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Vibration Related Branch Line Fatigue Failure (분기관 진동에 의한 피로파괴)

  • 전형식;박보용
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 1990.10a
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    • pp.113-124
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    • 1990
  • Tap lines are small branch piping generally less than two inches in diameter. They typically branch off of header piping having a much larger diameter. An example of a common tap line is a 3/4 inch size high point vent or low point drain. Most tap lines have at least one valve near the header tap connection to provide isolation. Two valves are often required for double isolation. A light water reactor(LWR) nuclear power plant will have several hundred tap lines. These lines come in many sizes and shapes and serve numerous functions. A single process piping valve may have three different tap lines associated with it (figure 1). Table 1 delineates the different categories of tap lines. Vibration failures of tap lines are a common occurrence in all industrial plants including nuclear and fossil power plants. These types of failures constitute a significant percentage of all piping related failures. An unscheduled plant shutdown or outage resulting from the failure of a tap line decreases plant reliability and may have a detrimental effect on plant safety. Most tap line vibration failures can be avoided through the use of appropriate routing and support techniques. Standardized designs can be developed for use in a myriad of applications. These designs will not only minimize failures but will also reduce the necessary analysis and installation efforts.

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Agronomic Characteristics and Path-coefficients of Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Collections (잇꽃 수집종의 주요특성과 경로계수 분석)

  • Park, Gyu-Hwan;Jung, Do-Chul;Kim, Jae-Cheol;Jeon, Chi-Hyeong;Kim, Kyung-Min
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 2004
  • This study was carried out to obtain the basic information on mating parents and selection for high yielding safflower breeding. Thirty nine world safflower lines, which had collected from 13 countries of origjn, were evaluated for major agronomic characters, correlation and path-coefficients. The results obtained were summarized as follows. Days to flowers ranged from 83 days to 100 days. Days to flower of most foreign lines were later than that of domestic lines. Plant height ranged from 75 cm to 162 cm. The plant height and stem diameter of most foreign lines were higher than those of domestic lines. The leaf number and size of domestic lines were much more than those of foreign lines. The total branch numbers of foreign lines were more than domestic lines. Particularly, the number of third branch ranged from 0 to 25 and there were none in domestic lines. The number of corolla of foreign lines was much more than that of domestic lines. The yield of foreign lines collected from Central Asia and United States of America were more than any others. Significantly positive correlations were observed between yield and days to flower, stem diameter, the number of branch and the number of corolla. In the analysis of path-coefficient, the highest direct effects on yield was the number of corolla followed by the number of total branch, whereas those of the number of second branch and stem diameter were negative.

Characterization of the Variability of Nucleoli in the Cells of Panax ginseng Meyer In Vivo and In Vitro

  • Khrolenko, Yuliya A.;Burundukova, Olga L.;Lauve, Lyudmila S.;Muzarok, Tamara I.;Makhan'kov, Vyacheslav V.;Zhuravlev, Yuri N.
    • Journal of Ginseng Research
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.322-326
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    • 2012
  • Results of karyological study of intact plants and some callus lines of Panax ginseng are presented. In the native plants of P. ginseng the nucleus with 1 nucleolus (90%) dominate, and nucleus with 2 nucleoli is rare. One nucleolar nucleus also dominate in interphase nuclei of cells of cultivated P. ginseng (from 2006), but we also found nucleus with 2 to 3 nucleoli in the same cell lines. Interphase nuclei of P. ginseng in long cultivated lines (from 1988) contain 1 to 9 nucleoli, with a predominance of nuclei containing from 3 to 4 nucleoli. It was shown that long-time cells (cultivated since 1988) had cytogenetic changes such as increase level of polyploid and aneuploid cells, increase of nucleoli number into interphase nucleus and decrease of nuclei/nucleoli ratio. These long-time cultivated cells had very low ginsenoside content.

New established cell lines from undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma for in vivo study

  • Eun-Young Lee;Young-Ho Kim;Md Abu Rayhan;Hyun Guy Kang;June Hyuk Kim;Jong Woong Park;Seog-Yun Park;So Hee Lee;Hye Jin You
    • BMB Reports
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    • v.56 no.4
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    • pp.258-264
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    • 2023
  • As a high-grade soft-tissue sarcoma (STS), undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma (UPS) is highly recurrent and malignant. UPS is categorized as a tumor of uncertain differentiation and has few options for treatment due to its lack of targetable genetic alterations. There are also few cell lines that provide a representative model for UPS, leading to a dearth of experimental research. Here, we established and characterized new cell lines derived from two recurrent UPS tissues. Cells were obtained from UPS tissues by mincing, followed by extraction or dissociation using enzymes and culture in a standard culture environment. Cells were maintained for several months without artificial treatment, and some cell clones were found to be tumorigenic in an immunodeficient mouse model. Interestingly, some cells formed tumors in vivo when injected after aggregation in a non-adherent culture system for 24 h. The tissues from in vivo study and tissues from patients shared common histological characteristics. Pathways related to the cell cycle, such as DNA replication, were enriched in both cell clones. Pathways related to cell-cell adhesion and cell-cell signaling were also enriched, suggesting a role of the mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition for tumorigenicity in vivo. These new UPS cell lines may facilitate research to identify therapeutic strategies for UPS.

A Branch-Line Hybrid Using Triangle-Patch Type Artificial Transmission Line (삼각 패치형 인공 전송 선로를 이용한 브랜치 라인 하이브리드)

  • Oh, Song-Yi;Hwang, Hee-Yong
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.23 no.7
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    • pp.768-773
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    • 2012
  • A branch-line hybrid using microstrip artificial transmission lines(ATLs) with slotted-triangular patches is proposed. The proposed artificial transmission line is compact in structure as well as easy to adjust the characteristic impedance and electrical length of equivalent transmission line by changing the slot's parameters; hence, it is useful for miniaturizing conventional transmission lines. The designed branch-line hybrid, because of the use of the right angled isosceles triangular shaped artificial transmission lines as building blocks, has no useless empty space, and hence optimally miniaturized. A fabricated 3 dB branch-line hybrid shows the coupling variation of ${\pm}0.5$ dB and the phase difference between two output ports of $91^{\circ}{\pm}4^{\circ}$ within 15 % bandwidth at 2.45 GHz center frequency. The size of proposed branch-line hybrid is only 38% of the conventional branch-line hybrid.

Studies on the Cold Resistant in Rape, Brassica napus L. (유채 내한성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, I.H.;Kwon, B.S.;Lee, J.I.;Yu, I.S.;Kim, J.K.;Lee, Y.B.
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.26-34
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    • 1977
  • 27 lines were selected for the cold resistant lines from the promising lines. The cold resistant lines were chiefly selected from Oro$\times$Norin 16, Oro$\times$Norin 20 and (Yudal$\times$Kongo)$\times$Yudal combination. The varieties of lately maturing showed cold resistantce. Transplanting treatment increased cold resistantce, and early sowing and drill planting also elevated cold resistance in the direct sowing culture. Plants to be cultured on soils with optimum moisture coutent showed higher cold resistance.

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Two-sided assembly line balancing using a branch-and-bound method (분지한계법을 이용한 양면조립라인 밸런싱)

  • Kim, Yeo-Keun;Lee, Tae-Ok;Shin, Tae-Ho
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.417-429
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    • 1998
  • This paper considers two-sided (left and right side) assembly lines which are often used, especially in assembling large-sized products such as trucks and buses. A large number of exact algorithms and heuristics have been proposed to balance one-sided lines. However, little attention has been paid to balancing two-sided assembly lines. We present an efficient algorithm based on a branch and bound for balancing two-sided assembly lines. The algorithm involves a procedure for generating an enumeration tree. To efficiently search for the near optimal solutions to the problem, assignment rules are used in the method. New and existing bound strategies and dominance rules are else employed. The proposed algorithm can find a near optimal solution by enumerating feasible solutions partially. Extensive computational experiments are carried out to make the performance comparison between the proposed algorithm and existing ones. The computational results show that our algorithm is promising and robust in solution quality.

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Isolation and Characterization of Parthenogenetic Embryonic Stem (pES) Cells Containing Genetic Background of the Kunming Mouse Strain

  • Yu, Shu-Min;Yan, Xing-Rong;Chen, Dong-Mei;Cheng, Xiang;Dou, Zhong-Ying
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.37-44
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    • 2011
  • Parthenogenetic embryonic stem (pES) cells could provide a valuable model for research into genomic imprinting and X-linked diseases. In this study, pES cell lines were established from oocytes of hybrid offspring of Kunming and 129/Sv mice, and pluripotency of pES cells was evaluated. The pES cells maintained in the undifferentiated state for more than 50 passages had normal karyotypes with XX sex chromosomes and exhibited high activities of alkaline phosphatase (AKP) and telomerase. Meanwhile, these cells expressed ES cell molecular markers SSEA-1, Oct-4, Nanog, and GDF3 but not SSEA-3 detected by immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR. The pES cells could be differentiated into various types of cells from three germ layers in vitro by analysis of embryoid bodies (EBs) with immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR, and in vivo by observation of pES cell-derived teratoma sections. Therefore, the established pES cell lines contained all features of mouse ES cells. This work provides a new strategy for isolating pES cells from Kunming mice, and the pES cell lines could be applied as the cell model in research into genomic imprinting and epigenetic regulation of Kunming mice.

Optimization of a twin-skeg container vessel by parametric design and CFD simulations

  • Chen, Jingpu;Wei, Jinfang;Jiang, Wujie
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.466-474
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    • 2016
  • The model tests results for the original lines of an 10000TEU container vessel show that the delivered power is higher and could not satisfy the requirement of energy saving effects and design targets. In this paper, the lines optimization of the 10,000 twin-skeg container vessel was carried out by parametric modeling and CFD simulations. At first, the CFD methods for twin-skeg hull form were validated by the comparison with the experimental results. Then more than one hundred parameters were adopted for the establishment of the fully parametric model. Based on the parametric model of the twin-skeg container vessel, the preliminary optimization was carried out by tight coupling of FRIENDSHIP-FRAMEWORK with potential flow of SHIPFLOW. Then several important parameters related to the after part of twin-skeg vessel were investigated by viscous flow computation. The final optimized variant PM11, which the total resistance was reduced by about 8.3% in model scale, is obtained within the constraints of general arrangement. And the model tests for variant PM11 was carried out in CSSRC, which shows that the resistance of optimized variant PM11 is decreased by about 8.6%.

Buckling Experiment of Eccentric Seismic Bracing Devices for Branch Lines (내진설계용 편심방식 가지배관 고정장치의 좌굴 실험)

  • Changsoo, Oh;Jihoon, Kim;Hasung Kong
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.9-14
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    • 2024
  • Restraints of Branch Lines are used as earthquake-resistant support devices for fire-fighting pipes along with sway brace devices. The central types are aligned and fixed in a straight line with center of the pipe, but the eccentric types are fixed to on side of the pipe, so a bending moment occurs. In this study, three specimens each of central type and eccentric type were installed at an angle of 45° from the vertical and a monotonic compression load of 1340N was applied. All central type samples satisfied 17.8mm of the allowable displacement, but all eccentric type samples failed to meet the target load and buckled. Therefore, when considering the performance of eccentric type restraints, both compressive load and bending moment must be considered. Even through material mechanics calculations, the yield stress of eccentric type - 3/8 inch all threaded steel bolt - exceeds 320Mpa of the allowable stress. A experiment standards need to be established for eccentric type restraints.