• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.6 no.2 s.20
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• pp.47-59
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• 2004

The temperature variation of concrete pavement at early-age significantly affects the initiation and propagation of its early-age cracks. This implies that the measurement and analysis of early age temperature trend are necessary to examine the causes of early age cracks in the concrete pavement. In this study, it is investigated how the early age temperature trend in concrete pavement affects the random crack initiation and behaviors of saw-cut joints using the actual construction site which is located at the KHC test road. During 72 hours after placing the concrete pavement, the ambient air temperature and temperatures at the top, middle, and bottom in concrete pavement were measured and the random crack initiation in concrete slabs and early age behaviors in the joints were surveyed. The investigation results indicate that the first random crack was initiated at one of the slabs placed in the early morning which have higher temperature changes during early 72 hours. The movement of slab was influenced by the early-age crack in the joint. It suggested that the different occurrence time of the cracks in the joint had an influence on the behavior of the cracks. Besides, the slab constructed In the morning had higher possibility of crack initiation than that in the afternoon. The rarely occurred cracks had bigger gap than other cracks.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.30 no.3 s.151
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• pp.378-385
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• 2006

To release fashion trends in an efficient way, many of the apparel business and fashion educational institutes in land adopt fashion shows employing fashion models. Modeling rather than flat pattern making realizes the majority of the complicated design works for the fashion shows. However, for the different measurements between the dress form and the real human model, problems often occur during the modeling and fitting processes. Researches on the standard dress form development representing professional fashion models' features are therefore in urgent need to enable the related apparel business and fashion institutes to make appropriate use of the dress form in their jobs. The study has been conducted as a preliminary study using a questionnaire method ultimately to develop the female dress form. A questionnaire in the research aimed at an investigation into the actual conditions of and satisfaction with the usage and the body measurements of existed dress forms. Approximately 30 fashion-related educational institutes and 10 apparel companies responded to the survey. Data derived from the survey was analyzed using SPSS version 10.1, the statistics tool. The results throughout the research were discussed in terms of largely three categories that are; (1) the general conditions of the usage of the dress form to prepare fashion shows: e.g. the frequency of holding the fashion show in an annual term, the proportion of professional and amateur models employed for the fashion show, the methods to construct garments, types and number of dress forms utilized and etc.; (2) factors considered to purchase the dress form e.g. its functionality, shapes, sizes, duration, price, A/S condition and etc.; and(3) satisfaction with the similarity between the dress form and the human body in the relation to the body measurements. Measurements in length wise, front and back waist lengths, neck to bust point on the dress forms were apparently differed from the ones of the actual body. In particular, differed torso length measurements cause the problem to have to alter the whole silhouette, consequently, the resultant patterns as well. In girth measurements, in order of bust and waist girths, the satisfaction was low.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.86-90
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• 1994

This paper attempts to incorporate the initial crack damage effect into the existing idealized plate unit. For this purpose, a new concept which indicates the equivalent, reduced material properties due to initial cracks at the structural unit level, not at he microscopic aspect, is suggested, and a simplified mechanical plate model for the initially cracked plate in axial tension is formulated as a function of initial crack length, based on the finite-element solutions obtained by crack propagation analysis.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.359-372
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• 2015

Rock masses include various rock discontinuities such as faults, joints, and bedding planes. These discontinuities appear as complex structures in geometry. In this study, growth patterns of fractures between two stepping shear fracture tips are numerically modeled using PFC2D (Particle Flow Code). The numerical model showed not only incipient growth of fractures at the tips of preexisting fractures but also subsequent growth of the new fractures. It is observed from all of the experiments that the incipient fractures are tensile cracks developed at $30{\sim}57^{\circ}$ to the preexisting fractures and the subsequent growth of these fractures were at low angles to the preexisting fractures this study.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.9
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• pp.999-1004
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• 2014

In the present paper, the effects of initial crack location on spatial randomness of fatigue crack growth resistance (FCGR) in friction stir welded (FSWed) AA7075-T651 plates were studied. The objective of this study is to characterize the statistical properties of FCGR for three different types of initial crack location (ICL) specimens. In this work, the FCGR coefficients were treated as a spatial random process. It was found that the FCGR coefficients for all initial crack location specimens closely followed a two parameter Weibull distribution. The shape parameter of the Weibull distribution for BM-ICL specimens showed the largest value of 7.50, and that for the WM-ICL specimens showed the smallest value of 2.61. In addition, the autocorrelation functions for all the ICL specimens followed the exponential function.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.135-139
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• 1993

It was found in a series of test sections constructed in Houston, Texas that (1) concrete placement in hot season resulted in much more early-age cracks than that in cool season, and that, (2) for the hot season placement, pavements placed in the morning showed more early-age cracks than those placed in the afternoon. Early-age cracks, in this study, are defined as cracks occurring within a few days after construction. Since the early-age cracks have a tendency to be meandering and the crack widths are relatively wide, they may give an adverse effect on the long-term performance of the pavement. The objectives of this study are to recognize the effects of placement time on the early-age crack patterns and to find the reason of the effects. The effects are explained in this study by relating hydration of cement and surrounding temperature conditions.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.143-149
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• 1997

암석의 파괴인성계수(fracture toughness)는 균열의 성장에 대한 암석의 저항을 나타낸다. 실험실에서 측정한 파괴인성계수는 일반적인 암석의 불균질성이나 이방성 외에도 시험편의 형상이나 하중조건에 의하여 크게 영향을 받는다. 따라서, 제한된 수의 시험편을 사용하여 측정된 파괴인성계수는 자료의 분산이 심하므로 실제 적용에 있어서 문제가 된다. 균열감응도란 파괴인성계수의 측정에 사용되는 시험편의 형상에 따라 결정되는 지수로서, 시험편의 파괴가 균열의 성장에 의한 것인지, 혹은 인장강도에 의한 것인지를 판별하는 기준이 된다. 이러한 균열감응도를 파악하여 암석의 파괴인성계수 측정에 유효한 시험편의 크기나 초기균열 길이의 범위를 설정할 수 있다. 이는 또한 실험실에서 측정된 차괴인성계수의 유효성 여부를 판별하는 기준으로 사용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 암석의 파괴인성계수의 측정에 흔히 사용되는 몇 가지 형태의 시험편들에 대하여 균열감응도를 계산하고 이에 따른 초기균열 길이의 범위를 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.326-329
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• 2010

항공기는 전체 수명동안 무수한 반복하중에 노출되기 때문에, 동체에 피로로 인한 다중균열이 불가피하게 발생하게 된다. 이 다중균열은 기체의 강성을 저하시킬 뿐 만 아니라, 종국적으로는 해당 기체구조의 파단을 야기할 수 있다. 초기 결함과 운용 중에 작용되는 응력 스펙트럼은 구조물의 피로수명에 영향을 끼치며 고려해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 초기결함 특성을 파악하기 위한 등가초기결함크기 분포를 산출하고 리벳 시편의 다중균열모델에 대해서 초기결함과 응력배열을 고려한 해석을 수행하였다.

• 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.340-343
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• 2007

The temperature variation of concrete pavement at early-age significantly affects the initiation and movement of joint cracks. For this analysis, we have built on IIA(Incheon International Airport) concrete pavement construction zone, and we measured the temperature and movement of the concrete slabs by using thermocouples, moisture sensors, V/W strain gages, and Demac discs. The analysis results showed that pavement's temperature significantly affected the joint movement. The widths of the joint cracks increased at evening and early in the morning when the temperature dropped but, those decreased in the day time when the temperature rose because of the effect of thermal expansion of the concrete slabs. The movements of the joints where the cracks never developed showed opposite trend to the cracked joints.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.11 no.4 s.41
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• pp.409-416
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• 1999

The fatigue crack growth analysis based on the fracture mechanics is useful to the estimation of the fatigue life on welded structures under cyclic loading. The analysis procedure in fatigue crack growth under uniform axial loading is applicable to bending fatigue problem as well. The intent of the present study is to show the procedure for calculating the fatigue crack propagation lifetimes of deckplates under bending stress and to explain the crack growth rates for the two dimensional crack problems. It is shown that the fatigue crack grows at a decreasing rate and the fatigue life depends on the initial crack length and the crack shape. The numerically predicted crack growth agree with the experimental data.