• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.2025-2037
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• 2021

The influence of lead cations on natural quartz (QZ) from Egypt as a glass shielding material for the composition with nominal formula (10Na₂O - (90 - x) QZ - xPbO (where x = 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50 mol %)) was examined. The studied samples are synthesized via the melt quenching method at 1050 ℃. The X-ray diffraction XRD patterns were confirmed the glass nature for studied samples. Moreover, the optical properties, and the transparency for all compositions were examined by UV-Vis spectroscopy. Also, the major elemental composition of the natural quartz were estimated via the X-ray fluorescence (XRF) technique. Further, the density and molar volume were determined. Furthermore, the nuclear shielding parameters such as, mass attenuation coefficient, effective atomic number, electronic density, the total atomic, and electronic cross sections as well as the mean free path, and the half value layer with different gamma ray energies (81 keV-1407 keV) were calculated. Besides, the results showed that the shielding behavior towards the gamma ray radiation for all glass samples was increased as the increment in PbO concentration in the glass system.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.431-434
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• 2009

Conceptual study of an open-circuit type low-speed wind tunnel for test of wind turbine blade is conducted. The tunnel is constituted of a settling chamber, a contraction, closed and open test sections, a diffuser, two corners, a cross leg and a fan and motor. For the performance test, the closed test section width of 1.8 m, height of 1.8 m and length of 5.25 m is selected. The open test section with dimension width of 1.8 m, height of 1.8 m and length of 4.14 m is adopted for aeroacoustic test. The contraction ratio is 9 to 1 and maximum speed in the closed test section is 67 m/sec. Input power in the tunnel is about 238 kW and its energy ratio is 3.6. The wind tunnel designed in present study will be an effective tool in research and development of wind turbine.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.94-101
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• 2014

Recently, in order to reduce the time required to replace an optical jumper cord, many researchers are using a field-installable connector and applying the ferrule polishing method, ferrule mechanical contact method, or ferrule fusion contact method. However, the process of arranging the length of the optical fiber, i.e., inserting the optical fiber into the ferrule by hand and checking its cross section, takes 60% of the time required for the entire process, which increases the overall cost. Therefore, in order to make this task more cost-effective, we will develop an automated inspection system with automatic cross-sectional arrangement of a field-installable connector. This system will be able to decrease the failure rate from 10% to 2% compared with the conventional method when cutting the optical fiber inserted into the ferrule. It will also improve the productivity by decreasing the test time by 28% compared with the conventional method. Our studies showed that it was possible to reduce the production costs and improve the quality of a field-installable connector, and we expect it to dominate the market.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.247-255
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 겹침이음되는 고강도 확대머리철근의 유효춤이 동일한 경우와 상이한 경우의 겹침이음상세를 가지는 보에 대하여 휨실험을 실시하였다. 이를 통하여 고강도 확대머리철근의 겹침이음성능을 평가하였고, KDS-2021 설계식의 적용성을 평가하였다. 실험 변수는 철근의 설계기준항복강도, 겹침이음길이, 스터럽 간격, 서로 겹침되는 철근간의 중심간격 등이다. LS 계열 실험체에 대한 ACI 318-19식이 KDS-2021식과 비교하여 약 23.8~32.7% 더 큰 정착길이를 나타내었으며, VLS 계열 실험체에서는 약 13.7~35.5% 더 큰 정착길이로 평가하고 있다. 유효춤이 동일한 확대머리 철근의 겹침이음실험에서 KDS-2021식의 1.3배 이상, ACI318-19식의 1배 이상의 겹침이음길이를 가지는 실험체는 모두 연성적인 거동 후 휨파괴되어 충분한 겹침이음성능을 확보하였다. 유효춤이 상이한 철근간에 겹침이음되는 상세를 가지는 실험체는 KDS-2021식으로 겹침이음길이를 산정할 경우, 유효춤이 적은 측의 철근강도를 증가시킴으로써 유효춤이 큰 단면의 보유휨강도와 유사하도록 휨응력을 전달시킬 수 있다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제5권2_3호
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• pp.235-246
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• 2005

Local buckling is a major consideration in the design of thin-walled cold-formed steel sections. The main effect of local buckling in plate elements under longitudinal compressive stresses is to cause a redistribution of the stresses in which the greatest portion of the load is carried near the supporting edges of the plate junctions. The redistribution produces increased stresses near the plate junctions and high bending stresses as a result of plate flexure, leading to ultimate loads below the squash load of the section. In singly symmetric cross-sections, the redistribution of longitudinal stress caused by local buckling also produces a shift of the line of action of internal force (shift of effective centroid). The fundamentally different effects of local buckling on the behaviour of pin-ended and fixed-ended singly symmetric columns lead to inconsistencies in traditional design approaches. The paper describes local buckling and shift of effective centroid of thin-walled cold-formed steel channel columns. Tests of channel columns have been described. The experimental local buckling loads were compared with the theoretical local buckling loads obtained using an elastic finite strip buckling analysis. The shift of the effective centroid was also compared with the shift predicted using the Australian/New Zealand and American specifications for cold-formed steel structures.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.1287-1300
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• 2017

Based on the observation that ignoring the angle dependency of multigroup resonance cross sections within a fuel pellet would result in nontrivial underestimation of the spatial self-shielding of flux, a parametrized spectral superhomogenization (SPH) factor library (PSSL) method is developed as a practical means of resolving the problem. Region-wise spectral SPH factors are calculated by the normal and transport corrected SPH iterations after ultrafine group slowing down calculations over various light water reactor pin-cell configurations. The parametrization is done with fuel temperature, U-238 number density, fuel radius, moderator source represented by ${\Sigma}_{mod}V_{mod}$, and the number density ratio of resonance nuclides to that of U-238 in a form of resonance interference correction factors. The parametrization is successful in that the root mean square errors of the interpolated SPH factors over the fuel regions of various pin-cells are within 0.1%. The improvement in reactivity error of the PSSL method is shown to be superior to that by the original SPH method in that the reactivity bias of -200 pcm to -300 pcm vanishes almost completely. It is demonstrated that the environment effect takes only about 4% in the reactivity improvement so that the pin-cell based PSSL method is effective in the assembly problems.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제49권7호
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• pp.1571-1574
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• 2017

In the present work, the gamma ray backscattering technique was used to determine the effective atomic numbers for certain binary alloys. With the help of a muffle furnace, the binary alloys were synthesized using the melt quenching technique with different compositions of $_{82}Pb$, $_{50}Sn$, and $_{30}Zn$. The intensity distribution of backscattered photons from radioactive isotope $^{22}Na$ (511 keV) was recorded with the help of GAMMARAD5 [$76mm{\times}76mm$ NaI(Tl) scintillator detector] and analyzed as a function of both atomic number and thickness of the target material. The effective atomic numbers for the same binary alloys were also computed theoretically using the atomic to electronic cross-section method with the help of the mass attenuation coefficient database of WinXCom (2001). Good agreement was observed between theoretical and experimental results for the effective atomic numbers of all the selected alloys.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권3호
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• pp.818-824
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• 2019

In the present work, we determined the gamma-ray attenuation characteristics of eight different polymers(Polyamide (Nylon 6) (PA-6), polyacrylonitrile (PAN), polyvinylidenechloride (PVDC), polyaniline (PANI), polyethyleneterephthalate (PET), polyphenylenesulfide (PPS), polypyrrole (PPy) and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)) using transmission geometry utilizing the high resolution HPGe detector and different radioactive sources in the energy range 81-1333 keV. The experimental linear attenuation coefficient values are compared with theoretical data (WinXCOM data). The linear attenuation coefficient of all polymers reduced quickly with the increase in energy, at the beginning, while decrease more slowly in the region from 267 keV to 835 keV. The effective atomic number of PVDC and PTFE are comparatively higher than the $Z_{eff}$ of the remaining polymers, while PA-6 possesses the lowest effective atomic number. The half value layer results showed that PTFE ($C_2F_4$, highest density) is more effective to attenuate the gamma photons. Also, the theoretical results of macroscopic effective removal cross section for fast neutrons ($\sum_{R}$) were computed to investigate the neutron attenuation characteristics. It is found that the $\sum_{R}$ values of the eight investigated polymers are close and ranged from $0.07058cm^{-1}$ for PVDC to $0.11510cm^{-1}$ for PA-6.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.168-171
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• 2015

고출력 반도체 광원의 열유동 특성을 분석하고, 열전달 병목지점을 파악하여 열저항을 개선하는 방안을 도출하고, 전산모사를 통하여 개선 효과를 확인하였다. 띠구조 활성층을 가진 LD 광원의 경우에 발열부의 부피가 작을 뿐 아니라 발열면적이 좁아서 발열부 근처의 열전달 유효단면적이 매우 좁을 수 밖에 없는데, 이 부근의 경계면에 그래핀층을 추가적으로 적용하면 전체 열저항이 확연히 개선되는 것이 전산모사 되었다. 이는 열전달 경로상의 유효단면적이 넓어지는 효과를 가져와 전체 열저항이 확연히 개선되는 것으로 파악되었다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.81-88
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• 2018

이 연구에서는 실제 단면크기를 갖는 철근 콘크리트 기둥의 내진보강을 위한 단면확대 공법에서 효율적인 띠철근 배근 방법을 평가하였다. 비내진 상세를 갖는 기존 기둥의 단면크기는 $450{\times}450mm$이며, 단면확대 보강기둥의 단면크기는 $750{\times}750mm$이다. 확대 단면에서의 폐쇄형 외부 띠철근 배근을 위해 ㄷ-형 띠철근의 겹칩이음 및 철근 선조립 공법을 제시하였으며, 보조 띠철근으로서 크로스타이 앵커링 시공 및 V-타이를 고려하였다. 실험 결과, 무보강 기둥 및 ㄷ-형 외부 띠철근을 적용한 보강기둥의 압축내력은 ACI 318-14의 공칭내력과 비슷한 수준인 반면 철근 선조립 공법을 적용한 기둥의 압축내력은 ACI 318-14의 공칭내력 대비 1.25배 높았다. 특히 철근 선조립 공법을 적용한 보강 기둥의 압축 연성비는 크기효과에 의한 연성비 저하 가능성에도 불구하고 기존 기둥에 비해 139% 증가하였다. 즉, 제시된 철근 선조립 공법은 단면확대 보강기둥에서 주철근 조기 좌굴방지 및 콘크리트 구속에 효율적인 띠철근 상세로 평가될 수 있었다.