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Development of a Practical Two-Microphone Impedance Tube Method for Sound Transmission Loss Measurement of Sound Isolation Materials

  • Ro, Sing-Nam;Hwang, Yoon;Lee, Dong-Hoon
    • International Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.105-113
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    • 2003
  • This study developed a practical two-microphone impedance tube method to measure the sound transmission loss of sound isolation materials without the use of an expensive reverberation room or an acoustic intensity probe. In order to evaluate the validation and applicability of the two-microphone impedance tube method, sound transmission losses for several sound isolation materials with different surface density and bending stiffness were measured, and the measured values were compared with the results from the reverberation room method and the theory. From the experimental results, it was found that the accuracy of sound transmission loss obtained by the impedance tube method depends upon the diameter size of the impedance tube (i.e., tested sample size). For sound isolation materials having relatively large bending stiffness such as acryl, wood, and aluminum plates, it was found that the impedance tube method proposed by this study was not valid to measure the sound transmission loss. On the other hand, for sound isolation materials having relatively small bending stiffness such as rubber, polyvinyl, and asphalt sheets, the comparisons of transmission loss between the results from the impedance tube method and the theory showed a good agreement within the range of the frequencies satisfying the normal incidence mass law. Therefore, the two-microphone impedance tube method proposed by this study can be an effective measurement method to evaluate the sound transmission loss for soft sound isolation sheets having relatively small bending stiffness.

Optimal residual generation using parity space approach for a position servo system (패리티 공간기법을 이용한 위치 서보계의 최적 잔차 발생)

  • 최경영;박태건;이기상
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.1440-1443
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    • 1997
  • The optimal residual generator based on parity relation approach for the fault detection and isolation of a arge diesel engine actuator position servo system is presented. The closed-loop residual generator is designed to have robustness against modeling errors and noise. Main purpose of the fault detection and isolation system in the process is to detect and isolate two important faults, i.e., actuatro fault and fault of speed sensor, that, if not detected and compensated, degrade the overall control system performance. Simulation results are give to show the practical applicability of the fault detecrtion and isloation scherme.

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Magnetic Properties and Microstructures of Co-Cr-(Pt)-Ta Magnetic Thin Films Sputtered on Self-textured Substrates

  • Shin, Kyung-Ho;Chang, Han-Sung;Lee, Taek-Dong;Park, Joong-Keun
    • Electrical & Electronic Materials
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    • v.11 no.10
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    • pp.72-77
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    • 1998
  • The effects of Al micro-bumps on the magnetic properties of CoCr(Pt)Ta/Cr films deposited on glass substrates were investigated. The coercivity increased and the coercivity squareness decreased by incorporating Cr/Al underlayers. The cause of the coercivity increase is attributed to the reduction of Co(0002) texture, the increase of magnetic isolation of CoCr(Pt)/Ta grains, and the refinement of CoCr(Pt)/Ta grains deposited on Cr/Al underlayers. The effects of an Al overlayer on the magnetic properties of CoCr(Pt)Ta/Cr films were also studied. The decrease of coercivity squareness is ascribed to the magnetic isolation of CoCr(Pt)Ta grains.

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Inhibitory Effect of Trans-N-p-Coumaroyl Tryamine from the Twigs of Celtis chinensis on the Acetylcholinesterase

  • Kim, Dae-Keun;Lee, Kie-Seung
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.26 no.9
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    • pp.735-738
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    • 2003
  • The methanolic extract of the twigs of Celtis chinensis was found to show inhibitory activity on acetylcholinesterase (AChE), an enzyme that plays a role in the metabolic hydrolysis of ACh. Bioassay-guided fractionation of the methanolic extract resulted in the isolation of N-p-coumaroyl tyramine. as an inhibitor on AChE. This compound inhibited AChE activity in a dose-dependent manner, and the $IC_50$ value of trans-N-p-coumaroyl tyramine was 34.5 $\mu$g/mL (122 $\mu$M).

Isolation of the Antimicrobial Compounds from Aralia cordata Thunb. Extract (독활 뿌리 추출물에서 항균물질의 분리 및 항균성)

  • Han, Wan-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.182-185
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    • 2005
  • Bioassay-guided isolation of the dried roots of Aralia continentalis led to the isolation of (-)-pimara-8(14), 15dien-19-oic acid (continentalic acid) and $(24E)-Stigmasta-5,22-dien-3{\beta}-ol$ (stagmasterol). Their structures were elucidated using $^1H-NMR$, $^{13}C-NMR$, UV and mass spectra analyses. The gram-positive bacterial, including methicilline-resistant (MRSA), were more sensitive to the continentalic acid and stagmasterol than gram-negative bacterial.

Performance and Variation-Immunity Benefits of Segmented-Channel MOSFETs (SegFETs) Using HfO2 or SiO2 Trench Isolation

  • Nam, Hyohyun;Park, Seulki;Shin, Changhwan
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.427-435
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    • 2014
  • Segmented-channel MOSFETs (SegFETs) can achieve both good performance and variation robustness through the use of $HfO_2$ (a high-k material) to create the shallow trench isolation (STI) region and the very shallow trench isolation (VSTI) region in them. SegFETs with both an HTI region and a VSTI region (i.e., the STI region is filled with $HfO_2$, and the VSTI region is filled with $SiO_2$) can meet the device specifications for high-performance (HP) applications, whereas SegFETs with both an STI region and a VHTI region (i.e., the VSTI region is filled with $HfO_2$, and the STI region is filled with $SiO_2$) are best suited to low-standby power applications. AC analysis shows that the total capacitance of the gate ($C_{gg}$) is strongly affected by the materials in the STI and VSTI regions because of the fringing electric-field effect. This implies that the highest $C_{gg}$ value can be obtained in an HTI/VHTI SegFET. Lastly, the three-dimensional TCAD simulation results with three different random variation sources [e.g., line-edge roughness (LER), random dopant fluctuation (RDF), and work-function variation (WFV)] show that there is no significant dependence on the materials used in the STI or VSTI regions, because of the predominance of the WFV.

Design and experimental characterization of a novel passive magnetic levitating platform

  • Alcover-Sanchez, R.;Soria, J.M.;Perez-Aracil, J.;Pereira, E.;Diez-Jimenez, E.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.499-512
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    • 2022
  • This work proposes a novel contactless vibration damping and thermal isolation tripod platform based on Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (SML). This prototype is suitable for cryogenic environments, where classical passive, semi active and active vibration isolation techniques may present tribological problems due to the low temperatures and/or cannot guarantee an enough thermal isolation. The levitating platform consists of a Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (SML) with inherent passive static stabilization. In addition, the use of Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) technique is proposed to characterize the transmissibility function from the baseplate to the platform. The OMA is based on the Stochastic Subspace Identification (SSI) by using the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. This paper contributes to the use of SSI-EM for SML applications by proposing a step-by-step experimental methodology to process the measured data, which are obtained with different unknown excitations: ambient excitation and impulse excitation. Thus, the performance of SSI-EM for SML applications can be improved, providing a good estimation of the natural frequency and damping ratio without any controlled excitation, which is the main obstacle to use an experimental modal analysis in cryogenic environments. The dynamic response of the 510 g levitating platform has been characterized by means of OMA in a cryogenic, 77 K, and high vacuum, 1E-5 mbar, environment. The measured vertical and radial stiffness are 9872.4 N/m and 21329 N/m, respectively, whilst the measured vertical and radial damping values are 0.5278 Nm/s and 0.8938 Nm/s. The first natural frequency in vertical direction has been identified to be 27.39 Hz, whilst a value of 40.26 Hz was identified for the radial direction. The determined damping values for both modes are 0.46% and 0.53%, respectively.

Investigations of countermeasures used to mitigate tunnel deformations due to adjacent basement excavation in soft clays

  • Jinhuo Zheng;Minglong Shen;Shifang Tu;Zhibo Chen;Xiaodong Ni
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.563-573
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    • 2024
  • In this study, various countermeasures used to mitigate tunnel deformations due to nearby multi-propped basement excavation in soft clay are explored by three-dimensional numerical analyses. Field measurements are used to calibrate the numerical model and model parameters. Since concrete slabs can constrain soil and retaining wall movements, tunnel movements reach the maximum value when soils are excavated to the formation level of basement. Deformation shapes of an existing tunnel due to adjacent basement excavation are greatly affected by relative position between tunnel and basement. When the tunnel is located above or far below the formation level of basement, it elongates downward-toward or upward-toward the basement, respectively. It is found that tunnel movements concentrate in a triangular zone with a width of 2 He (i.e., final excavation depth) and a depth of 1 D (i.e., tunnel diameter) above or 1 D below the formation level of basement. By increasing retaining wall thickness from 0.4 m to 0.9 m, tunnel movements decrease by up to 56.7%. Moreover, tunnel movements are reduced by up to 80.7% and 61.3%, respectively, when the entire depth and width of soil within basement are reinforced. Installation of isolation wall can greatly reduce tunnel movements due to adjacent basement excavation, especially for tunnel with a shallow burial depth. The effectiveness of isolation wall to reduce tunnel movement is negligible unless the wall reaches the level of tunnel invert.

Isolation, Physiological Characterization of Bacteriophages from Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal Activated Sludge and Their Putative Role

  • Lee, Sang-Hyon;Satoh, Hiroyasu;Katayama, Hiroyuki;Mino, Takashi
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.730-736
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    • 2004
  • This study aims at characterizing the bacteriophages isolated from activated sludge performing enhanced biological phosphorous removal (EBPR) to understand the interactions between the phage-host system and bacterial community. Sixteen bacterial isolates (E1-E16) were isolated as host bacterial strains from EBPR activated sludge for phage isolation. Forty bacteriophages based on their plaque sizes (2 plaques on E4, 4 on E8, 11 on E10, 5 on E14, 18 on E16) were obtained from filtered supernatant of the EBPR activated sludge. Each bacteriophage did not make any plaque on bacterial strains tested in this study except on its own host bacterial strain, respectively, indicating that the bacteriophages are with narrow host specificity. However, fourteen of the forty bacteriophages obtained in this study lost their virulent ability even on their own host bacteria. All of the lytic phages showed similar one-step growth patterns and had long latent period (about 9 hours) to reproduce their phage particles in their host bacterial cells. On the other hand, their probable burst sizes (6 to 48 per host cell) were large enough to actively lyse their host bacterial cells. Therefore, it could be implied that bacteriophages are also important members of the microbial community in EBPR activated sludge, and lytic phages directly decrease the population size of their host bacterial groups in EBPR activated sludge by lysis.

Isolation frequency and antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli & Enterococcus spp. isolated from beef & pork on sale in Seoul, Korea (서울지역에서 유통 중인 쇠고기와 돼지고기로부터 분리된 대장균과 장구균의 분리율 및 항생제 내성)

  • Kim, Ju-Young;Park, Mi-Ae;Kim, Jee-Eun;Chae, Hee-Sun;Park, Yeon-Jae;Son, Jang-Won;Yang, Yun-Mo;Choi, Tae-Seok;Lee, Ju-Hyung
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.111-119
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    • 2013
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the isolation frequency and antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Enterococcus spp. from domestic beef and pork on sale in Seoul, Korea. A total of 106 (10.4%) E. coli and 114 (11.2%) Enterococcus spp. from 635 domestic beef and 381 pork samples were isolated and examined for susceptibility to 15 and 11 antimicrobial agents, respectively. The most frequent antimicrobial resistance observed in E. coli isolates was to ampicillin (38.6%), followed by streptocmycin (34.9%) and tetracycline (32.0%). The most frequent antimicrobial resistance in E. faecium isolates was to erythromycin (53.8%) and rifampin (46.1%), and in E. faecalis isolates was to tetracycline (55.7%) and rifampin (55.0%). Among the isolates, multi-drug resistant (MDR) E. coli and Enterococcus spp. strains showing resistances to more than two antimicrobial agents tested were 10.4% and 11.2%, respectively. As a result, appropriate protocols for antimicrobial agents and strategies to reduce antimicrobial resistance will be needed in future.