• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2001

Recently, prestressed concrete(PSC) bridge structures with many repetitive spans have been widely constructed using the segmental construction method in many countries. In these segmentally constructed PSC bridges, there exist many construction joints which is required coupling of tendons or overlapping of tendons to introduce continuous prestress through several spans of bridges. The purpose of this paper is to investigate in detail the complicated stress distributions around the tendon coupled joints in prestressed concrete girders. To this end, a comprehensive experimental program has been set up and a series of specimens have been tested to identify the effects of tendon coupling. The present study indicates that the longitudinal and transverse stress distributions of PSC girders with tendon couplers are quite different from those of PSC girders without tendon couplers. It is seen that the longitudinal compressive stresses introduced by prestressing are greatly reduced around coupled joints according to tendon coupling ratios. The large reduction of compressive stresses around the coupled joints may cause deleterious cracking problems in PSC girder bridges due to tensile stresses arising from live loads, shrinkage and temperature effects. The analysis results by finite element method correlate very well with test results observed complex strain distributions of tendon coupled members. It is expected that the results of this paper will provide a good basis for realistic design guideline around tendon coupled joints in PSC girder bridges.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.26 no.9
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• pp.814-820
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• 2015

In this paper, A high selective dual-band bandpass filter was proposed using a dual-mode ring resonator with two short-circuited stubs. For dual-mode resonance, the ring resonator is directly connected with non-orthogonal feed-lines via coupling capacitors. Two short-circuited stubs which are unequal lengths are simultaneously placed at two corners along the two symmetry plane of the ring resonator in order to obtain dual-band responses. Because the feeding angle perturbated ring resonator of the proposed dual-band bandpass filter has the symmetrical structure, Even/Odd mode analysis can be well applied to extract the scattering parameters and transmission zero frequencies. The proposed dual-band bandpass filter was designed and fabricated for WLAN(Wireless Local Area Network) application of IEEE 802.11n standard. The measured results showed a good agreement with the simulation results, and it should be well applied not only for WLAN applications but also for any other communication systems.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.36-41
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• 2007

We report the 94 GHz CPW branch-line bandpass filter for planar integrated millimeter-wave circuits. The branch-line coupler operates as a transversal filtering section by connecting the coupling ports to the open load stubs and taking the isolation port as the output node. For design of the 94 GHz branch-line bandpass filter, we built the CPW library and optimized the characteristic impedances and the lengths of the branch-line coupler and the open load stubs. The fabricated 94 GHz bandpass filter exhibits an insertion loss of 2.5 dB with an 11.7 % 3 dB relative bandwidth and the return loss is -18.5 dB at a center frequency of 94 GHz.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.629-636
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• 2011

This paper describes the smart structural system that uses smart materials for real-time monitoring and active control of bolted joints in steel structures. The impedance-based structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques, which utilize the electro-mechanical coupling property of piezoelectric materials, was used to detect loose bolts in bolted joints. By monitoring the measured electrical impedance and comparing it with the measured baseline, a bolt loosening damage was detected. The damage was evaluated quantitatively using the damage metrics in conductance signature with respect to the healthy states. When loosening damage was detected in the bolted joint, the external heater actuated the shape memory alloy (SMA) washer. Then the heated SMA washer expanded axially and adjusted the bolt tension to restore the lost torque. An experiment was conducted by integrating the piezoelectric-material-based SHM function and the SMA-based active control function on a bolted joint, after which the performance of thesmart self-healing joint system was investigated.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.626-629
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• 2007

국내외에 아직 개발 실적이 없는 발전소의 해수방류수를 이용한 조류식발전시스템의 개발을 위하여, 현재 하동화력발전소 해수방수로를 대상으로 헬리컬 수차를 이용한 조류식발전 시험설비를 제작 완료하고, 성능 시험이 진행 중이며, 본 연구에서는 성능 시험 과정에서 나타난 제반 문제점을 제시하고 그에 대한 원인 및 대책을 분석해 보았다. 본 시험설비는 인공수로에서 수평 배열 헬리컬수차로서 기계장치의 안정성 및 수차의 효율을 평가하고자 하였다. 조류식 시험장치는 배수로의 빠른 유속으로 인하여 시공이 매우 어려웠으며, 인공수로임에도 불구하고 유지관리를 위한 적정 구조 선정이 곤란한 상황이었다. 또한, 헬리컬 수차는 서로 직렬연결되어 운전할 수 있는 장점이 있으나, 본 연구와 같이 다수의 수차가 연결될 경우, 보다 높은 축정렬 정확성, 커플링, 베어링 정밀도 등이 요구되어 효율 감소의 원인이 됨을 확인하였다. 본 장치는 시험용으로서 정밀한 베어링 및 수밀구조, 증속장치를 채택하지 않았으나, 상업용에서는 이를 개선할 필요성이 있다고 판단된다. 또한, 수차의 설치와 유지관리 조건 향상, 수차 통과부의 유황 개선, 수차의 효율 향상을 위하여 조류식 수차에도 유도수로와 casing, draft tube와 같은 Confined flow 구조를 일부 채택할 필요성이 있다고 판단된다.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.43-47
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• 2004

A coupler or divider is a microwave passive component used for power coupling or dividing. Regarding the trend of current telecommunication systems monolithic integration of passive components is highly desirable. In this study by the LTCC(Low temperature co-fired ceramics) technology a 2012 size type dual band coupler with multi-layer structure was fabricated. To achieve the desired coupling values for both DCS and EGSM bands, broad side coupled patterns were used with multi-layer structure. Its characteristics such as coupling, insertion loss, isolation and directivity values were measured and compared with simulation results.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.16 no.2 s.93
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• pp.128-133
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• 2005

An iris-coupled partial H-plane filter as a new type of partial H-plane filter is proposed. The proposed filter can be compared with conventional H-plane filter and uses an iris-type evanescent waveguide as a coupling structure. Filter design technique based on numerical simulation is developed to design and compare the proposed filter and H-plane filter. Designed iris-coupled partial H-plane filter has the same frequency response as that of the conventional H-plane filter while its cross section is one quarter. A good agreement between measurements and theoretical prediction is achieved.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.1909-1913
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• 2008

In this paper, A compact ultra-wideband(UWB) bandpass filter(BPF) with WLAN notched filter has been proposed. H-shared slot is studied and adopted to tighten the coupling of inter-digital capacitor in order to improve the BPF's performance. Three pairs of tapered defected ground structures(DGS) are formed to assign their transmission zeros towards the out of band signal, thereby suppressing the spurious passband. Also Meander line slot is de#eloped to reject the undesired wireless local-area network(WLAN) radio signals. That's combining these three structures we obtain a small sized UWB BPF.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.31-31
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• 2008

고주파 잡음 발생과 고집적화 문제 해결을 위해 고용량 디커플링 캐패시터를 기판에 내장하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 초고주파 환경에서 고용량 기판 내장형 디커플링 캐패시터로의 응용을 위해 $BaTiO_3$박막을 에어로졸 데포지션 법을 이용하여 12~0.2 ${\mu}m$의 두께로 제조하였고 그 유전특성을 조사하였다. 그결과, 1 MHz에서 permittivity가 70, loss tangent은 3% 이하였으며, capacitance density는 $1{\mu}m$의 두께에서 59 nF/$cm^2$이었다. 하지만, 박막의 두께가 $1{\mu}m$ 이하에서는 XRD를 통해 결정성이 확인 되었음에도 큰 누설전류로 인해 유전특성을 확인할 수 없었다. 이 누설전류의 발생 원인을 조사하기 위해 $BaTiO_3$박막의 표면의 미세구조를 SEM으로 관찰한 결과 여러 결함들이 확인되었으며, 또한 전극 직경의 크기를 1.5 mm에서 0.33 mm로 작게 변화시킴으로서 그 유전특성을 조사하여 박막의 불균일성과 박막화의 가능성을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.02a
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• pp.253-253
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• 2010

Silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) 구조를 가지는 플래쉬 메모리 소자는 기존의 플래쉬 메모리 소자에 비해 쓰고 지우는 속도가 빠르고, 데이터의 저장 기간이 길며, 쓰고 지우는 동작에 의한 전계 스트레스에 잘 견뎌내는 장점을 가지고 있다. 그러나 SONOS 형태의 플래쉬 메모리 소자에 대한 전기적 특성에 대한 연구는 많이 진행되었으나, SONOS 형태의 플래쉬 메모리에서 소자의 셀 사이즈가 감소함에 따라 발생하는 인접한 셀 간의 간섭 현상에 대한 연구는 상당히 미흡하다. 본 연구에서는 SONOS 형태의 플래쉬 메모리에서 소자의 셀 사이즈가 작아짐에 따라 발생하는 인접한 셀 간의 간섭 현상에 대해 조사하였다. SONOS 형태의 플래쉬 메모리소자의 터널링 산화막, 질화막과 블로킹 산화막의 두께를 결정하였고, 각 셀의 크기가 감소함에 따라 발생하는 소자의 전기적 특성을 3차원 시뮬레이션 툴인 Sentaurus를 사용하여 계산하였다. 병렬 캐패시턴스에 의해 셀들 사이에 발생하는 커플링 효과를 확인하기 위해 선택한 셀의 문턱 전압이 주변 셀들의 프로그램 상태에 의해 받게되는 영향을 관찰하였다. 본 연구에서는 셀 사이에 간섭 방지층을 삽입함으로 인접 셀 간 발생하는 간섭현상의 크기를 크게 줄일 수 있음을 시뮬레이션 결과를 통하여 확인하였다. 이때 간섭 방지층의 깊이에 따라 감소하는 문턱전압의 변화량을 계산하였고, 방지층을 충분히 깊게 제작함으로 셀 간 간섭 현상을 막을 수 있음을 확인 하였다.