• Computers and Concrete
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.385-398
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• 2024

As concrete dominates the construction industry, alternatives to traditionally used steel reinforcement are being sought. This study explored the suitability of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) as a substitute within rigid frames, focusing on its impact on section ductility and overall structural durability against seismic events. However, current design guidelines address quasi-static loads, leaving a gap for dynamic or extreme circumstances. Our approach included multiscale simulations, parametric study, and energy dissipation analyses, drawing upon a unique adaptation of modified compression field theory. In our efforts to optimize macro and microparameters to improve yield strength, manage brittleness, and govern failure modes, we also recognized the potential of CFRP's high corrosion resistance. This characteristic of CFRP could significantly reduce the frequency of required repairs, thereby contributing to enhanced durability of the structures. The research reveals that CFRP's durability and seismic resistance are attributed to plastic joints within compressed fibers. Notably, CFRP can impart ductility to structural designs, effectively balancing its inherent brittleness, particularly when integrated with quasi-brittle materials. This research challenges the notion that designing bendable components with carbon fiber reinforcement is impractical. It shows that creating ductile bending components with CFRP in concrete is feasible despite the material's brittleness. This funding overturns conventional assumptions and opens new avenues for using CFRP in structural applications where ductility and resilience are crucial.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.376-385
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• 2013

There are conflicts about energy price increase among government, producer, and consumer. The supplier insists on price increase for escaping running a deficit and business continuity, but the consumer concerns about worsening profitability and price rise. This study investigates the effects of energy rate increase on national economy using input-ouput(I-O) analysis. This study attempts to analyze the effects of national economy due to Coke and hard-coal, Naphtha, Gasoline, Kerosene, Light oil, Heavy oil, Liquefied petroleum gas, Electric utilities, Manufactured gas supply and Steam and hot water supply (using input-output table for the year 2011, Korea.) The results of the sectoral price changes due to a 10% increase in energy price that is obtained from the Leontief price model are presented in article. The result of this analysis is presented: The impact of the 10% increase in electricity rate on the general price level is estimated to be 0.2196%. In case of Kerosene, the impact is 0.1222%. It shows that Electric utilities are approximately 18 times larger price inducing effect as Kerosene. Also, this study indicates 3 years results sequentially to make it possible to observe trend. Then, study suggests balancing price by making each energy source adjusted.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.29-36
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• 2013

In wireless sensor networks, energy is the most important consideration because the lifetime of the sensor node is limited by battery. Most of the existing energy efficient routing protocols use the minimum energy path to minimize energy consumption, which causes an unbalanced distribution of residual energy among nodes. As a result, the power of nodes on energy efficient paths is quickly depletes resulting in inactive. To solve these problems, a method to equalize the energy consumption of the nodes has been proposed, but do not consider the link error rate in the wireless environment. In this paper, we propose a uniform energy consumption of cluster-based multi-hop routing mechanism considering the residual energy and the link error rate. This mechanism reduces energy consumption caused by unnecessary retransmissions and distributes traffic evenly over the network because considering the link error rate. The simulation results compared to other mechanisms, the proposed mechanism is energy-efficient by reducing the number of retransmissions and activation time of all nodes involved in the network has been extended by using the energy balanced path.

• Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.84-91
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• 2002

A new composite control method for a carriage balancing single inverted pendulum system is proposed and applied to swing up the pendulum and to stabilize it under the state constraint. The target inverted pendulum system has an extremely limited length of the cart(below 16cm). The proposed swing-up controller comprises a sliding mode control algorithm and an optimal control algorithm based on two regions: the region near the inverted unstable equilibrium position and the rest of the state space including the downward stable equilibrium position. The sliding mode controller uses a switching control action to converge along the specified path(hyperplane) derived from energy equation from a state around the path to desired state(standing position). An optimal control method is also used to guarantee the stability at unstable equilibrium position. Compared with the reported controllers, it is simpler and easier to implement. Experimental results are given to show the effectiveness of this controller.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.379-381
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• 2005

Ad hoc 네트워크에서 노드의 한정된 에너지 용량은 개설 경로의 수명과 안정성에 많은 영향을 미치는 요소이다. 따라서 이러한 에너지 한계를 극복하기 위한 다양한 power-aware 라우팅 프로토콜들이 네트워크 계층에서 제안되고 있으며, 이들 라우팅 프로토콜들은 기본적으로 노드의 배터리 잔량 에너지와 전송 전력량을 경로 탐색 과정에서 반영한다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 power-aware 라우팅 프로토콜보다 개설 경로의 동작시간을 높이고 전체 네트워크의 부하균등을 이를 수 있도록 하는 새로운 라우팅 프로토콜을 제안하며 TPR(Traffic load based power-aware routing protocol)로 명명한다. TPR은 NS-2를 이용한 성능 평가를 통해 전체 네트워크의 부하 균등과 개설 경로의 수면, 안정성 측면에서의 개선점을 확인한다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.145.1-145.1
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• 2010

현재 운송수단의 주 동력원으로 사용되고 있는 내연기관은 연료로 사용되는 석유로부터 온실가스가 발생하기 때문에 지구 환경악화의 주범으로 작용하기 때문에 교토 의정서에 의해 많은 제재를 받고 있으며, 이 문제를 해결하기 위해서 다양한 종류의 하이브리드 제품으로 대체하고자 하는 연구개발이 세계 각국에서 활발히 진행되고 있다. 한국은 저탄소 녹색성장이라는 기치하에 2012년 까지 2000만대의 자전거 보급과 세계3대 자전거 생산국으로 발전한다는 비전을 제시하여 향후 자전거 산업이 비약적으로 발전할 것으로 예상되고 있다. 이와 같은 비전을 달성하기 위해서는 저가이면서 출력이 크고 수명이 긴 축전지의 개발이 필수적이며, 이와 더불어 축전지의 성능 발휘를 위해서 이것을 제어할 수 있는 battery management system(BMS)의 개발도 같이 이루어져야 한다. 리튬 배터리의 성능이 우수한 것은 익히 알려진 사실이지만, 고가이기 때문에 소비자들의 부담이 적지 아니하다. 따라서 혁신적인 기술이 개발되어 저가의 배터리를 사용하기 전까지는 납축전지도 같이 사용될 것이며, 본 과제에서는 이와 같은 납 축전지의 수명을 연장시킬 수 있는 BMS를 개발하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.592-598
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• 2018

In wireless sensor networks where there is no centralized base station, each node has limited transmission range and the multi-hop routing for transmitting data to the destination is the one of the important technical issues. In particular, the wireless sensor network is not powered by external power source but operates by its own battery, so it is required to maximize the network life through efficient use of energy. To balance the power consumption, the residual power based adaptive power control is required in routing protocol. In this paper, we propose a routing protocol that prolongs the network lifetime by balancing the power consumption among the nodes by controlling the transmit power according to the residual power. We evaluate the proposed routing protocol using extensive simulation, and the results show that the proposed routing scheme can balance the power consumption and prolong network lifetime.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.81-90
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• 2008

This paper presents an investigation of a voltage and frequency controller for an isolated asynchronous generator (IAG) driven. by a wind turbine and supplying 3-phase 4-wire loads to the isolated areas where a grid is not accessible. The control strategy is based on the indirect current control of the VSC (voltage source converter) using the frequency PI controller. The proposed controller consists of three single-phase IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Junction Transistor) based VSC, which are connected to each phase of the IAG through three single phase transformers and a battery at their DC link. The controller has the capability of controlling reactive and active powers to regulate the magnitude and frequency of the generated voltage, harmonic elimination, load balancing and neutral current compensation. The proposed isolated system is modeled and simulated in MATLAB using Simulink and PSB (Power System Block-set) toolboxes to verify the performance of the controller.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.1223-1234
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• 2018

In this paper, a new three-port multidirectional DC-DC converter is proposed for integrating an energy storage system (ESS) to a bipolar DC microgrid (BPDCMG). The proposed converter provides a voltage-balancing function for the BPDCMG and adjusts the charge of the ESS. Thanks to the multi-functional operation of the proposed converter, the conversion stages of the system are reduced. In addition, the efficiency and weight of the system are improved. Therefore, this converter has a significant capability when it comes to use in portable BPDCMGs such as electric DC ships. The converter modes are analyzed and small-signal models of the converter in each of the independent modes are extracted. Finally, comprehensive simulation studies are carried out and a BPDCMG laboratory prototype is implemented in order to verify the performance of the proposed voltage balancer using the burst mode control scheme.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10e
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• pp.40-42
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• 2002

이동 애드혹 네트워크의 경우, 이동 노드들은 자신의 데이터를 처리하는 기능 이외에 다른 노드의 데이터를 전달하는 기능을 하게 된다. 이러한 기능을 수행하기 위하여 노드는 더 많은 에너지를 소비하게 되므로, 에너지 소비량이나 에너지 균형과 같은 에너지 관련문제가 중요한 관심 분야로 조명되고 있다. 이에 관련된 연구들은 최적으로 에너지 균형을이루는 경로를 찾기 위한 방법에 관한 것이었다. 그러나 기존의 연구들은 데이터 통신 중간의 에너지 균형에 대해서는 고려하지 않고 있으며, 본 논문에서는 이 문제를 해결하기 위해노드 경고 알고리즘 (NOAL)을 제안한다. NOAL에서, 데이터를 전달하는 중간 노드들은 자신의 에너지 보유량을 검사하여 기준 값 이하일 경우, 자신의 에너지 정보를 다른 노드들에게 알리게 된다 이는 다른 노드들로부터 자신에게 더 이상의 데이터를 보내지 않도록 하며,자신은 데이터 전달에 의한 에너지 소모량을 줄일 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 NOAL을 이용하여 LEAR with NOAL (LENOAL) 을 제안한다. 실험을 통해서 결과를 산출했으며, 본 논문에서 제시한 알고리즘이 에너지 균형을 21-36% 정도 향상시킬 수 있음을 보여준다.