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Optimum Design of Multi-beam Large Reflector Antenna for Satellite Payload (위성 탑재용 다중빔 대형 반사판 안테나의 최적 설계)

  • Yun, So-Hyeun;Uhm, Man-Seok;Yom, In-Bok
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents the study on multi-beam large aperture antenna systems for a satellite payload. Multi-beam large antenna provides the universal communication and broadcasting services to personal portable terminals. The hybrid antenna composed of a large reflector and a feed array forms multi-beams. The feed cluster consists of a group of feed elements and each element should be optimized for the appropriate amplitude and phase. The optimization progress for amplitude and phase was performed by GO (Geometrical Optics) and PO (Physical Optics) method. The number of feed elements as well as the power level per element were also optimized to meet the required EIRP (Effective Isotropically Radiated Power). In conclusion, 30m-class reflector and twenty five elements for fifteen beams over Korean Peninsula were designed through the optimization process.

Feasibility Study of Hierarchical Kriging Model in the Design Optimization Process (계층적 크리깅 모델을 이용한 설계 최적화 기법의 유용성 검증)

  • Ha, Honggeun;Oh, Sejong;Yee, Kwanjung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.108-118
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    • 2014
  • On the optimization design problem using surrogate model, it requires considerable number of sampling points to construct a surrogate model which retains the accuracy. As an alternative to reduce construction cost of the surrogate model, Variable-Fidelity Modeling(VFM) technique, where correct high fidelity model based on the low fidelity surrogate model is introduced. In this study, hierarchical kriging model for variable-fidelity surrogate modeling is used and an optimization framework with multi-objective genetic algorithm(MOGA) is presented. To prove the feasibility of this framework, airfoil design optimization process is performed for the transonic region. The parameters of PARSEC are used to design variables and the optimization process is performed in case of varying number of grid and varying fidelity. The results showed that pareto front of all variable-fidelity models are similar with its single-level of fidelity model and calculation time is considerably reduced. Based on computational results, it is shown that VFM is a more efficient way and has an accuracy as high as that single-level of fidelity model optimization.

Development of Multi-Functional Sofa Bed for One-Person Household (1인 가구를 위한 소파 베드 개발에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Sang Kwon
    • Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.309-317
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    • 2016
  • Recently, Korean society is increaseing "1 person family" phenomenon, which is influenced by changing of young peoples' value, aging society and social economic problems. Increase of single households is a result of complex economic, cultural and social factors. It is because as the individual's financial independence increases due to elevated income and education level, the age of marriage is going up and the individualism, which values the individual's value rather than custom, is spreading. Therefore, this new phenomenon will be impact to between social, economic value structure and living space. An increase with small furnitures are also increasing of R&D and marketing plans for 1 person family. Currently, 1 person family is bigger than last decade and that is requiring more suitable and multi-functional furniture for them. However, in Korea furniture companies are more optimization to traditional family size. Thus, this research explore about developing cheap price sofa bed, which is using at narrow area and small place.

Design of Rectifying Inspection Plans and Service Capacities for Multi-Products with the Fixed Costs for Products Servicing (서비스 고정비용을 고려한 복수제품 선별검사와 서비스시스템 설계)

  • Kim, Sung Chul
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.89-103
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we design sampling inspections and service capacities simultaneously for multi-products. Products are supplied in batches after rectifying inspections, that is, rejected lot is subject to total inspection and defective products are reworked to good ones. When supplied, all defective products are uncovered and returned to service. Particularly, we extend Kim [1] by introducing the fixed costs of providing services and show that the cost function of a product is no longer linear or convex in terms of the level of service provision. We develop a framework for a product to deal with this joint design problem and a dynamic programming algorithm for multi-products which allocates the given number of the total service capacities among products with the considerably smaller computations than the total number of possible allocations.

On Setting Low-level Performance Criteria and Uncertainty Characterization for a Nuclear Power Plant (원자력발전소의 저층 성능 기준설정과 불확실성에 대하여)

  • Jo, Nam-Jin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.266-278
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    • 1987
  • This paper addresses the issues in setting performance criteria for safety regulation of nuclear power plants. Since setting criteria at the low level is a much more difficult task than it is at the top level, the low-level performance criteria should be derived consistently from the more easily determinable top-level performance criteria. The paper also proposes several approaches to characterizing uncertainties in performance criteria, by extending the reliability allocation methodology that is based on the mean-to-mean mapping to a stochastic multi-objective optimization problem where the state variables are uncertain.

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Optimization of Turbofan Engine Design Point by using Seven Level Orthogonal Array (7수준 직교배열을 적용한 터보팬 엔진 설계점 최적화)

  • Kim, Myungho;Kim, Youil;Lee, Kwangki;Hwang, Kiyoung;Min, Seongki
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.10-15
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    • 2013
  • For design optimization, engineers should require the accurate information of design space and then explore the design space and carry out optimization. Recently, the total design framework, based on design of experiments and optimization, is widely used in industry areas to explore the design space above all. For optimizing turbofan engine design point, the response surface model is constructed by using the 7 level orthogonal array which satisfies the statistical uniformity and orthogonality and gets the dense design space information. The multi-objective genetic algorithm is used to find the optimal solution within the given constraints for finding global optimal one in response surface model. The optimal solution from response surface model is verified with GasTurb simulation result.

Using an Evaluative Criteria Software of Optimal Solutions for Enterprise Products' Sale

  • Liao, Shih Chung;Lin, Bing Yi
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.9-19
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    • 2015
  • Purpose - This study focuses on the use of evaluative criteria software for imprecise market information, and product mapping relationships between design parameters and customer requirements. Research design, data, and methodology - This study involved using the product predicted value method, synthesizing design alternatives through a morphological analysis and plan, realizing the synthesis in multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM), and using its searching software capacity to obtain optimal solutions. Results - The establishment of product designs conforms to the customer demand, and promotes the optimization of several designs. In this study, the construction level analytic method and the simple multi attribute comment, or the quantity analytic method are used. Conclusions - This study provides a solution for enterprise products' multi-goals decision-making, because the product design lacks determinism, complexity, risk, conflict, and so on. In addition, the changeable factor renders the entire decision-making process more difficult. It uses Fuzzy deduction and the correlation technology for appraising the feasible method and multi-goals decision-making, to solve situations of the products' multi-goals and limited resources, and assigns resources for the best product design.

Material Design Using Multi-physics Simulation: Theory and Methodology (다중물리 전산모사를 이용한 물성 최적화 이론 및 시뮬레이션)

  • Hyun, Sangil
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.27 no.12
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    • pp.767-775
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    • 2014
  • New material design has obtained tremendous attention in material science community as the performance of new materials, especially in nano length scale, could be greatly improved to applied in modern industry. In certain conditions limiting experimental synthesis of these new materials, new approach by computer simulation has been proposed to be applied, being able to save time and cost. Recent development of computer systems with high speed, large memory, and parallel algorithms enables to analyze individual atoms using first principle calculation to predict quantum phenomena. Beyond the quantum level calculations, mesoscopic scale and continuum limit can be addressed either individually or together as a multi-scale approach. In this article, we introduced current endeavors on material design using analytical theory and computer simulations in multi-length scales and on multi-physical properties. Some of the physical phenomena was shown to be interconnected via a cross-link rule called 'cross-property relation'. It is suggested that the computer simulation approach by multi-physics analysis can be efficiently applied to design new materials for multi-functional characteristics.

System Target Propagation to Model Order Reduction of a Beam Structure Using Genetic Algorithm (유전자 알고리즘을 이용한 시스템 최적 부분구조화)

  • Jeong, Yong-Min;Kim, Jun-Sik
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.175-182
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    • 2022
  • In many engineering problems, the dynamic substructuring can be useful to analyze complex structures which made with many substructures, such as aircrafts and automotive vehicles. It was originally intended as a method to simplify the engineering problem. The powerful advantage to this is that computational efficiency dramatically increases with eliminating unnecessary degrees-of-freedom of the system and the system targets are concurrently satisfied. Craig-Bampton method has been widely used for the linear system reduction. Recently, multi-level optimization (such as target cascading), which propagates the system-level targets to the subsystem-level targets, has been widely utilized. To this concept, the genetic algorithm which one of the global optimization technique has been utilized to the substructure optimization. The number of internal modes for each substructure can be obtained by the genetic algorithm. Simultaneously, the reduced system meets the top-level targets. In this paper, various numerical examples are tested to verify this concept.

Optimal air-conditioning system operating control strategies in summer (여름철 공조시스템의 최적 운전 제어 방식)

  • Huh, J.H.
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.410-425
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    • 1997
  • Buildings are mostly under part load conditions causing an inefficient system operation in terms of energy consumption. It is critical to operate building air-conditioning system with a scientific or optimal manner which minimizes energy consumption and maintains thermal comfort by matching building sensible and latent loads. Little research has been performed in developing general methodologies for the optimal operation of air-conditioning system. Based on this research motivation, system simulation program was developed by adopting various equipment operating strategies which are energy efficient especially for humidity control in summer. A numerical optimization technique was utilized to search optimal solution for multi-independent variables and then linked to the developed system simulation model within a mam program. The main goal of the study is to provide a systematic framework and guideline for the optimal operation of air-conditioning system focusing on air-side. For given cooling loads and ambient outdoor conditions the optimal operating strategies of a commercial building are determined by minimizing a constrained objective function by a nonlinear programming technique. Desired space setpoint conditions were found through evaluating the trade-offs between comfort and system power consumption. The results show that supply airflow rate and compressor fraction play main roles in the optimization process. It was found that variable setpoint optimization technique could produce lower indoor humidity level demanding less power consumption which will be benefits for building applications of humidity problem.

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