• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.127-140
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• 2010

This paper focuses on a number of criteria that enable controlling the influence of geometric simplification on the quality of finite element (FE) computations. To perform the mechanical simulation of a component, the corresponding geometric model typically needs to be simplified in accordance with hypotheses adopted regarding the component's mechanical behaviour. The method presented herein serves to compute an a posteriori indicator for the purpose of estimating the significance of each feature removal. This method can be used as part of an adaptive process of geometric simplification. If a shape detail removed during the shape simplification process proves to be influential on mechanical behaviour, the particular detail can then be reinserted into the simplified model, thus making it possible to readapt the initial simulation model. The fields of application for such a method are: static problems involving linear elastic behaviour, and linear thermal problems with stationary conduction.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.213-222
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• 2015

Early detection and precise location of leakage is of great importance for life-cycle maintenance and management of municipal pipeline system. In the past few years, acoustic emission (AE) techniques have demonstrated to be an excellent tool for on-line leakage detection. Regarding the multi-mode and frequency dispersion characteristics of AE signals propagating along a pipeline, the direct cross-correlation technique that assumes the constant AE propagation velocity does not perform well in practice for acoustic leak location. This paper presents an improved cross-correlation method based on wavelet transform, with due consideration of the frequency dispersion characteristics of AE wave and the contribution of different mode. Laboratory experiments conducted to simulate pipeline gas leakage and investigate the frequency spectrum signatures of AE leak signals. By comparing with the other methods for leak location identification, the feasibility and superiority of the proposed method are verified.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.125-133
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• 2004

In this paper, we present a new method that combines the characteristics of edge in-formation and second-order neural networks for the classification of structural textures. The edges of a texture are extracted using an edge detection approach. From this edge information, classification features called second-order features are obtained. These features are fed into a second-order neural network for training and subsequent classification. It will be shown that the main disadvantage of using structural methods in texture classifications, namely, the difficulty of the extraction of texels, is overcome by the proposed method.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.259-276
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• 2016

Historically the UK has been a pioneer and early adopter of experimental investigation techniques on new and operation structures, a technology that would now be descried as 'structural health monitoring' (SHM), yet few of these investigations have been enduring or carried out on the long span or tall structures that feature in flagship SHM applications in the Far East.

• 보존과학회지
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• 제23권
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• pp.53-65
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• 2008

안동 봉정사 대웅전 후불벽체의 제작기법 특성을 규명하기 위하여 벽체의 구조 및 재료적 특성을 자연과학적 방법을 활용하여 조사 분석하였다. 연구결과, 벽체의 구조 및 재료학적 특성이 규명되었으며 제작기법이 거시적인 차원에서 확인되었다. 대상벽체는 목부재를 중심으로 대칭을 이루는 맞벽의 구조를 취하고 있으며 초벽, 중벽, 화벽으로 구성되는 일반적인 벽체의 구조적 경향을 따르고 있는 것으로 판단된다. 제작과정에 따라 형성된 각각의 층위는 재료 및 제작기법의 차이를 보이며, 대체적으로 상부 층위일수록 세립의 물질이 사용된 것으로 확인되었다. 벽체의 형성에 사용된 주재료들과 첨가물질의 배합은 벽체내구력 및 보존력 향상에 기여한 것으로 판단되며, 보존력의 원인이 되는 물질간의 상호작용과 제작자의 세부적인 기법적 효과로 견고한 벽체가 형성된 것으로 보인다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.1183-1210
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• 2016

Viscoelastic sandwich structures (VSSs) are widely used in mechanical equipment, but in the service process, they always suffer from aging which affect the whole performance of equipment. Therefore, aging state recognition of VSSs is significant to monitor structural state and ensure the reliability of equipment. However, non-stationary vibration response signals and weak state change characteristics make this task challenging. This paper proposes a novel method for this task based on adaptive second generation wavelet packet transform (ASGWPT) and multiwavelet support vector machine (MWSVM). For obtaining sensitive feature parameters to different structural aging states, the ASGWPT, its wavelet function can adaptively match the frequency spectrum characteristics of inspected vibration response signal, is developed to process the vibration response signals for energy feature extraction. With the aim to improve the classification performance of SVM, based on the kernel method of SVM and multiwavelet theory, multiwavelet kernel functions are constructed, and then MWSVM is developed to classify the different aging states. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, different aging states of a VSS are created through the hot oxygen accelerated aging of viscoelastic material. The application results show that the proposed method can accurately and automatically recognize the different structural aging states and act as a promising approach to aging state recognition of VSSs. Furthermore, the capability of ASGWPT in processing the vibration response signals for feature extraction is validated by the comparisons with conventional second generation wavelet packet transform, and the performance of MWSVM in classifying the structural aging states is validated by the comparisons with traditional wavelet support vector machine.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.129-140
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• 2022

The effectiveness of system identification, damage detection, condition assessment and other structural analyses relies heavily on the accuracy and reliability of the measured data in structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. However, data anomalies often occur in SHM systems, leading to inaccurate and untrustworthy analysis results. Therefore, anomalies in the raw data should be detected and cleansed before further analysis. Previous studies on data anomaly detection mainly focused on just single type of data anomaly for denoising or removing outliers, meanwhile, the existing methods of detecting multiple data anomalies are usually time consuming. For these reasons, recognising multiple anomaly patterns for real-time alarm and analysis in field monitoring remains a challenge. Aiming to achieve an efficient and accurate detection for multi-type data anomalies for field SHM, this study proposes a pattern-recognition-based data anomaly detection method that mainly consists of three steps: the feature extraction from the long time-series data samples, the training of a pattern recognition neural network (PRNN) using the features and finally the detection of data anomalies. The feature extraction step remarkably reduces the time cost of the network training, making the detection process very fast. The performance of the proposed method is verified on the basis of the SHM data of two practical long-span bridges. Results indicate that the proposed method recognises multiple data anomalies with very high accuracy and low calculation cost, demonstrating its applicability in field monitoring.

• Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.253-260
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• 2015

Feature-based NC machining, which requires high quality of 3D CAD model, is widely used in machining aircraft structural part. However, there has been little research on how to automatically detect the CAD model errors. As a result, the user has to manually check the errors with great effort before NC programming. This paper proposes an automatic CAD model errors detection approach for aircraft structural part. First, the base faces are identified based on the reference directions corresponding to machining coordinate systems. Then, the CAD models are partitioned into multiple local regions based on the base faces. Finally, the CAD model error types are evaluated based on the heuristic rules. A prototype system based on CATIA has been developed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed approach.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2018

베어링은 많은 회전체에서 사용되는 핵심부품으로, 예기치 않은 고장을 방지하기 위해 많은 연구가 집중되고 있다. 이때 중요한 것은 되도록 초기에 건전성 상태를 잘 나타내는 적절한 특징신호를 추출하는 것이다. 그러나 기존의 연구들은 주로 진단관점에서 특징신호를 추출하여 고장예지에는 적합하지 않은 측면이 있었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 극복하기 위해 베어링 고장 주파수의 에너지와 시간 사이의 상관계수 가중 합을 이용하여 베어링 수명 예측에 용이한 특징신호를 추출하는 방법을 개발하였다. 그 결과 일반적으로 고장진단에서 많이 사용되고 있는 특징신호인 RMS에 비해서 결함 초기부터 단조로운 증가 경향의 특징신호를 추출함을 알 수 있었다. 이를 입증하기 위해서 NASA Ames에서 제공한 IMS bearing 진동 데이터를 이용하였고 제시한 특징신호와 일반적인 RMS와 의 거동을 비교하여 유효성을 검증하였다.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.561-567
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• 2013

음성 인식을 위해 추출되는 특징벡터 중 일부는 드물게 나타나는 특이 패턴이다. 이들은 음성인식 시스템의 훈련에서 파라미터의 과도맞춤을 일으키며, 그 결과 새로운 입력 패턴의 인식을 저해하는 구조적 위험을 초래한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 특이 패턴을 제거하는 하나의 방법으로서, 어느 크기 이상의 벡터를 제외시켜 음성인식 시스템의 훈련을 수행하는 방법에 대해 연구한다. 본 연구의 목적은 인식률을 저해시키지 않는 한도에서 가장 많은 특이 특징벡터를 제외시키는 것이다. 이를 위하여 우리는 하나의 절단 파라미터를 도입하고, 그 값의 변화가 FVQ(Fuzzy Vector Quantization)/HMM(Hidden Markov Model)을 사용한 화자독립 음성 인식에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 실험 결과, 인식률을 저하시키지 않는 특이 특징벡터의 수가 3%~6% 정도임을 확인하였다.