• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.589-597
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• 2010

Steel structures have a higher probability of being damaged by fatigue than by other causes of deterioration. As such, their maintenance to prevent fatigue damage is essential to sustain their safety and performance during their service period. In their maintenance, the current state of their fatigue cracks must be assessed to determine appropriate reinforcement methods and the suitable time intervals of periodic inspections when fatigue cracks are detected. Determining the crack growth rate is a successful method of predicting fractures, but it requires technical knowledge on fracture mechanics and experience in numerical methods and software for finite element analysis. In this study, a fatigue crack growth test on through-thickness cracked steel plates was conducted to assess the crack growth rate without superior technical knowledge and experience. The relationship between the Crack Opening Displacement (COD) and the crack growth rate was found in relatively long fatigue cracks.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.15-24
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• 2012

The MEPDG(Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide) developed based on the AASHTO Design Guide helps engineers find optimal alternatives by using traffic volume, climate, material property, and pavement structure as its input parameters. However, because technical problems were found in the MEPDG, efforts to improve the program by settling the problems have been continued. Meanwhile, another mechanistic-empirical design program has been developed by the KPRP(Korea Pavement Research Program) in Korea. To develop and improve the Korean design program reasonably, it is necessary to analyze the MEPDG and then compare programs each other. For concrete pavement, fatigue cracking is predicted by using very complicated logic different from other performance indicators. Therefore, in this paper, transfer functions of the fatigue cracking used in the version of 0.5, 1.0, and 1.1 of the MEPDG were analyzed. Sensitivity of the input parameters to the cumulative fatigue damage was compared to each other by the MEPDG version and KPRP.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.637-644
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• 2001

A regularization method based on the Duvaut-Lions viscoplastic scheme for plastic-damage and continuum damage models, which provides mesh-independent and well-posed solutions in nonlinear earthquake analysis of concrete dams, is presented. A plastic-damage model regularized using the proposed rate-dependent viscosity method and its original rate-independent version are used for the earthquake damage analysis of a concrete dam to analyze the effect of the regualarization and mesh. The computational analysis shows that the regularized plastic-damage model gives well-posed solutions regardless mesh size and arrangement, while the rate-independent counterpart produces mesh-dependent ill-posed results.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.231-243
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• 1994

To better understand the fundamental problems of the true micro-damage in medium-grained granite under uniaxial compressive stress, micro-damage localization, initiation and propagation have been observed in a great detail in contact portion of two grains such as quartz and feldspar. For this purpose, new experimental system allowing us to observe the micro-damaging process continuously was developed. Earlier studies used the specimens of unloaded state and it is difficult to visualize stress-induced microcracks under unloading state. Thus, direct observation under loading state is very important for understanding the true micro-damage process. The results explain well the mechanism of micro-damage at two grains, and mechanics of the micro-damage is clarified well by Hertzian fracture mechanics.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.65-76
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• 1996

The initiation and growth of microcracks or microvoids inside concrete results in the progressive degradation of concrete. This damage processing along processing along with plastic deformation is main cause of nonlinear behavior of concrete. In this study, a continuum damage model of concrete is developed for the analysis of the nonlinear behavior of concrete due to damage and elasto-plastic deformation. Anisotropic damage tensor is used to describe the anisotropy of concrete and hypothesis of equivalent elastic energy is used to define the effective elastic tensor. The damage model including the damage evolution law and constitutive equation is derived with damage variable and damage surface which is defined by damage energy release rate by using the Helmholtz free energy and dissipation potential based on the thermodynamic principles. By adopting a typical plasticity model of concrete, plasticity of concrete is included to this model. Afinite element analysis program implemented with this model was developed and finite element analysis was performed for the analyses of concrete subjected to uniaxial and biaxial loadings. Comparison of the results of analysis with those of experiments and other models shows that the model successfully predicts the nonlinear behavior of concrete.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.13-24
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• 1986

마취과 의사는 신경외과수술시 뇌압이 상승되어 있는 환자의 마취를 자주 접하게 된다. 따라서 이러한 환자에서 뇌압의 상승을 억제시키고 뇌압상승 요인들을 제거하며 적당한 뇌혈류량을 유지시킴으로서 이미 손상된 뇌조직을 보호하고 더 이상의 뇌손상을 가하지 않도록 노력해야 한다. 이를 위하여 마취과적 입장에서 고려해 보아야 할 여러 문제점들, 특히 두개강내 역학 즉 뇌용적, 뇌압, 뇌혈류, 뇌산소대사율의 유기적 관계와 마취과에서 쓰여지는 여러약제 및 기타 뇌압과 관계되는 약제 및 요인들에 관하여 기술해 보았다.

• The Academic Congress of Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society
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• 2002.03a
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• pp.140-141
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• 2002

수영이 어깨관절에 미칠 수 있는 과도한 부하를 생각할 때 수영과 관련된 어깨 문제를 해결하여 종전의 경기력을 회복한다는 것은 과학과 예술의 합성만큼 어려운 것일 것이다. 이를 위해서는 수영의 생역학, 어깨 손상의 조기진단 법, 진단의 객관적 수치 유추화, 손상 부위에 따라 개별화 된 운동치료 법 등 여러 가지의 발전이 필수적일 것이다. 본란에서는 이에 대한 전체적인 내용을 한가지씩 짚어가며 그 방법과 문제점에 대하여 토의하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.5-5
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• 1997

고체추진제에 대한 비선형 점탄성 구성모델이 제시되었다 추진제 손상의 원인으로서 바인더와 AP 충전제사이의 접착분리를 고려하였으며, 점탄성 드웨팅판별식이 개발되었다. 손상에 의한 추진제의 연화는 모듈러스 저하로서 취급되었으며, 모듈러스저하 계산시에 드웨팅에 의하여 야기된 미소진공구의 모듈러스는 유한 상수로서 간주되었다. 바인더와 AP 충전제사이의 접착에너지는 180$^{\circ}$ 접착박리시험으로 측정하였다. 반복하중시의 비선형성은 전단변형률 불변량의 함수로서 고려되었다. 이 구성모델은 여러 하중조건에 대한 시편실험과 비교되어 잘 일치하였으며, 복잡한 미시구조학적 역학기구 없이 간단하게 고체 추진제의 거동을 예측할 수 있게 한다.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.58-67
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• 1991

A theory of continuum damage mechanics based on the theory of materials of type N was developed and its nonlinear finite element approximation and numerical simulation was carried out. To solve the finite elastoplasticity problems, reasonable kinematics of large deformed solids was introduced and constitutive relations based on the theory of materials of type-N were derived. These highly nonlinear equations were reduced to the incremental weak formulation and approximated by the theory of nonlinear finite element method. Two types of problems, compression moulding problem and pure bending problem, were solved for aluminum 2024.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.372-383
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• 1994

복합재료의 피로특성과 해석방법에 대하여 간략하게 살펴보았다. 복합재료의 피로현상에 대한 이해의 폭이 넓어짐에 따라 앞에서 소개한 방법외에 파단모드별 연구, 역학에 기초를 둔 해석법, 유한요소법의 적용, 혼성복합재료(hybrid composites)의 피로수명 예측 등의 다양한 연구가 진 행중이나, 아직 정립된 피로수명 예측식은 없다고 말할 수 있다. 재료의 손상을 나타내는 매개 변수로서 강성변화의 유용성이 밝혀진 상태이므로 앞으로 이를 이용하여 실제의 현상을 표현할 수 있는 손상함수의 구성과 피로수명 예측에 관한 연구가 수행되어야 한다.