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Effect of internal stability on the failure properties of gravel-sand mixtures

  • Zhongsen Li;Hanene Souli;Jean-Marie Fleureau;Jean-Jacques Fry;Tariq Ouahbi;Said Taibi
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.395-403
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    • 2023
  • The paper investigates the effect of two parameters - sand content (SC) and grain migration during shearing - on the mechanical properties of gravel-sand mixtures. Consolidated undrained (CU) triaxial tests were carried out on eight series of mixtures containing gravel (1<d<16 mm) and sand (0.1<d<1 mm). The prepared mixtures have sand contents of 0, 10, 15, 20, 40, 54, 94 and 100%, and a relative density of 60%. The transition sand content (TSC) is experimentally defined and marks the transition from gravel-driven to sand-driven behavior. For SC<TSC, the dry density of the mixture increases with SC. This induces an increase in undrained peak strength and dilative trend. The slope and position of the critical state line (CSL) are also deeply dependent on SC. At SC=TSC, the mixtures exhibit the largest dry density and yield the highest undrained peak strength and the largest dilative trend. During shearing, large internal migration of grains was observed at the TSC, causing heterogeneity in the sample. Analysis of the CSL deduced from the final points of the triaxial tests shows that, at the TSC, failure appears to correspond to the behavior of the coarsest fraction of the soil. This fraction is located in the upper part of the sample, where the sand particles had been eliminated by suffusion. On the other hand, in the more stable materials, the CSL is consistent with the bulk grain size distribution of the soil.

Experimental Realization of Matrix Converter Based Induction Motor Drive under Various Abnormal Voltage Conditions

  • Kumar, Vinod;Bansal, Ramesh Chand;Joshi, Raghuveer Raj
    • International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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    • v.6 no.5
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    • pp.670-676
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    • 2008
  • While the matrix converter has many advantages that include bi-directional power flow, a size reduction, a long lifetime, and sinusoidal input currents, it is vulnerable to the input voltage disturbances, because it directly exchanges the input voltage to the output voltage. So, in this paper, a critical evaluation of the effect of various abnormal voltage conditions like unbalanced power supply, balanced non-sinusoidal power supply, input voltage sags and short time blackout of power supply on matrix converter fed induction motor drives is presented. The operation under various abnormal conditions has been analyzed. For this, a 230V, 250VA three phase to three phase matrix converter (MC) fed induction motor drive prototype is implemented using DSP based controller and tests have been carried out to evaluate and improve the stability of system under typical abnormal conditions. Digital storage oscilloscope & power quality analyzer are used for experimental observations.

Scaling Reuse Detection in the Web through Two-way Boosting with Signatures and LSH

  • Kim, Jong Wook
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.735-745
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    • 2013
  • The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs and wiki, enable even naive users to easily create and share content on the Web using freely available content sharing tools. Wide availability of almost free data and promiscuous sharing of content through social networking platforms created a content borrowing phenomenon, where the same content appears (in many cases in the form of extensive quotations) in different outlets. An immediate side effect of this phenomenon is that identifying which content is re-used by whom is becoming a critical tool in social network analysis, including expert identification and analysis of information flow. Internet-scale reuse detection, however, poses extremely challenging scalability issues: considering the large size of user created data on the web, it is essential that the techniques developed for content-reuse detection should be fast and scalable. Thus, in this paper, we propose a $qSign_{lsh}$ algorithm, a mechanism for identifying multi-sentence content reuse among documents by efficiently combining sentence-level evidences. The experiment results show that $qSign_{lsh}$ significantly improves the reuse detection speed and provides high recall.

Improved Defect Control Problem using Scaled Down Silicon Oxide Stamps for Nanoimprint Lithography (나노임프린트 리소그래피를 위한 스케일 다운된 산화막 스탬프 제작과 패턴결함 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Hyung-Seok;Choi, Woo-Beom;Sung, Man-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.130-138
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    • 2006
  • We have investigated pattern scaling down of silicon stamps through the oxidation technique, During oxidizing the silicon stamps, silicon dioxide that has 300 nm and 500 nm thickness was grown, and critical deformations were not observed in the patterns. There was positive effect to reduce size of patterns because vertical and horizontal patterns have different orientation. We achieved pattern reduction rate of $26\%$. In addition, the formation of polymer patterns had been investigated with varied temperature and pressure conditions to improve the filling characteristics of polymers during nanoimprint lithography when pattern sizes were few micrometers. In these varied conditions, polymers had been affected by free space compensation and elastic stress relaxation for filling the cavities. Based on the results, defect control which is an important issue in the nanoimprint lithography were facilitated.

Array Simulation Characteristics and TFT-LCD Pixel Design Optimization for Large Size, High Quality Display (대면적 고화질의 TFT-LCD 화소 설계 최적화 및 어레이 시뮬레이션 특성)

  • 이영삼;윤영준;정순신;최종선
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.137-140
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    • 1998
  • An active-matrix LCD using thin film transistors (TFT) has been widely recognized as having potential for high-quality color flat-panel displays. Pixel-Design Array Simulation Tool (PDAST) was used to profoundly understand the gate si후미 distortion and pixel charging capability. which are the most critical limiting factors for high-quality TFT-LCDs. Since PDAST can simulate the gate, data and pixel voltages of a certain pixel on TFT array at any time and at any location on an array, the effect of the resistivity of gate line material on the pixel operations can be effectively analyzed. The gate signal delay, pixel charging ratio and level-shift of the pixel voltage were simulated with varying the parameters. The information obtained from this study could be utilized to design the larger area and finer image quality panel.

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INFLUENCE OF INCLUSION ON INTERNAL DEFECT IN MULTI-STAGE EXTRUSION

  • Yoshida Y.;Fukaya Y.;Yukawa N.;Ishikawa T.;Ito K.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2003.10b
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    • pp.51-54
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    • 2003
  • Internal defects such as chevron crack occasionally occur in the process of cold extrusion or cold drawing. It is known that the existence and property of inclusion greatly influences the generation of the internal crack. However, in the plastic working field, research about the effect of the inclusion on the fracture is not theoretically analyzed. This paper describes effects of the physical property of inclusion on the internal fracture generation in the process. Prediction of fracture was evaluated by critical damage value calculated by the equation of Cockcroft & Latham and its change by the inclusion physical property such as size and stiffness was investigated.

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Effect of pH on the Luminescence of $(Y,Gd)BO_3:Eu^{3+}$ Phosphor Prepared by the Coprecipitation Method

  • Lee, Gwan-Hyoung;Kang, Shin-Hoo
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07b
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    • pp.1514-1517
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    • 2005
  • The $(Y,Gd)BO_3:Eu^{3+}$ phosphor was made by coprecipitation method. The precipitated powders were amorphous. The value of pH in the process of coprecipitation was critical for the luminescence of phosphors. The particle size and morphology were influenced by pH value. The lower calcination temperature and hydrothermal synthesis leads to the distortion of lattices. The distorted lattices changed the symmetry of $Eu^{3+}$ site. The broken inversion symmetry in the distorted lattice caused the increased emission of $^5D_0{\rightarrow}^7D_2$ transition.

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Assessment of a Phase Doppler Anemometry Technique in Dense Droplet Laden Jet

  • Koo, Ja-Ye;Kim, Jong-Hyun
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.7
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    • pp.1083-1094
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    • 2003
  • This study represents an assessment of the phase-Doppler technique to the measurements of dense droplet laden jet. High-pressure injection fuel sprays have been investigated to evaluate the use of the Phase-Doppler anemometry (PDA) technique. The critical issue is the stability of the phase-Doppler anemometry technique for dense droplet laden jet such as Diesel fuel spray in order to insure the results from the drop size and velocity measurements are repeatable, consistent, and physically realistic because the validation rate of experimental data is very low due to the thick optical density. The effect of shift frequency is minor, however, the photomultiplier tube (PMT) voltage setting is very sensitive to the data acquisition and noise in dense droplet laden jet. The optimum PMT voltage and shift frequency should be chosen so that the data such as volume flux and drop diameter do not change rapidly.

A Study on the Fatigue Strength of Propellers for High Speed and Large Ships in Sea Water (대형 고속 선박용 프로펠러의 해수 중 피로강도에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Ho;An, Jae-Hyeong;Gang, Nak-Hun
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.207-212
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    • 2003
  • Recently there has been a remarkable increase in the number of high speed and large ships, and the high power involved for propulsion of above ships have brought high pitch ratio and high skew propeller. The recent tendency toward highly skewed propeller has increased the load on propeller blades and the fatigue strength of propeller blades has become the critical point in design of propellers for above ships. In this paper fatigue tests in sea water were carried out on propeller material of Ni-Al bronze. The stress and environmental conditions of the test were selected to be close to those of full size propellers in use. The effect of stress ratio, stress frequency, revolution number of propeller for above ships numbers and so on were discussed.

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Tool Electrode Wear Compensation using Round Trip Method for Machining Cavities in Micro EDM Process (마이크로 방전가공에서 Round Trip Method를 이용한 전극마모 보정)

  • Park Sung-Jun;Kim Young-Tae;Min Byung-Kwon;Lee Sang-Jo
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.21 no.10
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    • pp.42-49
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    • 2004
  • Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is one of the most extensively used non-conventional material removal process. The recent trend in reducing the size of product has given micro EDM a significant amount of research attention. Micro EDM is capable of machining not only micro holes and micro shafts as small as a few micrometers in diameter but also complex three dimensional micro cavities. But, longitudinal tool wear by electrical discharge is indispensable and this affects the machining accuracy in micro EDM process. Therefore, newly developed tool wear compensation strategy called round trip method is suggested and verified by experiment. In this method, machining depth of cut, overlap effect and critical travel length are also considered.