• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.587-602
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• 2016

In structural reliability analysis, the response surface method is widely adopted because of its numerical efficiency. It should be understood that the response function must approximate the actual limit state function accurately in the main region influencing failure probability where it is evaluated. However, the size of main region influencing failure probability was not defined clearly in current response surface methods. In this study, the concept of sub-region of interest is constructed, and an improved response surface method is proposed based on the sub-region of interest. The sub-region of interest can clearly define the size of main region influencing failure probability, so that the accuracy of the evaluation of failure probability is increased. Some examples are introduced to demonstrate the efficiency and the accuracy of the proposed method for both numerical and implicit limit state functions.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.253-264
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• 2016

Based on the variation of strain along the cross section, any region in a structural member can be classified into two regions namely, Bernoulli's region (B-region) and Disturbed region (D-region). Since the variation of strain along the cross section for a B-region is linear, well-developed theories are available for their analysis and design. On the other hand, the design of D-region is carried out based on thumb rules and past experience due to the presence of nonlinear strain distribution. Strut-and-Tie method is a novel approach that can be used for the analysis and design of both B-region as well as D-region with equal importance. The strut efficiency factor (${\beta}_s$) is needed for the design and analysis of concrete members using Strut and Tie method. In this paper, equations for finding ${\beta}_s$ for bottle shaped struts in concrete deep beams (a D-region) with and without steel fibres are developed. The effects of transverse reinforcement on ${\beta}_s$ are also considered. Numerical studies using commercially available finite element software along with limited amount of experimental studies were used to find ${\beta}_s$.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.79-88
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• 1990

Welded joint often contains soft or softened regions such as the HAZ of TMCP steel welded with high heat input. In this study, the equivalent yield strength of plate structure containing softened region was predicted by FEM analysis, and its incremental behavior was explained with the results of the analysis. The calculated results of yield strength indicated the following for the plate structures. 1) As the softened region starts to yield, shear stress begins to build up along the boundary between base metal and softened region. This results in multi-axial stress condition which gives restraint on the softened region. 2) Restraint effect has a significant influence on the distribution of the shear stress, the nominal stress, and the strain. 3) The yielding behavior of softened region becomes the same as that of base metal when both ratios of length to width and thickness to width of softened region are larger than 30 and 13 respectively.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.8-19
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• 1997

In this study an adequate type of offshore structure at the Sakhalin region as cold region is proposed and its structural design results are presented based on the reliability analysis. Structural safety assessment has been carried out for the proposed offshore structure at the Sakhalin area as designed by the reliability method. And a rational design procedure is presented based on the reliability analysis. Followings are drawn through the present study : - Four colum TLP structure is proposed as an adequate offshore structure type at the cold region like the Sakhalin region and the reliability-based structural design results are presented. It is seen that the proposed type is a more adequate and economic than the fixed type. - Safety assessment of the proposed structure applying the extended incremental load method is performed. - Referring the allowable safety level for offshore structures it has been found present TLP structure has sufficient structural safety at the system level as well as at the component level.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.979-989
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• 2016

Traversable region detection is an essential step for advanced driver assistance systems and self-driving car systems, and it has been conducted by detecting lanes from input images. The performance can be unreliable, however, when the light condition is poor or there exist no lanes on the roads. To solve this problem, this paper proposes an algorithm which utilizes the information about the number of lanes and texture analysis. The proposed algorithm first specifies road region candidates by utilizing the number of lanes information. Among road region candidates, the road region is determined as the region in which texture is homogeneous and texture discontinuities occur around its boundaries. Traversable region is finally detected by dividing the estimated road region with the number of lanes information. This paper combines the proposed algorithm with a lane detection-based method to construct a system, and simulation results show that the system detects traversable region even on the road with poor light conditions or no lanes.

• 대기
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.359-370
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• 2006

Terrain height variance spectra for the Korean mountain region are calculated in order to determine an adequate grid size required to resolve terrain forcing on mesoscale model simulation. One-dimensional spectral analysis is applied to specifically the central-eastern part of the Korean mountain region, where topographical-scale forcing has an important effect on mesoscale atmospheric flow. It is found that the terrain height variance spectra in this mountain region has a wavelength dependence with the power law exponents of 1.5 at the wavelength near 30 km, but this dependence is steeply changed to 2.5 at the wavelength less than 30 km. For the adequate horizontal grid size selection on mesoscale simulation two-dimensional terrain height spectral analysis is also performed. There is no directionality within 50% of spectral energy region, so one-dimensional spectral analysis can be reasonably applied to the Korea Peninsula. According to the spectral analysis of terrain height variance, the finer grid size which is higher than 6 km is required to resolve a 90% of terrain variance in this region. Numerical simulation using WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting Model) was performed to evaluate the effect of different terrain resolution in accordance with the result of spectral analysis. The simulated results were quantitatively compared to observations and there was a significant improvement in the wind prediction across the mountain region as the grid space decreased from 18 km to 2 km. The results will provide useful guidance of grid size selection on mesoscale topographical simulation over the Korean mountain region.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제9B권3호
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• pp.311-318
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• 2002

문서영상 구조분석은 문서영상을 세부 영역으로 분할하는 과정과 분할된 영역을 문자, 그림, 표 등으로 분류하는 과정을 포함한다. 이 중 영역분류 과정에서 영역의 크기, 흑화소 밀도, 화소 분포의 복잡도는 영역을 분류하는 기준이 된다. 그러나 그림의 경우 이러한 기준들의 범위가 넓어 경계를 정하기 어려우므로 다른 형태에 비해 상대적으로 오분류의 비율이 높다. 본 논문에서는 그림과 문자를 분류하는 과정에서 영역의 크기, 흑화소 밀도, 화소 분포의 복잡도에 의한 영향을 줄이기 위하여 메디안 필터를 이용하고, 영역확장 필터(region expanding filter)와 제한 조건들을 이용하여 영역분류에서의 오분류를 수정함으로써 상용제품을 포함한 기존 방법에 비해 그림과 문자의 분류가 우수한 문서영상 구조 분석 방법을 제안한다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.351-352
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• 2008

In this paper, parametric analysis of Fresnel region antenna measurement method has been performed for the square aperture having the uniformly distributed current. The optimum number of Fresnel region field and the tolerable distance between two antennas have been guided. This parametric analysis could be fully utilized when performing Fresnel region antenna measurement method. Other types of current distribution and aperture shape will be investigated in the near future

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.117-125
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• 1992

TWINSPAN(two-way indicator species analysis), DCCA(detrended canonical correspondence analysis) and polar ordination method wee used so as to analyze the the relation between forest vegetation and hibitat of mudungsan(1, 187m) located in kwangju area. Vegetationsurvey consulted 1:25, 000 topographical map, set up 41 quadrats and analyzed from April, 1990 to August, 1991. Forest vegetation of mudungsan was classifild to quercus acutissima community, fraxinus mandshurica community, quercus mongolica community, quercus serrata community, quercus dentata community, quercus variabilis community, and pinus densiflora community by TWINSPANmethod, and this almost coincide with the result of plar ordination. according to DCCA analysis, P. densiflora community was formed in xeric and low altitude region which soil nutrient was poor, compared with other communities. q. variabilis and q. acutissima community wee distributed in the region that low altitude and organic matter content was comparatively low, but q. acutissima community was formed in a damp region while q. variabilis community in a xeric region. q. mongolica and f. mandshurica formed the communities in a high altitude region, especially f. mandshurica cmmunity was distributed in a high humidity region. According to polar ordination analysis, the forest vegetation was classified to 7 communities by means of environmental gradient such as humidity, organic matter, ph, temperature, c.e.c and P2O5.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.542-548
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 컬러 정지 영상을 대상으로 상반신 인물 영상이 입력되었을 때, 얼굴 영역을 추출하고 검증하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문의 얼굴 추출과정은 1단계로 영상 내 피부색 영역을 추출한 다음, 후보 영역들에 대한 공간적 제한조건을 이용하여 1차 얼굴 후보 영역을 결정한다. 2단계에서는 얼굴 구성 요소 중 가장 두드러진 특징으로서 눈 영역을 탐색하고, 눈 영역을 기준으로 한국인의 얼굴에 대한 구조적 통계값을 적용한다. 이로서 얼굴 포함 최소 사각형 후보 영역을 결정한다. 마지막 3단계에서는 영상 내 색상 정보와 공간 정보 그리고 구조적 통계치로부터 결정된 얼굴 후보 영역에 대하여 얼굴 영역의 텍스춰(texture)를 Wavelet Packet Analysis를 이 용해 조사함으로써 얼굴 영역을 확정하게 된다.