• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.489-508
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• 2013

Design spectra for damping ratios higher than 5% have several important applications in the design of earthquake-resistant structures. These highly damped spectra are usually derived from a 5%-damped reference pseudo-acceleration spectrum by using a damping modification factor. In cases of high damping, the absolute acceleration and the relative velocity spectra instead of the pseudo-acceleration and the pseudo-velocity spectra should be used. This paper elaborates on the recovery of spectral absolute acceleration and spectral relative velocity from their pseudo-spectral counterparts. This is accomplished with the aid of correction factors obtained through extensive parametric studies, which come out to be functions of period and damping ratio.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제38권12호
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• pp.1184-1194
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• 2010

달 착륙과 이륙은 착륙선의 자세 및 고도에 따라서 몇 가지 단계로 나누어져 있다. 따라서 최적의 착륙선 궤적을 생성하기 위해서는 각 단계에 맞는 구속 조건과 제어 값이 필요하다. 착륙과 이륙의 최적궤적생성은 연료소모 및 자세변화율을 최소화 하는 가격함수를 이용하여 최적화를 수행하였다. 본 논문에서는 궤적을 생성하는 최적제어 문제의 풀이 방법을 직접적인 접근방식중의 하나인 Gauss pseudo-spectral을 사용하였고, 이 문제로 착륙선의 기준 궤적과 상태 및 제어 값을 생성하였다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.487-499
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• 2019

Energy-based seismic design of structures has gradually become prominent in today's structural engineering investigations because of being more rational and reliable when it is compared to traditional force-based and displacement-based methods. Energy-based approaches have widely taken place in many previous studies and investigations and undoubtedly, they are going to play more important role in future seismic design codes, too. This paper aims to compute the maximum earthquake energy input to elastic single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems for selected real ground motion records. A data set containing 100 real ground motion records which have the same site soil profiles has been selected from Pacific Earthquake Research (PEER) database. Response time history (RTH) analyses have been conducted for elastic SDOF systems having a constant damping ratio and natural periods of 0.1 s to 3.0 s. Totally 3000 RTH analyses have been performed and the maximum mass normalized earthquake input energy values for all records have been computed. Previous researchers' approaches have been compared to the results of RTH analyses and an approach which considers the pseudo-spectral velocity with Arias Intensity has been proposed. Graphs of the maximum earthquake input energy versus the maximum pseudo-spectral velocity have been obtained. The results show that there is a good agreement between the maximum input energy demands of RTH analysis and the other approaches and the maximum earthquake input energy is a relatively stable response parameter to be used for further seismic design and evaluations.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제29권3E호
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• pp.131-139
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• 2010

This paper proposes a novel spectral hole substitution technique for low bit-rate audio coding. The spectral holes frequently occurring in relatively weak energy bands due to zero bit quantization result in severe quality degradation, especially for harmonic signals such as speech vowels. The enhanced aacPlus (EAAC) audio codec artificially adjusts the minimum signal-to-mask ratio (SMR) to reduce the number of spectral holes, but it still produces noisy sound. The proposed method selectively predicts the spectral shapes of hole bands using either intra-band correlation, i.e. harmonically related coefficients nearby or inter-band correlation, i.e. previous frames. For the bands that have low prediction gain, only the energy term is quantized and spectral shapes are replaced by pseudo random values in the decoding stage. To minimize perceptual distortion caused by spectral mismatching, the criterion of the just noticeable level difference (JNLD) and spectral similarity between original and predicted shapes are adopted for quantizing the energy term. Simulation results show that the proposed method implemented into the EAAC baseline coder significantly improves speech quality at low bit-rates while keeping equivalent quality for mixed and music contents.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.325-342
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• 2023

The damping modification factor (DMF) is used to modify the 5%-damped response spectrum to produce spectral values that correspond to other necessary damping ratios for seismic design. The DMF has been the subject of numerous studies, and it has been discovered that seismological parameters like magnitude and distance can have an impact on it. However, DMF formulations incorporating these seismological parameters cannot be directly applied to seismic design because these parameters are not specified in the present seismic codes. The goal of this study is to develop a formulation for the DMF that can be directly applied in seismic design and that takes the effects of magnitude, distance, and site conditions into account. To achieve this goal, 16660 ground motions with magnitudes ranging from 4 to 9 and epicentral distances ranging from 10 to 200 km are used to systematically study the effects of magnitude, distance, and site conditions on the DMF. Furthermore, according to the knowledge that magnitude and distance affect the DMF primarily by changing the spectral shape, a spectral shape factor is adopted to reflect influences of magnitude and distance, and a new formulation for the DMF incorporating the spectral shape factor is developed. In comparison to the current formulations, the proposed formulation provides a more accurate prediction of the DMF and can be employed directly in seismic design.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.1017-1044
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• 2015

This study aimed to investigate the random vibration characteristic of train-slab track-bridge interaction system subjected to both track irregularities and earthquakes by use of pseudo-excitation method (PEM). Each vehicle subsystem was modeled by multibody dynamics. A three-dimensional rail-slab- girder-pier finite element model was created to simulate slab track and bridge subsystem. The equations of motion for the entire system were established based on the constraint condition of no jump between wheel and rail. The random load vectors of equations of motion were formulated by transforming track irregularities and seismic accelerations into a series of deterministic pseudo-excitations according to their respective power spectral density (PSD) functions by means of PEM. The time-dependent PSDs of random vibration responses of the system were obtained by step-by-step integration method, and the corresponding extreme values were estimated based on the first-passage failure criterion. As a case study, an ICE3 high-speed train passing a fifteen-span simply supported girder bridge simultaneously excited by track irregularities and earthquakes is presented. The evaluated extreme values and the PSD characteristic of the random vibration responses of bridge and train are analyzed, and the influences of train speed and track irregularities (without earthquakes) on the random vibration characteristic of bridge and train are discussed.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.1342-1349
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• 2023

The planning accuracy of charged particle therapy (CPT) is subject to the accuracy of stopping power (SP) estimation. In this study, we propose a method of deriving a pseudo-triple-energy CT (pTECT) that can be achievable in the existing dual-energy CT (DECT) systems for better SP estimation. In order to remove the direct effect of errors in CT values, relative CT values according to three scanning voltage settings were used. CT values of each tissue substitute phantom were measured to show the non-linearity of the values thereby suggesting the absolute difference and ratio of CT values as parameters for SP estimation. Electron density, effective atomic number (EAN), mean excitation energy and SP were calculated based on these parameters. Two of conventional methods were implemented and compared to the proposed pTECT method in terms of residuals, absolute error and root-mean-square-error (RMSE). The proposed method outperformed the comparison methods in every evaluation metrics. Especially, the estimation error for EAN and mean excitation using pTECT were converging to zero. In this proof-of-concept study, we showed the feasibility of using three CT values for accurate SP estimation. Our suggested pTECT method indicates potential clinical utility of spectral CT imaging for CPT planning.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제59권1호
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• pp.138-151
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• 2021

The effect of a reactant ratio on the growth of a buoyancy-driven instability in an irreversible A+B→C reaction system is analyzed theoretically and numerically. Taking a non-stoichiometric reactant ratio into account, new linear stability equations are derived without the quasi-steady state assumption (QSSA) and solved analytically. It is found that the main parameters to explain the present system are the Damköhler number, the dimensionless density difference of chemical species and the ratio of reactants. The present initial grow rate analysis without QSSA shows that the system is initially unconditionally stable regardless of the parameter values; however, the previous initial growth rate analysis based on the QSSA predicted the system is unstable if the system is physically unstable. For time evolving cases, the present growth rates obtained from the spectral analysis and pseudo-spectral method support each other, but quite differently from that obtained under the conventional QSSA. Adopting the result of the linear stability analysis as an initial condition, fully nonlinear direct numerical simulations are conducted. Both the linear analysis and the nonlinear simulation show that the reactant ratio plays an important role in the onset and the growth of the instability motion.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.66-80
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• 2012

원격탐사 방법을 활용한 변화지역 탐지, 재난재해 지도 작성, 작황 모니터링 등 다중시기의 위성영상을 활용한 결과를 도출하기 위해서는 시계열 영상 정보를 서로 비교할 수 있는 공통의 스케일로 정규화 하는 것이 필요하다. 다중시기 영상에 대한 정규화 방법은 절대복사보정과 상대복사 보정으로 나눌 수 있으며, 본 연구에서는 상대복사 보정을 통한 시계열 위성영상처리 기법을 다루고자 한다. 2011년 3월 해일 피해가 발생했던 일본 센다이 지역을 연구대상지로 선정하였고, KOMPSAT-2 다중분광영상을 이용한 사고 전, 후의 피해지역 탐지에 있어 상대복사 보정의 실효성을 분석하였다. 다양한 상대복사 보정 기법 중에서 정준상관분석을 통해 PIFs(Pseudo Invariant Features) 지역을 자동으로 추출하는 MAD(Multivariate Alteration Detection) 기법을 적용하였다. 본 사례연구 분석결과 MAD 방식에 의한 자동 PIFs 지역의 추출은 비교적 높은 정확도 수준에서 이루어짐을 확인할 수 있었으며, 상대복사 보정된 시계열 위성영상을 사용함으로써 변화지역 자동탐지의 신뢰수준을 높일 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.557-561
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• 1994

Quality factor Q 값은 처음 도착(倒着)한 P파(波)의 주기당(週期當) 에너지 손실(損失)을 주파수(周波數)의 함수(函數)로 직접(直接) 측정(測定)할 수 있다. 이때 관심(關心)의 대상(對象)이 되는 주파수대(周波數帶)(주로 1-100 Hz)내(內)에서 고유(固有) Q는 주파수(周波數)와 무관(無關)하고, 산란(散亂) Q는 주파수(周波數)와 밀접(密接)한 관계(關係)가 있다는 가정하(假定下)에 고유(固有) Q값과 산란(散亂) Q값의 전체(全體) Q값에 대(對)한 상대적(相對的)인 비솔(比率)을 계산(計算)할 수 있다. 이에 대(對)한 검증(檢證)은 탄성파(彈性波)가 점탄성(粘彈性)이고 부균질(不均質)한 매질(媒質)을 통과(通過)할 때의 합성탄성파(合成彈性波) 기록지(記錄紙)를 만들고 고유(固有) Q에 대(對)해서는 완화기구(緩和機具)(relaxation mechanism)가, 산란(散亂) Q에 대(對)해서는 산란(散亂)(satter)에 대(對)한 fractal 분포(分布)가 포함(包含)되는 pseudospectral 해(解)를 이용(利用)하여 실시(實施)될 수 있다. 대체로 S파(波)의 전체(全體) Q값이 P파(波)의 전체(全體) Q값보다 더 작다는 것이 정설(定說)로 되어있다. 역(逆)으로, 전체(全體) Q값은 합성탄성파(合成彈性波) 기록지(記錄紙)로 부터 최소자승법(最小自乘法)을 이용(利用)하여 구(求)할 수 있다. 이때 가정(假定)된 Q값의 절대값이 충분(充分)히 작아야만 P파(波)와 S파(波)의 고유(固有) Q값($Q_p$와 $Q_s$)의 가정(假定)은 신빙성(信憑性)이 높고 또한 유일(唯一)한 값을 가질 수 있다. 산란(散亂) Q값으로 부터 결정(決定)할 수 있는 매질(媒質)의 속도(速度)와 산란(散亂)의 크기에 대(對)한 표준편차(標准偏差)는 Blair의 수식(數式)에서 예측(豫測)할 수 있듯이 서로 상호보완관계(相互補完關係)에 있기 때문에 여러가지의 값을 가질 수 있다. 본(本) 연구결과에 의(依)하면, P파(波)에 있어서는 고유(固有) Q와 산란(散亂) Q가 모두 중요(重要)한 요소(要素)로 작용(作用)하며, S파(波)에 있어서는 고유(固有) Q가 산란(散亂) Q보다 더 중요(重要)한 요소(要素)로 작용(作用)한다.