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Fractal evaluation of the level of alligator cracking in pavements

  • Vallejo, Luis E.
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.219-227
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    • 2012
  • Pavement management systems require systematic monitoring of pavement surfaces to determine preventive and corrective maintenance. The process involves the accumulation of large amounts of visual data, typically obtained from site visitation. The pavement surface condition is then correlated to a pavement distress index that is based on a scoring system previously established by state or federal agencies. The scoring system determines if the pavement section requires maintenance, overlay or reconstruction. One of the surface distresses forming part of the overall pavement distress index is the Alligator Crack Index (AC Index). The AC Index involves the visual evaluation of the crack severity of a section of a pavement as being low, medium, or high. This evaluation is then integrated into a formula in order to obtain the AC Index. In this study a quantification of the visual evaluation of the severity of alligator cracking is carried out using photographs and the fractal dimension concept from fractal theory. Pavements with low levels of cracking were found to have a fractal dimension equal to 1.051. Pavements with moderate levels of cracking had a fractal dimension equal to 1.1754. Pavements with high degrees of cracking had a fractal dimension that varied between 1.5037 (high) and 1.7111 (very high). Pavements with a level of cracking equal to 1.8976 represented pavements that disintegrated and developed potholes. Thus, the visual evaluation of the state of cracking of a pavement (the AC Index) could be enhanced with the use of the fractal dimension concept from fractal theory.

Developing Location-Evaluation Model on Community Facilities in Rural Villages Considering Accessibility for Urban-Rural Exchange (도농교류 접근성을 고려한 농촌마을 공동시설의 입지평가모델 개발)

  • Koo, Hee-Dong;Kim, Dae-Sik;Doh, Jae-Heung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Rural Planning
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.115-126
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    • 2015
  • Although the frequency of use for community facilities in rural villages is growing as well as the importance of the facilities for urban-rural exchange is being highlighted, study on spatial location-analysis of the facilities for such multi-purpose is not so much. This study aims to find the spatial distribution forms of community facilities in rural villages such as community center and rural-pocket park through location-analysis, in order to provide available data for selecting location in the future. As the study area, Sojeong-myeon, Sejong Special City was selected. This study conducted GIS analysis for criteria of the location-evaluation model developed in this study. This study introduced the concept of time-distance for accessibility analysis. This paper also used linear-consecutive scoring method(LCSM) as a scoring method of criteria and Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) method for weighting values of criteria. The application results showed that the new model can generate the intensity of community facilities according to spatial distribution and accessibility from cities to the facilities.

A Study of Spur Gear Tooth Profile Modiscation Scheme for ScufEng Resistance Improvement (평기어의 스커핑 강도향상을 위한 치형수정 기술의 연구)

  • 김태완;황진영;조용주
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.18 no.6
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    • pp.418-424
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    • 2002
  • The basic concept of ‘gear profile modification’ is to change a part of the involute profile to reduce the load in that area and appropriate profile modifications can help gears to run quietly and resist scoring., pitting, and tooth breakage. In this study, the modification of tooth profile to make a smooth transmission of the normal loads in spur gears has been developed. The modified tooth profile has been determined by the total deflection at contact points. We also compared our results with other experimental results.

A Study of R&D Portfolio Model Expansion for Improving Practical Application (실무 적용성 제고를 위한 R&D Portfolio 모형 확장 연구)

  • Ahn, Tae-Ho
    • Management & Information Systems Review
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    • v.19
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2006
  • The concept of portfolio is rarely understood and used in R&D management field. The conventional management technique in selecting R&D projects is scoring each projects and choosing projects based on the scores which are determined during evaluation. As a collection of good stocks is not necessarily a good stock portfolio, a collection of good R&D projects is not always a good R&D project portfolio. In this paper, framework and practical technique for constructing a R&D project portfolio are introduced. This technique can be easily applied in private and plublic R&D institutes.

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Pre-service Earth Science Teachers Understanding about Volcanoes (화산에 대한 예비 지구과학 교사들의 이해)

  • Kim, Hyoung-Bum;Jeong, Jin-Woo;Ryu, Chun-Ryol
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.32 no.7
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    • pp.871-880
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this research is to explore preservice earth science teachers' understanding of volcanic systems using a modified version of InVEST Volcanic Concept Survey (InVEST VCS, Parham et al., 2010). Results showed that participants' understanding of volcanic concepts was rather limited. Questions requiring only basic content knowledge (e.g., terminology associated with volcano) received high scoring responses, while questions requiring higher order thinking and deeper conceptual connections as the mechanics of volcanic eruption received low scoring responses. Specifically, the prediction of hazards and impacts on the environment appeared to be poorly understood. VCS results can be applied to improve the subject content knowledge as well as the pedagogical knowledge that instructors may use when they assess students' understanding of volcanism within a solid conceptual framework.

Analysis of TIMSS 2007 Released Items Common with TIMSS 1999, 2003 on the View of Curriculum (교육과정에 근거한 TIMSS 2007 공개 추이문항의 정답률 분석)

  • Kim, Sun-Hee;Kim, Kyung-Hee
    • Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.99-121
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    • 2009
  • This study analyzed the difficulty trend of item which are common with TIMSS 1999, 2003, 2007 and are released since TIMSS 2007. The results show that the 7th curriculum has positive effects on the students' achievement in the domain such as spatial sense of rotation, ratio proportion percent, pattern, calculation of decimal numbers, concept of angle, area of triangle, and qualitative approach to graph. And the results leaved the consideration for the process of scoring, teaching method of statistical probability concept, and making table as a problem solving method.

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A Development of Tooth Profile Modification for Spur Gear (스퍼기어의 치형수정 프로그램의 개발)

  • Hwang, Jin-Young;Hwang, Sung-Wook;Kim, Tae-Wan;Cho, Yong-Joo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.05a
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    • pp.259-266
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    • 2002
  • The basic concept of 'tooth profile modification' is to change a part of the involute profile to reduce the load in that area and appropriate profile modifications can help gears to run quietly and resist scoring, pitting and tooth breakage. In this study, the modification of tooth profile to make a smooth transmission of the normal loads in spur gears has been developed. The modified tooth profile has been determined by the total deflection at contact points. We use the AGMA Standard to design basic gear profile, We also developed a gear design Program using tooth profile modification

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The design of Decision Support System for mid-and long-range investment planning (중장기 투자계획을 위한 의사결정지원 시스템의 설계)

  • 서의호;김원태;서창교;이석우
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.53-65
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    • 1992
  • Decision Support System(DSS) is an advanced information system concept prevailing since 1980s. It supports managers' decision making activities by providing not only information but decision alternatives. It essentially consists of the components of database, modelbase and dialogue systems. With the development of its databases, POSCO needs a number of modelbases in establishing DSSs in various areas such as production planning and investment. This research particularly focuses on establishment of a mid-and long-range investment DSS and investigates the necessity and the problems of an investment DSS and the decision criteria for investment priority. We (1) propose a modelbase which uses the concepts of Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) and Zero-Base Budgeting(ZBB), along with an appropriate scoring method, database and dialogue system to support the investment manager in evaluating investment proposals ; (2) implement the system using relational database management system ; and (3) discuss the results of implementing the investment DSS.

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New Postprocessing Methods for Rejectin Out-of-Vocabulary Words

  • Song, Myung-Gyu
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.16 no.3E
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    • pp.19-23
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    • 1997
  • The goal of postprocessing in automatic speech recognition is to improve recognition performance by utterance verification at the output of recognition stage. It is focused on the effective rejection of out-of vocabulary words based on the confidence score of hypothesized candidate word. We present two methods for computing confidence scores. Both methods are based on the distance between each observation vector and the representative code vector, which is defined by the most likely code vector at each state. While the first method employs simple time normalization, the second one uses a normalization technique based on the concept of on-line garbage mode[1]. According to the speaker independent isolated words recognition experiment with discrete density HMM, the second method outperforms both the first one and conventional likelihood ratio scoring method[2].

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Study on Safety Evaluation of Traditional Wooden Structure (전통목조의 안정성 평가에 대한 연구)

  • Kim Nam-Hee;Hong Sung-Gul;Bae Byoung-Sun;Jung Sung-Jin;Lee Young-Wook;Hwang Jong-Kuk
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2006.04a
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    • pp.413-420
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    • 2006
  • There are many Korean traditional wooden structures that have resisted successfully over more than several hundred years. However, their structural behavior is not known in engineering context yet. It is then difficult to predict how they behave against various loadings if they face. This paper is to attempt to investigate structural performance of the wooden structures using fuzzy concepts rather than definitely defined engineering formula. The fuzzy synthetic theory to a scoring method enables us to draw a representative and comprehensive value from individual quantity.

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