• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.233-240
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• 2009

Using a spatial compound imaging technique in a medical ultrasound imaging system, the average speed of sound in a medium of interest is measured, and imaging of its distribution is implemented. When the brightness reaches the highest level in an ultrasonic image obtained as the speed of sound used in focusing is varied, it turns out that the focusing has been accomplished satisfactorily and that the speed of sound which has been adopted becomes the sought-after average speed of sound. Because spatial compound imaging provides many different views of the same object, the adverse effect of erroneous speed-of-sound estimation tends to be more severe in compound imaging than in plain B-mode imaging. Thus, in compound imaging, the average speed of sound even in the case of speckled images can be accurately estimated by observing the brightness change due to different speeds of sound employed. Using this new method that offers spatial diversity, we can construct an image of the speed of sound distribution in a phantom embedded with a 10-mm diameter plastic cylinder whose speed of sound is different from that of the background. The speed of sound in the cylinder is found to be different from that of the surrounding medium.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.382-385
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• 2009

Efforts to reduce noise in industrial application fields, such as automobiles, aircrafts, and plants have been gaining considerable attention while a sound proof wall to protect people from the noise has been intensively investigated by many researchers. In this study, our research group suggested creating a new sound proof wall composed of scrap aluminum chips and perforated plates in a commercial polyester sound proof wall, which was then successfully fabricated. This wall's sound absorption characteristics were measured by an impedance tube method. The sound absorption property was evaluated by measuring the Noise Reduction Coefficient (NRC) to the standard, ASTM C 423-90a. The noise reduction coefficient of the sound proof wall composed of 3.5 vol.% and 7.5 vol.% of scrap aluminum chips relatively increased to 5% and 8% compared to the commercial polyester sound proof wall. The scrap aluminum perforated plate also relatively increased to 13% compared to the commercial polyester sound proof wall.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.83-92
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• 2000

Sound intensity method is well known as a visualization technique of sound field or sound propagation in noise control. Sound intensity or energy flux is a vector quantity which describes the amount and the direction of net flow of acoustic energy at a given position. Especially two dimensional sound intensity method is very useful in evaluating periodic characteristics and acoustic propagation mode of noise source. In this paper, we have studied the noise source Identification, acoustic sound field analysis, and characteristics of noise source of rotary compressor and scroll compressor for air conditioner using complex sound intensity method. Also we proposed a now method of time domain analysis which is used in evaluating of position of noise source in rotary and scroll compressor in this paper This paper presents the advantage, simplicity and economical efficiency of this method by analysing the characteristics of noise source with two dimensional complex sound intensity simultaneously.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제50권3호
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• pp.186-192
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• 2022

This study examined the utility of pine (Pinus densiflora) pollen cones as an environmentally friendly material with sound-absorbing properties. Pine pollen cone samples with widths of 0.8-1.2 cm and lengths of 3.5-4.5 cm were prepared. After filling impedance tubes to heights of 6, 8, 10, or 12 cm with the pine pollen cones, the sound absorption coefficient of the pine pollen cones was investigated. The peak sound absorption frequency of the samples with a thickness of 6 cm was reached at 1,512 Hz; however, this value shifted to 740 Hz in samples with a thickness of 12 cm. Therefore, the sound-absorbing performance of pine pollen cones at low frequencies improved as the material thickness increased. According to KS F 3503 (Korean Standards Association), the sound absorption grade of pine pollen cones ranges from 0.3 to 0.5 M, depending on the material thickness of the pine pollen cones. In conclusion, the pine pollen cones demonstrated good sound absorption properties. They, thus, may be considered an environmentally friendly sound-absorbing material.

• Educational Technology International
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.101-144
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• 2012

Students mostly precede their learning without any direct support of instructor in e-learning and mobile educational environment. Many useful strategies and tools to facilitate self-regulated learning behaviors in e-learning environment have been introduced, yet, the limit has been reached by only suggesting self-regulated strategies with visual information in the most researches. Accordingly, this research is intent to propose the sound design strategies that facilitate learner's self-regulated learning behaviors in mobile learning environment. To achieve the objective of the research, two research questions are presented. First, what are the sound design strategies that facilitate the self -regulated learning behaviors in mobile learning environment?. Second, what are the results of evaluating the developed sound design strategies in terms of facilitating self-regulated learning behaviors?. To solve these research questions, the literature reviews on characteristics of mobile learning, concepts and features of self-regulated learning and sound were done to establish the sound design strategies. Through formative research method targeting instructional designers, sound design strategies were modified and supplemented. The research to validate these was performed and to verify the effect of the derived sound design strategies, the usability test aimed at instructional designer and learners was conducted. The final sound design strategies through this research process were six general design strategies and the sixteen detailed strategies. This research is meaningful because this offers the basic research on sound information design which has been lacking and help upgrade the upper limit of instructional design which mainly focused on visual information in mobile learning environment that shows information in a small screen.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.40-43
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 연속 마스킹과 같은 효과가 기준음보다도 선행되는 음(선행음)과 후속되는 음(후속음)이 음상정위에 미치는 영향을 레벨차 및 시간차(Inter Stimuli Interval : ISI)에 의한 변화를 청취실험을 하고 그 결과에 대하여 검토를 하였다. 기준음의 제시시간은 2ms이며 후속음 및 선행음의 제시시간은 10ms로 두었다. 제시음은 1kHz 정현파이며 좌우 귀에 도달하는 시간차(Interaural Time Difference : ITD)는 0.5ms로 두었다. 레벨차는 0, -10, -15, -20dB로 두어 제시하였다. 실험결과 선행음이 후속음보다도 음상정위에 크게 영향을 미치고 있음을 알았다. 그리고 선행음의 영향은 ISI의 값에 의존하고 ISI의 값이 작을 때 음상정위에 미치는 영향의 차가 있음을 알았다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.195-202
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• 2016

In this study, a concept of active sound enrichment (ASE) control system was implemented and demonstrated for improving engine sound quality inside the cabin of a passenger car during acceleration. Unlike the active noise control cancels the noise for disturbance rejection, the ASE adds additional sound to the noise for tracking control. This approach requires a new algorithm to provide additional artificial sound to the original engine sound using active control strategy to achieve a target sound profile, which is predefined to satisfy required interior sound quality. The ASE algorithm was implemented in a digital controller dSPACE DS1401 and real-time control experiment was accomplished in an actual car. The ASE control results show that the actively enriched sound of each engine order against RPM tracks the target profiles precisely and quickly and improves the discontinuity, the level ratios and the sound pressure level of each engine order. Thus it is anticipated the ASE system can be applied for the improvement of the engine sound quality inside the cabin during acceleration.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.25-34
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• 2009

사운드는 가상현실 및 컴퓨터 애니메이션에서 사용자의 현실감 및 집중도를 높이기 위한 중요한 요소이다. 최근에 컴퓨터 그래픽스 분야에서도 연구자들이 사운드 관련 연구들에 관심을 가지고 여러 컴퓨터 그래픽스 학술지와 학회에 주목할만한 연구결과들이 발표되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 컴퓨터 그래픽스 분야에서 소개된 논문들을 중심으로, 컴퓨터 그래픽스에서 관심을 가지는 사운드 연구의 주제에 대하여 알아보고 중요성을 가지는 논문들을 소개한다. 특히 본 논문에서는 다음 두 가지 분야의 논문들을 소개한다. 첫째, 사운드를 물리적으로 합성함으로써 그래픽스의 물리 법칙에 동기화되는 사운드를 생성하는 것이다. 둘째, 음원에서 나오는 사운드가 사람에게 들리는 음향적 환경을 모델링하는 것이다. 사운드에 대한 연구에서 주된 관심은 이러한 음향학적인 물리법칙을 더욱 효율적으로 모델링하여 적은 자원으로도 실제적인 사운드 효과를 발생할 수 있는지에 대한 것이다. 이러한 관점을 중점으로 다양한 사운드 관련 논문들을 살펴보고 컴퓨터 그래픽스와의 관계를 살펴보도록 한다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.6993-6997
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• 2014

본 연구의 목적은 자성유체 스피커의 보이스 코일 방열 및 음질 저하 문제를 극복하기 위하여 무향실내에서 자성유체 스피커의 음 왜곡률, 음압레벨 및 주파수 특성과 같은 음질 성능 특성을 고찰하는 것이다. 이를 위하여 자성유체 스피커에서 자성유체 주입량 및 영구자석 자력을 변화시켜가면서 음압 성능을 측정하였다. 그리고 스피커의 음 왜곡률, 음압레벨 및 주파수 특성은 음향시스템 측정 프로그램인 Smarrt를 이용하여 측정하였다. 결과적으로, 자성유체의 주입량은 2.4 ml로 결정되었고, 자성유체를 주입할 경우 음 왜곡률 및 음압레벨은 향상되었다. 자성유체 스피커에서 영구자석의 자력을 8.06 mT에서 9.10 mT로 증가시킬 경우 주파수 특성 및 음압레벨은 더욱 향상되었다. 또한, 자성유체 스피커의 음 왜곡률은 일반 스피커에 비하여 약 0.01% 감소하였다.

• International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.105-113
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• 2003

This study developed a practical two-microphone impedance tube method to measure the sound transmission loss of sound isolation materials without the use of an expensive reverberation room or an acoustic intensity probe. In order to evaluate the validation and applicability of the two-microphone impedance tube method, sound transmission losses for several sound isolation materials with different surface density and bending stiffness were measured, and the measured values were compared with the results from the reverberation room method and the theory. From the experimental results, it was found that the accuracy of sound transmission loss obtained by the impedance tube method depends upon the diameter size of the impedance tube (i.e., tested sample size). For sound isolation materials having relatively large bending stiffness such as acryl, wood, and aluminum plates, it was found that the impedance tube method proposed by this study was not valid to measure the sound transmission loss. On the other hand, for sound isolation materials having relatively small bending stiffness such as rubber, polyvinyl, and asphalt sheets, the comparisons of transmission loss between the results from the impedance tube method and the theory showed a good agreement within the range of the frequencies satisfying the normal incidence mass law. Therefore, the two-microphone impedance tube method proposed by this study can be an effective measurement method to evaluate the sound transmission loss for soft sound isolation sheets having relatively small bending stiffness.