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Effect of earthquake induced-pounding on the response of four adjacent buildings in series

  • Elwardany, Hytham;Mosa, Beshoy;Khedr, M. Diaa Eldin;Seleemah, Ayman
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.83 no.2
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    • pp.153-166
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    • 2022
  • Structural pounding due to strong seismic excitations can result in severe damage or even collapse of colliding structures. Many researchers focused on studying the mutual pounding between two adjacent structures while very few researches were concerned with the pounding of a series of structures. This paper aims to study the pounding effect on a series of four buildings having different natural frequencies. The paper also investigates the effect of different arrangements of the four buildings on their pounding response. For this, a mathematical model was constructed using Matlab code where, pounding was modeled using a contact force-based approach. A Non-Linear viscoelastic (Hertzdamp) contact element was used and activated only during the approach period of collision. The mathematical model was validated by comparing its prediction versus experimental results on three adjacent buildings. Then the model was used to study the pounding between four adjacent structures arranged in different sequences according to their natural frequencies. The results revealed that increasing the gap distance generally led to decrease the peak responses of the towers. Such response is somehow different from that predicted earlier by the authors for the case of three adjacent buildings. Moreover, the arrangement of towers has a significant effect on their pounding response. Significant difference between the natural frequencies of adjacent structures increases the pounding forces especially when the more flexible buildings are located at the outer edge of the series. The study points out the need for further researches on buildings in series to gain a better understanding of such complex phenomena.

The causal relationship between exercise satisfaction and exercise continuity in the interaction of Pilates instructors and participants (필라테스 지도자와 참여자의 상호작용성이 운동만족 및 운동지속 간의 인과 관계)

  • Kim, Ji-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.324-334
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    • 2022
  • In this study, to analyze the relationship between exercise satisfaction and exercise continuity that occurs in the interaction between leaders and participants, non-probability sampling was performed on 232 individuals from January 17 to March 9, 2022, and a structural model of 187 effective samples was used. applied and analyzed. First, the reliability and intimacy of Pilates leader-participants were found to have a significant effect on exercise satisfaction. Second, significant results were derived between Pilates exercise satisfaction and exercise continuity. Third, Pilates reliability was found to have a significant effect on exercise continuity, but intimacy was partially adopted as not having a significant effect on exercise continuity. However, the indirect effect between the mediating effects of exercise satisfaction can be seen to be statistically significant, and it can be predicted that Pilates causes positive behavior in exercise satisfaction and further reduces avoidance or indirectly affects other exercises. In addition, these performances are considered to have an impact on business performance as well as mutual relationships.

Analysis for Air Temperature Trend and Elasticity of Air-water Temperature according to Climate Changes in Nakdong River Basin (기후변화에 따른 낙동강 유역의 기온 경향성 및 수온과의 탄성도 분석)

  • Shon, Tae Seok;Lim, Yong Gyun;Baek, Meung Ki;Shin, Hyun Suk
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.822-833
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    • 2010
  • Temperature increase due to climate changes causes change of water temperature in rivers which results in change of water quality etc. and the change of river ecosystem has a great impact on human life. Analyzing the impact of current climate changes on air and water temperature is an important thing in adapting to the climate changes. This study examined the effect of climate changes through analyzing air temperature trend for Nakdong river basin and analyzed the elasticity of air-water temperature to understand the effect of climate changes on water temperature. For analysis air temperature trend, collecting air temperature data from the National Weather Service on main points in Nakdong river basin, and resampling them at the units of year, season and month, used as data for air temperature trend analysis. Analyzing for elasticity of air-water temperature, the data were collected by the Water Environment Information system for water temperature, while air temperature data were collected at the National Weather Service point nearest in the water temperature point. And using the results of trend analysis and elasticity analysis, the effect of climate changes on water temperature was examined estimating future water temperature in 20 years and 50 years after. It is judged that analysis on mutual impact between factors such as heat budget, precipitation and evapotranspiration on river water temperature affected by climate changes and river water temperature is necessary.

Development of a Pattern and Visual Image for a One-Piece Dress using a 3D Virtual Clothing System (3D 가상 착의 시스템을 활용한 원피스 드레스의 원형 개발 및 시각적 이미지 연구)

  • Uh, Mi-Kyung
    • The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.597-611
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study is to propose a design method for one-piece dress patterns with high body fitness through an appearance evaluation of one-piece dress patterns with the application of the 3D Virtual Clothing System known as i-designer. Measures consisted of an optical illusion effect in visual imagery and mutual influence according to a change in the length and princess line, in a silhouette of a one-piece dress. The data was assessed by a t-test and a multi-way ANOVA and factor analysis using SPSS 17.0. The results were as follows; The design of the study pattern was done by modifying the ease of the bust circumference, ease of the abdominal circumference, ease of the hip circumference, the position of the side seam line, and the appearance of horizontality in the hem line, which received a low evaluation in appearance evaluations of a one-piece dress pattern. As a result of analyzing the visual image according to a change in the length and princess line, in the form of a silhouette of a one-piece dress, four factors were selected; the whole-body optical illusion factor, the upper-body optical illusion factor, the bust optical illusion factor, and the lower-body optical illusion factor. As a result of analyzing the effect of the interaction in the visual image according to the design variables, the influence of the main effect was found to be great in each factor. In the upper-body optical illusion factor, a significant difference was not noted in the two-way interaction between the length and the princess line. However, the influence on three-way interaction among the length, princess line, and silhouette was significant.

The Effect of the Complex Reward in STAD Learning on Academic Achievement and Learning Attitudes (STAD학습에서 복합보상이 학업성취도와 학습태도에 미치는 효과)

  • 김선수;최도성
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.101-109
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    • 2002
  • A cooperative teaming has been taken to consolidate the autonomous motivation of students and to develop a desirable attitude in a mutual cooperative atmosphere. Some studies on the reward effect showed that the reward after the evaluation, in the processes of cooperative learning, worked on students' learning motive directly, and the group reward was effective in learning attitude and the individual reward in academic achievement, respectively. Assuming that the group reward and the individual reward are organized and applied as a complex reward, the effects of rewards will appear, this study examined the effect of the complex reward on academic achievement and teaming attitude. For this study. 2 classes were randomly selected out of a elementary school in Gwangju and the teaming unit was based on chapter 4「The structure and function of plants」 in the 5-1 elementary Science textbook. This research has been done for 4 weeks after the students learned STAD for 8 weeks previously. The learning attitude was examined in pre and post tests, and the academic achievement was inspected twice at 2-week intervals after the pre test. The results were analysized by the SAS program In the case of academic achievement, both groups showed a significant improvement(p<.05). The experimental group showed no significant improvement in the first test, compared with the control group(p>.05), but after 4 weeks, it showed a significant improvement in the second test, compared with the control group(p<.05). From this result, it is identified that the reward should be done for a long time and the individual reward of the complex reward is successful in improving academic achievement. However, in the case of learning attitude, there was no meaningful difference in both groups(p>.05). But the control group showed a significant improvement, compared with the experimental group(p<.05). According to this result, it is indicated that the group reward only is more effective in improving learning attitude and complex reward can decrease the individual competition in experimental group.

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Using Camera Tracking and Image Composition Technique in Visual Effect Imaginary Production (시각효과 영상제작에서 카메라 추적과 영상합성 기술의 활용)

  • Kim, Myung-Ha;Yu, Jung-Jae;Hong, Hyun-Ki
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.135-143
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    • 2011
  • Visual effect production by computer graphics techniques has become more important in these days. However, there are three problems in the domestic contents production environments. First of all, most Korean film companies have insufficient generally potential to maintain and support their R&D (Research and Development) teams. Secondly, they are much dependent on the abroad commercial software tools. Finally, many people have to participate in the image production pipeline, called the labor-intensive pipeline. In producing a demonstration work, "The Sixty -miles-an-hour man", we have evaluated the usefulness of the developed camera tracking and image composition methods and then examined various production consideration elements. In addition, in order to develop a productive technical element and write a competitive film script, mutual understanding between the developers and the production users should be achieved. Also, this paper describes a role of the technical supervisor to direct the production environment in detail.

Numerical Investigation of The Effect of External Stores on Tail Wing Surfaces of a Generic Fighter Aircraft (전투기 형상의 외부장착물이 꼬리날개에 미치는 영향에 대한 수치적 연구)

  • Kim, Min-Jae;Kwon, Oh-Joon;Kim, Ji-Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.211-219
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    • 2008
  • A three-dimensional inviscid flow solver has been developed based on unstructured meshes for the investigation of the effect of the external stores on the tail surfaces of a generic fighter aircraft. The numerical method is based on a vertex-centered finite-volume discretization and an implicit point Gauss-Seidel time integration. The calculations were made for a steady flow and the computed results were compared with experimental data to validate the flow solver. An unsteady time-accurate computation of the generic fighter aircraft with external stores at transonic flight conditions showed that the external stores cause unsteady loading on the horizontal tail surface due to the mutual interference between their wake and the horizontal tail surface. It was shown that downward deflection of the trailing edge flap significantly reduces the undesirable interference effect.

Effect of a Finite Substrate Size on the Radiation Characteristics of Two-Element Linear E-plane Array Antennas (유한한 기판 크기가 2소자 E-평면 선형 배열 안테나의 방사 특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Yoon, Young-Min;Kim, Boo-Gyoun
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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    • v.49 no.12
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    • pp.95-110
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    • 2012
  • The effect of a finite substrate size on the radiation characteristics of a two-element linear E-plane array antenna using microstrip patch antennas is investigated. The average active element pattern characteristics of two-element E-plane array antennas printed on different dielectric constant substrates with various substrate sizes and element spacings are analyzed. Using the average active element pattern, the radiation pattern characteristics of the array antenna versus scan angle is analyzed. The simulation results show that the diffracted fields of surface waves from substrate edges have a significant effect on the radiation characteristics of a 2-element E-plane array antenna. The distance between the center of patch antenna and the substrate edges on the E-plane for the enhancement of radiation characteristics of the array antenna is about $0.35{\lambda}_0$.

A Causality between Cultural Satisfaction and Social Trust in Cities (도시인의 문화환경 만족과 사회적 신뢰의 인과성)

  • Kim, Dong-Yoon
    • Journal of The Korean Digital Architecture Interior Association
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2012
  • With regard to the culture in cities this study aims to essential understanding and systematic approach to the culture. The "2011 Seoul Survey"report has been used to find out causality among the related variables. In the first place 'satisfaction of cultural condition' was operationally selected as a dependent variable for regression. For the purpose of controlling confounding factors for ceteris paribus effect correlation analysis was done between the dependent variable and all other variables respectively, which resulted in two groups of variables: group (1) - 6 variables of very significant correlations(p-value<0.01) and (2) - the other 6 variables of significant correlations(p-value<0.05). Then hierarchical regression was adopted to these 2 groups to analyse $R^2$ increment, statistical significance of independent variables, and multicollinearity(VIF; variance inflation factor). At last a regression model specified by group (1) as independent variables(they are 'social trust', 'satisfaction of walking condition', 'happiness index', 'preparation against old age', 'satisfaction of traffic condition' and 'hours for internet') shows that only 'social trust' variable has statistically significant and substantially strong effect on 'satisfaction of cultural condition.' This finding should be accepted on the following understanding; (1) urban culture has a collective attribute formed between people and society, (2) culture is somewhat telling and hearing stories and the confidence between tellers and hearers is essential in the mutual response and (3) stimulus is received by relationship in company with sense, emotion, thinking and action. In spite of restrictive external validity this finding can be used as a direction for promoting culture and a basis for related policy choice in cities.

A Kinetic Study on Aminolysis of S-4-Nitrophenyl Thiobenzoate in H2O Containing 20 mol % DMSO and 44 wt % EtOH: Effect of Medium on Reactivity and Mechanism

  • Ahn, Jung-Ae;Park, Youn-Min;Um, Ik-Hwan
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.214-218
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    • 2009
  • Second-order rate constants ($k_N$) have been measured for nucleophilic substitution reactions of S-4-nitrophenyl thiobenzoate with a series of alicyclic secondary amines in $H_2O$ containing 20 mol % DMSO at 25.0 ${\pm}$ 0.1 ${^{\circ}C}$. The Br$\phi$nsted-type plot exhibits a downward curvature, i.e., $\beta_{nuc}$ decreases from 0.94 to 0.34 as the amine basicity increases. The reactions in the aqueous DMSO have also been suggested to proceed through a zwitterionic tetrahedral intermediate (T${\pm}$) with change in the RDS on the basis of the curved Br$\phi$nsted-type plot. The reactions in the aqueous DMSO exhibit larger $k_N$ values than those in the aqueous EtOH. The macroscopic rate constants ($k_N$) for the reactions in the two solvent systems have been dissected into the microscopic rate constants ($k_1\;and\;k_2/k_{-1}$ ratio) to investigate effect of medium on reactivity in the microscopic level. It has been found that the $k_2/k_{-1}$ ratios are similar for the reactions in the two solvent systems, while $k_1$ values are larger for the reactions in 20 mol % DMSO than for those in 44 wt % EtOH, indicating that the larger $k_1$ is mainly responsible for the larger $k_N$. It has been suggested that the transition state is more stabilized in 20 mol % DMSO through mutual polarizability interaction than in 44 wt % EtOH through H-bonding interaction.