행시간 누적으로 인해 피로균열을 발생시킬 수 있다. 주익 구조물에 균열이 발생하면 수명단축 등 여러 문제점들이 발생할 수 있다. 이의 해결을 위해 피로임계위치(Fatigue critical location, FCL)에서의 균열진전 해석이 필요하다. 균열진전 해석을 위해서는 장시간의 응력 스펙트럼이 필요한데 실제 항공기에서 필요한 만큼의 데이터를 얻는 것은 막대한 시간과 비이 소요된다. 본 논문에서는 SwRI(South West Research Institute)보고서에 제시되어있는 임무별 단시간 하중배수 자료를 바탕으로 Peak-Valley Cycle Counting 을 진행하여 장시간의 응력 스펙트럼을 산출하는 알고리즘을 개발하였다.

Lung Ventilation SPECT에서 LEAP Collimator의 유용성에 관한 연구 (The Study on Usefulness of LEAP Collimator in Lung Ventilation SPECT)

  • 김정수;김수미;김진의;이재성;이동수
    • 핵의학기술
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.18-24
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    • 2012
  • Lung SPECT는 planar scan 보다 깊이 위치한 병변을 명확히 보여주며 보다 예민한 것으로 보고되고 있다. 그러나 ventilation SPECT는 정맥주사를 통해 방사성의약품을 주입하는 perfusion SPECT와 다르게 환자의 호흡을 통해 흡입시키므로, 원활한 호흡이 불가능한 환자의 경우 목적 장기에 방사성의약품의 섭취율이 저하되고 검사에 유효한 적정count/rate가 낮아지므로 필연적으로 검사시간이 길어지게 되어 이에 수반되는 여러 문제로 인하여 실제 임상에 적용하기 어려운 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구는 고감도(high sensitivity) 특성을 지닌 AP (All Purpose) 혹은 GP (General Purpose) collimator를 사용하여 low count/rate 환자의 검사시간을 단축시킴으로써 lung ventilation SPECT 임상적용 가능성과 유용성을 평가하였다. 정상 성인 남녀 4명($24.3{\pm}0.95$세)을 실험대상으로 Technegas 370 MBq을 흡입시키고, E.cam SPECT를 사용하여 count/rate를 측정한 후, LEUHR, LEHR, LEAP collimator를 장착하여 300counts acquisition 조건으로 ANT, POST, LPO, RPO, both-LAT 총 6 view의 lung ventilation planar scan 하였다. 동일 실험 대상자를 본원에서 사용하던 기존 프로토콜을 적용하여 70 kcounts/view acquisition 조건으로 high counting mode SPECT를 시행하고, 같은 방법으로 7kcounts/view acquisition하여 비교 실험인 low counting mode SPECT를 시행한 후 모든 실험의 결과를 lung segmentation ratio와 검사 소요시간을 통해 비교하여 분석하였다. 각 실험군 사이의 상관관계를 분석하기 위해 paired t-test를 시행하였고, p값이 0.05를 초과할 때 실험의 통계적 의미가 있는 것으로 판단하였다. 모든 자료의 통계처리는 SPSS ver. 20을 사용하였으며, 각 실험 결과는 산술 및 기하 평균(mean)을 구하고${\pm}$표준편차(SD)를 산출하였다. 실험 결과 lung planar scan은 300 kcounts/6 iew를 acquisition하여 총 1,800 kcounts를 획득하였다. 반면 7 kcounts/view로 acquisition한 low counting mode SPECT의 경우 collimator 종류에 따라서 최소 773 kcounts에서 최대 1,106 kcounts를 획득하였고, 70 kcounts/view로 acquisition한 high counting mode SPECT의 경우 collimator 종류에 따라서 최소 7,984 kcounts에서 최대 10,222kcounts를 획득하였다. 모든 실험 자료를 통해 실험대상 4명의 lung segmentation ratio를 산출하고, 평균값과 표준편차를 계산한 결과, LT:RT lung ratio는 순서대로 각각 45.5:54.5 (${\pm}0.26$), 45.4:54.6 (${\pm}0.40$), 50.1:49.9 (${\pm}0.28$), 49.4:50.6 (${\pm}0.57$)이었다. 따라서 정량분석한 결과 planar scan과 low, high counting mode SPECT사이 collimator 종류에 의한 lung segmentation ratio는 오차 범위내에 모두 존재하였다. 보다 자세한 분석을 위해 기존의 LEHR collimator를 장착한 planar scan과 비교 실험인 LEAP collimator를 장착한 low counts mode SPECT를 통계처리한 결과 p-value가 0.10이상으로 두 실험의 결과는 통계적으로 유의하였다. 실험에 소요된 시간을 분석한 결과 planar scan은 LEUHR, LEHR, LEAP collimator 순서로 각각 $1803{\pm}268$ sec, $915{\pm}162$ sec, $501{\pm}134$ sec이었고, 비교실험인 low counting mode SPECT는 $1125.5{\pm}103.6$ sec, $900{\pm}64$ sec, $740{\pm}0$ sec 이었으며, 본원에서 사용하던 기존 프로토콜인 high counting mode SPECT는 $5794.5{\pm}946.5$ sec, $3620{\pm}397.9$ sec, $2020{\pm}104.5$ sec이었다. 관심실험인 LEAP collimator를 장착한low counting mode SPECT의 검사 소요시간 740 sec에 비하여, 기존 본원의 프로토콜인 LEHR collimator를 장착한 high counting mode SPECT의 검사 소요시간 평균은 3620sec이므로, 약 5배 정도 시간 단축이 가능한 것으로 조사되었으며, 모든 실험의 정량분석 결과도 임상적으로 유의한 것으로 분석되었다. 결국 high sensitivity LEAP collimator를 장착하여 lung SPECT를 시행하면, 임상적으로 유의한 정량분석 결과를 얻을 수 있으며, 동시에 검사시간을 효과적으로 단축시킬 수 있음을 의미한다.

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The Counting Processes that the Number of Events in [0,t] has Generalized Poisson Distribution

  • Park, Jeong-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • 제7권2호
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    • pp.273-281
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    • 1996
  • It is derived that conditions of counting process ($\{N(t){\mid}t\;{\geq}\;0\}$) in which the number of events in time interval [0, t] has a (n, n+1)-generalized Poisson distribution with parameters (${\theta}t,\;{\lambda}$) and a generalized inflated Poisson distribution with parameters (${\{\lambda}t,\;{\omega}\}$.

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High rate diffusion-scale approximation for counters with extendable dead time

  • Dubi, Chen;Atar, Rami
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제51권6호
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    • pp.1616-1625
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    • 2019
  • Measuring occurrence times of random events, aimed to determine the statistical properties of the governing stochastic process, is a basic topic in science and engineering, and has been the subject of numerous mathematical modeling approaches. Often, true statistical properties deviate from measured properties due to the so called dead time phenomenon, where for a certain time period following detection, the detection system is not operational. Understanding the dead time effect is especially important in radiation measurements, often characterized by high count rates and a non-reducible detector dead time (originating in the physics of particle detection). The effect of dead time can be interpreted as a suitable rarefied sequence of the original time sequence. This paper provides a limit theorem for a high rate (diffusion-scale) counter with extendable (Type II) dead time, where the underlying counting process is a renewal process with finite second moment for the inter-event distribution. The results are very general, in the sense that they refer to a general inter arrival time and a random dead time with general distribution. Following the theoretical results, we will demonstrate the applicability of the results in three applications: serially connected components, multiplicity counting and measurements of aerosol spatial distribution.

방사성제논 탐지를 위한 베타-감마 동시 계측시스템의 측정시간 최적화 (Optimization of Acquisition Time of Beta-Gamma Coincidence Counting System for Radioxenon Measurement)

  • 변종인;박홍모;최희열;송명한;윤주용
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제40권3호
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    • pp.181-186
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    • 2015
  • 방사성 제논 탐지는 공기 중 $^{131m}Xe$, $^{133}Xe$, $^{133m}Xe$$^{135}Xe$를 저준위 백그라운드 계측 시스템으로 검출하여 지하 핵실험 여부를 규명하는 핵심기술 중 하나이다. 방사성 제논 감시는 공기 포집, 제논 추출, 측정 및 분석을 통해 수행되며, $^{135}Xe$의 최소검출가능농도는 비교적 짧은 반감기로 인해 포집, 추출 및 측정시간에 따라 큰 차이를 보이게 된다. 본 연구에서는 방사성 제논 계측 시스템의 정해진 시료 포집 및 전처리 조건에서 최적의 방사성 제논 측정시간을 도출하기 위해 이론적 접근 및 SAUNA 시스템을 이용한 실험을 통해 최소의 MDC를 보이는 측정시간을 결정하고 이론적 계산과 실험결과에 대하여 비교 평가하였다.

Development of Movable Detection System for Efficiency Measurement in 3-PM Liquid Scintillation Counting

  • Hwang, H-Y;Kwak, S.I;Cho, Y.H;Byun, J.I;Lee, H.Y;Seo, J.S;Kwak, J.Y;Lee, J.M;Lee, K.B;Park, T.S;Chung, K.H;Lee, C.W
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제35권2호
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    • pp.165-170
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    • 2003
  • We developed an improved 3-PM liquid scintillation counting (3-PM LSC) method in which three detectors can be displaced to back and forth directions, and a data acquisition system being able to provide the values for all parameters required for the method. The detectors are entirely located in a 20-mm lead chamber of an inner diameter of 500 mm. A saw-toothed gear ties up all detectors so as to move them uniformly, up to 50 mm with unit of 1 mm. The data acquisition system was designed in an integrated circuit to perform the necessary works such as fast amplification, discrimination, coincidence and logic analysis. It generates values of nine parameters among twelve's generated in the 3-PH LSC method. The dead time of each counting channel is of extending type, valving from 10 to 100 $mutextrm{s}$. We measured the TDCR values with an unquenched liquid scintillation source 1"C by displacing the detectors with a step of 2.5 mm away from counting vial. Their values were derived on the range from 0.9 to 0.6. The extent is three times wider than those regions observed by applying the defocalization technique.ique.

Measurement of Bacterial (Escherichia coil) Concentration by Flow Cytometry

  • Ji, Suk;Lee, Jung-Ok;Choi, Young-Nim
    • International Journal of Oral Biology
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    • 제30권2호
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    • pp.65-69
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    • 2005
  • Periodontitis is a multi-microbial disease and the comparison of a series of periodontopathogenic and non-periodontopathogenic bacteria in terms of microbe-host interaction may provide clues to understand the microbial etiology of the disease better. When we deal with twenty different bacterial species in a study, the first technical issue is how to measure the accurate concentration and use the same number of bacterial cells. We measured bacterial concentration by enumerating bacteria stained with SYTOX green for constant time using a flow cytometer and compared the results with those obtained by plate counting. Concentrations calculated by two different methods were very close. Therefore, flow cytometric counting allowed the rapid analysis of live/dead bacteria, offering the advantage of turbidity measurement and that of colony counting together.

An Algorithm for Bit Error Rate Monitoring and Adaptive Decision Threshold Optimization Based on Pseudo-error Counting Scheme

  • Kim, Sung-Man
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.22-27
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    • 2010
  • Bit error rate (BER) monitoring is the ultimate goal of performance monitoring in all digital transmission systems as well as optical fiber transmission systems. To achieve this goal, optimization of the decision threshold must also be considered because BER is dependent on the level of decision threshold. In this paper, we analyze a pseudo-error counting scheme and propose an algorithm to achieve both BER monitoring and adaptive decision threshold optimization in optical fiber transmission systems. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we conduct computer simulations in both Gaussian and non-Gaussian distribution cases. According to the simulation results, BER and the optimum decision threshold can be estimated with the errors of < 20% and < 10 mV, respectively, within 0.1-s processing time in > 40-Gb/s transmission systems.

Fatigue life prediction of horizontally curved thin walled box girder steel bridges

  • Nallasivam, K.;Talukdar, Sudip;Dutta, Anjan
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제28권4호
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    • pp.387-410
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    • 2008
  • The fatigue damage accumulation rates of horizontally curved thin walled box-girder bridge have been estimated from vehicle-induced dynamic stress history using rain flow cycle counting method in the time domain approach. The curved box-girder bridge has been numerically modeled using computationally efficient thin walled box-beam finite elements, which take into account the important structural actions like torsional warping, distortion and distortional warping in addition to the conventional displacement and rotational degrees of freedom. Vehicle model includes heave-pitch-roll degrees of freedom with longitudinal and transverse input to the wheels. The bridge deck unevenness, which is taken as inputs to the vehicle wheels, has been assumed to be a realization of homogeneous random process specified by a power spectral density (PSD) function. The linear damage accumulation theory has been applied to calculate fatigue life. The fatigue life estimated by cycle counting method in time domain has been compared with those found by estimating the PSD of response in frequency domain. The frequency domain method uses an analytical expression involving spectral moment characteristics of stress process. The effects of some of the important parameters on fatigue life of the curved box bridge have been studied.

운전하중하의 레인플로집계법을 이용한 화차 대차의 피로누적손상과 수명예측 (Fatigue Cumulative Damage and Life Prediction of Freight Bogie using Rainflow Counting Method under Service Loading)

  • 전주헌;백석흠;이경영;조석수;주원식
    • 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한기계학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회
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    • pp.114-119
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    • 2004
  • Endbeam is an important structural member of freight bogie for the support of service loading. In general, more than 25 years' durability is necessary. However, endbeam occur fatigue fracture in dynamic stress concentration location because comparatively strength and stiffness are low. Therefore, structure analysis is performed to evaluate structural problem of endbeam and local strain range as durability analysis. The number of cycles is extracted concerning the bogie in operation by measurement dynamic stress time history on critical part which is crack initiation in actual fact. At this time rainflow cycle counting is used to consider change of stress for operating condition. Based on the fatigue life curves and the stress analysis, the fatigue life of the endbeam is predicted and compared with the experimentally determined fatigue life, resulting in a fairly good correlation.

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