• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1994년도 Proceedings of the Korea Automatic Control Conference, 9th (KACC) ; Taejeon, Korea; 17-20 Oct. 1994
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• pp.100-105
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• 1994

In this paper, we discuss a method for design of an ambulance stretcher which call decrease blood pressure fluctuation caused by ambulance acceleration. Recently, a lot of stretchers which can isolate the vertical vibration to reduce body resonances (4-10 Hz) have been used during ambulance transport. However, we have found that blood pressure of a patient laying in the stretcher fluctuates when the ambulance accelerates or decelerates. Since the enforced change of the blood pressure may deteriorate the patent's condition, a stretcher to cancel head-to-foot acceleration and to decrease the blood pressure variation (BPV) is expected for safe transport. We propose a method to design a stretcher which is tilted according to an adequate angle to cancel head-to-foot acceleration by gravity when the ambulance accelerates or decelerates. A control method of the stretcher is constructed by means of simulation analysis using acceleration data measured during ambulance transport. It is confirmed that the active controlled stretcher proposed has good performance for the BPV reduction.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.1141-1169
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• 2014

This study is aimed to investigate the seismic performance of low-rise precast wall system with base isolation. Three types of High Damping Rubber Bearing (HDRB) were designed to provide effective isolation period of 2.5 s for three different kinds of structure in terms of vertical loading. The real size HDRB was manufactured and tested to obtain the characteristic stiffness as well as damping ratio. In the vertical stiffness test, it was revealed that the HDRB was not an ideal selection to be used in isolating lightweight structure. Time history analysis using 33 real earthquake records classified with respective peak ground acceleration-to-velocity (a/v) ratio was performed for the remaining two types of HDRB with relatively higher vertical loading. HDRB was observed to show significant reduction in terms of base shear and floor acceleration demand in ground excitations having a/v ratio above $0.5g/ms^{-1}$, very much lower than the current classification of $0.8g/ms^{-1}$. In addition, this study also revealed that increasing the damping ratio of base isolation system did not guarantee better seismic performance particularly in isolation of lightweight structure or when the ground excitation was having lower a/v ratio.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2020

Floor acceleration plays a major role in the seismic design of nonstructural components and equipment supported by structures. Large floor acceleration may cause structural damage to or even collapse of buildings. For precision instruments in high-tech factories, even small floor accelerations can cause considerable damage in this study. Six P-wave parameters, namely the peak measurement of acceleration, peak measurement of velocity, peak measurement of displacement, effective predominant period, integral of squared velocity, and cumulative absolute velocity, were estimated from the first 3 s of a vertical ground acceleration time history. Subsequently, a new predictive algorithm was developed, which utilizes the aforementioned parameters with the floor height and fundamental period of the structure as the new inputs of a support vector regression model. Representative earthquakes, which were recorded by the Structure Strong Earthquake Monitoring System of the Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan from 1992 to 2016, were used to construct the support vector regression model for predicting the peak floor acceleration (PFA) of each floor. The results indicated that the accuracy of the predicted PFA, which was defined as a PFA within a one-level difference from the measured PFA on Taiwan's seismic intensity scale, was 96.96%. The proposed system can be integrated into the existing earthquake early warning system to provide complete protection to life and the economy.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.501-516
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• 2023

Dynamic irregularity and acceleration of bridges subjected to high-speed trains provide crucial information for comprehensive evaluation of the health state of under-track structures. This paper proposes a novel approach for real-time estimation of vertical track dynamic irregularity and bridge acceleration using deep generative adversarial network (GAN) and vibration data from in-service train. The vehicle-body and bogie acceleration responses are correlated with the two target variables by modeling train-bridge interaction (TBI) through least squares generative adversarial network (LSGAN). To realize supervised learning required in the present task, the conventional LSGAN is modified by implementing new loss function and linear activation function. The proposed approach can offer pointwise and accurate estimates of track dynamic irregularity and bridge acceleration, allowing frequent inspection of high-speed railway (HSR) bridges in an economical way. Thanks to its applicability in scenarios of high noise level and critical resonance condition, the proposed approach has a promising prospect in engineering applications.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.333-339
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• 2008

해상 상태가 거칠어짐에 따라 선체동요로 인하여 선박에 승선 증인 승객 및 승무원은 멀미 증상을 호소하기도 하고, 졸음 증상, 어지럼증, 두통 및 복통 등을 초래하기도 한다. 심한 경우에는 생리적으로 회복하기 힘들 정도의 심각한 장애를 겪기도 한다. 또한, 의욕(동기부여) 감소, 숙련도 저하, 인지능력 및 판단력 저하 등 정신적 활동의 지연이나 오류를 유발하는 등 활동성 및 작업수행 능력이 현저히 떨어지기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 멀미의 발생 및 작업수행과 관련된 대표적인 국제 표준안을 살펴보았고, 실습선에 승선 중인 실습생들을 대상으로 수차례에 걸쳐 설문조사를 실시하여 승선감을 평가하였다. 그 결과, 멀미 중상을 유발하는 주요소가 상하가속도임을 확인하였고, 그 크기(수준)는 0.2g 이상으로 분석되었다. 또한, 속력 또는 침로를 변경하여 파도와의 만남주기가 $4{\sim}8$초의 범위에서 벗어나도록 항해함으로써 멀미 증상을 완화시킬 수 있는 방안을 제시하였다.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.33-49
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• 1997

One of the most important missons that are imposed on merchant ship at sea is to accomplish the safe transportation of cargo loaded. Recently, a study on the seakeeping performance has been carried out on the development of evaluation system related to the synthetic safety of a ship at sea. The seakeeping performance is the ship's ability sailing at, and executing its misson against adverse environmental factors successfully and safely. Until now, however, there has not been any method of quantitative evaluation on the dynamic safety of the ship's cargo loaded. In this regards, this paper has introduced the evaluation method of dynamic safety of the ship's cargo. In order to evaluate the dynamic safety of cargo, the vertical and lateral acceleration which causes the collapse, racking and local structure failure of cargo was adopted as the evaluation factors in the ship's motions. The response amplitude of ship's motions in regular waves is manipulated by NSM (New Strip Method) on a given 2,700 TEU full container vessel under the wind forces of 7, 8 and 9 Beaufort scale. Each response of ship's motions induced by NSM was applied to short-crested irregular waves for stochastic process on evaluation factors and then vertical and lateral acceleration of each cargo was compared with significant amplitude of each acceleration. A representative dangerous factor was determined by comparing permissible values of stacking and racking forces occurred typically to the vertical and transverse directions with the container strength required on ISO 1496 at the positions of forecastle, poop and ship's midship respectively. Through the occurrence probability of the determined factor by Rayleigh's probability density function, the dangerousness which limits loads on container's side wall as an evaluation was applied in judging of the danger of the ship's cargo loaded.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2004년도 제29회 KOSCI SYMPOSIUM 논문집
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• pp.117-123
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• 2004

The burning characteristics of interacting coal particles in a convective flow are numerically investigated at various Reynolds numbers. The transient combustion of 2-dimensionally arranged particles, both the fixed particle distances of 5 radii to 20 radii horizontally and 3 radii to 24 radii vertically, is studied. The results obtained from the present numerical analysis reveal that the transient flame configuration and retardation of particle temperature augmentation with the horizontal or vertical particle spacing substantially influence devolatilization process and carbon conversion ratio of interacting particles. Volatile release and carbon conversion ratio of the second particle with decreasing horizontal and vertical particle spacing decrease gradually, whereas those of the first particle with decreasing vertical particle spacing increases due to flow acceleration. When the vertical particle spacing is smaller than $6R_{o}$, volatile release and carbon conversion ratio of the second particle decrease greatly due to reduction of flame penetration depth.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.119-130
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• 2009

This paper reports results of the structural response of empty steel tanks under vertical ground motions. The tanks are modeled using a finite element discretization using shell elements, and the vertical motion is applied and analyzed using nonlinear dynamics. Several excitation frequencies are considered, with emphasis on those that may lead to resonance of the roof. The computational results illustrate that as the base motion frequency is tuned with the frequency of the first roof-mode of the tank, the system displays large-amplitude displacements. For frequencies away from such mode, small amplitude displacements are obtained. The effect of the height of the cylinder on the dynamic response of the tank to vertical ground motion has also been investigated. The vertical acceleration of the ground motion that induces significant changes in the stiffness of the tank was found to be almost constant regardless of the height of the cylinder.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제39권12호
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• pp.93-102
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• 2023

최근 건축물 구조 기준의 개정으로 말뚝 기초의 내진성능 강화가 강조되고 있음에도 불구하고, 현재 건축물 기초의 내진설계는 비용과 시공상의 어려움으로 충분한 시행이 이루어지지 않고 있다. 본 연구에서는 지진 시 수평 및 수직 하중에 효과적으로 대응할 수 있는 구조로 제안된 삼축 마이크로파일(TMP)의 지진 시 동적 거동을 평가하고자 하였다. 동적 원심모형실험을 통해 설치 각도가 15°인 그룹 삼축 마이크로파일과 설치 각도가 0°인 연직 군말뚝의 가속도, 변위, 휨모멘트, 축력 등의 동적 거동이 비교 분석되었다. 실험 결과에 따르면 가속도와 수평 및 수직 변위 결과를 바탕으로 살펴보았을 때 탁월 주기가 0.5 초 미만인 실지진파 가진 조건에서 경사진 그룹 삼축 마이크로파일의 내진성능은 연직 군말뚝보다 좋거나 비슷한 수준으로 평가된다. 그러나 Sine 2Hz와 같은 장주기의 강한 지진 가진 시에는 경사진 삼축 마이크로파일의 응답이 전반적으로 수직 마이크로파일보다 크게 나타났다. 협소한 공간에서 기존 시설물의 단주기 지진파에 대한 응답을 줄이는 내진보강이 필요한 경우 경사진 삼축 마이크로파일이 수직 마이크로파일의 대안으로 활용 될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.325-332
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• 2001

전징기관은 내이에 존재하며 유연한 동작과 몸의 자세 그리고 운동을 조절한다. 이 기관은 회진 가속도를 감지하는 세반고리관과 선형 가속을 감지하는 이석기관으로 구성된다. 이러한 기관의 생체 신호로부터 의사는 사람이 환자인지를 판단한다. 이 신호의 데이터를 얻기 위해서 회전의자 한쪽을 들어올려 최대 30도까지 기울인 상태에서, 회전제어하게 되는데, 이 경우 부하의 불균형으로 인한 불평형 부하를 제거하고, 생체신호의 측정을 위하여 robust제어가 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 자세조절기능에 대한 이석기관의 역할을 추구하기 위하여 탈수직축 회전자극기를 개발하였으며, 공간을 차지하고 다양한 시각패턴을 만들지 못하는 기존 시각자극시스템의 단점을 해결하기 위하여 HMD를 이용한 시각자극 시스템을 개발하였다. 더구나 노이즈에 취약한 아날로그 신호인 ENG신호의 전송문제를 해결하기 위하여 근거리 R/F 무선시스템으로 개발하였다. 이상의 제안된 시스템을 제작하고 실험한 결과를 보고하였다.