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Effects of Sand/Binder Ratios on the Mechanical Properties of Mortars Containing Fly ash and Silica fume

  • Park, Ki-Bong;Lee, Han-Seung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.777-780
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    • 2005
  • The paper presents details of an investigation into the effect of sand content upon the strength and shrinkage of mortar. This strategy was to produces more durable strength mortar with less cement. Cement mortars containing $20\;wt.\;\%$ Class F fly ash, and/or $6\;wt.\;\%$ silica fume were prepared at a water/binder ratio of 0.45 and sand/binder ratios of 2.0, 2.5, 2.7, and 3.0. The increase in sand/binder ratio caused a decrease in the mortar flow. However, the sand/binder ratio did not affect the strength development. Drying shrinkage decreased with increasing the sand contents.

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An Application of the Impedance Boundary Condition to Microwave Cavity Analysis using Vector Finite Element Method

  • Shin, Pan-Seok;Changyul Cheon;Sheppard J.Salon
    • KIEE International Transaction on Electrical Machinery and Energy Conversion Systems
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    • v.3B no.1
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    • pp.16-22
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents an application of an impedance boundary condition to 3D vector finite element analysis of a multi-port cylidrical microwave cavity using Snell's law. Computing memory benefits and computing time reduction are obtained from this method compared with the conventional finite element method(FEM). To verify the method, a high permittivity scatterer in free space is analyzed and compared with the results of conventional (FEM). In addition, this method has been analyzed several types of cavities, including water load, to demonstrate the validity and accuracy of the program.

Customers' View of Agility: The Expectation-confirmation Theory Perspective

  • Atapattu, Maura;Sedera, Darshana;Ravichandran, T.;Grover, Varun
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.80-108
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    • 2016
  • Contemporary organizations strive for customer agility through the deployment of digital technologies on customer-focused operations to build enduring customer relationships, with mobile apps being one of its prominent examples. Drawing on prior agility and ECT literature, this study proposes a model to examine customers' view of a firm's customer agility. Our empirical test of conceptual model from data collected in a field study from 128 customers demonstrated that the conceptual model offers good explanation for customers' view of a firm's customer agility through relationships among customer expectations-customer perceived firm's responsiveness-satisfaction. Data were analyzed using PLS, polynomial modeling, and response surface methodology to examine the relationships between customers' digital interactions with the firm, influence of digitized interactions on customer expectations, customers' evaluation of firm's responsiveness, and subsequent customer satisfaction.

A Statistical Study of CMP Process in Various Scales (CMP 프로세스의 통계적인 다규모 모델링 연구)

  • 석종원
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.27 no.12
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    • pp.2110-2117
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    • 2003
  • A physics-based material removal model in various scales is described and a feature scale simulation for a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process is performed in this work. Three different scales are considered in this model, i.e., abrasive particle scale, asperity scale and wafer scale. The abrasive particle and the asperity scales are combined together and then homogenized to result in force balance conditions to be satisfied in the wafer scale using an extended Greenwood-Williamson and Whitehouse-Archard statistical model that takes into consideration the joint distribution of asperity heights and asperity tip radii. The final computation is made to evaluate the material removal rate in wafer scale and a computer simulation is performed for detailed surface profile variations on a representative feature. The results show the dependence of the material removal rate on the joint distribution, applied external pressure, relative velocity, and other operating conditions and design parameters.

Wind tunnel studies of cantilever traffic signal structures

  • Cruzado, Hector J.;Letchford, Chris;Kopp, Gregory A.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.225-240
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    • 2013
  • The wind-induced vibrations of the mast arm of cantilever traffic signal structures can lead to the fatigue failure of these structures. Wind tunnel tests were conducted on an aeroelastic model of this type of structure. Results of these experiments indicated that when the signals have backplates, vortex shedding causes large-amplitude vibrations that could lead to fatigue failure. Vibrations caused by galloping were only observed for one particular angle of attack with the signals having backplates. No evidence for galloping, previously thought to be the dominant cause of fatigue failures in these structures, was observed.

The Grammatical Structure of Protein Sequences

  • Bystroff, Chris
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Bioinformatics Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.28-31
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    • 2000
  • We describe a hidden Markov model, HMMTIR, for general protein sequence based on the I-sites library of sequence-structure motifs. Unlike the linear HMMs used to model individual protein families, HMMSTR has a highly branched topology and captures recurrent local features of protein sequences and structures that transcend protein family boundaries. The model extends the I-sites library by describing the adjacencies of different sequence-structure motifs as observed in the database, and achieves a great reduction in parameters by representing overlapping motifs in a much more compact form. The HMM attributes a considerably higher probability to coding sequence than does an equivalent dipeptide model, predicts secondary structure with an accuracy of 74.6% and backbone torsion angles better than any previously reported method, and predicts the structural context of beta strands and turns with an accuracy that should be useful for tertiary structure prediction. HMMSTR has been incorporated into a public, fully-automated protein structure prediction server.

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Full-scale experiments of cantilever traffic signal structures

  • Cruzado, Hector J.;Letchford, Chris
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.21-41
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    • 2013
  • Wind-induced vibrations of mast arms of cantilever traffic signal structures can lead to fatigue failure. Two such structures were instrumented each with a sonic anemometer and a camera that records the motions of the tip of the arm. It was observed throughout this experiment that large amplitude vertical vibrations of mast arms with signals with backplates occur for the most part at low wind speed ranges, between 2 to 7 m/s, and as the wind speed increases the amplitude of the vertical vibrations decreases. The results of these experiments contradict the generally accepted belief that vortex shedding does not cause significant vibrations of mast arms that could lead to fatigue failure, which have been attributed to galloping in the past. Two damping devices were tested with mixed results.

Synthetic Membranes in Biotechnology: Realities and Possibilities (생물공학에서의 합성막 : 현실과 가능성)

  • Belfort, Georges
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.91-103
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    • 1992
  • Synthetic membrane processes are being increasingly integrated into existing reaction, isolation, and recovery schemes for the production of valuable biological molecules. In many cases they are replacing traditional unit processes. The properties of membrane systems which are most often exploited for both upstream and downstream processing and their permselectivity, high surface area per unit volume, are their potential for controlling the level of contact and/or mixing between two separate phases. Advances in both membrane materials and module design and operation have led to better control of concentration polarization and membrane fouling. After presenting some recent advances in membrane materials and fluid mechanics, we demonstrate how membranes have been integrated into cellular and enzymatic reaction schemes. This is followed by a review of established and emerging synergism between biological processes and synthetic membranes.

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Synthetic membranes in Biotechnology: Realities and Possibilities

  • Belfort, Georges
    • Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1992.10a
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    • pp.15-33
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    • 1992
  • Synthetic membrane processes are being increasingly integrated into existing reaction, isolation, and recovery schemes for the production of valuable biological molecules. In many cases they are replacing traditional unit processes. The properties of membrane systems which are most often exploited for both upstream and downstream processing are their permselectivity, high surface area per unit volume, and their potential for controlling the level of contact and/or mixing between two separate phases. Advances in both membrane materials and module design and operation have led to better control of concentration polarization and membrane fouling. After presenting some recent advances in membrane materials and fluid mechanics, we demonstrate how membranes have been integrated into cellular and enzymatic reaction schemes. This is followed by a review of established and emerging membrane separation processes. Several examples are used to emphasize the synergism between biological processes and synthetic membranes.

Performance Test for Membrane Module Using Dean Vortices (Dean Vortices를 이용한 막모듈의 성능시험)

  • Chung, Kun Yong;Belfort, Georges
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.104-111
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    • 1992
  • A curved channel duct is designed, built and used specifically to produce Dean vortices as a result of flow around a $180^{\circ}C$ curve. We present evidence using optical reflection of the existmace of the vortices in the curved section and following flat section. Also, three different feed soludons(DI water, a monodispersed styrene-divinyl-benzene latex particle suspension and a yeast suspension) were used to determine the effectiveness of Dean instabilities to destabilize polarization layers. For each suspension, the flux data were compared as a function of time for flow conditions with and without Dean vortices, for a $0.2{\mu}m$ microfiltration membrane. Any permeation flux improvement was not sustained for $2.0De_c$ due to the vortex-decay in the flat section after the curved channel, but a 15~30% permeation improvement was obtained for $3.8De_c$.

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