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A Study on the Section Change Using the Slip-Form Method (슬립폼 공법 적용 시 단면변화에 대한 고찰)

  • Suh, Jin-Sun;Han, Jun-Young;Im, Chil-Soon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2007
  • Already, core wall construction method for apartment wall structure and general building special areas applied the engineering method's appropriate examination. Also, trial and error depending on slip-form method is a good examination opportunity to consider. In the present paper's slip-form engineering method l)Casting concrete to slab in sliding 2)RC structure + SRC structure (part of segment) 3)Inside segment variation(straight line-diagonal-circle) are together while determining whether it is possible not to carry out actual construction work on the structure. Finally, small problems continuously appear on actual slip-form method application, design and engineering, starting with planning thoroughly the field examination and diagnosing the atmosphere, minimizing cost, secure work safety facilities characterized by good quality, slip-form research extension, development and decision-making.

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A Study on a Method to Use Industrial and Technical Information in Process of R&D Project Planning (연구개발(R&D)과제 기획에서의 산업·기술정보 활용방안)

  • Kim, Yong;Han, Hee-Jung;Lee, Kyun-Hyung;Lee, Yoon-Seok;An, Seung-Kwon
    • Journal of Information Management
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.69-96
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    • 2012
  • Based on analysis of trend and development of industrial and technical information such as patents and scientific data, using industrial and technical information in the process of planning can be a important factor to reduce budget and opportunity cost. This study aims to investigate needs to collect and analyze industrial and technical information in planning of R&D project. To do it, this study examines definitions, needs and types of industrial and technical information for planning of R&D project. And then this study investigates the importance of use of industrial and technical information in the process of planning of R&D and performs case study in domestic and foreign countries. Lastly, this study investigates a method to analyze industrial and technical information for R&D planning and proposes the role of a library for R&D planning.

Alternative Policy on Attrition Propensities of Travel Voucher (여행바우처 이탈에 관한 정책적 대안 연구)

  • Han, Suk Young;Park, Sang Gon;Jun, Minji
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.486-497
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    • 2017
  • Travel voucher for low-income or social disadvantaged groups forms a part of social policies in Korea. The policy can not only provide an opportunity of travel experiences for the socially weak, but also enhance their family capital and social capital. Thus, the travel voucher policy can be beneficial for the participants and their society. However, little research evidence of its evaluation and challenges/benefits exists. In practice, one of the biggest problems is an attrition of travel voucher winners which is to decrease a cost-effect of the travel voucher policy and to increase unnecessary waste of both the federal and human resources. Thus more research is needed to answer the questions why some of winners abandon to go to travel by the voucher, and who is the seceder? In this context, the study empirically examines the attrition propensity for the winners of 2011 Seoul travel voucher from 1,632 respondents and second data from Korea Tourism Organization. This research found that total education years of travel voucher winners have a significant effect on using their voucher. Implications and alternative policies for government policy makers and administrators are discussed by the analyzed results.

Selection Strategy for the File Format of Official Documents in a Cloud Environment (클라우드 환경에서 공문서 파일포맷의 선택 전략)

  • Yim, Jin Hee
    • The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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    • no.66
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    • pp.5-35
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    • 2020
  • In the digital age, the most basic unit of records management is a document file. Depending on whether each document file is produced in an open standard format or an exclusive proprietary format, there is a cost difference in the process of use and long-term preservation. As government agencies moved to cloud-based business management systems, web-based document editing software was newly adopted. They had the opportunity to select a new file format for web-based document editing software. This paper deals with strategies to maximize the advantages of open standard formats while considering the legacy public document production practices. It introduces ISO/IEC 26300:2006 ODF, ISO/IEC 29500:2008 OOXML, KS X 6101 OWPML, etc. as open standard formats, and looks at considerations when choosing a format and web-based document editing software. In addition, it proposes a strategy to maintain the format of document files shared in cloud storage as an open standard format.

A Stochastic Bilevel Scheduling Model for the Determination of the Load Shifting and Curtailment in Demand Response Programs

  • Rad, Ali Shayegan;Zangeneh, Ali
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.1069-1078
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    • 2018
  • Demand response (DR) programs give opportunity to consumers to manage their electricity bills. Besides, distribution system operator (DSO) is interested in using DR programs to obtain technical and economic benefits for distribution network. Since small consumers have difficulties to individually take part in the electricity market, an entity named demand response provider (DRP) has been recently defined to aggregate the DR of small consumers. However, implementing DR programs face challenges to fairly allocate benefits and payments between DRP and DSO. This paper presents a procedure for modeling the interaction between DRP and DSO based on a bilevel programming model. Both DSO and DRP behave from their own viewpoint with different objective functions. On the one hand, DRP bids the potential of DR programs, which are load shifting and load curtailment, to maximize its expected profit and on the other hand, DSO purchases electric power from either the electricity market or DRP to supply its consumers by minimizing its overall cost. In the proposed bilevel programming approach, the upper level problem represents the DRP decisions, while the lower level problem represents the DSO behavior. The obtained bilevel programming problem (BPP) is converted into a single level optimizing problem using its Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions. Furthermore, point estimate method (PEM) is employed to model the uncertainties of the power demands and the electricity market prices. The efficiency of the presented model is verified through the case studies and analysis of the obtained results.

A successful province of agriculturalwater-saving: Gansu

  • Bin, Jiang
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.194-194
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    • 2016
  • Gansu, located in the northwestern region, is a typical agricultural province of arid, semiarid in China. The shortage of water resources is the biggest obstacle of Gansu Province's development, and the dry farming water-saving is the eternal theme of Gansu agricultural sustainable development. In recent years, intensify reform in Gansu, has walked out a successful way in the agricultural water-saving. Using the integrated river basin governance as opportunity, the total water-using quantity was regarded as rigidity to retrain, distributed to counties (districts), irrigated areas, towns, associations, groups step by step. Agricultural water price was substantially increased, with the surface water price from about $0.1RMB/m^3$ to more than $0.2 RMB/m^3$, and the ground water from zero to more than $0.1RMB/m^3$. Simultaneously, the difference water prices and over-quota water progression price markup were carried out. The transaction of water rights was encouraged to impel the peasant to establish the consciousness of saving-water. The regulatory documents were formulated to standardize the scope, condition, mode, program etc. of agriculture water-rights transaction, to guarantees the transaction of water rights is carries out in order. The pattern of farming was optimized and adjusted, reducing the high water-consumption crop, increasing economic crops with high benefit and low water-consumption, developing industrialized agricultures such as green house. The relative engineering and measuring facility were comprehensively improved, with the anti-seepage of canal system and the enforcement of dynamo-electric well, developing high-efficient water-saving irrigation and overall metering facilities. The water fine-grained management has realized, and obvious water-saving effect has obtained: water-using rate in the irrigation area by river water has brought up to 0.57 from 0.52, and by well water up to 0.84 from 0.76. Although the water price has increased, the proportion that the water rate expenditure accounted for the cost lasts decline, and the farmers' income has gone up. The peasants express, the used water is few, and it is few to till land, but the income is many, and life is better.

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The seismic reliability of two connected SMRF structures

  • Aval, Seyed Bahram Beheshti;Farrokhi, Amir;Fallah, Ahmad;Tsouvalas, Apostolos
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.151-164
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    • 2017
  • This article aims to investigate the possible retrofitting of a deficient building with soft story failure mode by connecting it to an adjacent building which is designed based on current code with friction dampers at all floors. Low cost and high performance reliability along with significant energy dissipation pertaining to stable hysteretic loops may be considered in order to choose the proper damper for connecting adjacent buildings. After connecting two neighbouring floors by friction dampers, the sliding forces of dampers at various stories are set in two arrangements: uniform sliding force and then variable sliding force. In order to account for the stochastic nature of the seismic events, incremental dynamic analyses are employed prior and after the installation of the friction dampers at the various floors. Based on these results, fragility curves and mean annual rate of exceedance of serviceability and ultimate limit states are obtained. The results of this study show that the collapse mode of the deficient building can affect the optimum arrangement of sliding forces of friction dampers at Collapse Prevention (CP) performance level. In particular, the Immediate Occupancy (IO) performance level is not tangible to the sliding force arrangement and it depends solely on sliding force value. Generally it can be claimed that this rehabilitation scheme can turn the challenge of pounding two adjacent buildings into the opportunity of dissipating a large amount of the seismic input energy by the friction dampers, thus improving significantly the poor seismic performance of the deficient structure.

Intercomparison Exercise at Harshaw 6600, DVG-02TM, and D-Shuttle Dosimeters for the Individual Monitoring of Ionizing Radiation

  • Kim, Dmitriy Spartakovich;Murayama, Kentaro;Nurtazin, Yernat;Koguchi, Yasuhiro;Kenzhin, Yergazy;Kawamura, Hiroshi
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.79-88
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    • 2019
  • Background: The main goal of experiments is to compare various operational and technical characteristics of D-Shuttle semiconductor personal dosimeters of the Japanese company "Chiyoda Technol Corporation" and Harshaw thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD) manufactured by "Thermo Fisher Scientific" and DTL-02 of the Russian Research and Production Enterprise (RPE) "Doza" by their occupational and calibration exposure at various dose equivalents from 0.5 to 20 mSv of gamma-radiation. Materials and Methods: Besides dosimeters DTL-02, D-Shuttle and Harshaw TLD, there were also used: (1) the primary reference radionuclide source Hopewell Designs IAEA: G10-1-12 with $^{137}Cs$ isotope (an error is not more than 6% and activity is 20 Ci), and (2) the verification device UPGD-2M of RPE "Doza" and installed in the National Center for Expertise and Certification of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kapchagai, the National Center for Expertise and Certification). Results and Discussion: The main results of researches are the following: (1) TLDs for Harshaw 6600 and DVG-02TM have an approximately equal measurement accuracy of the individual dose equivalents in the range from 0.5 to 20 mSv of gamma-radiation. (2) Advantages of dosimeters for Harshaw 6600 are due to the high measurement productivity and opportunity to indicate the dose on the skin $H_p$(0.07). Advantages of DVG-02TM consist of operation simplicity and lower cost than of Harshaw 6600. (3) D-Shuttles are convenient for use in the current and the operational monitoring of ionizing radiation. Measurement accuracy and 10% linearity of measurements are ensured when D-Shuttle is irradiated with dose equivalents below 1 mSv at the equivalent dose rate not higher than $3mSv{\cdot}hr^{-1}$. This allows using D-Shuttle at a routine technological activity. Conclusion: The obtained results of experiments demonstrate advantages and disadvantages of D-Shuttle semiconductor dosimeters in comparison with two TLD systems of DVG-02TM and Harshaw 6600.

A Cognitive Automation Based Mobility Robotic Process Automation System (인지 자동화 기반 모빌리티 로보틱스 프로세스 자동화 시스템)

  • Hong, Phil-Doo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.23 no.8
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    • pp.930-935
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    • 2019
  • Our proposed system, MobiAutoBot, is a conceptual model of robotics process automation software at a cognitive automation level that can support mobile devices. MobiAutoBot consists of two parts: MobiAutoBot controller and MobiAutoBot runner. The MobiAutoBot controller directs, monitors, and interacts the Job on the mobile device, and the MobiAutoBot runner installed on the mobile device performs the commanded operation. If we provide automation for mobile devices to small businesses through our proposed MobiAutoBot, we can build low-cost robotic process automation functions that can be linked to existing information systems with mobile devices such as simple smartphones, even without an expensive information-based infrastructure. Our proposal is expected to serve as an opportunity to spread automation of robotics processes even to small and medium-sized companies and individual users who are difficult to equip with all information system infrastructure.

Development Trends of Liquid Methane Rocket Engine and Implications (액체로켓 메탄엔진 개발동향 및 시사점)

  • Lim, Byoungjik;Kim, Cheulwoong;Lee, Keum-Oh;Lee, Keejoo;Park, Jaesung;Ahn, Kyubok;Namkoung, Hyuck-Joon;Yoon, Youngbin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.119-143
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    • 2021
  • Selecting liquid methane as fuel is a prevailing trend for recent rocket engine developments around the world, triggered by its affordability, reusability, storability for deep space exploration, and prospect for in-situ resource utilization. Given years of time required for acquiring a new rocket engine, a national-level R&D program to develop a methane engine is highly desirable at the earliest opportunity in order to catch up with this worldwide trend towards reusing launch vehicles for competitiveness and mission flexibility. In light of the monumental cost associated with development, fabrication, and testing of a booster stage engine, it is strategically a prudent choice to start with a low-thrust engine and build up space application cases.