• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.257-279
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• 2015

The primary objective of this study is to summarize results from previous experimental tests on laboratory specimens of RC/steel frames with masonry infills, in order to develop fragility functions that permit the estimation of damage in typical non-structural components of RC frame buildings, as a function of attained peak interstory drift. The secondary objective is to derive loss functions for such non-structural components, which provide information on the probability of experiencing a certain level of monetary loss when a given damage state is attained. Fragility curves and loss function developed in this study can be directly used within the FEMA P-58 framework for the seismic performance assessment of RC frame buildings with masonry infills.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제17권3_4호
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• pp.593-609
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• 2004

Peak response is a more suitable index than mean response in the light of structural safety. In this study, a controller optimization method is proposed to restrict peak responses of building structures subject to earthquake excitations, which are modeled as partially stationary stochastic process. The constraints are given with specified failure probabilities of peak responses. LQR is chosen to assure stability in numerical process of optimization. Optimization problem is formulated with weightings on controlled outputs as design variables and gradients of objective and constraint functions are derived. Full state feedback controllers designed by the proposed method satisfy various design objectives and output feedback controllers using LQG also yield similar results without significant performance deterioration.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.69-79
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• 2011

This study assessed the subsurface runoff and peak flow reduction in rain gardens. The results showed that the highest water retention was found in rain garden mesocosms in which Rhododendron lateritium and Zoysia japonica were planted, followed by mesocosms in which either R. lateritium or Z. japonica was planted, and the lowest water retention rate was found in non-vegetated control treatment mesocosms(${\alpha}$ < 0.05). Although higher rainfall intensity caused a decrease of peak flow reduction in both vegetated and non-vegetated treatments, peak flow reduction was the greatest in mesocosms with mixed plants. A rain garden can be an effective tool for environment-friendly stormwater management and improving ecological functions in urban areas. Depending on the purpose such as delaying runoff or increasing infiltration, various plant types should be considered for rain garden designing.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 기울기 기반 빠른 정상점 탐색 방법론을 제시하고 시뮬레이션 결과를 제시한다. 제안하는 방법론은 유한 구간에서 단봉 그래프를 가지는 함수의 정상점(최대치)을 최대한 적은 수의 함수값을 참조하여 찾는 문제에 대한 솔루션으로, 대표적인 적용분야로는 자동초점이 있다. 우리는 정상점 탐색을 위해 주기적 탐색, 기울기 기반 탐색, 상세 탐색과 같이 세가지 탐색 전략을 통해 정상점을 찾는다. 노이즈가 첨가된 가우시안 함수를 발생시켜 시뮬레이션 한 결과 대략 8번탐색 횟수와 1.04의 오차를 보임을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.715-722
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• 2012

New discrete time domain models for the peak current controlled (PCC) power LED drivers in continuous conduction mode include for the first time the effects of the time delay in the pulse-width-modulator. Realistic amounts of time delay are found to have significant effects on the average output LED current and on the critical inductor value at the boundary between the two conduction modes. Especially, the time delay can provide an accurate LED current for the PCC buck converter with a wide input voltage. The models can also predict the critical inductor value at the mode boundary as functions of the input voltage and the time delay. The overshoot of the peak inductor current due to the time delay results in the increase of the average output current and the reduction of the critical inductor value at the mode boundary in all converters. Experimental results are presented for the PCC buck LED driver with constant-frequency controller.

• East Asian mathematical journal
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.351-356
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• 2015

In this paper, we study holomorphic discs in a domain with a plurisubharmonic peak function at a boundary point. The aim is to describe boundary behavior of holomorphic discs in convex finite type domains in the complex Euclidean space in term of a special local neigh-borhood system at a boundary point.

• 대기
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.23-32
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• 2013

Ensemble sensitivity has been recently proposed as a method to analyze the dynamics of severe weather events. We adopt it to investigate the physical mechanism which caused the heavy rainfall over the Korean Peninsula on 6th August 2003. Two rainfall peaks existed in this severe weather event. The selected response functions are 1 hour accumulated rainfall amount of each rainfall peak. Sensitivity fields were calculated using 36 ensemble members which were generated by WRFDA. The sensitive regions for the first rainfall peak are located over the Shandong Peninsula and the Yellow Sea at 12 hours before the first rainfall peak. However, the 12-h forecast sensitivity for the second rainfall peak is revealed near Typhoon ETAU (0310) and midlatitude trough. These results show that the first rainfall peak was induced by low pressure which located over the northern part of the Korean Peninsula while the second rainfall peak was caused by the interaction between typhoon ETAU and midlatitude trough.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제43권7호
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• pp.635-643
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• 2010

작은 규모 유역의 홍수 유출량을 산출하기 위해서 유역을 대표하는 하나의 단위유량도를 많이 적용해 왔다. 이 때 단위유량도의 첨두유량과 첨두 발생시간은 단위유량도를 결정하는 특성치로 취급된다. 본 연구에서는 국내에서 $8.5\;km^2$ 정도의 소규모 유역에서도 강우 사상별로 단위유량도의 첨두유량과 발생시간은 상당히 변동되는 것을 보이고 분석하였다. 그리고 동일 소유역에서 단위유량도 변동의 주요인으로 강우 사상별 평균 강우강도라고 보고 강우 사상별 강우강도와 단위유량도의 첨두유량 및 발생시간의 관계를 각각 지수함수식으로 제시하였다. 결과적으로 사용 자료상의 제약 등으로 단위유량도 첨두치에상당한 분산을 동반하는 한계는있지만 연구된 대로 단위유량도의첨두유량 및 첨두 발생시간과 강우의 평균적인 회귀 관계는 단위유량도 이론의 보완적 측면에서 수문학적 가치를 갖는다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권3호
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• pp.475-485
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• 2017

This paper develops a conversion function and method transforming from daily peak load curve used $LOLE_D$ [days/year] to hourly load curve used $LOLE_H$[hours/year]and describes relationship between $LOLE_D$ [days/year] and $LOLE_H$ [hours/year]. The indices can not only be transformed just arithmetically but also have different characteristics physically because of using their different load curves. The conversion function is formulated as variables of capacity and forced outage rate of generator, hourly load daily load factor and daily peak load yearly load factor, etc. Therefore, the conversion function (${\gamma}={\varphi}$(.)) can not be simple. In this study, therefore, the function is formulated as linear times of separated two functions. One is an exponential formed conversion function of daily load factor. Another is formulated with an exponential typed conversion function of daily peak load yearly load factor. Futhermore, this paper presents algorithm and flow chart for transforming from $LOLE_D$[days/year] to $LOLE_H$[hours/year]. The proposed conversion function is applied to sample system and actual KPS(Korea Power System) in 2015. The exponent coefficients of the conversion functions are assessed using proposed method. Finally, assessment errors using conversion function for case studies of sample system and actual system are evaluated to certify the firstly proposed method.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.438-447
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• 2006

Fuzzy controller's design depends mainly on the rule base and membership functions over the controller's input and output ranges. This paper presents two different approaches to deal with these design issues. A simple and efficient approach; namely, Fuzzy Subtractive Clustering is used to identify the rule base needed to realize Fuzzy PI and PD type controllers. This technique provides a mechanism to obtain the reduced rule set covering the whole input/output space as well as membership functions for each input variable. But it is found that some membership functions projected from different clusters have high degree of similarity. The number of membership functions of each input variable is then reduced using a similarity measure. In this paper, the fuzzy subtractive clustering approach is shown to reduce 49 rules to 8 rules and number of membership functions to 4 and 6 for input variables (error and change in error) maintaining almost the same level of performance. Simulation on a wide range of linear and nonlinear processes is carried out and results are compared with fuzzy PI and PD type controllers without clustering in terms of several performance measures such as peak overshoot, settling time, rise time, integral absolute error (IAE) and integral-of-time multiplied absolute error (ITAE) and in each case the proposed schemes shows an identical performance.