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Effects of Web Reinforcement Amount on Hysteretic Behavior of High Strength Reinforced Concrete Structural Walls (전단보강근비에 따른 고강도 철근콘크리트 내력벽의 이력특성)

  • 최근도;정학영;윤현도;최장식;이리형
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 1994.04a
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    • pp.85-90
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    • 1994
  • Three high strength reinforced concrete structural walls were tested under the combined action of a constant axial and a horizontal cycle load. The aim of the tests has been to investigate the effects of the web horizontal reinforcement on hysteretic behavior of wall. The results have helped to identify the causes of wall failure and have demonstrated the web horizontal reinforcement does not appear have a significant effect on shear capacity, stiffness and energy dissipation but have a significant effect on the failure mode of the walls.

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A Cholesterol Biosynthesis Inhibitor from Rhizopus oryzae

  • Kim, Hyun-Jung;Yim, Soon-Ho;Lee, Ik-Soo
    • Archives of Pharmacal Research
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.624-627
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    • 2004
  • A bile acid derivative, methyl chalate (1), was isolated from EtOAc extract of the fungus Rhizopus oryzae as a cholesterol biosynthesis inhibitor. It showed moderate inhibitory activity on cholesterol biosynthesis in human Chang liver cells. Compound 1 exhibited inhibitory effect on the later step of cholesterol biosynthesis, indicating that its action mode is different from that of statins that act on the HMG-CoA reductase.

Specificity of ${\beta}$-Mannanase from Trichoderma sp. for Amorphophallus konjac Glucomannan

  • Park, Gwi-Gun
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.820-823
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    • 2006
  • Five oligosaccharides were isolated from the hydrolysate of konjac (Amorphophallus konjac) glucomannan by a purified ${\beta}$-mannanase from Trichoderma sp. These oligosaccharides were identified as M-M, G-M, M-G-M, M-G-M-M, and M-G-G-M; where G- and M- represent ${\beta}$-1,4-D-glucopyranosidic and ${\beta}$-1,4-D-mannopyranosidic linkages, respectively. The mode of action of the mannanase on the glucomannan is discussed on the basis of the structure of the above oligosaccharides.

Diallel Analysis and Least Square Estimators of Genetic Parameters

  • Shin, Han-Poong
    • Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.139-151
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    • 1975
  • Individual effect of genes controlling quantitative traits can not ordinarily be distinguised from one another. Consequently, it is not possible to determine the mode of inheritance for single genes. By studying their combined effectsin segregating generations, however, one can gain some insight into their behavior and can make statistical inferences about their average gene action. The investigation reported herein was to extend genetic variance components and variance and covariance analyses, special attention was given to the genetic statistics from which least square estimators of genetic parameters are obtained.

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BIOACTIVATION OF DIBROMOETHANE BY CONJUGATION WITH GLUTAHIONE

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.231-238
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    • 1991
  • The pesticide and carcinogen ethylene dibromide(EDB) is metabolized both by cytosolic GSH S-transferase and by microsomal mixed function oxygenase. Cytochrome P-450 IIE1 appears to be major enzyme to metabolize EDB.EDB is activated to a mutagen by enzymatic conjugation with glutathione (GSH). Such activation is an exception to the general mode of detoxification via GSH S-transferase action. The primary DNA adduct (>95) is S-[2-(N7-guanyl)ethyl] GSH and a minor adduct is S-[2-(N7-guanyl)ethyl]cysteine, which is excreted in the urine and may serve as a biomarker of damage.

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Genetic Toxicity Test of 8-Hydroxyquinoline by Ames, Micronucleus, Comet Assays and Microarray Analysis

  • Lee, Woo-Sun;Kim, Hyun-Joo;Lee, Eun-Mi;Kim, Joo-Hwan;Suh, Soo-Kyung;Kwon, Kyung-Jin;Sheen, Yhun-Yong;Kim, Seung-Hee;Park, Sue-N.
    • Molecular & Cellular Toxicology
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.90-97
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    • 2007
  • 8-Hydroxyquinoline is used as antibacterial agent and antioxidant based on its function inducing the chelation of ferrous ion present in host resulting in production of chelated complex. This complex being transported to cell membrane of bacteria and fungi exerts antibacterial and antifungal action. In this study, we have carried out in vitro genetic toxicity tests and microarray analysis to understand the underlying mechanisms and the mode of action of toxicity of 8-hydroxyquinoline. TA1535 and TA98 cells were treated with 8-hydroxyquinoline to test its toxicity by basic genetic toxicity test, Ames and two new in vitro micronucleus and COMET assays were applied using CHO cells and L5178Y cells, respectively. In addition, microarray analysis of differentially expressed genes in L5178Y cells in response to 8-hydroxyquinoline were analyzed using Affymatrix genechip. The result of Ames test was that 8-hydroxyquinoline treatment increased the mutations in base substitution strain TA1535 and likewise, 8-hydroxyquinoline also increased mutations in frame shift TA98. 8-Hydroxyquinoline increased micronuclei in CHO cells and DNA damage in L5178Y. 8-Hdroxyquinoline resulted in positive response in all three tests showing its ability to induce not only mutation but also DNA damage. 783 Genes were initially selected as differentially expressed genes in response to 8-hydroxyquinoline by microarray analysis and 34 genes among them were over 4 times of log fold changed. These 34 genes could be candidate biomarkers of genetic toxic action of 8-hydroxyquinoline related to induction of mutation and/or induction of micronuclei and DNA damage. Further confirmation of these candidate markers related to their biological function will be useful to understand the detailed mode of action of 8-hydroxyquinoline.

Seismic behavior of reinforced concrete column-steel beam joints with and without reinforced concrete slab

  • Tong Li;Jinjie Men;Huan Li;Liquan Xiong
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.86 no.3
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    • pp.417-430
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    • 2023
  • As the key part in the reinforced concrete column-steel beam (RCS) frame, the beam-column joints are usually subjected the axial force, shear force and bending moment under seismic actions. With the aim to study the seismic behavior of RCS joints with and without RC slab, the quasi-static cyclic tests results, including hysteretic curves, slab crack development, failure mode, strain distributions, etc. were discussed in detail. It is shown that the composite action between steel beam and RC slab can significantly enhance the initial stiffness and loading capacity, but lead to a changing of the failure mode from beam flexural failure to the joint shear failure. Based on the analysis of shear failure mechanism, the calculation formula accounting for the influence of RC slab was proposed to estimate shear strength of RCS joint. In addition, the finite element model (FEM) was developed by ABAQUS and a series of parametric analysis model with RC slab was conducted to investigate the influence of the face plates thickness, slab reinforcement diameter, beam web strength and inner concrete strength on the shear strength of joints. Finally, the proposed formula in this paper is verified by the experiment and FEM parametric analysis results.

An Investigation into the Mode Superposition Method for the Foreced Transverse Vibration Analysis of Structures subject to the Timoshenko Beam Analogy (기준진동형중첩법(基準振動型重疊法)에 의한 Timoshenko보 유추(類推) 구조체(構造體)의 강제횡진동해석(强制橫振動解析))

  • K.C.,Kim;Y.I.,Park;H.M.,Kim;Y.J.,Kim
    • Bulletin of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 1983
  • The mode superposition method(MSM) for the forced transverse vibration analysis of structures subject to Timoshenko beam analogy, which had originally been developed by Ormondroyd and McGoldrick, is reviewed to formulate it in more general form taking account of rotary inertia, dampings in separate terms of internal and external ones, and simultaneous action of exciting forces and moments. To investigate some general features of the method in practical utilizations, resonant maximum amplitudes of 4 high speed ships under concentrated sinusoidal excitation at the stern are calculated by both MSM and the finite difference method(FDM). For the FDM the hulls are discretized into 40 equal segments, and in utilization of MSM contributions of the first six modes are summed up to obtain responses up to the six-nodes resonant mode. The numerical results show that MSM gives slightly higher values, $4{\sim}10%$, than those by FDM. Since there is always uncertainty in the damping estimation of actual systems, influences of the damping magnitude on resonant amplitudes and a practical method to estimate modal damping coefficients are discussed.

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Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding-Mode Control of Nonlinear System (비선형 시스템의 적응 퍼지 슬라이딩 모드 제어)

  • Kim, Do-Woo;Yang, Hai-Won;Cho, Min-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2000.11d
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    • pp.689-693
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, we proposed a decoupled adaptive fuzzy sliding-mode control scheme in designing the SMC of a class of fourth-order nonlinear systems. These systems are decoupled the whole system into two second-order systems such that each subsystem has a separate control target expressed in terms of a sliding surface. Then, information from the secondary target conditions the main target, which, in turn, generates a control action to make both subsystem move toward their sliding surface. respectively, and Two sets of fuzzy rule bases are utilized to represent the equivalent control input with unknown system functions of the main target, The membership functions of the THEN-part. which is used to construct a suitable equivalent control of SMC. are changed according to adaptive law, Under this design scheme, we not only maintain the distribution of membership functions over state space but also reduce considerably computing time, we apply the decoupled adaptive sliding-mode control to control a nonlinear inverted pendulum system and confirms the validity of the proposed approach.

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A Study on the Nonlinear Normal Mode Vibration Using Adelphic Integral (Adelphic Integral을 이용한 비선형 정규모드 진동 해석)

  • Huinam Rhee;Joo, Jae-Man;Pak, Chol-Hui
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.11b
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    • pp.799-804
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    • 2001
  • Nonlinear normal mode (NNM) vibration, in a nonlinear dual mass Hamiltonian system, which has 6th order homogeneous polynomial as a nonlinear term, is studied in this paper. The existence, bifurcation, and the orbital stability of periodic motions are to be studied in the phase space. In order to find the analytic expression of the invariant curves in the Poincare Map, which is a mapping of a phase trajectory onto 2 dimensional surface in 4 dimensional phase space, Whittaker's Adelphic Integral, instead of the direct integration of the equations of motion or the Birkhotf-Gustavson (B-G) canonical transformation, is derived for small value of energy. It is revealed that the integral of motion by Adelphic Integral is essentially consistent with the one obtained from the B-G transformation method. The resulting expression of the invariant curves can be used for analyzing the behavior of NNM vibration in the Poincare Map.

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