• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.541-554
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• 2007

A simplified yet effective design procedure for viscous dampers was presented based on improved capacity spectrum method in the context of performance-based seismic design. The amount of added viscous damping required to meet a given performance objective was evaluated from the difference between the total demand for effective damping and inherent damping plus equivalent damping resulting from hysteretic deformation of system. Application of the method is illustrated by means of two examples, using Chinese design response spectrum and mean response spectrum. Nonlinear dynamic analysis results indicate that the maximum displacements of structures installed with supplemental dampers designed in accordance with the proposed method agree well with the given target displacements. The advantage of the presented procedure over the conventional iterative design method is also highlighted.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.1700-1708
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• 2006

Since the most program execution time is consumed in a loop structure, extracting parallelism from loop programs is critical for the taster program execution. In this paper, we proposed data dependency removal method for a single loop. The data dependency removal method can be applied to uniform and non-uniform data dependency distance in the single loop. Procedure calls parallelisms with only a single loop structure or procedure call most of other methods are concerned with the uniform code within the uniform data dependency distance. We also propose an algorithm, which can be applied to uniform, non-uniform, and complex data dependency distance among the multiple procedures. We compared our method with conventional methods using CRAY-T3E for the performance evaluation. The results show that the proposed algorithm is effective.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.101-118
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• 2001

The reliable prediction of elastic vibrations of wetted complex structures, as ships, tanks, offshore structures, propulsion components etc. represent a theoretical and numerical demanding task due to fluid-structure interaction. The paper presented is addressed to the vibration analysis by a combined FE-BE-procedure based on the added mass concept utilizing a direct boundary integral formulation of the potential fluid problem in interior and exterior domains. The discretization is realized by boundary element collocation method using conventional as well as infinite boundary element formulation with analytical integration scheme. Particular attention is devoted to modelling of interior problems with both several separate or communicating fluid domains as well as thin-walled structures wetted on both sides. To deal with this specific kind of interaction problems so-called "virtual" boundary elements in areas of cut outs are placed to satisfy the kinematical conditions in partial connected fluid domains existing in realistic tank systems. Numerical results of various theoretical and practical examples demonstrate the performance of the BE-methodology presented.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.477-492
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• 2018

Recently, the adaptive nonlinear static analysis method has been widely used in the field of performance based earthquake engineering. However, the proposed methods are almost deterministic and cannot directly consider the seismic record uncertainties. In the current study an innovative Stochastic Adaptive Pushover Analysis, called "SAPA", based on equivalent hysteresis system responses is developed to consider the earthquake record to record uncertainties. The methodology offers a direct stochastic analysis which estimates the seismic demands of the structure in a probabilistic manner. In this procedure by using a stochastic linearization technique in each step, the equivalent hysteresis system is analyzed and the probabilistic characteristics of the result are obtained by which the lateral force pattern is extracted and the actual structure is pushed. To compare the results, three different types of analysis have been considered; conventional pushover methods, incremental dynamic analysis, IDA, and the SAPA method. The result shows an admirable accuracy in predicting the structure responses.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.132-135
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• 2005

We report two cases of patients with ruptured vertebral artery dissecting aneurysms that were treated using double overlapping stent placement. Angiography performed immediately after the procedure revealed a significant reduction of aneurysmal filling due to the intraaneurysmal thorombosis. In one case, complete disappearance of the lesion was observed after seven days and in the another one, the size of previous aneurysm sac was decreased on 7th post-procedure day. The reduced stent porosity caused by the overlapping stents, which result in significant hemodynamic changes inside aneurysmal sac, may accelerate intraanuerysmal thromobosis and may be helpful in achieving a more rapid complete occlusion of aneurysm. This double stent method may represent a therapeutic alternatives for dissecting vertebral artery aneurysm in which conventional endovascular techniques or stent supported coil embolization is not considered feasible and surgical treatment is contraindicated.

• Computers and Concrete
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.97-110
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• 2011

In this paper, FEM procedure is applied to the static and dynamic analyses of R/C structures. Simple R/C shell structure is solved by using FEM procedures and the experimental evaluations are performed to represent the applicability of FEM procedure to R/C structures. Also, R/C columns are analyzed numerically and experimentally. On the basis of these results, FEM procedures are applied to the R/C cooling tower structures assembled by huge R/C shell structure and a lot of discrete R/C columns. In this analysis, the parallel computing procedures are introduced into these analyses to reduce the computational effort. The dynamic performances of R/C cooling tower are also solved by the application of parallel computations as well. From the numerical analyses, the conventional FEM procedures combined with computational technologies enables us to design the huge R/C structures statically and dynamically.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.25-30
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• 1985

This paper proposes an algorithm to simplify Boolean functions into near minimal sum-of-products for Programmable Logic Arrays. In contrast to the conventional procedures, where the execution time depends on the number of variables, the execution time by this procedure depends on the degree of consensus of base minterms. Thus as the number of variables is increased, the difference of CPU time becomes larger using this new Procedure than using other procedures and consequently the executable range of input function increasing. The algorithm has been implemented on CYEER 170-740 and it's results were compared with those using Arvalo's algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.39-42
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• 2000

In stressed power system, due to the presence of increased nonlinearity and the existence of nonlinear modal interactions, there exist some limitations to the use of conventional linear system theory to identify the optimum sites for controller. This paper proposes an approach to identify the optimum sites for controller using the method of normal forms. In this paper nonlinear participation factor and coupling factor are proposed as a measures of identification of optimum sites for controller and a selection procedure is also proposed. The proposed procedure is applied to the 10-generator New England System and the KEPCO System in the year of 2010 to illustrate its capabilities.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.36 no.7
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• pp.927-934
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• 2012

This paper suggests a new fuzzy PID controller with variable parameters which improves the shortage of the fuzzy PID controller with fixed parameters suggested in [9]. The derivation procedure follows the general design procedure of the fuzzy logic controller, while the resultant control law is the form of the conventional PID controller. Therefore, the suggested controller has two advantages. One is that it has only four fuzzy linguistic rules and analytical form of control laws so that the real-time control system can be implemented based on low-price microprocessors. The other is that the PID control action can always be achieved with time-varying PID controller gains only by adjusting the input and output scalers at each sampling time.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.30 no.1 s.244
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• pp.8-15
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• 2006

A Sparse Point Representation(SPR) based on interpolation wavelets is presented. The SPR is implemented for the purpose of CFD data compression. Unlike conventional wavelet transformation, the SPR relieves computing workload in the similar fashion of lifting scheme that includes splitting and prediction procedures in sequence. However, SPR skips update procedure that is major part of lifting scheme. Data compression can be achieved by proper thresholding method. The advantage of the SPR method is that, by keeping even point physical values, low frequency filtering procedure is omitted and its related unphysical thresholing mechanism can be avoided in reconstruction process. Extra singular feature detection algorithm is implemented for preserving singular features such as shock and vortices. Several numerical tests show the adequacy of SPR for the CFD data. It is also shown that it can be easily extended to nonlinear adaptive wavelets for enhanced feature capturing.