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A semi-analytical procedure for cross section effect on the buckling and dynamic stability of composite imperfect truncated conical microbeam

  • Zhang, Peng;Gao, Yanan;Moradi, Zohre;Ali, Yasar Ameer;Khadimallah, Mohamed Amine
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.371-388
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    • 2022
  • The present study tackles the problem of forced vibration of imperfect axially functionally graded shell structure with truncated conical geometry. The linear and nonlinear large-deflection of the structure are considered in the mathematical formulation using von-Kármán models. Modified coupled stress method and principle of minimum virtual work are employed in the modeling to obtain the final governing equations. In addition, formulations of classical elasticity theory are also presented. Different functions, including the linear, convex, and exponential cross-section shapes, are considered in the grading material modeling along the thickness direction. The grading properties of the material are a direct result of the porosity change in the thickness direction. Vibration responses of the structure are calculated using the semi-analytical method of a couple of homotopy perturbation methods (HPM) and the generalized differential quadrature method (GDQM). Contradicting effects of small-scale, porosity, and volume fraction parameters on the nonlinear amplitude, frequency ratio, dynamic deflection, resonance frequency, and natural frequency are observed for shell structure under various boundary conditions.

Effect of crushed waste glass as partial replacement of natural fine aggregate on performance of high strength cement concrete

  • Ajmal, Paktiawal;Mehtab, Alam
    • Advances in materials Research
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.251-277
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    • 2022
  • Disposal of industrial waste in cities where municipal authorities permitting higher floor area ratio coupled with increasing living standards, a lot of demolition waste is being generated. Its disposal is a challenge particularly in megacities where no landfills are available. The ever-increasing cost of building construction materials also necessitates consuming demolition wastes in a useful manner to save fresh natural raw materials. In the present work, the crushed waste glass is used in high-strength concrete as a partial replacement of fine aggregate. The control concrete of grade M60 was proportioned following BIS 10262-2009. The crushed waste glass has been used as a partial replacement with varying percentages of 10, 20, 30, and 40% by weight of fine aggregate. Experimental tests were carried on the fresh and hardened state of the concrete. The effect of crushed waste glass on the workability of the concrete has been investigated. Non-destructive tests, acid attack tests, compressive strength, split tensile strength, and X-ray diffraction analysis was carried out for the control concrete and concrete containing crushed waste glass after 7, 28, and 270 days of normal curing. The results show that for the same w/c ratio, the workability of concrete increases with increasing replaced crushed waste glass content. However, the decrease in compressive strength of the concrete after 28 days of normal curing and further after 28 days of acid attacks, up to 30% replacement level of fine aggregate by the crushed waste glass is insignificant.

Construction of Incremental Federated Learning System using Flower (Flower을 사용한 점진적 연합학습시스템 구성)

  • Yun-Hee Kang;Myungju Kang
    • Journal of Platform Technology
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.80-88
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    • 2023
  • To construct a learning model in the field of artificial intelligence, a dataset should be collected and be delivered to the central server where the learning model is constructed. Federated learning is a machine learning method building a global learning model without transmitting data located in a client side in a collaborative manner. It can be used to protect privacy, and after constructing a local trained model on individual clients, the parameters of the local model are aggregated centrally to update the global model. In this paper, we reuse the existing learning parameter to improve federated learning, describe incremental federated learning. For this work, we do experiments using the federated learning framework named Flower, and evaluate the experiment results with regard to elapsed time and precision when executing optimization algorithms.

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Closed-form solution for the buckling behavior of the delaminated FRP plates with a rectangular hole using super-elastic SMA stitches

  • Soltanieh, Ghazaleh;Yam, Michael CH.;Zhang, Jing-Zhou;Ke, Ke
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.81 no.1
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    • pp.39-50
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    • 2022
  • Layer separation (delamination) is an essential threat to fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) plates under dynamic, static, and fatigue loads. Under compressive load, the growth of delamination will lead to structural instability. The aim of this paper is to present a method using shape memory alloy (SMA) stitches to suppress the delamination growth in a FRP plate and to improve the buckling behavior of the plate with a rectangular hole. The present paper is divided into two parts. Firstly, a closed-form (CF) formulation for evaluating the buckling load of the FRP plate is presented. Secondly, the finite element method (FEM) will be employed to calculate the buckling loads of the plates which serves to validate the results obtained from the closed-form method. The novelty of this work is the development of the closed-form solution using the p-Ritz energy approach regarding the stress-dependent phase transformation of SMA to trace the equilibrium path. For the FEM, the Lagoudas constitutive model of the SMA material is implemented in FORTRAN programming language using a user material subroutines (VUMAT). The model is simulated in ABAQUS/Explicit solver due to the nature of the loading type. The cohesive zone model (CZM) is applied to simulate the delamination growth.

Improvement of existing drainage system for leakage treatment in exiting underground structures (운영중인 지하구조물의 누수처리를 위한 유도배수공법의 개선)

  • Kim, Dong-Gyou;Yim, Min-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.669-683
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    • 2017
  • The objective of this study is to propose a modification of the previously proposed drainage system for catching the partial leakage of underground concrete structures. Two techniques were proposed for applying the drainage system only to the leaking parts. One was for conveying leaking groundwater to the collection point in the drainage system and the other was for conveying the collected groundwater to the primary drainage system of the underground concrete structure. Four waterproofing materials for conveying leaking groundwater to the catchment point of the drainage system, Durkflex made of porous rubber material, KE-45 silicone adhesive with super strong adhesion, Hotty-gel made of polymeric materials and general silicone adhesive were evaluated for waterproofing performance. Hotty-gel only showed perfect waterproof performance and the other three waterproof materials leaked. The modified drainage system with Hotty-gel and drainage pipe with fixed saddle to convey the leaking groundwater from the catchment point to the primary drainage system were tested on the concrete retaining wall. The waterproof performance and the drainage performance were evaluated by injecting 1,000 ml of water in the back of the modified drainage system at the 7-day, 14-day, 21-day, 28-day, 2-month and 3-month. There was no problem in waterproof performance and drainage performance of the modified drainage system during 3 months. In order to evaluate the construction period and construction cost of the modified drainage system, it was compared with the existing leaching repair method in surface cleaning stage, leakage treatment stage, and protective barrier stage. Total construction period and construction cost were compared in considering the contents of work, repair material, construction equipment, working time, and total number of workers. As a result of comparing and analyzing in each construction stage, it was concluded that the modified drainage system could save construction period and construction cost compared to the existing leaching repair method.

Development System of Mimicking Image Classification for Newspaper Advertisements Database Construction (신문광고영상 데이터베이스구축을 위한 유사영상 분류 시스템)

  • Kim, Ki-Hyun;Kim, Kwang-Tae;Park, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Dong-Hoon;Yun, Tae-Soo
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.766-771
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we propose a system of mimicking image classification for building database system. It better manages the format which recording the same advertisements multimedia in advertisements image. Recently, the work of converting database is made directly by the people. This work doses the media scanning, image editing and saving, and saving of advertising information (date, the media, the page and size, so far). Therefore, it is wasted a lot of time and manpower as inefficient business. To solve these problems, first of all we gain an image by digital camera, extract and classify candidate area of advertisements. Accordingly, our system saves database to comparison of the mimicking of all advertising and classify whether area of image is the new or existing advertising.

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Utilizing Distributed Ontology Repository in Multi-Agent System Environment (다중 에이전트 시스템 환경에서 분산된 온톨로지 저장소의 사용)

  • Kim, Sung-Tae;Jee, Kyeng-Whan;Yang, Jung-Jin
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.129-139
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    • 2005
  • The rapid growth of IT technologies enables the quality of human's daily life to be improved dramatically, Contrasting to the services in previous computing environment directed by user's request, the services in ubiquitous computing era of new IT technology are provided through recognizing users intention and utilizing context-aware information suited to the user. According to the contextual information, agents need to set a dynamic goal to achieve and work collaboratively with other agents. Agents that take control over their behaviors with capability of communicating with other agents become a thrust in this up-coming computing environment. This work focuses on building ontologies, shared knowledge bases among agents, to improve semantical interoperability among agents. More attention is given to the construction and effective management of ontology repository along with its requirement and organization. Ontology agent suggested takes an initiative role to manage the repository in a distributed manner and to facilitate the use of ontology in a multi-agent environment.

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Proposal of BIM Application Process to Improve BIM Applicability of Basic Design in Heavy Civil Projects (토목 분야 기본설계 단계 BIM 적용성 향상을 위한 BIM 적용 프로세스 제안)

  • Song, EunSol;Moon, SoYeong
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.115-123
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    • 2022
  • Recently, the adoption of BIM technology in domestic civil engineering projects has continually increased both in its numbers and scope. However, the BIM model was developed and used after the 2D design was developed instead of creating the BIM model from the conceptual design phase. BIM must be used throughout every phase of design and construction to use BIM for its original purpose. However, if BIM application is applied in heavy civil projects without a step-by-step guideline, it can confuse the market and face industry resistance to using BIM. Therefore, BIM is currently being used step by step in the civil engineering field by using BIM as a conversion design. However, the BIM conversion design method, currently being performed in the Preliminary design stage, has many difficulties due to low work efficiency. This paper analyzes the existing process of converting a 2D design into a 3D BIM model while addressing the issues related to its low work efficiency. To this end, a novel approach to 2D to BIM conversion for the design development stage is proposed.

Design Checklist for Self-sufficient Zero Energy Solar House(ZeSH) (에너지자립형 태양열 주택의 설계 및 시공 방법 체크리스트 수립 연구)

  • Yoon Jongho;Baek Namchoon;Yu Changkyun;Kim Jongil
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.416-421
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    • 2005
  • Most of solar system dissemination has been focused on domestic hot water system of which utilization to a building is relatively simple and safe than solar heating system. Through the survey on a cause of solar house dissemination failure in Korea, we conclude that design integration and systematic approach method for technology application are the most important element for a successful solar house. KIER(Korea Institute of Energy Research) and Hanbat National University have started new project on a development of Zero energy Solar House, called ZeSH which can be sustained just by natural energy without the support of existing fossil fuel. This is the 1st phase research of 10 years long-term ZeSH plan which develops a low-cost and $100\%$ self sufficient ZeSH. The goal of 1st phase ZeSH research is to get a $70\%$ self sufficiency only in thermal loads. Actual demonstration house, named KIER ZeSH I was designed and constructed as a result of 1st phase research work in the end of 2002. Various innovative technologies such as super insulation, high performance window, passive and active solar systems, ventilation heat recovery system are applied and evaluated to the KIER ZeSH I. A lot of computer simulations had been conducted for the optimal design and system integration in every design steps. Considering all the results from detailed hourly computer simulation, it is expected that at least $70\%$ self-sufficiency in thermal loads which is 1st phase target value can be excessively achieved in actual demonstration house. Besides, many valuable findings from the design and analysis to construction could be established such as collaboration method among the participants, practical design and construction techniques for system integration and the others. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the main findings through the development of KIER ZeSH I project. Practical guidelines in every design step for new low- or zero- energy solar house is proposed as result.

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Bending Capacity Evaluation of the Infilled Composite Beam with Semi-slim Closed Section (반슬림 폐단면 충전형 합성보의 휨성능 평가)

  • Lim, Hwan Taek;Choi, Byong Jeong
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.130-140
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    • 2018
  • An AU-composite beam based on U-shaped steel beams and steel plate anchors of type A was developed. The composite beam reduced the height of the building floor and construction cost. In addition, it decreased the length of construction work, and improved the flexural strength and stiffness as a form of tubes. In this study, AU-composite beams were tested directly and their performance was evaluated through bending experiments. The strength of the specimens was increased initially by linear loads and reached a maximum strength due to destruction of the concrete slab. All of the experiments showed more than 85% of the maximum stress and performed gentle movement. In addition, there was good composite behavior with the steel plate anchor that had excellent composite effects and reached full strength until the maximum strength was reached. When the thickness of the steel plate was increase, the flexural stiffness and strength of the specimen were improved. Therefore, the flexural strength of AU-composite beams can be estimated using the flexural strength formula according to the KBC 2016.