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Experimental Study for Beach Process by Construction of Offshore Structure (외해구조물 건설에 따른 해빈 변형에 관한 실험적 연구)

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    • Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.96-106
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    • 2000
  • Though the recent years, large scale structures have been built on offshore for utilization of coastal ocean space as offshore airport and marine terminals. Sometimes, those big scale structures, however, happened to act as significant barriers against waves and severe beach erosion would take place on the coast. The present study deals nearshore topography changes affected by construction of an offshore structure with different distance from the shore. The series of three dimensional movable bed experiments have been examined in detail. Moreover, in order to make clear the relation of nearshore currents and local erosions behind offshore structure, the nearshore currents are calculated by Boussinesq equation model and compared with the same scale condition of the physical model experiments.

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Removal of iron scale from feed-water in thermal power plant by magnetic separation - Introduction to chemical cleaning line -

  • Yamamoto, Junya;Mori, Tatsuya;Hiramatsu, Mami;Akiyama, Yoko;Okada, Hidehiko;Hirota, Noriyuki;Matsuura, Hideki;Namba, Seitoku;Sekine, Tomokazu;Mishima, Fumihito;Nishijim, Sigehiro
    • Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.6-10
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    • 2018
  • Removal of iron oxide scale from feed-water in thermal power plant can improve power generation efficiency. We have proposed a novel scale removal system utilizing High Gradient Magnetic Separation (HGMS). This system can be applied to high temperature and pressure area. We have conducted the lab-scale model experiments using ${\varphi}50mm$ filters and it demonstrated high removal efficiency in HGMS, but scale-up of the system is required toward practical use. In this study, we conducted a large scale mock-up HGMS experiment. We used the superconducting solenoidal magnet with ${\varphi}400mm$ bore and demonstrated that our HGMS system can achieve sufficient scale removal capacity that is required to introduce into both off-line and on-line system.

Adventitious Root Cultures of Panax ginseng C.V. Meyer and Ginsenoside Production through Large-Scale Bioreactor System

  • Hahn, Eun-Joo;Kim, Yun-Soo;Yu, Kee-Won;Jeong, Cheol-Seung;Paek, Kee-Yoeup
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2003
  • The adventitious root of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer is regarded as an efficient alternative to cell culture or hairy root culture for biomass production due to its fast growth and stable metabolite production. To determine optimal culture conditions for the bioreactor culture of ginseng roots, experiments have been conducted on physical and chemical factors such as bioreactor type, dissolved oxygen, gas supply, aeration, medium type, macro- and micro-elements, medium supplement during culture period, sucrose concentration, osmotic agents, medium pH and light. Elicitation is a key step to increase ginsenoside accumulation in the adventitious roots but biomass growth is severely inhibited by elicitor treatment. To obtain high ginsenoside content with avoiding biomass decrease, we applied two-stage bioreactor culture system. Ginseng adventitious roots were cultured for 40 days to maximize biomass increase followed by elicitation for 7 days to enhance ginsenoside accumulation. We also experimented on types and concentrations of jasmonate to determine optimal elicitation methods. In this paper, we discussed several factors affecting the root propagation and ginsenoside accumulation. Based on the results obtained from previous experiments we have established large-scale bioreactor system (1 ton-10 ton) for the efficient production of ginseng adventitious roots and bioactive compounds including ginsenoside. Still, experiments are on going in our laboratory to determine other bioactive compounds having effects on diet, high blood pressure, DPPH elimination and increasing memories.

Indoor RSSI Characterization using Statistical in Wireless Sensor Network (무선 센서네트워크에서의 통계적 방법에 의한 실내 RSSI 측정)

  • Pu, Chuan-Chin;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.11 no.11
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    • pp.2172-2178
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    • 2007
  • In indoor environment, the combination of the two variations, large scale(path loss) and small scale(fading), leads to non-linear variation of RSSI(received signal strength indicator) values as distance varied. This has been one of the difficulties for indoor location estimation. This paper presents new findings on indoor RSSI characterization for more accurate model building. Experiments have been done statistically to find overall trend of RSSI values at different places and times within the same room. From experiments, it has been shown that the variation of RSSI values can be determined by both spatial and temporal factors. These two factors are directly indicated by the two main parameters of path loss model. The results show that all sensor nodes which are located at different places share the same characterization value for the temporal parameter whereas different values for the spatial parameters. The temporal parameter also has a large scale variation effect that is slowly time varying due to environmental changes. Using this relationship, the characterization for location estimation can be more efficient and accurate.

Experimental and numerical simulation study on fracture properties of self-compacting rubberized concrete slabs

  • Wang, Jiajia;Chen, Xudong;Bu, Jingwu;Guo, Shengshan
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.283-293
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    • 2019
  • The limited availability of raw materials and increasing service demands for pavements pose a unique challenge in terms of pavement design and concrete material selection. The self-compacting rubberized concrete (SCRC) can be used in pavement design. The SCRC pavement slab has advantages of excellent toughness, anti-fatigue and convenient construction. On the premise of satisfying the strength, the SCRC can increase the ductility of pavement slab. The aim of this investigation is proposing a new method to predict the crack growth and flexural capacity of large-scale SCRC slabs. The mechanical properties of SCRC are obtained from experiments on small-scale SCRC specimens. With the increasing of the specimen depth, the bearing capacity of SCRC beams decreases at the same initial crack-depth ratio. By constructing extended finite element method (XFEM) models, crack growth and flexural capacity of large-scale SCRC slabs with different fracture types and force conditions can be predicted. Considering the diversity of fracture types and force conditions of the concrete pavement slab, the corresponding test was used to verify the reliability of the prediction model. The crack growth and flexural capacity of SCRC slabs can be obtained from XFEM models. It is convenient to conduct the experiment and can save cost.

Distance Measures in HMM Clustering for Large-scale On-line Chinese Character Recognition (대용량 온라인 한자 인식을 위한 클러스터링 거리계산 척도)

  • Kim, Kwang-Seob;Ha, Jin-Young
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.36 no.9
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    • pp.683-690
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    • 2009
  • One of the major problems that prevent us from building a good recognition system for large-scale on-line Chinese character recognition using HMMs is increasing recognition time. In this paper, we propose a clustering method to solve recognition speed problem and an efficient distance measure between HMMs. From the experiments, we got about twice the recognition speed and 95.37% 10-candidate recognition accuracy, which is only 0.9% decrease, for 20,902 Chinese characters defined in Unicode CJK unified ideographs.

e-Science Technologies in Synchrotron Radiation Beamline - Remote Access and Automation (A Case Study for High Throughput Protein Crystallography)

  • Wang Xiao Dong;Gleaves Michael;Meredith David;Allan Rob;Nave Colin
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.140-145
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    • 2006
  • E-science refers to the large-scale science that will increasingly be carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet. The Grid is a service-oriented architecture proposed to provide access to very large data collections, very large scale computing resources and remote facilities. Web services, which are server applications, enable online access to service providers. Web portal interfaces can further hide the complexity of accessing facility's services. The main use of synchrotron radiation (SR) facilities by protein crystallographers is to collect the best possible diffraction data for reasonably well defined problems. Significant effort is therefore being made throughout the world to automate SR protein crystallography facilities so scientists can achieve high throughput, even if they are not expert in all the techniques. By applying the above technologies, the e-HTPX project, a distributed computing infrastructure, was designed to help scientists remotely plan, initiate and monitor experiments for protein crystallographic structure determination. A description of both the hardware and control software is given together in this paper.

Movable-Bed Modeling Law for Beach Response Experiments Using Equilibrium Beach Profile Formula (평형해빈단면식을 이용한 해빈반응실험에 대한 이동상 모형법)

  • Kim, Jin Hoon;Kim, In Ho;Lee, Jung Lyul
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.351-360
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    • 2018
  • The construction of large scale harbor structures at Maengbang beach, which is located on the eastern coast of Korea, is of great concern because it may cause disastrous beach erosion in the vicinity. Therefore, a hydraulic model experiment was conducted to examine the morphological changes after such construction. The water depth was scaled using the method of Van Rijn (2010), which is a well-known scale law, but the results appeared to be overestimated. The present study developed a new scale law that applies an equilibrium beach profile formula to scale the model evolution to the prototype scale. When compared with survey data observed at Maengbang beach, the proposed method showed better agreement than the method of Van Rijn (2010).

A Study on the Similitude of member Behavior for Small-Scale Modeling of Reinforced Concrete Structure (철근콘크리트 축소모델의 부재거동 상사성에 관한 연구)

  • 이한선;장진혁
    • Magazine of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.177-185
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    • 1996
  • Four types of experiments were performed to check the similitude of member behavior between prototype and 1 /10 scale models : (1) Test of slender columns with P-$\Delta$ effect, (2) Test of short columns with and without confinement steel, (3) Test of simple beams without stirrups, and (4) 'T-beam test. Based on the results of experiments, the conclusions were made as follows : (1) The P-$\Delta$ effect of slender columns can be almost exactly represented by 1/10 scale model. (2) The effect of confinement on short columns by the hoop steel can be also roughly simulated by 1/10 scale model. (3) The failure modes of simple beams without stirrups are brittle shear failures in prototype whereas those of 1/10 scale models are the ductile yielding of tension steel followed by large diagonal tension cracking and compressive concrete failure. (4) The behaviors of prototype and 1/10 scale model in T-beams appear very similar.

Investigation of Combustion Characteristics of Low Calorific Value Syn-gas Using Lab-scale Pressurized Oxy-Combustion System (실험실 규모의 가압 순산소 연소 시스템을 이용한 저열량 합성가스의 연소특성 분석 연구)

  • Kim, Donghee;Lee, Youngjae;Yang, Won
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2015.12a
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    • pp.65-68
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    • 2015
  • Agreeable to the latest enviromental problem, CCS(Carbon Capture&Storage) technology is more significant. As these issues, Oxy-Combustion is one of the technology that realize the CCS technology and large scale field test proceeding at other places. The aims of this research were to evaluate the combustion characteristics of pressurized oxy-combusition that is attract attention as the next generation power plant. The experiments were conducted using a laboratory-scale pressuized oxy-combustor. The fuel used was low calorific value syn-gas that is mainly composed of CO(60%), $H_2$(27%). The burner was used co-axial burner, to investigate combustion characteristics, temperature in the reactor and the flue gas compositions were measured.

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