• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집A
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• pp.465-470
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• 2001

The adhesively-bonded joints considered in this investigation include single-lap joint and double-lap joint. For an adhesively bonded double-lap joint, end mismatch between the two cuter adherends(upper, lower) can not removed completely although it can be controlled within a manufacturing tolerance. This paper shows that the end mismatch introduces local bending and end mismatch affects the shear and peel stresses in the adhesive. The double-lap joint with an end mismatch is affected of adhesive thickness, material properties of adhesive and adherend etc. Also, we concluded that there are critical value of an end mismatch to provoke the interface fracture.

• International Journal of Vascular Biomedical Engineering
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.41-47
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• 2003

The patency rates of small diameter vascular grafts are disappointing because of the formation of thrombus and intimal hyperplasia. Among the various factors influencing the success of graft surgery, the compliance and the size of a graft are believed to be the most important physical properties of a vascular graft. Mismatch of compliance and size between an artery and a graft alters anastomotic flow characteristics, which may affect the formation of intimal hyperplasia. Among the hemodynamic factors influencing the development of intimal hyperplasia, the wall shear stress is suspected as the most important one. The wall shear stress distributions are experimentally measured near the end-to-end anastomosis models in order to clarify the effects of compliance and diameter mismatch on the hemodynamics near the anastomosis. The effects of radial wall motion, diameter mismatch and impedance phase angle on the wall shear rate distributions near the anastomosis are considered. Compliance mismatch generates both different radial wall motion and instantaneous diameter mismatch between the arterial portion and the graft portion during a flow cycle. Mismatch in diameter seems to be affecting the wall shear rate distribution more significantly compared to radial wall motion. The impedance phase angle also affects the wall shear rate distribution.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.206-209
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• 2016

This letter proposes a reconfigurable directional coupler that uses a variable impedance mismatch reflector to achieve high isolation characteristics in the antenna front end. The reconfigurable coupler consists of a directional coupler and a single-pole four-throw (SP4T) switch with different load impedances as a variable load mismatch reflector. Selection of the load impedance by the reflector allows cancellation of the reflected signal due to antenna load mismatch and the leakage from the input to isolation port of the directional coupler, resulting in high isolation characteristics. The performance of the proposed architecture in separating the received (Rx) signal from the transmitted (Tx) signal in the antenna front end was verified by implementing and testing the reconfigurable coupler at 917 MHz for UHF radio-frequency identification (RFID) applications. The proposed reconfigurable directional coupler showed an improvement in the isolation characteristics of more than 20 dB at the operation frequency band.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1302-1305
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• 2003

In this paper we analyzed the effect of compliance mismatch with respect to the thickness variation of elastic foundation(fatty tissue) in end-to-end anastomosis. This study considered the preliminary deformed shape induced by suturing in the anastomosis of coronary artery and PTFE with different diameters using simplified suturing model and the fatty tissue surrounding heart and coronary artery for more accurate result using finite element method. Area compliance(C$\sub$A/) was used to analyze the final deformed shape of the anastomotic part with respect to the thickness variation of fatty tissue under mean blood pressure, 100 mmHg(13.3kPa). The results obtained were as follows : 1. When the elastic foundation, assumed to be incompressive material, surrounded the grafts in anastomosis, the compliance mismatch of artery and PTFE was improved by 47∼72%. 2. As the initial diameter ratio(R$\sub$I/) became larger, the higher difference of compliance was induced in spite of elastic foundation surrounding grafts.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 추계학술대회논문집A
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• pp.442-447
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• 2001

A finite element analysis of end-to-end artery/PTFE anastomosis has been presented in this study to evaluate the distribution of compliance in the vicinity of the anastomosis due to any mismatch in compliance characteristics. But, In these studies it was assumed that the artery and PTFE have the simple cylindrical shape representing the fatty tissue surrounding the coronary artery. And the fatty tissue was considered as the elastic surrounding materials in the finite element analysis. The simulation results were obtained as follows : 1. A fatty tissue was effect to reduce the compliance mismatch in the vicinity of a artery/PTFE anastomosis of different material because a hypercompliant zone become narrorw and a compliance discrepancy decrease between the artery and the PTFE about 70%. And radial direction displacement distribution with respect to distance in the vicinity of a artery/PTFE anastomosis was similiar. 2. The variation of PTFE thckness reduce the compliance mismatch in the vicinity of a artery/PTFE anastomosis about 25%.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.143-150
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• 1994

Wall shear rate or stress is believed to be a major hemodynamic variable influencing atherosclerosis and artery-graft anastomic intimal hyperplasia. The purpose of this study is to verify the effects of radial wall motion, artery-graft compliance and diameter mismatch, and impedance phase angle on the wall shear rate distribution near an end-to-end artery-graft anastomosis model. The results show that radial wall motion of the elastic artery model lowers the mean wall shear rates under pulsatile flow condition by 15 to 20 % comparing to those under steady flow condition at the same mean flow rate. Impedance phase angle seems to have small effects on the mean and amplitude of the wall shear rate distribution. In order to study the effects of compliance and diameter mismatch on the wall shear rates, two models are studied-Model I has 6% and Model I has 6% and Model II has 11% smaller graft diameter. Divergent geometry caused by diameter mismatch near the distal sites reduces the mean wall shear rates significantly, and this low shear region is believed to be prone to intimal hyperplasia.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.165-174
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• 1992

Compliance mismatch across an end-to-end anastomosis was measured In the In vitro experimental setup. A 35mm camera was used and Image process was done in Gould/ DeAnza Image processor. The results showed that compliances of Penrose tubing and synthetic PTFE grafts were In good agreement with the previously reported In vivo data. PTFE grafts exhibited a nonlinear behavior with compliance decreasing with Increasing transmural pressure, whereas the compliance of the Penrose tubing remained relatively constant within the range of the pressures in which data were obtained. The lumen cross sections at the anastomosis were affected by the suture and the mismatch In compliance between the Penrose tubing and vascular grafts. The varla~lons In the lumen dtameter at the anastomosis was more pronounced with increasing transmural pressures. From the present study, it was clearly demonstrated that the compliance of prosthetic grafts Is much lower than that of the arteries. In addition to the hemodynamlc consequences, compliance mismatch across the anastomosis has been known to lead to Increased anastomotlc and suture stresses with resultant suture line dehlscence and false aneurysm formation. Thus, there are good hemodynamic reasons to suppose that Introduction of a less compliant arterial graft Into the arterial circulation wlll be damaging and that grafts should be made to match the elastic behavior of their host arteries as closely possible.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.593-599
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• 1999

수축절정기에 0.2mm, 0.4mm 두께의 소구경 인조혈관의 내경3.2mm의 동맥에 문합한 단단문합 주위의 유동과 구조해석을 동시에 수행하였다. 유동해석 결과 속도분포 및 벽단전률은 타 연구결과와 매우 유사하며 이론해와 매우 유사함을 보였다. 유동에 의해서 문합부 주위에 작용하는 응력은 문합부에 집중되며 이는 수십만 pa에 달했다. 또한 인조혈관과 동맥에 작용하는 원주방향의 응력을 이론해와 비교한 결과 서로 유사함을 보였으며 두께가 얇은 인조혈관을 사용하는 경우 문합부의 compliance mismatch 는 개선되나 반대로 응력은 더 많이 받음을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구를 통해서 유체에 의하여 혈관이 영향을 받는 심혈관계 현상을 연구하는데 있어서 이와 같은 유체-구조 상호작용을 고려하여 동시에 해결 하는 방법은 매우 유용할 것으로 생각된다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.34-41
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• 2003

Finite element analysis of end-to-end artery/PTFE anastomosis recently have been researched. But, these studies were carried out without the compensation for the error of finite element analysis and assumed the artery and PTFE as the simple cylindrical shape in spite of being the fatty tissue which covers the heart. Therefore, we performed the convergency study with respect to increasing the element numbers and considered the fatty tissue as the elastic foundation in the finite element analysis. The results are as fallow ： 1. An anastomosis with the thinner thickness and larger diameter PTFE than artery could reduce the compliance disagreement. 2. A fatty tissue was affected to reduce the compliance mismatch in the vicinity of anastomosis of different material. Therefore a hypercompliant zone become narrorw and a compliance discrepancy decrease between the artery and the PTFE about 70%. And radial displacement with respect to longitudinal direction of an artery and the PTFE anastomosis was similar to a sectional compliance.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.18-26
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 직접 변환 방식을 사용하는 RF 중계기에서 I/Q 불균형을 유발하는 파라미터를 분석하고 이를 추정하기 위한 방법에 대하여 연구하였다. 중계기에서는 RF 신호를 기저 대역으로 변환하는 수신단에서 실수부와 허수부의 진폭, 위상 불일치 및 필터 불일치가 발생하며 기저 대역 신호를 RF 신호로 변환하는 송신단에서 진폭과 위상의 불일치가 발생하게 된다. 이에 따라 중계기 구조에서 I/Q 불균형이 발생하는 요소를 순서대로 모델링 하고, 해당 파라미터를 추정하기 위한 송신단에서 수신단으로의 피드백 시험 구조를 제안하였다. 시험 송신 신호와 수신 신호의 비교를 통해 각 실수부와 허수부 신호 성분이 섞이면서 발생한 I/Q 불균형 요소를 추정할 수 있음을 기술하였으며, 추정한 파라미터를 이용하여 직접 변환 RF 중계기에서 I/Q 불균형 현상이 적절히 보상되었음을 확인하였다.