• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.401-409
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• 2012

Ultrasonic testing are far superior to other nondestructive tests for detecting the disbond interface which occurred in adhesive interface. However, a solid rocket motor consisting of a steel case, rubber insulation, liner, and propellant poses many difficulties for analyzing ultrasonic waves because of the superposition of reflected waves and large differences in acoustic impedance of various materials. Therefore, ultrasonic tests for detecting the disbond interface in solid rocket motor have been applied in very limited areas between the steel case and rubber insulation using an automatic C-scan system. The existing ultrasonic test cannot detect the disbond interface between the liner and propellant of a solid rocket motor because most of the ultrasonic waves are absorbed in the rubber material which has low acoustic impedance. This problem could be overcome by analyzing the resonance frequency from the frequency spectrum using the ultrasonic resonance method. In this paper, a new technique to detect the disbond interface between the liner and propellant using ultrasonic resonance characteristics is discussed in detail.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.40-52
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• 1992

In this paper, we propose the speaker adaptive word recognition method using a mapped membership function, in order to absorb a fluctuation owing to personal difference which is a problem of speaker independent speech recognition. In the training procedure of this method, the mapped membership function is made with the fuzzy theory introducded into a mapped codebook, between an unknown speaker's spectrum pattern and a standard speaker's one. In the recognition procedure, an input pattern of an unknown speaker is reconstructed to the pattern which is adapted to that of a standard speaker by the mapped membership function. To show the validity of this method, word recognition experiments are carried out using 28 DDD area names. The recognition rate of the conventional speaker-adaptive method using a mapped codebook by VQ is 64.9[%], and that made by a fuzzy VQ is 76.2[%]. Throughout the experiment using a mapped membership function, we can achieve 95.4[%] recognition rate. This shows that our proposed method is more excellent in recognition performance. Moreover, this method doesn't need an iterative training procedure to make the mapped membership function, and memory capacity and computation requirements for this method are reduced to 1/30 and 1/500 time of those for the conventional method using a mapped codebook, respectively.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.401-406
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• 2002

Each Korean digit is composed of only a syllable, so recognizers as well as Korean often have difficulty in recognizing it. When digit strings are pronounced, the original pronunciation of each digit is largely changed due to the co-articulation effect. In addition to these problems, the distortion caused by various channels and noises degrades the recognition performance of Korean connected digit string. This paper dealt with some techniques to improve recognition performance of it, which include defining a set of PLUs by considering phonemic variations in Korean digit and constructing a recognizer to handle speakers various speaking styles. In the speaker-independent connected digit recognition experiments using telephone speech, the proposed techniques with 1-Gaussian/state gave string accuracy of 83.2%, i. e., 7.2% error rate reduction relative to baseline system. With 11-Gaussians/state, we achieved the highest string accuracy of 91.8%, i. e., 4.7% error rate reduction.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.43-49
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• 1996

This research proposes a system for speaker independent Korean continuous speech recognition with 247 DDD area names using keyword spotting technique. The applied recognition algorithm is the Dynamic Programming Neural Network(DPNN) based on the integration of DP and multi-layer perceptron as model that solves time axis distortion and spectral pattern variation in the speech. To improve performance, we classify word model into keyword model and non-keyword model. We make an experiment on postprocessing procedure for the evaluation of system performance. Experiment results are as follows. The recognition rate of the isolated word is 93.45% in speaker dependent case. The recognition rate of the isolated word is 84.05% in speaker independent case. The recognition rate of simple dialogic sentence in keyword spotting experiment is 77.34% as speaker dependent, and 70.63% as speaker independent.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.542-547
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• 2009

In this in vivo study, correlations of lumbar and femoral bone mineral densities (BMDs) with calcaneal speed of sound (SOS) were investigated in 36 osteoporotic women. Areal BMDs of the L2-L4 lumbar spine and the right femoral neck were measured by using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). SOS of the right calcaneus was measured by using ultrasound bone densitometry. Pearson's correlation coefficient (r) and level of significance (p) were used to evaluate the correlations between measurements. Lumbar BMD was highly correlated with femoral BMD (r=0.81). Lumbar and femoral BMDs exhibited similar comparable negative correlations with age (r=-0.52 and r=-0.55). A moderate negative correlation was found between calcaneal SOS and age (r=-0.45). Calcaneal SOS was significantly correlated with lumbar and femoral BMDs, with a higher correlation with femoral BMD rather than with lumbar BMD (r=0.54 and r=0.62). However, calcaneal SOS may not be an optimum index for the estimation of BMD of the most important fracture sites, such as the lumbar and the femur, because it showed lower correlations with lumbar and femoral BMDs compared to that with calcaneal BMD. Therefore, the development of a quantitative ultrasound technology for the direct measurement of acoustic properties at the lumbar and the femur is required to estimate BMD of these sites more accurately.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.501-503
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• 2007

오호츠크해 사할린 북동 해저사면지역은 세계적인 가스수화물 산출지역으로 알려져있다. 이미 2005년 탐사에서 50 cm 두께의 순수 가스수화물 시료를 해저면에서 채취한 지역이다. 2006년 탐사에서는 다양한 주파수대역의 고해상도 지구불리장비를 사용하여 탐사를 실시하였다. Side-scan Sonal와 3.5 kHz SBP 탐사, 수중음향 탐사를 통해 대규모 하도구조가 가스수화물지역의 북쪽 경계를 형성하고 있음을 밝혔다. 가스수화물의 BSR은 수심에 얕아짐에 따라 계속해서 심도가 감소하여 수심 약 300 m에서 해저면에 다다름. 이는 연구지역에서의 가스수화물 안정대의 상부경계가 약 300 m임을 시사한다 가스수화물 분출구조들은 약 1000m 수심을 경계로 천부에 분포하고, 해저면에는 원형의 가스분출구조들이 특징적으로 나타난다. 반면에 1000 m 수심보다 깊은 지역에서는 mud-dirpir의 상승구조로 판단되는 상승구조들이 해저면에 굴곡지형을 형성하고 있다. 해수중으로 분출하는 가스기둥들은 수심 111.2 m에서 1226.4 m 지점까지 다양한 수심에서 분포하며, 상승높이는 최대 750 m에 이르며, 약 150 m 수심까지 도달한다. 이는 해저에서 분출되는 메탄가스가 해수에 흡수되지 않고 해수면까지 이동하여 대기중으로 발출될 수 있음을 시사한다.

• Composites Research
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.241-246
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• 2017

The brittle nature in most FRP composites is accompanying other forms of energy absorption mechanisms such as fibre-matrix interface debonding and ply delamination. It could play an important role on the energy absorption capability of composite structures. To solve the brittle nature, the adhesion between pines and composites was studied. Thermal treated pines were attached on carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) by epoxy adhesives. To find the optimum condition of thermal treatment for pine, two different thermal treatments at 160 and $200^{\circ}C$ were compared to the neat case. To evaluate mechanical and interfacial properties of pines and pine/CFRP composites, tensile, lap shear and Izod test were carried out. The bonding force of pine grains was measured by tensile test at transverse direction and the elastic wave from fracture of pines was analyzed. The mechanical, interfacial properties and bonding force at $160^{\circ}C$ treated pine were highest due to the reinforced effect of pine. However, excessive thermal treatment resulted in the degradation of hemicellulose and leads to the deterioration in mechanical and interfacial properties.

• Archives of design research
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.113-122
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• 2004

Modern society came to enjoy dramatically advanced information technologies by the digitalization of New Media with the improvement of communication technologies and interaction between various information system and technologies. New service by web, not only text but image, audio and moving image have opened new experience possible for us. The development was possible because the web has characteristics of media making Remediation of various media possible. The web has remediated newspaper, magazines, TV, audio, movie by taking them, competing with them, attacking them and absorbing them. As a result, now we can enjoy various characteristics of different media at the Web. This study is to look into the effectiveness of Remediation at web design through various case studies. This study also is to seek more effective methods of expressions in the web and future improvement direction.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.45-51
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• 2003

The ship's signal sound dispersed by air, obstacles, and noises due to absorption, reflection, and disturbances, respectively. It is one of the factors of marine casualties by misjudgment if receiving direction The last target of this study is to prevent inherent marine casualty using the analysis-evaluation techniques if the interferences of ship's signal sound. In this work, three-dimensional sound field control model is proposed to simulate various sound transmitting characteristics according to sea environments at sea The efficiency test of the model was carried out using VR-based ship simulator.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.59-62
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• 2013

There are various types of foreign body reactions, such as inflammation, edema, fluid collection, hematoma, infection, abscess and granulomas. There are various imaging findings according to types of foreign bodies and depending on the lapse of time. Therefore, correct diagnosis of a foreign body reaction is difficult and easily confused with soft tissue neoplasm. The MRI is ideal for the detection of foreign bodies regardless of radiolucency or acoustic impedance. It is especially very useful in the evaluation of the surrounding tissue reaction. The authors report a case of a 26-year-old female patient with both forearm swelling due to self-injection of a mixture of powdered tablets and saline. The lesion shows numerous internal T1 and T2 dark signal intensity micro-spots with surrounding fluid collection, which are diagnosed as foreign bodies with surrounding inflammatory changes during an operation.