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Evaluation of Gamma Irradiation for Extending the Shelf Life of Kimchi (김치의 저장성 연장을 위한 Gamma선 조사)

  • Cha, Bo-Sook;Kim, Woo-Jung;Byun, Myung-Woo;Kwon, Joong-Ho;Cho, Han-Ok
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.109-119
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    • 1989
  • To improve the storage method of Kimchi, optimum ripening Kimchi for an irradiation treatment(the time of around 0.3% in total acidity of Kimchi) was irradiated by doses of 1, 2, 3 kGy with Co-60 ${\gamma}-radiation$ and stored at $10^{\circ}C$. Total aerobic bacteria increased in the beginning of storage and then decrease slowly as the number of total lactic acid bacteria increased. Total lactic acid bacteria initially loaded by $10^8\;cells/ml$ in Kimchi shortly after irradiation reduced to $10^4-10^6\;cells/ml$ with 1-3 kGy doses and decreased gradually through the whole storage period. The initial load of yeast, $10^3\;cells/ml$, increased steadily during Kimchi storage and led to more than $10^4\;cells/ml$ after 30 days of storage. While it maintained tha the load in 2-3 kGy irradiated groups after 30 days of storage was less than that at the beginning of storage. pH, acidity and volatile acid in the nonirradiated group were 4.0, 0.7% and 0.06%, respectively at the 15th day after storage, but at the 30th day after storage, 2-3 kGy irradiated groups showed different values, 4.1, 0.58-0.63%, and 0.04-0.05%, respectively. The texture(firmness) of Kimchi reduced along with storage time, and 2 kGy irradiated group proved most favourable in its texture during storage. In the sensory evaluation of Kimchi, nonirradiated group was inedible after 15 days of storage, whereas 2-3 kGy irradiated groups could proling the storage-life of Kimchi over 2 times compared with the nonirradiated Kimchi, showing the good sensory quality even after 30 days of storage.

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Comparison of Load Ratio of Load-cell type Anemometer with Windswept Shape Variation (수풍부 형상에 따른 로드 셀형 풍향풍속계의 하중 비 비교)

  • Kim, Tae-Hyeong;Han, Dong-Seop
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.36 no.10
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    • pp.839-844
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    • 2012
  • Anemometer is a meteorological instrument that measures wind direction and wind speed in real time, and is mounted to the cranes that are used at ports, shipbuilding yards, off-shore structure, or construction sites that are influenced by wind, and it is used in conjunction with the safety system. Load cell-type anemometer measures the wind direction through the ratio of load between 4 positions by mounting the thin plate to 4 load cells, and measures wind velocity through the summation of loads. According to previous research, the load ratio between two adjacent windswept with respect to the wind direction has unstable value due to vortex around windswept. This causes the result that increases an error on the wind direction. In this study we compared and analyzed the difference between the load ratio with respect to three type windswept shapes in order to suggest the proper windswept shape to reduce this error. The computational fluid flow analysis is carried out with ANSYS CFX to analyze the load ratio between three windswept shapes. Wind direction was adopted as the design variable, and selected 9 wind direction conditions from $0^{\circ}{\sim}90^{\circ}$ with $11.25^{\circ}$ interval for computational fluid flow analysis.

Development of a Measurement System for Contact Force Analysis of Trolley Line (전기철도 전차선 접촉력 측정 및 분석시스템 개발)

  • Kim, In-Chol;Choi, Kyu-Hyoung
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.59 no.1
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    • pp.82-87
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    • 2010
  • A measurement system of contact force between overhead contact line and pantograph of train is developed which measures the contact force by using four sets of full-bridge strain gauges instead of load cells and accelerometers. The sensors are installed on the pan head of pantograph and the measured data from the sensors are transmitted to a server system in the train by way of wireless Lan. This configuration of the measuring system makes it easy to install on the trains without any alteration of train system. The measurement system is applied to KTX on the Kyungbu high speed line, and the measured contact force data shows good agreement with those measured by load cell and accelerometers. The waveform of the contact force between overhead contact line and pantograph contains essential information about their conditions. The proposed measurement system can probe any defects on overhead contact lines with train running at high speed, which will be a powerful solution for the maintenance of long-distance overhead contact lines.

Applications of Strain Gages to Farm Machine Elements (농업기계 요소의 스트레인 게이지 응용에 관한 연구)

  • 류관희;정창주;고학균;최재갑;유수남
    • Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.40-57
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    • 1980
  • The aim of this study was to promote extensive use of strain gage for accurate measurement in the area of farm machinery research. The results are summarized as follows. 1. Although many strain gate transducers commercially available such as load-cells , accelerometers and pressure transducers have been used in the area of farm machinery research, many types of transducers had to be developed due to the inadaptability or high cost commercial transducers, in many instances. 2. A strain -gaged cantilever beam could be used as a good educational material to demonstrate the methods of Wheatstone bridge arrangement, calibration and theoreticval computation. A ring type load-cell and shaft torque transducer also could be used for the same purpose. 3. The torque and angular speed transducers for an auto-feed thresher and the displacement and pressure transducers for a rice whitener were made and gave satisfactory results. 4. Based on the above results, it is possible to develop simple and low-cost transducers to measure displacement, angular speed , torque and pressure of farm machine elements.

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The Analysis of the Temperature Effects on Long-span Strut by Field Monitoring and Numerical Analysis (현장계측 및 수치해석에 의한 장대버팀보의 온도영향 분석)

  • Lee, Moon-Joo;Choi, Sung-Kun;Shin, Se-Young;Lee, Woo-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2005.03a
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    • pp.1468-1475
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    • 2005
  • In this study, the effects of temperature on loading of long-span strut were studied by using field monitoring and numerical analysis. For the field monitoring, several sensors, such as stain gages, temperature gages and load cells, were installed on the struts. From the monitoring results, the relation between temperature and axial force of the struts was analysed. By numerical analysis, the changes of axial force of strut and lateral displacement of wall due to temperature change were described with the strut length and ground conditions.

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An analysis study on earth pressure trends during construction of Gyungbu High Speed Railway using Concrete Track (콘크리트궤도 적용 경부고속철도의 시공 중 토압 경향 분석 연구)

  • Kim, Ki-Hwan;Kim, Dae-Sang;Na, Sung-Hoon;Shin, Ki-Dae
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.671-679
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    • 2010
  • The construction of concrete track for the first time in Korea gives lots of meanings to civil engineering in various aspects. Settlement level needs to be kept minimal for the safety of the track. Concrete track has different structural characteristics comparing to conventional ballast track, so load distribution in concrete track is also different. Since it is the first time to build concrete track, there are very few experience and data available on the subject. Therefore it is important to evaluate how much load is transferred to the ground due to the running vehicle in concrete track and to determine the optimal thickness of layers. In this research, 9 individual earth pressure cells were installed at OOOk930 site in 2nd stage of Kyungbu high speed railway during under construction. The in-situ pressure data were measured at each layers during pump-car and locomotive were moving on the high speed railway surface.

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Development of Biaxial Tension & Shear Tester using Stepper Motor with Harmonic Driver (감속 스텝모터를 이용한 2축 인장·전단 시험기의 개발)

  • Choi, Byung-Sun;Bae, Won-Ho;Chai, Young-Suck
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.379-386
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    • 2001
  • The lower toughness or brittle materials for mechanical test lead to the additional requirement that applied displacements be controlled with high resolution. Biaxial tension and shear tester using stepper motor with harmonic driver is shown. The device had to be high resolution so that the crack initiation process of slow extension and steady growth could be examined, Grip plates were connected to a linear bearing and actuator. The actuators consisted of stepper motors with harmonic driver connected to pre-loaded ball screw and nut assemblies. The encoders and motor controllers were connected to a personal computer so that arbitrary displacements histories could he prescribed in normal and tangential directions. The linear bearings were used to react loads perpendicular to their axes while allowing low friction, parallel movement of the attached grips. Load cells measured the reactions normal and tangential. the loads measured the reactions were recorded by the computer.

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Performance Analysis of location Registration Methods : Zone-based Registration and Distance-based Registration (위치등록 방법의 성능분석 : 영역기준 위치등록과 거리기준 위치등록)

  • Baek, Jang-Hyun;Lie, Chang-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.385-401
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    • 1997
  • In this paper, we evaluate the performance of zone-based registration and distance-based registration. First, we propose the mobility model which can be used to analyze the performance of both zone-based registration and distance-based registration. And using the proposed mobility model, we obtain several performance measures and perform numerical computation to compare the performance of two registration methods. Numerical results show that in general zone-based registration needs less number of registration than distance-based registration. On the other hand, if distance-based registration is used, registration load is equally distributed to all cells in a location area and ping-pong phenomenon is not occurred. And when a VLR area is composed of a few location areas, distance-based registration may need less registration load than zone-based registration. Therefore, a proper registration method should be selected considering system circumstances and implementation complexity, and the selected method should be implemented so as to change system parameters according to system circumstances.

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Dynamic Analysis of Current Collection Signals in High-speed Railway (전용 계측장비를 이용한 고속전철 집전 신호의 동적해석)

  • Lee, S.-W;Kim, J.-S;Kim, J.-T
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2003.10c
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    • pp.3-7
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    • 2003
  • The dynamics of the pantograph motion and contact forces of the high-speed railway are investigated through signals. acquired during a test run. The signals are obtained from accelerometers, load cells, and strain gauges attached to various positions of the pantograph, and they are processed in time-and frequency-domains to evaluate the dynamic characteristics and load forces. The natural frequencies of the pantograph is found to be 8.5Hz. There also are frequency components varying linearly with the train speed. The signal frequency components above 40Hz are attenuated as they pass through the primary and secondary suspensions.

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Experimental Evaluation on the Base Shear Force of a Bas Isolation System (면진구조물의 기초전단력에 대한 실험적 평가)

  • 김영중
    • Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1999.04a
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    • pp.169-177
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    • 1999
  • The base shear force and the overturning moment are important factors for the earthquake design of a structure. These should be predicted exactly especially when the nonlinear seismic isolation bearings are used against earthquake motions. Generally these are derived by the acceleration responses of a structure with the he assumed masses. However these can be contaminated by the noise in the measured responses and the uncertainty of assumed masses. This paper presents the results of the derived base shear force and overturning moment compared with the measured results by multi-axis load cells. Also discussions are made on the cross-coupling effects of the multi-axis load cell.

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