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Elemental Composition of the Soils using LIBS Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

  • Muhammad Aslam Khoso;Seher Saleem;Altaf H. Nizamani;Hussain Saleem;Abdul Majid Soomro;Waseem Ahmed Bhutto;Saifullah Jamali;Nek Muhammad Shaikh
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.200-206
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    • 2024
  • Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique has been used for the elemental composition of the soils. In this technique, a high energy laser pulse is focused on a sample to produce plasma. From the spectroscopic analysis of such plasma plume, we have determined the different elements present in the soil. This technique is effective and rapid for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of all type of samples. In this work a Q-switched Nd: YAG laser operating with its fundamental mode (1064 nm laser wavelength), 5 nanosecond pulse width, and 10 Hz repetition rate was focused on soil samples using 10 cm quartz lens. The emission spectra of soil consist of Iron (Fe), Calcium (Ca), Titanium (Ti), Silicon (Si), Aluminum (Al), Magnesium (Mg), Manganese (Mn), Potassium (K), Nickel (Ni), Chromium (Cr), Copper (Cu), Mercury (Hg), Barium (Ba), Vanadium (V), Lead (Pb), Nitrogen (N), Scandium (Sc), Hydrogen (H), Strontium (Sr), and Lithium (Li) with different finger-prints of the transition lines. The maximum intensity of the transition lines was observed close to the surface of the sample and it was decreased along the axial direction of the plasma expansion due to the thermalization and the recombination process. We have also determined the plasma parameters such as electron temperature and the electron number density of the plasma using Boltzmann's plot method as well as the Stark broadening of the transition lines respectively. The electron temperature is estimated at 14611 °K, whereas the electron number density i.e. 4.1 × 1016 cm-3 lies close to the surface.

Seismic vulnerability of old confined masonry buildings in Osijek, Croatia

  • Hadzima-Nyarko, Marijana;Pavica, Gordana;Lesic, Marija
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.629-648
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    • 2016
  • This paper deals with 111 buildings built between 1962 and 1987, from various parts of the city of Osijek, for which, through the collection of documentation, a database is created. The aim of this paper is to provide the first steps in assessing seismic risk in Osijek applying method based on vulnerability index. This index uses collected information of parameters of the building: the structural system, the construction year, plan, the height, i.e., the number of stories, the type of foundation, the structural and non-structural elements, the type and the quality of main construction material, the position in the block and built-up area. According to this method defining five damage states, the action is expressed in terms of the macroseismic intensity and the seismic quality of the buildings by means of a vulnerability index. The value of the vulnerability index can be changed depending on the structural systems, quality of construction, etc., by introducing behavior and regional modifiers based on expert judgments. Since there is no available data of damaged buildings under earthquake loading in our country, we will propose behavior modifiers based on values suggested by earlier works and on judgment based on available project documentation of the considered buildings. Depending on the proposed modifiers, the seismic vulnerability of existing buildings in the city of Osijek will be assessed. The resulting vulnerability of the considered residential buildings provides necessary insight for emergency planning and for identification of critical objects vulnerable to seismic loading.

A Research on the Chinese Color through the Costume of Qing Dynasty (중국 청대 복식에 사용된 색채에 관한 연구)

  • Geum, Key-Sook;Jung, Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.54 no.4
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    • pp.41-53
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    • 2004
  • The significant role of colors in fashion design is not enough to emphasize in terms of one of the important design elements and its influences on the behaviors of the people. The purpose of this research is to examine the traditional Chinese colors and its ways of color combinations to appreciate the Chinese culture and its people. The Chinese traditional costume of Ching Dynasty were investigated through historic records, historic nobles, costume accessories and so on. The results of the study were summarized as follows: (1) The Blue was the most favoured color for clothing among men and women during Ching dynasty and various blues in terms of hue, value and intensities were used. (2) The bright Yellow which had been a symbol of Emperor were prohibited being used among people. Though, the late period of Dynasty, the regulation became not to strict and various shades of yellow families were adapted among People. (3) The Red which had been preferred during Ming Dynasty were constantly favoured for the formal wears of auspicious events such as weddings. (4) Dark color groups were loved for the clothing which were used as a ground colors against the flamboyant patterns revealing strong visual effects through value contrast or primary color combinations. (5) The White had a symbol of mourning and there were some intentions to adopt pale color groups such as mint, jade, gray, moon whit,. silver white to make up for white. (6) Contrast color combinations were one of the basic ways of color combination in Chinese traditional costume. Therefore Chinese color combinations has a strong visual effect and easy to draw attention of people by the contrast of the hue, value or intensity of color. (7) Multi-color combinations were another characteristics of Chinese costume in the formal wears which bears many surface designs. The surface decorated with full of motifs, were appreciated by the people expressing their longings and hopes through the auspicious meanings of patterns and striking visual effects of color combinations.

Blast behavior of steel infill panels with various thickness and stiffener arrangement

  • Lotfi, Saeid;Zahrai, Seyed Mehdi
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.65 no.5
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    • pp.587-600
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    • 2018
  • Infill panel is the first element of a building subjected to blast loading activating its out-of-plane behavior. If the infill panel does not have enough ductility against the loading, it breaks and gets damaged before load transfer and energy dissipation. As steel infill panel has appropriate ductility before fracture, it can be used as an alternative to typical infill panels under blast loading. Also, it plays a pivotal role in maintaining sensitive main parts against blast loading. Concerning enough ductility of the infill panel out-of-plane behavior, the impact force enters the horizontal diaphragm and is distributed among the lateral elements. This article investigates the behavior of steel infill panels with different thicknesses and stiffeners. In order to precisely study steel infill panels, different ranges of blast loading are used and maximum displacement of steel infill under such various blast loading is studied. In this research, finite element analyses including geometric and material nonlinearities are used for optimization of the steel plate thickness and stiffener arrangement to obtain more efficient design for its better out-of-plane behavior. The results indicate that this type of infill with out-of-plane behavior shows a proper ductility especially in severe blast loadings. In the blasts with high intensity, maximum displacement of infill is more sensitive to change in the thickness of plate rather the change in number of stiffeners such that increasing the number of stiffeners and the plate thickness of infill panel would decrease energy dissipation by 20 and 77% respectively. The ductile behavior of steel infill panels shows that using infill panels with less thickness has more effect on energy dissipation. According to this study, the infill panel with 5 mm thickness works better if the criterion of steel infill panel design is the reduction of transmitted impulse to main structure. For example in steel infill panels with 5 stiffeners and blast loading with the reflected pressure of 375 kPa and duration of 50 milliseconds, the transmitted impulse has decreased from 41206 N.Sec in 20 mm infill to 37898 N.Sec in 5 mm infill panel.

A Study on Evaluating the Importance about Cultural-environmental resources of Agriculture and Rural Areas (농업농촌의 문화환경적 자원의 중요도 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Y.K.;Lim, J.K.;Kim, S.B
    • Journal of Practical Agriculture & Fisheries Research
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.3-15
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate priority of cultural-environmental resource using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Based on survey of expertise, a series of pairwise comparison judgements is performed to evaluate the relative strength or intensity of impact among the elements in the Hierarchy. This Study are applied three kinds of evaluation criteria and 40 kinds of cultural environmental resource. The results of this study are as follows. First, Traditional culture, landscapes, rural community vitality of Agriculture and Rural culture of environmental resources by establishing the concept of a comprehensive classification scheme are defined by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Rural Amenity Resources Multifunctionality in Agriculture. Second, Experts was considered important to "Continuity of history (43%),"> "Global importance (37%)"> "Notable characteristic (20%)" the order of the ratings on the importance of culture with rural agricultural and environmental resources. This is deemed the most important part of Continuity of history Third, The importance of the cultural and environmental resources comprehensive evaluation of the results, a strong tradition of building traditional sense or a landscape resource most highly were evaluated. and Vinyl greenhouse and warehouse such as agriculture, the current facilities required the relatively compared to other resources very low importance were evaluated. Resources, the importance of this study is judged to be able to be utilized as basic data in the selection criteria for the evaluation of the agricultural heritage.

A study about technology related facts which determine the output of companies in IT and BT industries (IT 및 BT 산업별 기술관련 기업성과 결정요인 비교 분석 연구)

  • Yun Jin-Hyo;Choi Myung-Shin;Park Kyung-Su
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.350-372
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    • 2006
  • The main purpose of this study is to investigate the technology related facts which determine the difference of the output of companies in the fields of IT and BT industries in Korean. The determining facts consist of the technology development strategy, the characteristic of R&D groups, and the ability of managing knowledge assets. Three kinds of regression model are made by using 3 determining facts from total model to IT and BT model to investigate the research purpose of this study. The technology development strategy consists of 2 sub facts, as technology innovation and product upgrade. The characteristic of R&D group consists of 2 sub facts, as the characteristic of task and the intensity of R&D group members. The ability of managing knowledge assets consist of 3 sub elements, as the ability of creating knowledge assets, the ability of holding in common knowledge assets, and the ability of developing the value of knowledge assets.

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Studies on Rheological Properties of Rice Plants at the Booting Stage (이삭 밸 때 벼의 리올러지 특성(特性)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Hu, Y.K.;Lee, S.W.
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.37-48
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    • 1991
  • Rice plants are subjected to various forces such as natural force of wind and mechanical force of cultivating machines. Rheological behavior of the rice stem can be expressed in terms of three variables : stress, relaxation and time. The objectives of this study are to examine stress relaxation, creep and recovery characteristics on the rice stem in case of axial and radial loading. Stress relaxation with time was studied on three levels of loading rate and on four levels of applied stress. The results were summarized as follows : 1. The hysterisis losses of the rice stem distinctly observed at the radial compression in comparison with axial compression. The hysterisis loss implied that the stem to absorbed energy without being deformed beyond the yield point. 2. Ageneralized Maxwell model consisting of three elements gave a good description of the relaxation behavior of the rice stem. Rate of loading was more significant on the observed relaxation behavior within the short relaxation time, but there were little influences of rate of loading on the relaxation time. 3. The stress relaxation intensity and the residual stress increased in magnitude as the applied stress increased, but the relaxation time was little affected by the applied stress. 4. The coefficients of the stress relaxation model showed much differences in the radial compression and the axial compression, especially the higher relaxation stress of the third element was observed in the radial compression. 5. The behaviors of rice stem in creep and recovery test also might be represented by a four element Burger's model. But the coefficients of the creep model were different from those of the recovery model. 6. The steady-state phenomena of creep appeared at the stress larger than 20 MPa in Samkang and 1.8 MPa in Whajin. 7. The elastic modulus of the stem showed the range from 40 to 60 MPa. It could be considered, as a result, the rice stems had viscoelastic properties.

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An analysis of research on the determinants of exercise behavior (운동행위 결정요인에 관한 국외문헌 분석)

  • Lee, Jong Kyung
    • Korean Journal of Adult Nursing
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.356-368
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    • 2000
  • The purposes of this study were 1) to identify determinants of exercise behavior 2) to determine theoretical frameworks that were used in other research 3) to investigate the limitations of exercise research. seventy six research papers, published between 1984-1999, were selected by searching Medline for this study. Research subjects, determinants of exercise behavior, exercise measurement, the design of studies, statistical method and theoretical background were examined. The results are as follows. 1. On the research subjects, most research papers studied healthy adults. 2. Thirteen variables were identified that were used more than 5 times in various researches were self efficacy, barrier, social support, benefit, physiological characteristics, habit, personality, intention, health status, motivation, subjective norm, attitude, and affect. The most frequently supported determinant was self efficacy, the second one was social support, the third was affect and so on. But few research papers found any significant relationship between subject norms or attitude and exercise. 3. On exercise measurement, only 22.4% of research papers considered intensity, duration, frequency as elements of exercise, and 64.5% of researches were assessed by self-reported questionnaires. 4. In research design, 80.3% of research papers were survey type research. The most frequently used statistcal method was Regression. 5. 44.8% of research papers were done without any theoretical basis. Based on the above findings the following suggestions are made : 1. Research which includes diverse populations with different levels of health status needs to be studied. 2. Determinants of exercise may be dynamic and varing in their influence, therefore, stages of exercise behavior and processes of change need to be studied. 3. In research design, more prospective, longitudinal studies are needed to identify determinants of exercise habits. 4. It is necessary to develop a reliable, valid exercise measurement tool. 5. Studies are needed to develop a theoretical framework for exercise behavior.

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Numerical investigation of flow characteristics through simple support grids in a 1 × 3 rod bundle

  • Karaman, Umut;Kocar, Cemil;Rau, Adam;Kim, Seungjin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.51 no.8
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    • pp.1905-1915
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    • 2019
  • This paper investigated the influence of simple support girds on flow, irrespective of having mixing vanes, in a 1 × 3 array rod bundle by using CFD methodology and the most accurate turbulence model which could reflect the actual physics of the flow was determined. In this context, a CFD model was created simulating the experimental studies on a single-phase flow [1] and the results were compared with the experimental data. In the first part of the study, influence of mesh was examined. Tetra, hybrid and poly type meshes were analyzed and convergence study was carried out on each in order to determine the most appropriate type and density. k - ε Standard and RSM LPS turbulence models were used in this section. In the second part of the study, the most appropriate turbulence model that could reflect the physics of the actual flow was investigated. RANS based turbulence models were examined using the mesh that was determined in the first part. Velocity and turbulence intensity results obtained on the upstream and downstream of the spacer grid at -3dh, +3dh and +40dh locations were compared with the experimental data. In the last section of the study, the behavior of flow through the spacer grid was examined and its prominent aspects were highlighted on the most appropriate turbulence model determined in the second part. Results of the study revealed the importance of mesh type. Hybrid mesh having the largest number of structured elements performed remarkably better than the other two on results. While comparisons of numerical and experimental results showed an overall agreement within all turbulence models, RSM LPS presented better results than the others. Lastly, physical appearance of the flow through spacer grids revealed that springs has more influence on flow than dimples and induces transient flow behaviors. As a result, flow through a simple support grid was examined and the most appropriate turbulence model reflecting the actual physics of the flow was determined.

Wind-Resistant Safety Reviews of Traffic Signal Structures by Wind Tunnel Tests (풍동실험을 통한 교통신호 구조물의 내풍 안전성 검토)

  • Taik-Nyung Huh
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.27 no.4_2
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    • pp.833-840
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    • 2024
  • According to recent data from the Korea Meteorological Administration(KMA), the frequency of typhoons around the Korea Peninsula is almost unchanged, but the intensity is on the rise due to climate change. A typhoon that has become so powerful can cause partial or complete damage to the traffic signal structures, limiting the operation of the vehicle and causing traffic congestion. If the traffic signal structure fails to function properly due to the influence of the typhoon, not only the v ehicle operation will be disrupted, but also direct damage to the traffic signal structure will occur. In addition, if the social overhead cost of traffic congestion is included, the recovery cost caused by the typhoon will increase to an extent that it is difficult to estimate. Therefore, in this study, a wind tunnel experiment was performed by producing a wind tunnel model of an existing fixed traffic signal structure and a traffic signal structure in which signs and traffic lights are hinged. Also, The fixed and hinge structures were modeled as 3D finite elements, and wind-resistant analysis was performed by wind speed, and, wind-resistant safety of traffic signal structures were analyzed and examined through wind-resistant analyses. From the comparative analysis of the results of experiment and FE analysis, it was known that the stress reduction rate of the hinge connection structure was at least 30% compared to that of the fixed connection structure from the results of the wind tunnel experiment and FE analysis. And As a result of finite element analysis for the maximum design wind speed of 50m/s, it was found that the maximum stress generated in the existing structure exceeded all the yield stress, but the maximum stress of the hinge connection structure was within the yield stress. Finally The hinge connection structure showed a relatively large stress reduction rate as the wind speed increased and the length of the lateral beam was shorter at the same wind speed.