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Practical Use of Flux Gradient Similarity Theory for Forest Soil NO Flux at Mt. Taewha (Flux-gradient similarity theory 적용에 따른 태화산 산림지표 토양NO플럭스 분석)

  • Kim, Deug-Soo
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.531-537
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    • 2014
  • Terrestrial vegetation has been known as a main source of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). Isoprene and monoterpene among the BVOCs are most abundant species emitted by forests, and have a significant impact on atmospheric chemistry. Abundancy of these species could lead to an increase or decrease in the production of natural tropospheric ozone in forests, depending on the nitric oxide (NO) concentration. Soil is the most significant source of natural NO. Understanding of NO emission from forest soil could be critical in evaluation of air quality in the forest area. Flux-gradient similarity theory (FGST) was applied for practical use to estimate forest soil NO emission at Mt. Taewha where is available micro-meteorological data near surface monitoring from flux tower. NO fluxes calculated by FGST were compared to flux results by flow-through dynamic chamber (FDC) measurement. Surface NO emission trends were shown between two different techniques, however their magnitudes were found to be different. NO emissions measured from FDC technique were relatively higher than those from theoretical results. Daily mean NO emissions resulted from FGST during Aug. 13, 14 and 15 were $0.28{\pm}8.45$, $2.17{\pm}15.55$, and $-3.18{\pm}13.65{\mu}gm^{-2}hr^{-1}$, respectively, while results from FDC were $2.26{\pm}1.44$, $5.11{\pm}3.85$, and $2.23{\pm}6.45{\mu}gm^{-2}hr^{-1}$. Trends of daily means were shown in similar pattern, which NO emissions were increasing during late afternoon ($r^2$=0.04). These emission trends could be because soil temperature and moisture influence importantly soil microbiology.

Thermoelastic static and vibrational behaviors of nanocomposite thick cylinders reinforced with graphene

  • Moradi-Dastjerdi, Rasool;Behdinan, Kamran
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.31 no.5
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    • pp.529-539
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    • 2019
  • Current paper deals with thermoelastic static and free vibrational behaviors of axisymmetric thick cylinders reinforced with functionally graded (FG) randomly oriented graphene subjected to internal pressure and thermal gradient loads. The heat transfer and mechanical analyses of randomly oriented graphene-reinforced nanocomposite (GRNC) cylinders are facilitated by developing a weak form mesh-free method based on moving least squares (MLS) shape functions. Furthermore, in order to estimate the material properties of GRNC with temperature dependent components, a modified Halpin-Tsai model incorporated with two efficiency parameters is utilized. It is assumed that the distributions of graphene nano-sheets are uniform and FG along the radial direction of nanocomposite cylinders. By comparing with the exact result, the accuracy of the developed method is verified. Also, the convergence of the method is successfully confirmed. Then we investigated the effects of graphene distribution and volume fraction as well as thermo-mechanical boundary conditions on the temperature distribution, static response and natural frequency of the considered FG-GRNC thick cylinders. The results disclosed that graphene distribution has significant effects on the temperature and hoop stress distributions of FG-GRNC cylinders. However, the volume fraction of graphene has stronger effect on the natural frequencies of the considered thick cylinders than its distribution.

Numerical Study on Pulsatile Flow and Heat Transfer in a Curved Tube with Constant Heat Flux (일정 열유속을 받는 곡관내에서의 맥동 열유동에 관한 수치적 연구)

  • 백영렬;이재헌;오명도
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.1031-1038
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    • 1994
  • Characteristics of pulsatile flow and heat transfer have been studied numerically in the constant heat flux curved tube with periodic pressure gradient. As the Womersley number increases, the phase difference between the pressure gradient and the cross section averaged axial velocity becomes larger. In case of the Womersley number $\beta = 2$, when cross section averaged axial velocity reaches periodic state with time, the reverse and the natural flow coexist at phase angle, $\lambda = 1.44\pi$ and $\lambda =1.96\pi$. For all the Womersley numbers of present investigation, the time variation of wall temperature near inner wall is higher than that of near outer wall, independent of phase angle.

Iris Recognition System using Multi-Resolution Frequency Analysis and Back-Propagation (다해상도 주파수 분할과 Back-Propagation을 이용한 홍채인식)

  • Park, Kyoung-Woo
    • Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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    • v.1 no.3
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    • pp.221-229
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    • 2008
  • 본 논문에서는 기존의 개인 식별 방법의 한계를 해결하는 대안으로 떠오르고 있는 생체인식 기술 중 인식률이 뛰어나고 신뢰성 있는 홍채인식 시스템을 구현하고자 한다. 구현을 위하여 신호처리 분야에서 주로 사용되는 wavelet변환으로 계수 특징 값 추출을 하였으며, 인식률을 알아보기 위하여 신경망 기법을 이용하고자 한다. 그러나 신경망 기법에서 주로 사용되는 비선형 최적화기법인 Scale Conjugate Gradient는 최적화 문제점을 해결하기에는 수렴속도가 느리기 때문에 적합하지 않다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존 Scale Conjugate Gradient를 보완한 Levenberg-Marquardt Back-Propagation을 홍채인식에 적용하여 구현함으로써 인식율을 높이고자 한다. 적용한 알고리즘 구현으로 해의 수렴정도, 변수 벡터의 변화정도에 따라 크기를 적절히 변화시킴으로써 수렴속도를 개선하고, 효율성과 안정성을 동시에 얻을 수 있었다.

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PID Learning Method using Gradient Approach for Optimal Control (기울기법을 이용한 최적의 PID 제어 학습법)

  • Lim, Yoon-Kyu;Chung, Byeong-Mook
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.180-186
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    • 2001
  • PID control is widely used in industrial areas, but it is not easy to tune PID gains for an optimal control. The proposed learning method is to tune PID gains using the gradient approach. We use two estimation functions in this method : one is an error function for tuning of PID gains, and the other is a performance measuring function for a completion of learning. This paper shows that optimal PID controllers can be acquired when this learning method is applied to 10 systems with different natural frequencies and damping ratios.

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Dynamic analysis of a porous microbeam model based on refined beam strain gradient theory via differential quadrature hierarchical finite element method

  • Ahmed Saimi;Ismail Bensaid;Ihab Eddine Houalef
    • Advances in materials Research
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.133-159
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, a size-dependent dynamic investigation of a porous metal foams microbeamsis presented. The novelty of this study is to use a metal foam microbeam that contain porosities based on the refined high order shear deformation beam model, with sinusoidal shear strain function, and the modified strain gradient theory (MSGT) for the first time. The Lagrange's principle combined with differential quadrature hierarchicalfinite element method (DQHFEM) are used to obtain the porous microbeam governing equations. The solutions are presented for the natural frequencies of the porous and homogeneoustype microbeam. The obtained results are validated with the analytical methods found in the literature, in order to confirm the accuracy of the presented resolution method. The influences of the shape of porosity distribution, slenderness ratio, microbeam thickness, and porosity coefficient on the free vibration of the porous microbeams are explored in detail. The results of this paper can be used in various design formetallic foammicro-structuresin engineering.

Nonlinear vibration of functionally graded nano-tubes using nonlocal strain gradient theory and a two-steps perturbation method

  • Gao, Yang;Xiao, Wan-Shen;Zhu, Haiping
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.69 no.2
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    • pp.205-219
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    • 2019
  • This paper analyzes nonlinear free vibration of the circular nano-tubes made of functionally graded materials in the framework of nonlocal strain gradient theory in conjunction with a refined higher order shear deformation beam model. The effective material properties of the tube related to the change of temperature are assumed to vary along the radius of tube based on the power law. The refined beam model is introduced which not only contains transverse shear deformation but also satisfies the stress boundary conditions where shear stress cancels each other out on the inner and outer surfaces. Moreover, it can degenerate the Euler beam model, the Timoshenko beam model and the Reddy beam model. By incorporating this model with Hamilton's principle, the nonlinear vibration equations are established. The equations, including a material length scale parameter as well as a nonlocal parameter, can describe the size-dependent in linear and nonlinear vibration of FGM nanotubes. Analytical solution is obtained by using a two-steps perturbation method. Several comparisons are performed to validate the present analysis. Eventually, the effects of various physical parameters on nonlinear and linear natural frequencies of FGM nanotubes are analyzed, such as inner radius, temperature, nonlocal parameter, strain gradient parameter, scale parameter ratio, slenderness ratio, volume indexes, different beam models.

Hybrid adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system method for energy absorption of nano-composite reinforced beam with piezoelectric face-sheets

  • Lili Xiao
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.141-154
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    • 2023
  • Effects of viscoelastic foundation on vibration of curved-beam structure with clamped and simply-supported boundary conditions is investigated in this study. In doing so, a micro-scale laminate composite beam with two piezoelectric face layer with a carbon nanotube reinforces composite core is considered. The whole beam structure is laid on a viscoelastic substrate which normally occurred in actual conditions. Due to small scale of the structure non-classical elasticity theory provided more accurate results. Therefore, nonlocal strain gradient theory is employed here to capture both nano-scale effects on carbon nanotubes and microscale effects because of overall scale of the structure. Equivalent homogenous properties of the composite core is obtained using Halpin-Tsai equation. The equations of motion is derived considering energy terms of the beam and variational principle in minimizing total energy. The boundary condition is assumed to be clamped at one end and simply supported at the other end. Due to nonlinear terms in the equations of motion, semi-analytical method of general differential quadrature method is engaged to solve the equations. In addition, due to complexity in developing and solving equations of motion of arches, an artificial neural network is design and implemented to capture effects of different parameters on the inplane vibration of sandwich arches. At the end, effects of several parameters including nonlocal and gradient parameters, geometrical aspect ratios and substrate constants of the structure on the natural frequency and amplitude is derived. It is observed that increasing nonlocal and gradient parameters have contradictory effects of the amplitude and frequency of vibration of the laminate beam.

Dynamic analysis of functionally graded (FG) nonlocal strain gradient nanobeams under thermo-magnetic fields and moving load

  • Alazwari, Mashhour A.;Esen, Ismail;Abdelrahman, Alaa A.;Abdraboh, Azza M.;Eltaher, Mohamed A.
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.231-251
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    • 2022
  • Dynamic behavior of temperature-dependent Reddy functionally graded (RFG) nanobeam subjected to thermomagnetic effects under the action of moving point load is carried out in the present work. Both symmetric and sigmoid functionally graded material distributions throughout the beam thickness are considered. To consider the significance of strain-stress gradient field, a material length scale parameter (LSP) is introduced while the significance of nonlocal elastic stress field is considered by introducing a nonlocal parameter (NP). In the framework of the nonlocal strain gradient theory (NSGT), the dynamic equations of motion are derived through Hamilton's principle. Navier approach is employed to solve the resulting equations of motion of the functionally graded (FG) nanoscale beam. The developed model is verified and compared with the available previous results and good agreement is observed. Effects of through-thickness variation of FG material distribution, beam aspect ratio, temperature variation, and magnetic field as well as the size-dependent parameters on the dynamic behavior are investigated. Introduction of the magnetic effect creates a hardening effect; therefore, higher values of natural frequencies are obtained while smaller values of the transverse deflections are produced. The obtained results can be useful as reference solutions for future dynamic and control analysis of FG nanobeams reinforced nanocomposites under thermomagnetic effects.

Ecological Consideration for Restoration of the Degraded Urban River

  • Lee, Chang-Seok;You, Young-Han
    • 한국생태학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2002.08a
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    • pp.113-118
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    • 2002
  • Vegetation and riverine structures were compared among urban and several semi-natural rivers by applying direct gradient analysis and ordination method. Urban rivers showed different species composition from the semi-natural ones. Species composition of semi-natural rivers depended on the geographical positions, such as the upstream, midstream, and downstream and on micro-topographies, such as the waterside, flooding bed, and embankment. Semi-natural rivers showed gentle change in micro-topography, whereas urban one did not so. Our restoration plan to improve the ecological quality of the degraded urban river by imitating semi-natural river was prepared based on those data.

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