• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.175-180
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• 2017

The load-carrying capacity and structural behavior of concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) structures is highly influenced by the grouting compactness in the steel tube. Due to the invisibility of the grout in the steel tube, monitoring of the grouting progress in such a structure is still a challenge. This paper develops an active sensing approach with combined piezoceramic-based smart aggregates (SA) and piezoceramic patches to monitor the grouting compactness of CFST bridge structure. A small-scale steel specimen was designed and fabricated to simulate CFST bridge structure in this research. Before casting, four SAs and two piezoceramic patches were installed in the pre-determined locations of the specimen. In the active sensing approach, selected SAs were utilized as actuators to generate designed stress waves, which were detected by other SAs or piezoceramic patch sensors. Since concrete functions as a wave conduit, the stress wave response can be only detected when the wave path between the actuator and the sensor is filled with concrete. For the sake of monitoring the grouting progress, the steel tube specimen was grouted in four stages, and each stage held three days for cement drying. Experimental results show that the received sensor signals in time domain clearly indicate the change of the signal amplitude before and after the wave path is filled with concrete. Further, a wavelet packet-based energy index matrix (WPEIM) was developed to compute signal energy of the received signals. The computed signal energies of the sensors shown in the WPEIM demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed method in the monitoring of the grouting progress.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.283-291
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• 2018

Cracks in soil provide significant preferential pathways for contaminant transport and rainfall infiltration. Water exchange between the soil matrix and crack is crucial to characterize the preferential flow, which is often quantitatively described by a water exchange ratio. The water exchange ratio is defined as the amount of water flowing from the crack into the clay matrix per unit time. Most of the previous studies on the water exchange ratio mainly focused on cracked sandy soils. The water exchange between cracks and clay matrix were rarely studied mainly due to two reasons: (1) Cracks open upon drying and close upon wetting. The deformable cracks lead to a dynamic change in the water exchange ratio. (2) The aperture of desiccation crack in clay is narrow (generally 0.5 mm to 5 mm) which is difficult to model in experiments. This study will investigate the water exchange between a deformable crack and the clay matrix using a newly developed experimental apparatus. An artificial crack with small aperture was first fabricated in clay without disturbing the clay matrix. Water content sensors and suction sensors were instrumented at different places of the cracked clay to monitor the water content and suction changes. Results showed that the water exchange ratio was relatively large at the initial stage and decreased with the increasing water content in clay matrix. The water exchange ratio increased with increasing crack apertures and approached the largest value when the clay was compacted at the water content to the optimal water content. The effective hydraulic conductivity of the crack-clay matrix interface was about one order of magnitude larger than that of saturated soil matrix.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.339-349
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• 2020

This study investigates the feasibility of using the results of the UPV (ultrasonic pulse velocity) test to assess the UCS (unconfined compressive strength) of unsaturated soil. A series of laboratory tests was conducted on samples of unsaturated lateritic soils of northern Taiwan. Specifically, the unconfined compressive test was combined with the pressure plate test to obtain the unconfined compressive strength and its matric suction (s) of the samples. Soil samples were first compacted at the designated water content and subsequently subjected to the wetting process for saturation and the following drying process to its target suction using the apparatus developed by the authors. The correlations among the UCS, s and UPV were studied. The test results show that both the UCS and UPV significantly increased with the matric suction regardless of the initial compaction condition, but neither the UCS nor UPV obviously varied when the matric suction was less than the air-entry value. In addition, the UCS approximately linearly increased with increasing UPV. According to the investigation of the test results, simplified methods to estimate the UCS using the UPV or matric suction were established. Furthermore, an empirical formula of the matric suction calculated from the UPV was proposed. From the comparison between the predicted values and the test results, the MAPE values of UCS were 4.52-9.98% and were less than 10%, and the MAPE value of matric suction was 17.3% and in the range of 10-20%. Thus, the established formulas have good forecasting accuracy and may be applied to the stability analysis of the unsaturated soil slope. However, further study is warranted for validation.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.570-575
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• 1993

양조간장 분말을 Sephadex 겔 여과 크로마토그래피법으로 분획한 후, 가장 갈색도가 높은 melanoidin 관련 물질의 획분인 melanoidin related products(MRPs)을 모아 동결 건조시킨 다음, 이의 free redical scavenger 기능, 항산화 효력상승제의 기능과 금속 킬레이터로서의 기능, 리폭시게나아제 활성 저해능, 그리고 저장안전성 등에 대한 항산화 특성을 고찰한 결과 다음과 같다. MRPs는 첨가농도(혹은 갈색도)의 증가에 따라 과산화물의 생성을 저해하였으며, 그 항산화력은 ${\alpha}-토코페롤$ 보다는 낮았다. 그리고 free redical scavenger로서의 능력을 가지고 있어 리놀레산 혼합물의 산호를 지연 시켰으며, 염화제일철에 의하여 촉매된 산화반응에서 synergistic antioxidative effect를 나타내었다. 또한 양조간장 MRPs는 리폭시게나아제 활성을 저해하여 conjugated dienoic acid 생성량을 감소시켰다. 한편, 이 MRPs는 저장 안전성이 상당히 있어, $50^{\circ}C$에서 15일간 저장되어 있어도 항산화 효과의 상실이 거의 없음이 관찰되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.18-27
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• 2000

목재와 목질재료는 물리적 및 기계적 성질에 큰 변이를 지니므로 표러쉬 문의 표면재을 동일한 재료로 제조하는 경우에도 주위 환경의 변화에 따라 틀어짐이 발생할 수 있다. 틀어짐을 예측하는데 필요한 치수변동계수(LMC)와 탄성계수 등은 ASTM 규정대신에 전건법과 동적 탄성계수로 추정할 수 있었다. 틀어짐과 LMC간 관계는 곡선적이지만, 틀어짐과 탄성계수간에는 선형관계를 나타내었다. 경질섬유판과 합판과 같은 표면재의 재료성질은 정규분포를 나타내었다. 그러나 그 변이는 경질섬유판보다 합판이 훨씬 더 컸다. 확율분포 모수와 틀어짐의 관계를 이용해 몬테카롤로 시뮬레이션을 한 결과 틀어짐의 발생 크기에 따른 프러쉬 문의 불량율을 예측할 수 있었다.

• 식물병연구
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.150-154
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• 2001

세균성벼알마름병의 발생 예측 모델을 만들기 위하여 출수기의 기상 환경과 병 발생과의 관계를 자료분석(1992~2000)과 온실 및 포장시험을 통해 조사하였다. 세균성벼알마름병의 발생이 많은 해는 '94, '95, '98, 2000년이었고, 중만생종 출수기인 8월 상.중순에 고온이 지속되면서 연속강우가 많았다. 반면 병 발생이 적었던 '93년은 강우량과 강우일수는 많았으나 저온이었고, '97년에는 온도는 높았으나 강우가 적은 경향이었다. 출수기에 접종 후 습실처리 하였을 때(24시간 이상) $10^2$cfu/ml에서부터 발병하기 시작하여 접종농도가 높을수록 발병도가 높아져 $10^{8}$ cfu/ml에서는 86.1%의 발병도를 보였다. 습실처리를 하지 않은 경우에는 $10^{8}$ cfu/ml에서만 12.5% 발병하였다. 또한 발병도가 증가함에 따라 천립중과 등숙률이 현저히 감소하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.996-1001
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• 2006

Automatic washing machines have been improved and popularized steadily since the first electric washing machine was produced in the early 1900's. Appliance industry has tried to obtain the performance of washing machine with large capacity, high energy efficiency, low vibration and low noise levels. As the installation peace of a washer becomes closer to the living space, vibration and noise problems become more important challenges. In general, a washing machine has four legs to support its body. Four legs of the washing machine should be attached on a floor. If not so, it may cause severe vibration or walking in the spin-drying process. Unfortunately, the floor of an ordinary house is bumpy in general, and the consumers will not accept bolting washing machines to a foundation; moreover, sometimes they move the location of their washing machines to utility rooms or bath rooms or kitchens and don't care for leveling the legs exactly. In this study, we devise an auto-leg system that prevents the occurrence of abnormal vibration and walking of washing machines. It is simply composed of a spring and a friction damper. Some experiments are implemented to show the dynamic characteristics of the three-dimensional auto-legged washing machine model that is located on the even or uneven ground. A spring parameter is optimized to adjust the length of the auto-leg system automatically up to 10 mm irregularity, and the friction damper is designed to decrease a resonance induced by the spring of the auto-leg system. Some numerical results show that placing the proposed auto-leg system in a washing machine makes good performance with low vibration, as well as low noise, regardless of the unevenness of the floor.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권9호
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• pp.877-880
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• 2009

A curing process in post-printing section of R2R process is required for an electrical property of the printed pattern when devices such as RFID, Solar cell are printed. PEN as well as heat-stabilized PET which is used as a plastic substrate would be deformed at high temperature due to change of its elastic modulus. And crack in the printed pattern, which is on the plastic substrate is occurred due to the deformation of the substrate. The occurrence of crack causes electrical resistance to increase and the quality of the device to deteriorate. In case of RFID antenna, the range of reading distance is shortened as the electrical resistance of the antenna is increased. Therefore, the deformation of the plastic substrate, which causes the occurrence of crack, should be minimized by setting up low operating tension in R2R process. In low tension, slippage between a moving substrate and a roller would be generated when the operating speed is increased. And scratch would be occurred when slippage is generated due to an air entrainment, which is related to the thickness of the air film. The thickness of the air film is increased when operating speed is increased as shown by simulation based on mathematical model. The occurrence of scratch in conductive pattern printed by roll to roll process is a critical damage because it causes degradation or failure of electrical property of it.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.28-36
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• 2013

에너지 보안의 위기를 타파하기 위한 가장 많은 관심을 가지고 있는 것 중 하나가 지중 속 매장되어 있는 석탄이다. 본 연구에서는 지중에서 석탄을 직접 채굴을 하지 않고 지중 내 석탄 가스화를 직접 진행할 수 있는 지중 석탄가스화 공정에 대하여 화학 반응 공정 모사를 진행하였다. 본 연구는 1980년대 말에 미국의 Rocky Mountain 1 지중 석탄가스화 프로젝트를 참고로 진행을 하여 기본 모델을 완성하였다. 그리고 산화제 주입조건에 따른 민감도 분석을 통하여 합성가스의 조성 결과를 확인하였다. 반응 모델은 건조, 열분해, 촤 가스화로 나누어 모델이 구현되었고 실제 실험값에서의 생산된 가스량, 가스화 된 탄소량, 가스 수율 등의 값으로 결과를 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권8호
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• pp.1231-1237
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• 2022

적재 폐기물의 적재 높이와 압력, 대표적 구성폐기물인 목재, 건전지, 플라스틱 폐기물의 건조, 표면의 탄화변화를 동적으로 인지해야 한다. 동적 상황인지 서비스는 유니버설미들웨어 기반 BCN 융합 통신 서비스인 Ambient SDK 모델을 기반으로 플랫폼을 구성하였다. 또한, 적재 폐기물에서 자연발화의 발효열 발화 분석 자료를 기반으로 화재 발생 원인을 규명하는 상황인지 시스템을 구성하였다. 유니버설미들웨어를 활용하여 화재 조기경보 유형별 시나리오 구성에 적용할 수 있는 실시간 동적 서비스 플랫폼을 구축하였다. 그리하여, 저온발화 화재 가능성 데이터 분석을 위한 IoT 상황인지 플랫폼을 동적으로 구성하여 제시하였다.