• Biomedical Engineering Letters
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.365-371
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• 2018

Uninterrupted monitoring of multiple subjects is required for mass causality events, in hospital environment or for sports by medical technicians or physicians. Movement of subjects under monitoring requires such system to be wireless, sometimes demands multiple transmitters and a receiver as a base station and monitored parameter must not be corrupted by any noise before further diagnosis. A Bluetooth Piconet network is visualized, where each subject carries a Bluetooth transmitter module that acquires vital sign continuously and relays to Bluetooth enabled device where, further signal processing is done. In this paper, a wireless network is realized to capture ECG of two subjects performing different activities like cycling, jogging, staircase climbing at 100 Hz frequency using prototyped Bluetooth module. The paper demonstrates removal of baseline drift using Fast Fourier Transform and Inverse Fast Fourier Transform and removal of high frequency noise using moving average and S-Golay algorithm. Experimental results highlight the efficacy of the proposed work to monitor any vital sign parameters of multiple subjects simultaneously. The importance of removing baseline drift before high frequency noise removal is shown using experimental results. It is possible to use Bluetooth Piconet frame work to capture ECG simultaneously for more than two subjects. For the applications where there will be larger body movement, baseline drift removal is a major concern and hence along with wireless transmission issues, baseline drift removal before high frequency noise removal is necessary for further feature extraction.

• Computers and Concrete
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.293-302
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• 2020

Connections play a significant role in strength of structures against earthquake-induced loads. According to the post-seismic reports, connection failure is a cause of overall failure in reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Connection failure results in a sudden increase in inter-story drift, followed by early and progressive failure across the entire structure. This article investigated the cyclic performance and behavioral improvement of shape-memory alloy-based connections (SMA-based connections). The novelty of the present work is focused on the effect of shape memory alloy bars is damage reduction, strain recoverability, and cracking distribution of the stated material in RC moment frames under seismic loads using 3D nonlinear static analyses. The present numerical study was verified using two experimental connections. Then, the performance of connections was studied using 14 models with different reinforcement details on a scale of 3:4. The response parameters under study included moment-rotation, secant stiffness, energy dissipation, strain of bar, and moment-curvature of the connection. The connections were simulated using LS-DYNA environment. The models with longitudinal SMA-based bars, as the main bars, could eliminate residual plastic rotations and thus reduce the demand for post-earthquake structural repairs. The flag-shaped stress-strain curve of SMA-based materials resulted in a very slight residual drift in such connections.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.443-454
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• 2017

When eccentrically braced steel frames (EBFs) are in the desired failure mode, links yield at each layer and column bases appear plastically hinged. Traditional design methods cannot accurately predict the inelastic behavior of structures owing to the use of capacity-based design theory. This paper proposes the use of performance-based seismic design (PBSD) method for planning eccentrically braced frames. PBSD can predict and control inelastic deformation of structures by target drift and failure mode. In buildings designed via this process, all links dissipate energy in the rare event of an earthquake, while other members remain in elastic state, and as the story drift is uniform along the structure height, weak layers will be avoided. In this condition, eccentrically braced frames may be more easily rehabilitated after the effects of an earthquake. The effectiveness of the proposed method is illustrated through a sample case study of ten-story K-type EBFs and Y- type EBFs buildings, and is validated by pushover analysis and dynamic analysis. The ultimate state of frames designed by the proposed method will fail in the desired failure mode. That is, inelastic deformation of structure mainly occurs in links; each layer of links involved dissipates energy, and weak layers do not exist in the structure. The PBSD method can provide a reference for structural design of eccentrically braced steel frames.

• 천문학회보
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.90.2-90.2
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• 2012

Geosynchronous electron flux dropouts are most likely due to fast drift loss of the particles to the magnetopause (or equivalently, the "magnetopause shadowing effect"). A possible effect related to the drift loss is the radial diffusion of PSD due to gradient of PSD set by the drift loss effect at an outer L region. This possibly implies that the drift loss can affect the flux levels even inside the trapping boundary. We recently investigated the details of such diffusion process by solving the diffusion equation with a set of initial and boundary conditions set by the drift loss. Motivated by the simulation work, we have examined observationally the energy spectrum and pitch angle distribution near trapping boundary during the geosynchronous flux dropouts. For this work, we have first identified a list of geosynchronous flux dropout events for 2007-2010 from GOES satellite electron measurements and solar wind pressures observed by ACE satellite. We have then used the electron data from the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) spacecraft measurements to investigate the particle fluxes. The five THEMIS spacecraft sufficiently cover the inner magnetospheric regions near the equatorial plane and thus provide us with data of much higher spatial resolution. In this paper, we report the results of our investigations on the energy spectrum and pitch angle distribution near trapping boundary during the geosynchronous flux dropout events and discuss implications on the effects of the drift loss on the flux levels at inner L regions.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2001

본 실험은 강판삽입형에 드리프트 핀, 볼트를 이용한 2가지 형태의 접합부의 강도 특성을 검토하였다. 하중 방향은 섬유평행방향 하중 (0도 하중)과 섬유직교방향 하중 (90도 하중)을 가하여 하중방향의 차이 및 접합구에 따른 강도 특성을 비교하였다. 소나무재의 강판 삽입의 드리프트 핀, 볼트 인장형 전단강도 실험에서 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 같은 단거리의 섬유평행방향 하중시 최대하중은 접합구의 직경이 증가함에 따라 증가되는 경향을 보였으며, 90도 하중인 경우 드라프트핀, 볼트 접합부는 2가지 접합구 직경(10 mm, 12 mm)에서 모든 소나무 시편이 할렬파괴 되었다. 2. 하중-변형 곡선의 초기 직선영역을 나타내는 직선과 접합구 직경의 5% 만큼을 횡축의 정방향으로 평행 이동시킨 접합부의 항복하중(Py)과 최대 하중비의 증가 정도는 0도 하중의 경우가 높고, 볼트의 접합에서 높았다. 또한 세장비가 증가될수록 높은 경향을 나타냈다. 3 항복 추정식으로 구한 항복하중과 실험값에서 5% 차감한 항복하중은 볼트 접합부에 비해 드리프트 핀 접합부가 추정치와 실험치가 잘 일치되었다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.367-383
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• 2023

A coupled wall consists of two or more reinforced concrete (RC) shear walls (SWs) connected by RC coupling beams (CBs) or steel CBs (hybrid-coupled walls). To fill the gap in the literature on the plastic hinge length of coupled walls, including coupled and hybrid-coupled shear walls, a parametric study using experimentally validated numerical models was conducted considering the axial stress ratio (ASR) and coupling ratio (CR) as the study variables. A total of sixty numerical models, including both coupled and hybrid-coupled SWs, have been developed by varying the ASR and CR within the ranges of 0.027-0.25 and 0.2-0.5, respectively. A detailed analysis was conducted in order to estimate the ultimate drift, ultimate capacity, curvature profile, yielding height, and plastic hinge length of the models. Compared to hybrid-coupled SWs, coupled SWs possess a relatively higher capacity and curvature. Moreover, increasing the ASR changes the walls' behavior to a column-like member which decreases the walls' ultimate drift, ductility, curvature, and plastic hinge length. Increasing the CR of the coupled SWs increases the walls' capacity and the risk of abrupt shear failure but decreases the walls' ductility, ultimate drift and plastic hinge length. However, CR has a negligible effect on hybrid-coupled walls' ultimate drift and moment, curvature profile, yielding height and plastic hinge length. Lastly, using the obtained results two equations were derived as a function of CR and ASR for calculating the plastic hinge length of coupled and hybrid-coupled SWs.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제60권1호
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• pp.57-70
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• 2024

In order to present a predictive drift model, Jeju National University's training ship was tested for about 11 hours and 40 minutes, and 81 samples that selected one of the entire samples at ten-minute intervals were subjected to regression analysis after verifying outliers and influence points. In the outlier and influence point analysis, although there is a part where the wind direction exceeds 1 in the DFBETAS (difference in Betas) value, the CV (cumulative variable) value is 6%, close to 1. Therefore, it was judged that there would be no problem in conducting multiple regression analyses on samples. The standard regression coefficient showed how much current and wind affect the dependent variable. It showed that current speed and direction were the most important variables for drift speed and direction, with values of 47.1% and 58.1%, respectively. The analysis showed that the statistical values indicated the fit of the model at the significance level of 0.05 for multiple regression analysis. The multiple correlation coefficients indicating the degree of influence on the dependent variable were 83.2% and 89.0%, respectively. The determination of coefficients were 69.3% and 79.3%, and the adjusted determination of coefficients were 67.6% and 78.3%, respectively. In this study, a more quantitative prediction model will be presented because it is performed after identifying outliers and influence points of sample data before multiple regression analysis. Therefore, many studies will be active in the future by combining them.

• 센서학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.15-20
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• 1996

감지막 내부로의 수소이온 확산은 pH-ISFET에서 드리프트로 작용하므로 초박막화된 감지막은 드리프트 시간을 최소화할 것이라는 새로운 인식을 가지고 pH-ISFET의 최대 단점인 드리프트 특성을 개선하기 위하여 sol-gel법으로 $Ta_{2}O_{5}$ 수소이온 감지막을 약 $70{\AA}$정도로 초박막화시킨 ISFET를 제조하고 그 동작특성을 조사하였다. 제조한 $Ta_{2}O_{5}$ 게이트 pH-ISFET는 약 59 mV/pH의 높은 감도를 나타내었고, pH $3{\sim}11$ 범위에서 pH에 따른 ISFET의 출력전압변화는 우수한 선형성을 나타내었으며, 또한 출력전압의 변동에 의한 평균 pH 드리프트는 약 0.06 pH/day로서 비교적 작은 값을 나타내었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.91-101
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• 1993

가압경수로형 원자로의 정상 비정상 운전시의 열수력학적 거동을 예측하기 위해서는 원자로내기포계수의 분포를 정확히 계산하는 것이 필수적이다. 이러한 기포계수의 정확한 예측을 위하여 많은 모델들이 제시되었다. 이중 drift-flux모델은 그 계산의 정확성과 간결성에 의하여 널리 사용되고 있다. 이러한 drift-flux 모델을 사용하여 보다 더 정확한 기포계수를 예측하기 위해서는 각 상간의 슬립률과 flow regime 에 따른 기포의 운동의 변화가 정확히 고려되어야 한다. Drift-flux 모델에서는 이러한 두 가지 요소가 drift-flux parameter인 $C_{o}$ 와 (equation omitted), 에서 고려된다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 $C_{o}$ 의 실험적 결정을 위하여 원자로 노심을 모사한 4개의 전열봉이 있는 비등이 발생하는 수직사각 유로를 구성하였으며, 완성된 유로내에서 기포계수의 분포 및 기포속도의 분포를 측정하였다. 국부적 기포계수 및 기포속도 분포의 측정에 사용된 방법은 이중탐침법이며 측정이 이루어진 유로내의 유동 상태는 유속이 비교적 느린 low flow rate condition이며 유로내 압력은 3기압 이하이다. 본 실험에서는 액상의 속도는 측정되지 않았으며, 따라서 $C_{o}$ 의 계산을 위하여 (equation omitted)의 실험 상관관계식을 사용하여 유로내 평균 기포계수의 함수로 나타내었다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제34권6_2호
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• pp.1299-1310
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• 2018

본 연구는 북극해에 분포하는 유빙의 움직임을 이해하기 위해 현장관측 자료와 입자 추적 방법을 사용하여 분포 및 이동경향을 분석하였다. 북극해에서 유빙의 움직임은 NOAA(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)에서 제공하는 ITP(Ice-Tethered Profiler)의 자료 중에서 2009년부터 2018년 자료를 이용했다. 유빙의 유동은 각 연도별로 분류하고 각각의 ITP 자료를 이용하여 위치 및 속도를 분석하였다. 입자 추적은 HYCOM(Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model)과 ECMWF(European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts)에서 제공하는 일별 해류 및 바람 자료를 사용하여 2009년부터 2018년까지의 유빙의 움직임을 모의하였다. 북극해 전역에서 유빙의 이동경향을 분석하기 위해서 현장관측 자료인 ITP자료를 입력 자료로 이용하여 북극해에서 해류와 바람과의 관계식을 계산하여 라그랑지안 입자 추적을 수행하였다. 입자 추적 시뮬레이션은 해류에 의한, 그리고 해류와 바람에 의한 영향을 고려한 두 종류의 실험을 수행하였고, 대부분의 입자는 해류와 바람의 영향을 고려한 경우에 현장관측 자료와 동일하게 재현되었다. 북극해에서 유빙의 움직임은 바람의 영향을 고려한 관계식을 이용하여 재현되었고, 이를 이용하여 특정 연도의 유빙의 이동경향을 분석하였다. 2010년의 경우 Arctic Oscillation Index(AOI)는 음의 해로 입자들은 보퍼트 환류(Beaufort Gyre)를 따라 명확하게 움직임을 보이고, 극점 인근에서는 상대적으로 더 빠른 속도를 나타낸다. 반면에 2017년의 경우 AOI는 양의 해로 대부분의 입자들은 Gyre에 크게 영향을 받지 않는 움직임을 보이며 보퍼트 해 (Beaufort Sea) 인근에서 나타나는 이동속도 또한 상대적으로 감소하였고, 극점에서의 이동속도도 감소했다. 2010년과 2017년의 계절적 특징은 2010년도의 유빙의 이동속도는 동계(0.22 m/s)에 증가되고 춘계(0.16 m/s)에 감소되며, 2017년의 경우 하계(0.22 m/s)에 증가되고 춘계(0.13 m/s)에 감소되었다. 결과적으로 입자추적 방법은 제한된 현장관측 자료를 대신하여 북극해에서 유빙의 분포 및 이동경향을 이해할 수 있는 방법으로 위성자료와 연계하여 장기적인 유빙의 탐지 및 이동경향을 이해하는 유용한 방법이 될 것이다.