• International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.95-109
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• 2007

The purpose of this paper is to study new notions of stochastic comparisons and ageing classes based on the total time on test transform order. We give relationships to other stochastic orders and aging classes given previously. Several preservation properties under the reliability operations of random minima and series system are given.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.683-689
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• 2016

Most outdoor solid insulators may suffer from surface degradations due to non-stationary currents that flow on the insulator surface. These currents may be classified as leakage, discharge and tracking currents due to their disturbing potencies respectively. The magnitude of these currents depends on the degree of the contamination of surface. The leakage signals are followed by discharge signals and tracking signals which are capable of forming carbonized tracking paths on the surface between high voltage and earth contacts (surface tracking). Surface tracking is one of the most breakdown mechanisms observed on the solid insulators, especially polymers which may cause severely reduced lifetime. In this study the degradations observed on polyester resin based insulators are investigated according to the IEC 587 Inclined Plane Test Standard. The signals are monitored and recorded during tests until surface tracking initiated. In order to prevent total breakdown of an insulator, early detection of tracking signals is vital. Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) is proposed for classification of signals and their energy levels observed on the surface. The application of CWT for processing and classification of the surface signals which are prone to display high frequency oscillations can facilitate real time monitoring of the system for diagnosis.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.151-157
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• 2018

Offshore structures are exposed to low- and high-frequency responses due to environmental loads, and fatigue damage models are used to calculate the fatigue damage from these. In this study, we tried to optimize the main parameters used in fatigue damage calculation to derive a new fatigue damage model. A total of 162 bi-modal spectra using the elliptic equation were defined to describe the response of offshore structures. To calculate the fatigue damage from the spectra, time series were generated from the spectra using the inverse Fourier transform, and the rain-flow counting method was applied. The considered optimization variables were the size of the frequency increments, ratio of the time increment, and number of repetitions of the time series. In order to obtain optimized values, the fatigue damage was calculated using the parameter values proposed in previous work, and the fatigue damage was calculated by increasing or decreasing the proposed values. The results were compared, and the error rate was checked. Based on the test results, new values were found for the size of the frequency increment and number of time series iterations. As a validation, the fatigue damage of an actual tension spectrum found using the new proposed values and fatigue damage found using the previously proposed method were compared. In conclusion, we propose a new optimized calculation process that is faster and more accurate than the existed method.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.339-345
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• 2022

In this paper, the effect of porosity on the acoustic phase velocity of the 3D printed Kelvin closed-cell structure was investigated using the spectral phase analysis. Since Kelvin cells bring about the large amount of scattering, acoustic pulses in ultrasonic measurements undergoes a distortion of waveforms due to the dispersion effect. In order to take account on the dispersion, mathematical expressions for calculating the phase velocity of longitudinal waves propagating normal to the plane of the Kelvin structure are suggested by introducing a complex wave number based on Fourier transform. 3D Kelvin structure composed of identical unit-cells, a polyhedron of 14 faces with 6 quadrilateral and 8 hexagonal faces, was developed and fabricated by 3D CAD and 3D printer to represent the micro-structure of porous materials such as aluminum foam and cancellous bone. Total nine samples of 3D Kelvin structure with different porosity were made by changing the thickness of polyhedron. Ultrasonic pulse of 1MHz center frequency was applied to the Kelvin structures for the measurement of the phase velocity of ultrasound using the TOF(time-of-flight) and the phase spectral method. From the experimental results, it was found that the acoustic phase velocity decreased linearly with the porosity.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.266-273
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• 2010

태양광 인버터(PCS)는 태양전지에서 발생된 전력을 계통에 연계시키는 장치이다. IEEE 1547 규격에 따르면 PCS에서 발생되는 고조파왜곡은 5% 이내여야만 한다. 일반적으로 PCS에서 계통으로 유입되는 고조파 검출은 전용 계측장치에 의해서 측정된다. 초기에 규격에 맞게 설계된 PCS의 고조파가 소자들의 노화나 제어기 고장에 의해 증가하게 될 경우 발전을 중지하거나 경보를 발생시켜야 한다. 기존의 상용화된 시스템에는 이러한 기능이 존재하지 않는다. 본 연구에서는 PCS 내부에 고조파왜곡을 실시간으로 측정하는 알고리즘을 내장시키는 방법에 대해 연구한다. 고성능 32-bit 부동소수점 DSP를 이용한 PCS를 제작하고 256-point DFT(Discrete Fourier Transform) 알고리즘을 이용하여 1[ms] 이내에 하모닉 계수를 계산하였다. 제어기 제작에 대한 설명과 실험 결과로서 연구의 타당성을 입증하였다.