• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2015

In this paper, selection criterions on selection diversity are researched. The diversity is applied to the multiple antenna system based on wireless access in vehicular environment (WAVE) standard for rapid varying channel. Least squares (LS) based decision feedback equalizer (DFE) are used for channel equalization. Received signal is regenerated by means of the decision feedback path. In the selection diversity, the regenerated signal as well as the received signal is selected according to selection criterion. The decision feedback algorithm can follow the fast speed of WAVE fading channel. To control the tracking speed of the time-varying channel, simple low pass filter is used. Finally, the estimated channel value recovers the distorted payloads. Signal power before automatic gain control (AGC) in analog stage can be used as a selection criterion. In the digital stage, signal power after AGC, noise power after AGC, signal to noise ratio after AGC and cross-correlation method can be used as selection criterions. According to the simulation results, the performance of the selection diversity is improved in comparison with that of the combining diversity for the WAVE fading channel.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2002

램제트 연소기내의 복잡한 고속 유동의 가시화를 위해 two color PIV 기법을 개발하였다. Two color PIV 기법은 두 레이저 빔 사이의 시간 간격을 ㎲ 단위 이하로 조절할 수 있어 고속 유동에의 적용이 가능할 뿐 아니라, 기록된 필름에서의 색분리를 통하여 방향성의 분제를 해결할 수 있으며, 거의 완벽한 cross-correlation이 가능하여 signal-to-noise ratio가 상당히 증가한다는 장점을 갖게 된다. 본 연구에서는 램제트 엔진에 대한 기초 연구로서 양쪽 대칭의 공기 흡입구를 갖는 2차원 형태의 램제트 엔진 연소기를 제작하였고, two color PIV 기법을 이용하여 실험을 수행하였다. 흡입공기의 연소실내 유입각도와 연소시내 도움 위치에 따른 연소실 형상을 바꾸어가며 재순환 영역과 유입공기의 혼합과 같은 유동 특성을 분석하였다. 유입각도는 전체 유동장 뿐 아니라 재순환 영역의 크기와 재순환 영역내의 공기질량비에 상당한 영향을 끼치나, 도움 높이는 재순환 영역에 큰 영향을 주지 않는다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.34-44
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• 2017

Background: Monitoring terrestrial vegetation cover condition is important to evaluate its current condition and to identify potential vulnerabilities. Due to simplicity and low cost, point intercept method has been widely used in evaluating grassland surface and quantifying cover conditions. Field-based digital photography method is gaining popularity for the purpose of cover estimate, as it can reduce field time and enable additional analysis in the future. However, the caveats and uncertainty among field-based vegetation cover estimation methods is not well known, especially across a wide range of cover conditions. We compared cover estimates from point intercept and digital photography methods with varying sampling intensities (25, 49, and 100 points within an image), across 61 transects in typical steppe, forest steppe, and desert steppe in central Mongolia. We classified three photosynthetic groups of cover important to grassland ecosystem functioning: photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation, and bare soil. We also acquired normalized difference vegetation index from satellite image comparison with the field-based cover. Results: Photosynthetic vegetation estimates by point intercept method were correlated with normalized difference vegetation index, with improvement when non-photosynthetic vegetation was combined. For digital photography method, photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation estimates showed no correlation with normalized difference vegetation index, but combining of both showed moderate and significant correlation, which slightly increased with greater sampling intensity. Conclusions: Results imply that varying greenness is playing an important role in classification accuracy confusion. We suggest adopting measures to reduce observer bias and better distinguishing greenness levels in combination with multispectral indices to improve estimates on dry matter.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.305-312
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• 2018

Significant research efforts were undertaken to evaluate seismic performance of vertically irregular buildings on flat ground. However, there is scarcity of study on seismic performance of buildings on hill slopes. The present study attempts to investigate seismic behaviour of reinforced concrete irregular stepback building frames with different configurations on sloping ground. Based on extensive regression study of free vibration results of four hundred seventeen frames with varying ground slope, number of story and span number, a modification is proposed to the code based empirical fundamental time period estimation formula. The modification to the fundamental time period estimation formula is a simplified function of ground slope and a newly introduced equivalent height parameter to reflect the effect of stiffness and mass irregularity. The derived empirical formula is successfully validated with various combinations of slope and framing configurations of buildings. The correlation between the predicted and the actual time period obtained from the free vibration analysis results are in good agreement. The various statistical parameters e.g., the root mean square error, coefficient of determination, standard average error generally used for validation of such regression equations also ensure the prediction capability of the proposed empirical relation with reasonable accuracy.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.479-486
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• 2015

삼중 선 배열은 좌/우 구분된 표적 방위 탐지와 선 배열의 높은 지향지수와 같은 장점을 지닌다. 그러나 이를 구현하기 위해서는 선 배열 대비 높은 연산능력과 센서 간의 좁은 간격으로 인한 높은 센서 간 상관관계를 고려하여야 한다. 연산능력은 급격한 하드웨어의 발달로 다양한 적응빔형성 기법 / 신호처리 기법을 적용하기에 문제가 없으나, 적용 가능한 최적의 신호처리 기법을 파악하고 표적 탐지 능력을 향상시키기 위해서는 수중에서 운용하는 삼중 선 배열로 수신되는 잡음 신호에 대한 센서 간 상관관계에 대한 분석이 필수적으로 수행되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 동해에서 획득한 실험 데이터를 이용하여 삼중 선 배열을 구성하는 삼중 센서의 각 센서간 잡음 신호의 상관관계, 선형으로 나열된 삼중 센서 잡음 신호간 상관관계, 각 채널에서의 잡음 신호의 시변 특성 분석을 수행하였다. 도출된 결과를 바탕으로 삼중 선 배열의 특성을 고려한 빔형성 및 신호처리 기법에 필요한 정보를 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.95-103
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 cyclic shift diversity(CSD)가 적용된 프리앰블을 이용하는 MIMO-OFDM 기반의 IEEE 802.11n 무선랜 시스템을 위한 효율적인 심볼 동기 알고리즘을 제안한다. IEEE 802.11n 시스템에서는 다수개의 전송안테나를 통해 같은 프리앰블이 전송될 때 의도하지 않은 빔형성이 생성되는 것을 방지하고 송신안테나 다이버시티 이득을 얻기 위해 프리앰블에 CSD를 적용한다. 그런데, 이것은 수신단의 CSD 프리앰블의 cross-correlation 결과에서 다수개의 peak 값을 발생시키기 때문에, cross-correlation 방식을 이용하여 하나의 peak 위치를 검출한 후 심볼 동기를 수행하는 기존의 알고리즘을 이용할 경우 심볼 동기 오류가 발생되고, 패킷 검출과 AGC 완료 시점에 따라 심볼 동기의 성능이 좌우되는 문제를 발생시킨다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 CSD 프리앰블의 cross-correlation 특성, 패킷 검출과 AGC 완료 시점을 고려하여 LTS와 OFDM 심볼간의 경계 구역을 검출하는 기법과 신호 검출 시 임계점을 초과하는 지점의 정확도를 향상시킬 수 있는 재결정 모드 기법, 그리고 SNR별로 최적의 임계값을 적용할 수 있는 가변 임계값 기법 등으로 구성된 새로운 심볼 동기 알고리즘을 제안한다 제안하는 방식은 최대 주파수 오차가 존재하는 환경에서도 기존 방식에 비해 동기 실패율이 1%인 경우에는 4.3dB, 동기 실패율이 0.1%인 경우에는 18dB의 성능 향상을 이루는 것으로 나타났다. 이를 바탕으로, 제안하는 방식은 IEEE 802.11n 무선랜 시스템에 적합할 뿐만 아니라, CSD 프리앰블이 적용된 MIMO-OFDM 기반의 시스템에 확대 응용이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.336-346
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• 2021

The prediction of wave conditions is crucial in the field of marine and ocean engineering. Hence, this study aims to predict the significant wave height through machine learning (ML), a soft computing method. The adopted metocean data, collected from 2012 to 2020, were obtained from the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology. We adopted the feedforward neural network (FNN) and long-short term memory (LSTM) models to predict significant wave height. Input parameters for the input layer were selected by Pearson correlation coefficients. To obtain the optimized hyperparameter, we conducted a sensitivity study on the window size, node, layer, and activation function. Finally, the significant wave height was predicted using the FNN and LSTM models, by varying the three input parameters and three window sizes. Accordingly, FNN (W48) (i.e., FNN with window size 48) and LSTM (W48) (i.e., LSTM with window size 48) were superior outcomes. The most suitable model for predicting the significant wave height was FNN(W48) owing to its accuracy and calculation time. If the metocean data were further accumulated, the accuracy of the ML model would have improved, and it will be beneficial to predict added resistance by waves when conducting a sea trial test.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제77권5호
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• pp.637-650
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• 2021

The paper presents an investigation of the widely varying mechanical performance and behaviour of steel and Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) reinforced concrete beams using non-destructive techniques of Acoustic Emission (AE) and Digital Image Correlation (DIC) under four-point bending. Laboratory experiments are performed on both differently reinforced concrete beams with 0.33%, 0.52% and 1.11% of tension reinforcement against balanced section. The results show that the ultimate load-carrying capacity increases with an increase in tensile reinforcement in both cases. In addition to that, AE waveform parameters of amplitude and number of AE hits successfully correlates and picks up the divergent mechanism of cracking initiation and progression of failure in steel reinforced and GFRP reinforced concrete beams. AE activity is about 20-30% more in GFRP-RC beams as compared to steel-RC beams. It was primarily due to the lower modulus of elasticity of GFRP bars leading to much larger ductility and deflections as compared to steel-RC beams. Furthermore, AE XY event plots and longitudinal strain profiles using DIC gives an online and real-time visual display of progressive AE activity and strains respectively to efficaciously depict the crack evolution and their advancement in steel-RC and GFRP-RC beams which show a close matching with the micro-and macro-cracks visually observed in the actual beams at various stages of loading.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.65-75
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• 1993

본 연구는 규모가 큰 지진하중에 대한 해양 가이드 타워의 비정상과정 거동해법에 주안점을 두었으며, 아울러 작은 파랑이나 조류하중이 동시에 작용할 수 있는 경우도 고려하였다. 지진에 의한 지반운동의 비정상특성은 정상과정 성분에 지수함수의 시간포락함수를 곱하는 형태로 모형화하였다. 동적거동의 비정상과정 분산값을 해석적인 방법으로 산출하였다. 운동방정식에 계류장치의 비선형 복원력과 파동에 의한 비선형 점성저항력을 추계론적 최적화기법으로 선형화하여 동적해석을 수행하였다. 지진의 발생기간동안 예상되는 중급의 파랑하중에 의한 영향을 최대거동 산정시 고려하였다. 중급 파고조건에 대한 파랑하중은 지속기간이 상당히 길어서 정상과정으로 취급할 수 있으므로 이에 대해서는 주파수 영역해석을 사용하여 동적거동을 산출하고 이 결과를 지진에 의한 비정상과정거동에 반영하였다. 예제해석으로부터 비정상과정 해석방법을 검증하고, 지진과 파랑 및 조류하중의 각 성분이 전체응답에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.418-435
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• 2001

Root canal preparation process is of utmost importance in successful treatment of root canal. Also, one of the most important purpose of the root canal preparation is to enlarge the root canal three dimensionally without changing the curvature of the root canal However as the curvature of the root canal increases, there are many difficulties involved in formation of optimum root canal. Therefore in order to solve the above mentioned problems, new developments in methods of root canal preparation and equipments for such purposes were made. Recently, vigorous studies about newly introduced engine-driven nickel-ti-tanium rotary file are conducted. As shown in research results to dates, it is well established that the use of nickel-titanium file is better suited for curved root canal than stainless steel file in maintaining the curvature or root canal and reducing the deformation of root canal. However it is also acknowledged that there are a few discrepancies in research results according to protocol, due to failure to remove variables in experiments. In addition, although it is recommended by the manufacturer that the GT rotary file should maintain a low rotational speed of 150~350rpm and 'light pressure' as light as not to break the lead of a pencil, academic studies about the vertical force which is not yet standardized are not sufficiently explored. Therefore, this research devised and utilized a special research equipment to standardize the appropriate range of vertical force for GT rotary file through experiments by breaking of the lead of a pencil as expressed by the manufacturer and to accurately measure factors involved through repeating and recreating the environment of root canal preparation. Forming nine experimental groups by varying the vertical forces (150g. 220g, 300g) and rpm (150rpm, 250rpm, 350rpm), the effects of changing vertical forces and rpm on working efficiency were measured in terms of time expended in root canal preparation by crown-down method using a transparent resin block with 35 degree curvature and GT rotary file (z-test). The following research using this special research equipment that involved nine experimental groups and varying the vertical force for root canal preparation from 300g which is within the normal vertical force range to 700g and 1000g which fall outside the normal rpm range. The results were as follows : 1. Analysis of the experiment results revealed that the time spent in root canal preparation decreased as the vertical forces and rpm increased (p<0.05). Also, the effects of rpm were greater than those of the vertical forces within the normal vertical force range ($\beta$-weight test). 2. Observation of the deformation of GT rotary file revealed that deformation increases in a direct correlation with the vertical force increase and in a reverse correlation with the rpm decrease. In the case of the vertical forces close to the normal range, the probability of GT rotary file deformation were quite different depending on the rpm changes. In the case of greater vertical forces, the occurrences of deformation of the file were more frequent regardless of the rpm changes. 3. Deformation and breakage of file were also commonly observed in the expended time measurement experiments and GT rotary file deformation experiments in which low speed rpm (150rpm) was used and at the curved portion of the resin block.