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Simplified procedure for seismic analysis of base-isolated structures

  • Serror, Mohammed H.;El-Gazzar, Sherif O.;Mourad, Sherif A.
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.1091-1111
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    • 2015
  • Base isolation is an effective method for protecting structures against earthquake hazard. It elongates the period of vibration and introduces supplemental damping to the structural system. The stiffness, damping and displacement are coupled forcing the code seismic design procedure to be unnecessarily complicated. In addition, the force reduction factor -a key parameter in the design procedurehas not been well addressed by seismic design codes at the high levels of damping due to the pronounced difference between pseudo and actual accelerations. In this study, a comparison has been conducted to evaluate eight different methods, in the literature, for calculating the force reduction factor due to damping. Accordingly, a simplified seismic analysis procedure has been proposed based on the well documented N2 method. Comprehensive analysis has been performed for base-isolated structure models for direct application and verification of the proposed procedure. The results have been compared with those of the European code EC8, the nonlinear time history analysis and investigations in the literature, where good agreement has been reported. In addition, a discussion has been elaborated for the resulted response of the base-isolated structure models with respect to the dynamic characteristics of the base isolation system.

Evaluation of a DDB design method for bridges isolated with triple pendulum bearings

  • Amiri, Gholamreza Ghodrati;Shalmaee, Mahdi Mohammadian;Namiranian, Pejman
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.59 no.5
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    • pp.803-820
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    • 2016
  • In this study a direct displacement-based design (DDBD) procedure for a continuous deck bridge isolated with triple friction pendulum bearings (TFPB) has been proposed and the seismic demands of the bridge such as isolator's displacement and drift of piers obtained from this procedure evaluated under two-directional near-field ground motions. The structural model used here are continuous, three-span, castin-place concrete box girder bridge with a 30-degree skew which are isolated with 9 different TFPBs. By comparing the results of DDBD method with those of nonlinear time history analysis (NTHA), it can be concluded that the proposed procedure is able to predict seismic demands of similar isolated bridges with acceptable accuracy. Results of NTHA shows that dispersion of peak resultant responses for a group of ground motions increases by increasing their average value of responses. It needs to be noted that the demands parameters calculated by the DDBD procedure are almost overestimated for stiffer soil condition, but there is some underestimation in results of this method for softer soil condition.

A study on simplified procedure of enhanced designed implant drill (개선된 드릴 디자인을 적용한 간소화된 드릴링 과정에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, Ji-Hoon;Jeon, Gye Rok;Yun, Mi-Jung;Huh, Jung-Bo;Jeong, Chang Mo
    • The Journal of the Korean dental association
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    • v.53 no.5
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    • pp.368-376
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    • 2015
  • Purpose : The objective of this research was to develop a more simplified drilling procedure with an enhanced implant drill. Materials and Methods : The drill enhanced design factors enabled implantation of Dia. 5.0mm fixture with only 2 times drilling which is more simplified drilling procedure. The enhanced drill was designed with 2 flutes, 2-phase or 3-phase formed drill tip and 25 degrees of helix angle. The proposed drilling procedure (2 times) was compared with a general drilling process (4 times) in terms of temperature changes, cutting time and ISQ value. Results : The simplified drilling procedure indicated less heat than a conventional drilling procedure (p<0.05). The enhanced drill showed significantly shorter drilling time than a conventional drill (p<0.05). On the other hand, higher insertion torque and ISQ value were observed on the the suggested drilling procedure than the conventional drilling procedure (p<0.05). Conclusion : A simplified drilling procedure with the newly designed drill could provide higher effectiveness and safety of dental implant operations under properly controlled external conditions, such as irrigation and RPM of drilling.

Analysis of the Manufacturing Process using Multiple Comparison Procedure (다중비교 절차를 이용한 제조공정의 분석)

  • 최봉욱;김광섭
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.20 no.44
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    • pp.333-341
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of this paper is to compare the manufacturing process with random covariate using multiple comparison procedure. The methodology that compares each manufacturing process by inspecting the number of nonconforming items out of k-treatment, has serveral limitations and problems according to the method and contect of the analysis. The proper way of analysis, therefore, could be obtained by the multiple comparison procedure of simultaneous confidence region of variance components. Effections that affect a manufactuing process may be predictive of responce to treatments are called covariates. In the study of comparing several treatments, prsense of covariate may bias the estimates of treatment effects.

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The Selection of Alternatives for the FMS Investment Using a MCDM (다기준의사결정 모형을 이용한 FMS 투자대안의 선택에 관한 연구)

  • 김영식;정상윤;배영주
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.16 no.27
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    • pp.113-119
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    • 1993
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a analytic procedure of the alternatives for the FMS that consist of high-priced facilities. A procedure to analysis the alternatives are as follows. Stage one is procedure to appraise investment alternatives of FMS and devide factors into strategic, analytic, economic viewpoint and draw upon decision making matrix through normalization Stage two is appraise to normalized alternatives using TOPSIS model among multiple attributes decision making models.

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Four Representative Applications of the Energy Shaping Method for Controlled Lagrangian Systems

  • Ng, Wai Man;Chang, Dong Eui;Song, Seong-Ho
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.1579-1589
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    • 2013
  • We provide a step-by-step, easy-to-follow procedure for the method of controlled Lagrangian systems. We apply this procedure to solve the energy shaping problem for four benchmark examples: the inertial wheel pendulum, an inverted pendulum on a cart, the system of ball and beam and the Furuta pendulum.

A Distributed Task Assignment Method and its Performance

  • Kim, Kap-Hwan
    • Management Science and Financial Engineering
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.19-51
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    • 1996
  • We suggest a distributed framework for task assignment in the computer-controlled shop floor where each of the resource agents and part agents acts like an independent profit maker. The job allocation problem is formulated as a linear programming problem. The LP formulation is analyzed to provide a rationale for the distributed task assignment procedure. We suggest an auction based negotiation procedure including a price-based bid construction and a price revising mechanism. The performance of the suggested procedure is compared with those of an LP formulation and conventional dispatching procedures by simulation experiments.

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QRS Detection based on Maximum A-Posterior Estimation (MAP Estimation을 이용한 QRS Detection)

  • 정희교;신건수
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.205-214
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    • 1987
  • In this paper, a mathmatical model for the purpose of QRS detection is considered in the case of the occurence of nonoverlappjng pulse-shaped waveforms corrupted with white noise. The number of waveform, the arrival times, amplitudes, and widths of QRS complexes are regarded as random variables. The joint MAP estimation of all the unknown Quantities consists of linear filtering followed by an optimization procedure. Because the optimization procedure is time-consuming, this procedure is modified so that a threshold test is obtained.

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Multiple Objective Linear Programming with Minimum Levels and Trade Offs through the Interactive Methods

  • Chun, Man-Sul;Kim, Man-Sik
    • Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.116-124
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    • 1987
  • This paper studies to develop the procedure which is combined by the progressive goals and progressive weights generation method. This procedure minimizes the number of questions the decision maker has to make, and also satisfies the generated minimum goal of each objective function. With the procedure developed, we are able to improve the previous multiple objective linear programming techniques in two points.

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An Experimental Study on the Fire Resistance Performace of Intumescent Coating System by Environmental Testing Procedure (환경시험방법에 의한 내화도료의 내화성능에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Park, Soo-Young;Sung, Si-Chang;Choi, Dong-Ho;Kim, Dae-Hoi;Lee, Sea-Hyun;Lee, Jong-Chan
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.69-72
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    • 2008
  • This study is designed to understand changes in fire resistance performance of intumescent coating system through follow-up tests on temperature of unexposed surface for the domestic intumescent coating system by environmental testing procedure.

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