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A Component Model for Managing Covid-19 Crisis

  • Taweel, Faris M.
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.365-373
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    • 2021
  • Covid-19 posed a serious threat to public health worldwide, especially in the absence of vaccines or medicines. The only viable strategies to combat a virus with a high infection rate were to apply lock-down strategies, transport ban, social and physical distancing. In this work, we provide a domain-specific component model for crisis management. The model allows for building a plan for managing Covid-19 crisis and use the plan as a template to generate a system specific for managing that crisis. The crisis component model is derived from X-MAN II, a generic component model that we have developed for the aircraft industry

Quantitative Analysis of Hydrate products of the Cement Paste Mixed with Admixtures (혼화재 혼입 시멘트 페이스트의 수화생성물 정량 분석)

  • Park, Dong-Cheon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2021.11a
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    • pp.176-177
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    • 2021
  • In order to compensate for the defects of concrete made using only Portland cement, three-component powder mixed with blast slag and fly ash, and four-component powder concrete mixed with silica fume are being produced. When each of the admixtures is used alone, the above-described excellent performance is expressed and up to 70% of the powder is used. These technologies are also contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gases under Act on Low Carbon. Green Growth. However, calcium hydroxide is consumed as a stimulator or reaction in the case of silica fume, which causes latent hydroponicity of slag, pozzolane reaction, and silica mixtures represented by fly ash. It is known that the consumption of calcium hydroxide affects the alkalinity of concrete. As a result, the carbonation resistance is significantly lower among the durability of concrete. Research on quantification of such effects is insufficient. In this study, an experiment was conducted to quantify calcium hydroxide of the three-component and four-component powder paste using thermal analysis equipment (DTG), and the effect of the mixing amount was discussed.

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Evaluation of seismic performance of mid-rise reinforced concrete frames subjected to far-field and near-field ground motions

  • Ansari, Mokhtar;Ansari, Masoud;Safiey, Amir
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.453-462
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    • 2018
  • Damages to buildings affected by a near-fault strong ground motion are largely attributed to the vertical component of the earthquake resulting in column failures, which could lead to disproportionate building catastrophic collapse in a progressive fashion. Recently, considerable interests are awakening to study effects of earthquake vertical components on structural responses. In this study, detailed modeling and time-history analyses of a 12-story code-conforming reinforced concrete moment frame building carrying the gravity loads, and exposed to once only the horizontal component of, and second time simultaneously the horizontal and vertical components of an ensemble of far-field and near-field earthquakes are conducted. Structural responses inclusive of tension, compression and its fluctuations in columns, the ratio of shear demand to capacity in columns and peak mid-span moment demand in beams are compared with and without the presence of the vertical component of earthquake records. The influences of the existence of earthquake vertical component in both exterior and interior spans are separately studied. Thereafter, the correlation between the increase of demands induced by the vertical component of the earthquake and the ratio of a set of earthquake record characteristic parameters is investigated. It is shown that uplift initiation and the magnitude of tensile forces developed in corner columns are relatively more critical. Presence of vertical component of earthquake leads to a drop in minimum compressive force and initiation of tension in columns. The magnitude of this reduction in the most critical case is recorded on average 84% under near-fault ground motions. Besides, the presence of earthquake vertical components increases the shear capacity required in columns, which is at most 31%. In the best case, a direct correlation of 95% between the increase of the maximum compressive force and the ratio of vertical to horizontal 'effective peak acceleration (EPA)' is observed.

GREEN CONSTRUCTION: U.S. CONSTRUCTION RELATED COMPANIES' STATUS AND PERCPETION

  • Yong Han Ahn;Annie R. Pearce;Kihong Ku
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.263-271
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    • 2009
  • This study reveals the status, perceptions, and future directions associated with green building within construction-related companies. A survey research method was used to capture current experience levels and capabilities of companies with regard to green construction. Expectations and perceptions about the future of the construction industry with regard to green building were obtained from construction-related companies recruiting from the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech from 2006 and 2008. The findings of this study support the growing importance of green building as a component of the whole construction market and provide a benchmark against which to measure future changes in the industry over time.

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An Analysis on the 500m - Mesh Classification based on the Combinations of Building Needs in Busan (부산시 500m 메시 레벨에서의 건물용도 구성에 따른 유형화 분석)

  • Hwang, Kwang-Il;Choi, Duk-In;Kim, Da-Hye;Yang, Ing-Chan;Yoon, So-Ra
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2010.04a
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    • pp.191-192
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    • 2010
  • This study classify the every meshes in Busan metropolitan city, based on the building need. The number of the effective meshes is 3289, all of those meshes are databased with simplified 7 building needs. The area for residential, commercial, educational needs occupy 92.4 % among all the areas. To simplify the multiple variables, principal component analysis is performed before the cluster analysis. Ans as the result 5 classification are obtained.

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Peak pressures on low rise buildings: CFD with LES versus full scale and wind tunnel measurements

  • Aly, Aly Mousaad;Gol-Zaroudi, Hamzeh
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.99-117
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    • 2020
  • This paper focuses on the processes of wind flow in atmospheric boundary layer, to produce realistic full scale pressures for design of low-rise buildings. CFD with LES turbulence closure is implemented on a scale 1:1 prototype building. A proximity study was executed computationally in CFD with LES that suggests new recommendations on the computational domain size, in front of a building model, apart from common RANS-based guidelines (e.g., COST and AIJ). Our findings suggest a location of the test building, different from existing guidelines, and the inflow boundary proximity influences pressure correlation and reproduction of peak loads. The CFD LES results are compared to corresponding pressures from open jet, full scale, wind tunnel, and the ASCE 7-10 standard for roof Component & Cladding design. The CFD LES shows its adequacy to produce peak pressures/loads on buildings, in agreement with field pressures, due to its capabilities of reproducing the spectral contents of the inflow at 1:1 scale.

Overall Heat Transfer Coefficients and Thermal Performance Evaluation through Heat Flux Measurement at Nakseonjae in Changdeokgung (창덕궁 낙선재 외피 열류량 실측을 통한 열관류율 산정 및 열 성능 해석)

  • Kim, Min-Hwi;Kim, Jin-Hyo;Kwon, Oh-Hyun;Han, Wook;Jeong, Jae-Weon
    • 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.190-195
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    • 2008
  • The objective of this research is to determine overall heat transfer coefficients (K-value) of exterior wall, floor, and roof of Nakseonjae, a Korean traditional residence via field measurement of transient heat flow and temperature difference across each envelope component. Heat flow sensors and T-type thermocouple were attached on the internal and the external surface of each building component, and real-time measurement data were collected for the three consecutive summer days. The K-values determined in this research showed good agreement with other results from open literature. Peak and annual thermal loads of the traditional residence estimated by a commercial energy simulation program were compared with those for a current apartment house. The traditional house showed lower annual cooling load than that of the current building. It may caused by the fact that the traditional building has less air-tight envelopes and no fenestration passing direct solar radiation into the space.

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A Study on the Economic Repair Pattern of the Building Components in the Apartment Housing (공동주택 구성재의 경제적 수선형태 설정 연구)

  • Lee, Kang-Hee;Chae, Chang-U
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.87-95
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    • 2006
  • Building components have been deteriorated by various factors such as location, a building type, a surrounding environment and so on. In addition, each component has a peculiar characteristics, compared with other components in properties of matter an used part. Building components would be required to maintain its function and performance to provide the resident with a decent living condition. It is important to decide the repair time, scope and a required cost in repair plan, considering the each component's characteristics. In this parer, it aimed at providing the economic repair pattern to analyze the relation of the time-elapse and the cumulative repair cost in the apartment housing using 3rd quadratic function. Results of the study are as follows: First, the shape of the function for the economic repair is classified into two type. One is the continuous increase type of the cumulative cost which properly means the iterative repair type after built. The other is that the function has the maximum state at a point which means one-repair after its repair would be delayed to a scheduled time. Second, the iterative repair pattern would include window, roof proof, lighting and water supply pipe. The other repair pattern would include the paintings, heating pipe and sign board.

Eigenvalue Analysis of the Building with Viscoelastic Dampers Using Component Mode Method (부분모드 방법을 이용한 점탄성 감쇠기가 설치된 건물의 고유치 해석)

  • 민경원;김진구;조한욱;이성경
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 1998
  • The eigenvalue problem is presented for the building with added viscoelastic dampers by using component mode method. The Lagrange multiplier formulation is used to derive the eigenvalue problem which is expressed with the natural frequencies of the building, the mode components at which the dampers are added, and the viscoelastic property of the damper. The derived eigenvalue problem has a nonstandard form for determining the eigenvalues. Therefore, the problem is examined by the graphical depiction to give new insight into the eigenvalues for the building with added viscoelastic dampers. Using the present approach the exact eigenvalues can be found and also upper and lower bounds of the eigenvalues can be obtained.

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Numerical study on the effects of seismic torsional component on multistory buildings

  • Ouazir, Abderrahmane;Hadjadj, Asma;Benanane, Abdelkader
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, the influence of the rotational component, about a vertical axis, of earthquake ground motion on the response of building structures subjected to seismic action is considered. The torsional component of ground motion is generated from the records of translational components. Torsional component of ground motion is then, together with translational components, applied in numerical linear dynamic analysis of different reinforced concrete framed structure of three stories buildings. In total, more than 40 numerical models were created and analyzed. The obtained results show clearly the dependence of the effects of the torsional seismic component on structural system and soil properties. Thus, the current approach in seismic codes of accounting for the effects of accidental torsion due to the torsional ground motion, by shifting the center of mass, should be reevaluated.