• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.409-416
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• 2009

Standard procedures for a fracture toughness testing require very severe restrictions for the specimen geometry to eliminate a size effect on the measured properties. Therefore, the used standard fracture toughness data results in the integrity assessment being irrationally conservative. However, a realistic fracture in general structures, such as in nuclear power plants, may develop under the low constraint condition of a large scale yielding with a shallow surface crack. In this paper, cleavage fracture toughness tests have been made on side-grooved PCVN (precracked charpy V-notch) type specimens (10 by 10 by 55 mm) with various crack depths. The constraint effects on the crack depth ratios were evaluated quantitatively by the developed scaling method using the 3-D finite element method. After the fracture toughness correction from scaling model, the statistical size effects were also corrected according to the standard ASTM E 1921 procedure. The results were evaluated through a comparison with the $T_0$ of the standard CT specimen. The corrected $T_0$ for all of the PCVN specimens showed a good agreement to within $5.4^{\circ}C$ regardless of the crack depth, while the averaged PCVN $T_0$ was $13.4^{\circ}C$ higher than the real CT test results.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.19-32
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• 2001

This paper proposes a local adaptive thresholding method based on a water flow model, in which an image surface is considered as a 3-dimensional (3-D) terrain. To extract characters from backgrounds, we pour water onto the terrain surface. Water flows down to the lower regions of the terrain and fills valleys. Then, the amount of filled water is thresholded, in which the proposed thresholding method is applied to gray level document images consisting of characters and backgrounds. The proposed method based on a water flow model shows the property of locally adaptive thresholding. Computer simulation with synthetic and real document images shows that the proposed method yields effective adaptive thresholding results for binarization of document images.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.391-396
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• 2007

The three-dimensional structure of an inorganic crystal, CaMoO4 (space group I 41/a, a = 5.198(69) A and c = 11.458(41) A), was determined by electron crystallography utilizing a high voltage electron microscope. An initial structure of CaMoO4 was determined with 3-D electron diffraction patterns. This structure was refined by crystallographic image processing of high resolution TEM images. X-ray crystallography of the same material was performed to evaluate the accuracy of the TEM structure determination. The cell parameters of CaMoO4 determined by electron crystallography coincide with the X-ray crystallography result to within 0.033-0.040 A, while the atomic coordinates were determined to within 0.072 A.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.571-576
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• 2019

The morphological changes of anthracnose (fungus) -infected tomato seeds have been studied to identify the infection and characterize its effect. Full-field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) has been utilized as a nondestructive but efficient modality for visualizing the effects of fungal infection. The cross-sectional images extracted from a stack of en face FF-OCT images showed significant changes with infection in the seed structure. First of all, the seed coat disappeared with the infection. The thickness of the seed coat of a healthy seed was measured as 28.2 ㎛, with a standard deviation of 1.2 ㎛. However, for infected seeds the gap between surface and endosperm was not appreciably observed. In addition, the measurements confirmed that the dryness of seeds did not affect the internal seed structure. The reconstructed three-dimensional (3D) image revealed that the permeability of the seed coat, which plays the vital role of protecting the seed, is also affected by the infection. These results suggest that FF-OCT has good potential for the identification of fungus-infected tomato seeds, and for many other tasks in agriculture.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.422-433
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a flew edge detection method based on water flow model, in which gradient image surface is considered as a 3-dimensional (3-D) geographical feature. The edges of the objects in the background can be detected by the large gradient magnitude areas and to make the edges immersed it is required to invert the gradient image. The proposed edge detector uses a water flow model based enhancement and locally adaptive thresholding technique applied to the inverted gradient image resulting in better noise performance. Computer simulations with a few synthetic and real images show that the Proposed method can extract edge contour effectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.124-138
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• 1998

Particles reinforced MMCs have many advantages over monolithic metals including a higher specific modulus, higher specific strength, better properties at elevated temperatures and better wear resistance. SiC$_p$/A16061 composites have good results in its mechanical properties. This work investigates SiC$_p$/A16061 composites in the microscopic view and compares the analytical results with the experimental ones. The discrepancy of the material properties between the reinforced particle, SiC$_p$, and the matrix material, A16061 appears to be so significant. Especially the coefficient of thermal expansion(CTE) of A16061 is 5 times larger than that of SiC$_p$. Thermal residual stress in MMCs is induced at high temperatures. The shape of particle is various but the theoretical model is not able to consider the nonuniform shape. Particle distribution is not homogeneous in experimental specimen. However, it is assumed to be homogeneous in simulation model. The shapes of particles are assumed to be not only perfect global but hexahedral shapes. The types of particle distribution are two - simple cubic array(SC array) and face-centered cubic array(FCC array).

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.278-278
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• 2011

LCD 생산에 적용할 수 있는 대형 마그네트론 스퍼터 장비에서 공간적으로 불균일한 타겟 침식은 타겟의 사용 효율을 떨어뜨린다. 특히 직사각형의 외부 자석과 직선형태의 내부 자석 구조를 가진 마그네트론 스퍼터에서는 cross-corner 효과로 인해 국부적으로 일정 부분에 대한 상대적으로 높은 침식률이 문제가 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 국부적으로 자기장 세기를 바꾸는 시행착오를 통하여 실험적으로 문제를 해결하려는 방법이 있지만 비용 및 시간이 매우 많이 들어 전산모사를 통한 문제 해결 방법이 훨씬 유리하다. 우리는 몬테 카를로 방법에 기반한 3차원 입자 시뮬레이션을 통하여 마그네트론 스퍼터 장비를 모델링을 하였다. 직사각형의 외부와 직선형의 내부 자석 구조가 만들어 내는 정적인 공간 자기장의 분포는 OPERA3D를 이용하여 계산하였고, 플라즈마 입자들이 만들어내는 자기장에 의해 섭동영향을 받지 않는다고 가정하였다. 플라즈마 전기장 및 전하의 운동은 상호작용의 일관성이 유지되도록 계산하였다. 이온밀도의 공간분포는 내부 자석과 외부 자석 사이의 직선 부분 보다 cross-corner 효과가 일어나는 부분에서 상대적으로 더 높은 밀도분포를 보였다. 플라즈마 시뮬레이션을 통하여 얻은 타겟에 입사한 이온의 개수 및 속도에 대한 정보를 이용하여 타겟의 침식률을 계산하였다. 이러한 침식률을 계산하기 위한 시뮬레이션 기술은 산업용 대형 스퍼터 장비 연구 및 개발에 매우 효율적인 방법이 될 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry, and Cartography Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.295-299
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• 2010

The vertical photographs of the existing production role of aerial photogrammetry was sufficient for the purpose. The current variety of purposes, such as image maps are used. However, a 3-D stereoscopic mapping, three-dimensional modeling and obtaining the side information of objects are difficult with limitations. In this study, aerial polyhedral oblique imagery are used for obtaining the a vertical and the side information of buildings at the same time to get used to the urban information. The results of this study, various urban information was available, the existing vertical photos can overcome the limitations of the techniques.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.144-148
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• 2008

The size and surface effects on the magnetism of a fcc Fe (001) surface was investigated by performing firstprinciples calculations on 3, 5, 7, and 9 monolayers fcc Fe (001) single slabs with two different two-dimensional lattice constants, ${\alpha}=3.44{\AA}$ (System I) and 3.65 ${\AA}$ (System II), using the all-electron full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method within a generalized gradient approximation. The surface layers were coupled ferromagnetically to the subsurface layer in both systems. However, the magnetism of the inner layers was quite different from each other. While all the inner layers of System II were ferromagnetically coupled in the same way as the surface layer, the inner layers of System I showed a peculiar magnetism, bilayer antiferromagnetism. The calculated spin magnetic moments per Fe atom were approximately 2.7 and 2.9 ${\mu}_B$ at the surface for Systems I and II, respectively, due to the almost occupied Fe d-state being in the majority spin state and band narrowing. The spin orientations of System I were out-of-plane regardless of its thickness, whereas the orientation of System II changed from out-of-plane to in-plane with increasing thickness.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.101-106
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• 2001

Air-cored superconducting synchronous generator(ASSG) is characterized by an air-cored machine with its rotor iron and stator iron teeth removed. For this reason, in the case of the shape optimum design of ASSG, other design variables different from an iron-cored machine should be considered, which will lead to substantial improvement on the performance. The major design variables that are considered by using Three-dimensional Finite element Method(3D FEM) in this paper are : 1) field coil width, 2) axial length of magnetic shield, and 3) armature winding method. End-ring of armature winding is considered in the calculation of EMF. When it comes to field coil width, as field coil width enlarges, its effective field increases but the maximum field on the superconductor decreases. this determines the critical current density. this study presents an effective field coil width, axial length of magnetic shield, and armature winding method, and also the analysis is verified by the experimental results.