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Crack-healing and durability performance of self-healing concrete with microbial admixture (미생물 혼입 자기치유 콘크리트의 균열 치유성능 및 내구성능)

  • Chu, Inyeop;Woo, Sang-Kyun;Lee, Byung-Jae;Lee, Yun;Lee, Hyo-Sub
    • KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.295-299
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    • 2021
  • Recently, interest in maintenance has been increasing due to the enlargement and aging of infra structures. Therefore, a new paradigm is required to secure and improve the durability of structures differentiated from the past. Accordingly, research on smart concrete incorporating the concept of self-healing into concrete is being actively conducted. In this study, the crack healing performance and durability performance of self-healing concrete applied with a hydrogel containing biomineral-forming microorganisms were evaluated. As a result of evaluating the dispersion of the hydrogel in concrete, it was confirmed that the hydrogel was well distributed in concrete matrix with a dispersion coefficient of 0.35 to 0.46. The crack healing performance evaluation was verified by a water permeability test, and showed a recovery rate of 95% or more at the age of 28 days, confirming the applicability of self-healing concrete. The durability performance of self-healing concrete was evaluated in terms of resistance to penetration of chloride ion and freezing and thawing. Regardless of the mixing of the hydrogel, the same level of durability performance was shown for various compressive strength level. Therefore, it was confirmed that the microbial admixture did not affect concrete durability. In the future, long-term crack healing performance and durability verification studies should be supplemented.

The Effect of Processing Parameters to Manufacture Self-healing Microcapsules for Composite Materials (복합재료의 자가 치료용 캡슐 제작시 공정 변수들의 영향)

  • Yoon, YoungKi;Yoon, HiSeak
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.135-141
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    • 2001
  • An experimental study to find the effect of processing parameters for self-healing microcapules is performed. These microcapsules can be applied to accomplish the healing of delamination damage in woven E-glass/epoxy composites. This paper introduces the self-healing concept and presents a method for solving the microcapsule size and shape. Additionally, processing parameters are varied during the formation of microcapsules and these capsules are observed through optical microscope. To obtain thermogravimetric(TG) curve for the manufactured microcapsules, TGA tests are executed. From these results, the best processing conditions for the formation of capsules are found as follows: (1) temperature of solution $ 50^{\circ}C$, (2) potential of hytdrogen(pH) 3.5ppm, and (3) agitation 500~600rpm.

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Walking along Seoul City Wall as Therapeutic Mobilities (치유적 모빌리티로서 서울 한양도성길 걷기)

  • Park, Hyanggi
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.51 no.1
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    • pp.109-125
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    • 2016
  • Human life has been inextricably linked with healing. Recently, as the demands of healing are higher, it is more necessary to study spaces, places and mobilities related to healing in geographical studies. This paper draws on a case study of urban peoples walks along Seoul City Wall to explore what healing factors affect the people walking along historical landscapes in urban center and understand geographical implications of the healing process. Based on the concept and analytical lens of 'therapeutic mobilities' introduced by Gatrell, this research analyzes texts written on 181 blogs. The results show the main factors that affect their healing are 'weather climate', 'walk stroll', and 'nightscape'. Futhermore, the blogs' narratives focusing on these main factors imply healing place-making, time as limiting factor, and the social body within nightscape in the healing process.

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A Study on the Recent Trends of Healing Environment in Korean Healthcare Facilities

  • Park, Jae-Seung;Lee, Teuk-Koo;Park, Yeong-Chol
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.59-66
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to define the concept of sustainability, to understand the traditional belief system, to comprehend user-focused healing environment, to understand the current status of Korean Hospitals, to analyze the selected case studies, and to point the way toward enhanced architectural solutions for healing environment in hospitals. The research results indicate that the design of healthcare facilities with healing effects depend on the considerations of 5 senses of patients. In other words, the sustainable design approach to create a healthy healing environment is very important, and architects must be aware of diverse sensory needs of the patients. In addition, the following factors affection healthcare facilities must be considered to create healing environment for users: - "Emphasis on sustainable Design" for harmony among nature, man, and building. - Creation of user Focused Healing Environment reflecting the suers' senses. - Search for New Hospital Forms through various design experiments to create the most suitable healing environment. - "Perception of Paradigm Shift" form a focus on sickness-oriented to wellness-oriented healthcare facility design. - "Awareness of Creating User-Friendly Environment" covering the entire age group form youth to elderly.

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A Study on the Emotional design approach and the Value of the Space for Healing the Trauma - Focus on the periodical characteristics and changes - (트라우마(trauma)를 치유하는 공간의 가치와 디자인접근에 관한연구 - 시대별 특성과 변화에 대한 관찰을 중심으로 -)

  • Woo, Ji-Yeon
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.206-215
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    • 2010
  • The negative memories which come from tragic events such as war, terror or various conflicts in modern cities have been threatening the mental health of city-dwellers. This thesis focuses on 'healing public space' that will help recover the life of city-dwellers who sustain various trauma. For this, the author investigated the significant memorial space through 1980-2010 from site visits, interviews, and related theses and books and then extracted necessary information from each period. This thesis aims to find the changes of the memorial concepts and visitor's reaction for last 30years. 1)1980-: Healing concept and visitor's positive response 2)1990-: Healing by emotional experience approaches to the memorial museum such as narrative approach, exhibition media using 5senses, interactive display and preserving trace, 3)early 2000-: Healing by architectural experience 4)2002-: present: Healing projects by various programs. Steady advances in memorial design for healing trauma are due to the efforts for emotional design approach to eeply move the visitors and the efforts have to be continued. The study emphasize the importance of attracting eople by experimental, emotional design contents not just by aesthetic and functional public design ideas.

A Study on the Different Point of View in Healing Environment between the East and the West (동·서양의 치유환경 관점의 차이에 관한 연구)

  • Son, Jihye;Yang, Naewon
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2015
  • Purpose: The definition of healing and treatment is different between the East and the West. I suppose that the different definitions of them affect the notion of healing environment in two cultural area. Therefore the aim of this study is to consider the different perspective in healing environment between the East and the West. Methods: Relevant literature review around domestic and foreign reference in fields of medicine and architecture has been conducted to consider the purpose. Results: First, the perspective that the cause of disease stems from inside of body approaches the body from standpoint of healing for recovery. Healing is the way to conquer imbalance by entering into a connection with nature around body. The concept of healing could analyze that it come from relevant perspective. Second, the healing environment in the East is the place where the flow of Qi between, human and human, and, human and environment, keep a balance. The notion of healing environment in the East is the filed of relations. In the West, the notion of healing environment is the place where arouse fine emotions through sensory stimulations. Implications: Recently the studies of healing environment focus on deducing sensory stimulation factors scientifically in the perspective of the West. But the healing environment couldn't be possible without the notion of place of relations. In the future, the notion of healing environment as the field of relations in the East has to be concerned.

A Study on the Healing Interface around Void space of Contemporary Houses (현대주택의 허공간 주변의 치유적 인터페이스에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jinhee;Kim, Kwangho
    • Journal of The Korea Institute of Healthcare Architecture
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.15-23
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    • 2016
  • Purpose: Planning space of the house is important as a universal place to relieve stress of contemporary people. Void space is easy to perform mental and cultural programs in aspect of affording the healing behavior. The "Interface" accommodates healing behaviors through mutual interchange between void space and solid space as the edge of the solid space around void space. This study presents a efficient theory of healing space through combining space theory with the Kitwood's theory of psychiatry used for the art therapy. Methods: Spatial elements based on Kitwood's theory converges towards 2 behavioral elements; Meditation(-), Sense of Community(+). Balancing with reciprocal complement between behaviors of passive and stable "Meditation(-)" and active and released "Sense of Community(+)" was analysed. Results: "Faciliation" can be used in combination with "Flow(+)" as active factor. "Validation" is combined with "Prospect(+,-)", and divides into 2 factor ; "Recognition-Refreshment(-)", "Reaction-Social Exchange(+)". "Holding" is combined with "Refuge(-)" as passive factor. Implications: This study established concept of spatial healing elements in connection with theory of Psychiatry about Alzheimer that is extreme situation of stress. This study is expected to enhance the validity and efficiency in analysis of healing space.

Group Key Management with Self-healing Applying the Concept of Sliding-window for Wireless Sensor Networks (무선 센서 네트워크에서 슬라이딩 윈도우 개념이 적용된 Self-healing을 사용하는 그룹키 관리)

  • Lee Jae-Won;Kim Hyung-Chan;Ramakrishna R.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.604-607
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    • 2006
  • Self-heating 키 분배 기법은 불안정한 네트워크 환경에서 그룹 키를 설정할 수 있게 하며, 그룹을 가입하거나 탈퇴하는 멤버 노드들에 의한 공모 공격에 대한 안전성으로 인하여, 센서 네트워크 환경에 적합한 방식이다. 하지만 기존에 제안된 Self-healing 키 분배 기법들은 브로드캐스트 되는 메시지의 통신량과 그룹 멤버의 그룹 키 복원을 위한 정보 저장량 측면에서 비효율적인 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 슬라이딩 윈도우(Sliding Window) 개념을 도입함으로써 향상된 Self-healing 키 분배 기법을 제안하여, 브로드캐스트 되는 메시지의 크기를 줄이고 멤버 노드 단위의 메모리에 대한 효율성을 향상시킨다.

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A Study on Space of Healing focused on Light and Sense in Contemporary Spa Design (빛과 감각을 중심으로 한 현대 스파(Spa) 디자인의 치유 공간 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Park, So-Yeon;Kim, Jong-Jin
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.241-250
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    • 2013
  • In contemporary society, spa has become one of the important healing spaces. As the present urban life has been more and more complex and competitive, space of recreation and healing are dramatically increased in terms of its number as well as location. In the past, there were three kinds of spa visitors. The first was the people who visited spas for medical reasons. The second was the people who visited spas for leisure and refreshment. The third was for social gatherings like in the ancient Rome. In present time, these three reasons are mixed together. As the spa program became rich and various, visitors tends to seek an appropriate spa environment that suits their needs. This is the main background for contemporary spa designs. In any case, concept of healing has been always the core element in spa. Light and sense have vital role to make a unique spa design. This paper aims to study different light and sense applications in contemporary spa designs. Specific focus is to find how light and sense in spa designs act to create a healing environment. 4 spa projects built in Europe after 2000 were selected and were analyzed based on the 4 light and sense characteristics. In conclusion, case analysis was summarized to suggest future possibilities.

Application of self-healing technique to fibre reinforced polymer wind turbine blade

  • Fifo, Omosola;Ryan, Kevin;Basu, Biswajit
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.593-606
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents a novel concept of healing some of the damages in wind turbine blades (WTBs) such as cracks and delamination. This is achieved through an inherent functioning autonomous repairing system. Such wind turbine blades have the benefit of reduced maintenance cost and increased operational period. Previous techniques of developing autonomous healing systems uses hollow glass fibres (HGFs) to deliver repairing fluids to damaged sites. HGFs have been reported with some limitations like, failure to fracture, which undermines their further usage. The self-healing technique described in this paper represents an advancement in the engineering of the delivery mechanism of a self-healing system. It is analogous to the HGF system but without the HGFs, which are replaced by multiple hollow channels created within the composite, inherently in the FRP matrix at fabrication. An in-house fabricated NACA 4412 WTB incorporating this array of network hollow channels was damaged in flexure and then autonomously repaired using the vascular channels. The blade was re-tested under flexure to ascertain the efficiency of the recovered mechanical properties.