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Evaluation of Physical Properties of Material Combination for Fabricating Protection Pads for Women's Army Combat Uniforms (여군 전투복 내 관절 부위 보호 패드 개발을 위한 설계 변인 조합에 따른 물성 평가)

  • Okkyung Lee;Heeran Lee;Soyoung Kim;Yejin Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.47 no.2
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    • pp.311-322
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    • 2023
  • In this study, the properties of various material combinations were evaluated and an ideal material for fabricating protection pads for women's army combat uniforms was determined. Eight specimens were used for the evaluation: two types of materials, namely thermoplastic polyurethane for 3D printing, T and ethylene-vinyl acetate, E; two infill densities, namely 10%, 10 and 30%, 30; two types of pad designs, i.e., without holes, A and with holes, B; 2×2×2=8 and control E. The tensile strength, flexural strength, impact absorption, and weight of these specimens were evaluated. Results revealed that E was the most flexible material; however, its tensile strength and impact absorption were very low. Protection pads made from T (T-10A, T-10B, T-30A, and T-30B) had excellent tensile strength and impact absorption; however, they had low performance in ease of movement. Alternatively, protection pad with holes and an infill density of 30% produced using a combination of T and E had a high initial tensile modulus and exhibited excellent impact absorption. Moreover, it was flexible and light, which satisfies the standards and conditions required by protection pads. However, if T-E-10A and T-E-30B exhibited low impact absorption, as required, they can be regarded as appropriate materials for protection pads.

Characteristics of Structural Behavior and Safety Estimation of Water Supply GFRP Pipe (상수도용 유리섬유복합관의 구조적 거동특성 및 안전성 평가)

  • Lee, Bo-Be;Lee, Seung-Sik;Joo, Hyung-Jong;Yoon, Soon-Jng
    • Composites Research
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we present the results of experimental and analytical investigations on the structural behavior of GFRP pipes used in the water supply pipeline system. Cross-section of the pipe is consisted with two GFRP tubes and polymer mortar between the tubes. Due to the advantages such as light-weight, corrosion resistance, smooth surface, flexibility, etc., use of GFRP pipe in the water supply pipeline system is ever increasing trend. Therefore, more optimized structural design methodology should be developed. In the investigation, we conducted theoretical and analytical studies on the load versus radial deformation characteristics of GFRP pipes. In addition, ring stiffness test is also performed. Test results are compared with theoretical and analytical results and it was found that the results are agreed well within 5% of radial deformation. Finally, it was also found that the GFRP pipes used in the water supply pipeline system are strong enough to satisfy the industrial requirements.

Preparation of polymer composites containing hollow magnetic particles and measurement of their electromagnetic properties (중공 자성입자를 포함한 복합재료 제조 및 전자파 특성 측정)

  • Yi, Jin-Woo;Lee, Sang-Bok;Kim, Jin-Bong;Lee, Sang-Kwan;Park, Ki-Yeon
    • Composites Research
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.31-35
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    • 2008
  • In order to design light weight and high efficient electromagnetic wave absorbing materials, hollow magnetic particles have been introduced in this study. The electroless plating method has been utilized to coat Ni and Fe on the substrates of synthesized polystyrene particles of submicron size. Removing polystyrene particles by heat treatment resulted in hollow structures. Observation by SEM, TEM and EDS confirmed the surface morphology and coating thickness of Ni and Fe. Polymeric composites containing hollow particles were tested in order to compare the electromagnetic properties between Ni coated and Fe costed particles. The composite of 30 wt% Fe hollow particles showed the higher complex permeability than Ni hollow particles or the conventional barium ferrite particles.

Design and Implementation of Equipment Monitoring System for Data Integration (데이터 통합을 위한 장비모니터링시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Kwark, Woo-Young;Kim, Woo-Sung;Park, Geun-Duk
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.14 no.9
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    • pp.115-126
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    • 2009
  • It is an important matter to manage data gathered from equipment in the manufacturing environment. However, systematic management about these data is sparsely deployed in the practical fields. This paper proposes a middleware monitoring system that efficiently supports acquisition of data from the equipment, efficiently compensates the lost data and flexibly maintains extensibility of the system. Through the result system of this paper, the data gathered from the equipment are easily stored into the database and the system status is able to be monitored in real-time. Furthermore, because the data are stored in the XML format, they are utilized in other systems in straightforward manner, which enhances the interoperability of the system. Especially, it enables ease interface to SAP, implements light-weight system by a simplified business logic and strengthen the extensibility and maintenance ability.

An Embedded Text Index System for Mass Flash Memory (대용량 플래시 메모리를 위한 임베디드 텍스트 인덱스 시스템)

  • Yun, Sang-Hun;Cho, Haeng-Rae
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2009
  • Flash memory has the advantages of nonvolatile, low power consumption, light weight, and high endurance. This enables the flash memory to be utilized as a storage of mobile computing device such as PMP(Portable Multimedia Player). Potable device with a mass flash memory can store various multimedia data such as video, audio, or image. Typical index systems for mobile computer are inefficient to search a form of text like lyric or title. In this paper, we propose a new text index system, named EMTEX(Embedded Text Index). EMTEX has the following salient features. First, it uses a compression algorithm for embedded system. Second, if a new insert or delete operation is executed on the base table. EMTEX updates the text index immediately. Third, EMTEX considers the characteristics of flash memory to design insert, delete, and rebuild operations on the text index. Finally, EMTEX is executed as an upper layer of DBMS. Therefore, it is independent of the underlying DBMS. We evaluate the performance of EMTEX. The Experiment results show that EMTEX can outperform th conventional index systems such as Oracle Text and FT3.

A Study on AESA Antenna Performance Advancement for Seeker (탐색기용 AESA 안테나 성능 고도화 연구)

  • Youngwan Kim;Jong-Kyun Back;Hee-Duck Chae;Ji-Han Joo
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.103-108
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, a performance enhancement study of an AESA antenna that can be applied to a seeker that serves as the eye of a missile was conducted, and the performance of the antenna was verified through actual measurement. When designing an AESA antenna, the optimization of the active reflection coefficient must be considered during transmission due to the mutual coupling between radiators that inevitably occurs, and the selection of a radiator that can overcome the space limitation of the seeker with a small size/light weight is an important design consideration. Accordingly, optimization in terms of electrical performance and low-profile structure is required through research on array antennas for application to the AESA structure. The radiator designed and measured in this paper was designed as an SFN that can satisfy the low-profile structure while enhancing the performance of a general vivaldi antenna. Through this paper, it was confirmed that SFN has the same broadband characteristics as general vivaldi antennas and has optimized characteristics required for AESA antennas. The structure optimized through simulation confirmed the pattern characteristics and active reflection coefficient characteristics through the fabrication of actual proto-type antennas.

Distortional buckling performance of cold-formed steel lightweight concrete composite columns

  • Yanchun Li;Aihong Han;Ruibo Li;Jihao Chen;Yanfen Xie;Jiaojiao Chen
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.50 no.6
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    • pp.675-688
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    • 2024
  • Cold-formed steel (CFS) is prone to buckling failure under loading. Lightweight concrete (LC) made of lightweight aggregate has light weight and excellent thermal insulation performance. However, concrete is brittle in nature which is why different materials have been used to improve this inherent behavior of concrete. The distortional buckling (DB) performance of cold-formed steel-lightweight concrete (CFS-LC) composite columns was investigated in this paper. Firstly, the compressive strength test of foam concrete (FC) and ceramsite concrete (CC) was carried out. The performance of the CFS-LC members was investigated. The test results indicated that the concrete-filled can effectively control the DB of the members. Secondly, finite element (FE) models of each test specimen were developed and validated with the experimental tests followed by extensive parametric studies using numerical analysis based on the validated FE models. The results show that the thickness of the steel and the strength of the concrete-filled were the main factors on the DB and bearing capacity of the members. Finally, the bearing capacity of the test specimens was calculated by using current codes. The results showed that the design results of the AIJ-1997 specification were closer to the experimental and FE values, while other results of specifications were conservative.

Comparison of Biomass Productivity of the Microalgae, Tetraselmis sp. KCTC12236BP, in Polyvinyl Chloride Marine Photobioreactor and High Density Polyethylene Marine Photobioreactor (폴리비닐클로라이드 해양광생물반응기와 고밀도 폴리에틸렌 해양광생물반응기에서 미세조류, Tetraselmis sp. KCTC12236BP의 생산성 비교)

  • Jung, Seung-Gyun;Kim, Su-Kwon;Bun, Moon-Sup;Cho, Yonghee;Shin, Dong-Woo;Kim, Z-Hun;Lim, Sang-Min;Lee, Choul-Gyun
    • Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.18-23
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    • 2016
  • It is important to design photobioreactor by cheap material for economical microalgal biomass production. In this study, two types of marine photobioreactors (MPBR), made by either polyvinyl chloride (MPBR-PVC) or high density poly ethylene (MPBR-HDPE), are used and performance of these were compared. Tetraselmis sp. KCTC 12236BP is a green marine alga that isolated from Ganghwa Island, Korea, and the strain was used for marine cultivations using MPBR-PVC and MPBR-HDPE. The cultivations were performed three times in the spring season of 2012 using MPBR-PVC and of 2013 using MPBR-HDPE in the coastal area of Young Heung Island. As the results, MPBR-PVC shows higher biomass productivities than MPBR-HDPE, due to its high light transmittance. In the cultivations using MPBR-PVC, the average sea water temperature was $11.5^{\circ}C$ during the first experiment and $16.5^{\circ}C$ during the second and third experiments. Average light intensities during three times for experiments were 407.5, 268.1 and $273.0{\mu}{\cdot}E{\cdot}m^{-2}{\cdot}s^{-1}$, respectively. The maximum fresh cell weight and average biomass productivity were $1.2g{\cdot}L^{-1}$ and $0.12g{\cdot}L^{-1}{\cdot}day^{-1}$. These results showed that Tetraselmis sp. KCTC12236BP were adapted well with the environmental conditions from ocean, and grow in the MPBR-PVC and MPBR-HDPE.

The design and FPGA implementation of a general-purpose LDI controller for the portable small-medium sized TFT-LCD (중소형 TFT-LCD용 범용 LDI 제어기의 설계 및 FPGA 구현)

  • Lee, Si-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.249-256
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    • 2007
  • AIn this paper, a new desist of LDI controller IC for general purpose is proposed for driving the LDI(LCD Driver Interface) controller in $4{\sim}9$ inches sized portable small-medium TFT-LCD(Thin Film Transistor addressed -Liquid Crystal Display) panel module. The designed LDI controller was verified on the FPGA(Reld Programmable Gate Array) test board, and was made the interactive operation with the commercial TFT-LCD panel successfully. The purpose of design is that it is standardized the LDI controller's operation by one LDI controller for driving all TFT-LCD panel without classifying the panel vendor, and size. The main advantage for new general-purpose LDI controller is the usage for the desist of all panel's SoG(System on a Glass) module because of the design for the standard operation. And in the previous method, it used each LDI controller for every LCD vendor, and panel size, but because a new one can drive all portable small-medium sized panel, it results in reduction of LDI controller supply price, and manufacturing cost of AV(Audio Video) board and panel. In the near future, the development of SoG IC(Integrated Circuit) for manufacturing more excellent functional TFT-LCD panel module is necessary. As a result of this research, the TFT-LCD panel can make more small size, and light weight, and it results in an upturn of domestic company's share in the world market. With the suggested theory in this paper, it expects to be made use of a basic data for developing and manufacturing for the SoG chip of TFT-LCD panel module.

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Evaluation and Modification of Tensile Properties of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer(CFRP) as Brittle Material with Probability Distribution (확률분포를 이용한 취성재료 특성의 탄소섬유보강폴리머 인장물성평가 및 보정)

  • Kim, Yun-Gon
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2019
  • Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers(CFRP) has widely utilized as a material for rehabilitation because of its light-weight, deformability and workability. Because CFRP is brittle material whereas steel is ductile, it is inappropriate to apply conventional design approach for steel reinforcement. For ductile material, the behavior of combined elements is on average of that of unit element due to the stress redistribution between elements after yielding. Therefore, the mean value of the stress of combined elements is equal to that of unit element and the standard variation is smaller. Therefore, although the design value can increase, it is used as constant value because it is conservative and practical approach. However, for brittle material, the behavior of combined elements is governed by the weaker element because no stress redistribution is expected. Therefore, both the mean value and standard variation of the stress of combined elements decreases. For this reason, the design value would decrease as the number of element increases although it is eventually converged. In this paper, in brittle material, it is verified that the combination of unit element with normal distribution results in combined element with weibull distribution, so the modifying equation of mechanical properties is proposed with respect to the area load applied.