• 대한한방소아과학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.128-137
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• 2021

Objective The purpose of this study was to confirm the effectiveness of coptidis rhizoma extract-ceramide complex on skin barrier, transepidermal water loss (TEWL) and pH reduction, and inflammation of the skin. Methods Coptidis rhizoma extract-ceramide complex was applied in 6-week-old Balb/C mice after dermatitis was induced. To confirm the skin condition changes, TEWL and pH were observed, and filaggrin in the stratum corneum of the skin was observed. Kallikrein-related peptidase (KLK) 7, Protease activated receptor (PAR)-2, Thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP), and IL-4 were observed in the stratum corneum to confirm the changes in the inflammatory response. Results Filaggrin positive reaction was increased in the experiment group compared to the control group. TEWL and pH were lower in the experiment group compared to the control group. KLK7, PAR2, TSLP, and IL-4 positive responses were decreased in the experiment group compared to the control group. Conclusions It was confirmed that the coptidis rhizoma extract-ceramide complex can relieve the inflammatory response of atopic dermatitis by restoring the skin lipid barrier damage.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.229-251
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• 2012

Guided waves have shown a great potential for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. In contrast to traditional non-destructive testing (NDT) methodologies, a key element of SHM approaches is the high process of automation. The monitoring system should decide autonomously whether the host structure is intact or not. A basic requirement for the realization of such a system is that the sensors are permanently installed on the host structure. Thus, baseline measurements become available that can be used for diagnostic purposes, i.e., damage detection, localization, etc. This paper contributes to guided wave-based inspection in anisotropic materials for SHM purposes. Therefore, computational strategies are described for both, the solution of the complex equations for wave propagation analysis in composite materials based on exact elasticity theory and the popular global matrix method, as well as the underlying equations of two active damage localization algorithms for anisotropic structures. The result of the global matrix method is an angular and frequency dependent wave velocity characteristic that is used subsequently in the localization procedures. Numerical simulations and experimental investigations through time-delay measurements are carried out in order to validate the proposed theoretical model. An exemplary case study including the calculation of dispersion curves and damage localization is conducted on an exemplary unidirectional composite structure where the ultrasonic signals processed in the localization step are simulated with the spectral element method. The proposed study demonstrates the capabilities of the proposed algorithms for accurate damage localization in anisotropic structures.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.239-246
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• 2015

Stainless steel is generally known to have characteristics of excellent corrosion resistance and durability, but in a marine environment it can suffer from localized corrosion due to the breakdown of passivity film due to chloride ion in seawater. Furthermore, the damage behaviors are sped up under a cavitation environment because of complex damage from electrochemical corrosion and cavitation-erosion. In this study the characteristics of electrochemical corrosion and cavitation erosion behavior were evaluated on 16.7Cr-10Ni-2Mo stainless steel under a cavitation environment in natural seawater. The electrochemical experiments have been conducted at both static conditions and dynamic conditions inducing cavitation with different current density parameters. The surface morphology and damage behaviors were compared after the experiment. After the cavitation test with time variables morphological examinations on damaged specimens were analyzed by using a scanning electron microscope and a 3D microscope. the galvanostatic experiment gave a cleaner surface morphology presented with less damage depth at high current density regions. It is due to the effect of water cavitation peening under the cavitation condition. In the cavitation experiment, with amplitude of $30{\mu}m$ and seawater temperature of $25^{\circ}C$, weight loss and cavitation-erosion damage depth were dramatically increased after 5 hours inducing cavitation.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.364-375
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• 2019

Background: Ecologists continue to investigate the factors that potentially affect the pattern and magnitude of tree damage during catastrophic windstorms in forests. However, there still is a paucity of research on which trees are more vulnerable to direct damage by winds rather than being knocked down by the fall of another tree. We evaluated this question in a mixed hardwood-softwood forest within the Big Thicket National Preserve (BTNP) of southeast Texas, USA, which was substantially impacted by Hurricane Rita in September 2005. Results: We showed that multiple factors, including tree height, shade-tolerance, height-to-diameter ratio, and neighborhood density (i.e., pre-Rita stem distribution) significantly explained the susceptibility of trees to direct storm damage. We also found that no single factor had pervasive importance over the others and, instead, that all factors were tightly intertwined in a complex way, such that they often complemented each other, and that they contributed simultaneously to the overall susceptibility to and patterns of windstorm damage in the BTNP. Conclusions: Directly damaged trees greatly influence the forest by causing secondary damage to other trees. We propose that directly and indirectly damaged (or susceptible) trees should be considered separately when assessing or predicting the impact of windstorms on a forest ecosystem; to better predict the pathways of community structure reorganization and guide forest management and conservation practices. Forest managers are recommended to adopt a holistic view that considers and combines various components of the forest ecosystem when establishing strategies for mitigating the impact of catastrophic winds.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제84권4호
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• pp.489-502
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• 2022

This paper is aimed at developing an optimization-based Finite Element model updating approach for structural damage identification and quantification. A modal flexibility-based error function is introduced, which uses modal assurance criterion to formulate the updating problem as an optimization problem. Because of the inexplicit input/output relationship between the candidate solutions and the error function's output, a robust and efficient optimization algorithm should be employed to evaluate the solution domain and find the global extremum with high speed and accuracy. This paper proposes a new multi-stage Selective Particle Swarm Optimization (SPSO) algorithm to solve the optimization problem. The proposed multi-stage strategy not only fixes the premature convergence of the original Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, but also increases the speed of the search stage and reduces the corresponding computational costs, without changing or adding extra terms to the algorithm's formulation. Solving the introduced objective function with the proposed multi-stage SPSO leads to a smart feedback-wise and self-adjusting damage detection method, which can effectively assess the health of the structural systems. The performance and precision of the proposed method are verified and benchmarked against the original PSO and some of its most popular variants, including SPSO, DPSO, APSO, and MSPSO. For this purpose, two numerical examples of complex civil engineering structures under different damage patterns are studied. Comparative studies are also carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed method in the presence of measurement errors. Moreover, the robustness and accuracy of the method are validated by assessing the health of a six-story shear-type building structure tested on a shake table. The obtained results introduced the proposed method as an effective and robust damage detection method even if the first few vibration modes are utilized to form the objective function.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 건축외장재로 많이 사용되고 있는 알루미늄복합패널의 화재위험성을 평가하기 위하여 외장재 실물 연소실험을 실시하였다. 그 결과 알루미늄복합패널의 빠른 화재확산을 보였으며, 이는 알루미늄 복합패널에 내장된 폴리에틸렌이 연소되면서 화염의 수직확산이 급격히 일어난 것이다. 본 실험에서 알루미늄복합패널의 최고 열방출률은 1,144kW로 나타났으며, 열전대에 의해 측정된 표면온도는 알루미늄의 용융점인 $660^{\circ}C$를 넘는 최고 $903.3^{\circ}C$ 이상 상승하였다. 그러므로 알루미늄복합패널의 화재는 상층으로의 급격한 연소확대나 개구부를 통한 내부로의 화재확산에 의한 큰 피해를 줄 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 이러한 실물실험에서 얻어낸 결과는 향후 알루미늄복합패널의 모델링 구현과 비교함으로써 알루미늄복합패널의 화재 확산 예측에 적용 될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.1-15
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 대형구조물에서 구조물의 안전성 평가와 관련하여 구조물이 국부손상도를 추정하기 위한 효율적인 부분구조추정(Substructural Identification) 기법에 대하여 연구하였다. 먼저, 부분구조 추정법을 위한 모형식을 설정하기 위하여 운동방정식으로부터 부분구조에 대한 계측오차를 처리하기 위한 모형을 포함한 추계론적 자동회귀-이동평균(ARAMX) 모형식을 유도하였다. 추정된 모형식의 계수는 유도된 관계식을 이용하면, 구조손상 평가에 이용될 수 있는 강성행렬로 환산될 수 있다. 본 논문에서 유도된 부분구조 추정법의 가장 큰 장점은 매우 안정되고 정확도가 우수한 구조추정법인 ARMAX 모형식에 기반한 순차적 예측오차 방법을 사용함으로써 다른 방법에 비해 추정의 안정성 및 정확도가 뛰어나다는 것이다. 다음으로는 개발된 부분구조 추정법을 이용하여 구조 손상도 추정이 수행되었다. 손상도 추정을 위하여 앞서 순차적 예측오차 방법을 이용하여 추정된 구조계 현상태의 강성행렬을 바탕으로, 최소지승법을 이용하여 구하는 간접법이 제시되었다. 제시된 방법들의 검증을 위하여 예제해석이 수행되었다. 트러스 및 연속교 모형 그리고 실험적 예제에 적용하여 구조의 강성행렬 및 감쇠행렬을 추정하였다. 이를 바탕으로 손상도 추정방법이 검증되었다. 해석결과로부터, 개발된 방법이 효율적이고 정확도 및 안정성의 측면에서 우수한 성질이 있음을 확인할 수 있다.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 유역 내 침수피해를 예측할 수 있는 실현가능한 수단으로써 인공신경망의 활용에 대해 제안하고자 한다. 유역 내 다양한 환경인자에 의한 침수피해 예측모형의 구축을 위해 108개 중유역을 대상으로 1990년부터 2000년까지 강우량, 침수피해면적, 토지이용 등 총 27개의 매개변수를 선정하여 총 49개의 데이터 세트를 구성하였다. 연구결과, 침수피해는 강우량과 같은 기상정보 뿐 만 아니라 다양한 유역환경의 특성에 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났으며 인공신경망 모형에 의해 R=0.92 수준에서 예측값과 관측값이 잘 일치하는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 인공신경망은 입력값들과 대응된 출력값들을 알고 있는 경우 과거와 현재의 시공간 정보를 활용하여 특정유역의 강우량에 따른 침수피해면적을 산정 할 수 있으며, 복잡하고 비선형적 역동성을 지니고 있는 유역 내 환경변화에 대한 예측모형으로 활용이 가능하다고 판단된다. 또한 인공신경망은 입력자료의 중요도를 평가하는데 이용될 수 있으며, 기존 모형에서 다루어지는 매개변수중요도를 정량화 시킬 수 있어 다른 모형의 매개변수 추정이나 보정에 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.185-193
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• 2016

Purpose of this study is to classify damaged lands according to the cause of the damage and their influences based on characteristic of the damaged lands in DeMilitarized Zone(DMZ) area, and utilize this study as a fundamental study for establishment of ecosystem restoration system. Literature review and field survey have been conducted to review the damage status of DMZ area. For field survey, first year and second year have been conducted, in which type of the damage has been reviewed in this study. In the result, types of damage have been classified into 6 categories: 'alteration of initial landform', 'loss of surface layer', 'land pollution', 'alteration of soil chemical property', 'decline of vegetation', and 'invasion of foreign species'. Restoration for each damage type is as following. First, for alteration of initial landform, the land is restored to the original landform prior to the damage and connection to surrounding ecosystem is considered. Second, for loss of surface layer, lost surface layer is restored or further loss is prevented with stabilization. Third, for land pollution, source of the pollution is eradicated or self-circulation with purification of polluted land is encouraged. Fourth, for alteration of soil chemical property, soil is restored of its original property with eradication of the pollution source and improvement of soil. Fifth, for decline of vegetation, current vegetation and anticipated alteration in future are considered and number of wild species is to be increased based on structure and characteristic of nearby vegetation. Sixth, for invasion of foreign species, prevention of dominance by risky species and facilitation ecological stability with ecological management are to be considered. Influence according to the cause of damage has occurred in secondary(indirect) influence or simultaneous occurrence of several damage types. Considering all these aspects, when type of the damage is complex, restoration process for each of former mentioned 6 damage types with solitary influence should be considered in unison.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.299-305
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• 2019

경주 불국사 삼층석탑의 손상 유형은 역사적, 예술적 가치 저하뿐만 아니라 암석 풍화도 가속화 시킬 수 있으므로 보존을 위한 적절한 해결책이 필요하다. 석탑 보존은 선조들이 남긴 원형을 유지하여 후대에 전해주는 데 그 목적을 둔다. 이 과정에서는 손상 상태에 관한 기록을 포함하며 향후 확인 가능하도록 해야 한다. 특히 석탑 손상도 평가는 보존연구와 교육 자료로 활용할 수 있으며 보존처리 기초 자료로 이용하고 예방적 자료를 구축할 수 있다. 이 석탑의 정량적 손상도 평가 결과, 전체 면적 대비 생물 피도 159 %, 화학적 원인 114 %, 물리적 원인 16 % 점유율을 보인다. 또한 서측 방향에서는 일조량과 암석의 팽창수축 영향으로 손상 범위가 95 % 나타났다. 기단부와 탑신부에서는 다른 부재대비 높은 손상률과 복합적 손상 패턴이 관찰된다. 반면에 상륜부는 1970년대 신석재로 복원하여 원 부재 대비 야외노출 시간이 짧기 때문에 보존 상태가 양호한 것으로 판단된다. 이 연구를 바탕으로 보존과정에서는 세척처리를 통해 생물 종의 오염 정도를 저감시킬 수 있으며, 물리적 파손 부재는 접합처리로 손상을 최소화할 수 있다. 하지만 석탑은 향후 재 손상 가능성이 있으므로 지속적인 안전점검 모니터링과 예방적 보존 관리가 필요하다.