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A Study of Winterization Design for Helideck Using the Heating Cable on Ships and Offshore Platforms (열선을 이용한 해양플랜트 헬리데크의 방한설계에 관한 연구)

  • Bae, So Young;Kang, Gyu-Hong
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.54 no.1
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2017
  • In recent years, the demand for ships and offshore platforms that can navigate and operate through the Arctic Ocean has been rapidly increasing due to global warming and large reservoirs of oil and natural gas in the area. Winterization design is one of the key issues to consider in the robust structural safety design and building of ships that operate in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions. However, international regulations for winterization design in Arctic condition regulated that only those ships and offshore platforms with a Polar Class designation and/or an alternative standard. In order to cope with the rising demand for operating in the Arctic region, existing and new Arctic vessels with a Polar Class designation are lacking to cover for adequate winterization design with HSE philosophy. Existing ships and offshore platform was not designed based on reliable data based on numerical and experiment studies. There are only designed as a performance and functional purposes. It is very important to obtain of reliable data and provide of design guidance of the anti-icing structures by taking the effects of low temperature into consideration. Therefore, the main objective of this paper reconsiders anti-icing design of aluminum helideck using the heating cable. To evaluate of reliable data and recommend of anti-icing design method, various types of analysis and methods can be applied in general. In the present study, finite element method carried out the thermal analysis with cold chamber testing for performance and capacity of heating cables.

Characterization Analyses for Direct Current Tumor Ablation (직류 전류 이용 종양세포치료의 특성 연구)

  • Yang, T.K.;Kim, J.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.307-312
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    • 2011
  • As a technique for removing cancerous tumors from normal tissue, radio-frequency electromagnetic waves were employed to heating target cells up to the critical temperature, which kills the cancerous cells. However, its use in treating tumors in soft organs is limited by inconvenient factors, which are use of high-currents and long time operation. In this work, the feasibility of the localized heating by inserting four conducting electrodes with tiny direct current is investigated. The heat source is resulting from the electric field as known as resistive heating. We have investigated the temperature distribution as a function of applying DC voltages ranging from 10 V to 30 V with 10 V step. From the simulation results, the mushroom-like lesion shape by applying 20 V is generated by four electrodes within a few minutes, that is proper to the clinical application.

Study on the Methods for 2D Numerical Modeling of the Bridge Pier (교각의 차원 수치모의하는 방법에 2차원 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Tae-Beom;Choi, Byung-Woong;Kang, Hyeong-Sik;Choi, Sung-Uk
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2008.05a
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    • pp.1737-1741
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    • 2008
  • 하천 개수나 치수를 위한 기초 연구의 일환으로 수치모형을 이용한 검증 및 예측 과정이 요구되어 왔고, 고전적인 수치모의 방법으로 결과 산출이 용이한 1차원 모형을 적용시켜 왔다. 1차원 모형의 경우 모의영역을 쉽게 넓힐 수 있고, 입력 자료가 간단하다는 장점이 있지만, 수직적이고 수평적인 흐름특성 변화 및 난류 구조를 보이는 3차원적인 자연하천 흐름을 종방향의 1차원적인 모의 결과를 이용하여 평가한다는 점에서 비현실적이다. 하천을 가로질러 교각이나 보와 같은 구조물이 위치하고 있거나, 좌우 비대칭적인 형상의 수로를 모의할 경우 흐름특성의 공간적인 분포는 단순한 단면 평균적인 개념으로는 설명되기 힘들다. 최근에야 비로소 수공학 관련 실무자들에 의해서 최소한 2차원 수치모형을 기본적인 평가법으로 도입해야 한다는 분위기가 감지되고 있으며, 일반적으로 한강과 같은 대하천을 모의할 경우, 대다수의 실무자들과 연구자들이 축척을 문제 삼아 수로 내부에 위치한 교각을 생략하여 2차원 모의를 수행하기도 한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 수로 내부에 위치한 교각을 2차원 모의하는 방법에 대한 비교 평가를 수행하고자 한다. 동일한 격자를 이용하여 교각을 고려하지 않았을 경우와 교각 형상을 모의 영역에서 삭제하여 경계처리를 하였을 경우, 마지막으로 교각이 위치하고 있는 영역에 항력을 적용하였을 경우에 대해서 비교 평가한다. 이를 위하여 2차원 천수방정식을 흐름방정식으로 하는 유한요소모형을 구축하였으며, 모형의 검증을 위해 교각이 수로에 위치할 경우에 대한 실내 실험 자료와 비교한다. 또한 검증된 모형을 이용하여 교각이 포함된 한강의 일부 구간을 선정하여, 교각 모의 방법에 대한 비교 평가를 수행한다. 본 연구에서 구축된 자료 및 제시된 수치모형은 하천복원, 치수관리 측면에서 매우 유용하게 사용될 것으로 기대된다.

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Trajectory Generation, Guidance, and Navigation for Terrain Following of Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (무인전투기 근접 지형추종을 위한 궤적생성 및 유도 항법)

  • Oh, Gyeong-Taek;Seo, Joong-Bo;Kim, Hyoung-Seok;Kim, Youdan;Kim, Byungsoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.11
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    • pp.979-987
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    • 2012
  • This paper implements and integrates algorithms for terrain following of UCAVs (Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles): trajectory generation, guidance, and navigation. Terrain following is very important for UCAVs because they perform very dangerous missions such as Suppression of Enemy Air Defences while the terrain following can improve the survivability of UCAVs against from the air defence systems of the enemy. To deal with the GPS jamming, terrain referenced navigation based on nonlinear filter is chosen. For the trajectory generation, Voronoi diagram is adopted to generate horizontal plane path to avoid the air defense system. Cubic spline method is used to generate vertical plane path to prevent collisions with ground while flying sufficiently close to surface. Follow-the-Carrot and pure pursuit tracking methods, which are look-ahead point based guidance algorithms, are applied for the guidance. Numerical simulation is performed to verify the performance of the integrated terrain following algorithm.

Design of Flight Envelope Protection System on Velocity of Aircraft (항공기의 수평속도에 대한 비행영역 보호 시스템 설계)

  • Shin, Ho-Hyun;Lee, Sang-Hyun;Kim, You-Dan;Kim, Eung-Tae;Seong, Ki-Jung;Choi, Hyoung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.327-334
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    • 2010
  • Recently developed aircrafts use Fly-By-Wire(FBW) or Fly-By-Light(FBL) system. These systems have some merits; they can perform very complicated missions, they can expand the flight region and improve the reliability of the aircrafts. With the development of flight control systems that use FBW technique, flight envelope protection concept is introduced to guarantee reliability of the aircraft and improve the efficiency of mission achievement. In this study, flight envelope protection system is designed using a dynamic trim algorithm, a peak response estimation, and a gain scheduling technique. The performance of these methods are compared by performing numerical simulation.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Follow-up Study on Five Cases of HIVD-Cervical Spine Patients Treated with Oriental Medical Treatment (한의학적 치료로 호전된 경추추간판탈출증 환자의 영상의학적 변화 5례)

  • Moon, Ja-Young;Song, Joo-Hyun;Lim, Myung-Jang;Kang, In;Lee, Hyo-Eun;Cho, Jae-Hee;Kim, Hak-Jae;Jang, Hyoung-Seok
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.229-240
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    • 2007
  • Objectives : The purpose of this study is to report the image changes of five cases of Cervical intervertebral disc Herniation after Oriental medicine Treatment. Patient & Methods : We examined 5 patients with Cervical intervertebral disc Herniation (HIVD of C-spine) who showed changes on MRI images before/after the treatment among HIVD of C-spine patients who visited Cervical Spine center, Jaseng Hospital of Oriental Medicine from March, 2006 to May, 2007. Results & Conclusions : In this study, the first MRI examination of HIVD of C-spine patients was performed at the first visit and re-examination of MRI was done after the treatment. We assessed clinical symptoms by using Numerical rating scales(NRS). In each case, the size of the disc herniation was considerably reduced in MRI image. NRS was also reduced significantly.

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Antibacterial and Antioxidant activities of Bio-fermented Sanguisorbae Radix Extract (지유 발효추출물의 항세균 및 항산화 활성)

  • Kil, Ki-Jung;Doh, Eun-Soo;Chang, Jun-Pok;Lee, Seung-Hyun;Yoo, Ji-Hyun
    • The Korea Journal of Herbology
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2015
  • Objectives : The objective of this research was to investigate the antibacterial and antioxidant activities of bio-fermented Sanguisorbae Radix extract.Methods : The Sanguisorbae Radix extract was fermented byStreptococcus thermophilus,and their products was tested for antibacterial activity against pathogenic microorganisms namely,Bacillus cereus,Bacillus subtilis,Staphylococcus aureus,Escherichia coli,Vibrio parahaemolyticusandSalmonella typhimuriumby paper disc diffusion method and the antioxidant activities of extract was evaluated by five different assays as electron donating ability(EDA), superoxide dismutase(SOD)-like activity, polyphenol, flavonoid contents and nitrite scavenging ability.Results : The bio-fermented Sanguisorbae Radix extract was safe from heat. Antibacterial activity of fermented Sanguisorbae Radix extract appeared relatively highly againstBacillus cereusandStaphylococcus aureusand didn't show any difference. EDA in comparison to Vitamin C showed over 90% activity at about the same time of Sanguisorbae Radix extract expressed highly. SOD activity showed 15% in fermentation before and after. The nitrite scavenging ability of Sanguisorbae Radix extract before and after fermentation showed higher numerical value over 70% in pH 2.5 than that of butylated hydroxytoluene(BHT). But SOD activity, EDA and nitrite scavenging ability were not different between the Sanguisorbae Radix extract before and after fermentation. Total polyphenol content expressed over about 20 mg/g, and that of the Sanguisorbae Radix extracts was increased than that of the fermented Sanguisorbae Radix extracts.Conclusions : The results suggest the usefulness of developing functional materials using antioxidant active Sanguisorbae Radix extract was fermented bySalmonella typhimuriumwith high polyphenol contents and nitrite scavenging ability.

Active Noise Control in Finite Duct by the FIR Filter Modelling Considering the Stuructural Characteristics (구조적특성을 고려한 유한 덕트계의 FIR필터모델링에 의한 능동소음제어)

  • Lee, Tae-Yeon;Song, Won-Shik;Oh, Jae-Eung
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 1992
  • Recently, the problem which actively control the unwanted noise propagated from the technical structure by the generated secondary sound has become considerable topic from the environmental preservation point of view. In most of these studies, active noise control deals with a plane wave propagation at low frequency using adaptive filtering techniques. On the other hand, in real acoustic systems are mostly short due to the limitation of geometric configuration. In this case, the acoustic properties such as reflections and resonances inside the acoustic system should be considered. In this paper, the acoustic modeling method for short length duct was introduced using the transfer matrix method, and the active noise control problem was investigated with \implementation of FIR filter for the transfer function of control system derived from this modeling method. The identification methods for the acoustic model of actual control system was proposed by numerical computation technique based on the estimation of optimal FIR filter coefficients. The acceptable attenuation on the real acoustic system and stability of the controller are predicted in this computational simulation.

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Analysis of melt flows and remelting phenomena through numerical simulations during the kyropoulos sapphire single crystal growth (전산해석을 통한 키로플러스 사파이어 단결정 성장공정의 유동 및 remelting 현상 분석)

  • Kim, Jin Hyung;Park, Yong Ho;Lee, Young Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.129-134
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    • 2013
  • Sapphire wafers are used as an important substrate for the production of blue LED (light emitting diode) and the LED's performance largely depends on the quality of the sapphire single crystals. There are several crystal growth methods for sapphire crystals and Kyropoulos method is an efficient way to grow large diameter and high-quality sapphire single crystals with low dislocation density. During Kyropoulos growth, the convection of molten melt is largely influenced by the hot zone geometry such as crucible shape, heater and refractory arrangements. In this study, CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations were performed according to the bottom/side ratios (per unit of the crucible surface area) of heaters. And, based on the results of analysis, the molten alumina flows and remelting phenomena were analyzed.

A Study on Character Recognition using Wavelet Transformation and Moment (웨이브릿 변환과 모멘트를 이용한 문자인식에 관한 연구)

  • Cho, Meen-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.15 no.10
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2010
  • In this thesis, We studied on hand-written character recognition, that characters entered into a digital input device and remove noise and separating character elements using preprocessing. And processed character images has done thinning and 3-level wavelet transform for making normalized image and reducing image data. The structural method among the numerical Hangul recognition methods are suitable for recognition of printed or hand-written characters because it is usefull method deal with distortion. so that method are applied to separating elements and analysing texture. The results show that recognition by analysing texture is easily distinguished with respect to consonants. But hand-written characters are tend to decreasing successful recognition rate for the difficulty of extraction process of the starting point, of interconnection of each elements, of mis-recognition from vanishing at the thinning process, and complexity of character combinations. Some characters associated with the separation process is more complicated and sometime impossible to separating elements. However, analysis texture of the proposed character recognition with the exception of the complex handwritten is aware of the character.