• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.322-331
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• 2017

In this paper we present a novel robotic palpation method for the lump shape estimation using contact pressure distribution. Many previous researches about the robotic palpation have used a stiffness map, which is not suitable to obtain geometrical information of a lump. As a result, they require a large data set and long palpation time to estimate the lump shape. Instead of using the stiffness map, the proposed palpation method uses the difference between the normal force direction and the surface normal to detect the lump boundary and estimate its normal. The palpation trajectory is generated by the normal of the lump boundary to track the lump boundary in real-time. The proposed approach requires small data set and short palpation time for the lump shape estimation since the shape can be directly estimated from the optimally generated palpation trajectory. An experiment result shows that our method can find the lump shape accurately in real-time with small data and short time.

• 플랜트 저널
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.39-43
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• 2011

Due to the recent uncertainty of market situations such as the escalation of petroleum prices, increased production capacities of plants, limitations of the available EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) contractors, and the increase of raw material prices, EPC contractors have had a tendency to include a higher reserve contingency in the lump-sum turnkey contract price. In order to overcome the changes in the market, the plant project construction industry has started to apply the converted lump-sum turnkey contract in plant construction market. This study was focused to find the associated risks and to analyse the identified risks on recent trend of application of the new contract type, which is the converted lump-sum turnkey contract. It was recognized from the analysis that quality and cost have more high priority risks than other project objectives. This paper also suggests the mitigation plan for identified risks to achieve project objectives appropriate to the converted lump-sum turnkey project from the viewpoint of an EPC contractor keeping transparency with owner.

• 월간 기계설비
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• 통권223호
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• pp.75-78
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• 2009

전통적으로 주요 EPC(설계, 구매, 시공) 공사는 최초의 엔지니어링 작업(FEED : Front End Engineering Design)을 한 후, 경쟁입찰을 하여 총액계약(Lamp Sum)으로 공사를 수행했다. 최근에 EPC시공자의 위험부담을 줄이는 한편, 발주자는 경쟁적인 시공자를 확보할 수 있는 기회를 확대하면서 협상기간을 단축하교 조기착공을 위해, Lump Sum 가격을 늦게 결정하는 방법을 고려한다. CLST(Converted Lump Sum Turnkey)계약방식은 최초의 엔지니어링 작업을 한 후 경쟁입찰을 통해 1차 계약을 맺고(설계 및 특별 자재 공급에 대한) 공사를 수행하다 설계가 충분히 진행되고 핵심자재에 대한 견적이 입수되어 발주 가능한 시점 및 하도급사를 선정할 준비가 된 시점에서 1차 계약을 변경해 2차 계약을 맺는다. 2차 계약 시 1차 시 맺은 계약조건(직접공사비, 일반관리비 및 이윤, 최대한도 금액이 포함됨)을 기준으로 하되, 발주자가 Open Book 형식으로 공사비를 평가하고 재협상하여 Lump Sum 금액으로 전환해 합의한다. 이후 Lump Sum Tumkey 계약과 동일한 형식으로 공사를 수행한다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.266-273
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• 2017

In this research a medical palpation guidance system for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is proposed. Palpation is a useful tool for identifying a size and location of a lump during a surgery. However, conventional manual palpation is only available in open surgery, so there has been several researches about palpation assistant or guidance system for MIS. The previously developed systems are based on a pressure based or stiffness based approach. These previous approaches have some limitations in increasing complexity of the systems and lack of geometric information about the lump which is more important information for the lump removal than the stiffness information. We propose a palpation guidance system using a novel approach using contact pressure distribution. Since our approach gives the geometry information of the lump as well as the existence information, the operator can easily notice the currently identified lump region and the optimal position for the next palpation. The experiment results show that our approach can offer the geometry information of the lump correctly.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.133-155
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• 2013

The earthquake responses are studied for the tall flexible structures such as TV towers when the vertical eccentricities between the discrete nodes and the corresponding centroids of investigated lumps are considered. In practical analyses, the tall flexible structures can be made into a spatial-discrete system of some certain length of beam elements with different lengths and cross-sectional areas. These elements are used to construct the investigated lumps in this paper. The different cross-sectional areas and the different lengths of two adjacent elements lead to the appearance of vertical eccentricity between the discrete node and the centroid of investigated lump within the same investigated lump. Firstly, the governing equations are established for a typical investigated lump. Secondly, the calculating formulae of the forces and moments acting on the investigated lump are derived and provided. Finally the new dynamic equilibrium equations with modified mass matrix and assemblage of stiffness matrix have been derived for the stick MDOF model based on beam theory when the existing vertical eccentricities are considered. Numerical results demonstrate that these vertical eccentricities should be considered in order to obtain the accurate earthquake responses for the tall flexible structures.

• 한국주조공학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.247-256
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• 1989

The gasification reaction rates by $CO_2$ in $CO/CO_2/N_2$ of various compositions in the temperature range of $900-1200^{\circ}C$ were measured for foundry coke and anthracite lump. The data for the rates was analyzed with Langmuir-Hinshelwood rate equations for the gasification of carbonaceous specimens. The values of the apparent activation energies of the reactions obtained from these data were ranged to be 47-99 and 73-128Kcal/mol respectively for foundry coke and for anthracite lump. The major contribution to decrease in tensile strength was shown to be attributable to the enlarging of the macropores in the coke and that of crack in the anthracite lump. Under the same experiment of the gasification of foundry coke, the rate of form coke was increasing as the addition of $Fe_2O_3$ increases.

• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.15-27
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• 2013

Because consumers tend to have negative opinion about a company that neglects social issues like poverty or pollution while it focuses on its own profit, a lot of companies have invested their resources in Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR). CSR has merits of image improving and profit gaining, on the other hand, it has also many shortcomings. First, the cost of CSR may become a heavy financial burden. Specifically, CSR tends to be implemented by a company's unilateral backup, and then this may impose a heavy burden on the company. Second, one cannot expect effects of CSR in a short-term. Because of these shortcomings, the unilateral CSR has gone into alteration of the type of CSR since 1980's. Instead of unilaterality, Cause-Related Marketing(CRM) began to be used for mutual profits among company, consumers, and society. That is, CRM has become to be spotlighted as a new type of CSR. It focuses on partnership between a company and consumers based on cause and mutual profit pursuing through this partnership. So, many contemporary companies prefer CRM activities that derive their positive corporate image, that increase their sales, and that reduce their financial cost. The IBM Matching Grants Program, which is the largest of the IBM-Employee partnership programs, is a typical CRM. This program enables employees and retirees to increase the value of their donations to educational institutions, hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, and cultural & environmental organizations with a matching gift from IBM. Hundreds of educational institutions and thousands of nonprofit organizations have benefited from the contributions by IBM. There might be various types of matching grants. For example, an employee might choose a lump-sum expense or partitioning a lump-sum into a series of small ongoing expenses for his (or her) donation, and a firm might match the employee's total contribution with a lump-sum expense or might match the employee's total contribution with a series of small ongoing expenses. However, it is not easy to find an academic research on which type of matching grant is preferred by employees. This paper shows that an employee prefers the type of matching grants that consists of a lump-sum expense for his (or her) contribution and a series of small ongoing expenses for a firm's contribution [or the type of matching grants that consists of a series of small ongoing expenses for an employee's contribution and a lump-sum expense for a firm's contribution] to the other types of matching grants.

• 한국비블리아학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.211-230
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• 2012

본 연구의 목적은 공무원 총액인건비제가 시행되는 시기에 새로 공공도서관을 개관한 기초자치단체의 사서직 공무원 정원 변화를 분석하는데 있다. 연구방법으로 2008년에서 2010년 사이에 공공도서관을 2개관 이상 개관한 전국의 15개 기초자치단체를 선정하여, 이들 기초자치단체의 공무원 정원과 사서직 정원을 "자치법규정보시스템"과 해당 기초자치단체 홈페이지에서 데이터를 수집하여 분석하였다. 연구결과 총액인건비제가 실시된 시기에 조사대상의 15개 기초자치단체의 공무원 정원은 증가하였으나, 사서직 정원의 증가는 극히 미약하였다. 또한 복수직렬을 이용하여 행정직원 수를 증가시킨 결과를 보여주고 있었다. 결과적으로 총액인건비제 때문에 사서직 정원을 증가시킬 수 없다는 것은 사실이 아니다는 것이 밝혀졌다.

• 대한두개안면성형외과학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.79-82
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• 2018

Formation of an ideally-shaped tragus remains one of the most challenging issues during staged tragus reconstruction in microtia patients. The authors describe a new method used to treat a unique case of concha-type microtia in which the 10-year-old male patient had only a portion of pre-existing cartilage at the tragus site. An anomalous skin lump was also present. During the initial stages of the reconstruction, the two-stage Nagata method was used for surgical correction of the microtia. An autologous rib cartilage graft was used to form the ear framework. A temporoparietal fascia flap was also constructed. Remnant skin tags and anomalous cartilage that accompany microtia are usually removed during microtia repair. However, the cartilage and skin lump were preserved during the reconstruction. The skin lump was later used to form a vascularized chondrocutaneous island flap that supplemented the portion of cartilage during tragus formation. The result was a new tragus that was satisfactorily improved in both size and shape. Patients with concha-type microtia may benefit from the use of this new method for tragus formation.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2002

국내 주요 간벌재와 목질재료 탄화물중 성능면과 자원면을 고려하여 선정한 후 오수정화 실험을 실시하였다. 덩어리상태(약 3×3×3 cm)의 탄화물의 주방오수 및 정화조오수 정화실험에서 간벌재 탄화물보다 목질재료 탄화물의 정화능력이 뛰어났다. 덩어리상태에서는 미세세공보다는 파티클보드의 파티클 및 MDF의 섬유간의 간극이 정화에 더 유효하게 작용했기 때문이라고 판단된다. 처리오수의 색은 처리 후 옅어졌으며 목질재료탄이 간벌재탄보다 더 옅은 색을 보였다. 냄새는 모두 감소하는 경향을 보였다.