• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 B
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• pp.748-750
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• 1999

In this study, a speech enhancement is presented based on the utilization of well-known auditory mechanism, noise masking. The speech enhancement approach adopted here is to derive an modifier that achieves audible noise suppression. This modification selectively affects the perceptually significant spectral values, and is therefore less prone to introduction of unwanted distortions than methods that affect the complete STSA and produces more enhanced results at low SNR as well as at high SNR. The speech enhancement method adopted here needs exact estimation of the minimum specteal value per critical band because it uses only the minimum spectral value per critical band. For this, the method adopted here uses the modified spectral subtraction that is more flexible than power spectral subtraction. So, the result in experiment represented better SNR than before.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.56-64
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 자기회귀모델을 이용한 심박변동의 파워스펙트럼해석에서 복잡한 계산과정을 수행하지 않으면서 심박변동의 특성을 반영한 간단한 모델차수법을 제안하였다. 자기회귀모델을 이용한 심박변동의 단구간 시계열에 대한 파워스펙트럼해석은 모델차수에 따라 스펙트럼 추정의 분해능이 변화한다. 제안한 모델차수법과 기존의 AIC와 고정차수법에 대하여 비교실험을 하였다. 실험결과, AIC 보다 계산과정이 매우 간단해졌으며 낮은 분해능의 문제를 해결하였고 고정차수의 단점인 시계열의 특성에 대응한 모델차수를 선택 할 수 있었다. 또한 제안된 방법으로 파워스펙트럼말도를 추정한 결과 AIC에서 나타나는 낮은 분해능 문제 와 적은 시계열 개수에서 나타나는 고정차수에 의한 잡음성 파워성분 저l거 등이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.387-410
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• 2008

The fatigue damage accumulation rates of horizontally curved thin walled box-girder bridge have been estimated from vehicle-induced dynamic stress history using rain flow cycle counting method in the time domain approach. The curved box-girder bridge has been numerically modeled using computationally efficient thin walled box-beam finite elements, which take into account the important structural actions like torsional warping, distortion and distortional warping in addition to the conventional displacement and rotational degrees of freedom. Vehicle model includes heave-pitch-roll degrees of freedom with longitudinal and transverse input to the wheels. The bridge deck unevenness, which is taken as inputs to the vehicle wheels, has been assumed to be a realization of homogeneous random process specified by a power spectral density (PSD) function. The linear damage accumulation theory has been applied to calculate fatigue life. The fatigue life estimated by cycle counting method in time domain has been compared with those found by estimating the PSD of response in frequency domain. The frequency domain method uses an analytical expression involving spectral moment characteristics of stress process. The effects of some of the important parameters on fatigue life of the curved box bridge have been studied.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제85권2호
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• pp.197-206
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• 2023

The deterioration caused by chloride penetration and carbonation plays a significant role in a concrete structure in a marine environment. The chloride corrosion in some marine concrete structures is invisible but can be dangerous in a sudden collapse. Therefore, as a novelty, this research investigates the ability of a non-destructive damage detection method named the Power Spectral Density (PSD) to diagnose damages caused only by chloride ions in concrete structures. Furthermore, the accuracy of this method in estimating the amount of annual damage caused by chloride in various parts and positions exposed to seawater was investigated. For this purpose, the RC Arosa bridge in Spain, which connects the island to the mainland via seawater, was numerically modeled and analyzed. As the first step, each element's bridge position was calculated, along with the chloride corrosion percentage in the reinforcements. The next step predicted the existence, location, and timing of damage to the entire concrete part of the bridge based on the amount of rebar corrosion each year. The PSD method was used to monitor the annual loss of reinforcement cross-section area, changes in dynamic characteristics such as stiffness and mass, and each year of the bridge structure's life using sensitivity equations and the linear least squares algorithm. This study showed that using different approaches to the PSD method based on rebar chloride corrosion and assuming 10% errors in software analysis can help predict the location and almost exact amount of damage zones over time.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2012

This paper presents a structural health monitoring method of aircraft reciprocating engine using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) which analyzes vibration expressed by Averaged Normalized Power Spectral Density (ANPSD). Because ANPSD of the rotating shaft is sensitive to the rotating speed, this paper proposes to use a post-processing method of ANPSD is used to reduce the sensitivity. The PCA extracts compressed information from the post-processed ANPSDs and the information means the difference between current and normal cases of the engine. The experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method to detect abnormal cases of the engine.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.101-109
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• 2002

A time domain method for solving nonstationary random vibration caused by vehicle acceleration is first proposed in which a time changing model is established for representing nonstationary excitation of a rough road. Furthermore a novel frequency domain method called the transient power spectral density with spatial frequency (TPSD) is presented to obtain a response of vehicle system in frequency domain. This method has been proved to be valid by comparing numerical results with the exact solution.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.222-228
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 비정상적인 배경 잡음 환경에서 음성향상을 위한 신호의 스펙트럼 변이 (Spectral Deviation)을 적용한 Soft Decision 기반의 잡음전력 수정 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 Soft Decision 기반의 잡음전력 추정에 있어서 잡음신호의 정상성(Stationarity)을 가정한 스무딩 파라미터를 사용하여 잡음전력을 추정하고 갱신하였지만, 잡음신호의 주파수적인 특성이 상대적으로 빠르게 변하는 비정상적인 환경에서는 강인하지 못한 단점을 가지게 된다. 본 논문에서는 신호의 스펙트럼 변이를 추정하여 정상적인 잡음 환경과 비정상적인 잡음 환경에 따라 적응적으로 잡음전력을 추정하고 갱신하여 잡음신호에 의해 오염된 음성신호를 향상시킨다. 제안된 알고리즘은 다양한 배경 잡음 환경에서 객관적인 음질측정 방법인 ITU-T P.862 perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ)에 의해서 평가되었으며, 기존의 Soft Decision 기반의 음성 향상 기법과 비교하여 보다 향상된 성능을 보여주었다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권12호
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• pp.1920-1925
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel method to improve the performance of the improved minima controlled recursive averaging (IMCRA) in non-stationary noisy environment. The conventional IMCRA algorithm efficiently estimate the noise power by averaging past spectral power values based on a smoothing parameter that is adjusted by the signal presence probability in frequency subbands. Since the minimum of smoothing parameter is defined as 0.85, it is difficult to obtain the robust estimates of the noise power in non-stationary noisy environments that is rapidly changed the spectral characteristics such as babble noise. For this reason, we proposed the modified IMCRA, which adaptively estimate and updata the noise power according to the noise type classified by the Gaussian mixture model (GMM). The performances of the proposed method are evaluated by perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) and composite measure under various environments and better results compared with the conventional method are obtained.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.377-382
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• 2008

A novel power amplifier for a polar transmitter is proposed to achieve better spectral performance for a wideband envelope signal. In the proposed scheme, 2-bit sigma-delta (${\Sigma}{\Delta}$) modulation of the envelope signal is introduced, and the power amplifier configuration is modified in a binary form to accommodate the 2-bit digitized envelope signals. The 2-bit ${\Sigma}{\Delta}$ modulator lowers the noise of the envelope signal by fine quantization and thus enhances the spectral property of the RF signal. The Ptolemy simulation results of the proposed structure show that the spectral noise is reduced by 10 dB in a full transmit band of the EDGE system. The dynamic range is also enhanced. Since the performance is improved without increasing the over-sampling ratio, this technique is best suited for wireless communication with high data rates.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.297-313
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• 2023

This study aims to extend the application of the spectral element method (SEM) to wave propagation and free vibration analysis of functionally graded (FG) plates integrated with thin piezoelectric layers, plates with tapered thickness and structure on elastic foundations. Also, the dynamic response of the smart FG plate under impact and moving loads is presented. In this paper, the dynamic stiffness matrix of the smart rectangular FG plate is determined by using the exact dynamic shape functions based on Mindlin plate assumptions. The low computational time and results' independence with the number of elements are two significant features of the SEM. Also, to prove the accuracy and efficiency of the SEM, results are compared with Abaqus simulations and those reported in references. Furthermore, the effects of boundary conditions, power-law index, piezoelectric layers thickness, and type of loading on the results are studied.