• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.386-392
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• 2021

MACCS (MELCOR Accident Consequence Code System), WinMACCS, and MelMACCS now facilitate a multi-unit consequence analysis. MACCS evaluates the consequences of an atmospheric release of radioactive gases and aerosols into the atmosphere and is most commonly used to perform probabilistic safety assessments (PSAs) and related consequence analyses for nuclear power plants (NPPs). WinMACCS is a user-friendly preprocessor for MACCS. MelMACCS extracts source-term information from a MELCOR plot file. The current development can combine an arbitrary number of source terms, representing simultaneous releases from a multi-unit facility, into a single consequence analysis. The development supports different release signatures, fission product inventories, and accident initiation times for each unit. The treatment is completely general except that the model is currently limited to collocated units. A major practical consideration for performing a multi-unit PSA is that a comprehensive treatment for more than two units may involve an intractable number of combinations of source terms. This paper proposes and evaluates an approach for reducing the number of calculations to be tractable, even for sites with eight or ten units. The approximation error introduced by the approach is acceptable and is considerably less than other errors and uncertainties inherent in a Level 3 PSA.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.393-402
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• 2023

Recently, hybrid and electric vehicles have been actively developed to replace internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. However, their vibrations and noise with complex spectra cause discomfort to drivers. To reduce the vibrations transmitted through primary excitation sources such as powertrains, structural changes have been introduced. However, the interference among different parts is a limitation. Thus, active mounting systems based on smart materials have been actively investigated to overcome these limitations. This study focuses on diminishing the source movement when a structure with two active mounting systems is excited to a single sinusoidal and a multi-frequency signal, which were investigated for source movement reduction. The overall structure was modeled based on the lumped parameter method. Active vibration control was implemented based on the modeled structure, and a multi-normalization least mean square (NLMS) algorithm was used to obtain the control input for the active mounting system. Furthermore, the performance of the NLMS algorithm was compared with that of the quantification method to demonstrate the performance of active vibration control. The results demonstrate that the vibration attenuation performance of the source component was improved.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2004년도 Proceedings of ISRS 2004
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• pp.622-625
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• 2004

This paper presents multi-source spatial data integration models based on probability theory for landslide hazard assessment. Four probabilistic models such as empirical likelihood ratio estimation, logistic regression, generalized additive and predictive discriminant models are proposed and applied. The models proposed here are theoretically based on statistical relationships between landslide occurrences and input spatial data sets. Those models especially have the advantage of direct use of continuous data without any information loss. A case study from the Gangneung area, Korea was carried out to quantitatively assess those four models and to discuss operational issues.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.373-377
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• 2023

The Monte Carlo (MC) method has become an indispensable part of the nuclear radiation research field. Several widely used and well-known MC packages were developed for simulation of radiation transport and interaction with matter. All these MC packages require users to prepare an input script. The input script can become lengthy for complex models. The process of preparing these input scripts is time-consuming and error-prone. In the present work, we have developed an open-source GUI computer program for modelling radiation transport and interaction in multi-segmented slab phantoms using grid-based system for the widely used PHITS MC package. The developed tools would be useful for future users of PHITS MC package and particularly inexperienced users. The present program is distributed under GPL license and all users can freely download, modify and redistribute the program without any restrictions.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.61-72
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 1-Steiner 휴리스틱 알고리즘을 응용하여 단일 소스 네트와 다중 소스 네트를 배선하는 두 가지 시간 지향(timing-driven) 배선 방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은1-Steiner 휴리스틱 알고리즘의 계산값 (cost)을 지연시간으로 수정한 것으로 이 방법의 특징은 모든 터미널이 임계터미널인 경우와 또 임계터미널이 부분적으로 존재하는 경우의 단일 소스 네트와 다중 소스 네트를 배선하는 데 동시 적용할 수 있다는 점이다. 실험결과 단일 소스를 배선하는 알고리즘은 기존의 SERT와 SERT-C에 비해 지연시간이 각각 평균 2.1%, 10.6% 감소하는 성능을 보였다. 그리고 다중 소스를 배선하는 알고리즘은 기존의 MCMD A-tree 알고리즘과 비교했을 때 모든 소스, 터미널 쌍이 임계쌍(critical pair)일 경우는 최대 지연 시간이 평균 2.7% 증가했지만 부분적인 임계쌍이 존재할 때는 최대 지연 시간이 평균 1.4% 감소하는 유사한 결과를 도출한다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.56-66
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• 2011

Multi-source evaporation is one of the methods to improve the thickness uniformity of thin films deposited by evaporation. In this study, a simulator for the relative thickness profile of a thin film deposited by a multi-source evaporation system was developed. Using this simulator, the relative thickness profiles of the evaporated thin films were simulated under various conditions, such as the number and arrangements of sources and source-to-substrate distance. The optimum conditions, in which the thickness uniformity is minimized, and the corresponding efficiency, were obtained. The substrate was a 5th generation substrate (dimensions of 1300 mm ${\times}$ 1100 mm). The number of sources and source-to-substrate distance were varied from 1 to 6 and 0 to the length of the major axis of the substrate (1300 mm), respectively. When the source plane, the area on which sources can be located, is limited to the substrate dimension, the minimum thickness uniformity, obtained when the number of sources is 6, was 3.3%; the corresponding efficiency was 16.6%. When the dimension of the source plane is enlarged two times, the thickness uniformity is remarkably improved while the efficiency is decreased. The minimum thickness uniformity, obtained when the number of sources is 6, was 0.5%; the corresponding efficiency was decreased to 9.1%. The expansion of the source plane brings about not only the improvement of the thickness uniformity, but also a decrement of the efficiency and an enlargement of equipment.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.185-189
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• 2004

For face recognition system, a face detector which can find exact face region from complex image is needed. Many face detection algorithms have been developed under the assumption that background of the source image is quite simple . this means that face region occupy more than a quarter of the area of the source image or the background is one-colored. Color-based face detection is fast but can't be applicable to the images of which the background color is similar to face color. And the algorithm using neural network needs so many non-face data for training and doesn't guarantee general performance. In this paper, A multi-scale, multi-face detection algorithm using PCA is suggested. This algorithm can find most multi-scaled faces contained in static images with small number of training data in reasonable time.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2009

We present two local-search based metaheuristics for the multi-source capacitated facility location problem. In such a problem, each customer's demand can be supplied by one or more facilities. The problem is NP-hard and the number of locations in the optimal solution is unknown. To keep the search process effective, the proposed methods adopt the following features: (1) a multi-exchange neighborhood structure, (2) a tabu list that keeps track of recently visited solutions, and (3) a multi-start to enhance the diversified search paths. The transportation simplex method is applied in an efficient manner to obtain the optimal solutions to neighbors of the current solution under the algorithm framework. Two in-and-out selection rules are also proposed in the algorithms with the purpose of finding promising solutions in a short computational time. Our computational results for some of the benchmark instances, as well as some instances generated using a method in the literature, have demonstrated the effectiveness of this approach.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2010년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.253-254
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• 2010

• Spatial Information Research
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.239-249
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• 2004

다중축척 데이터베이스는 동일한 공간을 다른 축척으로 표현하는 공간데이터베이스의 집합이다. 이 다중축척 데이터베이스는 소축척의 정밀한 공간데이터베이스로부터 유도될 수 있다. 본 논문은 유도된 다중축척 데이터베이스의 갱신문제를 다루고자 한다. 다중축척 데이터베이스의 갱신은 수정된 원시데이터로부터 직접 유도된 데이터뿐만 아니라 갱신되지 않은 원시데이터로부터 유도된 데이터들까지 갱신해야 한다. 이것은 현재 데이터 갱신방법들을 다중축척 데이터베이스에 그대로 적용할 수 없는 이유가 되는데, 현재 방법들은 수정된 원시데이터로부터 직접 유도된 데이터만을 갱신하기 때문이다. 이 다중축척 데이터베이스의 갱신관리는 공간 데이터베이스 관리시스템(혹은 GIS)에서 제공되어야 할 중요한 기능이다. 이 논문에서는 다중축척 데이터 베이스 갱신을 위한 규칙 및 알고리즘을 제안하고, 이것을 ESRI의 ArcObject를 이용하여 개발한 프로토타입을 소개한다. 본 연구에서 제공하는 갱신방법은 다중축척 데이터베이스들간의 일관성을 유지시켜주고, 유도된 다중축척 데이터베이스의 무결성을 보장해 줄 수 있다는 점에서 의의가 있다.