• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.1459-1464
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• 2009

Recently demand for large-capacity aluminum heat sinks has been increased as market for high power electricity expands and high-performance electronic products develop. While the brazed heat sinks are in particular preferred, it is almost impossible to manufacture them with an atmospheric continuous furnace due to insufficient heating rate and various thickness of the parent metals. Therefore, a new index batch furnace is developed and the process variables are optimized. Then, brazing efficiency and tensile stress are obtained for brazed parts of the heat sinks. Finally experiment as well as numerical analysis has been performed to compare thermal efficiency of the brazed heat sinks with that of the silicone-bonded heat sinks.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.241-249
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• 2003

The service life of steel bridges can be assured only when their strength, serviceability and fatigue safety are fulfilled. However, at the present time, the continuous research for fatigue of steel bridges is desperately required since not much research work has been done so far. In this study, a guideline on the fatigue design is suggested for the practical purpose in order to establish the long-term safety of steel bridges against fatigue. The continuous steel truss bridge was analyzed for the cumulative reversals of the actual traffic, stress ranges and fatigue strength. From the results, the domestic fatigue design procedure was found to be fairly overestimated in comparison to the design code of other foreign countries. Therefore, it is necessary to review the current fatigue design specifications and have the new and rationalized design criteria in the future domestic fatigue design guidance.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.55-63
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• 2007

Deformational characteristics of subgrade soils are important properties in the mechanistic analysis and design of pavement system. In this study, to evaluate the effect of specimen construction methods on deformational characteristics of subgrade soils in Korea, resonant column tests were performed for specimens constructed by various methods. Specimen construction method affected to the modulus value but the variation in the normalized modulus reduction curve was almost identical. The effects of specimen construction method on modulus are decreased with increasing confining pressure. The average maximum variation in the modulus value with different specimen construction methods was estimated as 16.8%. The differences in the modulus value of the specimens with same water content and dry density conditions that made by gyratory compaction and impact compaction were very small within 5.2%. The impact compaction method was proposed as a specimen construction method for determining the design input parameter testing considering that impact compaction method is much simpler and require less expensive specimen construction equipment and setup than gyratory compaction method.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.203-211
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• 2006

This paper presents a new, effective torsional constant for thin-waled open beams under concentrated and uniformly distributed torques. The proposed constant can be used directly, instead of the St. Venant torsional constant, for any generic comemrcial finite-element program, without modifying the algorithm. The derived torsional constant accounts for both the pure torsion and the warping torsion, and is equal to the St. Venant torsion constant times a correction factor. It is also shown, in the case of the St. Venant torsion, that the derived constant is identical to the torsional constant. The derived effective torsional constant is different from the one given by Elhelbawey et al. The pure torsional shear stress, the warping shear stress, and the warping normal stress were also determine d, using the maximum twisting angle. The accuracy of the proposed torsional constant was validated by comparing the numerical results with the closed-form solutions or other numerical results available in the literature.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.395-402
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• 2007

Probabilistic risk assessment was conducted on a hybrid cable-stayed bridge consisting of a steel-composite plate girder and a concrete girder with a long span, designed using the working stress design and strength design methods. The component reliabilities of the bridge's cables, pylons, girders, and steel-concrete conjunction were evaluated using the AFOSM(Advanced First Order Second Moment) algorithm and the simulation technique at the critical sections, based on the maximum axial force, shear, and positive and negative moments of the selected sections. For the analysis of system reliability, the hybrid cable-stayed bridge consisting of cables, pylons, and plate girders was modeled into combined failure modes, and for system reliability, the probabilities of failure and reliability index of the structural system were evaluated. Based on the results of this study, the critical failure modes of the hybrid cable-stayed bridge based on the bridge's structural characteristics are suggested, and the efficiency of the partial ETA technique for use in the risk assessment method was confirmed.

• Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.27-32
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• 2004

The oceanic tides have an effect on groundwater levels in coastal fractured rock aquifers. The observed groundwater table fluctuations caused by the effective stress through an aquifer are shown as sine curves similar with tidal fluctuation. To estimate a hydrogeologic parameter, tidal method is utilized with groundwater level fluctuations of two monitoring wells. Cross correlation function is used to calculate time lags between observed groundwater levels and tide, and the deeper well shows longer time lag. The storage coefficients calculated by using tidal efficiency and time lag show large differences. The storage coefficients obtained by using time lags are close to the result of slug test, and that of the deeper well shows closer value by slug test. The tidal efficiency is unsatisfied to apply in the tidal method because of an effect of phreatic aquifer and the vertical flow of groundwater through fractured confining bed. This tidal method can be an economical and effective way to define the parameter by considering the location of observation well and hydrogeologic characteristics of a coastal aquifer.

• The Journal of Engineering Research
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.125-135
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• 2002

The vertical distribution of pore water pressure in the highly saturated sand layer under the oscillating water pressure (water wave) is studied theoretically and experimentally. By experiments it is shown that the water pressure acting on the sand surface propagates into the sand layer with the damping in amplitude and the lag in phase, and that the liquefaction, the state that the effective stress becomes zero, occurs under certain conditions. These experimental results are explained fairly well by the same theoretical treatment as for the ground water problems in the elastic aquifer. The main characteristics of liquefaction clarified by the analysis are as follows: 1) The depth of the liquefied layer increases with the increase of the amplitude and the frequency of the oscillating water pressure. 2) The increase of the volume of the water and the air in the layer increases the liquefied depth. Especially the very small amount of the air affects the liquefaction significantly. 3) The liquefied depth decrease rapidly with the increase of the compressibility coefficient of the sand. 4) In the range beyond a certain value of the permeability coefficient the liquefied depth decrease with the increase of the coefficient.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.605-605
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• 2012

최근 통계자료에 의하면 국내 제방붕괴 유형 중 11.5%가 제체 불안정에 의한 붕괴로 보고되고 있다. 홍수시 노후화된 제방이 붕괴하여 발생하는 인명 및 재산피해는 점차 증가하고 있는 상황이어서, 이에 대한 제방 시설물의 보강 및 안전관리 대책이 필요한 상황이다. 하천시설물 주변의 흐름특성에 의하여 세굴이 발생할 수 있는 지점에는 보호공을 설치하여 시설물의 안정성을 확보하도록 하천설계기준 해설(2009)에서 제안하고 있다. 그러나 구조물을 보완하는 보호공의 공종 및 규격 등을 설계하기 위한 세부적인 설계지침이 미흡하여 외국의 연구 또는 설계사례를 참고하여 국내 하천에 적용하고 있는 상황이다. 해외의 연구사례를 살펴보면, 설계공식에 적용된 설계인자인 유속 및 수심 등을 1차원 단면평균값을 활용하는 경우가 많아서 복잡한 하천의 흐름특성을 반영하기에 미흡한 상황이다. 본 연구에서는 국내 하천해석에서 주로 활용되고 있는 수치모형을 이용하여 실험수로의 흐름을 재현하고 수리실험을 통하여 관측한 유속 및 수위분포 결과와 비교하였다. 2차원 수치모형으로는 RMA2, CCHE2D, FLUMEN 등의 상용모형과 최근 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있는 Approximate Riemann 기법을 적용하여 개발된 유한체적모형을 적용하였다. 제방 부근에서 형성되는 흐름을 상세하게 모의하기 위하여 국내 하천시설물 설계에서 많이 활용되고 있는 FLOW-3D 모형을 적용하여 3차원 모의결과와 수리실험결과를 비교하였다. 수리실험에서 관측된 사석호안공의 이탈시 흐름현상을 재현하여 호안공 이탈에 영향을 미치는 국부유속 및 전단응력을 산정하여 호안설계에 적합한 설계인자를 분석하였다. 연구결과를 활용하여 사석호안공 설계 기법에 적용되는 수치모형을 통하여 산정되는 설계인자의 정확성을 향상시킴으로써, 정량적이고 합리적인 사석호안공 설계기법개발에 도움이 될 것으로 판단된다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.9
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• pp.961-970
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• 2012

The behavior of the load bearing capacity of a pipeline with unequal wall thickness was evaluated using finite element analyses. Pipelines with a wall thickness ratio of 1.22-1.89 were adopted to investigate plastic collapse under tensile, internal pressure, or bending stress. A parametric study showed that the tensile strength and moment of a pipeline with a wall thickness ratio less than 1.5 were not influenced by the wall thickness ratio and taper angle; however, those of a pipeline with a wall thickness ratio more than 1.5 decreased considerably at a low taper angle. The failure pressure of a pipeline with unequal wall thickness was not influenced by the wall thickness ratio and taper angle.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.121-127
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• 2014

An atomistic-based finite bond element model for predicting the tearing mode (mode III) fracture of a single-layer graphene sheet (SLGS) is developed. The model uses the modified Morse potential for predicting the maximum strain relationship of graphene sheets. The mode III fracture of graphene under out-of-plane shear loading is investigated with extensive molecular mechanics simulations. Molecular mechanics is used for describing the displacements of atoms in the area near a crack tip, and linear elastic fracture mechanics is used outside this area. This work shows that the molecular mechanics method can provide a reliable and yet simple method for determining not only the shear properties of SLGS but also its mode III fracture toughness in the armchair and the zigzag directions; the determined mode III fracture toughness values of SLGS are $0.86MPa{\sqrt{m}}$ and $0.93MPa{\sqrt{m}}$, respectively.