• Advances in materials Research
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.265-287
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• 2020

A theoretical method to predict the interfacial stresses in the adhesive layer of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with porous FRP plate is presented in this paper. The effect due to porosity is incorporated utilizing a new modified rule of mixture covering the porosity phases. The adherend shear deformations have been included in the present theoretical analyses by assuming a linear shear stress through the thickness of the adherends. Remarkable effect of the porosity has been noted in the results. Indeed, the resulting interfacial stresses concentrations are considerably smaller than those obtained by other models which neglect the porosity effect. It was found that the interfacial stresses are highly concentrated at the end of the FRP plate, the minimization of the latter can be achieved by using porous FRP plate in particular at the end. It is also shown that the interfacial stresses of the RC beam increase with volume fraction of fibers, but decrease with the thickness of the adhesive layer.

• Medical Lasers
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.181-184
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• 2021

Scars can cause great psychological stress among patients. Currently, there are numerous topical agents, laser and surgical treatments available for skin rejuvenation and scar minimization. Laser-assisted drug delivery (LADD) is a treatment method that increases drug delivery by stimulating the skin physically and chemically to enhance the penetration of topical agents. This is one of the areas of great interest in the treatment of various skin diseases in addition to its use for cosmetic purposes. In particular, LADD is relatively non-invasive and has advantages in terms of accessibility and stability. Poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA) is a collagen stimulator known to gradually restore skin volume by inducing inflammation and fibroplasia. Herein, we report a case of treatment of an atrophic scar with fractional carbon dioxide laser-assisted PLLA delivery.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.906-912
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• 2008

1.5 cc 이하의 안테나 체적을 갖는 소형 안테나의 이득을 향상시킬 수 있는 3차원 구조의 휴대폰 내장형 안테나를 설계하고 이를 제작하였다. 소형 안테나 경우, 공진을 위해서 안테나를 복잡하게 구부리게 된다. 이러한 구부림은 전류 상쇄 작용을 발생시킴으로써 결국 이득 감소를 초래한다. 본 연구에서는 안테나의 구부림을 최소화하여 전류 상쇄를 줄였다. 짧은 안테나 길이의 보상과 방사 소자로의 동시 역할을 위해 헤릭스 소자를 사용하였다. 타당성을 입증하기 위하여 1.5 cc 체적으로 설계한 안테나를 프레스 공법으로 제작하여 2중 대역 휴대폰에 적용하였다. 측정 결과, GSM/USPCS 대역에서 슬라이드 다운 및 업일 때 효율과 이득은 각각 최대 27.73 %, 46.84 % 및 0.29 dBi, 2.27 dBi로 소형임에도 불구하고 양호한 특성이 나타났다. 방사 패턴은 2대역 모두 H-면 전방향성 특성을 보였다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제26권6D호
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• pp.927-933
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• 2006

VMS(Variable Message Sign)는 운전자에게 교통정보를 제공함으로써 교통혼잡과 돌발상황 등에 적절하게 대응하여 사회적 비용을 절감하는 도구로 사용되고 있다. 본 연구는 인공지능방법 중 하나인 유전자 알고리즘을 이용하여 지체시간이 최소가 되는 VMS 최적 위치를 선정하였다. 또한 이 최적위치들을 바탕으로 VMS의 설치비용과 설치에 따른편익을 고려한 경제성분석을 통하여 VMS의 최적개수를 도출하였다. 본 연구에서는 시뮬레이션에서 교통량의변화, 돌발상황의 빈도와 지속 시간, 전환교통량 등을 고려하여 현실적인 측면이 최대한 고려하도록 노력하였다. 본 연구의 주요내용을 살펴보면, VMS의 위치에 따른 운전자의 VMS정보 선택에 의 편익을 도출하기 위해 시나리오분석을 통한 교통량과 돌발상황을 고려하여 가변적인 상황을 고려하였다. 또한 유전자 알고리즘에 의해서 도출된 VMS 최적 지점을 비교하여 통행시간 절감효과를 경제성분석을 통하여 선정하였다. 따라서 본 연구의 분석결과는 일반 선험적인 기준의 VMS 설치위치에 비해 본 연구에서 제시하는 VMS의 위치와 VMS의 개수에서 총 통행시간이 절감됨을 알 수 있다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.229-237
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 항공기 날개를 설계하기 위하여 공기역학과 구조해석을 통합한 다분야 설계최적화(MDO) 프레임웍을 구성하였다. 파라미터 모델링 기법을 사용하여 최적화 전 과정을 자동화하였다. 공력해석은 Fluent를 사용하였으며 이를 위한 격자는 CATIA의 파라미터 모델과 Gridgen을 사용하여 자동으로 생성되도록 하였다. 유한요소해석을 위한 격자는 MSC.Patran의 PCL 기능을 사용한 파라미터 방법으로 자동으로 생성되도록 하였다. 공력하중은 volume spline method를 사용하여 구조하중으로 변환시켰다. 최적화 방법은 전역해를 구하기 유리한 반응표면법을 사용하였다. 최적화 문제로 목적 함수는 날개의 무게의 최소화, 제약조건은 양항비와 날개의 변위로 정하였다. 그리고 종횡비, 테이퍼 비 및 후퇴각을 설계변수로 정의하였다. 최적화 시험 결과는 본 MDO 프레임웍이 성공적으로 구성되었음을 보여주었다.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.97-104
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• 2009

Ever increasing fuel prices, almost doubled in the last three years, and global pressure to reduce their environmental impact have been enforcing commercial vessel operators and designers to re-assess current vessel designs with emphasis on their propulsion systems and operational practices. In this paper the "Inclined Keel Hull (IKH)" concept, which facilitates to use larger propeller diameter in combination with lower shaft speed rates and hence better transport efficiency, is explored for a modern 3600 TEU container vessel with the aim of fitting an 13 % larger diameter propeller (and hence resulting 20% lower rpm) to gain further power saving over the similar size basis container ship with conventional "level keel" configuration. It appears that successful application of the "inclined keel Hull" concept is a fine balance amongst the maximum gain in propulsive efficiency, minimum increase in hull resistance and satisfaction of other naval architectural and operational requirements. In order to make the concept economically more viable, this paper concentrates on the fore body design with the possible combination of increase of volume in its fore body to recover the expected volume loss in the aft body due to the space for larger propeller and its low wave-making resistance to minimize the efficiency loss using a well-established optimization software.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권6호
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• pp.2215-2221
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• 2023

In order to further meet the requirements of weight, volume, and dose minimization for new nuclear energy devices, the bare-bones multi-objective particle swarm optimization algorithm is used to automatically and iteratively optimize the design parameters of radiation shielding system material, thickness, and structure. The radiation shielding optimization program based on the bare-bones particle swarm optimization algorithm is developed and coupled into the reactor radiation shielding multi-objective intelligent optimization platform, and the code is verified by using the Savannah benchmark model. The material type and thickness of Savannah model were optimized by using the BBMOPSO algorithm to call the dose calculation code, the integrated optimized data showed that the weight decreased by 78.77%, the volume decreased by 23.10% and the dose rate decreased by 72.41% compared with the initial solution. The results show that the method can get the best radiation shielding solution that meets a lot of different goals. This shows that the method is both effective and feasible, and it makes up for the lack of manual optimization.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.142-147
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• 1998

Developing robot hands with multi-degree-of-freedom is one of the topics that researchers have recently begun to improve the limitation by adding flexibility and dexterity. In this study, an articulated servo-pneumatic robot hand system with direct-drive joints has been developed whose main feature is the minimization of the dimension. The servo-pneumatic system is advantageous to fabricate a dexterous robot hand system due to the high torque-to-weight and torque-to-volume ratio. This enables the design of a finger joint with an integrated rotary vane type actuator which produces high output torque without reduction gears, being very robust. In order to control the servo-pneumatic finger joints, a miniature proportional valve that can be attached to the robot hand is required. In this paper, a flapper nozzle type 4/3-way proportional directional valve has been designed and tested. The experimental results show that the developed valve can control a finger joint satisfactorily without much vibratory joint movements and acoustic noises.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.187-196
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• 2017

To ensure hygienic safety of drinking water in a water storage tank, the concentrations of residual chlorine should be above a certain regulation level. In this study, we conducted model simulations to investigate the effects of temperature on residual chlorine in water storage tank conditions typically used in Seoul. For this, values of model parameters (decomposition rate constant, sorption coefficient, and evaporation mass transfer coefficient) were experimentally determined from laboratory experiments. The model simulations under continuous flow conditions showed that the residual chlorine concentrations were satisfied the water quality standard level (0.1 mg/L) at all the temperature conditions ($5^{\circ}C$, $10^{\circ}C$, $15^{\circ}C$, $20^{\circ}C$ and $25^{\circ}C$). Meanwhile, when the tanks had a no flow condition (i.e., no tap-water influent due to a sudden shut-down), the concentrations became lower than the regulatory level after certain periods. The findings from this modeling works simulating Seoul's water storage tanks suggested disappearance rate of residual chlorine could be reduced through the tanks design optimization with maintenance of low water temperature, minimization of air flow and volume, suppression of dispersion and the use of wall materials with low sorption ability.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.10-18
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• 2014

From the perspective of reducing the sampling cost of color images at high resolution, block-based compressive sensing (CS) has attracted considerable attention as a promising alternative to conventional Nyquist/Shannon sampling. On the other hand, for storing/transmitting applications, CS requires a very efficient way of representing the measurement data in terms of data volume. This paper addresses this problem by developing a measurement-coding method with the proposed customized Huffman coding. In addition, by noting the difference in visual importance between the luma and chroma channels, this paper proposes measurement coding in YCbCr space rather than in conventional RGB color space for better rate allocation. Furthermore, as the proper use of the image property in pursuing smoothness improves the CS recovery, this paper proposes the integration of a low pass filter to the CS recovery of color images, which is the block-based ${\ell}_{20}$-norm minimization. The proposed coding scheme shows considerable gain compared to conventional measurement coding.