• Computers and Concrete
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.605-619
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• 2024

The increase of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) content in recycled asphalt concrete (RAC) is accompanied by the degradation of low-temperature cracking resistance, which has become an obstacle to the development of RAC. This paper aims to reveal the meso-scale mechanisms of the low-temperature fracture behavior of RAC and provide a theoretical basis for the economical recycling of RAP. For this purpose, micromechanical heterogeneous peridynamic model of RAC was established and validated by comparing three-point bending (TPB) test results against corresponding numerical simulation results of RAC with 50% RAP content. Furthermore, the models with different aggregate shapes (i.e., average aggregates circularity (${\bar{C_r}}=1.00$, 0.75, and 0.50) and RAP content (i.e., 0%, 15%, 30%, 50%, 75%, and 100%) were constructed to investigate the effect of aggregate shape and RAP content on the low-temperature cracking resistance. The results show that peridynamic models can accurately simulate the low-temperature fracture behavior of RAC, with only 2.9% and 13.9% differences from the TPB test in flexural strength and failure strain, respectively. On the meso-scale, the damage in the RAC is mainly controlled by horizontal tensile stress and the stress concentration appears in the interface transition zone (ITZ). Aggregate shape has a significant effect on the low-temperature fracture resistance, i.e., higher aggregate circularity leads to better low-temperature performance. The large number of microcracks generated during the damage evolution process for the peridynamic model with circular aggregates contributes to slowing down the fracture, whereas the severe stress concentration at the corners leads to the fracture of the aggregates with low circularity under lower stress levels. The effect of RAP content below 30% or above 50% is not significant, but a substantial reduction (16.9% in flexural strength and 16.4% in failure strain) is observed between the RAP content of 30% and 50%. This reduction is mainly attributed to the fact that the damage in the ITZ region transfers significantly to the aggregates, especially the RAP aggregates, when the RAP content ranges from 30% to 50%.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.177-195
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• 2016

To secure the stability of geotechnical infrastructures and minimize failures during the construction process, a number of support systems have been introduced in the last several decades. In particular, stabilization methods using steel bars have been widely used in the field of geotechnical engineering. Rock bolt system is representative support system using steel bars. Pre-stressing has been applied to enhance reinforcement performance but can be released because of the failure of head or anchor sections. To overcome this deficiency, this paper proposes an innovative support system that can actively reinforce the weak ground along the whole structural element by introducing an active tension bolt containing a spring unit to the middle of the steel bar to increase its reinforcement capacity. In addition, the paper presents the support mechanism of the active tension bolt based on a theoretical study and employs an experimental study to validate the performance of the proposed active tension bolt based on a down-scaled model. To examine the feasibility of the active tension unit in a pillar, the paper considers a pullout test and a small-scale experimental model. The experimental results suggest the active tension bolt to be an effective support system for pillar reinforcement.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.281-284
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• 2009

로켓엔진 연소기의 연소 불안정 억제를 위해 연소 상황에서의 1/4파장 공명기의 주파수 동조를 수치적으로 연구하였다. 상온 음향 시험을 통해 도출된 최적 감쇠 조건을 충족시키는 사양의 1/4파장 공명기를 채택하였다. 먼저, 실규모 연소실의 조건을 모사한 모형 연소실에서의 연소장을 수치해석하여 기본 음향파 응답 특성을 분석하였다. 다음으로, 이 연소실에 음향 공명기를 장착하여 공명기 내부 물성치를 예측하였다. 이러한 기본 데이터를 토대로 특정 음향 모드를 감쇠시킬 수 있는 주파수 동조 방안을 연구하였다. 각 공명기 내부의 물성치를 토대로 공명기를 개별 공명기의 최적 동조 길이로 설계할 경우에 충분한 감쇠 성능을 얻을 수 있었다. 설계의 편의를 위해 모든 공명기를 동일길이로 설정한 경우, 길이에 따른 감쇠성능을 비교하여 제시하였다. 이를 토대로 최적의 동조길이를 찾을 수 있었다.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.312-320
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• 2015

The 1/5 scale-down model of the Bycatch Reduction Device (BRD) from an Argentinean demersal trawl was tested in a circulating water channel. The BRD is designed to help small Hake (merluza, merluccius hubbsi) to escape from a trawl. It is settled in front of a trawl codend, and is equipped with selection grids that help small fish to escape from the gear and guiding panels that help fish to meet with the grids. Bars of the grids are wires covered by the PVC and other parts of the BRD are made of net. When the velocity was less than 0.65 m/sec (2.81 Kont when translated to real towing speed) which is slow speed compared with real towing speed, position between an upper guiding panel and an upper selection grid were good to help small fish to escape. When the velocity was more than 0.8 m/sec (3.41 Knot when translated to real towing speed) which is similar to and faster than real towing speed, it was considered that small fish may have difficulties in escaping because the gap was not enough between an upper guiding panel and an upper selection grid. The lower selection grid was sat on the bottom of the tank without an angle due to the weight that it carries. Improvements were proposed to position the panels and the grids better.

• 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.533-549
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• 2024

일반적으로 토압식(earth pressure balance) 쉴드 TBM (tunnel boring machine)으로 지반 굴착 시 쏘일 컨디셔닝(soil conditioning)을 수행하여 굴착 효율성을 높이고 안정성을 도모한다. 지반 여건에 따른 최적의 첨가제 주입 조건을 결정하기 위해 컨디셔닝된 흙의 유동학적 특성을 정량적으로 파악하는 것이 중요하며, 이는 주로 유동계(rheometer)를 활용하여 이루어진다. 그러나 이는 실제 TBM에서 굴착토가 배토되는 과정을 모사할 수 없어 장비에 미치는 영향을 파악하는데 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 8 m급 토압식 쉴드 TBM의 챔버와 스크류 컨베이어(screw conveyor)를 1:20으로 축소시킨 모형 장비를 개발하여 실제 배토 과정을 모사하였다. 이를 위해 인공 사질토 시료를 대상으로 첨가제로 폼과 폴리머를 사용하여 축소모형시험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과, 스크류 토크는 기존에 수행한 실내 가압 베인전단시험 결과 데이터와 연계하여 항복응력과의 경향성이 일관되는 것을 확인하였으며, 스크류 토크와 항복응력 사이의 양의 비례관계를 도출하였다. 폼 주입비(foam injection ratio, FIR)에 따른 배토 효율은 전반적으로 유사한 경향을 보였으나 60% 일 때 미소하게 감소하였으며 폴리머를 첨가하면 효율이 떨어지는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 실제 토압식 쉴드 TBM과 동일하게 챔버 상, 하부에서 압력차가 발생하는 것과 스크류 컨베이어 케이싱을 따라 배토구로 갈수록 압력이 점진적으로 소산되는 과정을 확인하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제작한 축소모형시험 장비가 굴착토의 전단특성 및 배토 효율 평가에 활용될 수 있음을 보여준다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2009

본 연구는 초음속 축소형 디퓨저의 설계 및 시동 특성에 영향을 주는 변수를 파악하기 위하여 상온의 공기와 질소 가스를 사용하여 실험을 수행하였다. 1차 노즐의 목 면적의 변화, 1차 노즐 전단의 압력 변화, 디퓨저 길이와 직경의 비($L_d/D_d$) 그리고 디퓨저의 팽창부 유 무에 따른 디퓨저의 시동 특성을 알아보았다. 실험 결과 1차 노즐의 직경이 감소할수록 디퓨저 시동압력은 증가하였으며, 디퓨저의 예측 모델과 비교하여 90~98%의 장치 효율을 확인하였다. 또한 $L_d/D_d$가 8.4이상인 디퓨저와 팽창부의 유 무에 관계없이 디퓨저는 정상적으로 시동하였다. 본 실험 결과는 실물형 고고도 환경 모사 장치의 개발에 있어서 기초 자료로 활용될 것이다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권4호
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• pp.1310-1319
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• 2024

The reactor cavity cooling system (RCCS) is a passive reactor safety system commonly present in the designs of High-Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGR) that removes heat from the reactor pressure vessel by means of natural convection and radiation. It is one of the factors responsible for ensuring that the reactor does not melt down under any plausible accident scenario. For the simulation of accident scenarios, which are transient phenomena unfolding over a span of up to several days, intermediate fidelity methods and system codes must be employed to limit the models' execution time. These models can quantify radiation heat transfer well, but heat transfer caused by natural convection must be quantified with the use of correlations for the heat transfer coefficient. It is difficult to obtain reliable correlations for HTGR RCCS heat transfer coefficients experimentally due to such a system's size. They could, however, be obtained from high-fidelity steady-state simulations of RCCSs. The Rayleigh number in RCCSs is too high for using a Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) technique; thus, a Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) approach must be employed. There are many RANS models, each performing best under different geometry and fluid flow conditions. To find the most suitable one for simulating an RCCS, the RANS models need to be validated. This work benchmarks various RANS models against three experiments performed on the HTTR RCCS Mockup by the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in 1993. This facility is a 1/6 scale model of a vessel cooling system (VCS) for the High Temperature Engineering Test Reactor (HTTR), which is operated by JAEA. Multiple RANS models were evaluated on a simplified 2d-axisymmetric geometry. They were found to reproduce the experimental temperature profiles with errors of up to 22% for the lowest temperature benchmark and 15% for the higher temperature benchmarks. The results highlight that the pragmatic turbulence models need to be validated for high Rayleigh natural convection-driven flows and improved accordingly, more publicly available experimental data of RCCS resembling experiments is needed and indicate that a 2d-axisymmetric geometry approximation is likely insufficient to capture all the relevant phenomena in RCCS simulations.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.51-69
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• 2024

Currently, composite lining mountain tunnels in China are generally classified based on the [BQ] method for the surrounding rock grade. Increasingly, tunnel field construction is replicated indoors for scale down model tests. However, the development of analogous materials for model tests of composite lining tunnels with different surrounding rock grades is still unclear. In this study, typical Class III and V surrounding rock analogous materials and corresponding composite lining support materials were developed. The whole processes of excavation-support dynamics of the mountain tunnels were simulated. Data on the variation of deformations, contact pressures and strains on the surrounding rock were obtained. Finally, a comparative analysis between model tests and numerical simulations was performed to verify the rationality of analogous material development. The following useful conclusions were obtained by analyzing the data from the tests. The main analogous materials of Class III surrounding rock are barite powder, high-strength gypsum and quartz sand with fly ash, quartz sand, anhydrous ethanol and rosin for Class V surrounding rock. Analogous materials for rockbolts, steel arches are replaced by aluminum bar and iron bar respectively with both shotcrete and secondary lining corresponding to gypsum and water. In addition, load release rate of Class V surrounding rock should be less than Class III surrounding rock. The fenestration level had large influence on the load sharing ratio of the secondary lining, with a difference of more than 30%, while the influence of the support time was smaller. The Sharing ratios of secondary lining in Class III surrounding rock do not exceed 12%, while those of Class V surrounding rock exceed 40%. The overall difference between the results of model tests and numerical simulations is small, which verifies the feasibility of similar material development in this study.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.100-106
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• 2019

고농도 과산화수소와 케로신을 추진제로 하는 액체 로켓 엔진을 이용하여 수직형 연소 실험대에 고고도 모사용 디퓨저와 기 검증된 추력 측정 장치를 장착하여 지상 및 고고도 모사 연소 실험 설비를 구축하였으며, 고도에 따른 추력 특성을 고찰하였다. 선행으로 고고도 모사용 디퓨저의 특성 및 시동압력을 검증하기 위하여 1:4.8 스케일로 축소한 디퓨저를 설계 및 제작하였다. 축소형 디퓨저는 질소 가스를 이용하여 cold flow test를 수행하여 성능 및 시동 특성을 확인하였으며, 그 결과 연소 실험용 디퓨저의 성능 안정성과 시동 특성을 확보하였다. 수직형 연소 실험대에 고고도 모사용 디퓨저와 추력 측정 장치를 장착하고, 시스템 저항에 대한 추력 보정식을 도출하였다. 추력 보정식은 실제 연소 실험 전에 수행한 추력 단계별 실험과 진공 단계별 실험을 통하여 도출하였다. 작동 고도가 10km인 노즐을 설계, 제작하여 지상 연소 실험 및 고고도 모사 연소 실험을 수행하여 작동 고도 변화에 따른 추력 특성을 분석하였다. 추력 측정 장치에서 계측한 추력값을 이용하여 실제 추력을 각각의 보정식을 이용하여 계산하였다.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2011년도 한국우주과학회보 제20권1호
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• pp.23.4-23.4
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• 2011

MIRIS is the main payload of the Science and Technology Satellite-3 (STSAT-3). which is being developed by KASI for infrared survey observation of the Galactic plane at Paschen alpha wavelength. Wideband filters in I and H band will also be used to observe cosmic infrared background. The MIRIS will perform astronomical observations in the near-infrared wavelengths of 0.9~2 ${\mu}m$ using a 256 ${\times}$ 256 Teledyne PICNIC FPA sensor providing a 3.67 ${\times}$ 3.67 degree field of view with a pixel scale of 51.6 arcsec. The flight model of the MIRIS has been recently developed, The system performance tests have been made in the laboratory, including opto-mechanics test, vibration test, thermal vacuum test and passive cooling test down to 200K, using a thermally controlled vacuum chamber. Several focus tests showed good agreements compared to initial design parameters. Recent efforts are being concentrated to improve the system performances, particularly to reduce readout noise level in electronics. After assembly and integration into the satellite bus, the MIRIS will be launched in 2012.