• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.152-158
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• 2006

The objective of this work is to develop the knee joint model for representing various pendulum motions and quantifying the spasticity. Knee joint model included the extension and flexion muscles. The joint moment consists of both the active moment from the stretch reflex and the passive moment from the viscoelastic joint properties. The stretch reflex was modeled as nonlinear feedback of muscle length and the muscle lengthening velocity, which is Physiologically-feasible. Moreover, we modeled the spastic reflex as having dynamic threshold to account far the various pendulum trajectories of spastic patients. We determined the model parameters of three patients who showed different pendulum trajectories through minimization of error between experimental and simulated trajectories. The simulated joint trajectories closely matched with the experimental ones, which show the proposed model can predict pendulum motions of patients with different spastic severities. The predicted muscle force from spastic reflex appeared more frequently in the severe spastic patient, which indicates the dynamic threshold relaxes slowly in this patient as is manifested by the variation coefficient of dynamic threshold. The proposed method provides prediction of muscle force and intuitive and objective evaluation of spasticity and it is expected to be useful in quantitative assessment of spasticity.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.594-602
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• 1990

본 연구에서는 동력전달용 인벌류우트 원통치차(스퍼어 및 헬리컬 기어)의 강 도 및 각종 영향인자를 충분히 고려하면서 크기를 최소로 하는 치차장치의 설계법을 개발하고, 이 설계법을 기본으로 하여 퍼스널 컴퓨터 상에서 누구나 손쉽게 설계에 이 용할 수 있는 설계 시스템을 개발하여 그 평가를 수행한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제35권1C호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2010

코렌트로피는 일반화된 상관함수로서 확률밀도함수의 고차 모멘트를 가지는데 이는 기존의 모멘트 확장 방식들보다 더 높은 고차 모멘트이다. 두 다른 랜덤 변수의 상호 코렌트로피를 최대화하는 이 기준 방식은 최소자승오차 기준 방식과 비교할 때, 비선형, 비 가우시안 신호 처리 환경에서 특히 탁월한 성능을 나타낸다. 이 논문에서는, 상호 코렌트로피 기준에 근거한 새로운 블라인드 등화 기법을 제안한다. 이 기법은 등화기 출력의 확률밀도함수와, 송신 심볼의 분포에 맞추어 발생시킨 랜덤심볼의 파전 확률밀도 추정치라는 두 확률변수에 상호 코렌트로피를 적용한다. 상호 코렌트로피에 근거한 제안 방식의 블라인드 등화 성능을 유클리디언 거리 최소화 방식과 비교하였다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.77-84
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• 2010

Recently, the concept of structural design against instability has been proposed in the chassis parts. The design considerations of lower control arm of chassis parts under the buckling and durability strengths are the general. More precisely, this paper considers a specific application and associated optimization problem for two strengths, where the design variables are the physical or geometric dimensions for skins and stiffeners. The objective is the minimization of the total weight, while optimization constrains involve reserve or improve factors for the buckling and durability strengths. The most important features are related to the numerical simulations for the estimation of buckling factor and their sensitivities by means of nonlinear and linear finite element analyses. The bucking and durability strength analyses, and the morping geometries are directly included in the optimization problem and the modified design is formulated. As a result, the optimal structure with stable behavior is obtained or increases the buckling and durability strengths of parts. Most of design problems for structures exposed to elastic instability can be formulated and solved.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.721-736
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• 2021

For the mobile edge computing (MEC) system supporting dense network, a joint allocation algorithm of computing and communication resources based on reinforcement learning is proposed. The energy consumption of task execution is defined as the maximum energy consumption of each user's task execution in the system. Considering the constraints of task unloading, power allocation, transmission rate and calculation resource allocation, the problem of joint task unloading and resource allocation is modeled as a problem of maximum task execution energy consumption minimization. As a mixed integer nonlinear programming problem, it is difficult to be directly solve by traditional optimization methods. This paper uses reinforcement learning algorithm to solve this problem. Then, the Markov decision-making process and the theoretical basis of reinforcement learning are introduced to provide a theoretical basis for the algorithm simulation experiment. Based on the algorithm of reinforcement learning and joint allocation of communication resources, the joint optimization of data task unloading and power control strategy is carried out for each terminal device, and the local computing model and task unloading model are built. The simulation results show that the total task computation cost of the proposed algorithm is 5%-10% less than that of the two comparison algorithms under the same task input. At the same time, the total task computation cost of the proposed algorithm is more than 5% less than that of the two new comparison algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.5614-5633
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• 2018

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) and Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) are both recognized as promising techniques, one is for solving the resource insufficient of mobile devices and the other is for powering the mobile device. Naturally, by integrating the two techniques, task will be capable of being executed by the harvested energy which makes it possible that less intrinsic energy consumption for task execution. However, this innovative integration is facing several challenges inevitably. In this paper, we aim at prolonging the battery life of mobile device for which we need to maximize the harvested energy and minimize the consumed energy simultaneously, which is formulated as residual energy maximization (REM) problem where the offloading ratio, energy harvesting time, CPU frequency and transmission power of mobile device are all considered as key factors. To this end, we jointly optimize the offloading ratio, energy harvesting time, CPU frequency and transmission power of mobile device to solve the REM problem. Furthermore, we propose an efficient convex optimization and sequential unconstrained minimization technique based combining method to solve the formulated multi-constrained nonlinear optimization problem. The result shows that our joint optimization outperforms the single optimization on REM problem. Besides, the proposed algorithm is more efficiency.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제70권3호
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• pp.289-301
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• 2019

Hysteretic energy is defined as energy dissipated through inelastic deformations during a ground motion by the system. It includes frequency content and duration of ground motion as two remarkable parameters, while these characteristics are not seen in displacement spectrum. Since maximum displacement individually cannot be the appropriate criterion for damage assessment, hysteretic energy has been evaluated in this research as a more comprehensive seismic demand parameter. An innovative methodology has been proposed to establish a new equivalent linear model to estimate hysteretic energy spectrum for bilinear SDOF models under two different sets of earthquake excitations. Error minimization has been defined in the space of equivalent linearization concept, which resulted in equivalent damping and equivalent period as representative parameters of the linear model. Nonlinear regression analysis was carried out for predicting these equivalent parameter as a function of ductility. The results also indicate differences between seismic demand characteristics of far-field and near-field ground motions, which are not identified by most of previous equations presented for predicting seismic energy. The main advantage of the proposed model is its independency on parameters related to earthquake and response characteristics, which has led to more efficiency as well as simplicity. The capability of providing a practical energy based seismic performance evaluation is another outstanding feature of the proposed model.

• Journal of the Korean Physical Society
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• 제73권9호
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• pp.1303-1309
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• 2018

In the present paper, we study the entropy analysis of boundary layer flow over a slender stretching sheet under the action of a non uniform magnetic field that is acting perpendicular to the flow direction. The effects of viscous dissipation and Joule heating are included in the energy equation. Using similarity transformation technique the momentum and thermal boundary layer equations to a system of nonlinear differential equations. Numerical solutions are obtained using the shooting and fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. The expressions for the entropy generation number and Bejan number are also obtained using a suggested similarity transformation. The main objective of this article is to investigate the effects of different governing parameters such as the magnetic parameter ($M^2$), Prandtl number (Pr), Eckert number (Ec), velocity index parameter (m), wall thickness parameter (${\alpha}$), temperature difference parameter (${\Omega}$), entropy generation number (Ns) and Bejan number (Be). All these effects are portrayed graphically and discussed in detail. The analysis reveals that entropy generation reduces with decreasing wall thickness parameter and increasing temperature difference between the stretching sheet and the fluid outside the boundary layer. The viscous and magnetic irreversibilities are dominant in the vicinity of the stretching surface.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.319-327
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• 2017

Studying the structural behavior of prestressed segmented girders is quite important due to the large use this type of solution in viaducts and bridges. Thus, this work presents a nonlinear three-dimensional structural analysis of an externally prestressed segmented concrete girder through the Finite Element Method (FEM), using a customized ANSYS platform, version 14.5. Aiming the minimization of the computational effort by using the lowest number of finite elements, a new viscoelastoplastic material model has been implemented for the structural concrete with the UPF customization tool of ANSYS, adding new subroutines, written in FORTRAN programming language, to the main program. This model takes into consideration the cracking of concrete in its formulation, being based on fib Model Code 2010, which uses Ottosen rupture surface as the rupture criterion. By implementing this new material model, it was possible to use the three-dimensional 20-node quadratic element SOLID186 to model the concrete. Upon validation of the model, an externally prestressed segmented box concrete girder that was originally lab tested by Aparicio et al. (2002) has been computationally simulated. In the discretization of the structure, in addition to element SOLID186 for the concrete, unidimensional element LINK180 has been used to model the prestressing tendons, as well as contact elements CONTA174 and TARGE170 to simulate the dry joints along the segmented girder. Stresses in the concrete and in the prestressing tendons are assessed, as well as joint openings and load versus deflection diagrams. A comparison between numerical and experimental data is also presented, showing a good agreement.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.49-58
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• 1993

열자극 과정의 수치해석적인 방법을 이용하여 열자극 세기곡선의 kinetic order, 활성화 에너지, 이탈 진동수 그리고 초기 트랩 밀도를 구하기 위하여 혼합된 열자극 세기곡선으로 분해하였고, 비선형 최소 자승법으로 분해된 열자극 곡선 세기와 측정된 세기의 차이를 최소화시켰다. 감마선 선량계로 사용되고 있는 $\alpha$-Al$_2$ $O_3$ 에감마선을 조사시킨 후 ,300K～600K의 온도 구간에서 측정된 $\alpha$-Al$_2$ $O_3$의 열자극 발광 세기곡선은 정점 온도가 381K, 415K, 441K, 460K, 488K 그리고 506K인 6개의 독립된 열자극 발광세기곡선으로 분해되었으며, 381K의 정점온도를 갖는 분해된 열자극 발광 세기곡선의 kinetic order, 활성화 에너지 그리고 이탈 진동수는 각각 1, 1.12eV 그리고 6.79X$10^{12}$sec$^{-1}$로써, 이 결과는 다른 측정법에 의한 값과 유사하였다.