• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제30권11호
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• pp.2577-2583
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• 2009

Presented are the formation of iron oxide layers on evaporator tubes in an actual fossil power plant operated under all volatile treatment (AVT) condition and an experimental simulation of iron oxide formation in the presence of ferrous and ferric ions. After actual operations for 12781 and 36326 hr in the power plant, two iron oxide layers of magnetite on the evaporator tubes were found: a continuous inner layer and a porous outer layer. The experimental simulation (i.e., artificial corrosion in the presence of ferrous and ferric ions at 100 ppm level for 100 hr) reveals that ferrous ions turn the continuous inner oxide layer on tube metal to cracks and pores, while ferric ions facilitate the production of porous outer oxide layer consisting of large crystallites. Based on a comparison of the oxide layers produced in the experimental simulation with those observed on the actually used tubes, we propose possible routes for oxid layer formation schematically. In addition, the limits of the proposed corrosion routes are discussed in detail.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.28-32
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• 2022

We investigated the optical and electrical characteristics of ITO/Ag/ITO (IAI) 3-layer thin films prepared by using RF/DC sputtering. To measure the thickness of all thin film samples, we used scanning electron microscopy. As a function of Ag thickness we characterized the optical transmittance and sheet resistance of the IAI samples by using UV-Visible spectroscopy and Hall measurement system, respectively. While the thickness of both ITO thin films in the 3-layered IAI samples were fixed at 50 nm, we varied Ag layer thickness in the range of 0 nm to 11 nm. The optical transmittance and sheet resistance of the 3-layered IAI thin films were found to vary strongly with the thickness of Ag film in the ITO (50 nm)/Ag(t₀)/ITO (50 nm) thin film. For the best transparent conducting oxide (TCO) electrode, we obtained a 3-layered ITO (50 nm)/Ag (t₀ = 8.5 nm)/ITO (50 nm) that showed an avrage optical transmittance, AVT = 90.12% in the visible light region of 380 nm to 780 nm and the sheet resistance, R_□ = 7.24 Ω/□.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.695-701
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• 1999

The hypothalamus is the classic site of synthesis of arginine vasotocin as neurohypophyseal hormone in the chicken. However, high concentrations of arginine vasotocin were also measured in ovarian tissues by radioimmunoassay. At first, we observed specific positive signal of mRNA encoding AVT in the hypothalamus by Northern hybridization. However, we could not find any specific bands in ovarian and uterine tissues. For evidence of transcription of the arginine vasotocin gene ingonadal tissues of the chicken, this study has applied the polymerase chain reaction as a highly sensitive assay. The hypothalamus, the four largest preovulatory ovarian follicles and the shell gland (uterus) were collected at 4 h and 20 h before oviposition. The ovarian follicular tissues were separated into granulose theca interns and theca externa layers. The uterine tissues were separated into myometrium and endometrium The extracted mRNA was converted to cDNA by reverse-transcriptase using oligo-$d(T)_{15}$ primer. Then, the cDNA was amplified by Vent polymerase and arginine vasotocin specific primers. The amplification reaction was incubated by 30 cycles successively, $95^{\circ}C$, $55^{\circ}C$ and $72^{\circ}C$ earth for 1 min. Te comparisons of the mRNA levels encoding arginine vasotocin between the tissues were determined by semi-quantification methods. After amplification of the cDNA, the PCR products were detected in hypothalamus, ovarian tissues and uterine tissues. The results of semi-quantification showed that the levels of arginine vasotocin mRNA in ovarian iud uterine tissues were about from 1/50 to 1/1000 when compared to that in the hypothalamus. The very low levels of mRNA encoding arginine vasotocin in ovarian and uterine tissues probably led us to conclude that arginine vasotocin may play a role of local mediate acting autocrine and/or paracrine.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.769-782
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• 2006

상시 운행 열차는 운행 속도 대역폭이 한정되어 있기 때문에 속도에 따른 교량의 동적응답 특성 파악에는 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 교량상을 통과하는 열차 속도와 교량의 동적응답의 상관관계를 파악하기 위하여 실운행 디젤 기관차 1량에 의한 증속실험을 실시하였다. 가속도 응답특성 분석을 위하여 지점부를 제외한 전구간에 걸쳐 등간격으로 7개의 수직가속도와 중앙부에 1개의 수평가속도계를 부착하였다. 교량의 중앙부에는 연직방향과 횡방향 거동특성 파악을 위하여 수직 변위계, 수평 변위계, 휨변형률계를 각각 1개씩 설치하였다. 실험 차량을 대상 교량의 중앙부와 지점부에 정적재하 후 5km/h부터 90km/h까지 10km/h씩 증속하였고, 각 속도 대역별로 2회씩 반복하여 실험을 실시하였다. 실측 데이터의 필터링 방법에 따른 진동 평가 방법의 적절성을 검토하였고, 연직방향 진동가속도 대비 횡방향 진동수준을 평가하였으며, 속도에 따른 처짐, 변형률 및 윤중변동 특성을 검토하였다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.129-140
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 지방부 간선도로 단속류 구간(국도 42호선 양지$\~$용인구간 6km)의 통행시간정보에 관한 체계적인 수집 $\cdot$ 분석을 위해 현재 국도교통관리시스템(RTMS : Rural Trafc Management System)상에서 운영중인 차량 번호판 매칭방식 AVI 수집자료에 대한 신뢰성 검증 및 단속류 구간 통행시간 자료의 적정집락간격에 관한 연구가 수행되었다. 우선 AVI수집자료 신뢰성 검증을 위하여 번호판 매칭방식 AVI표본수집자료와 전수조사자료를 Kolmogorov-Smirnov 검증기법을 이용하여 분석한 결과 AVI 자료는 통과위주의 대표차로상에서 수집되는 관계로 전차로에 대한 수집자료와 교통특성에 차이가 있어 현재의 번호판 매칭방식 AW 표본수집자료를 통해 산출된 구간통행시간을 구간의 대표값으로 적용하는 문제는 추가 검토가 필요하다. 그리고 적정집락간격을 산출하기 위하여 통계적 추정 개념인 점추정과 구간추정을 적용하여 모형을 개발하여 적용한 결과 점추정기법이 구간추정기법보다 집락간격결정에 민감하고, 보다 정확한 적정집락간격 선정이 가능한 것으로 밝혀졌으며, 적정집락간격은 5분으로 산정되어 현재 적용되고 있는 5분 집락간격은 적정한 것으로 판단된다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.487-499
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• 2020

This paper proposes a novel approach to model updating for a large-scale cable-stayed bridge based on ambient vibration tests coupled with a hybrid metaheuristic search algorithm. Vibration measurements are carried out under excitation sources of passing vehicles and wind. Based on the measured structural dynamic characteristics, a finite element (FE) model is updated. For long-span bridges, ambient vibration test (AVT) is the most effective vibration testing technique because ambient excitation is freely available, whereas a forced vibration test (FVT) requires considerable efforts to install actuators such as shakers to produce measurable responses. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a famous metaheuristic algorithm applied successfully in numerous fields over the last decades. However, PSO has big drawbacks that may decrease its efficiency in tackling the optimization problems. A possible drawback of PSO is premature convergence leading to low convergence level, particularly in complicated multi-peak search issues. On the other hand, PSO not only depends crucially on the quality of initial populations, but also it is impossible to improve the quality of new generations. If the positions of initial particles are far from the global best, it may be difficult to seek the best solution. To overcome the drawbacks of PSO, we propose a hybrid algorithm combining GA with an improved PSO (HGAIPSO). Two striking characteristics of HGAIPSO are briefly described as follows: (1) because of possessing crossover and mutation operators, GA is applied to generate the initial elite populations and (2) those populations are then employed to seek the best solution based on the global search capacity of IPSO that can tackle the problem of premature convergence of PSO. The results show that HGAIPSO not only identifies uncertain parameters of the considered bridge accurately, but also outperforms than PSO, improved PSO (IPSO), and a combination of GA and PSO (HGAPSO) in terms of convergence level and accuracy.