• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.177-201
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• 2014

With the increased size and flexibility of the tower and blades, structural vibrations are becoming a limiting factor towards the design of even larger and more powerful wind turbines. Research into the use of vibration mitigation devices in the turbine tower has been carried out but the use of dampers in the blades has yet to be investigated in detail. Mitigating vibrations will increase the design life and hence economic viability of the turbine blades and allow for continual operation with decreased downtime. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of Semi-Active Tuned Mass Dampers (STMDs) in reducing the edgewise vibrations in the turbine blades. A frequency tracking algorithm based on the Short Time Fourier Transform (STFT) technique is used to tune the damper. A theoretical model has been developed to capture the dynamic behaviour of the blades including the coupling with the tower to accurately model the dynamics of the entire turbine structure. The resulting model consists of time dependent equations of motion and negative damping terms due to the coupling present in the system. The performances of the STMDs based vibration controller have been tested under different loading and operating conditions. Numerical analysis has shown that variation in certain parameters of the system, along with the time varying nature of the system matrices has led to the need for STMDs to allow for real-time tuning to the resonant frequencies of the system.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.87-94
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• 2023

TMCP(Thermo Mechanical Control Process) steel was continuously cast (CC) by varying the argon gas flow rate and vacuum time in the Ruhrstahl Heraeus (RH) refining process. Using the CC specimens, the distribution of the inclusions and the mechanical properties were evaluated. A lot of oxides and Al-O type inclusions were observed. The average Vickers hardness did not show a constant, but showed dispersion in a certain range. The shape and scale parameters of the CC specimen with an argon gas flow rate of 160Nm³ and a vacuum time of 12 minutes was the best. Mechanical properties (tensile strength, yield strength and elongation) were consistent with the Weibull probability distribution analysis results. The impact resistance was the best for CC specimens with an argon flow rate of 140 Nm³ and a vacuum time of 12 minutes. Although the inclusions and mechanical properties of the CC specimens were evaluated according to the argon gas flow rate and vacuum time, these values were no significant difference.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.633-641
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• 2015

Several complex processes that are employed in industries, such as shipping, power plants, and the petrochemical industry, involve time-varying behavior as well as strong nonlinear behavior during operation. The fixed-parameter proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers have difficulty in dealing with control problems that occur in such processes. In this paper, we propose a method of designing a nonlinear PID controller for industrial processes that exhibit a large number of nonlinearities and time-varying behavior. The gains of the nonlinear PID controller are characterized by a simple nonlinear function of the error and/or error rate depending on the process set-point and output. We tune the user-defined parameters using a genetic algorithm by minimizing the integral of time absolute error (ITAE) index. We verify the effectiveness of the proposed method by performing a comparison of the proposed method and two other nonlinear and adaptive methods that are employed for reference tracking, disturbance-rejection performances, and robustness to parameter changes on a continuously stirred tank reactor.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.149-155
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 비선형 시변 시스템을 제어할 경우 제어시스템의 안정성을 보장하고 성능을 향상시키기 위한 새로운 적응제어 구조를 전개하였다. 주어진 플랜트가 선형 시불변이라는 가정하에 표준 기준 모델 적응제어기가 적용될 경우 발생되는 출력오차는 플랜트의 비선형 시변특성으로 인하여 점근적으로 0에 수렴되지 않는다. 이때 미지의 출력오차를 점근적으로 0에 수렴시키는 방법으로 퍼지보상기를 사용하였으며 결과적으로 플랜트의 비선형 시변 특성을 보상하는 효과를 얻을 수 있었다. 퍼지 보상기로는 출력오차등의 조건에 따라 이득이 변하는 퍼지 PID 보상기를 도입하여 안정하게 설계되도록 노력하였다. 또한 출력오차를 점근적으로 0에 수렴시키는 것은 표준 기준 모델 적응제어기 내부의 모든 파라미터와 신호가 유한하게 됨을 의미하기 때문에, 제어시스템 전체의 안정도를 보장할 뿐만 아니라 결과적으로 과도응답 성능을 향상시킬 수 있게 되었다. 몇가지 예제를 대상으로 시뮬레이션을 수행하고 그 결과를 분석함으로써 비선형 시변 시스템을 제어할 경우 본 논문에서 전개된 새로운 적응제어 구조의 타당성을 확인하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.449-467
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• 2018

In this paper, a theoretical and numerical study on bridge simultaneous damage detection procedure for identifying both the system parameters and input excitation mass, are presented. This method is called 'Adjoint Variable Method' which is an iterative gradient-based model updating method based on the dynamic response sensitivity. The main advantage of proposed method is inclusion of an analytical method to augment the accuracy and speed of the solution. Moving mass is a model which takes into account the inertia effects of the vehicle. This interaction model is a time varying system and proposed method is capable of detecting damage in this variable system. Robustness of proposed method is illustrated by correctly detection of the location and extension of predetermined single, multiple and random damages in all ranges of speed and mass ratio of moving vehicle. A comparison study of common sensitivity and proposed method confirms its efficiency and performance improvement in sensitivity-based damage detection methods. Various sources of errors including the effects of measurement noise and initial assumption error in stability of method are also discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2015.08a
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• pp.203-203
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• 2015

Gallium Oxide (Ga2O3) has been widely investigated for the optoelectronic applications due to its wide bandgap and the optical transparency. Recently, with the development of fabrication techniques in nanometer scale semiconductor materials, there have been an increasing number of extensive reports on the synthesis and characterization of Ga2O3 nano-structures such as nano-wires, nano-belts, and nano-dots. In contrast to typical vapor-liquid-solid growth mode with metal catalysts to synthesis 1-dimensional nano-wires, there are several difficulties in fabricating the nano-structures by using sputtering techniques. This is attributed to the fact that relatively low growth temperatures and higher growth rate compared with chemical vapor deposition method. In this study, Ga2O3 nanowires (NWs) were synthesized by using radio-frequency magnetron sputtering method. The NWs were then coated by Au thin films and annealed under Ar or N2 gas enviroment with no supply of Gallium and Oxygen source. Several samples were prepared with varying the post annealing parameters such as gas environment annealing time, annealing temperature. Samples were characterized by using XRD, SEM, and PL measurements. In this presentation, the details of fabrication process and physical properties of branched Ga2O3 NWs will be reported.

• Water for future
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.145-152
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• 1995

This paper presents an experimental study on the Cherepnov water lifter that can pump or lift water without the use of external energy such as electricity. The energy used by the lifter is derived from the potential energy of the water itself. The liffter consists of three interconnected tanks, one of which is open and two others are hermetically sealed. The water level and the pressure in each tank were measured to improve the undestanding of the behavior and the operational charateristics of the lifter. The effects of varying operating parameters such as the inflow rate, tank and pipe sizes, the relative positions of the tanks were analyzed. As a results, factors that can maximize the efficiency, shorten the cycle time and increase the delivery rate were identified.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.293-305
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• 2011

The volatility is one of most important parameters in the areas of pricing of financial derivatives an measuring risks arising from a sudden change of economic circumstance. We propose a Bayesian approach to estimate the volatility varying with time under a linear model with ARMA(p, q)-GARCH(r, s) errors. This Bayesian estimate of the volatility is compared with the ML estimate. We also present the probability of existence of the unit root in the GARCH model.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.1
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• pp.160-167
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• 2010

This paper proposes an adaptive sliding mode observer (SMO), which adds the estimation function of the stator resistance to a new sliding mode observer for the robust sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) with variable parameters. To reduce the chattering problem commonly found in the conventional sliding mode observer where the low-pass filter and additional position compensation of the rotor are used, the sigmoid function is used for the control of a switching function in this research. With the estimation of the stator resistance, the proposed observer can improve the control performance by reducing the estimation error of the motor's speed. Note that the stator resistance is varying with the ambient temperature and becomes an error source for the sensorless control of PMSM. The new sliding mode observer has better efficiency than the conventional adaptive sliding mode observer by reducing the time consuming integral calculations. The stability of the proposed adaptive sliding mode observer is verified by the Lyapunov function in determining the observer gains, and the effectiveness of the observer is demonstrated by simulations and experiments.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.1012-1020
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• 2013

In this work, Self-adaptive Differential Evolutionary (SaDE) algorithm is proposed to solve Optimal Location and Size of Capacitor (OLSC) problem in radial distribution networks. To obtain the SaDE algorithm, two improvements have been applied on control parameters of mutation and crossover operators. To expand the study, three load conditions have been considered, i.e., constant, varying and effective loads. Objective function is introduced for the load conditions. The annual cost is fitness of problem, in addition to this cost, CPU time, voltage profile, active power loss and total installed capacitor banks and their related costs have been used for comparisons. To confirm the ability of each improvements of SaDE, the improvements are studied both in separate and simultaneous conditions. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, it is tested on IEEE 10-bus and 34-bus radial distribution networks and compared with other approaches.