• PNF and Movement
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the effects of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) on episodes of foot drop and the ability to cross obstacles in stoke patients. Methods: The patient was a 57-year-old man with left hemiplegia. This patient displayed episodes of foot drop while walking and issues with crossing obstacles. The patient underwent therapeutic exercises and occupational therapy twice daily at a hospital five times a week. The patient was treated with PNF outside of these therapeutic sessions. Each session, which was 60 minutes in length, was conducted 3 times a week over 8 weeks. Over the course of treatment, a pre-test and post-test were completed. The patient walked for a test time of 6M. During the testing process, the patient crossed obstacles. In addition, the number of foot drop episodes was recorded. Each test was measured three times to determine the mean value. Results: After the PNF treatments, the number of foot drop episodes decreased from five to one. The 6M walking test time during which the patient crossed obstacles also decreased from 18 seconds to 10 seconds. Conclusion: The use of PNF treatments is beneficial to reduce the number of foot drop episodes while walking and to improve the ability to cross obstacles in stroke patients.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2007

The evaporation pressure drop of $CO_2$ (R-744) in a horizontal tube was investigated experimentally. The main components of the refrigerant loop are a receiver, a variable-speed pump, a mass flow meter, a pre-heater and an evaporator (test section). The test section consists of a smooth, horizontal stainless steel tube of 4.57 mm inner diameter. The experiments were conducted at saturation temperature of $-5^{\circ}C\;to\;5^{\circ}C$, and heat flux of 10 to $40kW/m^2$. The test results showed that the evaporation pressure drop of $CO_2$ are highly dependent on the vapor quality, heat flux and saturation temperature. The measured pressure drop during the evaporation process of $CO_2$ increases with increased mass flux, and decreased saturation temperature. The evaporation pressure drop of $CO_2$ is much lower than that of R 22. In comparison with test results and existing correlations, the best fit of the present experimental data is obtained with the previous correlation. But existing correlations failed to predict the evaporation pressure drop of $CO_2$. Therefore, it is necessary to develop reliable and accurate predictions determining the evaporation pressure drop of $CO_2$ in a horizontal tube.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.658-664
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• 2010

A control element drive mechanism(CEDM) is a reactor regulating system, which inserts, withdraws or maintains a control rod containing a neutron absorbing material within a reactor core to control the reactivity of the core. The ball-screw type CEDM for the integral reactor has a spring-damper system to reduce the impact force due to the scram of the CEDM. This paper describes the experimental results to obtain the drop and damping characteristics of the CEDM. The drop tests are performed by using a drop test rig and a facility. A drop time and a displacement after an impact are measured using a LVDT. The influences of the rod weight, the drop height and the flow area of hydraulic damper on the drop and damping behavior are also estimated on the basis of test results. The drop time of the control element is within 4.5s to meet the design requirement, and the maximum displacement is measured as 15.6 mm. It is also found that the damping system using a spring-hydraulic damper plays a good damper role in the CEDM.

• 소음진동
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.345-352
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• 1994

Electronic products can be subjected to many different forms of shock. These shocks are usually experienced during transporting the electronic products from a manufacturer to customers. Drop tests are performed to test the product fragility before shipment. Package cushioning materials are often used to protect electronic products from severs shock environments. In the present paper, an algorithm to predict the shock responses of the main mechanical parts is developed by use of the shock analysis in which the modal parameters extracted from vibration test are used. These results are in good agreement with the results of drop test. By use of the shock response prediction algorithm developed herein, it is possible to predict the results of drop test at various drop directions and also to select the optimal package cushioning materials.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.531-542
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• 2017

강선이나 강화플라스틱선 등의 선박 재료는 선박안전법에 규정된 규격재료를 사용하는 경우로서 판두께 측정시험이나 종굽힘강도시험을 통하여 제작 선체의 구조 안전성을 쉽게 확인할 수 있다. 한편, 염가의 폴리에틸렌 등과 같은 비규격재료를 선체 전장이 짧은 플레저 보트의 선체로 사용하는 경우 역학적 특성을 파악하기 쉬워 선체 설계를 수행하기에 매우 유리하고, 대량 생산 시스템을 갖추는 경우 제작 비용이 낮아 해당 제품의 가격 경쟁력을 가질 수 있다. 그러나 폴리에틸렌 선체의 경우 비규격재료를 사용함에 따라 기존의 소형선체에 대한 종굽힘강도시험을 이용하여 선체의 구조 안전성을 평가할 수 없다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 본 연구에서는 플레저 보트의 낙하시험 표준절차인 플레저 보트 검사 기준과 ISO 12215-5를 기초로 폴리에틸렌 선체에 대한 낙하시험을 수행한 후 이것을 기초로 정적구조해석을 수행하여 비규격재료로 개발된 선체의 구조 안전성을 확인함으로서 플레저 보트 검사 기준과 ISO 12215-5의 낙하시험방법이 선체 구조설계에 이용될 수 있음을 보였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.855-864
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• 2017

The control rod assembly controls reactor power by adjusting its position during normal operation and shuts down chain reactions by its free drop under scram conditions. Therefore, the drop performance of the control rod assembly is important for the safety of a nuclear reactor. In this study, the drop performance of the conceptually designed control rod assembly for the prototype generation IV sodium-cooled fast reactor that is being developed at the Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute as a next-generation nuclear reactor was experimentally investigated. For the performance test, the test facility and test procedure were established first, and several free drop performance tests of the control rod assembly under different flow rate conditions were then carried out. Moreover, performance tests under several types and magnitudes of seismic loading conditions were also conducted to investigate the effects of seismic loading on the drop performance of the control rod assembly. The drop time of the conceptually designed control rod assembly for 0% of the tentatively designed flow rate was measured to be 1.527 seconds, and this agrees well with the analytically calculated drop time. It was also observed that the effect of seismic loading on the drop time was not significant.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2011

Recently, board level solder joint reliability performance of IC packages during drop impact becomes a great concern to semiconductor and electronic product manufacturers. The handheld electronic products are prone to being dropped during their useful service life because of their size and weight. The IC packages are susceptible to solder joint failures, induced by a combination of printed circuit board (PCB) bending and mechanical shock during impact. The board level drop testing is an effective method to characterize the solder joint reliability performance of miniature handheld products. In this paper, applying the JEDEC (JESD22-B111) standard present a finite element modeling of the FBGA. The simulation results revealed that maximum stress was located at the outermost solder ball in the PCB or IC package side, which consisted well with the location of crack initiation observed in the failure analysis after drop reliability tests.

• 정보저장시스템학회논문집
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.56-61
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• 2013

The recent increased use of mobile phone has resulted in a technical focusing on reliability issues related to drop performance. Since mobile phone may be dropped several times during their use, it is required to survive common drop accidents. The plastic injection parts such as base stopper and carrier in the encoder type actuator can be broken easily in the actual reliability test of 1.5m free drop. So, we analyzed the shock resistance characteristics of auto focus actuator with variables in the material properties using finite element method. By applying the new resin materials, we can decrease the breakage of plastic injection parts and improve the reliability of mobile phone.

• Biomaterials and Biomechanics in Bioengineering
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.111-125
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• 2015

For engineers, generating a mesh in porous media (PMs) sometimes represents a smaller computational load than generating realistic stent geometries with computer fluid dynamics (CFD). For this reason, PMs have recently become attractive to mimic flow-diverter stents (FDs), which are used to treat intracranial aneurysms. PMs function by introducing a hydraulic resistance using Darcy's law; therefore, the pressure drop may be computed by test sections parallel and perpendicular to the main flow direction. However, in previous studies, the pressure drop parallel to the flow may have depended on the width of the gap between the stent and the wall of the test section. Furthermore, the influence of parameters such as the test section geometry and the distance over which the pressure drops was not clear. Given these problems, computing the pressure drop parallel to the flow becomes extremely difficult. The aim of the present study is to resolve this lack of information for stent modeling using PM and to compute the pressure drop using several methods to estimate the influence of the relevant parameters. To determine the pressure drop as a function of distance, an FD was placed parallel and perpendicular to the flow in test sections with rectangular geometries. The inclined angle method was employed to extrapolate the flow patterns in the parallel direction. A similar approach was applied with a cylindrical geometry to estimate loss due to pipe friction. Additionally, the pressure drops were computed by using CFD. To determine if the balance of pressure drops (parallel vs perpendicular) affects flow patterns, we calculated the flow patterns for an ideal aneurysm using PMs with various ratios of parallel pressure drop to perpendicular pressure drop. The results show that pressure drop in the parallel direction depends on test section. The PM thickness and the ratio of parallel permeability to perpendicular permeability affect the flow pattern in an ideal aneurysm. Based on the permeability ratio and the flow patterns, the pressure drop in the parallel direction can be determined.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.33-38
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• 2009

전자 기기 제품들이 소형화 및 휴대화 되면서 낙하충격 신뢰성에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 대표적인 무연솔더인 Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu 솔더를 이용하여 ENIG (Electroless Nickel Iimmersion Gold), OSP (Organic Solderability Preservative) 표면 처리와 등온 시효 시험 (High Temperature Storage test)에 따른 보드 레벨 패키지 (board level package)의 낙하충격 신뢰성 (drop reliability) 시험을 수행하였다. 또한 충격 조건을 변화시켜 시편에 가해지는 가속도 (G:acceleration)와 충격 지속 시간 (pulse duration)에 따른 신뢰성을 평가하였다. 기판의 strain측정 결과 중앙 부위가 가장 응력이 컸으며, 충격가속도에 비례하여 응력이 증가하였다. 시효 처리 전에는 OSP처리된 기판이 다소 우수한 신뢰성을 보였지만, 시효 처리후에는 ENIG기판에서 신뢰성이 우수하였고, 반대로 OSP는 감소하는 경향을 보였다. OSP의 경우 과도한 금속간화합물 (intermetallic compound)의 성장으로 인해 접합 계면에서 취성파괴 (brittle fracture)가 일어난 것을 관찰할 수 있었다.