• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제61권5호
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• pp.563-576
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• 2017

This paper is a continuation of the investigations started in the paper by Akbarov, S.D., Guliyev, H.H and Yahnioglu, N. (2016) "Natural vibration of the three-layered solid sphere with middle layer made of FGM: three-dimensional approach", Structural Engineering and Mechanics, 57(2), 239-263, to the case where the three-layered sphere is a hollow one. Three-dimensional exact field equations of elastodynamics are employed for investigation and the discrete-analytical method is employed for solution of the corresponding eigenvalue problem. The FGM is modelled as inhomogeneous for which the modulus of elasticity, Poison's ratio and density vary continuously through the inward radial direction according to power law distribution. Numerical results on the natural frequencies are presented and discussed. These results are also compared with the corresponding ones obtained in the previous paper by the authors. In particular, it is established that for certain harmonics and for roots of certain order, the values of the natural frequency obtained for the hollow sphere can be greater (or less) than those obtained for the solid sphere.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.5-13
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• 2019

Purpose - The potential for small businesses in the distribution sector to contribute to socio-economic development remains largely inert due to a litany of challenges that they face. Incubators have emerged as the 'silver bullet' for most of the problems but the extent to which they are effectively helping small business overcome their challenges remains debatable. This study seeks to determine the core reasons why respondents enrolled in an incubator, the essence of the incubator and the extent to which the incubator performance is satisfactory. Research design, data, and methodology - A positivist philosophical approach was adopted for the study. This quantitative study used a survey method to collect data from incubatees in a cross-sectional manner. The data were subsequently analysed to generate necessary insights. Results - Results reveal that the gender composition of incubatees is severely skewed in favour of males. Also, most incubatees enrolled in the incubators with a hope that it would ease their pathway to big businesses, financiers and business registration institutions, and it is not. Conclusion - Incubators are mostly inward-looking and are adept at offering training interventions. To improve the effectiveness of incubators, it is necessary to invest efforts in attracting more females and building networks with key external stakeholders that could possibly assist the incubatees establish and grow their businesses.

• 구강회복응용과학지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.107-112
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• 2001

The prosthodontic treatment of severely resorbed edentulous patients has been one of the frustrating areas due to extensive loss of tissues. The integrated neuromuscular balance among tongue, lip, and cheek is compromised. The retention, stability, and support are the three major factors to influence the clinical outcome. Fish described a denture as having three surface, with each surface playing an independent and important role in the over all fit, stability, and comfort of the denture. He recommended that the polished surface should be a series of inclines so that pressure from muscular activity will retain dentures. Within the denture space there is an area that has been termed the neutral zone. The neutral zone is that area in the mouth where, during function, the forces of the tongue pressing outward are neutralized by the forces of the cheeks and lips pressing inward. According to Jacobson and Krol, neuromuscular control interacts to provide retention and the relationship of polished surface of denture base to the surrounding muscular structure of orofacial capsule facilitates the stability and retention. This neutral zone concept has been demonstrated with various modification by a number of authors. The theory used to develop the denture base contours is based on the belief that the muscle should functionally mold not only the border but the entire polished surface. Lott and Walsh reported the clinical success on complete mandibular dentures with application of neutral zone concept. A number of studies demonstrated that denture stability and retention are more dependent on correct position of the teeth and correct contour of external surfaces of the denture in a severely resorbed alveolar ridge. This article presents a prosthodontic approach to treatment of a edentulous patient using neutral zone technique to improve the retention and stability of the prosthesis.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.700-711
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• 2015

Sodium-cooled fast breeder reactors use liquid sodium as a moderator and coolant to transfer heat from the reactor core. The main hazard associated with sodium is its rapid reaction with water. Sodium-water reaction (SWR) takes place when water or vapor leak into the sodium side through a crack on a heat-transfer tube in a steam generator. If the SWR continues for some time, the SWR will damage the surface of the defective area, causing it to enlarge. This self-enlargement of the crack is called "self-wastage phenomena." A stepwise numerical evaluation model of the self-wastage phenomena was devised using a computational code of multicomponent multiphase flow involving a sodium-water chemical reaction: sodiumwater reaction analysis physics of interdisciplinary multiphase flow (SERAPHIM). The temperature of gas mixture and the concentration of NaOH at the surface of the tube wall are obtained by a numerical calculation using SERAPHIM. Averaged thermophysical properties are used to assess the local wastage depth at the tube surface. By reflecting the wastage depth to the computational grid, the self-wastage phenomena are evaluated. A two-dimensional benchmark analysis of an SWAT (Sodium-Water reAction Test rig) experiment is carried out to evaluate the feasibility of the numerical model. Numerical results show that the geometry and scale of enlarged cracks show good agreement with the experimental result. Enlarged cracks appear to taper inward to a significantly smaller opening on the inside of the tube wall. The enlarged outer diameter of the crack is 4.72 mm, which shows good agreement with the experimental data (4.96 mm).

• 대한건축학회논문집:계획계
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• 제34권11호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2018

This study examines Dalibor Vesely's theoretical proposition of communicative space and tries to develop it through a review of the contemporary architectural case. Vesely poses a critical question about communication: how do the situational conditions of our everyday life and the spatial characteristics of the natural world in which we live communicate through representation. He emphasizes the spatial and situational conditions and the role of representation in communication, arguing that architecture should create the formation of communicative space to restore its primary role as the corporeal foundation of culture. This study thus focuses on one of the critical concepts of his theory: "the communicative movement," which is, according to him, ontological and situational because it animates and transforms human circumstances as a whole. Further, it pursues some practical knowledge of creating the communicative space, by examining the design theory and practice of Zaha Hadid, who thematizes communication and movement in her architectural approach. This study analyses the different levels of representation and modes of movement in her architectural space to reveal the possibilities and limits of its communicative roles. We will find that the representation of Hadid's architectural space is not the formal representation of reality, but a mathematical and projective representation of abstract concepts. Despite its apparent aesthetic consistency, the inward and self-referential relation between the individual elements of the architectural space reveals its limit for the communicative space.

• 구강회복응용과학지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.218-224
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• 2018

거대설은 일반적인 보철 수복을 진행하는 데에 장애물이 되는 요소 중의 하나이다. 이러한 환자에서 통상적인 방법으로 제작된 의치는 유지와 안정을 얻기 어려울 뿐 만 아니라, 기본적인 저작의 효율 또한 얻기 힘들 것이다. 이러한 경우 안정적인 의치를 제작하기 위해서는 의치의 교합뿐 아니라 주변 근육 조직과의 조화가 중요한 요소가 될 수 있고, 이를 위해서 연마면을 적절히 형성하는 것이 필요하다. 중립대(neutral zone)는 혀가 밖으로 미는 힘과 볼과 입술이 안으로 미는 힘이 평형을 이루는 근신경계 기능에 의한 잠재적 영역으로 정의되며, 총의치의 인공치가 이 영역에 위치되고, 연마면 형태가 동적인 근육의 해부학적 형태를 따른다면 근육의 움직임은 의치를 안정시키는 요소로 작용할 뿐 아니라 안면 지지를 통하여 심미성 또한 향상될 수 있다는 장점이 있다.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제61권1호
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• pp.18-25
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• 2023

본 증례는 65세 남환으로, 10년 전 편도암으로 하악골이단술을 시행한 환자에서 중립대를 활용한 상하악 총의치 수복 증례이다. 본 환자는 무치악 기간이 짧아 치초제의 흡수가 거의 없으며, 혀의 운동기능에도 이상이 없었지만, 수술 이후의 변화로 인해 하악의 후구치 삼각융기가 상악의 구상절흔보다 안쪽에 위치해 있으며 하악의 구치부 치조제는 상대적으로 설측으로 돌아간 구조를 보였다. 만약 통상적으로 해부학적 지표를 참고하여 치아를 배열한다면, 혀의 기능 공간을 침범하게 되며, 이는 의치의 안정성을 저하시킬 것이다. 이런 경우 중립대 개념을 적용한 의치의 제작은 좋은 참고점이 될 수 있을 것이다. 연성 이장재를 사용하여 중립대를 인기하였으며, 이를 인덱스로 제작하여 치아배열을 시행하였다. 중립대의 가장 큰 장점은 의치의 안정을 얻는 것에 있다. 본 환자의 경우 하악 좌측 구치부가 혀 공간을 침범하지 않도록 구치 치아의 설측배열 한계를 얻기 위해 중립대 기법을 적용하였다. 특히, 치조제의 흡수로 의치의 안정성을 얻기 어려운 난증례 환자의 경우 이러한 방법을 사용한다면 의치의 안정성 면에서 더욱 좋은 결과를 얻을 수 있을 것이라 보기에 본 증례를 보고하는 바이다.