• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.249-257
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• 2012

Nonlinear dynamical behaviors of plasma in the Pierce diode are investigated by a numerical code developed using a one dimensional fluid model. The plasma in Pierce diode is alternately stable and unstable as Pierce parameter is changed. The dynamical characteristics of neutral and non-neutral Pierce system is examined analytically and numerically. It alternately has growing and oscillatory mode as Pierce parameter varies. As Pierce parameter is decreased, each oscillatory mode undergoes a sequence of subharmonic period-doubling bifurcation and then culminate in a chaotic strange attractor. The analysis for this nonlinear behavior can be used as a model for understanding of beam-plasma interaction in more complex geometries and a data for chaos control.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• v.18 no.3E
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• pp.173-181
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• 2006

The objectives of this study are to evaluate the reliability of an existing nonlinear analysis program for predicting the inelastic behavior of reinforced concrete frame with seismic details and to observe the redistribution of the internal forces, which can not be easily measured by an experiment. In order to carry out this task, the nonlinear analysis program of IDARC 2D(3) was run on a 2-bay, 2-story moment-resisting reinforced concrete plane frame with seismic details. (1) The effort to obtain the results of the analysis similar to those of experiment was made by determining the appropriate values of model parameters. The comparison of the analysis results with those of experiment and the observation of the distribution of internal forces obtained through nonlinear analysis points to the following conclusions. (1) The overall relationship between lateral load and lateral displacement given by the analysis is similar to that of experiment. However, the values of initial stiffness and the amount of energy dissipation in the initial displacement steps given by the analysis show larger values than those of experiment. (2) The analysis provided detailed information on the distribution and redistribution of internal forces and proved useful in elucidating the crack pattern, the sequence of the occurrence of plastic hinges, and the failure or yielding mechanism for the whole structure. (3) In spite of the similarity in overall behavior of analysis and experiment, there exists a significant discrepancy in some local behaviors. Furthermore, the hysteresis in the relationship between moment and curvature in some column ends have shown sudden deteriorations in strength, which can not be interpreted satisfactorily at the present time. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a better analytical model to fill this knowledge gap.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.1157-1176
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• 2014

The objective of this research is to develop a practical design and assessment approach of steel frames with steel slit walls (SSWs) that focuses on the damage-control behavior to enhance the structural resilience. The yielding sequence of SSWs and frame components is found to be a critical issue for the damage-control behavior and the design of systems. The design concept is validated by the full-scale experiments presented in this paper. Based on a modified energy-balance model, a procedure for designing and assessing the system motivated by the framework regarding the equilibrium of the energy demand and the energy capacity is proposed. The damage-control spectra constructed by strength reduction factors calculated from single-degree-of-freedom systems considering the post stiffness are addressed. A quantitative damage-control index to evaluate the system is also derived. The applicability of the proposed approach is validated by the evaluation of example structures with nonlinear dynamic analyses. The observations regarding the structural response and the prediction during selected ground motions demonstrate that the proposed approach can be applied to damage-control design and assessment of systems with satisfactory accuracy.

• Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.983-991
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• 2013

For each real number $n$ > 6, we prove that there is a sequence $\{pk(n,z)\}^{\infty}_{k=1}$ of fourth degree self-reciprocal polynomials such that the zeros of $p_k(n,z)$ are all simple and real, and every $p_{k+1}(n,z)$ has the largest (in modulus) zero ${\alpha}{\beta}$ where ${\alpha}$ and ${\beta}$ are the first and the second largest (in modulus) zeros of $p_k(n,z)$, respectively. One such sequence is given by $p_k(n,z)$ so that $$p_k(n,z)=z^4-q_{k-1}(n)z^3+(q_k(n)+2)z^2-q_{k-1}(n)z+1$$, where $q_0(n)=1$ and other $q_k(n)^{\prime}s$ are polynomials in n defined by the severely nonlinear recurrence $$4q_{2m-1}(n)=q^2_{2m-2}(n)-(4n+1)\prod_{j=0}^{m-2}\;q^2_{2j}(n),\\4q_{2m}(n)=q^2_{2m-1}(n)-(n-2)(n-6)\prod_{j=0}^{m-2}\;q^2_{2j+1}(n)$$ for $m{\geq}1$, with the usual empty product conventions, i.e., ${\prod}_{j=0}^{-1}\;b_j=1$.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.6A
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• pp.562-567
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• 2002

Noise predictive maximum likelihood(NPML) detector embeds noise predictions/ whitening process in branch metric calculation of Viterbi detector and improves the reliability of branch metric computation. Therefore, PRML detector with a noise predictor achieves some performance improvement and has an advantage of low complexity. This paper shows that NP(1221)ML system through noise predictive PR-equalized signal has less complexity and better performance than high order PR(12321)ML system in high density perpendicular magnetic recording. The simulation results are evaluated using (1) random sequence and (2) run length limited (1,7) sequence, and they are applied to linear channel and nonlinear channel with normalized linear density $1.0{\leq}K_p{\leq}3.0$.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.83-90
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• 1997

This study was performed to demonstrate the effect of linear or nonlinear contrast enhancement on subtraction images. Three different textures were radiograped on dental film. The first radiograph was taken without the presence of an object. the second, which showed trabucular bone, was taken of the molar area of a human. the third radiograph was taken of the coronal part of molars. Each film was digitized into a 1312 x 1024 pixel x 8 bit depth matrix by means of a Nikon 35 mm film scanner(LS-3510AF, Japan) with fixed gain and internal dark current correction to maintain constant illumination. The scanner was interfaced to a Macintosh Le ill computer(Apple Computer, Charlotte, N.C) This resulted in three pairs of images, including different textures-plain, bone and enamel. Digital regular, linearly and nonlinearly enhanced subtraction was performed. Computer software was ,used to simulate lesions in the shape of a 2D-Gaussian curve on each of a pair of images. The each subtraction images were presented in a random sequence to two groups of 10 observers(students and dentists). ROC analysis was used to compare observer performance. The following results were obtained ; 1. All of LCE subtraction, equalized subtraction and regular subtraction images of plain texture were diagnosed the best by far. 2. The data revealed a siginificant LCE effect in both the student group and the expert group. 3. Clinical expertise was a helphul factor for the observers in this study.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.501-516
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• 2009

This paper aims to study the large deflections of variable-arc-length elastica subjected to the terminal forces (e.g., axial force and torque). Based on Kirchhoff's rod theory and with help of Euler parameters, the set of nonlinear governing differential equations which free from the effect of singularity are established together with boundary conditions. The system of nonlinear differential equations is solved by using the shooting method with high accuracy integrator, seventh-eighth order Runge-Kutta with adaptive step-size scheme. The error norm of end conditions is minimized within the prescribed tolerance ($10^{-5}$). The behavior of VAL elastica is studied by two processes. One is obtained by applying slackening first. After that keeping the slackening as a constant and then the twist angle is varied in subsequent order. The other process is performed by reversing the sequence of loading in the first process. The results are interpreted by observing the load-deflection diagram and the stability properties are predicted via fold rule. From the results, there are many interesting aspects such as snap-through phenomenon, secondary bifurcation point, loop formation, equilibrium configurations and effect of variable-arc-length to behavior of elastica.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.23-27
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• 2001

Making the safety situation from the various work system is very important in the industrial fields. The proposed neural network technique is the real titre computation method based theory of inter-node diffusion for searching the safety distances from the sudden appearance-objests during the work driving. The main steps of the distance computation using the theory of stereo vision like the eyes of man is following steps. One is the processing for finding the corresponding points of stereo images and the other is the interpolation processing of full image data from nonlinear image data of obejects. All of them request much memory space and titre. Therefore the most reliable neural-network algorithm is drived for real time recognition of obejects, which is composed of a dynamic programming algorithm based on sequence matching techniques. And the real time reconstruction of nonlinear image information is processed through several simulations. I-D LIPN hardware has been composed, and the real time reconstruction is verified through the various experiments.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.46 no.6
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• pp.869-886
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• 2013

This work presents an experimental methodology specially developed for the nonlinear large-amplitude free vibration analysis of a clamped-free thin-walled metal column under self-weight. The main contribution of this paper is related to the developed experimental methodology which is based on a remote sensing technique using a computer vision system that integrates, on-line, the digital image acquisition and its treatment through special image processing routines. The main importance of this methodology is that it performs large deflections measurements without making contact with the structure and thus, not introducing undesirable changes in its behavior, for instance, appreciable changes in mass and stiffness properties. This structure presents, in most cases, highly non-linear responses, which cannot be reproduced by conventional finite-element softwares due, mainly, to the simultaneous influence of geometric and inertial non-linearities. To capture the non-linearities associated with large amplitude vibration and be able to describe the buckling process, the structure is discretized as a sequence of jointed coupled elastic pendulums. The obtained numerical results are favorably compared with the experimental ones, in the pre- and post-buckling regimes.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.164-165
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• 2000

There has recently been a considerable amount of interest in two-photon(TP) processes because of their applications to 3-D optical data storage and imaging, up-conversion lasing, and optical power limiting. Recently, the role of Dithienothlophene(DTT) as $\pi$-center of two-photon absorption(TPA) molecules was reported to give a large enhancement of TPA, compared with the benzeniods counterparts.$^{[1]}$ In this report, we carried out two experiments to investigate nonlinear optical absorption of the molecules in which central DTT is attached through conjugation to either a D/D or a D/A pair at the ends, forming a D-$\pi$-D(1 and 3) or D-$\pi$-A(2 and 4) sequence(Fig.1). All the samples were prepared in solutions with the same molar concentration. (omitted)