• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.7 no.3 s.20
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• pp.13-17
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• 2003

A membrane unit for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) storage tank is a structural member which is designed specifically for preventing undesirable LNG leakage. Membrane units have to endure gas and liquid pressures by LNG and thermal stresses by the contact with cryogenic liquid of $-162^{\circ}C$. It is of importance to assure the strengths of membrane by experimental stress analysis under the temperature of LNG. In this paper, we proposed measurement system using commercial electrical strain gage and mechanical extension meter designed for this study.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06b
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• pp.292-297
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• 2008

본 논문은 FPGA 기반 설계에서 주변보다 급격한 온도 변화를 보이는 hotspot들을 탐지하기 위한 열 감지 센서 수를 정하고, 센서의 놓여야 할 배치 장소를 결정하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 열 감지 센서로는 동적으로 설계가 가능한 ring oscillator 센서 기술을 사용한다는 가정 하에, 센서의 사용 개수를 최소화함과 동시에 최적의 센서 배치 위치 찾는다. 기존의 연구의 단점은 센서가 감지하는 영역 범위를 적당한 크기의 정사각형으로 간주하였기에, 실제 원형의 관측 범위를 보이는 센서 감지 영역의 현실을 올바로 반영하지 못하였으며, 또한 잘 알려진 회로 분할(partition) 기법에 의존한 휴리스틱으로 최적의 결과를 보장하지는 못하였다. 이와는 달리 본 연구에서는 센서의 관측 범위를 원형으로 할 수도 있게 함과 동시에 최적의 해를 보장하는 센서 할당 및 배치 알고리즘을 제안한다. 구체적으로 본 제안 알고즘에서는 소위 “Candidate Coloring 기법”을 통해 센서가 놓여야 할 모든 후보 영역을 표시하며, “Candidate Filtering 기법”을 통해 불필요한 후보 영역들을 완전히 삭제하여 탐색 공간을 줄이게 되며 (해의 최적 해는 항상 유지 되도록 하면서), 마지막으로 Branch-and-Bound 알고리즘을 적용해 최적의 센서 할당 및 배치 결과를 찾아내었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06b
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• pp.298-302
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• 2008

주어진 작은 크기의 칩 내부에 많은 기능 (예: 멀티미디어, 음성/영상 등)을 작동시키기 위해서는 고집적(high-integration)의 회로가 구현되게 된다. 이러한 고집적 회로는 작동할 때 상당한 양의 전력 소모를 유발하게 되어 결국 배더리 수명을 단축시키는 상황을 가지게 한다. 더욱 심각한 상황은 고 밀도의 칩 안에서의 많은 전력 소모는 열의 발생을 더욱 가속화 시키게 되며, 결국 칩 작동의 신뢰성(reliability)을 상당히 잃게 만든다. 본 연구에서는 칩의 작동에 따른 열 발생으로 유발되는 칩의 온도 상승을 감지하는 센서회로 구현에 관한 것이다. FPGA 칩은 주 목적의 기능을 수행하는 회로들을 구현함과 동시에 추가적으로 열 감지 센서 회로를 구현할 자원을 FPGA가 제공을 해 주어야 하는데, 주목적의 회로 공간(즉, 자원) 사용으로 인해 열 센서 회로 구현 자원이 충분하지 않을 경우나 여러 지역에 사용 가능한 자원이 소규모로 흩어진 경우 등 센서 구현을 위한 자원 탐색 및 구현 가능성에 대해 점검하는 알고리즘이 필요하다. 본 연구는 이러한 알고리즘을 개발하여 그 효용성을 실험을 통해 보이고 있다. 제안한 알고리즘의 특징은 Branch-and-Bound에 기반을 두고 있으며, 알고리즘의 수행 시간 단축을 위한 효과적인 search tree pruning 기법을 제안하고 있다.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.168-173
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• 2010

Novel porous silicon chip exhibiting dual optical properties, both Frbry-Perot fringe (optical reflectivity) and photoluminescence had been developed and used as chemical sensors. Porous silicon samples were prepared by an electrochemical etch of p-type sillicon wafer (boron-doped, <100> orientation, resistivity 1 - 10 ${\Omega}$). The ething solution was prepared by adding an equal volume of pure ethanol to an aqueous solution of HF (48% by weight). The porous silicon was illuminated with a 300 W tungsten lamp for the duration of etch. Ething was carried out as a two-electrode Kithley 2420 preocedure at an anodic current. The surface of porous silicon was characterized by FT-IR instrument. The porosity of samples was about 80%. Three different types of porous silicon, fresh porous silicon (Si-H termianated), oxidized porous silicon (Si-OH terminated), and surface-derivatized porous silicon (Si-R terminated), were prepared by the thermal oxidation and hydrosilylation. Then the samples were exposed to the wapor of various organics vapors. such as chloroform, hexane, methanol, benzene, isopropanol, and toluene. Both reflectivity and photoluminescence were simultaneously measured under the exposure of organic wapors.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.28 no.B
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• pp.39-45
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• 2008

Temperature variation according to space and time on the inner parts of engineering constructions(e.g.: dam, slope) can be a basic information for diagnosing their safety problem. In general, as constructions become superannuated, structural deformation(e.g.: cracks, defects) could be occurred by various factors. Seepage or leakage of water through these cracks or defects in old dams will directly cause temperature anomaly. Groundwater level also can be easily observed by abrupt change of temperature on the level. This study shows that the position of seepage or leakage in dam body can be detected by multi-channel temperature monitoring using thermal line sensor. For this, diverse temperature monitoring experiments for a leakage physical model were performed in the laboratory. In field application of an old earth fill dam, temperature variations for water depth and for inner parts of boreholes located at downstream slope were measured. Temperature monitoring results for a long time at the bottom of downstream slope of the dam showed the possibility that temperature monitoring can provide the synthetic information about flowing path and quantity of seepage of leakage in dam body.

• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.30-39
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• 2016

This research presents the development of a self-governing mobile robot navigation system for indoor construction applications. This self-governing robot navigation system integrated robot control units, various positioning techniques including a dead-reckoning system, a UWB platform and motion sensors, with a BIM path planner solution. Various algorithms and error correction methods have been tested for all the employed sensors and other components to improve the positioning and navigation capability of the system. The research demonstrated that the path planner utilizing a BIM model as a navigation site map could effectively extract an efficient path for the robot, and could be executed in a real-time application for construction environments. Several navigation strategies with a mobile robot were tested with various combinations of localization sensors including wheel encoders, sonar/infrared/thermal proximity sensors, motion sensors, a digital compass, and UWB. The system successfully demonstrated the ability to plan an efficient path for robot's movement and properly navigate through the planned path to reach the specified destination in a complex indoor construction site. The findings can be adopted to several potential construction or manufacturing applications such as robotic material delivery, inspection, and onsite security.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.252-252
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• 2008

The microhotplates consisting of a Pt-ased heating element on AlN/poly 3C-SiC layers were fabricated. The microhotplate has a $600{\mu}m{\times}600{\mu}m$ square shaped membrane which made of $1{\mu}m$ thick ploycrystalline 3C-SiC suspended by four legs. 3C-SiC is known for excellent chemical durability, mechanical strength and sustaining of high temperature. The membrane is fabricated by surface micromachining using oxidized Si sacrificial layer. The Pt thin film is used for heating material and resist temperature sensor. The fabrication methodology allows intergration of an array of heating material and resist temperature detector. For reasons of a short response time and a high sensitivity a uniform temperature profile is desired. The dissipation of microhotplate was examined by a IR thermoviewer and the power consumption was measured. Measured and simulated results are compared and analyzed. Thermal characterization of the microhotplates shows that significant reduction in power consumption was achieved using suspended structure.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.612-619
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• 2003

This work experimentally studies the fundamental mechanisms by which the ultrasonic vibration enhances convection and pool boiling heat transfer. A thin platinum wire is used as both a heat source and a temperature sensor. A high speed video imaging system is employed to observe the behavior of cavitation and thermal bubbles. It is found that when the liquid temperature is below its boiling point, cavitation takes place due to ultrasonic vibration while cavitation disappears when the liquid reaches the boiling point. Moreover, when the gas dissolved in liquid is removed by pre-degassing, the cavitation arises only locally. Depending on the liquid temperature, heat transfer rates in convection, subcooled boiling and saturated boiling regimes are examined. In convection heat transfer regime, fully agitated cavitation is the most efficient heat transfer enhancement mechanism. Subcooled boiling is most enhanced when tile local cavitation is induced after degassing. In saturated boiling regime, acoustic pressure is shown to be a dominant heat transfer enhancement mechanism.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.10-19
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• 2003

As the technical demand for biometrics is increasing, users expect that fingerprint recognition systems are operable with various fingerprint readers. However, current commercial off-the-shelf fingerprint recognition systems are no interoperable due to the lack of standardization in application program interfaces for fingerprint readers. A cross-matching fingerprint recognition system is a person authentication system based on fingerprints and utilizing different types of fingerprint readers. It should be able to overcome variations in fingerprint images acquired by different readers, such as the size, resolution, contrast of images. The purpose of this research is to develop across-matching fingerprint recognition system for fingerprint research of different sensing mechanism. The fingerprint readers tested in this study are optical, semiconductor and thermal sensor modules, and the prpoposed cross-matching system utilizes both a minutiae-based similarity and a ridge count-based similarity in matching fingerprint images acquired by different sensors.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.2100-2101
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• 2008

This paper is studied on a protective control system for electrical fire and electrical faults due to over current or electric short circuit faults by using electrical thermal characteristics of PTC (Positive Temperature Coefficient) thermistor and current response characteristics of high sensitive reed switch. The PTC thermistor has characteristic of positive resistivity temperature coefficient according to the temperature variation, which is construction of a regular square and cube demarcation with BaTiO3_Ceramics of positive temperature coefficient. Also PTC thermistor shows the phenomenon which is rapidly increased in the resistivity if the temperature is increased over Curie temperature point, and reed switch, which is used for electrical fault current sensing devices, have a excellent characteristic of response velocity in degree of ${\mu}s{\sim}ms$ that sensing magnetic flux in proportion to dimension of line current. This paper is proposed on a protective control system use PTC thermistor and reed switch for sensor which is protected from electrical fire due to overload faults or electric short circuit faults. Some experimental results of the proposed electric safety control device are confirmed to the validity of the analytical results.