• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.535-543
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• 2019

Building on/with expansive soils with no treatment brings complications. Compacted expansive soils specifically fall short in satisfying the minimum requirements for transport embankment infrastructures, requiring the adoption of hauled virgin mineral aggregates or a sustainable alternative. Use of hauled aggregates comes at a high carbon and economical cost. On average, every 9m high embankment built with quarried/hauled soils cost $12600MJ.m^{-2}$ Embodied Energy (EE). A prospect of using mixed cutting-arising expansive soils with industrial/domestic wastes can reduce the carbon cost and ease the pressure on landfills. The widespread use of recycled materials has been extensively limited due to concerns over their long-term performance, generally low shear strength and stiffness. In this contribution, hydromechanical properties of a waste tyre sand-sized rubber (a mixture of polybutadiene, polyisoprene, elastomers, and styrene-butadiene) and expansive silt is studied, allowing the short- and long-term behaviour of optimum compacted composites to be better established. The inclusion of tyre shred substantially decreased the swelling potential/pressure and modestly lowered the compression index. Silt-Tyre powder replacement lowered the bulk density, allowing construction of lighter reinforced earth structures. The shear strength and stiffness decreased on addition of tyre powder, yet the contribution of matric suction to the shear strength remained constant for tyre shred contents up to 20%. Reinforced soils adopted a ductile post-peak plastic behaviour with enhanced failure strain, offering the opportunity to build more flexible subgrades as recommended for expansive soils. Residual water content and tyre shred content are directly correlated; tyre-reinforced silt showed a greater capacity of water storage (than natural silts) and hence a sustainable solution to waterlogging and surficial flooding particularly in urban settings. Crushed fine tyre shred mixed with expansive silts/sands at 15 to 20 wt% appear to offer the maximum reduction in swelling-shrinking properties at minimum cracking, strength loss and enhanced compressibility expenses.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.73-78
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• 2020

고체 로켓 추진기관을 생산, 취급하는 과정에서 추진제를 발화 시킬 수 있는 주요 원인은 작업자의 실수, 잘못된 작업방법, 기계적 결함, 충격, 마찰, 정전기, 누전 등이 있다. 과거 수십 년 동안 추진기관의 생산 취급과정에서 많은 사고가 발생되었으며, 사고조사 결과 특정 조건에서 정전기 민감도가 매우 높아진다는 사실이 확인되었다. 본 논문에서는 해외 사고사례를 분석하고 실제 공정을 고려한 밀폐 및 압력 하중이 가해지는 상황을 모사하여 정전기 민감도를 측정하였다. 시험결과 추진제의 밀폐 및 압력 하중 상황에서 민감도가 높아지며, 압력보다는 밀폐상황에서 추진제가 정전기에 더 민감하게 반응하는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구를 통해 추진제 민감도 시험에 대한 시험 방식이 재설계되어야 한다고 판단되어 정전기, 압력, 마찰, 밀폐 조건을 동시에 모사할 수 있는 시험 장비 제작을 추진하게 되었다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.321-327
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• 2009

1,3-butadiene is classified as suspected human carcinogen, group A2(American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, ACGIH). In Korea, 1,3-butadiene has been used as a raw material; monomer, homopolymer, polybutadiene latex, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene(ABS) and styrene-butadiene rubber(SBR), in the petrochemistry and precision chemistry industry. As petrochemistry industry in Korea has been developed, the potential exposure possibility of 1,3-butadiene to workers can be increased. Therefore the purpose of this study is to evaluate airborne 1,3-butadiene concentration and workers' exposure levels in the workplace using 1,3-butadiene. Air samples were collected with 4-tert-butyl catechol(TBC) charcoal tube(100 mg/50 mg) and were analyzed by gas chromatograph/flame ionization detector(GC/FID) according to the Choi's method(2002). Geometric mean (GM) and arithmetic mean (AM) of total 59 workers' exposure concentrations to airborne 1.3-butadiene were 0.042 ppm and 1.51 ppm, respectively. Although most samples were lower than 1ppm, 2 samples(21.5ppm and 33.1ppm as 8hr-TWA) were exceeded the Korean standard(2ppm) over 10 times at the repair process in synthetic rubber and resin manufacture industry. 14 samples(41%) of total 34 short-term air samples were exceeded the Korean standard(10ppm as STEL) of Ministry Labor. 1,3-butadiene concentration(GM) in the synthetic rubber and resin manufacture industry(7.87ppm) was significantly higher than that in the monomer manufacure industry (0.35ppm)(p<0.05). Also in the sampling and repair process, each GM(range) was 1.39ppm(N.D.-469.6ppm) and 7.85ppm(N.D.-410.2ppm). In conclusion, it depends on the industry and process, 1,3-butadiene can be exposed to workers as high concentration for short-term.

• 폴리머
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• 제38권3호
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• pp.333-337
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• 2014

PVC 재질로 만들어진 기존의 수액백과 튜브는 가소제인 DEHP(diethylhexyl phthalate)를 함유하고 있어 정맥 주사 시에 가소제의 용출과 약물 흡착이라는 심각한 취약점을 내재하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 폴리올레핀 재질로 만들어진 non-PVC 수액튜브(가소제 미포함)를 개발하고, 이들 튜브 내면에서의 약물 흡착 거동을 기존의 PVC 및 PU 재질의 수액 튜브와 비교 검토하므로써, 수액 주사 시 약물 흡착으로 인한 약효 감소 효과를 최소화 가능한 방안을 도출하고자 한다. 4가지의 non-PVC 수액튜브는 폴리에틸렌(PE), 폴리프로필렌(PP), syndiotactic 1,2-폴리부타 다이엔(PB)과 스타이렌-에틸렌(SE)의 공중합 탄성체를 사용하여 압출하여 제조하였으며, 이들은 기존의 PVC 수액튜브의 기계적 특성과 동등한 물성을 나타내었다. 아울러 제조된 폴리올레핀 재질의 4가지 수액튜브들은 기존의 PVC 및 PU 재질의 수액튜브 대비 우수한 약물흡착 방지 효과를 나타내었다. 따라서 이들은 약물흡착 방지용 수액튜브뿐 아니라 DEHP의 용출 위험이 배제된 안전한 수액튜브로서 임상 적용 가능할 것이다.