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Mesh topological form design and geometrical configuration generation for cable-network antenna reflector structures

  • Liu, Wang;Li, Dong-Xu;Jiang, Jian-Ping
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.411-422
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    • 2013
  • A well-designed mesh shape of the cable net is of essential significance to achieve high performance of cable-network antenna reflectors. This paper is concerned with the mesh design problem for such antenna reflector structure. Two new methods for creating the topological forms of the cable net are first presented. Among those, the cyclosymmetry method is useful to generate different polygon-faceted meshes, while the topological mapping method is suitable for acquiring triangle-faceted meshes with different mesh grid densities. Then, the desired spatial paraboloidal mesh geometrical configuration in the state of static equilibrium is formed by applying a simple mesh generation approach based on the force density method. The main contribution of this study is that a general technical guide for how to create the connectivities between the nodes and members in the cable net is provided from the topological point of view. With the new idea presented in this paper, multitudes of mesh configurations with different net patterns can be sought by a certain rule rather than by empiricism, which consequently gives a valuable technical reference for the mesh design of this type of cable-network structures in the engineering.

Free vibrations of anisotropic rectangular plates with holes and attached masses

  • Rossit, C.A.;Ciancio, P.M.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.53-67
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    • 2008
  • Anisotropic materials are increasingly required in modern technological applications. Certainly, civil, mechanical and naval engineers frequently deal with the situation of analyzing the dynamical behaviour of structural elements being composed of such materials. For example, panels of anisotropic materials must sometimes support electromechanical engines, and besides, holes are performed in them for operational reasons e.g., conduits, ducts or electrical connections. This study is concerned with the natural frequencies and normal modes of vibration of rectangular anisotropic plates supported by different combinations of the classical boundary conditions: clamped, simply - supported and free, and with additional complexities such holes of free boundaries and attached concentrated masses. A variational approach (the well known Ritz method) is used, where the displacement amplitude is approximated by a set of beam functions in each coordinate direction corresponding to the sides of the rectangular plate. Consequently each coordinate function satisfies the essential boundary conditions at the outer edge of the plate. The influence of the position and magnitude of both hole and mass, on the natural frequencies and modal shapes of vibration are studied for a generic anisotropic material. The classical Ritz method with beam functions as spatial approximation proved to be a suitable procedure to solve a problem of such analytical complexity.

A study on the characteristics of the School groundrevels and its Improvement in Korea (우리나라의 학교대지 조성 특성과 개선방안 연구)

  • Yoon, Yong-Gi
    • The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.75-85
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    • 2014
  • In this study, the characteristics and the composition of the school groundrevels in Korea to identify the problem, were compared with Japan, where in geographic and culturally similar environment the composition of the school groundrevels analyzed. The spatial extent of this study is the development of metropolitan areas and small city within 10 years (range time) survey of the 34 elementary schools were analyzed. The results are as follows: First, the school groundrevels are flat step-like form of the composition for the same level of barrier-free should be provided. Second, if the lower places in slopes where to place buildings and playgrounds are placed in high places. Third, the external space and the interior space of the connection is the concept of fault tolerance and eliminate need for stairs. This study is a part of the urban Newtown and there are limitations to generalize the results. Therefore, this result on the general guidance of school groundrevel composition in order to objectify an additional studies are required.

Gated Recurrent Unit Architecture for Context-Aware Recommendations with improved Similarity Measures

  • Kala, K.U.;Nandhini, M.
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.538-561
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    • 2020
  • Recommender Systems (RecSys) have a major role in e-commerce for recommending products, which they may like for every user and thus improve their business aspects. Although many types of RecSyss are there in the research field, the state of the art RecSys has focused on finding the user similarity based on sequence (e.g. purchase history, movie-watching history) analyzing and prediction techniques like Recurrent Neural Network in Deep learning. That is RecSys has considered as a sequence prediction problem. However, evaluation of similarities among the customers is challenging while considering temporal aspects, context and multi-component ratings of the item-records in the customer sequences. For addressing this issue, we are proposing a Deep Learning based model which learns customer similarity directly from the sequence to sequence similarity as well as item to item similarity by considering all features of the item, contexts, and rating components using Dynamic Temporal Warping(DTW) distance measure for dynamic temporal matching and 2D-GRU (Two Dimensional-Gated Recurrent Unit) architecture. This will overcome the limitation of non-linearity in the time dimension while measuring the similarity, and the find patterns more accurately and speedily from temporal and spatial contexts. Experiment on the real world movie data set LDOS-CoMoDa demonstrates the efficacy and promising utility of the proposed personalized RecSys architecture.

Expanded Exit-Pupil Holographic Head-Mounted Display With High-Speed Digital Micromirror Device

  • Kim, Mugeon;Lim, Sungjin;Choi, Geunseop;Kim, Youngmin;Kim, Hwi;Hahn, Joonku
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.366-375
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    • 2018
  • Recently, techniques involving head-mounted displays (HMDs) have attracted much attention from academia and industry owing to the increased demand for virtual reality and augmented reality applications. Because HMDs are positioned near to users' eyes, it is important to solve the accommodation-vergence conflict problem to prevent dizziness. Therefore, holography is considered ideal for implementing HMDs. However, within the Nyquist region, the accommodation effect is limited by the space-bandwidth-product of the signal, which is determined by the sampling number of spatial light modulators. In addition, information about the angular spectrum is duplicated over the Fourier domain, and it is necessary to filter out the redundancy. The size of the exit-pupil of the HMD is limited by the Nyquist sampling theory. We newly propose a holographic HMD with an expanded exit-pupil over the Nyquist region by using the time-multiplexing method, and the accommodation effect is enhanced. We realize time-multiplexing by synchronizing a high-speed digital micromirror device and a liquid-crystal shutter array. We also demonstrate the accommodation effect experimentally.

A Coordinate System of Classification for Effective Visualizations of Story Properties (스토리 창작 특성의 효과적 가시화를 위한 분류 좌표계 연구)

  • Kim, Myoung-Jun
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.1119-1125
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    • 2017
  • Genres and actions of stories can be used to classify stories, and used effectively as well for visualizing story properties. This paper proposes a Genre-Action coordinate system for visualizing story property data in 2-dimension that has similarities between the genre and action items along the axes, i.e. a property of spatial continuum. With the proposed Genre-Action coordinate system we found that the genre and action items in the axes are arranged according to their similarities and we were able to achieve a spatially meaningful visualization of story properties where the related data form clusters.

Should accidental eccentricity be eliminated from Eurocode 8?

  • Anagnostopoulos, S.A.;Kyrkos, M.T.;Papalymperi, A.;Plevri, E.
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.463-484
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    • 2015
  • Modern codes for earthquake resistant building design require consideration of the so-called accidental design eccentricity, to account for torsional response caused by several factors not explicitly considered in design. This provision requires that the mass centres in the building floor be moved a certain percentage of the building's dimension (usually 5%) along both the x and y axes and in both positive and negative directions. If one considers also the spatial combinations of the two component motion in a dynamic analysis of the building, the number of required analyses and combinations increases substantially, causing a corresponding work load increase for practicing structural engineers. Another shortcoming of this code provision is that its introduction has been based primarily on elastic results from investigations of oversimplified, hence questionable, one story building models. This problem is addressed in the present paper using four groups of eccentric braced steel buildings, designed in accordance with Eurocodes 3 (steel) and 8 (earthquake design), with and without accidental eccentricities considered. The results indicate that although accidental design eccentricities can lead to somewhat reduced inelastic response demands, the benefit is not significant from a practical point of view. This leads to suggestions that accidental design eccentricities should probably be abolished or perhaps replaced by a simpler and more effective design provision, at least for torsionally stiff buildings that constitute the vast majority of buildings encountered in practice.

Online Image Reconstruction Using Fast Iterative Gauss-Newton Method in Electrical Impedance Tomography (전기 임피던스 단층촬영법에서 빠른 반복적 가우스-뉴턴 방법을 이용한 온라인 영상 복원)

  • Kim, Chang Il;Kim, Bong Seok;Kim, Kyung Youn
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.54 no.4
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2017
  • Electrical impedance tomography is a relatively new nondestructive imaging modality in which the internal conductivity distribution is reconstructed based on the injected currents and measured voltages through electrodes placed on the surface of a domain. In this paper, a fast iterative Gauss-Newton method is proposed to increase the spatial resolution as well as reduce the inverse computational time in the inverse problem, which could be applied to online binary mixture flow applications. To evaluate the reconstruction performance of the proposed method, numerical experiments have been carried out and the results are analyzed.

Development of Air Pollution Information System Using GIS (e-AIR) (GIS를 이용한 대기질 관리 정보 지원시스템(e-AIR) 구현( I ))

  • 박기학;오승교
    • Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.42-51
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    • 2003
  • Public awareness of air pollution problem has increased the need for real time air pollution information system about changes in air pollution level. The purpose of this study is to construct e-AIR, a user-friendly air pollution information system for urban air quality using GIS(geographic information system) technology for windows. GIS was ideally suited featuring a geographical characteristics(e.g., road, traffics, buildings) and very effectively used in mapping and symbolization for the distribution of the spatial/periodic pollution status(e.g., pie or column chart, graduated symbols) which can be effectively applied to a information system on the web-site. And a user interface, GUI(graphic user interface) was designed very diversely and simply enabled the users connect with e-AIR and obtain a useful information of air quality. A interpretive technique, air pollution health index(e.g., PSI, AEI) was used also which transforms complex data on measured atmospheric pollutant concentrations into a single number or set of numbers in order to make the data more understandable. Eventually the final-step of this study was to construct e-AIR based on Web GIS could be assessed anywhere if internet is available and offer a very useful information services of the air pollution to the public like a weather news.

A Study on the Synthesis of Dielectric Constant Potential for Arbitrary Inverse Scattering Pattern Using an Iterative Sampling Method (반복 샘플링법을 사용한 임의 역산란 패턴을 위한 유전율 포텐셜 합성에 관한 연구)

  • 남준석;박의준
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.40 no.10
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    • pp.150-158
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    • 2003
  • In the beam pattern synthesis problem using line source, the relationship between source distribution function and beam pattern may be represented by Fourier transform pair. In this paper, a general method to synthesize the line source distribution for a desired lobe-like beam pattern is presented by developing the nonlinear inversion method based on an iterative sampling technique. This method can be applied to the synthesis of continuously distributed dielectric constants satisfying the desired inverse scattering coefficient patterns when illuminating by TE-polarized and TM-polarized plane waves to arbitrary dielectric material. Furthermore this method can also be applied to the synthesis of transmission line with arbitrary reflection coefficient patterns. Some bandstop spatial filter and dispersive transmission line filter are illustrated for generality.