• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1067-1085
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• 2016

Nonstationary features existing in tropical storms have been frequently captured in recent field measurements, and the applicability of the stationary theory to the analysis of wind characteristics needs to be discussed. In this study, a tropical storm called Nakri measured at Taizhou Bridge site based on structural health monitoring (SHM) system in 2014 is analyzed to give a comparison of the stationary and nonstationary characteristics. The stationarity of the wind records in the view of mean and variance is first evaluated with the run test method. Then the wind data are respectively analyzed with the traditional stationary model and the wavelet-based nonstationary model. The obtained wind characteristics such as the mean wind velocity, turbulence intensity, turbulence integral scale and power spectral density (PSD) are compared accordingly. Also, the stationary and nonstationary PSDs are fitted to present the turbulence energy distribution in frequency domain, among which a modulating function is included in the nonstationary PSD to revise the non-monotonicity. The modulated nonstationary PSD can be utilized to unconditionally simulate the turbulence presented by the nonstationary wind model. The results of this study recommend a transition from stationarity to nonstationarity in the analysis of wind characteristics, and further in the accurate prediction of wind-induced vibrations for engineering structures.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.474-484
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• 2017

This paper studies the applicability of an efficient numerical model based on artificial neural networks (ANNs) to predict the dynamic responses of the wing structure of an airplane due to atmospheric turbulence in the time domain. The turbulence velocity is given in the form of a stationary Gaussian random process with the von Karman power spectral density. The wing structure is modeled by a classical beam considering bending and torsional deformations. An unsteady vortex-lattice method is applied to estimate the aerodynamic pressure distribution on the wing surface. Initially, the trim condition is obtained, then structural dynamic responses are computed. The numerical solution of the wing structure's responses to a random turbulence profile is used as a training data for the ANN. The current ANN is a three-layer network with the output fed back to the input layer through delays. The results from this study have validated the proposed low-cost ANN model for the predictions of dynamic responses of wing structures due to atmospheric turbulence. The accuracy of the predicted results by the ANN was discussed. The paper indicated that predictions for the bending moments are more accurate than those for the torsional moments of the wing structure.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.653-664
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• 2014

Wind fragility analysis provides a quantitative instrument for delineating the safety performance of civil structures under hazardous wind loading conditions such as cyclones and tornados. It has attracted and would be expected to continue to attract intensive research spotlight particularly in the nowadays worldwide context of adapting to the changing climate. One of the challenges encumbering efficacious assessment of the safety performance of existing civil structures is the possible incompleteness of the structural appraisal data. Addressing the issue of the data missingness, the study presented in this paper forms a first attempt to investigate the feasibility of using the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm and Bayesian techniques to predict the wind fragilities of existing civil structures. Numerical examples of typical linear or hysteretic shear frames are introduced with the wind loads derived from a widely used power spectral density function. Specifically, the application of the maximum a posteriori estimates of the distribution parameters for the story stiffness is examined, and a surrogate model is developed and applied to facilitate the nonlinear response computation when studying the fragilities of the hysteretic shear frame involved.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권7호
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• pp.2635-2649
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• 2022

CEFR is a small core-size sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) using high enrichment fuel with stainless-steel reflectors, which brings a significant challenge to the deterministic methodologies due to the strong spectral effect. The neutronic simulation of the start-up experiments conducted at the CEFR have been performed with a deterministic code system RAST-F, which is based on the two-step approach that couples a multi-group cross-section generation Monte-Carlo (MC) code and a multi-group nodal diffusion solver. The RAST-F results were compared against the measurement data. Moreover, the characteristic of neutron spectrum in the fuel rings, and adjacent reflectors was evaluated using different models for generation of accurate nuclear libraries. The numerical solution of RAST-F system was verified against the full core MC solution MCS at all control rods fully inserted and withdrawn states. A good agreement between RAST-F and MCS solutions was observed with less than 120 pcm discrepancies and 1.2% root-mean-square error in terms of k_eff and power distribution, respectively. Meanwhile, the RAST-F result agreed well with the experimental values within two-sigma of experimental uncertainty. The good agreement of these results indicating that RAST-F can be used to neutronic steady-state simulations for small core-size SFR, which was challenged to deterministic code system.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.297-307
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• 2022

Over the past few decades, the use of wind tunnels has been increasing as a result of the rapid growth of cities and the urge to build taller and non-typical structures. While the accuracy of a wind tunnel study on a tall building requires several aspects, the precise extraction of wind pressure plays a significant role in a successful pressure test. In this research study, a low-cost expandable synchronous multi-pressure sensing system (SMPSS) was developed and validated at Ryerson University's wind tunnel (RU-WT) using electronically scanning pressure sensors for wind tunnel tests. The pressure system consists of an expandable 128 pressure sensors connected to a compact data acquisition and a host workstation. The developed system was examined and validated to be used for tall buildings by comparing mean, root mean square (RMS), and power spectral density (PSD) for the base moments coefficients with the available data from the literature. In addition, the system was examined for evaluating the mean and RMS pressure distribution on a standard low-rise building and were found to be in good agreement with the validation data.

• 한국환경과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국환경과학회 2003년도 International Symposium on Clean Environment
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• pp.232-235
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• 2003

In general, the parameters of climate change include aerosol chemical compounds, aerosol optical depth, greenhouse gases(carbon dioxide, CFCs, methane, nitrous oxide, tropospheric ozone), ozone distribution, precipitation acidity and chemical compounds, persistent organic pollutants and heavy metals, radioactivity, solar radiation including ultra-violet and standard meteorological parameters. Over the last ten years, the monitoring activities of Korea regarding to the climate change have been progressed within the WMO GAW and ACE-Asia IOP programs centered at the observation sites of Anmyeon and Jeju Gosan islands respectively. The Greenhouse gases were pointed out that standard air quality monitoring techniques are required to enhance data comparability and that data presentation formats need to be harmonized and easily understood. Especially, the impact of atmospheric aerosols on climate depends on their optical properties, which, in turn, are a function of aerosol size distribution and the spectral reflective indices. Aerosol optical depth and single scattering albedo in the visible are used as the two basic parameters in the atmospheric temperature variation studies. The former parameter is an indicator of the attenuation power of aerosols, while the latter represents the relative strength of scattering and absorption by aerosols. For aerosols with weak absorption, surface temperature decreases as the optical depth increases because of the domination of backscattering. For aerosols with strong absorption, however, warming could occur as the optical depth increases. The objective of the study is to characterize the means, variability, and trends of Greenhouse gases and aerosol properties on a regional basis using data from its baseline observatories in Korea peninsula. A further goal is to understand the factors that control radiative forcing of the greenhouse and aerosol.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.121-131
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• 2023

Aiming at the problem that fatigue characteristics of metal roof rely on local physical tests and lacks the cyclic load sequence matching with regional climate, this paper proposed a method of constructing the fatigue load spectrum based on integration of wind load model, measured data of long-span metal roof and climate statistical data. According to the turbulence characteristics of wind, the wind load model is established from the aspects of turbulence intensity, power spectral density and wind pressure coefficient. Considering the influence of roof configuration on wind pressure distribution, the parameters are modified through fusing the measured data with least squares method to approximate the actual wind pressure load of the roof system. Furthermore, with regards to the wind climate characteristics of building location, Weibull model is adopted to analyze the regional meteorological data to obtain the probability density distribution of wind velocity used for calculating wind load, so as to establish the cyclic wind load sequence with the attributes of regional climate and building configuration. Finally, taking a workshop's metal roof as an example, the wind load spectrum is constructed according to this method, and the fatigue simulation and residual life prediction are implemented based on the experimental data. The forecasting result is lightly higher than the design standards, consistent with general principles of its conservative safety design scale, which shows that the presented method is validated for the fatigue characteristics study and health assessment of metal roof.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2005년도 춘계종합학술대회
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• pp.383-386
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• 2005

중국 대륙연안수(CCW;China Coastal Waters)는 해에 따라 다소 다르지만 보통 하계인 6월${\sim}$10월 사이에 제주도 주변해역에서 두드러지게 나타난다. 즉, 6월에 나타나기 시작하여 8월에 가장 큰 영향을 미치며 10월로 접어들면서 그 세력이 점차 소멸해간다. 1995년${\sim}$1999년 조사기간 중 중국대륙연안수는 1996년과 1999년에 매우 뚜렷하게 나타났다. 주성분분석을 하기 전의 해수면 편차와 해수면 온도의 위성 데이터 원 자료에 대한 파워스펙트럼 분석에서는 station b에서 연 주기(약 365일), 반년 주기(약180일)가 뚜렷하게 나타났지만, 주성분분석을 한 후에는 주기 특성이 다르게 나타났다. 해수면 편차에 대한 주성분분석에서의 파워스펙트럼 분석은 43일 주기가 가장 강하게 나타났고, 해수면 온도에 대한 주성분분석에서의 파워스펙트럼 분석은 250일 주기가 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 해수면 온도의 계절에 따른 온도분포는 다소 다르지만 황해 해역과 동지나 해역을 구분 짓는 뚜렷한 수온 경계를 이룬다. 이온도의 경계해역을 따라서 중국대륙연안수가 흐르는 것으로 사료된다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.41-49
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• 2022

본 연구는 미국영어 화자의 평균적 음향 스펙트럼 분포를 확보한 후 과학영재학교 재학생의 영어발화 양상을 비교하여 상대적으로 우수한 지적 역량을 갖춘 우리나라 과학영재들의 초분절적 영어 유창성 양상을 규명하고, 그 근접성 정도가 영재학교 학생의 영어 과목 정기고사 성취도와 어떤 관계성을 갖는지 탐구하고자 진행되었다. 불과 수 초에서 수십 초에 불과한 음성녹음 데이터 위주로 분석을 시행했던 종래의 연구와 달리 총 4시간에 달하는 미국영어 원어민 화자(남성 15명, 여성 15명)의 음성녹음 자료를 MATLAB(R2022a; The Math Works) 코드로 분석하여 20 -20,000 Hz 주파수 범위 내의 대역별로 장기 스펙트럼 음향에너지 분포값을 확보했으며, 이를 기준으로 과학영재학교 1학년 신입생 80명의 녹음데이터 LTASS(long-term average speech spectrum) 분석 수치와 비교한 결과, 영어 과목 학기말고사의 학업성취도 수준이 상위 30% 이내인 학생들의 표본을 제외하고는 미국영어 음향에너지 분포와의 근접성이 통계적으로 유미하지 않다고 밝혀졌다. 영재학교 입학 후 영어 성취도를 예측하기 위한 지표를 발견하기 위해 수용성 어휘크기검사(receptive vocabulary size test), 학기 중 복수 회 실시한 영어 어휘 형성평가 퀴즈 누적 점수, 공인 영어말하기시험(English Speaking Proficiency Test, ESPT) 성취도를 추가 변량으로 하여 정기고사 성취도와의 상관관계 분석 및 각 변량 간 선형 회귀분석을 시행하였는데, 대개 유년시절 완성되는 영어 유창성을 측정하는 ESPT보다는, 1학기 및 2학기 초 실시한 수용성 어휘크기검사 및 수과학 분야 저빈도 어휘 위주 형성평가 점수와의 통계적 유의성이 월등히 높다는 사실이 관찰되었다. 따라서, 본 연구로부터 확보된 이론적 기반을 토대로 국내 영재학교에서는 발음교육보다 과학영재를 주요 대상으로 한 전문적 수준의 저빈도어휘 교육이 보다 효과적인 교수 요목이라 추정할 수 있다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.165-172
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 국내 원자력발전소가 위치한 지역의 토양(영광, 울진, 고리, 고성, 월성)에 존재하는 휴믹산(HA)을 추출하여 각 시료의 원소성분 및 분광학적 방법(UV/Vis, IR, CPMAS $^{13}C$ NMR)을 이용한 물질 특성을 조사하였고, Aldrich HA과 함께 비교 분석하였다. 분자량 크기 분포의 차이는 한외여과법을 이용하여 조사하였다. 원소분석 결과, 울진 지역의 HA에서 가장 높은 산소 함량비를 보였으며, 고리와 고성지역의 HA에서 상대적으로 낮은 산소 함량비를 보였다(O/C: 0.51(UJHA) vs. 0.43(KRHA), 0.46(KSHA)). 분자량 크기 분포는 울진과 영광 지역의 HA가 고리와 고성 지역의 HA에 비하여 30,000 daltons이상의 고분자가 더 높게 존재함을 알 수 있었다. CPMAS $^{13}C$ NMR, UV/Vis., IR 등의 분광학적 특성분석 결과, 울진과 영광 지역의 HA가 고리, 고성 및 월성 지역의 HA에 비하여 상대적으로 높은 방향족성(aromaticity)과 산소 포함 작용기의 함량이 높은 특성을 보였다. 이상의 결과로 볼 때, 울진과 영광지역의 HA가 상대적으로 더 높은 휴믹화(humification) 단계의 물질 특성을 가짐을 알 수 있었으며, 금속이온과의 반응성이 더 높을 것으로 예측된다.