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Set-Based Multi-objective Design Optimization at the Early Phase of Design (The Third Report) : Application to Environment-Conscious Automotive Side-Door Assembly (초기 설계단계에서의 셋 베이스 다목적 설계 최적화(제3보) : 환경문제를 고려한 자동차 사이드 도어 어셈블리에의 적용)

  • Nahm, Yoon-Eui
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.138-144
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    • 2011
  • The design flexibility and robustness have become key factors to handle various sources of uncertainties at the early phase of design. Even though designers are uncertain about which single values to specify, they usually have a preference for certain values over others. In the first and second reports of a four-part paper, a set-based design approach has been proposed for achieving design flexibility and robustness while capturing designer's preference, and its effectiveness has been illustrated with a simple vehicle side-door impact beam design problem. This report presents the applicability of the proposed design approach to the large-scale multi-objective design optimization with a successful implementation of real vehicle side-door structure design.

Preparation and Dissolution Properties of the Eco-glass Fertilizer containing Trace Elements

  • Lee Hoi Kwan;Hwang Sheng Jean;Kang Won Ho
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.96-98
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    • 2004
  • At the previous papers, we showed that K2O-CaO-P2O5 glasses had a solubility in air so that they could be used for glass fertilizer. In this work, we fabricated the Eco-glass fertilizer containing trace elements such as B, Mg, Zn, Fe, Cu, Co, and Mo by a melt-quenching process and the dissolution properties of these glasses were investigated with pH meter and ICP analyzer. In case of the glasses containing the trace elements, effect of trace elements on the dissolutions is not obvious and ignorant the stability of mother glass. Also, the dissolution amounts of each trace elements depend on the mother glass composition and the quantity of each trace element, and mother glasses determined the dissolving velocity of chemical elements.

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PoMP : Power conscious Multimedia Player (저전력 멀티미디어 재생 기법)

  • Park, Jung-Wan;Won, You-Jip
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2003.04d
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    • pp.253-255
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    • 2003
  • Electricity is the prime commodity in mobile device, e.g. smart phone, PDA, MP3 player and etc. This strict restriction on power consumption requirement of the mobile device puts unique demand in designing hardware and software components of the device. In this paper, we address the issue of minimizing the power consumption in retrieving the continuous media data from the disk drive for real-time playback purpose. Different from the legacy text based data, real-time multimedia playback requires that the storage supplies the data block continuous fashion. This may put immense burden on the power scarce environment since the disk Is required to be active for the entire playback duration. We develop elaborate algorithm which carefully analyzes the power consumption profile of the disk drive and which establishes the data retrieval schedule for the given playback. It computes the amount of data blocks to read, the length of active and standby period. According to our simulation result, the ARM algorithm exhibits superior performance in continuous media retrieval from the aspect of power consumption to legacy playback scheme.

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Green Control of Silver Nanoparticle Size by Adjusting the Quantity of Water in Glycerol

  • Lim, Jong Kuk
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.6-10
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    • 2021
  • New materials are very useful due to their wide range of applications, however, they also have caused new pollutants that damage our environment. Chemists have been conscious of the severity of these environmental problems and a great deal of effort has been put into developing environmentally benign chemical processes to synthesize new materials (green synthesis). We also have reported a green synthesis method of synthesizing silver nanoparticles using water-glycerol solution in a previous study. While conducting further research, we have recently discovered that the size of silver nanoparticles is proportional to the quantity of water present in glycerol. This method is completely benign and ecofriendly pathway, as the size of silver nanoparticles is adjusted solely by controlling the quantity of water added to glycerol, without extra additives and energy.

A STUDY ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF BIM DATA INTEROPERABILITY FOR ENERGY PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT BASED ON BIM

  • Jungsik Choi;Hyunjae Yoo;Inhan Kim
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2013.01a
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    • pp.267-273
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    • 2013
  • Early design phase energy modeling is used to provide the design team with first order of magnitude feedback about the impact of various building configurations. For better energy-conscious and sustainable building design and operation, the construction of BIM data interoperability for energy performance assessment in the early design phase is important. The purpose of this study is to suggest construction of BIM data interoperability for energy performance assessment based on BIM. To archive this purpose, the authors have investigated advantage of BIM-based energy performance assessment through comparison with traditional energy performance assessment and suggested requirement for construction of open BIM environment such as BIM data creation, BIM data software practical use, BIM data application and verification. In addition, the authors have suggested BIM data interoperability and BIM energy property mapping method focused on materials.

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The Effects of Environment-conscious Consumer Attitudes towards Eco-friendly Product and Artificial Leather Fashion Product Purchase Intentions

  • Park, Sung Hee;Oh, Kyung Wha;Na, Youn Kyu
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 2013
  • This research examines the environmental consciousness of fashion consumer attitudes towards eco-friendly products and artificial leather purchase intentions. The survey was conducted from March 11 to March 15 2012 and all respondents had at least once experience of purchasing fashion items made of artificial leather. A total of 426 subjects were used in the dataset; the statistical analysis methods were frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis and multiple analysis. The results are as follows. The study finds that environmental consciousness has three dimensions of public participation, resource conservation, and recycling. Public participation, recycling, and resource conservation influenced eco-friendly product attitudes. Eco-friendly product attitudes influenced artificial leather purchase intentions. The research results show that appropriate plans in fashion business such as usefulness of design and business value will need to be provided to fashion consumers. Detailed information on materials related to fashion products as the content of environment-friendly techniques and recycling methods will help consumers to evaluate environmental-friendly attitude products.

A Study on the Observation Method of Interaction between Users and Products - With Emphasis on the Video Ethnography of Driver Environment - (사용자-제품 간 인터랙션의 관찰 조사 체계에 관한 연구 - 운전자 환경에서의 비디오 관찰법을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Gang-Min;Pan, Young-Hwan;Jeong, Ji-Hong
    • Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2009
  • User-centered design aims to develop device naturally without the interference of user' s conscious and unconscious behavior. Accordingly, designers need to understand their user's requirements, observe user behavior and interaction in the real environment. However, existing observations suggested a vast range of analysis system and observation techniques which are often ambiguous to the designers. Therefore, this research is aimed to propose an observation system for collecting data from user's behavior. In order to do so, we define the components and behavior level within the context of driving.

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The Study on the Guest Seats Arrangement and Seating Psychology in Restaurant (음식점의 객석 배치와 착석 심리 연구 -패스트푸드 점을 중심으로-)

  • 홍영란
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • no.2
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    • pp.22-28
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    • 1994
  • The restaurant is regarded as the place of association and rest, and is the commercial facilities required the space of delightful and comfortable in mentality as well as the visual satisfaction for the users. The customers have their tendency to avoid the visual and physical contact between the strangers in the restaurant. Therefore, it is required to arrange the undisturbed space from strangers through the appropriate guest seats arrangement by understanding such mental basement. In this study, we have examined the way of space application between the people in the space and the mental mechanism, and we made study and analysis on the conciusness & behavior of the users of the restaurant actually. As the result, the theoretical study was connected to the customers conscious or unconscious behavior and the same results was come out from the paper-and-pencil test and observation research, and its appropriateness was clarifed. To put it briefly , the people have been showing their trends to prefer the place where have a fine view, undisturbed from others and may keep to the private area. On the whole , they prefer the visual variation somewhat rather than the simple, and they are fond of the space of open and comfortable. and also showing that the mental environment could be established by the control of physical environment. Therefore, we can say that the restaurant is required to fulfill this spatial desire of the users through the guest seats arrangement and other visual factors.

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Principles and Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment: A Critical Review on the US Case (사회영향평가의 원칙 및 지침에 관한 연구 - 미국 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Jung, Juchul;Lim, Jaeyoung
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.45-58
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    • 2007
  • Despite the ubiquitous practice of environmental impact assessment around the world, social impact assessment has been alienated from assessment process from the beginning. Not until 1993 was 'Interorganizational Committee' established in the United States to prepare for 'Principles and Guidelines for Social Impact Assessment.' This study is an attempt to critically examine US 'Principles and Guidelines.' First, the study traces history of social impact assessment to reveal why the latter became "the orphan in the assessment process." Second, it critically reviews 'Principles and Guidelines' to find its merits and defects. For instance, a principle regarding environmental justice is perceived as necessary as society has become conscious of social justice and equity while putting too much emphasis on predictive traits of social impact assessments only fosters "checklist mentality." Third, the study reflects on 'Principles and Guidelines' in particular and social impact assessment in general in order to probe what is social impact assessment. To do so, it pays attention to scholars, who have criticized technocratic and procedural elements of 'Principles and Guidelines.' They show that social impact assessment is philosophically and methodologically teleological in that "fluid and contested meanings" between social impacts and the public are meaningful in itself. And simple procedural guarantee of the public involvement, they argue, is not enough to define social impacts. Lastly, from the critical analysis of 'Principles and Guideline,' the study looks for alternatives to improve how to assess social impacts in a Korean context.

Disposal Behaviors of College Students in Recycling Resources (대학생들의 재활용자원 분리배출행동에 관한 연구)

  • Bu, Mar-Sook;Kim, Jeong-Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.44 no.4 s.218
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    • pp.145-157
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    • 2006
  • The purpose this study was to analyze the factors related to the disposal behavior of college students in recycling resources. Recycling resources were classified into four categories: paper, glass, cans and plastic. The data used this study were collected through questionnaire on 420 college students living in Jeju island. The data were analyzed by using SPSS WIN program and the methods of frequency, average, standard deviation, percentage, internal consistency method, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Scheffe's multiple range tests. The study results can be summarized as follows. Disposal behavior of paper was influenced by pocket money, of glass by sex and housing type, and of cans by housing type. Mother's education level was related to the disposal behavior of college students in recycling resources. In addition, the results showed that environment-friendly conscious and purchasing behaviors affected the disposal behavior of college students in recycling the resources of paper, glass, cans and plastic. The environment-friendly consciousness of college students was the most influential factor in the disposal behavior in recycling resources.