• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.413-419
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• 2010

Plant growth was greatly affected by the spectral distribution and light intensity of artificial lighting sources. In this study, the spectral characteristics of high power sodium (HPS) lamps and metal halide (MH) lamps produced by three different manufacturers were measured. Even though the spectral distribution of HPS lamps with lamp wattage of 250 W and 400 W was very similar, but the spectral light intensity by the manufacturers was different. Difference in the spectral light intensity of MH lamps by the manufacturers was increased with the increasing lamps wattage. Light intensity at the region of blue (B), green (G), red (R) and far-red (FR) light of HPS and MH lamps was also analyzed. HPS lamps showed the light intensity in order of R, FR, B and G light. The ratio of G, B, R and FR to photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) of HPS lamps with the lamp wattage of 250 W was 3.0-3.2%, 5.5-5.9%, 17.3-19.2% and 6.5-7.8%, respectively. For MH lamps, it showed the light intensity in order of R, FR, B, and G. The ratio of B, G, R, and FR to PPF of MH lamps with 250 W was 14.0-15.5%, 22.6-27.5%, 7.5-9.5% and 2.7-4.2%, respectively. HPS and MH lamps with 400 W had a relatively smaller ratio of R and FR to PPF than those with 250 W. HPS lamps showed that the ratio of light intensity of B and FR to R was 0.15-0.28 and 0.36-0.4, respectively. For MH lamps, the ratio of light intensity of B and FR to R was 1.26-2.72 and 0.27-0.56, respectively. From these results, it was concluded that the portion of blue light of MH lamps was higher than those of HPS lamps.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.435-448
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• 2018

In order to make reliable earthquake-resistant design of civil engineering structures, one of the most important considerations in a region with high seismicity is to pay attention to the local soil condition of regions. It is aimed in the current study at specifying dynamic soil characteristics of Kirikkale city center conducting the 1-D equivalent linear and non-linear site response analyses. Due to high vulnerability and seismicity of the city center of Kirikkale surrounded by active many faults, such as the North Anatolian Fault (NAF), the city of Kirikkale is classified as highly earthquake-prone city. The first effort to determine critical site response parameter is to perform the seismic hazard analyses of the region through the earthquake record catalogues. The moment magnitude of the city center is obtained as $M_w=7.0$ according to the recorded probability of exceedance of 10% in the last 50 years. Using the data from site tests, the 1-D equivalent linear (EL) and nonlinear site response analyses (NL) are performed with respect to the shear modulus reduction and damping ratio models proposed in literature. The important engineering parameters of the amplification ratio, predominant site period, peak ground acceleration (PGA) and spectral acceleration values are predicted. Except for the periods between the period of T=0.2-1.0 s, the results from the NL are obtained to be similar to the EL results. Lower spectral acceleration values are estimated in the locations of the city where the higher amplification ratio is attained or vice-versa. Construction of high-rise buildings with modal periods higher than T=1.0 s are obtained to be suitable for the city of Kirikkale. The buildings at the city center are recommended to be assessed with street survey rapid structural evaluation methods so as to mitigate seismic damages. The obtained contour maps in this study are estimated to be effective for visually characterizing the city in terms of the considered parameters.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.161-183
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• 2017

This paper investigates the damage identification of the concrete pile element through axial wave propagation technique using computational and experimental studies. Now-a-days, concrete pile foundations are often common in all engineering structures and their safety is significant for preventing the failure. Damage detection and estimation in a sub-structure is challenging as the visual picture of the sub-structure and its condition is not well known and the state of the structure or foundation can be inferred only through its static and dynamic response. The concept of wave propagation involves dynamic impedance and whenever a wave encounters a changing impedance (due to loss of stiffness), a reflecting wave is generated with the total strain energy forked as reflected as well as refracted portions. Among many frequency domain methods, the Spectral Finite Element method (SFEM) has been found suitable for analysis of wave propagation in real engineering structures as the formulation is based on dynamic equilibrium under harmonic steady state excitation. The feasibility of the axial wave propagation technique is studied through numerical simulations using Elementary rod theory and higher order Love rod theory under SFEM and ABAQUS dynamic explicit analysis with experimental validation exercise. Towards simulating the damage scenario in a pile element, dis-continuity (impedance mismatch) is induced by varying its cross-sectional area along its length. Both experimental and computational investigations are performed under pulse-echo and pitch-catch configuration methods. Analytical and experimental results are in good agreement.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2013

본 연구는 골프 드라이버의 임팩트 위치에 따른 소리의 특성을 평가하고자 하였다. 일정한 임팩트 소리를 발생시키기 위하여 골프공 자유낙하 장치를 고안하여 사용하였다. 임팩트 소리의 시간에 따른 진폭과 주파수영역에서 파워의 피크값 분포가 드라이버 헤드면의 임팩트 위치에 따라 다르게 나타났으나 재현성이 부족하여 비교할 수 없었다. 드라이버의 임팩트 부위에 따른 소리를 구분하기 위하여 대안적인 방법으로 파워스펙트럼 누적합(cumsum)을 사용하였다. 파워스펙트럼 누적합의 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%에 해당하는 주파수를 비교한 결과 드라이버 면의 중앙(center)에서 발생하는 임팩트 소리의 40% 누적합주파수가 바깥쪽(toe)과 안쪽(heel)에서 발생하는 임팩트 소리에 비하여 유의하게 낮은 것을 관찰하였다. 이러한 결과는 드라이버 헤드면의 중앙이 바깥쪽 또는 안쪽에 비하여 임팩트 소리의 저주파수 성분 파워가 상대적으로 높다는 것을 시사하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.3037-3054
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• 2013

Interference between primary user (PU) and secondary user (SU) transceivers should be mitigated in order to implement underlay spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networks (CRN). Considering this scenario, an improved joint subcarrier and bit allocation scheme for cognitive user with primary users' cooperation (PU Coop) in CRN is proposed. In this scheme, the optimization problem is formulated to minimize the average interference power level at the PU receiver via PU Coop, which guarantees a higher primary signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) while maintaining the secondary user total rate constraint. The joint optimal scheme is separated into subcarrier allocation and bit assignment in each subcarrier via arith-metric geo-metric (AM-GM) inequality with asymptotical optimization solution. Moreover, the joint subcarrier and bit optimization scheme, which is evaluated by the available SU subcarriers and the allocated bits, is analyzed in the proposed PU Coop model. The performance of cognitive spectral efficiency and the average interference power level are investigated. Numerical analysis indicates that the SU's spectral efficiency increases significantly compared with the PU non-cooperation scenario. Moreover, the interference power level decreases dramatically for the proposed scheme compared with the traditional Hughes-Hartogs bit allocation scheme.

• 한국지능시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국퍼지및지능시스템학회 1998년도 The Third Asian Fuzzy Systems Symposium
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• pp.762-766
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• 1998

Mechanical valve is one of the most widely used implantable artificial organs, Since its failure (mechanical failures and thrombosis to name two representative example) means the death of patient, its reliability is very important and early noninvasive detection is essential requirement . This paper will explain the method to detect the thrombosis formation by spectral analysis and neural network. In order quantitatively to distinguish peak of a normal valve from that of a thrombotic valve, a 3 layer backpropagation neural network, which contains 7,000 input nodes, 20 hidden layer and 1output , was employed. The trained neural network can distinguish normal and thrombotic valve with a probability that is higher than 90% . In conclusion, the acoustical spectrum analysis coupled with a neural network algorithm lent itself to the noninvasive monitoring of implanted mechanical valves. This method will be applied to be applied to the performance evaluation of other implantable rtificial organs.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.190-196
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• 2006

In this paper, the nonlinear damping force model is made to identify the properties of the ER damper using higher order spectrum. The higher order spectral analysis is used to investigate the nonlinear frequency coupling phenomena with the damping force signal according to the sinusoidal excitation of the damper. Also, this paper presents an inverse model of the ER damper, i.e., the model can predict the required voltage so that the ER damper can produce the desired force for the requirement of vibration control of vehicle suspension systems. The inverse model has been constructed by using piecewise linear damping force model. In this paper, the fuzzy logic control based on heuristic knowledge is combined with the skyhook control. And it is simulated for a quarter car model. The acceleration of the sprung mass is included in the premise part of the fuzzy rules to reduce the vertical acceleration RMS value of the sprung mass. Then scaling factors and membership functions are tuned using genetic algorithm to obtain optimal performance.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.21-30
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• 2014

최근 산업 현장에서 유도 전동기의 사용이 증대되고 있으며, 유도 전동기는 산업 현장에서 중요한 역할을 하고 있다. 따라서 유도 전동기의 결함으로 인한 피해를 최소화하기 위해 유도 전동기의 결함 검출 및 분류 시스템의 개발이 중요한 문제로 대두되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 유도전동기의 결함을 조기에 식별하기 위해 선형예측 코딩(LPC)기법과 Expectation Maximization(EM) 알고리즘을 이용하여 각각의 유도 전동기 고장의 스펙트럼 포락처리 모델을 추정한다. 앞서 두 기법을 사용하여 추정된 고장 유형 모델과 마할라노비스 거리(MD) 기법을 사용하여 유도전동기의 결합을 분류한다. 또한 제안된 알고리즘 성능을 평가하기 위해 기존에 제안된 진동 신호의 특징을 이용한 유도 전동기 결함 분류 알고리즘과 분류 정확도 측면에서 성능을 검증하였다. 실험 결과, 제안하는 알고리즘은 잡음이 없는 환경 및 잡음이 섞인 환경에서도 높은 분류 성능을 보였다.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.247-252
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• 2014

가곡광산은 스카른형 광상으로서 섬아연석, 방연석, 황동석, 자류철석 등의 황화광물을 수반한다. 이러한 광물은 전극분극에 의한 IP effect가 크기 때문에 광대역유도분극(spectral induced polarization; SIP)법을 이용하여 효과적으로 탐사할 수 있다. 따라서 이 연구는 황화광물 함량 및 입자의 크기를 지시하는 충전도와 시간상수를 실내 SIP 측정을 통하여 구하고 이로부터 가곡광산 내 두 광체에 대한 광화작용 차이를 비교하는데 목적을 두었다. 이를 위해 남쪽의 월곡광체와 북쪽의 선곡광체를 대상으로 시료를 채취하였다. 시료의 광화작용 특성을 파악하기 위해 휴대용 XRF 측정기를 이용하여 금속의 함량을 측정했고, 실내 암석 SIP 측정시스템을 이용하여 SIP 자료를 획득했다. XRF 측정결과 가곡광산 광체는 철, 아연, 납, 구리 등의 금속을 수반하고 있다. 특히 아연과 철의 함량이 다른 금속과 비교하여 매우 높았고, 이 두 금속은 현미경 관찰을 통하여 섬아연석과 자류철석에 의한 영향으로 판단하였다. SIP 등가회로 분석 결과, 월곡광체가 선곡광체에 비하여 금속의 함량이 더 높았기 때문에 황화광물을 더 많이 수반하는 것으로 판단했고, 이는 SIP에서 충전도의 결과와 잘 부합한다. 반면 선곡광체의 시간상수가 더 컸기 때문에 선곡광체가 월곡광체보다 황화광물 입자 크기가 더 큰 것으로 판단했다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.138-144
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• 2015

Digital filters are extensively used in the world of communication. In order to design a digital finite impulse response (FIR) filter that satisfies all the required conditions is challenging. In this paper, design techniques of digital low pass FIR filters using Rectangular window method, Hamming window, Hanning window, and Optimal Parks McClellan method are presented. The stability, number of components required and filter coefficients are demonstrated for different design techniques. It is demonstrated that filter design using hamming window is comparatively better than rectangular and hanning window though the components required for all of the windowing technique are same, hamming shows higher stability. The stability is shown with the help of magnitude and phase spectrum of each window. Simulation is carried out using MATLAB and comparisons are made entirely based on the output of the simulation.