• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.22-27
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• 2007

Our environment is faced with serious problems related to the air pollution from automobiles in these days. In particular, the exhaust emissions of diesel engines are recognized as main causes of the air pollution. CRDI(common rail direct injection) diesel engine is widely used for the sake of minimization on exhaust emission. Because biodiesel fuel is a renewable and alternative fuel for diesel engine, its usability is expanded. In this study, a common rail diesel engine was run with 5% of biodiesel fuel(BDF 5%) more than 150 hours. Engine dynamometer testing was completed at regularly scheduled intervals to investigate the engine performance and exhaust emissions. The data of engine performance and exhaust emissions was sampled at 1 hour intervals for analysis. When a common rail diesel engine runs on BDF 5% for long time, power and energy consumption of the engine are similar to the case using diesel fuel. The smoke emission of BDF 5% was reduced in comparison with diesel fuel, that is, it was reduced approximately 15% at 4000rpm, and load of 90%. And, CO and $CO_2$ were reduced, too. On the other hand, NOx emission of biodiesel fuel was slightly increased about 2%, but it was almost same as a commercial diesel fuel.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.357-365
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• 2010

Workers in the agricultural industry have been exposed to many work-related musculoskeletal disorders. So, our objectives in this study were to measure and analyze worker's physiological bio-information to reduce musculoskeletal disorders in relation to agricultural works. We investigated worker's bio-information of physiological signals during the repeated lifting work such as body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, physical activity, and heart rate variability. Moreover, we analyzed the workloads of lumbar spine during the repeated lifting work using the 3-axis acceleration and angular velocity sensors. The changes of body temperature was not significant, but the mean heart rate increased from 90/min to 116/min significantly during 30 min of repeated lifting work (p<0.05). The average worker's physical activity(energy consumption rate) was 206 kcal/70kg/h during the repeated lifting work. The workers' acute stress index was more than 80, which indicated a stressful work. Also, the maximum shear force on the disk (L5/S1) of a worker's lumbar spine in static state was 500N, and the maximum inertia moment was 139 $N{\cdot}m$ in dynamic state.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.477-486
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• 2005

In this study, indoor thermal environment, resident behavior of operating cooling device, and thermal comfort vote are investigated at the living room of apartment during summertime in Seoul. Based on the results of the investigation, indoor air temperatures that residents turn air conditioners (especially for cooling load in this research) on and off were found out. The relationships between outdoor weather condition and the number of days using air conditioner, and whether operating patterns of the devices were also found out. The acceptable thermal comfort zone is figured out from these results, and this research is expected to contribute to the development of household air conditioner. The results can be summarized as the followings; Residents turned the air conditioner on at $29.76^{\circ}C$ of indoor air temperature, and $28.89^{\circ}C$ of $SET^\ast$. And turned the air conditioner off at $27.31^{\circ}C$ of indoor air temperature, and $23.70^{\circ}C$ $SET^\ast$. Therefore, acceptable thermal comfort zone could be lied between these temperatures. If comfortable indoor thermal environment can be obtained with various architectural passive cooling techniques based on the results, energy consumption of cooling devices will be reduced.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제25권9호
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• pp.1193-1200
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• 2001

There are many regulation test methods to be related with engine emissions such as CVS-75, D-13, ECE-15 modes and so on. Most of these modes are consisted of lots of transient conditions that have rapid acceleration, deceleration and cranking modes. In this experimental research, the engine characteristics of cranking, accelerating and power output in a S.I. engine were studied to compare with neat gasoline and alternative fuels of M30 (methanol 30%, aromatic series 32%, non-aromatic 38%) and M50 (methanol 50%, aromatic 30%, non-aromatic 20%) for performance and exhaust emissions. The results show that reformulated methanol fuels are better emissions reduction of 15.7% over than that of neat gasoline fuel especially in HC and CO emissions at cranking mode. And the accelerating performances coincide with the results of distillation curve. CO concentration for M50 fuel is varied in a just little for the condition of slow acceleration. At wide-open throttle condition, brake specific energy consumption of reformulated fuels is increased and thermal efficiency is some what lower than that of gasoline fuel.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권12A호
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• pp.1188-1197
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• 2010

무선 애드혹 망에서 connected dominating set(CDS)를 활용한 라우팅 방식의 핵심은 dominating 노드로 동작할 최소 개수의 노드들을 선택하고, 이 노드들로 이루어진 백본 망을 구성하는 것이다. CDS 에서 장애 노드가 발생할 확률은 무시할 수 있는 수준은 아니다. 고장 감내가 중요한 비중을 차지하는 응용에서는 기존 CDS 기반 라우팅이 바람직하지 않을 수 있다. 따라서 메시지 플러딩에 따른 오버헤드로 인해 CDS 전체 재구성 시도를 최소화하는 것이 필요하다. 이를 위해 CDS 전체 재구성을 시도하는 대신, 장애가 발생한 노드를 중심으로 제한된 범위에 놓인 노드들에 대해서만 CDS를 부분 재구성할 수 있도록 대체 노드를 찾는 방안을 제안한다. 이러한 방식을 적용할 경우., CDS 부분 재구성시에도 dominating 노드 수가 전체 재구성을 시도했을 때와 같게 유지될 뿐만 아니라 전체 재구성 때보다 20~40% CDS 구성 시간을 단축시킬 수 있다. 고 이동성을 갖는 상황에서 기존 전체 재구성 알고리즘에 비해 패킷 수신율 및 에너지 소비 측면에서 유리한 결과를 얻었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.1022-1028
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• 2005

The objectives of this study were to evaluate and compare the environmental load of two different concentrate feed supply systems to the Japanese domestic livestock industry using the Life-cycle Assessment (LCA) method. The current system was defined as that requiring 11.469 million tons of corn imported from the US by sea transport and supplied as concentrate feed to the Japanese domestic livestock industry. The new system proposed by Kaku et al. in 2004 was defined as where 802,830 tons of US imported corn would not be planted in US and would be replaced by barley planted in 278 thousand ha of Japanese domestic land left fallow for the past year. In this case, 909,000 tons of domestic harvest barley would have been supplied as concentrate feed to the Japanese domestic livestock industry in 2000. The activities taken into account within the two system boundaries were three stages: concentrate feed production, feed transportation and gas emission from the soil by chemical fertilizer. Finished compost was regarded as organic fertilizer and was put instead of chemical fertilizers within the system boundary. Adoption of this new concentrate feed supply system by the Japanese domestic livestock industry could reduce 78,462 tons $CO_2$-equivalents of global warming potential, 347 tons $SO_2$-equivalents of acidification potential, 54 tons $PO_4$-equivalents of eutrophication potential and 0.842 million GJ as energy consumption below 2,000 levels. This LCA study comparing two Japanese domestic livestock concentrate feed supply systems showed that the stage of feed transport contributed most to global warming and the stage of emission from the soil contributed most to acidification and eutrophication. The Japanese domestic livestock industry could participate in emissions trading with $CO_2$-equivalents reduced by shifting from some imported US corn as a concentrate feed to domestic barley planted in land left fallow. In that case the Japanese government could launch emissions trading in accordance with Kyoto Protocol in the future.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.287-295
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• 2012

Purpose: Some of the most representative approaches are to apply next generation technologies to save energy consumption, fully automated control system to appropriately maintain environmental conditions, and autonomous assistance system to reduce labor load and ensure operator's safety. Nevertheless, improvement of upcoming method for soil cultured greenhouse has not been sufficiently achieved. Geometrical complexity of ground in protected crop cultivation might be one of the most dominant factors in design of autonomous vehicle. While there is a practical solution fairly enough to promise an accurate travelling, such as autonomous sprayer guided by rail or induction coil, for various reasons including the limitation of producer's budget, the previously developed sprayer has not been widely distributed to market. Methods: In this study, we developed an autonomous sprayer considering travelling performance on geometrical complexity of ground in soil cultured greenhouse. To maintain a stable travelling and to acquire a real time feedback, common wire with 80 mm thick and body frame and sprayer boom. To evaluate performance of the prototype, tracking performance, climbing performance and spraying boom's uniform leveling performance were individually evaluated by corresponding experimental tests. Results: The autonomous guidance system was proved to be sufficiently suitable for accurate linear traveling with RMS as lower than approximately 10 cm from designated path. Also the prototype could climb $10^{\circ}$ of ground's slope angle with 40 kg of water weight. Uniform leveling of spraying boom was successfully performed within $0.5^{\circ}$ of sprayer boom's slope. Conclusions: Considering more complex pathways and coarse ground conditions, evaluations and improvements of the prototype should be performed for promising reliability to commercialization.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제7권11호
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• pp.111-119
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• 2007

센서 네트워크는 센서 디바이스를 이용한 정보수집과 전달을 위해 필요하며, 이를 위해 여러 가지 라우팅 프로토콜이 제안되었다. 기존의 프로토콜 중 수정된 PEGASIS 라우팅 기법은 데이터 전달이 방향성을 갖는 분야에 적용하면 효과적이다. 그러나 반복되는 중계와 제어를 수행하는 센서 장치들은 자체 고장률이 높은 반면, 이 프로토콜은 장애 극복과 데이터 전달의 안정성에 대한 고려가 되어 있지 않다. 본 논문에서는 데이터 이동이 선형적인 방향성을 갖는 지그비(Zigbee) 기반의 센서 네트워크 구조상에서 안정성 있는 데이터 전달이 가능한 이중 중계 라우팅(double relay routing) 프로토콜을 제안한다. 제안된 프로토콜은 데이터 이동의 방향성을 기반으로, 에너지 소모를 최소화하면서 데이터 전달의 안정성이 확보된다는 측면에서 매우 효과적이다. 그리고 제안된 라우팅 기법을 이용한 가로등 제어시스템에 적용하여 분석을 수행하였다.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.43-52
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• 2015

궤도의 유지보수비와 전력소모비의 합이 최소로 되는 최적 체결구의 강성을 평가하여 가급적 이 값을 갖도록 체결구를 제작 및 유지관리하는 것은 국내 콘크리트궤도의 부설이 급격하게 증가하는 시점에서 철도의 경제성 제고 차원에서 중요한 과제라 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 콘크리트궤도에서 궤도의 유지보수비와 차량운행에 따른 전력소모비의 합을 최소로 하는 최적 체결구 강성을 평가하는 방법을 제시한 후, 국내 고속철도 콘크리트궤도에 맞는 최적 체결구 강성을 평가하였다. 체결구 강성에 따른 궤도 유지보수비를 합리적으로 평가하기 위하여 콘크리트궤도에 적합한 체결구 강성에 따른 궤도손상모델을 제시하였으며, 궤도손상에 따른 궤도 유지보수비 상관관계를 도출하였다. 윤중 계산 시 고도화된 수치해석적 기법을 적용하여 각 궤도구성품의 거동특성이 반영될 수 있도록 함으로써 체결구 강성에 따른 윤중변동을 보다 정확하게 평가할 수 있도록 하였다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2014

Self-piercing riveting(SPR) is a mechanical fastening technique which is put pressure on the rivet for joining the sheets. Unlike a spot welding, SPR joining does not make the harmful gas and $CO_2$ and needs less energy consumption. In this study, static and fatigue tests were conducted using tensile-shear specimens with Al-5052 plates for evaluation of fatigue strength of the SPR joints. During SPR joining process for the specimen, using the current sheet thickness and a rivet, the optimal applied punching force was found to be 21 kN. And, the maximum static strength of the specimen produced at the optimal punching force was 3430 N. During the fatigue tests for the specimens, interface failure mode occurred on the top substrate close to the rivet head in the most high-loading range region, but on the bottom substrate close to the rivet tail in the low -loading range region. There was a relationship between applied load amplitude $P_{amp}$ and lifetime of cycle N for the tensile-shear, $P_{amp}=3395.5{\times}N^{-0.078}$. Using the stress-strain curve of the Al-5052 from tensile test, the simulations for fatigue specimens have been carried out using the implicit finite element code ABAQUS. The relation between von-Mises equivalent stress amplitude and number of cycles was found to be ${\sigma}_{eq}=514.7{\times}N^{-0.033}$.