• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.55-61
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• 2008

One of the most recent base-isolation systems to improve the earthquake resistance of structures is the Friction Pendulum System(FPS). Simple in design but with versatile properties, the FPS has been used in some of the world s largest seismically isolated buildings, bridges and chemical tanks. FPS using PTFE(Polytetrafl-uoroethylene) based material has been developed to provide a simple and effective way for structures to achieve earthquake resistance. PTFE materials are soft, and are apt to become deformed easily after a few working cycles. In this study, magnetic force is used rather than the usual PTFE materials to improve the material shortcomings. A MF-FPS(Magnetic force-Friction Pendulum System) is proposed, and us shown to effectively protect structures against earthquakes. To demonstrate the advantages of this new system, the MF-FPS is compared with FPS as an attempt to prove its performance. A six-degree-of-freedom model is considered as a numerical example. The ground acceleration data of El Centro, Mexico and Gebze earthquakes are used as seismic excitations. The results showed that MF-FPS improved performance compared with FPS.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.223-229
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• 2016

This study proposes a new technology for a smart damper with flag-shaped behavior using the combination of magnetic friction and rubber springs. The magnet provides friction and, thus, energy dissipation, and the rubber springs with precompression contribute to present self-centering capacity of the damper. To verify their performance, this study conducts dynamic tests of magnet frictional dampers and precompressed rubber springs. For the purpose, hexahedron Neodymium (NdFeB) magnets and polyurethane rubber cylinders are used. In the dynamic tests, loading frequency varies from 0.1 to 2.0 Hz. The magnets provide almost perfect rectangular behavior in force-deformation curve. The rubber springs are tested without or with precompression. The rubber springs show larger rigid force with increasing precompression. Lastly, this study discusses combination of rigid-elastic behavior and friction to generate 'flag-shaped' behavior for a smart damper and suggests how to combine the magnets and the rubber springs to obtain the flag-shaped behavior.

• Journal of Wind Energy
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.13-20
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• 2023

A self-climbing crane (SCC) system is under development for the installation and maintenance of wind turbines. It can move vertically along the wind turbine tower by itself. One of the key components of the SCC system is the clamping pad to maintain a safe position on the wind turbine tower. The SCC system can maintain its position on the tower from the frictional force generated between the surfaces of the clamping pads and the tower. If the frictional force provided by the clamping pads are insufficient, the SCC system cannot stay in the vertical position on the tower. Therefore, the development of clamping pads with sufficient frictional force is very important for the SCC system. At the same time, the operation of the SCC system should not damage the paint coating of the wind turbine tower. In order to verify that the frictional force is sufficient and that frictional and compressive forces do not cause damage to the paint, a number of combined compression and shear loading tests were conducted using a test device prepared for this study. The details regarding the test specimens, test procedure, and test results are summarized in this paper.

• 전기의세계
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.68-75
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• 1990

급속한 경제발전과 이에 대응한 교통인구의 증가로 운송시스템의 속도 경쟁은 날로 심화되고 있다. 그러나, 기존의 차륜구동 시스템은 본질적으로 궤도와 차륜의 마찰에 의하여 추진력을 얻기 때문에 평균 최대속도 250Km/h(상한 최대속도 350Km/h)수준이며 소음, 진동 등의 많은 문제점이 있다. 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위하여 선진 외국에서는 부상식 열차의 개발에 관심을 표명하여 1960년대 후반부터 열차와 공기부상식 열차에 대한 연구를 병행하였다. 1970년대 중반까지 프랑스, 영국, 미국 등에서 개발이 진행된 공기 부상식 열차는 고속 주행 및 환경 문제 등에 문제점이 많아 실용화에는 이루지 못하고 신교통 시스템에 부분적으로 적용되고 있는 실정이다. 그러나 자기부상 열차는 Power Electronics 및 자기관련 기술의 급속한 발전에 힘입어 현재 실용화 단계에 이르고 있다. 특히 자기부상(Magnetic Levitation : Maglev) 시스템은 레일과의 마찰력에 의해 추진하는 방식이 아니기 때문에 본질적으로 고속성, 무공해, 안정성, 신뢰성, 경제성 그리고 승차감이 뛰어나다. Maglev는 레일 표면에서 자력을 이용해서 약 1.0cm 또는 10cm 가량 부상한 상태에서 주행하기 때문에 외부와의 물리적인 접촉이 필요 없어 마찰에 의한 소음, 공해, 마모 등이 없는 대단히 이상적인 미래의 운송 수단으로 각광을 받고 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.86-91
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• 1999

콤플라이언스는 인간의 촉감에 관계된 주요한 기계적 성질중의 하나이다. 물체의 콤플라이언스가 효과적으로 제시되는 경우 인간에게 보다 현실적인 물체의 가상촉감을 제공할 수 있을 것이다. 그러므로, 본 연구에서는 마찰을 최소화하기 위하여 자력 부공을 이용한 오직 수직방향으로 콤플라이언스를 재현할 수 있는 콤플라이언스 에뮬레이터 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현된 시스템은 아날로그 LVDT 센서를 위치센서로 활용하며 주어진 콤플라이언스를 재현하기 위하여 중력보완을 포함한 간단한 PD 제어기법을 활용하였다. 시스템에 의해 재현된 콤플라이언스의 범위는 제한됨을 보였는데 이를 보완하기 위하여 다양한 크기의 강성을 가지는 스프링을 시스템에 추가로 부착하는 방법을 활용하였으며 이러한 방법의 적합성을 실험을 통하여 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.173-180
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• 2015

A passive type of fence security system was developed, which was based on electric charge detection technique. The implemented fence security system was installed at outskirts of greenhouse laboratory in the University of Seoul. The purpose of this research is to minimize false alarms by analyzing environmental noise. The existing system determines the intrusion alarm by analyzing the power of amplified signal, but the alarm was seriously affected by natural strong wind and heavy rainfall. The SAU(Signal Analysis Unit) sends input signals to remote server which displays intrusion alarm and stores all the information in database. The environmental noise such as temperature, humidity and wind speed was separately gathered to analyze a correlation with input signal. The input signal was analyzed for frequency characteristic using FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) and the algorithm that differentiate between intrusion alarm and environmental noise signal is improved. The proposed algorithm is applied for the site for one month as the same as the existing algorithm and the false alarm data was gathered and analyzed. The false alarm number was decreased by 98% after new algorithm was applied to the fence. The proposed algorithm improved the reliability at the field regarding environmental noise signal.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.255-260
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• 1998

Fabrication condition and magnetic properties of ultrathin Co-based amorphous alloy have been investigated. When the ejection gas pressure was lower than 0.05 kgf/$\textrm{cm}^2$ at the roll speed of 55 m/s, ultrathin ribbons with the thickness less than 10 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ were successfully obtained. The ribbon thickness decreased linearly with the decrease in ejection pressure. Moreover the significant decrease in ribbon width was accompanied with the decrease of thickness in the range of ejection pressure to form an ultrathin ribbon. This behavior was attributed to the decrease of effective ejection pressure in the both end-sides of rectangular nozzle due to the larger friction between molten metal and nozzle wall. The effective permeability at low frequency (1 kHz) decreased largely with the decrease in ribbon thickness, while the coercive force increased with the thickness decrease. It was considered that these behaviors were due to the enhancement of surface effect leading to the suppression of wall motion. However effective permeability at high frequency (1 MHz) increased with the decrease in ribbon thickness, and this was ascribed to the easier magnetization rotation owing to the reduction of eddy current.