• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.71-85
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• 2021

The history of the Bakken Museum, the Museum of Electricity in Life, is useful to understand the universality and particularity of a local science museum. Beginning with the small collections at the medical device company, the Bakken Museum has expanded its scope and facilities by reidentifying its mission from research institute to educational center. The educational turn of the Bakken Museum has been completed with two remarkable events: the launch of the Summer Institute in 1984 and the construction of the new education facility, New Wing, in 1999. During this change, the museum staff developed unique strategies for public engagement, using the history of science and technology as an educational tool. The shift of the Bakken Museum's mission provides an excellent example of how a local museum could meet the social needs for museums to be educational centers by utilizing its history and collections.

• 가정과삶의질연구
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.81-94
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• 2010

This qualitative research was designed to explore the use of housing among Korean Chinese people in Harbin, China. Focusing on the use which based on the epistemology of housing adjustment, this was particularly designed to examine its cultural assimilation and acculturation on the way of life course, it employed the in-depth interview on the oral history of 5 interviewees in their 60s and 70s, individualized interviews were conducted from May 28 to 31 in 2010. Key findings were summarized as follows; 1. The free market reform in China resulted in privatization that allowed respondents to become homeowners, and the ownership was viewed as part of family asset centered upon a sense of solidarity. 2. Although homeowners in multi-story houses were responsible to decorate interior spaces, the common features in using interior spaces were found: entrance had no thresholds; kitchen was small, lack of storage cabinets, tile-flooring; washers were installed inside bathroom; and newly built apartment didn't have proper space to store Korean fermented foods. It was observed that housing adaptation outweighed housing adjustment. Those who used to live in Chinese houses with indoor-wearing-shoes or Russian houses with indoor-wearing-slippers were receptive to the use of dining table and bed, and the community heating system discouraged the use of individual electric water heater because of high electricity cost. 3. In daily life, eating habit wasn't much changed to the Chinese style, meals were shared, dish sterilizer was popular, and Kimchi fridge wasn't used. Because of the influence of the Chinese culture, such Korean traditions as ancestral rites and bedroom allocation tradition faded away, but traditional family values remained unchanged. In conclusion, Korean Chinese people experience normative housing deficits and adaptation selectively incurred. It's implied that residential design meets the needs resulting from the dual culture in terms of cultural assimilation and acculturation.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.263-272
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• 2018

Recent developments in the field of energy harvesting technology that convert ambient energy resources into electricity enable the use of self-powered energy systems in wearable and portable electronic devices without the need for additional external power sources. In particular, piezoelectric-effect-based flexible energy harvesters have drawn much attention because they can guarantee power generation from ubiquitous mechanical and vibrational movements. In response to demand for sustainable, permanent, and remote use of real-life personal electronics, many research groups have investigated flexible piezoelectric energy harvesters (f-PEHs) that employ nanoscaled piezoelectric materials such as nanowires, nanoparticles, nanofibers, and nanotubes. In those attempts, they have proven the feasibility of energy harvesting from tiny periodic mechanical deformations and energy utilization of f-PEH in commercial electronic devices. This review paper provides a brief overview of f-PEH devices based on piezoelectric nanomaterials and summarizes the development history, output performance, and applications.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.79-90
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• 2023

본 논문은 원자력발전소(원전) 사고에 의한 조기사망의 사회적 비용을 추정하기 위해 조건부가치측정법(Contingent Valuation Method, CVM)을 이용하여 통계적 생명가치(Value of a Statistical Life, VSL)를 추정한다. VSL 추정치는 약 35억 5천만 원이다. 이에 세계 원전 역사상 발생한 모든 사고 사망자수 약 181만 명을 곱하여 추정한 사회적 비용은 1,952조 원으로서 한국의 2022년 실질 GDP에 비견되는 수준이다. 연평균 조기사망자수와 사회적 비용은 각각 26,000명과 28조 원이다. 1987~2021년간 세계 화력발전소의 사고와 대기오염물질 배출로 인해 발생한 조기사망의 사회적 비용 추정치는 26,919조 원인데, 이는 미국의 2021년 GDP 규모에 상당하는 규모로서 9조 원을 기록한 원전의 약 3,000배에 달한다. 2021년 한 해만 보더라도, 화력발전소의 사회적 비용은 1,075조 원에 달하지만, 원전은 2,920억 원에 불과하다. 한국의 경우, 2050 탄소중립 정책의 영향으로 재생에너지 발전 비중이 증가할 것이므로, 화력발전 대비 원자력발전 비중을 증가시키는 에너지믹스를 제안한다. 본 논문은 또한 효율적인 에너지 정책을 담보하기 위해 CVM을 이용한 VSL 추정 연구를 지속적으로 축적할 필요가 있음을 강조한다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.285-296
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• 2020

Dams are important structures for management of water supply for irrigation or drinking, flood control, and electricity generation. In seismic regions, the structural safety of concrete gravity dams is important due to the high potential of life and economic loss if they fail. Therefore, the seismic analysis of existing dams in seismically active regions is crucial for predicting responses of dams to ground motions. In this paper, earthquake response of concrete gravity dams is investigated using the finite element (FE) method. The FE model accounts for dam-water-foundation rock interaction by considering compressible water, flexible foundation effects, and absorptive reservoir bottom materials. Several uncertainties regarding structural attributes of the dam and external actions are considered to obtain the fragility curves of the dam-water-foundation rock system. The structural uncertainties are sampled using the Latin Hypercube Sampling method. The Pine Flat Dam in the Central Valley of Fresno County, California, is selected to demonstrate the methodology for several limit states. The fragility curves for base sliding, and excessive deformation limit states are obtained by performing non-linear time history analyses. Tensile cracking including the complex state of stress that occurs in dams was also considered. Normal, Log-Normal and Weibull distribution types are considered as possible fits for fragility curves. It was found that the effect of the minimum principal stress on tensile strength is insignificant. It is also found that the probability of failure of tensile cracking is higher than that for base sliding of the dam. Furthermore, the loss of reservoir control is unlikely for a moderate earthquake.

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.250-257
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• 2004

Typical railway systems are composed of the various sub-systems, such as tracks, structures, electricity supplying systems, signal systems and vehicles. The roles of the sub-systems are clarified in the railway regulations in terms of their whole life cycle, as like design, operation and disposal stages. The regulations express clearly the basic specifications and requirements that need to accomplish their own performance and also state the standards and procedures for the normal operations and emergency conditions. In this paper the current railway regulation systems are analyzed and average revision periods are presented as the results of the analysis on revision history of railway safety regulations. This paper also presents the requirements for national safety standards based on Railway Safety Act and the necessity of application of system computer aided system engineering (CASE) tool for the improvement of legislation tasks. By exemplifying the cases of high speed rail system and Japanese cases that had developed softwares for supporing regulation revision management, the methodologies was studied for reconstruction of railway safety regulation system. As the results, it was presented such as the considerations for actual implementation and systematic safety regulation revision.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.413-419
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• 2016

지진시 사회 인프라시설물의 피해는 시설물 자체의 피해보다 사회 전반에 걸친 2차 피해를 야기한다. 그 중, 지하 공동구 구조물은 통신, 가스, 전기 등 사회의 라이프라인에 해당하여 지진에 대한 취약성을 정확히 평가하여야 할 필요가 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 지하 공동구의 지진 발생 지반가속도에 따른 파괴가능성을 평가하였다. 평가를 위한 입력지반운동은 해외 실측 지진데이터와 한반도에서 발생가능한 인공지진파를 차용하였으며, 지진해석 방법은 응답변위법과 시간이력해석법을 사용하였다. 파괴여부를 판별하는 한계상태는 휨모멘트와 전단 파괴를 바탕으로 하였다. 취약도 함수 도출을 위한 방법은 최우도법이 사용되었으며, 그 분포함수는 대수정규분포로 가정하였다. 이는 지진시 지하 공동구 시설물의 피해 평가는 물론 지하 공동구 시설물의 내진설계를 위한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있다.