• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.104.2-104.2
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• 2012

이종 재료의 접합에 대한 연구는 단일 재료에서 얻을 수 없는 물리적/기계적 특성과 이종 재료의 우수한 특성을 얻을 수 있다는 장점이 있어 국내외 적으로 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이러한 이종 접합 기술은 구조재료와 에너지 변환분야에 가장 많이 사용되고 있으며, 그 외 광촉매와 Thin film, 경량구조재료 등에도 사용되고 있다. 그 중 FGM(Functional Graded Materials)는 조성의 점진적인 변화를 통하여 접합하는 방법으로 이종 재료 접합 시 발생하는 내부 응력을 해소해줌으로써 적합한 방법이라고 할 수 있다. FGM 제작에 사용되는 방법으로 널리 알려진 것들로는 plasma spraying, 원심주조, 분말 야금법, PVD, CVD 그리고 EPD(electrophoretic deposition) 등이 있다. 이중에서 EPD는 수용액이나 유기용매와 같은 분산매체 중에 콜로이드 입자의 표면에 대전되는 전하를 이용하여, 외부에서 전장을 걸어서 입자의 움직임을 제어하는 기술이다 EPD는 코팅 속도가 상대적으로 빠르고 두꺼운 코팅 층 제작이 가능하다. 또한 바인더, 윤활제 또는 가소제를 사용하지 않고 다양한 종류와 모양의 기판 위에 균일한 코팅이 가능하다는 장점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 Ni substrate를 이용하여 그 위에 Ni과 $Al_2O_3$의 조성을 점진적으로 변화시켜 FGM을 EPD 방법으로 코팅하였다. 여기서 사용된 Ni은 높은 녹는점과 좋은 연성으로 인해 성형이 용이하여 구조재료로 적합하며, $Al_2O_3$는 고내열성과 내부식성을 가지며 경도가 높다는 장점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 EPD 방식을 이용하여 Ni/$Al_2O_3$ FGM을 코팅하였으며, 코팅 후 발생하는 substrate와의 접착력 문제를 해결하기 위해서 건조 방식과 substrate의 표면 상태를 최적화하여 다층의 Ni/$Al_2O_3$ FGM을 코팅 및 소결하였다. Zeta-potential 측정을 통해 electrophoretic mobility와 suspension의 분산 안정도를 평가 할 수 있었으며, X-ray 회절 분석(XRD)을 통하여 Ni 의 환원 여부를 확인하였다. 또한 Scanning electron microscopy(SEM) 분석을 통하여 미세구조 분석을 하였고, 최종적으로 Electron Probe Micro Analyzer (EPMA) 를 이용하여 다층 구조의 조성변화를 확인함으로 Ni/$Al_2O_3$의 FGM 코팅이 이루어졌음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.263-269
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• 2016

Graphene oxide (GO) powder processed by Hummer's method is mixed with p-type $Bi_2Te_3$ based thermoelectric materials by a high-energy ball milling process. The synthesized GO-dispersed p-type $Bi_2Te_3$ composite powder has a composition of $Bi_{0.5}Sb_{1.5}Te_3$ (BSbT), and the powder is consolidated into composites with different contents of GO powder by using the spark plasma sintering (SPS) process. It is found that the addition of GO powder significantly decreases the thermal conductivity of the pure BSbT material through active phonon scattering at the newly formed interfaces. In addition, the electrical properties of the GO/BSbT composites are degraded by the addition of GO powder except in the case of the 0.1 wt% GO/BSbT composite. It is found that defects on the surface of GO powder hinder the electrical transport properties. As a result, the maximum thermoelectric performance (ZT value of 0.91) is achieved from the 0.1% GO/BSbT composite at 398 K. These results indicate that introducing GO powder into thermoelectric materials is a promising method to achieve enhanced thermoelectric performance due to the reduction in thermal conductivity.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

Probabilistic nonlinear first ply failure loads of flat composite panels and nonlinear buckling loads of curved composite panels with cutouts are estimated to provide the more reliable main load carrying structure in the renewable energy industry and offshore structures. The response surface method approximates limit state surface to a second order polynomial form of random variables with the results of deterministic finite element analyses at given sampling design points. Furthermore, the iterative linear interpolation scheme is used to obtain a more accurate approximation of the limit state surface near the most probable failure point (MPFP). The advanced first order second moment method and the Monte Carlo method are performed on an approximated limit state surface to evaluate the probability of failure. Finally, the sensitivity of the reliability index with respect to transformed random variables is investigated to figure out the main random variables that have an effect on failures.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.4723-4728
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• 2014

In this study, a thermoelectric module (TEM) and a diesel engine were modeled using 1-D commercial software AMESim, and the performance of the TEM was evaluated when the engine was operated under the NEDC driving cycle. The goal of TEM modeling was to investigate not only the waste heat recovery (WHR) rate and energy converting efficiency, but also the heat transfer rate by taking the materials characteristics into account. In addition, a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) was designed, and it was found that the waste heat recovery with TEM affects the activation of DOC and alters engine exhaust composition. The simulation indicated that the WHR using TEM is beneficial for decreasing the fuel consumption of vehicles, but the reduction in the exhaust temperature affects the activation of DOC, resulting in an approximately 14% increase in CO and HC emissions. Therefore, the effect of waste heat recovery on the automotive emission characteristics must be considered in the development of automotive engine WHR systems.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.139-150
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• 1989

A new motor-driven blood pump for artificial heart was developed. In this blood pump, a small size, high torque brushless DC motor was used as an energy converter and the motor rolls back and forth on a circular track. This movement of the "rolling-cyliner" causes blood ejection by alternately pushing left or right polyurethane blood sacs. This moving-actuator mechanism could be eliminate two potential problems of other motor-driven artificial hearts such as large size and poor anastomosis for the implantation. Theoretical analyses on the pump efficiency, the temperature rise, and the inflow mechanism were also performed. In a series of mock circulation tests, the theoretical analyses were compared to the measured hemodynamic and mechanical values. The pump system was shown to have sufficient cardiac output (upto 9 L/min), sensitivity to preload, and mechanical stability to be tested as an implantable total artificial heart.ial heart.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1443-1453
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• 1998

This paper presents the speech synthesis engine that converts the character strings kept in a computer memory into the synthesized speech sounds with enhancing the intelligibility and the naturalness by adapting the waveform processing method. The speech engine using demisyllable speech segments receives command streams for pitch modification, duration and energy control. The command based engine isolates the high level processing of text normalization, letter-to-sound and the lexical analysis and the low level processing of signal filtering and pitch processing. The TTS(Text-to-Speech) system implemented by using the speech synthesis engine has three independent object modules of the Text-Normalizer, the Commander and the said Speech Synthesis Engine those of which are easily replaced by other compatible modules. The architecture separating the high level and the low level processing has the advantage of the expandibility and the portability because of the mix-and-match nature.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.51 no.11
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• pp.601-611
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• 2002

As resent trends in structural construction have been to build taller and larger structures than any time in the past, they have had high flexibility and low damping that can cause large vibration response under severe environmental loading such as earthquakes, winds, and mechanical excitations. The damper with mass and sqring is one aproach to safeguarding the structure against excessive vibrations. In this paper, a large capacity hybrid-type linear motor damper(LMD) was designed and fabricated for the application to the vibration control of a large building structure model. It has been designed to be able to move the damper mass, 1,500 kg up to ${\pm}250mm$ strokes at the first mode natural frequency of the building structure model, ${\pm}0.51Hz$. Linear motor is consisted of the fixed coil and the movable NdFeB permanent magnets field part. The PM field part composed magnet modules and iron yoke, is the damper mass itself, 1500kg. LMD therefore has a simplified structure and requires a few elements in the driving system, being compared with a rotary motor damper and a hydraulic damper. However, the manufacture of large PM linear actuator is difficult because of the limit of PM size and the attraction and repulsion at the assembly of PM. Therefore, large damper system is manufactured and tested for dynamic characteristics and frequency response.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.241-248
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• 1999

Recently, many linear motion generators and motors are rapidly finding applications that ranges from short stroke linear motion vibrators, such as dynamic cone type loudspeakers to stirling engine driven linear reciprocating alternators, compressors, textile machines etc. The stroke-length may go up to 2m, and the maximum speed is in the range of 5 to 10m/s with oscillating frequency as high as 15 kHz. Therefore, the linear oscillating actuators(LOAs) may be considered as variable speed drivers of precise controller with stoke-length and reversal periods during the reciprocating motion. In this paper, the design, fabrication, experiments, and extraction of control parameters of a moving coil type LOA for driving of linear reciprocating motion control systems, are treated. The actuator consists of the NdFeB permanent magnets with high specific energy as the stator produced magnetic field, a coil-wrapped nonmagnetic hollow rectangular bobbin structure, and an iron core as a pathway for magnetic flux. Actually, the design is accomplished by using FEM analysis for the basic configuration of a magnetic circuit, and characteristic equations for coil design. In order to apply as the drivers of a linear motion reciprocating control system, the control parameters and circuit parameters, such as input voltage-stoke, exciting frequency-stoke, coil inductance and so on, are extracted from the analysis and experiments on concerning a fabricating LOA.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.113-120
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• 2002

Electrostriction is the phenomenon that a material is strained due to Maxwell stress developed by the applied voltage. In many electrostrictive materials, especially polymeric elastomers can produce large deformation and force due to their low elastic modulus. In this study, polyurethanes and acrylic rubber with compliant electrodes were used as electrostrictive polymer(EP) actuator. Actuation characteristics of the EP actuators with different physical properties of dynamic modulus and dynamic dielectiric constant were analyzed under AC field. The classical laminate theory was also used to simulate the actuation process in relation to the geometry and the physical properties of the actuators.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.210-215
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• 2012

Whitening phenomena of the EPDM composites with different inorganic filler compositions which were aged at $90^{\circ}C$ for 7 days in air and tap water atmospheres, respectively, were investigated. The aged samples in tap water containing stearic acid exhibited severe whitening phenomena, while all the samples aged in air did not show any whitening. Depending on the filler compositions, there was no big difference in the whitening phenomena. The whitening materials were analyzed using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS), image analysis, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR). The whitening materials were identified to be salts of stearic acid. The salts of stearic acid were formed by reaction of metal cation in tap water and stearic acid in the sample.