• Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.211-230
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• 2008

Owing to the growing size of the eigenvalue problem and the growing number of eigenvalues desired, solution methods of iterative nature are becoming more popular than ever, which however suffer from low efficiency and lack of proper convergence criteria. In this paper, three efficient iterative eigenvalue algorithms are considered, i.e., subspace iteration method, iterative Ritz vector method and iterative Lanczos method based on the cell sparse fast solver and loop-unrolling. They are examined under the mode error criterion, i.e., the ratio of the out-of-balance nodal forces and the maximum elastic nodal point forces. Averagely speaking, the iterative Ritz vector method is the most efficient one among the three. Based on the mode error convergence criteria, the eigenvalue solvers are shown to be more stable than those based on eigenvalues only. Compared with ANSYS's subspace iteration and block Lanczos approaches, the subspace iteration presented here appears to be more efficient, while the Lanczos approach has roughly equal efficiency. The methods proposed are robust and efficient. Large size tests show that the improvement in terms of CPU time and storage is tremendous. Also reported is an aggressive shifting technique for the subspace iteration method, based on the mode error convergence criteria. A backward technique is introduced when the shift is not located in the right region. The efficiency of such a technique was demonstrated in the numerical tests.

• 한국지하수토양환경학회지:지하수토양환경
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.114-127
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• 2016

An increase of groundwater flux in BHE system creates that ground temperature (locT) becomes lower in summer and higher in winter time. In other words, it improves significantly the performance of BHE system. The size of thermal plume made up by advection driven-flow under the balanced energy load is relatively small in contrast to the unbalanced energy load where groundwater flow causes considerable change in the size of thermal plume as well ground temperature. The ground temperatures of the up gradient and down gradient BHEs under conduction only heat transport are same due to no groundwater flow. But a significant difference of the ground temperature is observed between the down gradient and up gradient BHE as a result of groundwater flow-driven thermal interference took placed in BHE field. As many BHEs are designed under the obscure assumption of negligible groundwater flow, failure to account for advection can cause inefficiencies in system design and operation. Therefore including groundwater flow in the design procedure is considered to be essential for thermal and economic sustain ability of the BHE system.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.233-241
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• 2005

Ursolic acid (UA), a bioactive triterpene acid, has been known to increase collagen content in human skin in addition to other actions such as anti-inflammatory, skin-tumor prevention and anti-invasion. However, it is poorly soluble in water. Therefore, we firstly prepared microemulsion system with benzyl alcohol, ethanol and Cremophor EL, RH 40 and Brij 35 as surfactant in order to increase solubility of UA and then prepared microemulsion was dispersed in o/w cream base for the topical delivery of UA in an effort to improve anti-wrinkle effect. The pseudo-ternary phase diagrams were developed and various microemulsion formulations were prepared using benzyl alcohol as an oil, Cremophor EL, RH 40 and Brij 35 as a surfactant. The droplet size of microemulsions was characterized by dynamic light scattering. The accumulation of VA in the skin from topical cream was evaluated in vitro using hairless mouse skins. The mean droplet size was $26.8{\pm}6.6$ nm for microemulsions II with Cremophor EL. All UA creams showed pseudoplastic flow and hysterisis loop in their rheogram, depending on the type of materials added in topical creams. The in vitro accumulation data demonstrated the UA topical cream prepared with the combination of Poloxamer 407 and Xanthan gum as a copolymer showed higher accumulation percentage than those prepared with either Poloxamer 407 or Xanthan gum. These results suggest that UA topical cream using microemulsion systems may be promising for the topical delivery of UA.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.119-133
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• 1998

To implement full automation in pipe welding, it si most important to develop special sensors and their related systems which act like human operator when detecting irregular groove conditions. In this study, an automatic pipe Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW) system was proposed to full control pipe welding procedure with intelligent sensor systems. A five-axes manipulator was proposed for welding torch to automatically access to exact welding position when pipe size and welding angle were given. Pool status and torch position were measured by using a weld-pool image monitoring and processing technique in root-pass welding for weld seam tracking and weld pool control. To overcome the intensive arc light, pool image was captured at the instance of short circuit of welding power loop. Captured image was processed to determine weld pool shape. For weld seam tracking, the relative distance of a torch position from the pool center was calculated in the extracted pool shape to move torch just onto the groove center. To control penetration of root pas, gap was calculated in the extracted pool image, and then weld conditions were controlled for obtaining appropriate penetration. welding speed was determined with a fuzzy logic, and welding current and voltage were determined from a data base to correspond to the gap. For automatic fill-pass welding, the function of human operator of real time weld seam control can be substituted by a sensor system. In this study, an arc sensor system was proposed based on a fuzzy control logic. Using the proposed automatic system, root-pass welding of pipe which had gap variation was assured to be appropriately controlled in welding conditions and in torch position by showing sound welding result and good seam tracking capability. Fill-pass welding by the proposed system also showed very successful result by tracking along the offset welding line without any control of human operator.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.229-240
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• 2015

In this study, nanocrystalline ferrite powders with the composition $Ni_{0.5}Zn_{0.5}Fe_2O_4$ were prepared by the autocombustion method. The obtained powders were sintered at $800^{\circ}C$, $900^{\circ}C$ and $1,000^{\circ}C$ for 4 h in air atmosphere. The as-prepared and the sintered powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and magnetization studies. An increase in the crystallite size and a slight decrease in the lattice constant with sintering temperature were observed, whereas microstrain was observed to be negative for all the samples. Two significant absorption bands in the wave number range of the $400cm^{-1}$ to $600cm^{-1}$ have been observed in the FT-IR spectra for all samples which is the distinctive feature of the spinel ferrites. The force constants were found to vary with sintering temperature, suggesting a cation redistribution and modification in the unit cell of the spinel. The M-H loops indicate smaller coercivity, which is the typical nature of the soft ferrites. The observed variation in the saturation magnetization and coercivity with sintering temperature has been attributed to the role of surface, inhomogeneous cation distribution, and increase in the crystallite size.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.337-343
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• 2020

Oxide dispersed strengthened (ODS) steel is an important candidate for Gen-IV reactors. Oxide embedded in Fe can help to trap irradiation defects and enhances the strength of steel. It was observed in this study that the size of oxide has a profound impact on the depinning mechanism. For smaller sizes, the oxide acts as a void; thus, letting the dislocation bypass without any shear. On the other hand, oxides larger than 2 nm generate new dislocation segments around themselves. The depinning is similar to that of Orowan mechanism and the strengthening effect is likely to be greater for larger oxides. It was found that higher shear deformation rates produce more fine-tuned stress-strain curve. Both molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and BKS (Bacon-Knocks-Scattergood) model display similar characteristics whereby establishing an inverse relation between the depinning stress and the obstacle distance. It was found that (110)_oxide || (111)_Fe (oriented oxide) also had similar characteristics as that of (100)_oxide || (111)_Fe but resulted in an increased depinning stress thereby providing greater resistance to dislocation bypass. Our simulation results concluded that critical depinning stress depends significantly on the size and orientation of the oxide.

• 분석과학
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.195-203
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• 1995

Fe-5.7% Al 합금에 탄소 및 미량 합금원소를 첨가하고 그 제진특성 변화를 결정립 크기 및 자기적 특성과 관련하여 관찰하였으며, 탄소의 거동을 XRD 및 EDS로 조사하였다. 이 합금은 강자성형 제진 양상을 나타냈고, 제3원소 첨가는 그 SDC를 악화시키며 특히 탄소는 현저하였다. 제진 특성은 결정립 크기와는 직접적인 상관관계가 없었고, 자기이력곡선 면적은 상관관계가 있었다. 탄소가 이 합금의 제진특성을 악화시키는 원인은 고용탄소에 의한 $90^{\circ}$ 자구벽의 고착이 주원인이었으며, 탄화물도 자구벽의 이동을 방해할 것이므로 제진특성에 악영향을 미치는 것으로 해석되었다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제44권7호통권361호
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• pp.29-34
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• 2007

본 논문은 전력증폭기의 크기를 줄이고 선형성을 개선하기 위한 새로운 광전자밴드갭 (PBG) 구조를 제시하였다. 제안된 구조는 비평면 제조 공정을 요구하지 않는 유전체 판위에 패턴을 뜬 2차원의 규칙적인 격자이다. 실험 결과를 통해서 보면, 이 구조는 접지 평면에 세 개의 셀을 식각시킨 기본적인 PBG와 distorted uniplanar compact_PBG (DUC_PBG)보다 더 넓은 저지대역과 더 높은 저지 특성을 갖는다. 이 새로운 PBG 구조는 선형성 개선을 위하여 전력증폭기에 적용되어 질 수 있다. 새로운 PBG 구조를 이용한 전력증폭기의 3차 혼변조 왜곡 (IMD3)은 코드분할 다중접속 (CDMA) 응용에서 -36.16 dBc이다. 제안된 PBG 구조가 없는 전력증폭기와 비교했을 때, 개선된 IMD3는 -13.49 dBc이다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.40-46
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• 2005

본 논문은 공정변화를 검출하여 회로에 반영 및 보상하는 드레인 정규화 검출 (regulated drain detection) 방식과 차동 VCO에 적용하는 기법을 제안하였으며, 제안된 방식과 기법을 검증하기 위하여 저 전압 차동 PLL을 제작하여 그 성능을 검증하였다. 제안된 드레인 정규화 검출 방식과 이를 차동적으로 응용하여 설계된 저-지터 차동 PLL은 실제로 $0.18{\mu}m$ 1-폴리 3-메탈 공정으로 제작되었으며 공정변화에 따른 여러 가지 공정 코너 (corner)에 대한 VCO의 동작을 다양한 모의실험을 통하여 검증하였다. 제작된 PLL은 80MHz - 240MHz의 동작범위를 가지며 전체 die size는 내부 루르필터를 포함하여 $330{\mu}m\;{\times}\;380{\mu}m$이다. 1.8V 공급전압 일때 모든 동작주파수에 대한 트랙킹 지터 특성은 150psec peak-to-peak 이하로 안정적인 성능을 보였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.209-220
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• 1997

직접위성방송(DBS)은 해상에까지 광범위한 방송서비스를 제공할 수 있는 매우 유용한 매체이다. 그러나 해상에서의 DBS 수신장치는 선박의 운항이나 동요의 상태에 관계없이 안테나가 위성을 계속 추적해야 하는 복잡한 제어장치를 필요로 한다. 본 연구는 한반도 연 근해를 항해하는 선박에서 Koreasat의 DBS를 수신할 수 있는 장치의 개발이 목표였으며, 특히 소형선박에 쉽게 탑재하고 사용할 수 있도록 다른 항법장비와 연계됨이 없이 장치의 독립적인 운용형태로 설계하였고 소형, 경량, 저가격화에 중점을 두었다. 그러므로 한반도 연·근해에서 koreasat의 탐색과 추적조건을 분석하고 이에 적합한 Az/El 2축 마운트를 설계하여 제작하였으며, 스텝트랙(step track) 방식에 의한 추적과 각속도 센서를 이용한 마운트의 동요보정 기능을 연구하였다. 실험을 위하여 장치를 탑재할 수 있는 선박운동 시뮬레이터를 제작하여 목표치의 동요를 구현하고, 추적과 동요보정에 따른 수신상태를 측정, 분석하면서 실험적으로 최적의 알고리즘을 구현하였다.