• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권12호
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• pp.4625-4635
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• 2022

A low-energy dielectric loaded accelerator with a non-uniform, multi-segment structure is studied and optimized. So far, no analytical solution is provided for such structures. Also, due to the existing nonlinear behavior and a large number of geometric parameters, the problem of numerical optimizations is complex. For this reason, a method is presented to design and optimize such structures using the Genetic Algorithm (GA). Moreover, the GA output results are compared with Trust Region (TR) and Nelder-Mead Simplex (NMS) methods. Comparative results show that the GA is more efficient in achieving optimization goals and also has a higher speed than the two other methods. Finally, an optimized accelerating tube is integrated into a proper coupler. Then, the accelerator is simulated for full electromagnetic investigations using the CST suite of codes. This design leads to a structure with a power of about 80 kW in the X-band, which delivers electrons to the output energy in the range of 300-459 kV. The length and outer diameter of the accelerating tube obtained are 10 cm and 1 cm, respectively.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2008

댐의 수문 제어는 유입량이 변하는 동안 이루어지는 복잡하고 비선형적인 제어이다. 이 논문에서는 퍼지 추론 기법을 이용하여 유입량이 변하는 동안의 수문을 효과적으로 제어하기 위한 방법을 제안하였다. 특히 단순히 수문 제어에만 머물지 않고 가뭄 때를 대비하여 적정 수위를 유지할 수 있도록 하는 기능과, 하류 지역을 범람을 예방하기 위하여 방류량을 제어할 수 있도록 하는 기능을 보완하였다. 이를 위하여 일반적으로 사용되는 정적인 퍼지 함수를 이용하지 않고 상황에 따라 함수 값이 변하는 동적 퍼지 추론 기법과 방류량 제어를 위한 퍼지 규칙을 함께 적용함으로써 방류량을 제한할 수 있도록 하는 기법을 제안하였다. 제안한 기법을 이용하여 시뮬레이션 실험을 실시한 결과 수문 제어 기능뿐만 아니라 사용자가 지정한 적정 수위를 유지하고 정해진 방류량을 넘지 않도록 하는 방식으로 댐 수문 제어가 이루어짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.297-305
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• 2018

In a shipyard, block lifting is an important process in the production of ships and offshore structures. Block lifting is a sensitive process because lifting blocks have to be erected with exact positions and orientations. If we use a numerical method for the process, it is important to find tensions of wires and positions of equalizers to maintain the initial equilibrium position of the block. At this time, equations of motion of the block should be solved to calculate the initial equilibrium position of the block. Because the solving technique changes according to the number of equalizers, a suitable equation for the corresponding problem is required. In this study, three types of equations are proposed to find the initial equilibrium position of the block according to the number of equalizers. The Newton-Raphson's method is used to solve nonlinear simultaneous equations and the optimization method is used to determine the appropriate solution to the undetermined problem. To evaluate the applicability of the proposed methods, the dynamic simulations are performed using the tensions calculated from the proposed methods, and the results are discussed. The results show that the proposed methods can be effectively used to determine initial equilibrium position of the block for the block lifting.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.108-117
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• 2012

본 논문은 비선형 필터 기법에 따른 지형참조항법 성능 분석에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 지형참조항법에 사용되는 기본 필터에는 확장 칼만 필터(EKF)가 있다. 본 연구는 EKF 원형외에 반복형 EKF(IEKF), stochastic linearization(SL) 조건이 추가된 EKF-SL과 unscented Kalman Filter(UKF) 알고리듬을 소개한다. 또한, 연속적(sequential) 필터 외에 일괄적(batch)필터 기법인 칼만 필터 무리(bank of Kalman filters)를 이용한 항법 기술도 비교군으로 추가하고 필터 간 항법 성능을 분석한다. 가상 궤적을 가진 항공기 시뮬레이션을 통해 초기위치 오차가 클 때도 강건한(robust) 필터로 stochastic linearization EKF가 선정되었으며, 다만 빠른 항법 해의 수렴이 요구될 때에는 칼만 필터 무리를 이용한 일괄적 필터가 효과적인 것으로 분석되었다.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2000

전통적인 OD조사에 의한 OD추정방법의 여러 문제점들로 인해 링크에서 관측된 교통량과 기존OD를 결합해 새로운 OD를 추정하고자 하는 연구들이 지속되고 있으며, 그 필요성도 증대되고 있다. 그러한 기법중의 하나가 Yang(1995)이 제시한 바이레벨 모형으로, 그는 일반화최소자승법을 풀기위한 Sensitivity Analysis Based (SAB)을 제시하였다. 그러나 SAB 알고리즘은 두가지 중요한 문제점을 가지고 있다. 첫 번째 문제는 실제 OD를 알기가 어렵기 때문에, 기존 OD 조사시의 통행패턴이 현재의 통행패턴과 큰 변화가 없다는 가정 하에, 기존 OD를 추정시 중요한 추정기준으로 설정한다는 점이다. 그러나 이러한 기존 OD에 대한 추정의 종속성으로 인해, SAB는 기존 OD와 실제 OD의 차이가 큰 경우 정확한 해를 도출하지 못하고 추정결과가 일관적(robust)이지 않게 도출된다. 두 번째 문제는 SAB는 통행패턴 추정시 선형근사화를 가정하기 때문에 게임이론적 측면에서 전제로 설정한 완전한 Stackelberg 상황을 구현하지 못한다는 점이다. 이러한 문제점을 피하기 위해서는 기존 OD의 오차나 관측교통량의 오차에 대해 일관적이고 안정적인 해도출 기법이 필요하다. 본 연구의 목적은 SAB를 비롯한 기존 바이레벨 OD추정기법의 문제점을 지적하고 이에 대한 대안기법을 제시하는 것이다. OD추정의 문제는 본질적으로 비선형이고 비볼록하기 때문에, 다중해를 도출하게 된다. 따라서 전역해 탐색기법이 필요한데, 본 연구에서는 전역최적화가 가능한 유전알고리즘(Genetic Algorithm)을 이용한 OD추정모형(GA-Model:GAM)을 제시하였다. 사례네트워크에 대한 비교분석결과, GAM은 기존 OD의 오타에 대해 크게 종속적이지 않으며 OD구조가 변하는 경우에도 추정이 가능하여, 일반적으로 실제 OD를 알 수 없는 (기존OD의 오차가 어느 정도인지를 알 수 없는) 도시부 네트워크에서 신뢰성있는 추정력을 보였다.

• 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS Vol.2
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• pp.255-260
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• 2006

Safety-critical navigation systems have to provide 'reliable' position solutions, i.e., they must detect and exclude measurement or system faults and estimate the uncertainty of the solution. To obtain more accurate and reliable navigation systems, various filtering methods have been employed to reduce measurement noise level, or integrate sensors, such as global navigation satellite system/inertial navigation system (GNSS/INS) integration. Recently, particle filters have attracted attention, because they can deal with nonlinear/non-Gaussian systems. In most GNSS applications, the GNSS measurement noise is assumed to follow a Gaussian distribution, but this is not true. Therefore, we have proposed a fault detection and exclusion method using particle filters assuming non-Gaussian measurement noise. The performance of our method was contrasted with that of conventional Kalman filter methods with an assumed Gaussian noise. Since the Kalman filters presume that measurement noise follows a Gaussian distribution, they used an overbounded standard deviation to represent the measurement noise distribution, and since the overbound standard deviations were too conservative compared to the actual distributions, this degraded the integrity-monitoring performance of the filters. A simulation was performed to show the improvement in performance of our proposed particle filter method by not using the sigma overbounding. The results show that our method could detect smaller measurement biases and reduced the protection level by 30% versus the Kalman filter method based on an overbound sigma, which motivates us to use an actual noise model instead of the overbounding or improve the overbounding methods.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.435-441
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• 2006

For the calibration of rainfall-runoff model, automatic calibration methods are used instead of manual calibration to obtain the reliable modeling results. When mathematical programming techniques such as linear programming and nonlinear programming are applied, there is a possibility to arrive at the local optimum. To solve this problem, genetic algorithm is introduced in this study. It is very simple and easy to understand but also applicable to any complicated mathematical problem, and it can find out the global optimum solution effectively. The objective of this study is to develope a parameter optimization program that integrate a genetic algorithm and a rainfall-runoff model. The program can calibrate the various parameters related to the runoff process automatically. As a rainfall-runoff model, SWMM is applied. The automatic calibration program developed in this study is applied to the Jangcheon watershed flowing into the Youngrang Lake that is in the eutrophic state. Runoff surveys were carried out for two storm events on the Jangcheon watershed. The peak flow and runoff volume estimated by the calibrated model with the survey data shows good agreement with the observed values.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.95-110
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• 2013

In the recent decade, practical of wavelet technique is being utilized in various domain of science. Particularly, engineers are interested to the wavelet solution method in the time series analysis. Fundamentally, seismic responses of structures against time history loading such as an earthquake, illustrates optimum capability of systems. In this paper, a procedure using particularly discrete Haar wavelet basis functions is introduced, to solve dynamic equation of motion. In the proposed approach, a straightforward formulation in a fluent manner is derived from the approximation of the displacements. For this purpose, Haar operational matrix is derived and applied in the dynamic analysis. It's free-scaled matrix converts differential equation of motion to the algebraic equations. It is shown that accuracy of dynamic responses relies on, access of load in the first step, before piecewise analysis added to the technique of equation solver in the last step for large scale of wavelet. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this scheme, improved formulations are extended to the linear and nonlinear structural dynamic analysis. The validity and effectiveness of the developed method is verified with three examples. The results were compared with those from the numerical methods such as Duhamel integration, Runge-Kutta and Wilson-${\theta}$ method.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.97-120
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• 2008

Wind and wave loadings have a predominant role in the design of offshore structures in general, and articulated tower in particular for a successful service and survival during normal and extreme environmental conditions. Such towers are very sensitive to the dynamic effects of wind and wind generated waves. The exposed superstructure is subjected to aerodynamic loads while the submerged substructure is subjected to hydrodynamic loads. Articulated towers are designed such that their fundamental frequency is well below the wave frequency to avoid dynamic amplification. Dynamic interaction of these towers with environmental loads (wind, waves and currents) acts to impart a lesser overall shear and overturning moment due to compliance to such forces. This compliancy introduces geometric nonlinearity due to large displacements, which becomes an important consideration in the analysis of articulated towers. Prediction of the nonlinear behaviour of these towers in the harsh ocean environment is difficult. However, simplified realistic mathematical models are employed to gain an important insight into the problem and to explore the dynamic behaviour. In this paper, various modeling approaches and solution methods for articulated towers adopted by past researchers are reviewed. Besides, reliability of articulation system, the paper also discussed the design, installation and performance of articulated towers around the world oceans.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.487-498
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• 2018

Buckling-restrained braces are passive control devices with high level of energy dissipation ability. However, they suffer from low post-yield stiffness which makes them vulnerable to severe ground motions, especially near-field earthquakes. Among the several methods proposed to improve resistance of BRB frames, mega-brace configuration can be a solution to increase frame lateral strength and stiffness and improve distribution of forces to prevent large displacement in braces. Due to the limited number of research regarding the performance of such systems, the current paper aims to assess seismic performance of BRB frames with mega-bracing arrangement under near-field earthquakes via a detailed probabilistic framework. For this purpose, a group of multi-story mega-BRB frames were modelled by OpenSEES software platform. In the first part of the paper, simplified procedures including nonlinear pushover and Incremental Dynamic Analysis were conducted for performance evaluation. Two groups of near-fault seismic ground motions (Non-pulse and Pulse-like records) were considered for analyses to take into account the effects of record-to-record uncertainties, as well as forward directivity on the results. In the second part, seismic reliability analyses are conducted in the context of performance based earthquake engineering. Two widely-known EDP-based and IM-based probabilistic frameworks are employed to estimate collapse potential of the structures. Results show that all the structures can successfully tolerate near-field earthquakes with a high level of confidence level. Therefore, mega-bracing configuration can be an effective alternative to conventional BRB bracing to withstand near-field earthquakes.