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Towards performance-based design under thunderstorm winds: a new method for wind speed evaluation using historical records and Monte Carlo simulations

  • Aboshosha, Haitham;Mara, Thomas G.;Izukawa, Nicole
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.85-102
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    • 2020
  • Accurate load evaluation is essential in any performance-based design. Design wind speeds and associated wind loads are well defined for synoptic boundary layer winds but not for thunderstorms. The method presented in the current study represents a new approach to obtain design wind speeds associated with thunderstorms and their gust fronts using historical data and Monte Carlo simulations. The method consists of the following steps (i) developing a numerical model for thunderstorm downdrafts (i.e. downbursts) to account for storm translation and outflow dissipation, (ii) utilizing the model to characterize previous events and (iii) extrapolating the limited wind speed data to cover life-span of structures. The numerical model relies on a previously generated CFD wind field, which is validated using six documented thunderstorm events. The model suggests that 10 parameters are required to describe the characteristics of an event. The model is then utilized to analyze wind records obtained at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (KLBB) meteorological station to identify the thunderstorm parameters for this location, obtain their probability distributions, and utilized in the Monte Carlo simulation of thunderstorm gust front events for many thousands of years for the purpose of estimating design wind speeds. The analysis suggests a potential underestimation of design wind speeds when neglecting thunderstorm gust fronts, which is common practice in analyzing historical wind records. When compared to the design wind speed for a 700-year MRI in ASCE 7-10 and ASCE 7-16, the estimated wind speeds from the simulation were 10% and 11.5% higher, respectively.

Approach to the Earthquake Prediction by Analyzing Foreshocks of Large Korean Historical Earthquakes (역사지진에서 강진의 전진에 대한 특성 분석을 통한 지진 예지에 대한 고찰)

  • E, Sang-Hion;Lee, Kie-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean Geophysical Society
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2005
  • Seismicity changes associated with foreshocks of large Korean historical earthquakes of MMI > VIII are investigated for earthquake prediction study. A number of tests showed that b-values of foreshocks associated with these large earthquakes are most stable for precursor period of 13 years before the earthquake and rectangular source area of 1.1o by 1.1o around the epicenter. The b-values of foreshocks for 11 large events of MMI > VIII for the above foreshock area and precursor period turns out to be smaller than the value of 0.36 for the whole historical earthquakes with average 0.27. Epicenters of these foreshocks of small b-values are distributed close to the location of the main large earthquake. These observations indicate a possibility of predicting large earthquakes by closely monitoring the change of b-value for an extended period over decades in the Korean peninsula.

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A Study on the Trend of Researches in Food and Culture from 1990 to 2003 (1990년부터 2003년까지의 식문화 연구동향 분석)

  • Kim, Hee-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.295-312
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    • 2004
  • This study is to investigate the trend of researches on food and culture from 1990 to 2003. With a literary approach, this paper analyzes how many papers were published and what was the major research subject. We classified the journals published during this time into 10 different categories and we are to grasp a research trend. 1) Historical approach on the traditional food and food habit; 2) Globalization of Koran food; 3) Use and preparation for traditional food; 4) Table setting and table manner; 5) Provincial cuisine; 6) Traditional festive food or celebratory meal; 7) Religious food; 8) Fusion food; 9) Food and culture in foreign countries and food habit of Korean people living abroad; 10) Studies related with satins out. It was revealed that 268 papers(=ps) were published. Eating out was the most frequently reported subject(100 ps), followed by provincial cuisine(54 ps), use and preparation for traditional food(49 ps), food habit for foreign people and Korean people living abroad(22 ps). Researches on these 4 topics have been accelerated since the late half of 1990s. This reflects the social factors such as rapid growth of food service industry, settlement of local autonomy, popularization of leisure activities and accelerated introduction of foreign food and culture. Half of the studies on the eating out dealt with eating out behavior. And 30 papers were reports on the food service industry situations. More than half of the studies on the provincial cuisine(26 ps) were concentrated on digging out recipes. Studies on the use and preparation for traditional food were mainly about what kind of food and how often the food is used(17 ps). Kimchi was the most frequently studied food. There were 11 papers regarding food and culture in foreign countries. Most of the authors were historians or linguists. Food habit of Korean people living abroad were investigated in 7 papers. There was few studies on fusion food, table setting and table manner. This doesn't meet with increasing demand for specialized information in then fields. Researches on the traditional festive food or celebratory meal(5 ps) and religious food(9 ps) were negligible. Papers on the historical approach to the traditional food and food habit were limited(12 ps). Moreover, most of them were patchwork of existing literatures. Continuous researches to exploit the historical facts based on literary proof should be tried with patience. Otherwise, the papers will copy the hackneyed knowledge repeatedly. Globalization of Korean food means the development of Korean food for foreign people and export of them worldwide. Only 16 papers were reported on this subject, 14 of them were published after 2000, 8 of them were surveys on the foreigners' food preference. In order to get practical informations on what we develope and how we sell for the foreign customers, profound research on their food habit should be done.

A prototype model of entrepreneur: Historical context and anthropological approach (기업가(起業家)의 20가지 모습: 역사적 맥락과 문화인류학적 관점)

  • Lee, Choonwoo
    • Korean small business review
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.139-177
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    • 2020
  • The concepts of entrepreneurship are very various. So many researchers are confused or not sure of the concepts of entrepreneurship. Likewise, the concept of entrepreneur are very various, and confused of the concepts of entrepreneur. This study try to set a comprehensive conceptual model of concepts of entrepreneurs. This model suggest a prototype model of entrepreneur with historical context and anthropological approach.

A Understanding of Approach to the Japanese Territory Education on Dokdo (일본의 독도 영토교육에 대한 다차원적 접근성 이해)

  • Park, Chul-Woong
    • Journal of the Korean association of regional geographers
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.324-337
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    • 2010
  • We believe, 'Dokdo is clearly an inherent territory of Korea, in the light of geographical and historical facts', This paper aims to discuss Japanese multidimensional approach on the Issues of Dokdo(Takeshima) in the context of Territory Education. We considered the matter from various angles that supported by the ministry of Foreign affairs and the ministry of Education in national scale, as well as shimane prefecture government and municipality scale. Therefore, It is likely that the approach of territory education on Dokdo in Japan is variable and potential, and is temporary state of condensation, depends on Korea-Japan's political, economical, social, and international conditions. More studies of the new approach must be done for the new implications of Territory Education that embraces all meanings and events according to the disposition of neighbouring condition of Dokdo in world context, keeping out emotional and nationalist sympathies. The result of consideration in this paper are as follows. First, Territory Education in japan was focused on geography, history, Civil, Social Studies, compared with focusing on History in Korea. Second, It is centered on "korea is illegally occupying Dokdo, against which Japan has been consistently making strong protests" rather than simple historical approach. Thirdly, Their approaches seek to be succeeded the identity and importance of Territory Education to next generation rather than the present solving problem.

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Development and Application of Imputation Technique Based on NPR for Missing Traffic Data (NPR기반 누락 교통자료 추정기법 개발 및 적용)

  • Jang, Hyeon-Ho;Han, Dong-Hui;Lee, Tae-Gyeong;Lee, Yeong-In;Won, Je-Mu
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.61-74
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    • 2010
  • ITS (Intelligent transportation systems) collects real-time traffic data, and accumulates vest historical data. But tremendous historical data has not been managed and employed efficiently. With the introduction of data management systems like ADMS (Archived Data Management System), the potentiality of huge historical data dramatically surfs up. However, traffic data in any data management system includes missing values in nature, and one of major obstacles in applying these data has been the missing data because it makes an entire dataset useless every so often. For these reasons, imputation techniques take a key role in data management systems. To address these limitations, this paper presents a promising imputation technique which could be mounted in data management systems and robustly generates the estimations for missing values included in historical data. The developed model, based on NPR (Non-Parametric Regression) approach, employs various traffic data patterns in historical data and is designated for practical requirements such as the minimization of parameters, computational speed, the imputation of various types of missing data, and multiple imputation. The model was tested under the conditions of various missing data types. The results showed that the model outperforms reported existing approaches in the side of prediction accuracy, and meets the computational speed required to be mounted in traffic data management systems.

A Search for the Concept of "Technology Assessment":a Historical Approach (기술영향평가 개념에 대한 탐색 : 역사적 접근)

  • 김병윤
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.306-327
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    • 2003
  • The importance of technology assessment(TA) is increasingly emphasized, however, the question of what is TA is ambiguous yet. This article traces the concept of TA, and tries to identify the its meaning and current issues. It argues that the ambiguity of TA concept is not tragedy, but blessing in its growth. We came to know that one should consider for a successful TA some issues : institutional conditions, methodology, functions and timeliness. And they should also be considered in the TA-building process of Korea which is now on.

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Family Life Education: Some Issues & Perspectives -From the Review of Family Enrichment Programs- (가족생활교육의 과제와 전망-가족향상 프로그램의 고찰을 통해-)

  • 정현숙
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.55-68
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    • 1998
  • Family life education and marriage enrichment are seen as a rapidly developing new approach for serving marriages and families in Korea. This paper compares and contrasts the concept of marriage enrichment & family life education. Especially historical development theoretical orientation and ethics process methods and techniques of marriage enrichment are critically reviewed. The direction of future research theoretical and practical implications are added.

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Fuzzy Logic and Worldviews (퍼지논리와 세계관)

  • Park, Chang-Kyun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.333-334
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    • 2008
  • All theories are based on philosophical presupposition. Fuzzy logic is no exception. This paper alms through historical approach to show that fuzzy logic reflects relativistic and pluralistic worldviews.

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Failure Prediction Reliability Model based on the Condition-based Maintenance (CBM기반의 고장 예측 신뢰성 모델)

  • 김연수;정영배
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.22 no.52
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    • pp.171-180
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    • 1999
  • Industrial equipment reliability improvement and maintenance is gaining attention as the next great opportunity for manufacturing productivity improvement. Reactive maintenance is expensive because of extensive unplanned downtime and damage to machinery. To avoid such an unplanned machine downtime, it is needed to use proactive maintenance approach by either using historical maintenance data or by sensing machine conditions. This paper discusses failure diagonosis and prediction based on the condition-based maintenance and reliability technique. Thus, by enabling such a framework, it can bring us more efficient planning and execution of maintenance to reduce costs and/or increase profits.

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