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Determination of soil water characteristic curve and permeability equation of unsaturated soils using modified triaxial apparatus (변형된 삼축시험장치를 이용한 불포화토의 함수특성곡선과 투수계수방정식의 결정)

  • Kim, Suk-Nam;Park, Chi-Won;Mok, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2005.03a
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    • pp.362-369
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    • 2005
  • Studying unsaturated soil mechanics, determination of soil water characteristic curve and permeability equation is an essential factor but it is not easy. In this research a new testing apparatus was developed to determine soil water characteristic curve and permeability equation. The testing to get saturated permeability coefficients and soil water characteristic curves for two soils was performed by using the developed testing apparatus. First, a saturated permeability testing was performed and then the testing to get soil water characteristic curve of a drying process was performed. Next, the testing to get soil water characteristic curve of a wetting process was performed. Testing results showed hysteresis phenomena between soil water characteristic curve of a drying process and soil water characteristic curve of a wetting process. The permeability equations were determined by a theoretical method where a saturated permeability coefficient and a soil water characteristic curve were used.

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AN EXTRAPOLATED CRANK-NICOLSON CHARACTERISTIC FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR SOBOLEV EQUATIONS

  • Ohm, Mi Ray;Shin, Jun Yong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.54 no.4
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    • pp.1409-1419
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    • 2017
  • We introduce an extrapolated Crank-Nicolson characteristic finite element method to approximate solutions of a convection dominated Sobolev equation. We obtain the higher order of convergence in both the spatial direction and the temporal direction in $L^2$ normed space for the extrapolated Crank-Nicolson characteristic finite element method.

A CRANK-NICOLSON CHARACTERISTIC FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR NONLINEAR SOBOLEV EQUATIONS

  • Ohm, Mi Ray;Shin, Jun Yong
    • East Asian mathematical journal
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.295-308
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    • 2017
  • We introduce a Crank-Nicolson characteristic finite element method to construct approximate solutions of a nonlinear Sobolev equation with a convection term. And for the Crank-Nicolson characteristic finite element method, we obtain the higher order of convergence in the temporal direction and in the spatial direction in $L^2$ normed space.

A CRANK-NICOLSON CHARACTERISTIC FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR SOBOLEV EQUATIONS

  • Ohm, Mi Ray;Shin, Jun Yong
    • East Asian mathematical journal
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.729-744
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    • 2016
  • A Crank-Nicolson characteristic finite element method is introduced to construct approximate solutions of a Sobolev equation with a convection term. The higher order of convergences in the temporal direction and in the spatial direction in $L^2$ normed space are verified for the Crank-Nicolson characteristic finite element method.

Fluorescence Characteristic Spectra of Domestic Fuel Products through Laser Induced Fluorescence Detection

  • Wu, Ting-Nien;Chang, Shui-Ping;Tsai, Wen-Hsien;Lin, Cian-Yi
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.18-25
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    • 2014
  • Traditional investigation procedures of soil and groundwater contamination are followed by soil gas sampling, soil sampling, groundwater sampling, establishment of monitoring wells, and groundwater monitoring. It often takes several weeks to obtain the analysis reports, and sometimes, it needs supplemental sampling and analysis to delineate the polluted area. Laser induced fluorescence (LIF) system is designed for the detection of free-phase petroleum pollutants, and it is suitable for on-site real-time site investigation when coupling with a direct push testing tool. Petroleum products always contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) compounds possessing fluorescence characteristics that make them detectable through LIF detection. In this study, LIF spectroscopy of 5 major fuel products was conducted to establish the databank of LIF fluorescence characteristic spectra, including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, marine fuel and low-sulfur fuel. Multivariate statistical tools were also applied to distinguish LIF fluorescence characteristic spectra among the mixtures of selected fuel products. This study successfully demonstrated the feasibility of identifying fuel species based on LIF characteristic fluorescence spectra, also LIF seemed to be uncovered its powerful ability of tracing underground petroleum leakages.

Acoustical Anisotropy Evaluation of Pure Titanium plate Using Neural Network (신경회로망을 이용한 순 티타늄판재의 음향이방성 평가)

  • Park, Hee-Dong;Yun, In-Sik;Yi, Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.28 no.9
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    • pp.1103-1109
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    • 2011
  • This research quantitatively confirmed an acoustical anisotropy that exists in a pure titanium plate from the signal of ultrasonic flow detection and suggested a new way to evaluate the acoustical anisotropy by inputting acquired characteristic of ultrasound signal into the neutral network. Using the fact with the suggested method that the characteristic of ultrasound signal is shown differently depending on the pure titanium plate's rolling direction, the neural network was constructed by extracting the characteristic that can decide each direction of $0^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, and $90^{\circ}$ with waveform analysis program. As a result of inputting the characteristic of ultrasound signal acquired from a random rolling direction into the neural network that was built like this, it showed a pattern recognition rate higher than 95% on directions of $0^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, $90^{\circ}$.

Design of a Smart Gas Sensor System for Room Air-Cleaner of Automobile (Thick-Film Metal Oxide Semiconductor Gas Sensor)

  • Kim, Jung-Yoon;Shin, Tae-Zi;Yang, Myung-Kook
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.408-412
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    • 2007
  • It is almost impossible to secure the reproductibility and stability of a commercial Thick-Film Metal Oxide Semiconductor Gas Sensor since it is very difficult to keep the consistency of the manufacturing environment. Thus it is widely known that the general Semiconductor-Oxide Gas Sensors are not appropriate for precise measurement systems. In this paper, the output characteristic analyzer of the various Thick-Film Metal Oxide Semiconductor Gas Sensors that are used to recognize the air quality within an automobile are proposed and examined. The analyzed output characters in a normal air chamber are grouped by sensor ranks and used to fill out the characteristic table of the Thick-Film Metal Oxide Semiconductor Gas Sensors. The characteristic table is used to determine the rank of the sensor that is equipped in the current air cleaner system of an automobile. The proposed air control system can also adapt the on-demand operation that recognizes the history of the passenger's manual-control.

Critical current characteristic of various 2G HTS multi-stacked tapes depending on the low external magnetic field

  • Kim, J.;Lee, W.S.;Jin, H.;Ko, T.K.
    • Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.27-31
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    • 2014
  • 2G HTS tapes are widely used for various electric machines. In addition, stacked or parallel connected HTS tapes are essentially used to raise transport current level for large capacity electric machines. Therefore, critical current characteristic of stacked tapes need to be studied. Recently developed 2G HTS tapes are fabricated with various defects doping so that tapes possess pinning center to improve the critical current characteristic. During this process, the critical current is determined minimum value in not perpendicular magnetic field but a specific magnetic field angle according to the reported research. However, the effects of magnetic field angle to critical current of multi-stacked 2G HTS tapes have not been examined. In this paper, field coil which is a race-track coil wound by using an HTS tape with iron-core was fabricated to apply angle adjustable magnetic field to the 2G HTS tape samples. We measured critical current of single and multi-stacked two tapes that have different characteristic depending on various magnetic field angle and magnitude in liquid nitrogen environment. Furthermore, results of single and multi-stacked tapes were compared and analyzed.

An intelligent semi-active isolation system based on ground motion characteristic prediction

  • Lin, Tzu-Kang;Lu, Lyan-Ywan;Hsiao, Chia-En;Lee, Dong-You
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.53-64
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    • 2022
  • This study proposes an intelligent semi-active isolation system combining a variable-stiffness control device and ground motion characteristic prediction. To determine the optimal control parameter in real-time, a genetic algorithm (GA)-fuzzy control law was developed in this study. Data on various types of ground motions were collected, and the ground motion characteristics were quantified to derive a near-fault (NF) characteristic ratio by employing an on-site earthquake early warning system. On the basis of the peak ground acceleration (PGA) and the derived NF ratio, a fuzzy inference system (FIS) was developed. The control parameters were optimized using a GA. To support continuity under near-fault and far-field ground motions, the optimal control parameter was linked with the predicted PGA and NF ratio through the FIS. The GA-fuzzy law was then compared with other control laws to verify its effectiveness. The results revealed that the GA-fuzzy control law could reliably predict different ground motion characteristics for real-time control because of the high sensitivity of its control parameter to the ground motion characteristics. Even under near-fault and far-field ground motions, the GA-fuzzy control law outperformed the FPEEA control law in terms of controlling the isolation layer displacement and the superstructure acceleration.