• Journal of Audiology & Otology
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2020

Background and Objectives: Currently limited information is available on speech stimuli processing at the subcortical level in the recipients of cochlear implant (CI). Speech processing in the brainstem level is measured using speech-auditory brainstem response (S-ABR). The purpose of the present study was to measure the S-ABR components in the sound-field presentation in CI recipients, and compare with normal hearing (NH) children. Subjects and Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study, participants were divided in two groups: patients with CIs; and NH group. The CI group consisted of 20 prelingual hearing impairment children (mean age=8.90±0.79 years), with ipsilateral CIs (right side). The control group consisted of 20 healthy NH children, with comparable age and sex distribution. The S-ABR was evoked by the 40-ms synthesized /da/ syllable stimulus that was indicated in the sound-field presentation. Results: Sound-field S-ABR measured in the CI recipients indicated statistically significant delayed latencies, than in the NH group. In addition, these results demonstrated that the frequency following response peak amplitude was significantly higher in CI recipients, than in the NH counterparts (p<0.05). Finally, the neural phase locking were significantly lower in CI recipients (p<0.05). Conclusions: The findings of sound-field S-ABR demonstrated that CI recipients have neural encoding deficits in temporal and spectral domains at the brainstem level; therefore, the sound-field S-ABR can be considered an efficient clinical procedure to assess the speech process in CI recipients.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제86권3호
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• pp.291-309
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• 2023

This paper addresses the finite element modeling of functionally graded porous (FGP) beams for free vibration and buckling behaviour cases. The formulated finite element is based on simple and efficient higher order shear deformation theory. The key feature of this formulation is that it deals with Euler-Bernoulli beam theory with only three unknowns without requiring any shear correction factor. In fact, the presented two-noded beam element has three degrees of freedom per node, and the discrete model guarantees the interelement continuity by using both C⁰ and C¹ continuities for the displacement field and its first derivative shape functions, respectively. The weak form of the governing equations is obtained from the Hamilton principle of FGP beams to generate the elementary stiffness, geometric, and mass matrices. By deploying the isoparametric coordinate system, the derived elementary matrices are computed using the Gauss quadrature rule. To overcome the shear-locking phenomenon, the reduced integration technique is used for the shear strain energy. Furthermore, the effect of porosity distribution patterns on the free vibration and buckling behaviours of porous functionally graded beams in various parameters is investigated. The obtained results extend and improve those predicted previously by alternative existing theories, in which significant parameters such as material distribution, geometrical configuration, boundary conditions, and porosity distributions are considered and discussed in detailed numerical comparisons. Determining the impacts of these parameters on natural frequencies and critical buckling loads play an essential role in the manufacturing process of such materials and their related mechanical modeling in aerospace, nuclear, civil, and other structures.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.595-605
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• 2000

Dental ceramics have good aesthetics, biocompatibility, low thermal conductivity, abrasion resistance, and color stability. However poor resistance to fracture and shrinkage during firing process have been limiting factors in their use, particularly in multiunit ceramic restorations. A new method for making all-ceramic crowns that have high strength and low processing shrinkage has been developed and is referred to as the Vita In-Ceram method. This study was performed to investigate the effect of $CeO_2$ addition in borosilicate glasses on the strength of alumina-glass composites. Porous alumina compacts were prepared by slip casting and sintered at $1,100^{\circ}C$ for 2 hours. Dense composites were made by infiltration of molten glass into partially sintered alumina at $1,140^{\circ}C$ for 4 hours. Specimens were polished sequentially from #800 to #2000 diamond disk. and the final surface finishing on the tensile side was received an additional polishing sequence through $1{\mu}m$ diamond paste. Biaxial flexure test was conducted by using ball-on-three-ball method at a crosshead speed of 0.5mm/min. To examine the microstructural aspect of crack propagation in the alumina-glass composites, Vickers-produced indentation crack was made on the tensile surface at a load of 98.0 N and dwell time of 15 sec, and the radial crack patterns were examined by an optical microscope and a scanning electron microscope. The results obtained were summarized as follows; 1. The porosity rates of partially sintered alumina decreased with the rising of firing temperature. 2. The maximum biaxial flexure strength of 423.5MPa in alumina-glass composites was obtained with an addition of 3 mol% $CeO_2$ in glass composition and strength values showed the aspect of decrease with the increase of $CeO_2$ content. 3 The biaxial flexure strength values of alumina-glass composites were decreased with rising the firing temperature. 4. Observation of the fracture surfaces of alumina-glass composites indicated that the enhancement of strength in alumina-glass composites was due to the frictional or geometrical inter-locking of rough fracture surfaces and ligamentary bridging by intact islands of materials left behind the fracture front.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.52-61
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• 2010

1990년대 후반 이후 국내 건설폐기물의 발생량은 급격하게 증가하였으며, 이를 처리하기 위해 많은 노력을 기울인 결과 97%이상 재활용이 이루어지고 있다. 이 과정에서 폐콘크리트는 단순 파쇄를 통해 순환골재로 생산되고 있으며, 대부분 뒤채움재나 매움재 등 저급한 용도로 재활용되고 있는 실정이다. 그 이유는 골재와 모르타르의 단체분리가 원활히 이루어지지 않아 천연골재 대비 낮은 품질의 순환골재가 생산되기 때문이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 기존 순환골재 생산 공정의 문제점을 파악하기 위하여 기존 공정에서 대표적으로 사용되고 있는 파분쇄 장비를 이용한 폐콘크리트 파분쇄 실험을 통해 골재와 모르타르의 단체분리 특성을 분석하였다. 이 과정에서 골재와 모르타르의 단체분리 효율을 향상시키기 위하여 가열 전처리 방법을 도입하였으며, 우수한 단체분리 특성을 확인하였다. 파분쇄 실험 결과 기존 파분쇄 장비를 통해 생산된 순환골재는 골재와 모르타르의 계면을 따라 선택적인 파분쇄가 발생하지 않아 그 품질이 저하되었으며, 나아가 골재 자체가 충격을 받아 파괴가 일어나는 문제가 존재하였다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 골재와 모르타르의 계면에서의 선택적인 파분쇄를 유도시키는 새로운 분쇄 메커니즘인 gentle breakage를 도입하였으며, 이를 위한 기초 실험으로 폐콘크리트를 자유낙하시켜 순환골재를 생산한 결과 기존 파분쇄 장비에 비해 우수한 단체분리 특성을 확인하였다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.231-238
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• 2017

Rapid industrial development has led to a serious problem of pollution in the industrial sector. With the increasing social need for environmental protection, research on air pollution prevention equipment for reducing pollutants in industrial processes is actively being undertaken. The deterioration of existent, installed facilities, their increased emission rates, and the strengthening of the effluent quality standards make complying with permissible emission standards difficult. In fact, installing new electric precipitators or complementing existent facilities is inevitable. The expansion and complementation of the installed electrical precipitators have led to improvements in dust collection efficiency, shorter working times, and lower costs. Because of its easy installation and simple manufacturing process, the production method with the discharge electrode of an electric precipitator is widely used. The following conclusions were reached by classifying discharge electrodes into four types based on the production method and mutually comparing them by their dust collection efficiency. None of the four types used in this study were damaged by impact. However, we were able to confirm some strain from the compression sites of both type A and type B. Both type B and type C are expected to have greater dust collection efficiencies than the other models due to their large vibration transmissibility. Moreover, the high vibrational energy is expected to cause rapping damage during its operation. Particularly, in the case of type B, some of the strain was found at the end of the compression site. The coupling schemes of both type C and type D are out of vibration transmissibility. On the other hand, the ability to maintain straightness and solidity of the side is regarded as outstanding and stable. Type D has outstanding on-site workability, considering the presence of locking, structural stability, and work conditions. From these experiments, we determined that type C is the most ideal connection method of discharge electrode, considering its construction period of renovation. Type C is inferior to type D with regard to on-site workability. However, type C has outstanding dedusting transmission with regard to the straightness, solidity maintenance, and vibration of shearing stress.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.74-84
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 기존의 DLL 지연 시간 잠금 범위를 확장하기 위해 새로운 이중 루프 DLL을 제안하였다. 제안한 DLL은 Coarse_loop와 Fine_loop를 포함하고 있으며, 와부 클럭과 2개의 내부 클럭 사이의 초기 시간차를 비교하여 하나의 루프를 선택하여 동작하게 된다. 2개의 내부 클럭은 VCDL의 중간 출력 클럭과 최종 출력 클럭이며 두 클럭의 위상차는 $180^{\circ}$이다. 제안한 DLL은 일반적인 잠금 범위 밖에 있을 경우 Coarse_loop를 선택하여 잠금 범위 안으로 이전 시킨 후 Fine_loop에 의하여 잠금 상태가 일어난다. 따라서 제안한 DLL은 harmonic lock이 일어나지 않는 한 항상 안정적으로 잠금 과정이 일어날 수 있게 된다. 제안한 DLL이 사용하는 VCDL은 두 개의 제어 전압을 받아 지연 시간을 조절함으로 일반적인 다 적층 currentstarved 형태의 인버터 대신에 TG 트랜지스터를 이용하는 인버터를 사용하여 지연 셀을 구성하였다. 새로운 VCDL은 종래의 VCDL에 비하여 지연시간 범위가 더욱 확장되었으며, 따라서 제안한 DLL의 잠금 범위는 기존의 DLL의 잠금 범위보다 2배 이상 확장되었다. 본 논문에서 제안한 DLL 회로는 0.18um, 1.8V TSMC CMOS 라이브러리를 기본으로 하여 설계, 시뮬레이션 및 검증하였으며 동작 주파수 범위가 100MHz${\sim}$1GHz이다. 또한, 1GHz에서 제안한 DLL의 잠금 상태에서의 최대 위상 오차는 11.2ps로 높은 해상도를 가졌으며, 이때 소비 전력은 11.5mW로 측정되었다.