• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.383-399
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• 2013

High-strength strands are widely used as a key structural element in cable-stayed bridges and prestressed concrete structures. Conventional strands for stay cable and tendons in prestressed concrete structures are ${\phi}$15.7mm coated seven-wire strands and ${\phi}15.2mm$ uncoated seven-wire strands, respectively, but the ultimate strengths of both strands are 1860MPa. The objective of this paper is to investigate the tensile behavior of a newly developed ${\phi}15.7mm$ 2,200 MPa coated strand and a ${\phi}15.2mm$ 2,400 MPa uncoated strand according to various types of mono anchorages and to propose appropriate anchorages for both strands. Finite element analyses were initially performed to find how the geometry of the anchor head affects the interaction among the anchor head, the wedge and the strand and to find how it affects the stress distributions in both parts. Tensile tests for the new strands were carried out with seven different types of mono anchorages. The test results were compared to each other and to the results obtained from the tensile tests with a grip condition. From the analysis and the test results, desirable mono anchorages for the new strands are suggested.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.12-18
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• 2015

Since the operation period of nuclear power plants has increased, the degradation of buried pipes gradually increases and recently it seems to be one of the emerging issues. Maintenance on buried pipes needs high quality of management system because outer surface of buried pipe contacts the various soils but inner surface reacts with various electrolytes of fluid. In the USA, USNRC and EPRI have tried to manage the degradation of buried pipes. However, there is little knowledge about the inspection procedure, test and manage program in the domestic nuclear power plants. This paper focuses on the development and build-up of real-time monitoring and control system of buried pipes. Pipes to be tested are tape-coated carbon steel pipe for primary component cooling water system, asphalt-coated cast iron pipe for fire protection system, and pre-stressed concrete cylinder pipe for sea water cooling system. A control system for cathodic protection was installed on each test pipe which has been monitored and controlled. For the calculation of protection range and optimization, computer simulation was performed using COMSOL Multiphysics (Altsoft co.).

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2009년도 하계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.441-441
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• 2009

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have been widely investigated as a next-generation solar cell because of their simple fabrication process and low coats. The cells use a porous nanocrystalline TiO2 matrix coated with a sensitizer dye that acts as the light-harvesting element. The photo-exited dye injects electrons into the $TiO_2$ particles, and the oxide dye reacts with I- in the electrolyte in regenerative cycle that is completed by the reduction of $I_3^-$ at a platinum-coated counter electrode. Since $TiO_2$ porous film plays a key role in the enhancement of photoelectric conversion efficiency of DSSC, many scientists focus their researches on it. Especially, a high light-to-electricity conversion efficiency results from particle size and crystallographic phase, film porosity, surface structure, charge and surface area to volume ratio of porous $TiO_2$ electrodes, on which the dye can be sufficiently adsorbed. Effective treatment of the photoanode is important to improve DSSC performance. In this paper, to obtain properties of surface and dispersion as nitric acid treated $TiO_2$ photoelectrode was investigate. The photovoltaic characteristics of DSSCs based the electrode fabricated by nitric acid pre-treatment $TiO_2$ materials gave better performances on both of short circuit current density and open circuit voltage. We compare dispersion of $TiO_2$ nanoparticles before and after nitric acid treatment and measured Ti oxidized state from XPS. Low charge transfer resistance was obtained in nitric acid treated sample than that of untreated sample. The dye-sensitized solar cell based on the nitric acid treatment had open-circuit voltage of 0.71 V, a short-circuit current of 15.2 mAcm-2 and an energy conversion efficiency of 6.6 % under light intensity of $100\;mWcm^{-2}$. About 14 % increases in efficiency obtained when the $TiO_2$ electrode was treated by nitric acid.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2015년도 제46회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1112-1113
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• 2015

In the end of 2014, Changwon National University and TECHSTEEL Co., Ltd. had initiated a project on the development of a 300 kW-class HTS DC Induction Furnace(HTS DC IF) for preheating non-ferrous metal billets funded by the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning for 3 years. This is the one of the most realistic commercial machines applying the coated conductors. In this paper, the development progress of a 300 kW-class HTS DC IF was introduced. The major characteristics of the furnace including its capacity, structure and operation scheme were presented. For ensuring the successful design, a pre-validation study was performed through the electromagnetic, heat transfer and solid mechanical analysis using a multi-physics FEM tool. The aluminum billet was heated up to $540^{\circ}C$ under 1 T of the magnetic flux density at the center of the billet, and the simulation results were described in detail.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.73-77
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• 2009

Contaminative artifacts such as carbonaceous materials on carbon-coated microgrids are unavoidable, which is induced by electron beam exposure inside electron microscopes. This phenomenon raise a source to produce confusing information to the samples investigated by analytical TEM, which should be alleviated as much as possible. As experimental precautions for reducing this unwanted effect, the use of $LN_2$ cooled anti-contaminator and pre-illumination of electron beam at low magnification can be helpful. Nevertheless, we should be cautious to set an illumination condition for microanalysis because the contaminative effect is dependent with the types of irradiation situations, which is well known to be a decisive factor for causing the carbonaceous artifacts. Accordingly, it is necessary that optimal illumination to minimize the contaminative effect should be selected for improving the accuracy of microanalysis. In this paper, we introduce the practical method to determine the optimal illumination condition by evaluating the contaminative effect as a function of instrumental spot size, which is directly linked with electron current density.

• 한국식품저장유통학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.468-472
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• 2014

'신고' 배에서 저장 전 몇 가지를 처리하여 배과피얼룩과 발생에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 2중 봉지 속지색에 따른 배과피얼룩과 발생은 황색지가 청색지 및 적색지에 비하여 현저하게 낮은 발생률을 보였다. 수확 시기별로는 적숙기 보다 7일 전에 수확하여 저온 저장한 처리가 발병률이 낮았으며 과실 품질에는 차이가 없었다. 저장방법에서 칼슘코팅봉지에 넣어 저장한 과실이 PE 봉지 및 알배로 저장한 과실에 비하여 현저하게 발생률이 높았다. 이산화염소 및 칼슘액 침지처리는 무처리 및 증류수 처리에 비하여 발생률이 낮았다. 또한 NaDCC 1,500배액에 침지처리를 하면 발생률이 낮았으며 반점의 크기도 감소되었다. 저장 중 과피얼룩과 발생은 과피의 수분함량(67.7%)이 낮은 과실은 나타나지 않았다. 따라서 적숙기 보다 7일 전에 수확하여 칼슘봉지 씌우기 및 이산화염소, 칼슘용액, NaDCC 침지는 저장중 배과피얼룩과 발생을 줄일 수 있을 것으로 생각되었다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.1947-1955
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• 2013

본 논문의 목적은 얕은 기초 하중을 받는 입상체 내의 응력의 분포와 변위를 측정하는 광탄성 기법의 적용 방안을 제시하는 데 있다. 광탄성 측정기법은 입자 집합체의 힘 전달을 시각화하기 위해 사용 되었다. 실내 모형시험은 스틸 프레임으로 경계면을 만들고 폴리카보네이트 탄성중합체로 만들어진 이차원 원형 입자들을 적층하여 구성하였다. 광탄성 시트를 원형 입자에 코팅함으로써 힘 전달의 패턴을 밝은 빛의 줄무늬 형태로 확인할 수 있었고, 광탄성 측정 기법을 통해 접촉되어 있는 입자들에서의 주 응력차의 크기, 방향 또한 측정 할 수 있었다. 변위장은 디지털 이미지 해석 기법을 사용하여 측정 하였다. 하중 재하 초기 상태와 파괴 근처의 상태에서 서로 다른 접촉력의 분포를 정량적으로 분석하였다. 파괴 이전 단계에서 관측된 광탄성 패턴과 변위장은 접촉력 사슬의 좌굴 발생 이후 즉시 사라짐을 확인하였다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.345-350
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• 2010

For the present paper, we prepared MgO/MWCNT/$TiO_2$ photocatalyst by using multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) pre-oxidized by m-chlorperbenzoic acid (MCPBA) with magnesium acetate tetrahydrate $(Mg(CH_2COO)_2\cdot4H_2O)$ and titanium n-butoxide $(Ti\{OC(CH_3)_3\}_4)$ as magnesium and titanium precursors. The prepared photocatalyst was analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis. The decomposition of methylene blue (MB) solution was determined under irradiation of ultraviolet (UV) light. The XRD results show that the MgO/MWCNT/$TiO_2$ photocatalyst have cubic MgO structure and anatase $TiO_2$ structure. The porous structure and the $TiO_2$ agglomerate coated on the MgO/MWCNT composite can be observed in SEM images. The Mg, O, Ti and C elements can be also observed in MgO/MWCNT/$TiO_2$ photocatalyst from EDX results. The results of photodegradation of MB solution under UV light show that the concentration of MB solution decreased with an increase of UV irradiation time for all of the samples. Also, the MgO/MWCNT/$TiO_2$ photocatalyst has the best photocatalytic activity among these samples. It can be considered that the MgO/MWCNT/$TiO_2$ photocatalyst had a combined effect, the effect of MWCNT, which could absorb UV light to create photoinduced electrons $(e^-)$, and the electron trapping effect of MgO, which resulted in an increase of the photocatalytic activity of $TiO_2$.