• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.179-184
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• 2017

Due to rapid development of infrared guided weapon, survivability of armored vehicle is severely threatened. Hence, reduction of susceptibility by lowering infrared signature level is essential to enhance survivability of the vehicle. For this purpose, numerical analysis is conducted to analyze time and spatial characteristics of infrared signature of the vehicle when surface emissivity changes in this study. The analysis shows that the emissivity which produces minimum contrast radiant intensity is significantly altered by time and detecting position. Based on the result, it is concluded that the controlled structures which have different emissivity should be adopted at different region of the vehicle to effectively decrease infrared signature level.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.135-144
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• 1994

The coupled vibration of the deck house and stern structure, which was experienced on a 12,900 TDW Ro/Ro ship, has been studied. It was a large-scale vibration problem where the structure resonates with the propeller excitation at the first blade passing frequency. After discussing the structural characteristics of the ship, the vibration characteristics measured ducting the sea-trial are presented and compared with the analysis results which are based on a 3 dimensional finite element(FE) model. The FE model is also used to verify various reinforcement options and to predict their effectiveness. A substantial reduction or the vibration was confirmed during the sea-trial after installing a few selected reinforcement. The forced vibration response, which is computed using the FE model, is compared with the measured data. The change of the vibration characteristics according to loading conditions is also studied.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.93-101
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• 2015

As the axle at the vehicle of railway has the important role for safe running, the strength, and impact-proof, safety factor, stress and deformation must be considered. There are the simulation models of 1 and 2 in this study. These models are investigated by performing the convergence technique through the design, the structural and fatigue analyses with CATIA and ANSYS. As the maximum deformation and equivalent stress of model A are lower than those of model B, model A has more durability than model B. The durability to prevent the damage can be investigated by applying the result of this study into the part design of the vehicle of rail road. And it is possible to be grafted onto the convergence technique at design and show the esthetic sense.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.58-66
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• 2023

In this study, cable tension was measured using the vibration method, and a vision-based system was applied as a sensor to measure the displacement response of a cable in a non-contact method. In the vision-based system, the camera is installed in a location that considers the target structure and the field of view of the camera. However, it can be difficult to recognize the control points required to measure the displacement response of a structure as the target structure and other structures such as vehicles may be included in the image at the intended installation location. In this study, a distorted image including a vehicle shows inaccurate results in image analysis due to the installation position of the vision-based system. Accordingly, the image including the vehicle was eliminated by calculating the similarity between the two images. To verify the validity of the method of estimating the cable tension of cable-stayed bridges using the proposed method, the vibration method was applied to cable-stayed bridges in service to measure the tension.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.199-209
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• 2011

In the study of traffic safety, the analysis on factors affecting crash severity and the understanding about their relationship is important to be planning and execute to improve safety of road and traffic facilities. The purpose of this study is to develop a hierarchical binomial logistic model to identify the significant factors affecting fatal injuries and vehicle damages of traffic crashes on freeway. Two models on death and total vehicle damage are developed. The hierarchical structure of response variable is composed of two level, crash-occupant and crash-vehicle. As a result, we have gotten the crash-level random effect from these hierarchical structure as well as the fixed effect of covariates, namely odds ratio. The crash on the main line and in-out section have greater damage than other facilities. Injuries and vehicle damages are severe in case of traffic violations, centerline invasion and speeding. Also, collision crash and fire occurrence is more severe damaged than other crash types. The surrounding environment of surface conditions by climate and visibility conditions by day and night is a significant factor on crash occurrence. On the orher hand, the geometric condition of road isn't.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.95-102
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• 2005

Delaying and objection for the construction of storage spent-fuel disposal has prompted to consider expanding on-site storage of spent reactor fuel since it can eliminate the need for costly and difficult shipping and control of the spent fuel completely under the direction of the owner-utility. The dry storage unit developed in Canada can accommodate Korea heavy water reactor fuel elements and become a candidate for the Korean market. In this paper, finite element analysis were carried out in order to investigate the structural behavior of the nuclear spent fuel dry storage system, which is subjected to impact loads such as collision of a truck load and dropping of flask under the irregular operation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.197-200
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• 2000

지능형 교통 시스템(ITS. Intelligent Transportation System)은 도로, 차량, 신호시스템 등 기본 교통체계의 구성요소에 첨단 정보통신 기술을 접목함으로써 교통시설의 기반구조에 대해 지능화와 첨단화를 꾀하고자 하는 차세대 교통체계로 우리 나라가 처한 교통 환경의 실태와 기존 교통체계의 문제점을 고려할 때 당면한 교통 문제를 해결해 줄 수 있는 유력한 방안으로 여겨진다. ITS는 운전자 혹은 도로 교통 시스템에 각종 응용 서비스를 제공하게 되는데 이를 위해서는 도로변에 위치하는 기지국 등의 ITS 기반 요소들과 도로를 운행 중인 차량간의 빠르고 정확한 정보교환이 가능해야 한다. 정보교환을 위한 통신 기술 중 하나인 DSRC(Dedicated Short Range Communication)는 저출력의 양방향 통신 특성을 갖고 ITS가 제공하는 대부분의 서비스에 다양하게 적용될 수 있으므로 효과적인 ITS의 구축과 빠른 확산을 위해 필수적인 기술로 간주되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 DSRC를 기반으로 하는 ITS통신망의 구조 정립에 대해 논하고 있다. 효과적인 ITS 서비스를 위해서는 물리적 통신망은 물론 통신망을 구성하고 있는 각 요소들과 관련되어있는 정보시스템들이 동시에 연구되어야 하므로 ISCNA(Information Systems and Communication Networks Architecture) 준거모형에 의한 접근을 하였다. 세부적인 측면으로는 서버 시스템의 구조, 서버와 서버간, 서버와 노변 기지국, 노변 기지국과 차량 단말 간의 통신망 구조 정립에 대해 살펴보았다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.622-625
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• 2016

Korea is surrounding by the sea on three sides and consists of mountainous terrain over 65% and the rainfall is high. Therefore, accidents of the vehicle rollover and crash are frequently occurring. Lifesaving system is being urgent required to solve these problems. In this paper, we designed and implemented a lifesaving system for handling a car crash and rollover and verified the functionality through the test.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.297-303
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• 2016

This paper introduces auxiliary power supply systems (APS) for railroad applications and proposes a new power conversion structure for highly-efficient and lightweight APS systems. The proposed structure focuses on an improvement of the power density in APS. It eliminates unnecessary power conversion stages in the conventional APS structure by modulating the dc/dc converter circuit and the structure of the system. The dc/dc converter circuit used in the proposed structure is based on a multi-level half-bridge converter, a widely used topology in railroad APS applications; a flying capacitor is newly added to the conventional circuit. The added capacitor is used not only to enhance the soft switching condition of the switches, but also so that the new pantograph will have a side voltage source of a battery charger in the APS structure. Since the battery charger uses the pantograph side voltage source in the proposed structure, rather than using the output of the main dc/dc converter in the conventional structure, the size and efficiency of the main dc/dc converter are reduced and increased, respectively. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed structure, simulation results will be presented with metropolitan transit APS specifications.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-43
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• 2004

In this paper, we proposed a vehicle recognition and electronic toll collection system with detection and classification of vehicle identification mark and emblem as well as recognition of vehicle license plate to unman toll fee collection system or incoming/outcoming vehicles to an institution. In the proposed algorithm, we first process pre-processing step such as noise reduction and thinning from the rear side input image of vehicle and detect vehicle mark, emblem and license plate region using intensity variation informations, template masking and labeling operation. And then, we classify the detected vehicle features regions into vehicle mark and emblem as well as recognize characters and numbers of vehicle license plate using hybrid and seven segment pattern vector. To show the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, we tested it on real vehicle images of implemented vehicle recognition system in highway toll gate and found that the proposed method shows good feature detection/classification performance regardless of irregular environment conditions as well as noise, size, and location of vehicles. And also, the proposed algorithm may be utilized for catching criminal vehicles, unmanned toll collection system, and unmanned checking incoming/outcoming vehicles to an institution.