• 종양간호연구
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2012

Purpose: This study was conducted to identify the impact of fatigue, pain, anxiety and depression on the quality of life (QOL) among breast cancer patients. Methods: This study was conducted from July 12th to July 20th, 2010. One hundred and fifty breast cancer patients were recruited from D city in Korea. The instruments used in this study were the fatigue, pain, anxiety, depression and the quality of life scales for patients with breast cancer. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with the SPSS/WIN 12.0 program. Results: The quality of life for cancer patients showed a significant relationship with fatigue, pain, anxiety and depression. The significant factors influencing quality of life were fatigue, pain, anxiety and depression that explained 65.6% of the variance. Conclusion: Patients with breast cancer experienced fatigue, pain, anxiety and depression which led to a negative effect on quality of life. The results suggest that intervention programs to reduce fatigue, pain, anxiety and depression could improve the quality of life for breast cancer patients.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.216-223
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• 2008

Objectives : To investigate the effect of overtime work on fatigue symptoms among Korean female workers. Methods : A total of 1,875 subjects were analyzed using the structured questionnaire, which was composed of overtime work, fatigue symptom, and background characteristics. Data analysis included multiple regression to test for a relationship of overtime work with fatigue symptom while statistically controlling for demographic and occupational variables. Results : Overtime work was more common in those with shorter work years of 3 or less than in those with longer work years. Overtime work was more popular in day workers than in shift workers. No significant difference of smoking and drinking state was observed between two groups. Subjective fatigue symptoms were significantly higher in overtime workers than in workers without overtime work. In a multiple regression analysis with significant control variables, overtime work was associated with 0.31 more fatigue symptom(p<0.001). Conclusion : Our findings suggest that overtime work may increase risks for fatigue symptom. Therefore, preventive strategies will be needed to control the negative effect of overtime work on health status of female workers.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test effects of fatigue reduction program for women workers at a food production company. Methods: A quasi-experimental design was conducted. Eighteen workers in vitamin E group, 16 workers in vitamin E and stretching group, and 18 workers in stretching only group participated. Participants were evaluated at baseline and 8 weeks. Results: The results showed that stretching only group had a significant impact on reducing of fatigue level compared to those of a vitamin E group. Conclusion: Although vitamin E supplement has not shown decreasing fatigue level, the positive effect of stretching exercise may have high applicability to a workplace.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.158-164
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• 2003

The air circuit breaker (ACB) with the spring-actuated mechanism was studied to improve the fatigue-proof characteristics of its link. The low-cycle fatigue fracture phenomenon occurred on the critical link, called h-link, of ACB from the repeated rapid closing and opening operations. To analyze the cause of failure, dynamic FE-analysis on the b-link part of ACB was performed considering tile velocity and acceleration of the links per time as boundary conditions, which were obtained by using ADAMS. Also, the S-N curve obtained by experiments was used to investigate requirement on the fatigue-proof characteristics. Then, to reduce the maximum tensile stress on the h-link, three types of h-link were examined and one of them was selected.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제17권7호
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• pp.629-640
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• 2016

본 연구는 치과위생사들의 직무스트레스, 피로증상 및 직무만족도가 이직의도에 미치는 영향을 규명할 목적으로 사도하였다. 연구대상은 치과 병 의원에 근무하고 있는 치과위생사 516명을 대상으로 2015년 4월 1일부터 6월 30일까지의 기간 동안에 자기기입식 설문지를 이용한 설문조사를 실시하였다. 자료의 분석은 각 독립변수에 대한 이직의도의 평균점수를 비교하였으며 t-test 및 ANOVA로 검정하였다. 또한 직무스트레스, 피로증상, 직무만족도 및 이직의도 간의 Pearson상관분석에 의한 상관계수를 구하였으며, 공분산구조분석을 사용하여 이직의도와 직무스트레스, 피로증상 및 직무만족도와의 관련성을 평가하였다. 연구결과, 조사대상자의 이직의도는 직무스트레스가 높은 군일수록, 피로증상이 높은 군일수록, 직무만족도가 낮은 군일수록 유의하게 높았다. 조사대상자의 이직의도는 직무스트레스 및 피로증상과는 유의한 양의 상관관계를 보인 반면, 직무만족도와는 유의한 음의 상관관계를 보였다. 공분산 구조분석 결과, 직무스트레스는 피로증상이나 직무만족도보다 이직의도에 더 큰 영향을 미쳤으며, 직무스트레스와 피로증상이 높고, 직무만족도가 낮을수록 이직의도를 높이는 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 위와 같은 결과는 치과위생사들의 이직의도는 피로증상이나 직무만족도보다 직무스트레스에 의해 더 큰 영향을 받고 있음을 알 수 있다. 따라서 치과위생사들의 이직의도를 낮추기 위해서는 직무스트레스 및 피로를 감소시키고, 직무만족도를 향상시키기 위한 노력이 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.648-655
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• 2020

현대의 자동소총의 공이는 공이치기에 의해 타격을 받아 장전된 탄약의 뇌관을 기폭 시키는 역할을 한다. 이 과정에서 공이는 충격하중을 받게 되며 소총의 수명주기 동안 반복적인 힘을 받게 된다. 소총의 내구도 시험에서 전체의 96.26% 진행 중 공이가 조기에 파손되는 현상이 발생하였다. 이에 따라 원인분석과 재현시험을 통해 파손현상 사례연구를 실시하였다. 파손이 발생한 공이의 파단면을 현미경 및 SEM 분석결과 반복충격에 의해 표면 원주방향 전체에서 균열이 시작해 심부로 피로균열이 발생했다. 반복충격에 의해 균열이 성장하다 마지막에 피로파괴가 발생하였으며, 노치에 의한 것으로 추정되었다. 검증을 위해 원주방향 0.03mm의 노치를 생성한 공이로 재현시험결과 동일한 형태의 파단면을 가지면서 전체 수명의 64.25%에서 파손되었다. 파손사례연구를 위한 노치형태별 재현시험결과 한쪽 측면 노치 0.3mm, 0.5mm의 공이는 각각 65.53%, 50.76%에서, 6개 지점의 노치 0.03mm는 85.65%에서 파손되었다. 마지막으로 표면 거칠기가 거칠고 툴 마크가 육안으로 확인이 가능한 공이는 내구수명을 만족하며 381㎛의 내부균열이 진행되었다. 본 연구를 통해 노치형태별 파손에 대해 고찰하였으며, 반복충격을 받는 부품의 신뢰성 확보를 위해 노치와 표면 거칠기 품질관리가 중요한 것을 알 수 있다.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.211-221
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• 2007

교량의 피로파괴에 대한 Miner의 피로손상법칙을 적용하여 여러 확률변수로 표현된 피로파괴 한계상태함수에 대한 신뢰도해석을 국내에서 측정된 통행차량의 통계적 특성을 반영하여 수행하였다. 신뢰도지수의 산정에 필요한 확률변수 가운데 등가모멘트, 충격계수비, 등가하중비는 국내의 최근 측정자료를 분석하여 통계치를 산정하였으며, 피로강도, 활하중 횡분배비, 연행하중비는 국외에서 측정된 문헌자료의 통계치를 적용하였다. 신뢰도해석을 통하여 피로설계트럭의 종류, 교량수명, ADTT, 피로상세, 등가하중비, 피로설계트럭의 총중량 등의 피로손상에 관련된 여러 파라미터가 신뢰도지수에 미치는 영향을 분석하였다. 본 논문의 피로파괴에 대한 신뢰도해석 결과는 국내 LRFD 설계기준의 피로설계트럭모형과 피로한계상태의 하중계수를 결정할 때 기초 자료로 이용할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국직업건강간호학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.372-380
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• 2015

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to seek ways to improve the quality of life of workers by separating workers into the low fatigue group and the severe fatigue group depending on the level of fatigue level, and analyzing and understanding the difference between quality of life and job stress according to the fatigue level. Methods: For the 'Development of Mibyeong management system which was a consumer-directed health care service', the data of job stress, fatigue and quality of life was collected from 115 workers who visited the oriental hospitals located in J city and C city from Jul, 2012 to Dec, 2012. Results: The severe fatigue group showed significantly higher job stress than the low fatigue group in physical environment (p=.004), job demand (p<.001), interpersonal conflict (p=.012), lack of reward (p=.062). The severe fatigue group showed lower degrees both in physical component summary (PCS) (p<.001) and mental component summary (MCS) (p<.001) measured by SF-12 and the quality of life (p<.001) measured by EQ5D than the lower fatigue group. A relatively strong negative correlation was found in the item of mental component summary (MCS) measured by SF-12. Conclusion: Considering our results that high fatigue level show negative impact on quality of life and job stress, we suggest to provide a variety of health promotion strategies to improve the quality of life through the prevention and relief of fatigue for workers.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2013

Burr grinding, Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) dressing, ultrasonic impact treatment, and peening are used to improve fatigue life in steel structures. These methods improve the fatigue life of weld joints by hardening the weld toe, by improving the bead shape, and by creating the compressive residual stress. In this study, a new post-weld treatment method improving the weld bead shape and metal structure at the welding zone using Friction Stir Processing (FSP), a welding process, is proposed to enhance fatigue life. For that, a pin-shaped tool and processing condition employing Friction Stir Processing (FSP) is established through experiments. Experimental results revealed that fatigue life is improved by around 50% compared to as-welded fatigue specimens by reducing the stress concentration at the weld toe and by generating a metal structure finer than that of flux-cored arc welding (FCAW).

• 국제강구조저널
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1631-1638
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• 2018

In the periodic repainting of steel bridges, often the steel surface has to be prepared by using power tools to remove surface contaminants, such as deteriorated paint film and rust, and to increase the adhesive strengths of the paint films to be applied newly. Surface preparation by bristle roll-brush grinding, which is a type of power tool, may additionally introduce compressive residual stress and increase the fatigue resistance of welded joints owing to the impact of rotating bristle tips. In this study, fatigue tests were conducted for longitudinally out-of-plane gusset fillet welded joints and transversely butt-welded joints to evaluate the effect of bristle roll-brush grinding prior to repainting on the fatigue resistance of the welded joints. The test results showed that bristle roll-brush grinding introduced compressive residual stress and significantly increased fatigue limits by over 50%.