• 기계와재료
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.34-43
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• 2011

최근 노령화와 스포츠 인구의 증가로 인해 족부 혈액순환 장애 및 족관절의 퇴행성 질환이 증가하고 있으며 이로 인해 몸의 평형기능 및 운동성에 기능장애가 동반하게 된다. 이로 인해 일상생활 기능 저하와 낙상과 같은 이차적 합병증 발생을 초래하여 기능 및 삶의 질 저하, 활동제한 등으로 건강한 노년에 대한 심각한 위협 요인이 될 수 있다. 따라서 족부 혈액순환 증진을 위해 IT기술을 활용하여 압력에 따른 부위별 자극의 세기를 달리하고, 3D영상을 통해 가공의 상황 및 가상의 환경을 사람의 감각을 통해 느끼게 하여 실제 상호작용하고 있는 것처럼 만들어 주어, 혈액순환 개선의 효과를 극대화하고자 노화에 따른 족부건강 변화 및 족부 자극의 효과를 분석하고, 가상현실을 기반으로 한 족부혈액 순환 증진 장치와 관련 컨텐츠에 대해 제시하고자 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.670-680
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• 1994

The thermophysical properties of Non-Newtonian fluid as the function of the temperature and the concentration are needed in many rheological heat transfer and fluid mechanics problems. The present work investigated the effects of the concentration and the temperature on the thermophysical properties of purely-viscous Non-Newtonian fluids such as the isobaric thermal expansion coefficient, density, zero-shear-rate viscosity, and zero-shear-rate dynamic viscosity within the experimental temperature range from $25^{\circ}C$ to $55^{\circ}C$. The densities of the test fluids were determined as the function of the temperature by utilizing a reference density and the least square equation for the measured isobaric thermal expansion coefficient. As the concentration of purely-viscous Non-Newtonian fluid was increased up to 10,000 wppm, the densities were proportionally increased up to 0.4%. The zero-shear-rate viscosities of test fluids were measured before and after the measurements of the first thermal expansion coefficients and the densities of Non-Newtonian fluid. Even though they were changed up to approximately 22% due to thermal aging and cycling, they had no effects on the thermal expansion coefficients and the densities of Non-Newtonian fluid. The zero-shear-rate dynamic viscosities for purely-viscous Non-Newtonian fluids were compared with the values for distilled water. They showed the similar trend with the zero-shear-rate viscosities due to small differences in the densities for both distilled water and purely-viscous Non-Newtonian fluid.