• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.136-141
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• 2021

Research on wireless sensor networks has focused on the monitoring and characterization of large-scale physical environments and the tracking of various environmental or physical conditions, such as temperature, pressure, and wind speed. We propose a stochastic mobility model that can be applied to a MANET (Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork). environment, and apply this mobility model to a newly proposed clustering-based routing protocol. To verify its stability and durability, we compared the proposed stochastic mobility model with a random model in terms of energy efficiency. The FND (First Node Dead) was measured and compared to verify the performance of the newly designed protocol. In this paper, we describe the proposed mobility model, quantify the changes to the mobile environment, and detail the selection of cluster heads and clusters formed using a fuzzy inference system. After the clusters are configured, the collected data are sent to a base station. Studies on clustering-based routing protocols and stochastic mobility models for MANET applications have shown that these strategies improve the energy efficiency of a network.

• 농촌계획
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.1-12
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• 2014

Living environments in rural area have become deteriorated rapidly. Increase of aging population, decline in agricultural income, polarization of wealth in rural community due to rural returners have caused severe decline and imbalance of living environments in rural area. Responding to this circumstances, governments currently develop projects for improving living environments focusing on individual housing which were excluded from governmental supports because those had been regarded as private property. Nevertheless, there are still some gaps and problems in evaluating the quality of living environment and suggesting effective solutions. It would be because standards and guidelines of the projects have been based on urban housing system. In order to support the implementation of the projects, this research has developed an index for evaluating and monitoring the quality of living environments in rural area. By applying Delphi method, the index has been created in four categories of 'security', 'convenience', 'comfortability', and 'durability' 'Security' consists of structural safety, crime, disaster, accident prevention. 'Convenience' includes three divisions of living, traffic, farm working. 'Comfortability' is divided into sanitation, indoor environments, and aesthetic appreciation. Lastly, 'durability' has four divisions of energy conservation, environmental friendliness, efficiency, and economics. Each sub-division also has different items from three to twelves. In the case of an index for performance evaluation, items have been derived from energy conservation(6-items), and environmental friendliness(7-items). Items developed as an index for evaluating rural living environments in this research might be good background information for remodeling project in rural housing development.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.35-48
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• 2015

The main objective of this study is to evaluate the long-term performance of various concrete composites in natural marine environment prevailing in the Gulf region. Durability assessment studies of such nature are usually carried out under aggressive environments that constitute seawater, chloride and sulfate laden soils and wind, and groundwater conditions. These studies are very vital for sustainable development of marine and off shore reinforced concrete structures of industrial design such as petroleum installations. First round of testing and evaluation, which is presented in this paper, were performed by standard tests under laboratory conditions. Laboratory results presented in this paper will be corroborated with test outcome of ongoing three years field exposure conditions. The field study will include different parameters of investigation for high performance concrete including corrosion inhibitors, type of reinforcement, natural and industrial pozzolanic additives, water to cement ratio, water type, cover thickness, curing conditions, and concrete coatings. Like the laboratory specimens, samples in the field will be monitored for corrosion induced deterioration signs and for any signs of failureover initial period ofthree years. In this paper, laboratory results pertaining to microsilica (SF), ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS), epoxy coated rebars and calcium nitrite corrosion inhibitor are very conclusive. Results affirmed that the supplementary cementing materials such as GGBS and SF significantly impacted and enhanced concrete resistivity to chloride ions penetration and hence decrease the corrosion activities on steel bars protected by such concretes. As for epoxy coated rebars applications under high chloride laden conditions, results showed great concern to integrity of the epoxy coating layer on the bar and its stability. On the other hand corrosion inhibiting admixtures such as calcium nitrite proved to be more effective when used in combination with the pozzolanic additives such as GGBS and microsilica.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제27권8호
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• pp.709-716
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 온도변화에 둔감한 전기적 특성을 가지는 원격무선통신시스템용 듀플렉서 모듈을 제안하였다. 지상에서 자유공간을 비행하는 유도탄에 유도정보를 송신하기 위한 시스템에서의 듀플렉서 모듈은 높은 내전력 특성뿐만 아니라, 낮은 삽입손실, 높은 송수신대역 상호격리도, 고조파 성분 억제 기능이 요구된다. 제안된 듀플렉서 모듈은 하나의 안테나 포트로 연결되는 송신대역 대역통과필터와 수신대역 대역통과필터, 송신측 출력전력을 점검하는 평면형 커플러, 전력증폭기 및 동축 공동 공진기의 고조파 성분들을 감쇠하기 위한 저역통과필터로 구성된다. 온도변화에 따른 주파수 편이량을 최소로 설계하기 위해 공진기의 재질과 치수를 3D EM 시뮬레이션을 통해 결정하였다. 제작품의 측정결과와 시뮬레이션 결과가 잘 부합하였고, 유도무기체계뿐만 아니라, 소형 기지국시스템과 같은 민수분야에도 적용이 가능하리라 판단된다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.719-741
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• 2014

Monitoring surface cracks is important to ensure the health of concrete structures. However, traditional visual inspection to monitor the concrete cracks has disadvantages such as subjective inspection nature, associated time and cost, and possible danger to inspectors. To alter the visual inspection, a complete procedure for automated crack assessment based on adaptive digital image processing has been proposed in this study. Crack objects are extracted from the images using the subtraction with median filter and the local binarization using the Niblack's method. To adaptively. determine the optimal window sizes for the median filter and the Niblack's method without distortion of crack object an optimal filter size index (OFSI) is proposed. From the extracted crack objects using the optimal size of window, the crack objects are decomposed to the crack skeletons and edges, and the crack width is calculated using 4-connected normal line according to the orientation of the local skeleton line. For an image, a crack width nephogram is obtained to have an intuitive view of the crack distribution. The proposed procedure is verified from a test on a concrete reaction wall with various types of cracks. From the crack images with different crack widths and patterns, the widths of cracks in the order of submillimeters are calculated with high accuracy.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.214-223
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• 2014

Interest in the durability assessment and structural performance has increased according to an increase of concrete structures in salt damage environment recent years. Reliable way ensuring the most accelerated corrosion test is a method of performing the rebar corrosion monitoring as exposed directly to the marine test site exposure. However, long-term exposure test has a disadvantage because of a long period of time. Therefore, many studies on reinforced concrete in salt damage environments have been developed as alternatives to replace this. However, accelerated corrosion test is appropriate to evaluate the critical chlorine concentration in the short term, but only accelerated test method, is not easy to get correct answer. Accuracy of correlation acceleration test depends on the period of the degree of exposure environments. Therefore, in this study, depending on the concrete mix material, by the test was performed on the basis of the composite degradation of the salt damage, and investigate the difference of corrosion initiation time of the rebar, and indoor corrosion time of the structure, of the marine environment of the actual environments were inuestigated. The correlation coefficient was derived in the experiment. Long-term exposure test was actually conducted in consideration of the exposure conditions submerged zone, splash zone and tidal zone. The accelerated corrosion tests were carried out by immersion conditions, and by the combined deterioration due to the carbonation and accelerated corrosion due to wet and dry condition.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.129-137
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• 2017

PURPOSES : The purpose of this study is to develop bridge deck concrete materials based on ordinary Portland cement concrete, and to evaluate the applicability of the developed materials through material properties tests. METHODS : For field implementation, raw material (cement, fine aggregate, and coarse aggregate) properties, fresh concrete properties (slump and air content), strength (compressive, flexural and bond strength) gain, and durability (freeze-thaw resistance, scaling resistance, and rapid chloride penetrating resistance) performance were evaluated in the laboratory. RESULTS : For the selected binder content of $410kg/m^3$, W/B = 0.42, and S/a = 0.48, the following material performance results were obtained. Considering the capacity of the deck finisher, a minimum slump of 150 mm was required. At least 6 % of air content was obtained to resist freeze-thaw damage. In terms of strength, 51.28 MPa of compressive strength, 7.41 MPa of flexural strength, and 2.56 MPa of bond strength at 28 days after construction were obtained. A total of 94.9 % of the relative dynamic modulus of elasticity after 300 cycles of freeze-thaw resistance testing and $0.0056kg/m^2$ of weight loss in a scaling resistance test were measured. However, in a chloride ion penetration resistance test, the result of 3,356 Coulomb, which exceeds the threshold value of the standard specification (1000 Coulomb at 56 days) was observed. CONCLUSIONS : Instead of using high-performance modified bridge deck materials such as latex or silica fume, we developed an optimum mix design based on ordinary Portland cement concrete. A test construction was carried out at ramp bridge B (bridge length = 111 m) in Gim Jai City. Immediately after the concrete was poured, the curing compound was applied, and then wet mat curing was applied for 28 days. Considering the fact that cracks did not occur during the monitoring period, the applicability of the developed material is considered to be high.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.129-134
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• 2020

최근 태양전지 모듈 내부에 습기 침투 및 EVA Sheet의 배부름 현상, 프레임 Seal이 녹아내리는 현상, 설치 후 1년 지난 모듈에서 발전성능이 저하되는 현상 등이 발생하고 있다. 국내에 5~7년 이전에 설치된 태양전지 모듈에서 백화현상 및 전극 부식 현상, 절연파괴 현상 등이 나타나기 시작하여 발전성능 저하로 이어지고, 장기 신뢰성 및 장수명 기술에 대한 커다란 문제점이 대두되고 있다. 따라서 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 태양전지 모듈의 내구성 확보 및 노화 진행을 모니터링할 수 있는 기능을 포함하는 마이크로 인버터 (MiCrco Inverter Converter, 이하 MiC) 개발 및 MiC에서 모니터링 데이터를 기반으로 태양전지 모듈의 노화를 판단할 수 있는 스마트 모니터링 프로그램이 제시되고 있다. 또한, 태양전지 모듈의 모니터링 기능을 강화한 MiC와 IT 융합을 통한 체계적 운영 관리를 통한 고효율 태양광 스마트 감시 시스템이 되기 위해서는 MiC 내의 SoC (System On Chip)는 태양전지 모듈에 대한 환경정보를 복합적으로 감지하고 필요시 통신 및 제어를 수행할 수 있는 기능들이 요구되고 있다. 이러한 요구사항들을 기반으로 본 논문에서는 SoC 기반 보급형 MIC 스마트 태양광발전시스템 기술개발을 목적으로 연구하고자 한다.

• International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2017

Small valves including ball valves, gate valves and butterfly valves have been adopted in the fields of steam power generation, petrochemical industry, carriers, and oil tankers. Butterfly valves have normally been applied to fields where in narrow places installing the existing valves such as gate valves and ball valves have proven difficult due to the surrounding area and the heavier of these valves. Butterfly valves are used to control the mass flow of the piping system under low pressure by rotating the circular disk installed inside. The butterfly valve is benefitted by having simpler structure in which the flow is controlled by rotating the disc circular plate along the center axis, whereas the weight of the valve is light compared to the gate valve and ball valve above-mentioned, as there is no additional bracket supporting the valve body. The manufacturing company needs to acquire the performance and life test equipment, in the case of adopting the improving factors to detect leakage and damage on the seat of the valve disc. However, small companies, which are manufacturing the industrial valves, normally sell their products without the life test, which is the reliability test and environment test, because of financial and manpower problems. Furthermore, the failure mode analysis of the products failed in the field is likewise problematic as there is no system collecting the failure data on sites for analyzing the failures of valves. The analyzing and researching process is not arranged systematically because of the financial problem. Therefore this study firstly tried to obtain information about the failure data from the sites, analyzed the failure mode based on the field data collected from the customers, and then obtained field data using measuring equipment. Secondly, we designed and manufactured the performance and life test equipment which also have the real time monitoring system with the naked eye for the butterfly valves. The concept of this equipment can also be adopted by other valves, such as the ball valve, gate valve, and various others. It can be applied to variously sized valves, ranging from 25 mm to large sized valves exceeding 3000 mm. Finally, this study carries out the life test with square wave pressure, using performance and life test equipment. The performance found out that the failures from the real time monitoring system were good. The results of this study can be expanded to the other valves like ball valves, gate valves, and control valves to find out the failure mode using the real time monitoring system for durability and performance tests.

• 감성과학
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.89-100
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 수면무호흡증이 다양한 합병증을 유발하는 질병으로서, 이를 위한 표준화된 수면다원검사가 고가이며 측정이 불편함을 고려하여, 환자가 익숙한 환경에서 검사를 받을 수 있도록 스트레치 섬유센서를 이용한 무구속 상태의 웨어러블 모니터링 시스템을 개발하고자 한다. 또한, 의복과 일체화된 디자인으로 제품화하여 그 유용성을 제안하고자 한다. 성인 남성용 롱 슬리브 티셔츠 형태로 착용형 수면무호흡 모니터링 스마트 의류를 개발하여, 수면무호흡 진단 지표 중 섬유형 센서를 기반으로 측정하는 호흡수(breathing rate)측정용 섬유센서, 산소포화도(oxygen saturation), 호흡기류(airflow)를 실시간 측정하였다. 최적의 조합비 샘플 4가지를 통한 gauge factor를 측정한 결과, gauge factor 20.3을 확인하였고, 3회 숨을 크게 내쉴 때 호흡유량이 최대 2048ml였다. 산소포화도 69.45%로 최소 측정 가능 산소포화도 70% 정도의 결과를 나타내었다. 세탁 후 인장에 따른 센서 성능 평가 결과는 전체적으로 gauge factor 18 수준의 값으로, 세탁에 대한 내구성이 입증되었다. 본 연구를 통하여 수면무호흡증 환자의 수면효율이 떨어지고 여러 합병증을 동반하는 문제에 대해, 가정에서 쉽게 사용할 수 있는 착용형 수면무호흡 모니터링 스마트 의류를 개발하여 호흡수, 호흡유량, 산소포화도의 3가지 지표를 측정 가능함을 확인하였다.