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Type III Thyroplasty for High-Pitched Voice (제3형 갑상연골성형술에 의한 병적인 고음성 치료)

  • 홍기환;정상술;정희수;김미정
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.69-74
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    • 1994
  • Thyroplasty type III provides an effective mean of shortening the vocal fold. It is used primarily fer lowering vocal pitch. The indications for this surgery are the male patients with too high a vocal pitch of long duration which has proven resistant to voice therapy and a type of dysphonia characterized by high pitch and a breathy voice, in which the laryngeal findings include a very narrow glottal chink and a small amplitude of vibration, suggesting a stiff vocal cord. In this study, we have experienced two cases of high pitched voice, one is mutational falsetto and other is high pitched, breathy voice with stiff vocal fold. The results were satisfactorily successful with type III thyroplasty. So we report the cases of type III thyroplasty in patients of dysphonia with high pitched voice.

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Tracking Controller Design Using Delayed Output Feedback For Systems With Stiff Nonlinearities (심한 비선형성을 갖는 시스템의 시간지연 출력궤환을 이용한 추종제어기의 설계)

  • 나승유
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.342-349
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    • 1991
  • In this paper, a method is presented for designing a tracking and disturbance rejecting controller for a nonlinear control system in which approximate linearization is not applicable due to a s stiff nonlinearity. Only the measurable variables are used for the controller synthesis. The system is augmented by a compensator at the output side for the tracking and disturbance rejection. An output delayed feedback controller is designed for the augmented system without nonlinearity. Then the feedback parameters are adjusted by describing function method to overcome the limit cycle due to the nonlinearity.

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Prediction of Dynamic Stability Derivatives Using Unsteady Euler Equations (비정상 Euler 방정식을 이용한 동안정 미계수 예측)

  • Park Soo Hyung;Kim Yoonsik;Kwon Jang Hyuk
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.78-84
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    • 2001
  • A dual-time stepping algorithm combined with a parallelized multigrid DADI method is presented to predict the dynamic damping coefficients. The Basic Finner model is chosen to validate the prediction capability of the present unsteady Euler method. The linearity of the pitch- and roll-damping coefficients is shown in the low angular rates and the interesting large drop and stiff increment in transonic region for roll-damping coefficients are explained in detail. Through the analysis for the pressure distributions at Mach number 1.0 to 1.2, the sudden drop results from the normal shock and the stiff increment of roll-damping reflects the transition of the normal shock to the oblique shock. The results also show that the Euler equations can give the damping coefficients with a comparable accuracy.

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Influence of near-fault ground motions characteristics on elastic seismic response of asymmetric buildings

  • Tabatabaei, R.;Saffari, H.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.489-500
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    • 2011
  • The elastic seismic response of plan-asymmetric multi storey steel-frame buildings is investigated under earthquake loading with particular emphasis on forward-rupture directivity and fling records. Three asymmetric building systems are generated with different torsional stiffness and varying static eccentricity. The structural characteristic of these systems are designed according to UBC 97 code and their seismic responses subjected to a set of earthquake records are obtained from the response history analysis (RHA) as well as the linear static analysis (LSA). It is shown that, the elastic torsional response is influenced by the intensity of near-fault ground motions with different energy contents. In the extreme case of very strong earthquakes, the behaviour of torsionally stiff buildings and torsionally flexible buildings may differ substantially due to the fact that the displacement envelope of the deck depends on ground motion characteristics.

Numerical Simulation of Laminar Reacting Flows Using Unstructured Finite Volume Method With Adaptive Refinement

  • Kang, Sung-Mo;Kim, Hoo-Joong;Kim, Yong-Mo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.15-22
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    • 2001
  • A pressure-based, unstructured finite volume method has been applied to couple the chemical kinetics and fluid dynamics and to capture effectively and accurately the steep gradient flame field. The pressure-velocity coupling is handled by two methodologies including the pressure-correction algorithm and the projection scheme. A stiff, operator-split projection scheme for the detailed nonequilibrium chemistry has been employed to treat the stiff reaction source terms. The conservative form of the governing equations are integrated over a cell-centered control volume with collocated storage for all transport variables. Computations using detailed chemistry and variable transport properties were performed for two laminar reacting flows: a counterflow hydrogen-air diffusion flame and a lifted methane-air triple flame. Numerical results favorably agree with measurements in terms of the detailed flame structure.

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Seismic evaluation of fluid-elevated tank-foundation/soil systems in frequency domain

  • Livaoglu, R.;Dogangun, A.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.101-119
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    • 2005
  • An efficient methodology is presented to evaluate the seismic behavior of a Fluid-Elevated Tank-Foundation/Soil system taking the embedment effects into accounts. The frequency-dependent cone model is used for considering the elevated tank-foundation/soil interaction and the equivalent spring-mass model given in the Eurocode-8 is used for fluid-elevated tank interaction. Both models are combined to obtain the seismic response of the systems considering the sloshing effects of the fluid and frequency-dependent properties of soil. The analysis is carried out in the frequency domain with a modal analysis procedure. The presented methodology with less computational efforts takes account of; the soil and fluid interactions, the material and radiation damping effects of the elastic half-space, and the embedment effects. Some conclusions may be summarized as follows; the sloshing response is not practically affected by the change of properties in stiff soil such as S1 and S2 and embedment but affected in soft soil. On the other hand, these responses are not affected by embedment in stiff soils but affected in soft soils.

A Preconditioned Time Method for Efficient Calculation of Reactive Flow (예조건화 시간차분을 통한 화학반응유동의 효율적 계산)

  • Kim, Seong-Lyong;Jeung, In-Seuck;Choi, Jeong-Yeol
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.219-230
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    • 1999
  • The Equations of Chemical kinetics are very stiff, which forces the use of an implicit scheme. The problem of implicit scheme, however, is that the jacobian must be solved at each time step. In this paper, we examined the methodology that can be stable without full chemical jacobian, This method is derived by applying the different time steps to the chemical source term. And the lower triangular chemical jacobian is derived. This is called the preconditioned time differencing method and represents partial implicit method. We show that this method is more stable in chemical kinetics than the full implicit method and that this is more efficient in supersonic combustion problem than the full jacobian method with same accuracy.

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