• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.33-42
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• 2009

뇌로부터 뉴런의 움직임을 탐지할 수 있는 폴리머 계열 기반의 유연한 뉴런 프로브가 개발되었다. 삽입 강도 증가를 위해서 5 ${\mu}m$ 두께의 생체 적합성이 우수한 금을 상하층 폴리머 사이에 전기도금 하였다. 개발된 뉴런 프로브는 실제 뇌 조직과 비슷한 강도를 지닌 젤에 조금의 균열도 없이 삽입되었다. 또한 기계적 잔류 스트레스 및 이로 인해 발생하는 뉴런 프로브의 휘어짐을 최소화하기 위하여 두 가지의 새로운 방법이 적용되었다; (1) 제작 완료 후 후열처리 과정을 통하여 잔류 스트레스를 최소화하는 방법 (2) 상하층을 서로 다른 물질로 제작하여 상호 간의 잔류 스트레스를 보상하는 방법. 위 두 가지의 방법을 적용한 후에는 제작된 직후 뉴런 프로브의 끝부분에서 보여졌던 휘어짐이 뚜렷하게 제거되었다. 전기적 특성 측정 결과 뉴런 프로브는 뇌로부터 뉴런의 신호를 기록하기에 적절한 임피던스 값을 가지고 있음을 보였으며 측정된 임피던스 값은 72시간 후에도 변함이 없었다. 또한 생체 외 신호 측정 실험 결과 제작된 프로브는 잔류 스트레스의 완전한 제거뿐만 아니라 우수한 신호 기록 능력을 보였다. 일주일 후에도 측정 결과에는 변함이 없었으며, 이는 제작된 전극이 생체 내에서 뉴런 파이어링(firing)으로부터 장기간의 안정적인 신호 기록의 가능성을 보인다고 할 수 있다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.250-263
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• 2001

The up and down speed of heddle frames that produce woven cloth by insertion of weft yarns between warp yarns has been increased recently much for productivity improvement, which induces higher inertial stresses and vibrations in the heddle frame. the heddle frame is required to reduce its mass because the heddle frame contributes the major portion of the stresses in the heddle frames during accelerating and decelerating. Conventional aluminum heddle frames have fatigue life of around 5 months at 550rpm due to their low fatigue flexural strength as well as low bending stiffness. In this work, since carbon/epoxy composite materials have high specific fatigue strength(S/p), high specific modulus(E/p), high damping capacity and sandwich construction results in lower deflections and higher buckling resistance, the sandwich structure composed of carbon/epoxy composite skins and polyurethane foam were employed for the high-speed heddle frame. The design map for the sandwich beams was accomplished to determine the optimum thickness and the stacking sequences for the heddle frames. Also the effects of the number of ribs on the stress of the heddle frame were investigated by FEM analyses. Finally, the high-speed heddle frames were manufactured with sandwich structures and the static and dynamic properties of the aluminum and the composite heddle frames were tested and compared with each other.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.205-212
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• 2022

This paper presents experimental measurements of the structural characteristics of a two-pad beam-type gas foil journal bearing and its rotordynamic performance for a high-speed motor-driven turbocompressor. The test bearing had two top foils and two beam foils, each with an arc length of ~180°. Each beam foil was etched to obtain 40 beams with six geometries of different lengths and widths. The insertion of beam foils into the bearing housing produces equivalent beam heights. The structural tests of the bearing with a non-rotating journal revealed a smaller bearing clearance and larger structural stiffness for the load-on-pad configuration than for the load-between-pads configuration. Rotordynamic performance measurements during driving tests up to 100 krpm demonstrated synchronous vibrations and subsynchronous vibrations with large amplitudes. The test was repeated after inserting the shim between the top foil and beam foil to reduce the bearing radial clearance. The reduced bearing clearance resulted in a reduction in the peak amplitude of the synchronous vibrations and an increase in the speed at which the peak amplitude occurred. In addition, the onset speed and amplitude of the subsynchronous vibrations were dramatically increased and diminished, respectively. The rotor coast-down tests at 100 krpm show that the reduction in the bearing clearance extends the time to rotor stop, thus implying an improvement in hydrodynamic pressure generation and a reduction in bearing frictional torque.