• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.153-153
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• 2015

최근 지구온난화와 같은 기후변화로 인한 기상이변으로 홍수, 태풍 등이 빈번히 발생하면서 지면서 그로 인한 피해도 점점 증가하고 있으며, 이러한 기상 이변으로 인한 피해를 최소화 하기 위하여 기후변화가 수문량에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 그 중, 기후변화로 인한 강수현상의 변화를 분석하기 위한 방법 중 하나로 강수 현상이 주변 기후 요소의 분포에 영향을 받으며, 이를 바탕으로 강수현상에 영향을 미치는 기상인자를 통하여 강수를 분석하는 방법이 있다. 동으로는 태평양을 마주한 아시아 대륙 끝에 위치한 우리나라의 지형적 특성상, 강수 현상에 있어 대륙과 해양의 영향을 모두 받은 위치에 있다. 따라서 우리나라의 강수현상에 영향을 미치는 기상인자를 분석할 경우 대륙에서의 기상변화를 반영한 기상인자와 더불어 태평양에서의 기상변화를 반영한 모든 기상인자를 적용할 필요가 있다고 판단되어 본 연구를 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 우리나라 자료기간이 30년 이상인 주요 지점의 강수량 자료를 바탕으로 Empirical Mode Decomposition(EMD)을 이용하여 과거의 기후변화에 따른 강수량 변동성과 경향성에 대하여 분석하고, 이를 다양한 기상인자와의 지연상관관계를 분석함으로써, 기후변화에 따른 우리나라 강수량의 변동이 어느 요소에 민감한지를 판단해 보고, 상관관계가 높은 지연개월 수를 판단하여기상인자를 통한 강수량의 예측 가능성을 제시 하고자 한다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.323-336
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• 2011

The problem of reconstruction of complete building response from a limited number of response measurements is considered. The response at the intermediate degrees of freedom is reconstructed by using piecewise cubic Hermite polynomial interpolation in time domain. The piecewise cubic Hermite polynomial interpolation is preferred over the spline interpolation due to its trend preserving character. It has been shown that factorization of response data in variable separable form via singular value decomposition can be used to derive the complete set of normal modes of the structural system. The time domain principal components can be used to derive empirical transfer functions from which the natural frequencies of the structural system can be identified by peak-picking technique. A reduced-rank approximation for the system flexibility matrix can be readily constructed from the identified mass-orthonormal mode shapes and natural frequencies.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.395-404
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• 2008

We explore the linkage between the long term variability of the Sun and earth's climate change by analysing periodicities of time series of solar proxies and global temperature anomalies. We apply the power spectral estimation method named as the periodgram to solar proxies and global temperature anomalies. We also decompose global temperature anomalies and reconstructed total solar irradiance into each local variability components by applying the EMD (Empirical Mode Decomposition) and MODWT MRA (Maximal Overlap Discrete Wavelet Multi Resolution Analysis). Powers for solar proxies at low frequencies are lower than those of high frequencies. On the other hand, powers for temperature anomalies show the other way. We fail to decompose components which having lager than 40 year variabilities from EMD, but both residuals are well decomposed respectively. We determine solar induced components from the time series of temperature anomalies and obtain 39% solar contribution on the recent global warming. We discuss the climate system can be approximated with the second order differential equation since the climate sensitivity can only determine the output amplitude of the signal.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.231-246
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• 2017

A recent work by the authors has demonstrated the feasibility of scour evaluation for Kao-Ping-Hsi Cable-Stayed Bridge simply based on ambient vibration measurements. To further attain the goal of scour monitoring, a key challenge comes from the interference of several environmental factors that may also significantly alter the pier frequencies without the change of scour depth. Consequently, this study attempts to investigate the variation in certain modal frequencies of this bridge induced by several environmental factors. Four sets of pier vibration measurements were taken either during the season of plum rains, under regular summer days without rain, or in a period of typhoon. These signals are analyzed with the stochastic subspace identification and empirical mode decomposition techniques. The variations of the identified modal frequencies are then compared with those of the corresponding traffic load, air temperature, and water level. Comparison of the analyzed results elucidates that both the traffic load and the environmental temperature are negatively correlated with the bridge frequencies. However, the traffic load is clearly a more dominant factor to alternate the identified bridge deck frequency than the environmental temperature. The pier modes are also influenced by the passing traffic on the bridge deck, even though with a weaker correlation. In addition, the variation of air temperature follows a similar tendency as that of the passing traffic, but its effect on changing the bridge frequencies is obviously not as significant. As for the effect from the alternation of water level, it is observed that the frequency baselines of the pier modes may positively correlate with the water level during the seasons of plum rains and typhoon.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.60-68
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• 2017

Since the bridge is the main facility of the road that is the core of the civil infrastructure, the bridge is constructed to ensure stability and serviceability during the traffic use. In order to secure the safety of bridges, evaluating the integrity of bridges at present is an important task in the maintenance work of bridges. In general, to evaluate the load carrying capacity of bridges, it is possible to confirm the superimposed behavior and symmetric behavior of bridges by estimating the lateral load distribution factor of the bridges through vehicle loading tests. However, in order to measure the lateral load distribution factor of a commonly used bridge, a static loading test is performed. There is a difficulty in traffic control. Therefore, in this study, the static displacement component of the bridge measured in the dynamic loading test and the ambient vibration test was extracted by using empirical mode decomposition technique. The lateral load distribution was estimated using the extracted static displacement component and compared with the lateral load distribution factor measured in the static loading test.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2016.05a
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• pp.147-147
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• 2016

최근 기후변화로 인한 기상이변이 빈번히 발생하면서 그로 인한 피해도 점점 증가하고 있다. 이를 최소화하기 위해서는 기후변화가 강수에 미치는 영향에 대한 연구가 필요하며, 특히 강수의 기후변화를 고려한 장기적인 변동에 대한 예측이 매우 중요하다. 그 중, 기후변화로 인한 강수현상의 변화를 분석하기 위한 방법 중 하나로 강수 현상이 주변 기후 요소의 분포에 영향을 받는다는 가정 하에 기상인자를 통하여 강수를 예측하는 방법이 있다. 우리나라에 영향을 미치는 주변 기상인자들과 강수 간의 상관관계를 분석하여 상관관계가 높게 나타나는 기상인자를 통해 우리나라 강수량을 예측하면 장기적인 관점에서 강수 예측의 정확도를 높일 수 있다. 하지만 상관관계 분석에 있어서 강수 원 자료 와 기상인자간의 상관관계를 비교할 경우 원 자료가 가지는 큰 변동성으로 인해 정확한 상관관계 분석이 이루어지지 않을 가능성이 크다. 따라서 강수자료를 분해하여 분해된 요소별로 상관관계를 분석하여 분석의 정확도를 높일 필요가 있다. 다양한 자료 분해 방법중 경험적 모드분해법(Empirical Mode Decomposition, EMD)을 사용할 경우 자료의 분해에 있어서 주기성, 경향성에 따라 분해가 가능하며, 비정상성을 가지고 있는 시계열에 대해 효과적으로 분해가 가능한 장점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 30년 이상의 자료기간을 가지는 지점의 강수량 자료를 바탕으로 경험적 모드분해법을 이용하여 강수자료를 분해하고, 이를 다양한 기상인자와의 상관관계를 분석함으로써, 우리나라 강수량 변동과 연관이 있는 기상인자들을 선별하였다. 선별된 기상인지를 바탕으로 다중회귀분석을 수행하여 기상인자를 독립변수로 하는 강수 예측식을 구축하여 우리나라 강수의 예측 가능성을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.115-131
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• 2017

Classical flutter of wind turbine blades indicates a type of aeroelastic instability with fully attached boundary layer where a torsional blade mode couples to a flapwise bending mode, resulting in a mutual rapid growth of the amplitudes. In this paper the monitoring problem of onset of flutter is investigated from a detection point of view. The criterion is stated in terms of the exceeding of a defined envelope process of a specific maximum torsional vibration threshold. At a certain instant of time, a limited part of the previously measured torsional vibration signal at the tip of blade is decomposed through the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) method, and the 1st Intrinsic Mode Function (IMF) is assumed to represent the response in the flutter mode. Next, an envelope time series of the indicated modal response is obtained in terms of a Hilbert transform. Finally, a flutter onset criterion is proposed, based on the indicated envelope process. The proposed online flutter monitoring method provided a practical and direct way to detect onset of flutter during operation. The algorithm has been illustrated by a 907-DOFs aeroelastic model for wind turbines, where the tower and the drive train is modelled by 7 DOFs, and each blade by means of 50 3-D Bernoulli-Euler beam elements.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.315-341
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• 2007

A sudden change of stiffness in a structure, associated with the events such as weld fracture and brace breakage, will cause a discontinuity in acceleration response time histories recorded in the vicinity of damage location at damage time instant. A new damage index is proposed and implemented in this paper to detect the damage time instant, location, and severity of a structure due to a sudden change of structural stiffness. The proposed damage index is suitable for online structural health monitoring applications. It can also be used in conjunction with the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) for damage detection without using the intermittency check. Numerical simulation using a five-story shear building under different types of excitation is executed to assess the effectiveness and reliability of the proposed damage index and damage detection approach for the building at different damage levels. The sensitivity of the damage index to the intensity and frequency range of measurement noise is also examined. The results from this study demonstrate that the damage index and damage detection approach proposed can accurately identify the damage time instant and location in the building due to a sudden loss of stiffness if measurement noise is below a certain level. The relation between the damage severity and the proposed damage index is linear. The wavelet-transform (WT) and the EMD with intermittency check are also applied to the same building for the comparison of detection efficiency between the proposed approach, the WT and the EMD.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.26-31
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• 2016

In this paper, we proposed a scheme to mitigate noises based on the EMD scheme for heterogeneous communication systems. Noise-corrupted data can be decomposed into a finite number of IMF components. Using the EMD method, we can mitigate noise with eliminate noise-corrupted IMF components. We proposed iteration stop rule for reduce EMD computation time. Simulation results show that proposed EMD scheme based on proposed algorithm for iteration stop rule efficiently mitigates 3 types of noise and reduces its computational time.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.45-54
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• 2007

Time/frequency analysis has been extensively used in biomedical signal processing. By extracting some essential features from the electro-physiological signals, these methods are able to determine the clinical pathology mechanisms of some diseases. However, this method assumes that the signal should be stationary, which limits its application in non-stationary system. In this paper, we develop a new signal processing method using Hilbert-Huang Transform to perform analysis of the nonlinear and non-stationary ventricular fibrillation(VF). Hilbert-Huang Transform combines two major analytical theories: Empirical Mode Decomposition(EMD) and the Hilbert Transform. Hilbert-Huang Transform can be used to decompose natural data into independent Intrinsic Mode Functions using the theories of EMD. Furthermore, Hilbert-Huang Transform employs Hilbert Transform to determine instantaneous frequency and amplitude, and therefore can be used to accurately describe the local behavior of signals. This paper studied for Return Of Spontaneous Circulation(ROSC) and non-ROSC prediction performance by Support Vector Machine and three parameters(EMD-IF, EMD-FFT) extracted from ventricular fibrillation ECG waveform using Hilbert-Huang transform. On the average results of sensitivity and specificity were 87.35% and 76.88% respectively. Hilbert-Huang Transform shows that it enables us to predict the ROSC of VF more precisely.