• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.199-209
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• 2010

The locking compression plates-distal femur(LCP-DF) are being widely used for surgical management of the extra-articular complex fractures of the distal femur. They feature locking mechanism between the screws and the screw holes of the plate to provide stronger fixation force with less number of screws than conventional compression bone plate. However, their biomechanical efficacies are not fully understood, especially regarding the number of the screws inserted and their optimal configurations. In this study, we investigated effects of various screw configurations in the shaft and the condylar regions of the femur in relation to structural stability of LCP-DF system. For this purpose, a baseline 3-D finite element (FE) model of the femur was constructed from CT-scan images of a normal healthy male and was validated. The extra-articular complex fracture of the distal femur was made with a 4-cm defect. Surgical reduction with LCP-DF and bone screws were added laterally. To simulate various cases of post-op screw configurations, screws were inserted in the shaft (3~5 screws) and the condylar (4~6 screws) regions. Particular attention was paid at the shaft region where screws were inserted either in clustered or evenly-spaced fashion. Tied-contact conditions were assigned at the bone screws-plate whereas general contact condition was assumed at the interfaces between LCP-DF and bone screws. Axial compressive load of 1,610N(2.3 BW) was applied on the femoral head to reflect joint reaction force. An average of 5% increase in stiffness was found with increase in screw numbers (from 4 to 6) in the condylar region, as compared to negligible increase (less than 1%) at the shaft regardless of the number of screws inserted or its distribution, whether clustered or evenly-spaced. At the condylar region, screw insertion at the holes near the fracture interface and posterior locations contributed greater increase in stiffness (9~13%) than any other locations. Our results suggested that the screw insertion at the condylar region can be more effective than at the shaft during surgical treatment of fracture of the distal femur with LCP-DF. In addition, screw insertion at the holes close to the fracture interface should be accompanied to ensure better fracture healing.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제59권3호
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• pp.559-577
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• 2016

There are many theoretical analyses and experimental studies of the hydrodynamics for the tension leg platform (TLP) of a floating wind turbine. However, there has been little research on the arrangement of the TLP's internal structure. In this study, a TLP model and a 5-MW wind turbine model as proposed by the Minstitute of Technology and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have been adopted, respectively, to comprehensively analyze wind effects and wave and current combinations. The external additional coupling loads on the TLP and the effects of the loads on variables of the internal structure have been calculated. The study investigates preliminary layout parameters-namely, the thickness of the tension leg body, the contact mode of the top tower on the tension leg, the internal stiffening arrangement, and the formation of the spoke structure-and conducts sensitivity analyses of the TLP internal structure. Stress is found to be at a maximum at the top of the tension leg structure and the maximum stress has low sensitivity to the load application point. Different methods of reducing maximum stress have been researched and analyzed, and the effectiveness of these methods is analyzed. Filling of the spoke structure with concrete is discussed. Since the TLP structure for offshore wind power is still under early exploration, arrangements and the configuration of the internal structure, exploration and improvements are ongoing. With regard to its research and analysis process, this paper aims to guide future applications of tension leg structures for floating wind turbine.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.70.1-70.1
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• 2012

In-situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and infrared (IR) spectroscopy studies of SOFC cathode materials will be discussed in this presentation. The mixed conducting perovskites (ABO3) containing rare and alkaline earth metals on the A-site and a transition metal on the B-site are commonly used as cathodes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). However, the details of the oxygen reduction reaction are still not clearly understood. The information about the type of adsorbed oxygen species and their concentration is important for a mechanistic understanding of the oxygen incorporation into these cathode materials. XPS has been widely used for the analysis of adsorbed species and surface structure. However, the conventional XPS experiments have the severe drawback to operate at room temperature and with the sample under ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) conditions, which is far from the relevant conditions of SOFC operation. The disadvantages of conventional XPS can be overcome to a large extent with a "high pressure" XPS setup installed at the BESSY II synchrotron. It allows sample depth profiling over 2 nm without sputtering by variation of the excitation energy, and most importantly measurements under a residual gas pressure in the mbar range. It is also well known that the catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction is very sensitive to their electrical conductivity and oxygen nonstoichiometry. Although the electrical conductivity of perovskite oxides has been intensively studied as a function of temperature or oxygen partial pressure (Po2), in-situ measurements of the conductivity of these materials in contact with the electrolyte as a SOFC configuration have little been reported. In order to measure the in-plane conductivity of an electrode film on the electrolyte, a substrate with high resistance is required for excluding the leakage current of the substrate. It is also hardly possible to measure the conductivity of cracked thin film by electrical methods. In this study, we report the electrical conductivity of perovskite $La_{0.6}Sr_{0.4}CoO_{3-{\delta}}$ (LSC) thin films on yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) electrolyte quantitatively obtained by in-situ IR spectroscopy. This method enables a reliable measurement of the electronic conductivity of the electrodes as part of the SOFC configuration regardless of leakage current to the substrate and cracks in the film.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제27권11호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2011

본 연구는 글라스 비드와 고무 혼합재의 부피비와 상대적인 크기 비에 따른 열적 거동에 관해 다루고 있다. 혼합 물질의 열전도도를 측정하기 위하여 비정상면열원법이 사용되었다. 개별요소법과 열 네트워크 모델을 결합하여 입상체 모사 시료에서 입자 단위의 열전달 매커니즘을 분석하였다. 실험 및 해석의 결과는 다음과 같다. 유효 열전도도는 고무의 부피비가 증가할수록 감소한다. 두 물질의 상대적인 크기는 열 전파경로의 대부분을 결정하는 입자간 접촉상태의 공간적 구성을 지배한다. 같은 부피비를 갖는 혼합물질 중에서, 열이 잘 흐르지 않는 물질(여기에서는 고무)의 입자 크기가 큰 경우 열전달이 더 원활하게 이루어진다. 이상의 실험결과와 입자 단위의 관찰은 물질의 열적 거동이 부피비 뿐 아니라 구성 성분의 공간적인 구성에도 영향을 받음을 보여준다.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.113-120
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• 2019

To investigate surface properties and interception performances of the new modified PVDF membrane coated with Graphene Oxide (GO) and nano-$TiO_2$ (for short the modified membrane) via the interface polymerization method combined with the pumping suction filtration way, filtration experiments of the modified membrane on Humic Acid (HA) were conducted. Results showed that the contact angle (characterizing the hydrophilicity) of the modified membrane decreased from $80.6{\pm}1.8^{\circ}$ to $38.6{\pm}1.2^{\circ}$. The F element of PVDF membrane surface decreased from 60.91% to 17.79% after covered with GO and $TiO_2$. O/C element mass ratio has a fivefold increase, the percentage of O element on the modified membrane surface increased from 3.83 wt% to 20.87%. The modified membrane surface was packed with hydrophilic polar groups (like -COOH, -OH, C-O, C=O, N-H) and a functional hydrophilic GO-polyamide-$TiO_2$ composite configuration. This configuration provided a rigid network structure for the firm attachment of GO and $TiO_2$ on the surface of the membrane and for a higher flux as well. The total flux attenuation rate of the modified membrane decreased to 35.6% while 51.2% for the original one. The irreversible attenuation rate has dropped 71%. The static interception amount of HA on the modified membrane was $158.6mg/m^2$, a half of that of the original one ($295.0mg/m^2$). The flux recovery rate was increased by 50%. The interception rate of the modified membrane on HA increased by 12% approximately and its filtration cycle was 2-3 times of that of the original membrane.

• 한국근적외분광분석학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국근적외분광분석학회 2001년도 NIR-2001
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• pp.1286-1286
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• 2001

Despite extensive theoretical and experimental studies the structure of the protein-solvent interface is subject of many controversy. Understanding the processes that occur in aqueous solution requires understanding of the solvent influence on the structure of protein. The aim of this study is to investigate the applicability of NIR methods in the study of hydration phenomena in protein solutions. Temperature-induced changes in NIR spectra of -lactoglobulin (BLG) in aqueous solutions have been investigated by means of two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy (2DCOS) and principal component analysis (PCA). With the temperature increase the balance of forces between the BLG's interaction with itself and the BLGs interaction with its environment is disrupted leading to BLG unfolding. Significant differences of 2D signals and distinct discrepancies of loading on PC1 and PC2 were observed as a result of temperature increase. In the native folded conformation of BLC, most of the nonpolar amino acids are hidden in the centre of the structure, out of contact with water molecules, while charged groups are outside, in the contact with water. The polar groups promote low density Ih-type structure in the water outside this first hydration shell. When BLG unfolds it assumes a more extended configuration on which the previously buried nonpolar groups are exposed to water and promote the higher density II-type structure outside its first shell. Detailed assignments of bands attributed to the bulk water, different states of the hydrated water and the changed conformation of BLG are proposed.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.1509-1521
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• 2013

구조물의 안정성에 대한 사회적 요구는 이를 충족시키기 위한 기술발전으로 이어지게 되었고, 지각구조를 이해하기 위해 개발된 탄성파기법도 구조물의 건전성을 평가하는 비파괴 기법으로 자리매김하게 되었다. 비파괴 탄성파기법의 핵심은 측정대상 매질의 탄성파 속도를 측정하는 것으로, 탄성파의 전파를 측정하는 센서를 필수적으로 사용하여야 한다. 기존의 탄성파기법은 접촉식 센서를 사용하기 때문에 이동중 연속시험이 불가능한 문제점이 있었고, 탄성파 시험의 효율성이 실용적 요구조건에 부합하지 못하는 한계성이 있었다. 본 연구에서는 비접촉식 센서의 일종인 보급형 마이크로폰을 센서로 활용하여 기존 탄성파 시험의 문제점을 극복하고자 하는 연구를 수행하였다. 다짐지반의 실시간 다짐품질 확인, 콘크리트 구조물의 재료강성 및 내부결함의 확인 등을 위한 표면파 시험과 공진시험 등을 마이크로폰 활용대상으로 설정하였고, 마이크로폰센서의 영향인자 연구, 실구조물에 대한 현장시험 등을 수행하였다. 이를 통하여 마이크로폰 센서의 신뢰성과 효율성을 확인할 수 있었으며, 최적의 마이크로폰 활용방안을 제안하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.673-685
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• 2007

Reinforced concrete beams can be strengthened in a structural retrofit process by attaching steel plates to their sides by bolting. Whilst bolting produces a confident degree of shear connection under conditions of either static or seismic overload, the plates are susceptible to local buckling. The aim of this paper is to investigate the local buckling of unilaterally-restrained plates with point supports in a generic fashion, but with particular emphasis on the provision of the restraints by bolts, and on the geometric configuration of these bolts on the buckling loads. A numerical procedure, which is based on the Rayleigh-Ritz method in conjunction with the technique of Lagrange multipliers, is developed to study the unilateral local buckling of rectangular plates bolted to the concrete with various arrangements of the pattern of bolting. A sufficient number of separable polynomials are used to define the flexural buckling displacements, while the restraint condition is modelled as a tensionless foundation using a penalty function approach to this form of mathematical contact problem. The additional constraint provided by the bolts is also modelled using Lagrange multipliers, providing an efficacious method of numerical analysis. Local buckling coefficients are determined for a range of bolting configurations, and these are compared with those developed elsewhere with simplifying assumptions. The interaction of the actions in bolted plates during buckling is also considered.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.175-181
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• 2012

This example was able to focus on the long usage of the pavement that it was merely through the oxidation of the asphalt pavement which it could contact with on the road in the industrial housing complex and correlation regulation of the asphalt subsidence with the load in basic Infra of the configuration. The problem in conjunction with the subsidence (transformation) was interpreted as a problem of the subsidence of each pavement layer to lead the subsidence of the road or the transformation to packaging side asphalt pavement, but the traffic number of times of the heavy vehicle highlights for main problems with the road where is concentrated. In the case of general asphalt paving, it thinks it exposes light, and to study a general phenomenon for the asphalt transformation and a cause for a pavement construction method and the property of material used for pavement and a complement method by the case study at this time of the compound with the heavy vehicle traffic that it can become clear that small success transformation occurs at a point in time when 1-2 years more pass, and a fatigue rift occurs by ultraviolet rays, the oxidation with the contact with the air afterwards, and described beginning to use by the above.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.527-532
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• 2009

고속충돌 파괴현상에 대한 병렬계산기법을 다루었다. 특히 세라믹 재료는 다른 연성 금속 재료와 달리 강성이 크고 가볍기 때문에 충돌 방호 구조물로 활용이 되고 있다. 재료의 고속 관통 문제의 경우 매우 짧은 시간에 대변형이 일어나며, 세라믹 재료의 깨지는 특성 때문에 실험적으로 이를 분석하기 매우 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 세라믹 파괴현상을 수치적으로 모사하기 위해 절점분리기법을(node separation scheme) 적용하였다. 절점분리기법의 제약으로는 재료의 파괴가 발생함에 따라 새로운 절점이 생기게 되고, 이로 인해 지속적으로 계산 시간이 늘어난다는 사실이다. 해석 시간을 단축하기 위해 MPI(Message Passing Interface)를 이용한 병렬화를 수행하였다. 고속충돌 문제의 특이사항으로 시간에 따라 각각의 프로세서에 할당된 영역의 계산량이 비균일 해지며, 이로 인한 병렬 성능의 저하가 발생한다. 본 연구에서는 이를 방지하기 위해 동적영역할당기법을 적용하였다. 고속충돌 문제 해석을 통하여 적용된 기법의 정확성 및 병렬 성능에 대해 기술하였다.