• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.69-83
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• 2019

This paper investigates the structural behavior of very high strength concrete encased steel composite columns via combined experimental and analytical study. The experimental programme examines stub composite columns under pure compression and eccentric compression. The experimental results show that the high strength encased concrete composite column exhibits brittle post peak behavior and low ductility but has acceptable compressive resistance. The high strength concrete encased composite column subjected to early spalling and initial flexural cracking due to its brittle nature that may degrade the stiffness and ultimate resistance. The analytical study compares the current code methods (ACI 318, Eurocode 4, AISC 360 and Chinese JGJ 138) in predicting the compressive resistance of the high strength concrete encased composite columns to verify the accuracy. The plastic design resistance may not be fully achieved. A database including the concrete encased composite column under concentered and eccentric compression is established to verify the predictions using the proposed elastic, elastoplastic and plastic methods. Image-oriented intelligent recognition tool-based fiber element method is programmed to predict the load resistances. It is found that the plastic method can give an accurate prediction of the load resistance for the encased composite column using normal strength concrete (20-60 MPa) while the elastoplastic method provides reasonably conservative predictions for the encased composite column using high strength concrete (60-120 MPa).

• 에너지공학
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.149-163
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 전산유체역학(Computational Fluid Dynamics, CFD) 해석코드를 사용하여 마스트집합체의 열수력적 안전성에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 이를 위해 자연대류 벤치마크 문제를 선정하여 CFD 코드의 물리모델을 선정 및 해석 능력을 검증하고 이를 이용하여 마스트집합체에 대한 자연대류 열전달 해석을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서는 Betts et al.의 사각 수직공동에서 난류 자연대류 실험결과를 대상으로 CFD 해석을 수행하여 자연대류 조건에 적용하기 위한 난류 모델로 표준 $k-{\omega}$ 모델을 선정하였다. 이렇게 도출된 난류모델을 CFD코드에 적용하여 Bates et al.에 의해 수행된 PNL(Pacific Northwest Laboratory)의 $2{\times}6$ 번들 실험과 이에 대한 Kwon et al.의 MATRA, Fluent 코드의 해석과 비교 계산을 수행하여 CFD코드의 부수로조건 자연대류 열전달 해석 능력을 검증하였다. 최종적으로 도출된 $k-{\omega}$ 난류 모델을 사용하여 마스트집합체 및 핵연료 집합체에 대한 자연대류 해석을 수행하였다. 해석 결과 수조 내부 및 부수로 내에서 안정적인 자연대류 유동이 발생함을 확인하였으며, 본 유동 조건에서 핵비등이탈비를 계산함으로써 열수력적 안전성을 정량적으로 평가하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.2147-2159
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• 1994

본 논문에서는 Feedforward형 Trellis 부호기를 사용하여, 신호좌표를 최적화한 DS/SSMA 시스템을 제안하고, AWGN 채널에서 비트오율을 유도하였다. 2-상태와 4-상태에서, Trellis 부호화된 4 PSK(부호율 1/2), 8-PSK(부호율 2/3)를 선정하여, 신호좌표를 최적화하지 않고 Feedback형 Trellis 부호기를 사용한 Boudreau의 시스템과 비교하였다. TCM의 해석은 일반화된 전달함수 방법을 이용하였으며, 다중간섭신호의 해석에는 n차의 모멘트를 구하여 계산하는 모멘트 방법을 사용하였다. 분석한 결과, 제안된 시스템의 성능을 Boudreau의 시스템보다 항상 우수하였다. 비트 오율이 Pn=10 일때 AWGN 채널에서 $0.2dB\sim2.4dB$ 정도의 성능개선을 보였다.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of the international symposium on the fusion technology
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• pp.244-251
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• 2003

A two-dimensional BEM code, $FRACOD^{2D}$, was applied to simulate fracture initiation and propagation processes in a rock pillar during an in situ heater test of a rock pillar planned at the $\"{A}sp\"{o}$ Underground Rock laboratory of SKB, in Southern Sweden. To take the advantage of conventional BEM for simulating fracturing processes, but without efforts for domain integral transformation, a hybrid approach is developed to simulate the fracturing processes in rock pillar under coupled thermo-mechanical loading. The code FRACOD was used for simulating the fracture initiation and propagation processes with its boundary tractions reflecting the effects of the initial and redistributed thermomechanical stresses in the domain of interest at multiple excavation and heating steps were produced by a special algorithm of stress inversion, based on resultant thermo-mechanical stress fields at each excavation and heat loading step by a FEM code without considering fracturing processes. This hybrid approach can take the advantages of both types of numerical methods and avoids their shortcomings for fracturing process simulation and domain effects, respectively. In this paper, we present the hybrid approach for the stress, displacements, and fracturing processes at sequential excavation and heating steps of the in situ heater test as a predictive modelling, the formulation of the fracturing models and the predictive results. Two sections of borehole depth, 0.5 m and 1.5 m below the tunnel floor are considered. The pillar area is modelled with the FRACOD and the stress field produced by excavation and heating is transferred with corresponding boundary stresses. From the modelling results, the degree of fracturing and damage are evaluated for 120 days of heating. Dominated shear fracturing in the vicinity of the central pillar was observed from the models at both sections, but spalled area appears to be limited. Based on the modelling results, a sensitivity study for the effect of pre-existing fractures in the vicinity of the holes is also conducted, and the initiation and evolution of EDZ around the deposition holes are investigated using this particular numerical technique.

• 한국토양환경학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.55-62
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• 1999

토양복원을 위한 용매 추출 실험장치를 설계 제작하였다. 핵시설 주위의 토양시료를 채취하여 코발트 이온으로 오염시킨 후, 용매추출법에 의해 코발트 이온이 제염되는 현상을 분석하였다. 한편, 용매추출법에 의한 토양 제염의 모델링을 위해 비평형 흡착 코드를 개발하였다. 모델링을 위한 입력 변수를 실험으로 측정하였다. 실험결과는 다음과 같다. 핵시설 근처의 토양은 다량의 실트와 모래를 함유한 Silt Loam이다. 용매로 물을 사용하였을 때, 수리전도도가 클수록 토양제염 효과가 높았다. 비평형 흡착코드에 의해 계산된 값들은 평형 흡착코드에 의해 계산된 값들보다 실험치에 보다 더 접근하였다. EDTA용액을 용매로 사용하였을 때가 물에 비해 제염효율이 좋았다.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2010

콘크리트의 수축으로 인한 균열가능성 평가에 있어서 대부분의 경우 콘크리트를 균질한 물질로 가정하는 방식으로 접근하고 있다. 그러나 이러한 방식으로 접근할 경우 불구속조건 하의 콘크리트에서 자기수축으로 인한 미세균열(micro-cracking) 현상을 평가하는 것이 불가능함과 동시에 콘크리트 내부의 균열 발생 현상을 이해하는데 한계가 있다. 이에 이 연구에서는 시멘트 모르타르 시험체를 가지고 실험적으로는 음향방출(acoustic emission) 장비를 사용하여 내부 균열 발생량을 측정 및 평가하였으며, 이론적인 접근방식의 일환으로 실제 모르타르 시험체로부터 구하여진 이차원 이미지를 사용하여 NIST에서 개발한 OOF code로 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 실험 및 해석 결과, 모르타르의 내부에서 시멘트 페이스트상의 수축 및 골재의 내부구속으로 인하여 발생하는 미세균열 발생 현상을 보다 현실적으로 이해할 수 있었다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.70.2-70.2
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• 2014

We developed a three-dimensional (3D) magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation code to reproduce the structure of a solar wind and the propagation of a coronal mass ejection (CME) through it. This code is constructed by a finite volume method based on a total variation diminishing (TVD) scheme using an unstructured grid system (Tanaka 1994). The grid system can avoid the singularity arising in the spherical coordinate system. In this study, we made an improvement of the code focused on the propagation of a CME through a solar wind, which extends a previous work done by Nakamizo et al. (2009). We first reconstructed a solar wind in a steady state from physical values obtained at 50 solar radii away from the Sun via an MHD tomography applied to interplanetary scintillation (IPS) data (Hayashi et al. 2003). We selected CR2057 and inserted a spheromak-type CME (Kataoka et al. 2009) into a reconstructed solar wind. As a result, we found that our simulation well captures the velocity, temperature and density profiles of an observed solar wind. Furthermore, we successfully reproduce the general characteristics of an interplanetary coronal mass ejection (ICME) obtained by the Helios 1/2 spacecraft (R. J. FORSYTH et al. 2006).

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.2733-2742
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• 2020

This paper presents an assessment of applicability of the multigroup cross sections generated with Monte Carlo tools to the fast reactor analysis based on transport calculations. 33-group cross section sets were generated for simple one- (1-D) and two-dimensional (2-D) sodium-cooled fast reactor problems using the SERPENT code and applied to deterministic steady-state and depletion calculations. Relative to the reference continuous-energy SERPENT results, with the transport corrected P₀ scattering cross section, the k-eff value was overestimated by 506 and 588 pcm for 1-D and 2-D problems, respectively, since anisotropic scattering is important in fast reactors. When the scattering order was increased to P₅, the 1-D and 2-D problem errors were increased to 577 and 643 pcm, respectively. A sensitivity and uncertainty analysis with the PERSENT code indicated that these large k-eff errors cannot be attributed to the statistical uncertainties of cross sections and they are likely due to the approximate anisotropic scattering matrices determined by scalar flux weighting. The anisotropic scattering cross sections were alternatively generated using the MC²-3 code and merged with the SERPENT cross sections. The mixed cross section set consistently reduced the errors in k-eff, assembly powers, and nuclide densities. For example, in the 2-D calculation with P3 scattering order, the k-eff error was reduced from 634 pcm to -223 pcm. The maximum error in assembly power was reduced from 2.8% to 0.8% and the RMS error was reduced from 1.4% to 0.4%. The maximum error in the nuclide densities at the end of 12-month depletion that occurred in ²³⁷Np was reduced from 3.4% to 1.5%. The errors of the other nuclides are also reduced consistently, for example, from 1.1% to 0.1% for ²³⁵U, from 2.2% to 0.7% for ²³⁸Pu, and from 1.6% to 0.2% for ²⁴¹Pu. These results indicate that the scalar flux weighted anisotropic scattering cross sections of SERPENT may not be adequate for application to fast reactors where anisotropic scattering is important.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.665-679
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• 2015

The strain rate of reinforced concrete (RC) structures stimulated by earthquake action has been generally recognized as in the range from $10^{-4}/s$ to $10^{-1}/s$. Because both concrete and steel reinforcement are rate-sensitive materials, the RC beam-column joints are bound to behave differently under different strain rates. This paper describes an investigation of seismic behavior of RC beam-column joints which are subjected to large cyclic displacements on the beam ends with three loading velocities, i.e., 0.4 mm/s, 4 mm/s and 40 mm/s respectively. The levels of strain rate on the joint core region are correspondingly estimated to be $10^{-5}/s$, $10^{-4}/s$, and $10^{-2}/s$. It is aimed to better understand the effect of strain rates on seismic behavior of beam-column joints, such as the carrying capacity and failure modes as well as the energy dissipation. From the experiments, it is observed that with the increase of loading velocity or strain rate, damage in the joint core region decreases but damage in the plastic hinge regions of adjacent beams increases. The energy absorbed in the hysteresis loops under higher loading velocity is larger than that under quasi-static loading. It is also found that the yielding load of the joint is almost independent of the loading velocity, and there is a marginal increase of the ultimate carrying capacity when the loading velocity is increased for the ranges studied in this work. However, under higher loading velocity the residual carrying capacity after peak load drops more rapidly. Additionally, the axial compression ratio has little effect on the shear carrying capacity of the beam-column joints, but with the increase of loading velocity, the crack width of concrete in the joint zone becomes narrower. The shear carrying capacity of the joint at higher loading velocity is higher than that calculated with the quasi-static method proposed by the design code. When the dynamic strengths of materials, i.e., concrete and reinforcement, are directly substituted into the design model of current code, it tends to be insufficiently safe.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.143-160
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• 2013

This paper presents the results of an experimental program concerning the efficiency of a specific strengthening technique which utilizes a small steel link element connected to the R/C frame through bracing elements. Brittle types of failure, especially at the connections between steel and concrete elements, can be avoided by appropriate design of the local details. Five single storey one bay R/C frames scaled 1:3 were constructed according to older codes with substandard details. The first one was a typical bare reference frame. The other four were identical to the first one, strengthened by steel bracing elements. The behavior of the strengthened frames is described with respect to the reference bare frame. The concrete frames were constructed according to older code provisions by the use of smooth steel bars, low strength concrete, sparsely spaced stirrups and substandard details. The strengthening scheme aimed to the increase of both strength and deformation capacity of the original R/C frame. The inelastic deformations are purposely concentrated to a short steel link element connecting the steel bracing to the R/C frame. The results show that the steel link element can increase considerably the strength and the energy dissipation capacity of the frame.