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An Experimental Study of Seismic Retrofit on the Viaduct Bridge of Rail Transit (철도 고가교 기둥의 내진성능에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Jinho;Shin, Hongyoung;Park, Yeonjun;Hur, Jinho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.616-622
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    • 2012
  • Earthquake damage of viaduct bridge of railroad may give rise to social loss due to transport restrictions greater than cost of structural recovery. Therefore, viaduct bridge of railroad should have ensure adequate seismic performance. But, results of seismic performance evaluation, many of seismic retrofit was required. In this study, five scale models of columns were made and four of them were reinforced by HT-A(HyperTex & perforate Aluminum) which is improved than existing method. Testing the columns by constant axial load and cyclic lateral displacements, seismic performance of columns has been verified from the result of evaluating the stiffness, ductility and energy dissipation capacity.

A Critical Review and Proposal to Legislation in respect of Actual Carrier's Liability under the Commercial Act (상법상 실제운송인의 손해배상책임에 관한 비판적 고찰과 입법론)

  • KIM, Chan-Young
    • THE INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE & LAW REVIEW
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    • v.69
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    • pp.327-348
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    • 2016
  • Under the Korean legal system, as an actual carrier is not the contractual party to the contract for carriage of goods by sea, it has been tortiously liable for the damage to, or loss of cargo, should there be the negligence by its part. However, the Rotterdam Rules introduces a revolutionary liability regime for the actual carrier. According to the Rotterdam Rules, the liability of the actual carrier is same with that of a contractual carrier with the result that a shipper is entitled to bring the direct action to the actual carrier, as well as the contractual carrier on the same basis. Nevertheless, it is expected to take long time for the new approach in respect of actual carrier's liability to be confirmed by many countries, and furthermore most of shipping countries including Korea still adopt the Hague-Vis by Rules where the shipper is not allowed to bring the direct action to the actual carrier. This study reviews on whether or not the alteration of actual carrier's liability based on Rotterdam Rules would be reasonable, considering the current Korean legal system. Furthermore, this study, whilst recognizing that the overall introduction of the new liability regime is somewhat premature, suggests the imposition of contractual liability to the actual carrier from a long-term perspective. Having in mind that the article 809 of the Korean Commercial Act allows the shipper to bring the direct action to the shipowner only in the case that a time charterer is the contractual carrier, this study explores a method to apply the contractual liability to the actual carrier in the case that a slot charterer or freight forwarder is the contractual carrier, in order to establish the uniform liability system.

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Pattern Classification of Retinitis Pigmentosa Data for Prediction of Prognosis (망막색소변성 데이터의 예후 예측을 위한 패턴 분류)

  • Kim, Hyun-Mi;Woo, Yong-Tae;Jung, Sung-Hwan
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.701-710
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    • 2012
  • Retinitis Pigmentosa(RP) is a common hereditary disease. While they have been normally living, those who have this symptom feel frustration and pain by the damage of visual acuity. At the national level, the loss of the economic activity due to the reduction of economically active population will be also greater. There is an urgent need for the base study that can provide the clinical prognosis information of RP disease. In this study, we suggest that it is possible to predict prognosis through the pattern classification of RP data. Statistical processing results through statistical software like SPSS(Statistical Package for the Social Service) were mainly applied for the conventional study in data analysis. However, machine learning and automatic pattern classification was applied to this study. SVM(Support Vector Machine) and other various pattern classifiers were used for it. The proposed method confirmed the possibility of prognostic prediction based on the result of automatically classified RP data by SVM classifier.

Smoke Detection Using the Ratio of Variation Rate of Subband Energy in Wavelet Transform Domain (웨이블릿 변환 영역에서 부대역 에너지 변화율의 비를 이용한 연기 감지)

  • Kim, JungHan;Bae, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.287-293
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    • 2014
  • Early fire detection is very important to avoid loss of lives and material damage. The conventional smoke detector sensors have difficulties in detecting smoke in large outdoor areas. The video-based smoke detection can overcome these drawbacks. This paper proposes a new smoke detection method in video sequences. It uses the ratio of variation rate of subband energy in the wavelet transform domain. In order to reduce the false alarm, candidate smoke blocks are detected by using motion, decrease of chromaticity and the average intensity of block in the YUV color space. Finally, it decides whether the candidate smoke blocks are smokes or not by using their temporal changes of subband energies in the wavelet transform domain. Experimental results show that the proposed method noticeably increases the accuracy of smoke detection and reduces false alarm compared with the conventional smoke detection methods using wavelets.

Local Corrosion and Fatigue Damages of Steel Plates at the Boundary with Concrete (콘크리트에 접해있는 강재의 국부부식과 피로손상)

  • Kim, In Tae;Kainmua, Shigenobu;Cheung, Jin Hwan
    • Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.313-321
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    • 2008
  • Recently in Japan, fracturing was observed on the diagonal member of a through truss bridge at the boundary region with the concrete slab. Local corrosion damage where the diagonal member was enclosed in the concrete slab is an important factor in the fracture. In this study, accelerated exposure tests were carried out on concrete-steel model specimens simulating steel members at the boundary with concrete. Fatigue tests were then performed on the corroded model specimens. Accelerated exposure tests of the S6-cycle, which is carried out on the model specimens for 150, 300, 450 and 600 da ys. Their surface geometry was then measured. From the accelerated exposure test results, change in maximum and mean corrosion depths was determined according to the testing periods. The effect of local corrosion on fatigue strength was also presented based on the fatigue test results.

Analysis on the Characteristics of the Landslide in Maeri (III) - With a Special Reference on Slope Stability Analysis - (매리 땅밀림형 산사태(山沙汰)의 발생특성(發生特性)에 관한 분석(分析) (III) - 사면(斜面)의 안정해석(安定解析)을 중심(中心)으로 -)

  • Park, Jae-Hyeon;Choi, Kyung;Bae, Jong Soon;Ma, Ho-Seop;Lee, Jong-Hak;Youn, Ho-Jung
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.94 no.6
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    • pp.377-386
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    • 2005
  • This study was carried out to analyse the landslide characteristics by ground investigation, borehole image processing system, field seismic test, laboratory test and ground stability analysis at the landsliding area occurred in Maeri, Sangdong-myeon, Gimhaesi, Gyeongsangnam-do. Region I needs to install data logger system to monitor a land displacement during the heavy rainfall events because the region can be liable to occur the land slide by land creeping. It is needed to restore rapidly, if the land displacement occurs in Region I. Region II needs to monitor and repair because of the possibility of slope failure by long-term soil loss. Region III needs constructions to remove ground runoff and ground water to be infiltrated from talus. Region IV where is a stable region, needs to be protected from land cutting or other man-made damage.

Study on Security Grade Classification of Financial Company Documents (금융기관 문서 보안등급 분류에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Bu Il;Kim, Seung Joo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.1319-1328
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    • 2014
  • While the recent advance in network system has made it easier to collect and process personal information, the loss of customers, financial companies and even nations is getting bigger due to the leakage of personal information. Therefore, it is required to take a measure to prevent additional damage from the illegal use of leakaged personal information. Currently, financial companies use access control in accordance with job title or position on general documents as well as important documents including personal information. Therefore, even if a documents is confidential, it is possible for a person of the same job title or position to access the document properly. This paper propose setting up security grade of documents to improve current access control system. It will help preventing the leakage of personal information.

A Study of the Mitigating Effect Comparison of Voltage Sags by WTG Types Based on the Concept of Area of Vulnerability (타입별 풍력 발전기 설치에 따른 민감 부하의 순간전압강하 저감 효과 비교 분석 연구)

  • Park, Se-Jun;Yoon, Min-Han
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.66 no.12
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    • pp.1682-1688
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    • 2017
  • In modern society, the number of industrial customers using equipment sensitive particularly to voltage sags is rapidly increasing. As voltage sags can cause loss of information as well as false operation of the control device, it results in the vast economic damage in industrial processes. One way to mitigate voltage sags in the sensitive loads is the installation of distributed generation (DGs) on the periphery of these loads. In addition, renewable energy sources are currently in the spot light as the potential solution for the energy crisis and environmental issues. In particular, wind power generation which is connected to a grid is rising rapidly because it is energy efficient and also economically feasible compared to other renewable energy sources. On the basis of the above information, in this paper, with Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs) installed nearby the sensitive load, the analysis of the mitigating effect comparison by types of WTGs is performed using voltage sag assessment on the IEEE-30 bus test system. That is, the areas of vulnerability according to types of WTGs are expected to be different by how much reactive power is produced or consumed as WTG reactive power capability is related to the types of WTGs. Using the concept of 'Vulnerable area' with the failure rate for buses and lines, the annual number of voltage sags at the sensitive load with the installation of WTGs per type is studied. This research will be anticipated to be useful data when determining the interconnection of wind power generation in the power system with the consideration of voltage sags.

A Study on the Maximum Energy Transfer of a Small Industrial Induction Heater (소형산업용 인덕션 히터의 최대에너지 전달에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jeong-Bin;Kim, Tae-Myoung;Kim, Young-Wan
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.534-539
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    • 2021
  • Induction heating method that allows the maximum heating power to be delivered by varying switching frequency in the inductance change of the work coil of induction heater was proposed in this paper. Depending on the type of work piece in the work coil and proximity to the work coil, the resonance frequency of the resonant circuit will be changed. It may be difficult to deliver the maximum power due to the damage of the induced heater element or switching loss depending on the resonance frequency and switching frequency operating relationship. The switching frequency was variable to maintain the maximum power transmission by sensing the heating power due to the change of the resonance frequency. Through the result of the proposed method that can be controlled within the required output change range according to the change of the switching frequency corresponding to the change of the resonance frequency, the induction heater having a variable switching frequency characteristic that can transmit almost constant output power (within 0.43 dB) power efficiency was achieved.

A Study on Xu Xiao Bin's Sounds of Nature(天籁) - Focusing on Intertextuality of Lee Cheong-jun's Seopyeonje (쉬샤오빈(徐小斌)의 「천상의 소리(天籁)」 읽기 - 이청준의 「서편제」와 상호텍스트성을 중심으로)

  • Choi, Eun-Jeong
    • Cross-Cultural Studies
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    • v.39
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    • pp.309-328
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    • 2015
  • This study is a consideration of Xu Xiao-Bin(徐小斌)'s Sounds of nature(天?) in the mutual text point of view of Lee Cheong-jun's Sopyonje series. Xu Xiao-Bin's Sounds of nature shows similar motive to Lee Cheong-jun's Sopyonje series that is a story of a mother who damages her daughter's eyes and the daughter. however, it is accepted in totally different ways that the action of father/mother who damage their daughter's eyes. the mother in Sounds of nature is a composer as well as singer and the father in Sopyonje is a singer. The mother's behavior is not able to have duty in Sounds of nature due to it is focused in 'mother's action' rather than a singer but the father's behavior is focused in 'singer's action' in Sopyonje. therefore the action of the father, who is a singer, is considered not merely personal desire of father but also desire to preserve 'singing' as a national culture in public status. the length between two novels are clear in the two daughter's point of views. the daughter in "Sounds of nature" refuses her destiny made from her mother. The daughter's behavior of recovering her own volition, becomes frankly showing the falsehood of 'mother's love. In comparison, the daughter's voice is under the shade in Sopyonje. she surrenders herself to the fate made by her father, and she does not show her desire. This is the point that the difference is created by gender of writers.