• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.2107-2119
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• 2022

Accurate remaining useful life (RUL) prediction for critical components of nuclear power equipment is an important way to realize aging management of nuclear power equipment. The electric gate valve is one of the most safety-critical and widely distributed mechanical equipment in nuclear power installations. However, the electric gate valve's extended service in nuclear installations causes aging and degradation induced by crack propagation and leakages. Hence, it is necessary to develop a robust RUL prediction method to evaluate its operating state. Although the particle filter(PF) algorithm and its variants can deal with this nonlinear problem effectively, they suffer from severe particle degeneracy and depletion, which leads to its sub-optimal performance. In this study, we combined the whale algorithm with regularized particle filtering(RPF) to rationalize the particle distribution before resampling, so as to solve the problem of particle degradation, and for valve RUL prediction. The valve's crack propagation is studied using the RPF approach, which takes the Paris Law as a condition function. The crack growth is observed and updated using the root-mean-square (RMS) signal collected from the acoustic emission sensor. At the same time, the proposed method is compared with other optimization algorithms, such as particle swarm optimization algorithm, and verified by the realistic valve aging experimental data. The conclusion shows that the proposed method can effectively predict and analyze the typical valve degradation patterns.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권4호
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• pp.1189-1198
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• 2021

When performing remote tasks using robots in nuclear power plants, a 3D shape measurement system is advantageous in improving the efficiency of remote operations by easily identifying the current state of the target object for example, size, shape, and distance information. Nuclear power plants have high-radiation and underwater environments therefore the electronic parts that comprise 3D shape measurement systems are prone to degradation and thus cannot be used for a long period of time. Also, given the refraction caused by a medium change in the underwater environment, optical design constraints and calibration methods for them are required. The present study proposed a method for developing an underwater 3D shape measurement system with improved radiation tolerance, which is composed of commercial electric parts and a stereo camera while being capable of easily and readily correcting underwater refraction. In an effort to improve its radiation tolerance, the number of parts that are exposed to a radiation environment was minimized to include only necessary components, such as a line beam laser, a motor to rotate the line beam laser, and a stereo camera. Given that a signal processing circuit and control circuit of the camera is susceptible to radiation, an image sensor and lens of the camera were separated from its main body to improve radiation tolerance. The prototype developed in the present study was made of commercial electric parts, and thus it was possible to improve the overall radiation tolerance at a relatively low cost. Also, it was easy to manufacture because there are few constraints for optical design.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.613-626
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• 2022

Guaranteeing the quality and integrity of structural health monitoring (SHM) data is very important for an effective assessment of structural condition. However, sensory system may malfunction due to sensor fault or harsh operational environment, resulting in multiple types of data anomaly existing in the measured data. Efficiently and automatically identifying anomalies from the vast amounts of measured data is significant for assessing the structural conditions and early warning for structural failure in SHM. The major challenges of current automated data anomaly detection methods are the imbalance of dataset categories. In terms of the feature of actual anomalous data, this paper proposes a data anomaly detection method based on data-level and deep learning technique for SHM of civil engineering structures. The proposed method consists of a data balancing phase to prepare a comprehensive training dataset based on data-level technique, and an anomaly detection phase based on a sophisticatedly designed network. The advanced densely connected convolutional network (DenseNet) and Transformer encoder are embedded in the specific network to facilitate extraction of both detail and global features of response data, and to establish the mapping between the highest level of abstractive features and data anomaly class. Numerical studies on a steel frame model are conducted to evaluate the performance and noise immunity of using the proposed network for data anomaly detection. The applicability of the proposed method for data anomaly classification is validated with the measured data of a practical supertall structure. The proposed method presents a remarkable performance on data anomaly detection, which reaches a 95.7% overall accuracy with practical engineering structural monitoring data, which demonstrates the effectiveness of data balancing and the robust classification capability of the proposed network.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.137-142
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• 2022

해마다 야생동물이 인간의 거주지에 출몰하는 횟수가 증가하여 재산 및 인명 피해가 증가하고 있다. 특히, 고속도로나 농가에 야생동물이 출몰하는 경우에 그 피해가 더 심하다. 이런 문제점을 해결하기 위해 고속도로에는 생태통로와 유도펜스를 설치하였다. 또한, 농가에서도 문제를 해결하기 위해 센서를 이용한 경적 퇴치기, 그물망 설치, 배설물로 퇴치 하는 등방법을 쓰고 있으나 고가의 비용이 들며 그 효과가 높지 않다. 본 논문에서는 AI 기반 영상분석 방법인 YOLO(You Only Live Once)를 이용하여 유해동물을 실시간 분석하여 오작동을 줄였고, 퇴치장치로 고휘도 LED와 초음파 주파수 스피커를 이용였다. 스피커는 동물들만 들을 수 있는 가청주파수를 출력하여 야생동물만 퇴치하도록 효율성을 높였다. 제안하는 시스템은, 경제적으로 설치할 수 있도록 범용 보드를 사용하여 설계되어 있으며 기존의 센서를 이용한 장치들보다 감지 성능이 높다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.655-668
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• 2023

In radiography, an antiscatter grid is a well-known device for eliminating unexpected x-ray scatter. We investigate a new stationary grid artifact suppression method based on a nonsubsampled contourlet transform (NSCT) incorporated with Gaussian band-pass filtering. The proposed method has an advantage that extracts the Moiré components while minimizing the loss of image information and apply the prior information of Moiré component positions in multi-decomposition sub-band images. We implemented the proposed algorithm and performed a simulation and an experiment to demonstrate its viability. We did this experiment using an x-ray tube (M-113T, Varian, focal spot size: 0.1 mm), a flat-panel detector (ROSE-M Sensor, Aspenstate, pixel dimension: 3032 × 3800 pixels, pixel size: 0.076 mm), and carbon graphite-interspaced grids (JPI Healthcare, 18 cm × 24 cm, line density: 103 LP/inch and 150 LP/inch, ratio: 5:1, focal distance: 65 cm). Our results indicate that the proposed method successfully suppressed grid artifacts by reducing them without either reducing the spatial resolution or causing negative side effects. Consequently, we anticipate that the proposed method can improve image acquisition in a stationary grid x-ray system as well as in extended x-ray imaging.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.609-616
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• 2008

국가경제력 향상과 함께 바다와 섬에 대한 관심이 높아지면서 육지와 섬, 섬과 섬을 연결하는 해상 장대교량이 많이 건설되고 있다. 장대교량은 현수교, 사장교, 아치교, 트러스교 등으로 대변할 수 있는데 그 중에서도 사장교는 주탑(Pylon)과 케이블(Cable), 보강형(Stiffened Girder)이 조화를 이루면서 외관이 아름다워 매력적인 교량형식의 하나로 최근 많이 계획되고 있다. 장력측정은 케이블에 설치한 가속도 센서로부터 케이블의 고유진동수 변화를 이용하는 간접법인 진동법을 적용하였다. 본 연구에서는 댐퍼 설치 케이블의 유효길이 산정식을 제안하였는데 이는 케이블의 유효길이 변화를 실측치와 해석값을 비교하여 분석한 것으로 기존의 유효길이 산정방법인 댐퍼와 정착단간의 순간격에 의한 것은 최종 케이블 장력값 추정에 있어서 신뢰도가 떨어짐을 확인할 수 있었다. 그러므로 향후 유지관리 단계에서는 본 연구에서 제안한 케이블의 유효길이 산정식을 활용하여 장력을 정확하게 파악하는 것이 케이블의 재긴장 및 교체시기 결정 등에도 합리적인 의사결정 자료로 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 인간식물환경학회지
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.655-665
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• 2020

Background and objective: This study was conducted to compare the cultivation environment, growth of cut flowers, and management performance of conventional farms and smart farms growing the standard cut chrysanthemum, 'Jinba'. Methods: Conventional and smart farms were selected, and facility information, cultivation environment, cut flower growth, and management performance were investigated. Results: The conventional and smart farms were located in Muan, Jeollanam-do, and conventional farming involved cultivating with soil culture in a plastic greenhouse, while the smart farm was cultivating with hydroponics in a plastic greenhouse. The conventional farm did not have sensors for environmental measurement such as light intensity and temperature and pH and EC sensors for fertigation, and all systems, including roof window, side window, thermal screen, and shading curtain, were operated manually. On the other hand, the smart farm was equipped with sensors for measuring the environment and nutrient solution, and was automatically controlled. The day and night mean temperatures, relative humidity, and solar radiation in the facilities of the conventional and the smart farm were managed similarly. But in the floral differentiation stage, the floral differentiation was delayed, as the night temperature of conventional farm was managed as low as 17.7℃ which was lower than smart farm. Accordingly, the harvest of cut flowers by the conventional farm was delayed to 35 days later than that of the smart farm. Also, soil moisture and EC of the conventional farm were unnecessarily kept higher than those of the smart farm in the early growth stage, and then were maintained relatively low during the period after floral differentiation, when a lot of water and nutrients were required. Therefore, growth of cut flower, cut flower length, number of leaves, flower diameter, and weight were poorer in the conventional farm than in the smart farm. In terms of management performance, yield and sales price were 10% and 38% higher for the smart farm than for the conventional farm, respectively. Also, the net income was 2,298 thousand won more for the smart farm than for the conventional farm. Conclusion: It was suggested that the improved growth of cut flowers and high management performance of the smart farm were due to precise environment management for growth by the automatic control and sensor.

• 생태와환경
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.105-123
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• 2018

우리나라의 수자원관련 인공위성 영상정보의 활용능력은 현재 선진국대비 20~30% 수준에 머무르고 있다. 지금까지 수자원분야에서 인공위성영상의 대부분의 활용은 수문모형의 입력자료로서 토지피복도를 사용하는 수준이다. 이 또한 2000년대 건설교통부 '유역조사사업'을 통하여 미국의 Landsat 영상을 활용하여 전국적으로 1975년부터 2000년까지 5년 간격의 기본적인 토지피복도 (USGS level 1~30 m 해상도)를 작성하여 이를 보급한 것으로부터 정착되었다 (국가수자원관리종합정보시스템 http://www.wamis.go.kr/). 2000년 이후로는 환경부가 토지피복도를 제작 공급하는 부처로 구분되어, 이후의 자료로는 2008년 10 m 해상도의 토지피복도가 구축되어 있다. 한편 2000년부터 위성영상을 획득하기 시작한 Terra/Aqua MODIS 위성은 영상정보 활용의 획기적인 전환점을 만들었다고 할 수 있다. 웹상에서 제공하는 다양한 수자원/수문관련 공간정보들이 거의 실시간으로 제공되고 있는 것이다. 공간해상도 또한 250~1,000 m 수준이라 수자원분야에는 충분히 활용이 가능하며, 상세화 (Downscaling) 기술을 개발하여 정보의 수준을 끌어올리기도 한다. 정부는 2005년 8월 국가과학기술위원회에서 '미래 국가유망기술 21'을 확정하였는데, 21개 핵심분야 중에서 공공성 (국가안위 위상제고)을 고려하여 "전지구 관측 시스템과 국가자원 활용"을 선정한 바 있다. 특히 '우주와 지구', '정보와 지식', '안전', '국토관리 및 사회인프라'기술분야에서 제안된 기술들 중에는 원격탐사기술을 중심으로 구성하여, 미래의 원격탐사기술이 수자원분야에 활용될 것을 고지한 바 있다. 이에 건설교통부는 2006년 5월 '국토이노베이션기술개발사업'을 추진하면서 건설교통 R&D 혁신로드맵의 "재해예방 및 감지기술 분야"에서 홍수재해 예방시 원격탐사기술이 큰 비중을 차지하는 것으로 제안한 바있다. 한편, 2013년에는 국토교통부 국토교통과학기술진흥원에서 '위성정보를 활용한 글로벌 수자원 감시, 평가, 예측시스템 개발'을 위한 기획을 거쳐 2014년 7월 '국토관측센서 기반 광역 및 지역 수재해 감시 평가 예측기술 개발 연구단 (2014~2019)'이 발족되었다. 기술개발 내용으로는 위성정보 기반의 수문기상인자 산출기술, 미계측유역 수자원변동 분석기술, 수문학적 가뭄감시 및 전망기술, 하천건천화 추적기술 등이 포함되어, 수자원분야에서 원격탐사기술의 획기적인 발전이 기대되고 있다. 또한, 정부는 2020년대에 수자원 전용위성을 쏘아올릴 계획을 가지고 있어, 인공위성영상을 활용한 연구는 급성장할 것으로 예상된다. 현재 원격탐사 기술개발을 위한 다양한 위성영상 분석소프트웨어 (PG-STEAMER, ERDAS, ER-MAPPER, IDRISI, ArcGIS 등)들이 적정한 가격으로 개발되어 있으므로, 분석툴에 대한 물리적인 환경은 갖추어져 있다고 볼 수 있다. 지난 30여년 동안 GIS를 이용한 다양한 수자원 관련연구가 정착되어 온 것과 마찬가지로, 이제 원격탐사관련 위성영상정보의 활용연구가 활성화되어 다양한 기술개발을 통한 수자원분야의 우주기술시대를 맞이하기를 기대해 본다.