• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2017

It is necessary to develop an LED traffic light lens having a snow removal function capable of clearly providing a traffic signal to the driver even when a traffic light is blurred due to heavy snow and wind in the winter season. This study is focused on the research and development of the traffic light lens in the process of developing the LED traffic light with the snow removal function. In the developed traffic light lens, instead of attaching the film heater, the coated nichrome wire was wound into a coil shape and inserted directly into the groove in the lens. The developed heater system facilitates the insertion of the heating wire with high elasticity into a curved lens and can provide a sufficient heat without deformation of the PC lens. The proposed traffic lights were tested in various external environments and the test results showed that complete snow removal is possible without tunnel effect.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.485-500
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• 2016

Stay cables in some cable-stayed bridges suffer large amplitude vibrations under the simultaneous occurrence of rain and wind. This phenomenon is called rain-wind-induced vibration (RWIV). The upper rivulet oscillating circumferentially on the inclined cable surface plays an important role in this phenomenon. However, its small size and high sensitivity to wind flow make measuring rivulet size and its movement challenging. Moreover, the distribution of the rivulet along the entire cable has not been measured. This paper applies the videogrammetric technique to measure the movement and geometry dimension of the upper rivulet along the entire cable during RWIV. A cable model is tested in an open-jet wind tunnel with artificial rain. RWIV is successfully reproduced. Only one digital video camera is employed and installed on the cable during the experiment. The camera records video clips of the upper rivulet and cable movements. The video clips are then transferred into a series of images, from which the positions of the cable and the upper rivulet at each time instant are identified by image processing. The thickness of the upper rivulet is also estimated. The oscillation amplitude, equilibrium position, and dominant frequency of the rivulet are presented. The relationship between cable and rivulet variations is also investigated. Results demonstrate that this non-contact, non-intrusive measurement method has good resolution and is cost effective.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.365-378
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• 2011

Piezo-based active structural health monitoring (SHM) requires amplifiers specifically designed for capacitive loads. Moreover, with the increase in number of applications of wireless SHM systems, energy efficiency and cost reduction for this type of amplifiers is becoming a requirement. General lab grade amplifiers are big and costly, and not built for outdoor environments. Although some piezoceramic power amplifiers are available in the market, none of them are specifically targeting the wireless constraints and low power requirements. In this paper, a piezoceramic transducer amplifier for wireless active SHM systems has been designed. Power requirements are met by two digital On/Off switches that set the amplifier in a standby state when not in use. It provides a stable ${\pm}180$ Volts output with a bandwidth of 7k Hz using a single 12 V battery. Additionally, both voltage and current outputs are provided for feedback control, impedance check, or actuator damage verification. Vibration control tests of an aluminum beam were conducted in the University of Houston lab, while wireless active SHM tests of a wind turbine blade were performed in the Harbin Institute of Technology wind tunnel. The results showed that the developed amplifier provided equivalent results to commercial solutions in suppressing structural vibrations, and that it allows researchers to perform active wireless SHM on moving objects with no power wires from the grid.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집D
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• pp.654-659
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• 2001

A new non-contact method of the frost thickness measurement has been developed. The method is based on the digital image processing technique to identify the reflection edge of the image captured by a CCD camera under laser sheet light illumination. To insure the accuracy of frost layer thickness, an in-situ calibration procedure is carried out with a calibration target with 0.5mm holes. Using the mapping function obtained by the calibration procedure, the contour of frost surface can be estimated with sub-pixel resolutions. The developed method is applied to study the effect of cooling plate temperature on the frost thickness in a small low speed wind tunnel.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.425-436
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• 2015

This paper presents the procedures used for estimating the stability and control derivatives of a general aviation canard aircraft from flight data. The maximum likelihood estimation method which accounts for both process and measurement noise was used for the flight data analysis of a four seat canard aircraft, the Firefly. Without relying on the parameter estimation method, several aerodynamic derivatives were obtained by analyzing the steady state flight data. A wind tunnel test, a flight test of a 1/4 scaled remotely controlled model aircraft, and the prediction of aerodynamic coefficients using the USAF Stability and Control Digital Data Compendium (DATCOM), Advanced Aircraft Analysis (AAA), and Computer Fluid Dynamics (CFD) were performed during the development phase of the Firefly and the results were compared with flight determined derivatives of a full scaled flight prototype. A correlation between the results from each method could be used for the design of the canard aircraft as well as for building the aerodynamic database.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.1816-1821
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• 2001

Two-dimensional blow-down type supersonic wind tunnel was designed and built to investigate the transient behavior of the startup of a supersonic flow from rest. The contour of the divergent part of the nozzle was determined by the MOC calculation. The converging part of the nozzle, upstream of fille throat was contoured to make the flow uniform at the throat. The flow characteristics of the steady supersonic condition were visualized using the high-speed schlieren photography. The Mach number was evaluated from the oblique shock wave angle on a sharp wedge with halt angle of 5 degree. The measured Mach number was 2.4 and was slightly less than the value predicted by the design calculation. The initial transient behavior of the nozzle was recorded by a high-speed digital video camera with schlieren technique. The measured transition time from standstill to a steady supersonic flow was estimated by analyzing the serial images. Typical transition time was approximately 0.1sec.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.27-37
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• 1983

본(本) 연구(硏究)는 경기도(京畿道) 설계심의회(設計審議會)에서 천마산(天馬山) 청소년(靑少年) 심신수련장(心身修練場) 현수교(懸垂橋) 설계심의시(設計審議時) 현수교(懸垂橋)의 동적(動的) 거동(擧動)에 대한 설계미비(設計未備)의 원인(原因)이 아직도 체계화(體系化)되지 못한 우리 나라 현수교(懸垂橋)의 설계자료(設計資料)와 지침(指針)의 불비(不備)함에 그 동기(動機)를 얻어, 유한요소법(有限要素法)을 적용(適用)하여 현수교(懸垂橋)의 비틀림진동(振動)에 대한 고유진동수(固有振動數)와 이에 상응(相應)하는 고유진동형(固有振動形)을 구(求)하였다. 실제(實際)로 현수교(懸垂橋)의 일반적(一般的) 거동(擧動)은 수직(垂直) 수평면(水平面) 내(內)에서의 연성(連成)된 운동(運動)으로 표시(表示)되지만 사용목적(使用目的)에 부합(附合)하여 그 진폭(振幅)을 미소(微小)하도록 제한(制限)하면 수직(垂直) 비틀림 진동(振動)은 단독(單獨)으로 비연성화(非連成化)할 수 있으며, 이에 따라 해석하였다. 1973년 6월에 개통된 Streamlined Box-Girder Type인 남해대교(南海大橋)와 Lateral Bracing으로 이루어진 단경간의 천마산(天馬山)의 현수교(懸垂橋)의 설계자료(設計資料)를 이용하여 수치해(數値解)를 얻었으며, 천마산(天馬山) 현수교(懸垂橋)의 경우(境遇) 보조(補助) 보강(補强)케이블의 유무(有無)에 따른 고유진동수(固有振動數)와 진동형(振動形)을 구(求)하여 비교(比較) 검토(檢討)하였다. 보강(補强)케이블의 유무(有無)에 따라 초기의 진동수(振動數) 등에서는 그 영향이 매우 뚜렷하였으나, 진동형(振動形)이 복잡해짐에 따라 보강(補强)케이블의 영향은 미약했거나 또는 오히려 역효과를 가져왔다. 남해대교(南海大橋)에 있어서 유한요소기법(有限要素技法)과 전자계산기에 의해 본(本) 연구(硏究)에서 구한 고유진동수(固有振動數)와 남해대교(南海大橋) 건설지(建設誌)에 있는 Frequency Equation으로 구한 값 또는 풍동실험(風洞實驗)에 의한 결과(結果) 등과 비교(比較) 검토(檢討)하였으며, 비교(比較) 결과(結果) 좋은 일치(一致)를 보여주었다.