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Vibration analysis of prestressed concrete bridge subjected to moving vehicles

  • Huang, M.;Liu, J.K.;Law, S.S.;Lu, Z.R.
    • Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.273-289
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    • 2011
  • The vibration response of the bridges under the moving vehicular load is of importance for engineers to estimate the serviceability of existing bridges and to design new bridges. This paper deals with the three dimensional vibration analysis of prestressed concrete bridges under moving vehicles. The prestressed bridges are modeled by four-node isoparametric flat shell elements with the transverse shearing deformation taken into account. The usual five degrees-of-freedom (DOFs) per node of the element are appended with a drilling DOF to accommodate the transformation of the local stiffness and mass matrices to the global coordinates. The vehicle is modeled as a single or two-DOF system. A single-span prestressed Tee beam and two-span prestressed box-girder bridge are studied as the two numerical examples. The effects of prestress forces on the natural frequencies and dynamic responses of the bridges are investigated.

An Observer Design for MIMO Nonlinear Systems

  • Lee, Sungryul;Yanghee Yee;Park, Mignon
    • Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.189-194
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    • 2002
  • This paper presents a state observer design for a class of MTMO nonlinear systems that has a block triangular structure. For this, the extension of the existing design for SISO triangular systems to MIMO cases is provided. Since the gain of the proposed observer. depends on a nonlinear part as well as a linear one of a system, it improves the transient performance of the high gain ob-server. Also, by using a generalized similarity transformation for the error dynamics, it is shown that order some boundedness condi-tion, the proposed observer guarantees the global exponential convergence of the estimation error. Finally, we will give a simulation example to show the validity of our design methodology.

EEG Signal Compression by Multi-scale Wavelets and Coherence analysis and denoising by Continuous Wavelets Transform (다중 웨이브렛을 이용한 심전도(EEG) 신호 압축 및 연속 웨이브렛 변환을 이용한 Coherence분석 및 잡음 제거)

  • 이승훈;윤동한
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.221-229
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    • 2004
  • The Continuous Wavelets Transform project signal f(t) to "Time-scale"plan utilizing the time varied function which called "wavelets". This Transformation permit to analyze scale time dependence of signal f(t) thus the local or global scale properties can be extracted. Moreover, the signal f(t) can be reconstructed stably by utilizing the Inverse Continuous Wavelets Transform. In this paper, the EEG signal is analyzed by wavelets coherence method and the De-noising procedure is represented.

A Collaborative Framework between Industry and Academia to Stimulate Entrepreneurship through Business Incubation

  • Chanakira, Maxwell;Kanhukamwe, Quinton C.
    • World Technopolis Review
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2016
  • Entrepreneurship development has increasingly become a global solution to address the problem of rising unemployment. Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) have become important tools in improving the economic performance and social well-being of nations. When universities and industry work together to push the boundaries of knowledge, they become a powerful engine for innovation and economic growth. This paper is based on focus group interviews and discussions conducted with key players involved in the HIT-Sandown-UNDP Business Incubation Programme in Harare Zimbabwe. The business incubation project sought to support young Zimbabweans to transform their technical prototypes into commercially and socially viable ventures. As a result, a total of 10 prototypes were refined and investor ready business plans were developed for capital sourcing purposes. It was only through the coming together of the partners that real transformation of the lives of the participants was achieved through learning valuable business skills, coaching and mentoring. University-industry partnerships are a useful vehicle of setting up sustainable business incubation centres.

E-Governmentfor Efficient Governance: Instructive Cooperation of the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Korea in the Sphere of e-Government

  • Tchouechov, Viktor I.;Zhmakina, Tatiana V.
    • Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.26-33
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    • 2018
  • The transformation of the processes of governance using the Information and Communication Technologies is aimed at bringing in faster and transparent service delivery, accountability, information sharing and people participation in the decision-making and government processes. The implementation of e-Government requires a comprehensive strategy that is not only sensitive to existing political and economic conditions and realities but is also benchmarked on global best practices. The article reviews the handbook E-Government and Governance Efficiency that provides an insight to research that is being undertaken in the e-Government area, gives an in-depth understanding of critical issues involved in e-Government, and provides expert opinion and recommendations for the Republic of Belarus to augment its potential. It studies the Korean experience on e-Government with special focus on such concepts as e-Government benchmarking, mGovernment, Smart Government and u-Government.

Several Approaches for Establishing Shanghai as International Metropolitan

  • Liang, Zhang-Shao
    • Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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    • 1996.06a
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    • pp.3-22
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    • 1996
  • To translate the goal of redeveloping Shanghai as one of the international hubs of economy, finance and trade in 2010, the foundation is to be created, and international standing as global city is to be established preliminarily. Transformation of urban functions and approach of "High starting position and jump over" will give impetus to promote Shanghai as an international metropolitan within fairy short period of time. To transform urban functions and translate" High starting position and jump over", certain links which have great impact on Shanghai's rising-up must be handled and normal approach to develop the city must be renovated to reach the goal of establishing an international city. Four strategic approaches as following are explored in this paper : $\bullet$ To transform urban function from industry only to integrated developments. $\bullet$ To break through administrative boundary and expand urban development space. $\bullet$ To develop centralized urban infrastructure framework. $\bullet$ And to erect modern life and culture facilities towards 21st century.

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A Study on the Stiffness of Frustum-shaped Coil Spring (원추형 코일스프링의 강성에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, S.J.;Kim, J.H.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.49-54
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    • 2003
  • 스프링은 가장 널리 이용되어지고 있는 기계요소이다. 본 논문에서는 원추형 코일스프링의 강성을 구하기 위하여, 빔요소를 이용한 유한요소법을 사용하였다. 가상일의 법칙을 이용하였고, 코일스프링의 하중벡터를 압축 분포하중으로 대체하였다. 하중의 증가에 의한 절점에서의 변위는 유한요소법를 이용하여 계산하였다. 단계법으로 결점의 변위를 중첩하여 전체 강성행렬을 구하였다. 유한요소법에 의한 해석치는 실험치와 잘 일치하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 프로그램을 사용하여, 스프링 강성과 응력을 예측할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

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Study on the optimal design for Planetary Gear Train using simulated annealing (시뮬레이티드 어닐링을 이용한 유성치차열의 최적설계에 관한 연구)

  • 최용혁;정태형;이근호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.172-177
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    • 2004
  • A planetary gear trains has characteristics in compactness, power transformation ability and constant meshing. Usability is increased in applications of auto transmission and industrial gearbox. Study on optimum design of planetary gear train has been progressed on minimization of weight, miniaturization of planetary gear train and improvement of high strength. There are demands of study for the planetary gear train required long lift estimation In this wort being considered life, strength, intereference, contact ratio and aspect ratio, the optimum design algorithm is proposed to reduce the volume of planetary gear train with transferring the same amount of power. In the design of algorithm for planetary gear train, the determination of teeth number is separated to achieve simplicity and the simulated annealing method as a global optimal technique is used for optimal design method.

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Adopting a National Innovation Approach for Agro-Sustainability : A Case Study

  • Sankat, Clement K.;Pun, Kit F.;Motilal, Cavelle B.
    • International Journal of Quality Innovation
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.98-106
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    • 2006
  • Nowadays, agro-firms are confronted with competition from global suppliers in both domestic and export markets. Such competition in sustainable agro-operations is expected to intensify. The survival of these firms in developing countries urgently requires a significant transformation to be competitive. This paper discusses the rationale of adopting a national innovation (NI) approach from an industry-wide perspective. In order to attain sustainable agro-operations in developing countries, the approach stresses appropriate scientific and technological applications and effective linkages of technology transfer via the network between public and private institutions, universities and other research institutions. Central to this approach is the development of the agro-industrial sector whereby agri-chains are formed. An illustrated case of the NI approach is presented with respect to a small island developing state, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

TRANSFORMATION OF LOCAL BIFURCATIONS UNDER COLLOCATION METHODS

  • Foster, Andrew;Khumalo, Melusi
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.48 no.6
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    • pp.1101-1123
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    • 2011
  • Numerical schemes are routinely used to predict the behavior of continuous dynamical systems. All such schemes transform flows into maps, which can possess dynamical behavior deviating from their continuous counterparts. Here the common bifurcations of scalar dynamical systems are transformed under a class of algorithms known as linearized one-point collocation methods. Through the use of normal forms, we prove that each such bifurcation in an originating flow gives rise to an exactly corresponding one in its discretization. The conditions for spurious period doubling behavior under this class of algorithm are derived. We discuss the global behavioral consequences of a singular set induced by the discretizing methods, including loss of monotonicity of solutions, intermittency, and distortion of attractor basins.