• Journal of Dental Rehabilitation and Applied Science
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.317-328
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• 2006

Purpose: This study was performed to measure the accuracy of adjustable dental impression trays by a scanning laser three-dimensional digitizer. Materials and Methods: Metal stock tray and adjustable stock trays were used for 40 stone casts(10 casts each) duplicated a resin master model of mandible and maxilla. The type IV dental stone was poured in a allginate impressions and allowed to set for one hour. The casts were digitized using an optical digitizer. The distance between the reference points were measured and analyzed on the graphic image of 3-D graphic software (CATIA version 5.0). The statistical significance of the differences between the groups was determined by a two-way ANOVA. Results: There were no significant differences between the accuracies of the adjustable stock tray and the master model except anterior arch width of the upper arch and the diagonal arch length and arch length(one side) of the lower arch. Conclusion: The adjustable stock trays showed clinically acceptable accuracies of the study casts produced by them.

• Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.249-257
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• 2010

In this paper, a three-dimensional hydrogen absorption model is developed to precisely study hydrogen absorption reaction and resultant heat and mass transport phenomena in metal hydride hydrogen storage vessels. The 3D model is first experimentally validated against the temperature evolution data available in the literature. In addition to model validation, the detailed simulation results shows that at the initial absorption stage, the vessel temperature and H/M ratio distributions are uniform throughout the entire vessel, indicating that the hydrogen absorption is so efficient during the early hydriding process and thus local cooling effect is not influential. On the other hand, nonuniform distributions are predicted at the latter absorption stage, which is mainly due to different degrees of cooling between the vessel wall and core regions. This numerical study provides the fundamental understanding of detailed heat and mass transfer phenomena during hydrogen absorption process and further indicates that efficient design of storage vessel and cooling system is critical to achieve fast hydrogen charging and high hydrogen storage efficiency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2000.11c
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• pp.698-706
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• 2000

It is very difficult to mechanize tomato harvesting because identifying a tomato partly covered with leaves and stalks is not easy. This research was conducted to develop tomato harvesting robot which can identify a target tomato, determine its three dimensional position, and harvest it in a limited time. Followings were major findings in this study. The first visual system of the harvesting robot was composed of two CCD cameras, however, this could not detect tomatoes which are not seen on the view finder of the camera especially those partly covered by leaves or stalks. The second visual device, combined with two CCD cameras and pan/tilt procedures was designed to minimize the positioning errors within ${\pm}10mm$, but this is still not enough to detect tomatoes partly covered with leaves etc. Finally, laser distance detector was added to the visual system that could reduce the position detecting errors within 10mm in X-Y direction and 5mm in Z direction for the partly covered tomatoes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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• 2005.09a
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• pp.173-182
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• 2005

A three dimensional (3D) model for the catalytic region of Type II Pseudomonas sp. USM 4-55 PHA synthase 1 (PhaC1$_{P.sp\;USM\;4-55}$) from residue 267 to residue 484 was developed. Sequence analysis demonstrated that PhaC1$_{P.sp\;USM\;4-55}$ lacked homology with all known structural databases. PSI-BLAST and HMM Superfamily analyses demonstrated that this enzyme belongs to the ${\alpha}/{\beta}$ hydrolase fold family. Threading approach revealed that the most suitable template to use was the Human gastric lipase (1HLG). The superimposition of the predicted PhaC1$_{P.sp\;USM\;4-55}$ model with the 1HLG template structure covering 86.2% of the backbone atoms showed an RMSD of 1.15 ${\AA}$ The catalytic residues comprising of Cys296, Asp451, His452 and His479 were found to be conserved and were located adjacent to each other. We proposed that the catalytic mechanism involved the formation of two tetrahedral intermediates.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.956-959
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• 2005

The overall goal of this thesis is to develop a new algorithm based on the octree model for geometric and mechanistic milling operation at the same time. Most commercial machining simulators are based on the Z map model, which has several limitations in terms of achieving a high level of precision in five-axis machining simulation. Octree representation being a three-dimensional (3D) decomposition method, an octree-based algorithm is expected to be able to overcome such limitations. With the octree model, storage requirement is reduced. Moreover, recursive subdivision is processed in the boundaries, which reduces useless computations. To achieve a high level of accuracy, fast computation time and less memory consumption, the advanced octree model is suggested. By adopting the supersampling technique of computer graphics, the accuracy can be significantly improved at approximately equal computation time. The proposed algorithm can verify the NC machining process and estimate the material removal volume at the same time.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.753-760
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• 2011

The satellite Chollian was successfully launched on June 27, 2010 and is expected to perform its communication, oceanographic, and meteorological duties for seven years. The follow-up launch of the Chollian satellite is already being planned, and diverse studies are under way to enable the use of the Korean satellite data. Studies are also being actively conducted in and out of Korea to visualize the meteorological data on the open-source virtual globes. The meteorological data include ground observation, satellite, and digital-model data. In this study, an efficient three-dimensional technique was developed to visualize typhoons on the virtual globes using the Chollian satellite data. This study was conducted to provide service to the public via the scientific visualization of the satellite image data, and to create an efficient satellite image analysis environment for meteorological researchers.

• Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-18
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to evaluate performance characteristics. in the success of team attack during volleyball competition. For this, real game was analyzed using S-VHS video camera for three dimensional cinematography. The contents of this research were receive to set time, set to spike time, setter moving distance, ball position during set and attacker's relative ball position during jump and spike, and open area at spike. Among the various kinematical factors considered in this study, the ball height relative spiker and open area were found to be related to offensive performance. This finding implies that although their direct impact were not significant the other factors could have indirect impact on offensive performance by increasing open area. Thus, receiver, setter, assistant attacker, and main attacker should practice for successful performance in each stage. Lastly, it is necessary to develop kinematic variables to evaluate performance characteristics of players. Further study may consider the best defense position against the attack of the opponent player.

• Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.161-166
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• 2002

Low-tension cables have been increasingly used in recent years due to deep-sea developments and the advent of synthetic cables. In the case of low-tension cables, large displacements may happen due to relatively small restoring forces of tension and thus the effects of fluid and geometric non-linearities become predominant. In this study, three-dimensional (3-D) dynamic behavior of a towed low-tension cable with non-uniform characteristics is numerically analyzed by considering fluid and geometric non-linearities and bending stiffness. A Fortran program is developed by employing a finite difference method. In the algorithm, an implicit time integration and Newton-Raphson iteration are adopted. For the calculation of huge size of matrices, block tri-diagonal matrix method is applied, which is much faster than the well-known Gauss-Jordan method in two point boundary value problems. Some case studies are carried out and the results of numerical simulations are compared with a in-house program of WHOI Cable with good agreements.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.73-79
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• 2005

Micro sensor is very useful for flow measurements in a number of engineering applications. Especially, it is necessary for the development of MEMS. This paper presents the 3D numerical simulation of flows around a micro flow sensor, which is mounted on a flat plate. The effects of the sensor configuration (i.e. bottom gap) and the Reynolds number on the flow field are numerically investigated. The numerical results indicate that the bottom gap clearly affects the flow fields over the top surface of the sensor. The Reynolds numbers also show a significant influence on the flow nature, especially on the recirculation zone at downstream of the sensor. The present results illustrate a certain improvement on the flow field for the sensor installed at O.5mm above the wall with four pillars, comparing with that directly mounted on the wall.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.250-255
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• 2008

Springs are widely utilized in machine element. To find out stiffness of frustum-shaped coil spring, the space beam theory using the finite element method is adopted in this paper. In three dimensional space, a space frame element is a straight bar of uniform cross section which is capable of resisting axial forces, bending moments about two principal axes in the plane of its cross section and twisting moment about its centroidal axis. The corresponding displacement degrees of freedom are twelve. To find out load vector of coil spring subjected to distributed compression. principle of virtual work is adapted. And this theory was programming using MATLAB software. To compare FEM using MATLAB software was applied MSC. Nastran software. The geometry model for MSC. Patran was produced by 3-D design modeling software. Finite element model was produced by MSC. Patran. Finite element was applied tetra (CTETRA) having 10 node. The analysis results of the MATLAB and MSC. Nastran are fairly well agreed with those of various experiments. Using MATLAB program proposed in this paper and MSC. Nastran, spring constants and stresses can be predicted by input of few factors.