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Locating the damaged storey of a building using distance measures of low-order AR models

  • Xing, Zhenhua;Mita, Akira
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.6 no.9
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    • pp.991-1005
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    • 2010
  • The key to detecting damage to civil engineering structures is to find an effective damage indicator. The damage indicator should promptly reveal the location of the damage and accurately identify the state of the structure. We propose to use the distance measures of low-order AR models as a novel damage indicator. The AR model has been applied to parameterize dynamical responses, typically the acceleration response. The premise of this approach is that the distance between the models, fitting the dynamical responses from damaged and undamaged structures, may be correlated with the information about the damage, including its location and severity. Distance measures have been widely used in speech recognition. However, they have rarely been applied to civil engineering structures. This research attempts to improve on the distance measures that have been studied so far. The effect of varying the data length, number of parameters, and other factors was carefully studied.

Mucilage Separation of Korean Yam Using Microparticulation/Air Classification Process (초미세분쇄/공기분급을 이용한 마의 점질물 분리)

  • Lee, Boo-Yong;Park, Dong-June;Ku, Kyung-Hyung;Kim, Hyun-Ku;Mok, Chul-Kyoon
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.596-602
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    • 1994
  • To separate and concentrate mucilage from yam(Dioscorea batatas DECNE), yam was dried, microparticulated using impact mill and air-classified at different air classifying wheel speed(ACWS) in classifier. As ACWS increased from 5,000 rpm to 22,500 rpm, the contents of dietary fiber, protein and lipid of air classified microparticles(ACM) increased remarkably. Especially the ACM with ACWS over 15,000 rpm showed 36.41% dietary fiber and 16.66% protein. The dietary fiber and protein components were concentrated to $2.5{\sim}9.0$ times as compared with whole yam powder. Concomitantly the non-fibrous carbohydrate decreased from 88.31% to 16.84. The damaged starch(%), WSI and WAI of ACM of ACWS over 15,000 rpm were $1.5{\sim}3.0$ times higher than those of ACM under ACWS 15,000 rpm. The apparent viscosity of ACM was 0.0800 Pa s over ACWS 15,000 rpm and 0.0080 Pa s under ACWS 15,000 rpm. Judging from viscosity of ACM, the mucilage component of yam was concentrated to 10 times. In conclusion, the optimum process to separate and concentrate the mucilage from yam consisted of the microparticulation to $5{\sim}30{\mu}m$ and the air-classification at ACWS over 15,000 rpm.

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Studies on Determination of Larval Critical Weight in Silkworm, Bombyx mori L. - An Index of Quality

  • Saha, Atul Kumar;Chaudhuri, Anath Bandhu;Moorthy, S Monthira;Roy, Subrata
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.243-248
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    • 2009
  • The Larval critical weight is the minimal mass at which further growth in not necessary for a normal time course to pupation. Larval critical weight (Lcw), pupal critical weight (Pcw) and adult critical weight (Acw) of different breeds of Bombyx mori L. were determined through starvation (food deprivation). The Lcw was found to be about 938.46, 2397.26, 2283.57 and 2220.97 mg in males and 1118.15, 2681.04, 2604.9 and 2455.88 mg in females of the multivoltine breed (Nistari), Bivoltine breeds (P5 & NB18) and their hybrid (P5$\times$NB18) respectively. Bivoltine breed P5 took more time (3.35 days) followed by NB18 (3.13 days) & P5$\times$NB18 (3.02 days) to attain larval critical weight (In $5^{th}$ Instar) than the multivoltine breed Nistari (2.42 days). Decrease in weight from larval maximal weight to pupal weight and to adult weight was also observed more in multivoltine than bivoltines, which may be due to more latent feeding period in bivoltines. Since Lcw is a stable character and independent of environment, it could be utilized for characterization of silkworm breeds to assess the quality of an insect.

A traffic control system to manage bandwidth usage in IP networks supporting Differentiated Service (차별화서비스를 제공하는 IP네트워크에서 대역폭관리를 위한 트래픽 제어시스템)

  • 이명섭;박창현
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.29 no.3B
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    • pp.325-338
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    • 2004
  • As the recent rapid development of internet technology and the wide spread of multimedia communication, massive increase of network traffic causes some problems such as the lack of network paths and the bad quality of service. To resolve these problems, this paper presents a traffic control agent that can perform the dynamic resource allocation by controlling traffic flows on a DiffServ network. In addition, this paper presents a router that can support DiffServ on Linux to support selective QoS in IP network environment. To implement a method for selective traffic transmission based on priority on a DiffServ router, this paper changes the queuing discipline in Linux, and presents the traffic control agent so that it can efficiently control routers, efficiently allocates network resources according to service requests, and relocate resources in response to state changes of the network. Particularly for the efficient processing of Assured Forwarding(AF) Per Hop Behavior(PHB), this paper proposes an ACWF$^2$Q$^{+}$ packet scheduler on a DiffServ router to enhance the throughput of packet transmission and the fairness of traffic services.s.

Characteristics of Glutinous Rice Fractions and Improvement of Yoogwa Processing by Microparticulation/Air-classification (찹쌀의 초미세분쇄/공기분급 특성과 유과제조공정 개선)

  • Park, Dong-June;Ku, Kyung-Hyung;Mok, Chul-Kyoon
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.1008-1012
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    • 1995
  • Glutinous rice was microparticulated and air-classified at different air classifying wheel speeds (ACWS) of 20,000 rpm and 15,000 rpm in a Turboplex classifier. The starch was concentrated to a coarse fraction and the protein was shifted to a fine fraction. The degree of starch damage of the coarse fraction was comparable to that of traditionally soaked glutinous rice. Yoogwa(Korean cracker) made from the fractions of $ACWS\;15,000{\sim}20,000\;rpm$ and below ACWS 15,000 rpm was very comparable to that made by the traditional method in degree of puffing, hardness and internal structure. It was also confirmed by the sensory evaluation, indicating that the microparticulation/air classification technology could be applied to produce raw material of Yoogwa. The developed noble process could exclude the long soaking step in the traditional Yoogwa process and reduce the pretest time remarkably.

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Changes of carbon-13 Isotope of Dissolved Inorganic Carbon Within Low-pH CO2-rich Water during CO2 Degassing (pH가 낮은 탄산수의 CO2 탈기에 따른 용존탄소동위원소 변화)

  • Chae, Gitak;Yu, Soonyoung;Kim, Chan Yeong;Park, Jinyoung;Bang, Haeun;Lee, Inhye;Koh, Dong-Chan;Shinn, Young Jae;Oh, Jinman
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.24-35
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    • 2019
  • It is known that ${\delta}^{13}C_{DIC}$ (carbon-13 isotope of dissolved inorganic carbonate (DIC) ions) of water increases when dissolved $CO_2$ degases. However, ${\delta}^{13}C_{DIC}$ could decrease when the pH of water is lower than 5.5 at the early stage of degassing. Laboratory experiments were performed to observe the changes of ${\delta}^{13}C_{DIC}$ as $CO_2$ degassed from three different artificial $CO_2$-rich waters (ACWs) in which the initial pH was 4.9, 5.4, and 6.4, respectively. The pH, alkalinity and ${\delta}^{13}C_{DIC}$ were measured until 240 hours after degassing began and those data were compared with kinetic isotope fractionation calculations. Furthermore, same experiment was conducted with the natural $CO_2$-rich water (pH 4.9) from Daepyeong, Sejong City. As a result of experiments, we could observe the decrease of DIC and increase of pH as the degassing progressed. ACW with an initial pH of 6.4, ${\delta}^{13}C_{DIC}$ kept increasing but, in cases where the initial pH was lower than 5.5, ${\delta}^{13}C_{DIC}$ decreased until 6 hours. After 6 hours ${\delta}^{13}C_{DIC}$ increased within all cases because the $CO_2$ degassing caused pH increase and subsequently the ratio of $HCO_3{^-}$ in solution. In the early stage of $CO_2$ degassing, the laboratory measurements were well matched with the calculations, but after about 48 hours, the experiment results were deviated from the calculations, probably due to the equilibrium interaction with the atmosphere and precipitation of carbonates. The result of this study may be not applicable to all natural environments because the pressure and $CO_2$ concentration in headspace of reaction vessels was not maintained constant as well as the temperature. Nevertheless, this study provides fundamental knowledge on the ${\delta}^{13}C_{DIC}$ evolution during $CO_2$ degassing, and therefore it can be utilized in the studies about carbonated water with low pH and the monitoring of geologic carbon sequestration.