• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.435-451
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• 2015

Evaluation of the performance of aging structures is essential in the oil and gas industry, where the inaccurate prediction of structural performance can have significantly hazardous consequences. The effects of structure failure due to the significant reduction in wall thickness, which determines the burst strength, make it very complicated for pipeline operators to maintain pipeline serviceability. In other words, the serviceability of gas pipelines and elbows needs to be predicted and assessed to ensure that the burst or collapse strength capacities of the structures remain less than the maximum allowable operation pressure. In this study, several positions of the corrosion in a subsea elbow made of API X42 steel were evaluated using both design formulas and numerical analysis. The most hazardous corrosion position of the aging elbow was then determined to assess its serviceability. The results of this study are applicable to the operational and elbow serviceability needs of subsea pipelines and can help predict more accurate replacement or repair times.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.59 no.4
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• pp.235-242
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• 2022

As ship condition inspection technology has been developed, research on collecting, analyzing, and diagnosing condition information has become active. In ships, related research has been conducted, such as analyzing, detecting, and classifying major hull failures such as cracks and corrosion using 2D and 3D data information. However, for geometric deformation such as indents and bulges, 2D data has limitations in detection, so 3D data is needed to utilize spatial feature information. In this study, we aim to detect hull structural deformation positions. It builds a specimen based on actual hull structure deformation and acquires a point cloud from a model scanned with a 3D scanner. In the obtained point cloud, deformation(outliers) is found with a combination of RANSAC algorithms that find the best matching model in the Octree data structure and dataset.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.532-540
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to explore young children's perception of IrobiQ, the teacher assistive robot. Participants of this study were fifty 5 year olds attending 3 kindergarten centers who had experienced the robot for at least 2 years. The study was conducted based on the "the hypothesis of speech register". Each child was read a storybook by a researcher and asked to choose which one is more suitable to human speech tones and accents among a robot, a friend, and a toy. The findings of this study were that the children perceived a robot as a hybrid compound entity, not as a complete human though they perceived it closer to a human than an artificial thing. They were likely to use cognitive distinctions which is unique to human being, as the criteria to verify their answers. These results would suggest that the traditional binary ontological category(animate vs. inanimate) is reconsidered to include an hybrid entity.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.613-632
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• 2014

In the early design stage of ships, the two most important structural analyses are performed to identify the structural capacity and safety. The first step is called global strength analysis (longitudinal strength analysis or hull girder strength analysis) and the second step is local buckling analysis (stiffened panel strength analysis). This paper deals with the ultimate strength performance of Arctic Sea Route-going commercial ships considering the effect of low temperature. In this study, two types of structural analyses are performed in Arctic sea conditions. Three types of ship namely oil tanker, bulk carrier and container ship with four different sizes (in total 12 vessels) are tested in four low temperatures (-20, -40, -60 and $-800^{\circ}C$), which are based on the Arctic environment and room temperature ($20^{\circ}C$). The ultimate strength performance is analysed with ALPS/HULL progressive hull collapse analysis code for ship hulls, then ALPS/ULSAP supersize finite element method for stiffened panels. The obtained results are summarised in terms of temperature, vessel type, vessel size, loading type and other effects. The important insights and outcomes are documented.

• International Journal of Railway
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.83-88
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• 2008

Since the 1990's the fleet of the Dutch Railways showed a dramatic decrease in wheel tyre life. This lifetime reduction led to an unacceptable increase in life cycle costs. Therefore Lloyd's Register Rail has proposed to NedTrain to investigate the possibilities of improving the wheel tyre life. Three improvements were determined as most promising and relatively easy to achieve: - Profile optimisation for Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF) reduction - a new wheel profile has been developed with a better resistance against rolling contact fatigue of the wheel tread. The profile has been implemented on single deck intercity trains and shows an increase in wheel tyre life of 30%. - Selection of improved wheel tyre materials - combining information from literature and experiences of manufacturers five alternative wheel tyre materials have been selected and are now being tested in practice. - Optimisation of the maintenance strategy - an alternative, preventative maintenance regime has been developed. With this Scraping regime, during short term maintenance every wheel is reprofiled. Higher mileages are reached and savings on life cycle costs up to 50% and more have been achieved. Unplanned maintenance goes down with $30{\sim}60%$. The results from field tests, using a reference group for comparison, and preliminary results after implementation show that the increase in wheel tyre life that is achieved with this project is significant. The results will continue to be monitored using the asset management tool 'Wheel Watch', that was specially developed for this project and is also described in this paper.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.249-251
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• 1998

본 논문은 개인 휴대통신망네에서의 각 노드간 시그날링 트래픽을 감소시키기 위한 기법에 관한 연구이다. 미래의 개인휴대통신망에서는 셀 크기가 더욱 작이지고 사용자가 증가혀 현 개인휴대통신의 문제점인 HLR로의 시그날 병목현상. 인접지역에서의 핑퐁효과 발생이 더욱 심화돌 것이다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제의 해결을 위해 각 VLR들이 자신을 중심으로 일정한 Circle Registration area를 가지면 이 area내의 VLR 들의 id를 가지는 DCLR(Dynamic Circle Location Register)이 되도록 한다. 단말이 다른 지역으로이동할 때 마다 단말이 현 DCLR area에 있는지를 검사후 해당 DCLR 로 단말의 최신 위치정보를 연속적으로 전송하고, 또한 이러한 이동에 따라 동적으로 단말의 DCLR이 변화되며, 호 발생시는 단말의 해당 DCLR을 조회함으로써 수신자의 위치를 추적한다. 이 방식은 기존 방식에서 사용자가 다른 지역으로 이동할 때마다 HLR로 매번 등록하고 질의함으로써 발생되는 HLR로의 시그널링 신호 과부하를 효율적으로 분산, 감소시키며 인접지역 경계간에 발생되는 핑퐁효과가 발생되지 않도록 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.29 no.3 s.234
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• pp.477-483
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• 2005

A propeller has been considered as one of the most critical elements in propelling ships. However, only a little research on the marine propeller has been carried out. Furthermore, fractures of the propeller have been frequently caused by fatigue, but only tensile strength, yield strength and elongation are discussed in Register of Shipping. For the above reasons, we have evaluated strength properties of A1BC3 and HBsC1, both which have been used for the marine propeller by using air jet chisel and then, presented a method of improving the strength.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.2269-2270
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• 2008

Zigbee that is the wireless personal area networks communication technology for low power consumption is low-cost, low-power consumption, and small size and program code. From the present paper symbol and chip sequence of existing Zigbee module undergarment PN code generators which are a 1:1 mapping method it uses shift register and it plans the method which it proposes. The experimental result used Xilinx ISE and it measured synthesis and timing and power.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.12
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• pp.18-23
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• 2015

This paper proposes a new protection technique against deregistration attack in SIP. Although it is caused by simple spoofing the REGISTER message of a legitimate SIP UA, its impact is serious. This new protection technique identifies and protects the deregistration attack by removing a binding form the location server after delaying a certain period of time instead of removing the binding immediately after receiving deregistration message. Therefore, this technique makes it possible to establish a secure SIP environment defending the deregistraion attack without any additional overhead such as an encryption or authentication.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.523-524
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• 2006

Successive approximation A/D converters have an advantage of small chip area and simple algorithm. We propose an improved non-redundant successive approximation register (SAR) which can be incorporated in successive approximation A/D converters. The proposed SAR validates the preset state as the $1^{st}$ reference voltage to the comparator. Two redundant clock cycles in the typical design could be eliminated in the proposed A/D converter.