• 대한물리의학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.233-243
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• 2010

Purpose : This study aimed to examine the effects of sling exercise therapy on the relief of low back pain and the cross-sectional area change of lumbar muscles by CT analysis for chronic low back pain patients. Methods : Forty-one patients with diagnosis of chronic low back pain was divided sling exercise therapy group(SEG) 19 subjects and conservative physical therapy group(CPG) 22 subjects. we randomized and treated them(subjects) for 12 weeks. As using visual analogue scale(VAS), we evaluated recovery accuracy of pain, and for investigating cross-section area change of lumbar muscles for before and after treatment we used computed tomography(CT). Results : This study were summarized as follows : 1) As treatment period, in each compared testing on VAS of SEG and CPG, the both group was significantly different(p<.05). 2) Compared testing on VAS of between-subject groups(SEG and CPG) were not significantly different(p>.05). 3) At SEG of before and after treatment, in compared testing on cross-section area size of lumbar muscles, All muscles of psoas major, quadratus lumborum, erector spinae and multifidus were significantly different(p<.05). At CPG, psoas major was significantly different(p<.05). But other muscles were not significantly different(p>.05). Conclusion : From this result, both sling exercise therapy and the conservative physical therapy are effect on decrease of pain for chronic low back pain patients. but Increasing of the cross-section area being proportioned with muscular strengthening of low back muscle is noticeable difference in SEG. Therefore, sling exercise therapy have affect both decreasing of pain for chronic low back pain patients and lumbar muscles strengthening.

• 대한설비공학회지:설비저널
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.131-139
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• 1988

The thermoacoustic oscillation induced in an air column with variable cross section area is investigated theoretically and experimentally. The onset condition of the oscillation is derived by equating the acoustic power production to the power dissipation. The power production at the heater is predicted by using the efficiency factor obtained by heat transfer analysis for a single wire in a uniform cross flow and considering the interference between heater wires. The power dissipation is estimated by measuring the attenuating coefficient from the pressure decay curve. The theoretical prediction to the onset condition of the oscillation is confirmed experimentally. The effect of the variation of the column cross section area on the onset condition is presented.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2013

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between cross-sectional areas of the paraspinal and psoas muscles with low back pain. Methods : We assessed the cross-sectional area of the psoas and paraspinal muscles at the superior part of L4 level and vertebral body of L4 of 132 patients who were hospitalized with a chief complaint of low back pain at Jaseng Hospital of Korean Medicine from January 2013 to April 2013. After calculating the mean psoas area, we divided the patients into 2 groups by whether the psoas cross section was larger or smaller than the mean, and compared the admission period, verbal numeric rating scale(NRS) of low back pain(LBP), and improvement of verbal NRS of LBP. We also subcategorized the patients into acute and chronic groups according to the duration period, and compared the cross-sectional area of the psoas and paraspinal muscles. Results : Although analyses of the verbal NRS of LBP, and improvement of verbal NRS of LBP between groups with larger and smaller psoas cross section areas showed no significant difference, the admission period was significantly shorter in the group with larger psoas cross section areas. There was no significant difference in analyses of cross section areas in the acute and chronic groups. Of the possible prognostic variables, improvement of verbal NRS of LBP showed no correlation, while the admission period displayed a significant correlation. The cross-sectional area of the psoas and paraspinal muscles divided by the area of the vertebral body of L4 had a significant negative correlation with age. Conclusions : The cross-sectional area of the psoas and paraspinal muscles were correlated with the admission period in LBP patients, and the cross-sectional area of the surrounding muscles divided by the area of the L4 vertebral body was negatively correlated with age.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제6권4호통권23호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 본류와 지류가 만나는 합류구간, 만곡 및 사행구간이 있는 자연하천과 동일한수리모형을 제작하고 합류부를 중심으로 본류와 지류의 유량비 변화에 따라 모형의 합류부 횡단면에서 발생하는 수위차의 변화를 분석하였다. 합류이전의 최하류단면 수위를 기준으로 하는 합류부 각 단면의 최대수위 변화에 미치는 유량비의 영향은 합류부 하류구간보다 상류구간에서 더 크게 나타난다. 횡단면의 최소수위에 대한 최대수위의 변화는 합류부 중심에 가까울수록 증가하며 합류부 중심 직하류에서 최대를 보인다. 또한 합류구간 횡단면의 수면경사는 단면형태에 따라 영향을 받으며 본류에 대한 지류의 유량비가 감소할수록 수면경사도 감소한다. 기존에 제안된 일정한 곡률반경과 정형화된 단면에서 도출된 횡단면 수위차 산정 공식이 평창강과 동일하게 제작된 모형수로에서 실측값과 약 60%의 차이를 보인 반면 본 연구에서는 실측값과 약 10%의 차이를 보이는 수위차 산정 공식을 제안하였다.

• 한국지리정보학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.95-112
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• 2009

하천의 흐름해석 분야에서 모형이 요구하는 입력자료 중 하천단면은 매우 중요한 요소이다. 수치모형을 이용해서 자연하천의 2차원 흐름을 모의하고자 할 때 정확한 계산치를 얻기 위해서는 실제 하천단면의 하상을 정확하게 반영하여야 한다. 그러나 하천단면의 하상을 실제 상태의 모습 그대로 반영하는 것은 거의 불가능하다. 본 연구에서는 현재 실무에서 사용하는 하천측량 자료인 HEC단면과 ArcView를 연계하여 등간격 하도단면을 생성하고 유한요소망을 구축하는 방법을 제안하였다. 연구 대상지역은 한강 본류 구간과 낙동강 본류 구간을 선정하였고 등간격 하도단면 구축결과 실측 단면자료와 잘 일치함을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 본 연구에서 제안한 등간격 하도단면을 이용하면 2차원 흐름해석 및 수질해석을 위한 양질의 유한요소망을 구축하여 유한요소해석 등에 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한조선학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 1980

In the conventional ship's structures, the stiffeners with asymmetric sections have been widely used, in spite of the disadvantage on the point of strength, compared to those with symmetric sections. So far, the stiffened plating was usually analyzed not considering the geometric unsymmetry characteristics of the section, including only the cross sectional area and moment of inertia. In this paper, the stiffened plating is devided into the strips having a thin-walled open cross section by using the concept of the effective width. The geometric characteristics of the sections are also included. The governing equations are derived, which can be applied to the arbitrary cross section beams, and the symmetric and the asymmetric section beams which have the same cross sectional areas are analyzed by using the finite element method. From that result, we obtain the allowable load of the two sections, and compared them.

• 소음진동
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.914-921
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• 1999

There are many theoretical investigations to analyze higher order mode of reactive type single expansion chambers with offset inlet/outlet locations. But the conventional method has the restriction that the ratio between the area of inlet(or outlet) pipe and that of chamber must be natural number. In the paper, a new method was suggested to apply the Kim's method to silencer with circular cross-section. Not only the offset location but also the magnitude of cross-section area of inlet/outlet pipe can be considered by the suggested method. The predictions by this new method also compared with those by the finite element method and Munjal's method in order to verify the accuracy of the suggested method presented here.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제6권12호
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• pp.1106-1112
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• 2000

In this paper, we present a vision system which measures the cross-section of a hot wire-rod in the steel plant. We developed a mobile vision system capable of accurate measurement, which is strong to vibration and jolt when moving. Our system uses green laser light sources and CCD cameras as a sensor, where laser sheet beams form a cross-section contour on the surface of the hot wire-rod and the reflected light from the wire-rode is imaged on the CCD cameras. We use four lasers and four cameras to obtain the image with the complete cross-section contour without an occlusion region. We also perform camera calibrations to obtain each cameras physical parameters by using a single calibration pattern sheet. In our measuring algorithm, distorted four-camera images are corrected by using the camera calibration information and added to generate an image with the complete cross-section contour of the wire-rod. Then, from this image, the cross-section contour of the wire-rod is extracted by preprocessing and segmentation, and its height, width and area are measured.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.23-30
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• 2012

비대칭 H형강이 콘크리트에 매립되어 화재에 노출되는 일반 합성보에 비하여 내화성능이 높은 슬림플로어 공법에 대한 화재거동특성을 분석하고, 이를 기반으로 내화성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 최적 단면형상 조건을 도출하고자 연구를 수행하였다. 단면형상은 휨 성능을 증진시킬 수 있는 웨브 보강과 화재에 직접 노출되는 하부플랜지의 보강 방안에 대하여 화재실험을 진행하였으며, 무 보강조건과 형상변화시에 발생하는 합성플로어의 처짐을 비교 분석하여 효과적인 단면형상 설계조건을 도출하고자 하였다. 실험결과 웨브 보강방안에 비해 하부플랜지 보강시 내화성능 향상효율이 더 높은 것으로 나타났으며, 이는 화재에 직접적으로 노출되는 하부플랜지 부분에 보강을 하는 것이 급격한 온도상승으로 인한 강도저하로 인해 발생하는 변형을 보다 효율적으로 제어하기 때문으로 판단된다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제3권6호
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• pp.555-567
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• 1995

Design curves have been prepared for prestressed rectangular beam section based on BS 8110, for determining area of steel for any given cross section, for stresses in concrete and steel and for the design moment. The design moment and the area of steel have been expressed in dimensionless form in terms of cross sectional dimensions and the characteristic strength of concrete. The choice and combination of design parameters result in considerably less number of curves as aid for design of rectangular prestressed beam sections, than those reported in CP 110 (Part 3).