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Sensitivity Analyses of Influencing Factors on Slope Stability (사면안정성 영향인자의 민감도 분석)

  • Park, Byung-Soo;Jun, Sang-Hyun;Cho, Kwang-Jun;Yoo, Nam-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.91-100
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    • 2010
  • In this paper a sensitivity analysis about effects of influencing factors on the stability of soil cut and embankment slopes in field was performed. Slope stability analysis of slopes in field was carried out with dry, rainy and seismic conditions. As results of analyzing the sensitivity of factors for the dry and rainy conditions, effect of cohesion, internal friction angle and unit weight of soil on the stability of cut slope is more critical in the dry condition than in the rainy condition. However, their effects on the stability of embankment slope for both conditions are similar to each other. The horizontal seismic coefficient does also affect the stability within the similar range of values irrespective of dry or rainy conditions. Cohesion and internal friction angle are more dominant factors influencing the slope stability irrespective of dry or rainy conditions than unit weight of soil and the horizontal seismic coefficient.

The dynamic stability analysis of guyed masts under random wind loads

  • He, Yan-Li;Chen, Wu-Jun;Dong, Shi-Lin;Wang, Zhao-Min
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.151-164
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    • 2003
  • On the basis of the first Lyapunov stability theory, this paper develops a dynamic stability criterion for elastic structural systems under arbitrary dynamic loads, and shows the stability criterion using energy variation. After the dynamic stability criterion is validated through a classic example, it is used for the dynamic stability investigation of practical guyed masts under random wind loads. The criterion is reliable, simple and of advantage for structures with large number of elements and nodes. The slack guys and internal resonance between guys and mast are two main factors which induces the dynamic instability of guyed masts, at the same time, some dynamic stability characteristics of guyed masts are found.

Positional Stability Analysis of Trailing Aircraft in Formation Flight (편대비행에서 후방 항공기의 위치 안전성 분석)

  • Cho, Hwan Kee
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2016
  • Positional stability analysis based on aerodynamic forces and induced moments of formation flight using two small aircraft models is presented. The aerodynamic force and moments of the trailing aircraft are analyzed in the aspect of flight stability. The induced moments with the change of local flow direction by wing-tip vortex from the leading aircraft can affect the flight positional stability of aircraft in closed formation flight. Aerodynamic forces and moments of trailing aircraft model are measured by 6-component internal balance at the 49 locations with vertical and lateral space between two aircraft models. Results are shown that the positional stability of trailing aircraft in formation flight can be analyzed by positional stability derivatives with vertical and lateral space. It is concluded that flying positions can be important factors for aircraft position stability due to induced aerodynamic force and moments with vertical and lateral spacing by the variation of flow pattern from the leading aircraft in formation flight.

The Relationship Between Internal Auditors' Personality Traits, Internal Audit Effectiveness, and Financial Reporting Quality: Empirical Evidence from Jordan

  • ALBAWWAT, Ibrahim Emair;AL-HAJAIA, Mohammad Eid;AL FRIJAT, Yaser Saleh
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.797-808
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    • 2021
  • This study examines the interaction between internal auditors' personality traits and the internal audit function effectiveness. It also investigates the effect of such interacted variables on financial reporting quality. This study employed a questionnaire survey to collect data from 193 internal auditors of Jordanian companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange. The study model is validated and tested using the partial least squares structural equation modelling. The results reveal that all the examined personality traits of internal auditors significantly impact internal audit function effectiveness except for the extraversion trait. The results also show that personality traits have indirect effects on financial reporting quality via internal audit function effectiveness. These results suggest that internal auditors with high scores on openness to experience, emotional stability, and conscientiousness traits can be among the most significant contributors to the internal audit function effectiveness. The results also suggest that internal auditors' personality traits can be regarded as an internal audit function intangible resource that enhances effectiveness. The study's findings might be of interest to many different parties interested in enhancing internal audit function effectiveness and boosting the financial reporting quality, such as external and internal auditors, auditees, human resource departments, and Chief Internal Audit Executives.

Study on design parameters of leaning-type arch bridges

  • Li, Ying;Xiao, Ru-Cheng;Sun, Bin
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.64 no.2
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    • pp.225-232
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    • 2017
  • Leaning-type arch bridge is a new spatial structural system composed of two vertical arches and two leaning arches. So far there has been no contrast analysis of leaning type arch bridge with different systems. This paper focus on a parametric study of leaning type arch bridge with different systems to find the influential rules on structural forces and stability and to provide some reference for practical designs. The parametric analysis is conducted with different rise-to-span ratios and bending rigidities of arch ribs by comparing internal forces. The internal forces decline obviously with the increase of the rise-to-span ratio. The bending moments at the centers of the main arches and the leaning arches are sensitive to the bending rigidities of arch ribs. Parametric studies are also carried out with different structural systems and leaning angles of the leaning arch by comparing the static stability. The lateral stiffness of leaning-type arch bridge is less than the in-plan stiffness. Compared with the leaning-type arch bridge without thrust, the leaning-type arch bridge with thrust has a lower stability safety coefficient. The stability safety coefficient rises gradually with the increase of inclining angle of the leaning arch. This study shows that the rise-to-span ratio, bending rigidities of arch ribs, structural system and leaning angles of the leaning arch are all critical design parameters. Therefore, these parameters in unreasonable range should be avoided.

Development of Design Program for Block-type Reinforced Earth Retaining Wall (블록식 보강토 옹벽 설계프로그램 개발)

  • Lee, Chung-Won;Yoo, Ji-Hoon;Min, Yeon-Sik;Chang, Dong-Su;Lim, Hyun-Taek;Moon, Yong-Bae;Kim, Seung-Tai;Kim, Yong-Seong
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.56 no.6
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2014
  • This study aims to develop the program for design of a reinforced earth retaining wall. For this purpose, the external stability such as overturning, sliding and bearing capacity and the internal stability such as pull-out failure and tensile rupture of the reinforced earth retaining wall with the reinforcement spacing and the backfill inclination were examined. In addition, the calculated results from the developed program were verified by comparing with the simulated results based on the three-dimensional finite element analysis. It is expected that this program contributes to effective design of the reinforced earth retaining wall.

A Numerical Study on the Coupled Dynamics of Ship and Flooding Water (선박 운동과 내부 유동의 연성 운동에 관한 수치해석 연구)

  • Hong, Sa-Young;Kim, Jin;Park, Il-Ryong;Choi, Seok-Kyu
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.43 no.6 s.150
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    • pp.631-637
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    • 2006
  • This paper presents a numerical method to solve the ship motion coupled with internal fluid flow. Physically the internal fluid motion is coupled with the ship motion. Hitherto the previous numerical results of the coupled motion predict only the general tendency with experiments. The main reason of inaccuracy is that the coupled dynamics of ship motion and internal water motion is not accurately accounted. In this study CFD technique based on VOF is employed for the accurate analysis of flooding water motion. Some cases of the 24th ITTC stability committee's benchmark.study for tanker with internal fluid are analyzed by coupling the ship motion and sloshing dynamics. The calculated ship motion is compared with the experimental result to validate the coupled scheme and is in agreement with the experimental result.

Design of a repetitive controller for the system with unstructured uncertainty (비구조적인 불확실성을 가지는 시스템에 대한 반복 제어기의 설계)

  • 도태용;문정호;정명진
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10b
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    • pp.779-782
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    • 1996
  • Repetitive control is a proposed control strategy in view of the internal model principle and achieves a high accuracy asymptotic tracking property by implementing a model that generates the periodic signals of period into the closed-loop system. Since the repetitive control system contains a periodic signal generator with positive feedback loop, which reduces the stability margin, in the overall closed-loop system, the stability of the closed-loop system should be considered as an important problem. In case that a real system has plant uncertainties which are not represented through modeling, the robust stability problem of the repetitive control system has not been considered sufficiently. In this paper, we propose the robust stability condition for the system with modeling uncertainty. The proposed robust stability condition will be obtained using the robust performance condition in the H$_{\infty}$ control. Moreover, by use of the proposed robust stability condition, we propose a procedure that designs a repetitive controller and a feedback controller simultaneously which can stabilize the overall closed-loop system robustly and which can also do the closedloop system without repetitive controller..

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A Study of Connection Stability for Reinforced Retaining Wall Constructed with Soilbag with Varying Connection Strength (연결강도 변화에 의한 Soilbag 보강토 옹벽 연결부의 안정성 평가)

  • Lee, Sang-Moon;Choi, Changho;Shin, Eun-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.101-107
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    • 2013
  • Environmental-friendly and economical construction are the recent issues for civil structures and soilbag as facing wall is widely used for cut-slope remediation projects. However, the stability of structures is an important issue for the use of environmental-friendly and economical materials. In order to understand the stability of soilbag reinforced retaining wall, tensile resistance, rupture, tensile strength, and internal/external safety factor of the wall were analyzed with MSEW program and the results were compared to the safety factor of block-type reinforced walls. The stability of retaining wall was analyzed with reduction coefficients of connection strength to check the connection stability. Because it is possible to move between soilbag and geogrid connector for soilbag retaining wall, the safety factor of the wall was analyzed with different inclination angles of soilbag. The analysis result shows that the connection strength and internal/external stability of soilbag reinforced wall satisfy the stability criteria.