• 설비공학논문집
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• 제23권7호
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• pp.483-491
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• 2011

When pipe components made of carbon steel in nuclear, fossil, and industry are exposed to flowing fluid, wall thinning caused by FAC(flow accelerated corrosion) can be generated and eventually ruptured at the portion of pressure boundary. A study to identify the locations generating local wall thinning and to disclose turbulence coefficient related to the local wall thinning was performed. Experiment and numerical analyses for tee of down scaled piping components were performed and the results were compared. In particular, flow visualization experiment which was used alkali metallic salt was performed to find actual location of local wall thinning inside tee components. To disclose the relationship between turbulence coefficients and local wall thinning, numerical analyses were performed for tee components. The turbulence coefficients based on the numerical analyses were compared with the local wall thinning based on the measured data. From the comparison of the results, the vertical flow velocity component(Vr) flowing to the wall after separating in the wall due to the geometrical configuration and colliding with the wall directly at an angle of some degree was analogous to the configuration of local wall thinning.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.716-720
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• 2010

This paper proposes an effective fingerprint identification system with hardware block for thinning stage processing of a verification algorithm based on minutiae with 39% occupation of 32-bit RISC microprocessor cycle. Each step of a fingerprint algorithm is analyzed based on FPGA and ARMulator. This paper designs an effective hardware scheme for thinning stage processing using the Verilog-HDL in $160{\times}192$ pixel array. The ZS algorithm is applied for a thinning stage. The logic is also synthesized in $0.35{\mu}m$ 4-metal CMOS process. The layout is performed based on an auto placement-routing and post-simulation is performed in logic level. The result is compared with a conventional one.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회A
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• pp.1702-1707
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• 2007

The reduction of pipe-thickness induced by flow accelerated corrosion (FAC) is one of the most serious problems on the maintenance of piping system in nuclear power plants (NNP). If the thickness of a pipe component is reduced below the critical level, it cannot sustain pressure and consequently results in leakage or rupture. For this reason, wall thinning by FAC has been inspected in secondary side piping systems in NPPs. In this research Round Robin Test (RRT) was conducted to verify confidence of wall thinning measurement system in NPP. 12 inspectors from 3 companies participated and 23 specimens were used according to standard practice in RRT. The gage R&R analysis was introduced in regard to repeatability and reproducibility that are affected to measurement system errors. Confidence intervals of thickness measurement system were obtained.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.1404-1411
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• 2016

Pipe wall thinning in the secondary piping system of a nuclear power plant is currently a major problem that typically affects the safety and reliability of the nuclear power plant directly. Regular in-service inspections are carried out to manage the piping system only during the overhaul. Online thickness monitoring is necessary to avoid abrupt breakage due to wall thinning. To this end, a transducer that can withstand a high-temperature environment and should be installed under the insulation layer. We propose a thin plate type of embedded ultrasonic transducer based on magnetostriction. The transducer was designed and fabricated to measure the thickness of a pipe under a high-temperature condition. A number of experimental results confirmed the validity of the present transducer.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2002년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.65-68
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• 2002

In an automatic fingerprint recognition system, a thinning process after binarization is commonly used. However it gives rise to spurs and holes often causing many spurious minutiae. Thus, more elaborate postprocessing is urgently needed to remove such spurious minutiae. To overcome this problem, we present a method of extracting minutiae based on horizontal and vertical run-length encoding from a binary fingerprint image without thinning process. Experimental results show that the proposed method for extracting minutiae is fairly reliable and fast, when il is compared to other method adopting a thinning process.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.4 No.1
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• pp.223-226
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• 2003

We propose an improvement method for a $\underline{G}ate$ $\underline{OX}ide(GOX)$ thinning at the edge of $\underline{S}hallow$ $\underline{T}rench$ $\underline{I}solation(STI)$, when STI is adopted to Dual Gate Oxide(DGOX) Process. In the case of SOC(System On-a-Chip), the DGOX process is usually used for realizing both a low and a high voltage parts in one chip. However, it is found that the severe GOX thinning occurs from at STI top edge region and a dent profile exists at the top edge of STI, when conventional DGOX and STI process carried out in high density device chip. In order to overcome this problem, a new DGOX process is tried in this study. And we are able to prevent the GOX thinning by H2 anneal, partially SiN liner skip, and a method which is merged a thick sidewall oxide(S/O) with a SiN pull-back process. Therefore, a good subthreshold characteristics without a double hump is obtained by the prevention of a GOX thinning and a deep dent profile.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.57-60
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• 2016

Non Destructive Testing (NDT) methods that are capable of detecting the wall thinning and defects through insulation and cladding sheets are necessary. In this study we developed a Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC) system to detect wall thinning of ferro magnetic steel pipes covered with 95 mm thick fiber glass thermal insulator and shielded with aluminum plate of thickness 0.4 mm. In order to confirm the thickness change due to wall thinning, two different sensors, a hall sensor and a search coil sensor were used as a detecting element. In both the cases, the experimental data indicates a considerable change in the detected pulse corresponding to the change in sample thickness. The thickness of the tube was made to change such as 2.5 mm, 5 mm and 8 mm from the inner surface to simulate wall thinning. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) was calculated using window approach and the results were summarized which shows a clear identification of thickness change in the test specimen by comparing the magnitude spectra.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제96권2호
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• pp.151-159
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• 2007

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of thinning on changes in stand characteristics and understory vegetation in a silvopasture practiced Japanese larch plantation in the Research Forest of Kangwon National University, Korea. Three different thinning intensities (64%, 35%, and control) were applied. Before and after thinning, the understory plant species increased its number from 48 (7 tree species, 7 shrubs species, 28 herbaceous species, and 6 woody climbers) to 100 (11 tree species, 15 shrub species, 67 herbaceous species, and 7 woody climbers). Thinning made plants invade easily on the forest floor, and plot A (325 stems/ha) had much higher number of undersory species than those Of plot B (575 stems/ha) and control plot (1,150 stems/ha). In three years after thinning, understory aboveground biomass (kg/ha) of herbs were 523 for control, 1,230 for plot B, and 1,288 for plot A. The canopy coverage had remarkable influence on the understory biomass production, resulting in relatively small amount of herbage production on control plot. The differences were statistically significant between thinned plots and unthinned plot, but there were no significant differences among the thinned plots (p<0.05).

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.45-53
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• 1999

지리정보시스템은 지리정보를 가장 효과적으로 저장하여 검색할 수 있고, 가공 처리할 수 있는 유용한 도구이다. 지리정보시스템을 구축하는데 있어서 가장 많은 시간과 비용이 소요되는 것은 입력 부분이기 때문에 벡터라이징 시스템의 개발은 매우 중요하다. 지리정보시스템에서 처리되는 모든 종류의 도면 중에서 특히 등고선도가 가장 많은 노력을 요한다. 본 논문에서는 지리정보시스템에서 등고선 벡터라이징을 위한 최적 세선화 알고리즘에 관하여 고찰하였고, 실험 결과로서 연결값을 이용한 세선화 알고리즘이 유사도가 가장 우수한 알고리즘임을 입증하였다.

• 한국산림과학회지
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• 제96권6호
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• pp.742-749
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• 2007

본 연구의 목적은 거리독립생장모델을 이용한 잣나무 임분의 간벌효과 분석모델을 개발하는데 있다. 이 모델은 간벌시업계획의 주요 인자로 간벌의 횟수와 시기, 강도 그리고 간벌방법을 고려할 수 있도록 설계되었다. 개발된 모델의 적용성 검토를 위해 간벌시업계획에 따른 7개의 시나리오를 작성하여 임분생장 효과를 분석하였다. 연구결과, 개발된 모델을 이용하여 간벌시업 형태에 따른 개체목의 직경급별 본수, 수고, 재적과 임분의 평균흉고직경, 평균수고, ha당 본수 및 재적변화에 관한 생장을 예측할 수 있었다. 1개소의 잣나무 현실임분을 대상으로한 모델의 적용성 검토에 있어서, 간벌시나리오별 임분생장량을 비교한 결과, 간벌시업에 의한 임분밀도조절로 주벌시점의 재적량 증가효과를 기대할 수는 없는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 간벌량과 주벌량을 포함하는 총수확량은 무간벌의 경우보다 간벌시업을 한 경우에 ha당 약 $40{\sim}75m^3$의 증가효과를, 그리고 임분의 평균흉고직경에서는 5 cm이내, 평균 수고에서는 1 m이내의 증가효과를 보였다. 본 연구를 통해 개발된 모델은 현실임분의 구성여건에 따라 간별의 실시 여부 및 간벌시업체계의 선택문제를 결정하는 의사결정지원도구로서 활용가능 할 것이다.