• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.77-97
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• 2007

When assessing buildings that may collapse during a large earthquake, conventional rapid visual screening procedures generally provide good results when identifying buildings for further investigation. Unfortunately, their accuracy at identify buildings at risk is not so good. In addition, there appears to be little room for improvement. This paper investigates an alternative screening procedure based on fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks. Two databases of buildings damaged during the Athens earthquake of 1999 are used for training purposes. Extremely good results are obtained from one database and not so good results are obtained from the second database. This finding illustrates the importance of specifically collecting data tailored to the requirements of the fuzzy logic based rapid visual screening procedure. In general, results demonstrate that the trained fuzzy logic based rapid visual screening procedure represents a marked improvement when identifying buildings at risk. In particular, when smaller percentages of the buildings with high damage scores are extracted for further investigation, the proposed fuzzy screening procedure becomes more efficient. This paper shows that the proposed procedure has a significant optimisation potential, is worth pursuing and, to this end, a strategy that outlines the future development of the fuzzy logic based rapid visual screening procedure is proposed.

• 한국공간구조학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.11-14
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• 2011

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2011

최근 테러의 발생빈도가 증가하는 가운데 테러는 불특정 다수의 사람이 모이는 건물에서 집중적으로 발생하고 있다. 이중 고층, 초고층 빌딩에서 발생하는 테러는 막대한 피해를 발생시킨다. 이에 따른 건물의 테러피해 경감을 위한 다양한 연구가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 비교적 수행절차가 간단하며 단기간에 실행이 가능한 Fema 455 - Rapid Visual Screening을 통해 현재 사용 중인 국내 고층 초고층 건물의 테러에 대한 위험도를 평가하여 국내 건물이 가지는 공통적인 테러 위험요소를 확인하였다. 평가결과 대상 건물은 모두 중위험도의 범위에 있다. 이는 국내 고층, 초고층 건물의 외부 환경적인 특징이 비슷한 데에 그 원인이 있었다.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.89-99
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• 2011

최근 테러의 대상 범위는 보다 광범위해 지고 있으며, 국내의 테러발생위험이 지속적으로 증가하고 있는 가운데 테러의 형태는 국가의 중요시설과 같은 경성표적(Hard Target)에서 초고층건물과 같은 다중이용시설의 연성표적(Soft Target)으로 변화하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Fema 455 - Rapid Visual Screening을 통해 국내의 초고층건물과 고층건물의 테러위험도 평가결과를 국내의 저층건물의 테러위험도 평가결과와 비교하여 초고층건물의 테러위험도를 분석하였다. 그 결과 초고층건물 및 고층건물은 저층건물에 비해 Consequences, Vulnerability Rating보다 Threat Rating항목이 상대적으로 높았으며, 이는 초고층건물의 거주인원 및 국가적 또는 지역적인 상징성 및 가시성 부분에서 테러위험도가 높은 것이 주요 원인으로 분석되었다.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.73-80
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• 2012

2002년부터 2010년까지 세계적으로 발생한 테러 현황을 조사 및 분석한 결과 전체 1만 9천 946건의 테러유형 중 51.8%인 1만 333건이 폭파에 의한 테러로 나타났으며, 사용무기에 있어서도 폭파와 관련된 폭발물이 약 52.2%인 1만 431건으로 높게 나타나고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 FEMA-rapid visual screening을 통해 국내의 건물을 높이별로 테러위험도를 분석하였다. 그 결과 건물의 높이가 높아질수록 테러에 대한 위험도가 높게 나타나고 있어 전체위험도는 건물의 높이와 비례하여 증가하는 것을 확인하였다. 높이 100m 이상 건물의 경우 Threat 항목이 전체위험도에 가장 크게 영향을 미치며, 폭발과 관련된 시나리오에 따른 위험도 분석결과 내부 폭발 항목에서 높게 나타나고 있다.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.57-64
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• 2013

Since the terrorist attacks 9.11 in 2001, the public places such as subway, department stores or office buildings have become a target of terror in major public facilities. In this paper, for the prevention of terrorist attack in domestic building, the assessments of terror risk were conducted and their relationship with building heights was discussed through FEMA 455-Rapid Visual Screening(RVS). Explosive terror risk tends to increase rapidly with building heights(H<230m), showing the correlation coefficient between total risk and building heights(H<230m) is 0.93. In addition, The average of consequences is 8.47 and that of' threat is 8.95. Vulnerability is found to be 6.62 in average.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2012

As the occurrence rate of terror and hazard is increasing throughout the world, GSA, DoD, and FEMA are proceeding a study about mitigating the damage of terror. Korea is no more a safe place from the terrorist's threat, so we need to make measures against them. In this study we developed modified RVS System by revising some items to adjust the system to the domestic condition and conducted a risk assessment on several tall buildings in Korea. By using IRVS system which is developed by DHS, we also carried out the risk assessment. Comparing the results between RVS with IRVS, we performed terror risk evaluation of tall buildings. Through risk assessment of several tall buildings, we analyzed key factors of each scenarios and suggested the mean value of each items, so we would like to help the counter-terrorism in the design phase.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.1117-1123
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• 2019

Control of pine wilt disease, which is caused by pine wilt nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, is heavily dependent on the use of chemicals such as abamectin. Although such chemicals are highly effective, demands for alternatives that are derived preferentially from natural sources, are increasing out of environmental concerns. One of the challenges to discovery of alternative control agents is lack of fast and efficient screening method that can be used in a high-throughput manner. Here we described the development of colorimetric assay for the rapid and accurate screening of candidate nematicidal compounds/biologics targeting B. xylophilus. Contrary to the conventional method, which relies on laborious visual inspection and counting of nematode population under microscope, our method utilizes a redox dye that changes its color in response to metabolic activity of nematode population in a given sample. In this work, we optimized parameters of our colorimetric assay including number of nematodes and amount of redox dye, and tested applicability of our assay for screening of chemicals and biologics. We demonstrated that our colorimetric assay can be applied to rapid and accurate quantification of nematode viability/mortality in a nematode population treated with candidate chemicals/biologics. Application of our method would facilitate high-throughput endeavors aiming at finding environment-friendly control agents for deadly disease of pine trees.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.589-598
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• 2002

The safe operation of petrochemical plant requires screening of the pipework to ensure that there are no unacceptable levels of corrosion. Unfortunately, each plant has many thousands of metres of pipe, much of which is insulated or inaccessible. Conventional methods such as visual inspection and ultrasonic thickness gauging require access to each point of the pipe which is time consuming and very expensive to achieve. Extensional or torsional ultrasonic guided waves in the pipe wall provide an attractive solution to this problem because they can be excited at one location on the pipe and will propagate many metres along the pipe, returning echoes indicating the presence of corrosion or other pipe features. Guided Ultrasonics Ltd have now commercialised the technique and this paper describes the basis of the method, together with examples of practical test results and typical application areas.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.1629-1637
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• 2007

An immunochromatography (ICG) strip test using a nanocolloidal gold-antibody probe was developed and optimized for the rapid detection of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1). A monoclonal antibody specific to AFB1 was produced from the cloned hybridoma cell (AF78), coupled with nanocolloidal gold, and distributed on the conjugate pad of the ICG strip test. The visual detection limit of the ICG strip test was 0.5 ng/ml, and this method showed a cross-reaction to aflatoxin B2, G1, and G2. In total, 172 grain and feed samples were collected and analyzed by both the ICG strip test and HPLC. The results of the ICG strip test showed a good agreement with those obtained by HPLC. These results indicated that the ICG strip test has a potential use as a rapid and cost-effective screening tool for the determination of AFB1 in real samples and could be applied to the preliminary screening of mycotoxin in food and agricultural products, generating results within 15 min without complicated steps.