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Porosity Control in LSM Electrode Formation in Layered Plannar SOFC Module (적층 평판형 SOFC에서 LSM 전극의 기공 제어)

  • Lee, Won-Jun;Yeo, Dong-Hun;Shin, Hyo-Soon;Jeong, Dea-Yong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.27 no.12
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    • pp.866-870
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    • 2014
  • In solid oxide fuel cell system, yttria-stabilized zirconia is generally adopted as the electrolyte, which has high strength and superior oxygen ion conductivity, and the air electrode and the fuel electrode are attached to this. Recently, new structure of 'layered planar SOFC module' was suggested to solve the reliability problem due to the high temperature stability of a sealing agent and a binding material. In this study to materialize the air electrode in a layered planar SOFC module, the LSM ink was coated to form homogeneous electrode in the channel after the ink preparation. As the porosity control agent, PMMA or active carbon powder was adopted with use of a commercial dispersant in ethanol. The optimal amounts of both the porosity control agents and the dispersant were determined. Four (4) vol% of the dispersant for the LSM-PMMA case and 15 vol% for LSM-carbon powder showed the lowest viscosities respectively to indicate the best dispersed states of the slurries. With PMMA and carbon powder, sintered LSM ink shows the relatively homogeneous distributions of pores and with increases of the agents, the porosities increased in both cases. From this, it can be thought that the amount of the PMMA or carbon powder could be used to control the porosity of the LSM ink.

A Experimental Study on Wear Characteristics of Cu Alloy for Piston Head and Bush Material of Hydraulic Servo Cylinder (유압 서보실린더의 동합금 피스톤 헤드와 부시의 마멸특성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Cho, Yon-Sang;Kim, Young-Hee;Byon, Sang-Min;Park, Heung-Sik
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.330-334
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    • 2009
  • Hydraulic servo cylinders have been used to control accurately a large machine in power plant. Especially, Piston head and bush of servo cylinder is assembled sleeve and piston head and bush made of Cu alloy and pad sealing part. A damages of sleeve and piston head, bush are caused by friction and wear. Thus, It is necessary to examine friction and wear characteristics of Cu alloys for the piston head and bush. In this study, to be reliable on the piston and cylinder parts, dry friction and wear experiments were carried out with Cu alloys of four kinds of AlBC, PBC, BC and BS using reciprocating friction tester of pin on disk type. From this study, the result was shown that the AlBC and PBC with alloy elements were excellent to resistance wear. As the sliding speed was increased, the wear loss of PBC decreased than another Cu alloy.

Investigation of Likelihood of Cracking in Reinforced Concrete Bridge Decks

  • ElSafty, Adel;Abdel-Mohti, Ahmed
    • International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.79-93
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    • 2013
  • One of the biggest problems affecting bridges is the transverse cracking and deterioration of concrete bridge decks. The causes of early age cracking are primarily attributed to plastic shrinkage, temperature effects, autogenous shrinkage, and drying shrinkage. The cracks can be influenced by material characteristics, casting sequence, formwork, climate conditions, geometry, and time dependent factors. The cracking of bridge decks not only creates unsightly aesthetic condition but also greatly reduces durability. It leads to a loss of functionality, loss of stiffness, and ultimately loss of structural safety. This investigation consists of field, laboratory, and analytical phases. The experimental and field testing investigate the early age transverse cracking of bridge decks and evaluate the use of sealant materials. The research identifies suitable materials, for crack sealing, with an ability to span cracks of various widths and to achieve performance criteria such as penetration depth, bond strength, and elongation. This paper also analytically examines the effect of a wide range of parameters on the development of cracking such as the number of spans, the span length, girder spacing, deck thickness, concrete compressive strength, dead load, hydration, temperature, shrinkage, and creep. The importance of each parameter is identified and then evaluated. Also, the AASHTO Standard Specification limits liveload deflections to L/800 for ordinary bridges and L/1000 for bridges in urban areas that are subject to pedestrian use. The deflection is found to be an important parameter to affect cracking. A set of recommendations to limit the transverse deck cracks in bridge decks is also presented.

ANALYSIS OF HEAT TRANSFER AND FLUID FLOW IN THE COVER GAS REGION OF SODIUM-COOLED FAST REACTOR (소듐냉각 고속로의 커버가스 영역에서 열유동 해석)

  • Lee, Tae-Ho;Kim, Seong-O;Hahn, Do-Hee
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.21-27
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    • 2008
  • The reactor head of a sodium-cooled fast reactor KALIMER-600 should be cooled during the reactor operation in order to maintain the integrity of sealing material and to prevent a creep fatigue. Analyzing turbulent natural convection flow in the cover gas region of reactor vessel with the commercial CFD code CFX10.0, the cooling requirement for the reactor head and the performance of the insulation plate were assessed. The results showed that the high temperature region around reactor vessel was caused by the convective heat transfer of Helium gas flow ascending the gap between the insulation plate and the reactor vessel inner wall. The insulation plate was shown to sufficiently block the radiative heat transfer from pool surface to reactor head to a satisfactory degree. More than $32.5m^3$/sec of cooling air flow rate was predicted to maintain the required temperature of reactor head.

The Influence of Soft/Hard Segment Composition and Content on the Abrasion Resistance of Polyurethane Coating Agents (폴리우레탄 코팅제에 있어서 Hard Segment와 Soft Segment의 조성 및 함량변화가 내마모성에 미치는 영향)

  • Son, Hyung-Suk;Jeon, Dong-Geun;Park, Seong-Jin;Kim, Yong-Sung;Kwon, Kwi-Teag;Kim, Ki-Soo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.5-12
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    • 2014
  • Weatherstrip coatings of urethane and silicon type which are fit to EPDM and thermoplastic materials are used in sealing systems for automotive applications for noise reduction and high slip characteristics for external applications, respectively. Polyurethane binder was successfully synthesized from poly(butyladiphate)diol (PBAD), poly(tetramethylene)glycol (PTMG) and isocyanate as starting materials. Then, polyurethane coating agents were prepared by using various additives. To investigate effects of segment types on the abrasion resistance of polyurethane coating agents, thin films based on polyurethane coating materials were fabricated. With increasing the amount of hard segment in the coating agent, abrasion resistance, modulus and tensile strength of the coating films were improved, but the elongation of the coating films was decreased.

Simulation of generable muddy water quantity and pollutant loads in sloping field using artificial rainfall simulator (실내인공강우기를 이용한 경사지 밭의 토양유실량과 오염부하 모의)

  • Shin, Min-Hwan;Choi, Yong-Hun;Seo, Ji-Yeon;Lee, Jae-Woon;Choi, Joong-Dae
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.986-990
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    • 2009
  • Using artificial rainfall simulator, the soil loss, which is deemed as most cause of muddy water problem among Non-point source(NPS) pollutant, was studied by the analysis of direct runoff flow, groundwater runoff, and groundwater storage properties concerned with rainfall intensity, slope of area, and land cover. The direct runoff showed increasing tendency in both straw covered and bared boxes which are 5%, 10%, and 20% sloped respectively. Also the direct runoff volume from straw covered surface boxes were much lower than bared surface boxes. It's deemed as that the infiltration capacity of straw covered surface boxes were increased, because the surface sealing by fine material of soil surface didn't occurred due to the straw covering. Under the same rainfall intensity and slope condition, 2.4 ${\sim}$ 8.2 times of sediment yield were occurred from bared surface boxes more than straw covered surface boxes. The volume of infiltrated were increased due to straw cover, the direct runoff flow were decreased with decreasing of tractive force in surface. To understand of relationship the rate of direct runoff flow, groundwater runoff, and groundwater storage by the rainfall intensity, slope, and land cover, the statistical test was performed. It shows good relationship between most of factors, expect between the rate of groundwater storage and rainfall intensity.

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A STUDY ON THE USE OF VITAPEX WITH GUTTA-PERCHA CONES AS A ROOT CANAL FILLER (호제근충재(糊劑根充材) Vitapex의 근관폐쇄성(根管閉鎖性)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Lim, Sung-Sam
    • Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.127-132
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    • 1983
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the sealing ability of the vitapex, when used with gutta-percha cone, as a root canal filling material. Fourty five canals from extracted human maxillary and mandibular teeth were randomly selected and instrumented in a conventional method with k-file. After instrumentation and dry the canal with paper points, the canals were divided into three groups and fifteen canals in each group were filled with the following materials; Vitapex, Vitapex in combination with gutta-percha cone, and Gutta-percha cone and Zinc-oxide Eugenol Cement. All the specimens were immersed in 2% methylenblue dye solution and the depth of dye penetration into the canals were evaluated by macroscope at the intervals of 1 day, 2days and 7days. The following results were obtained; 1. All the materials experimented showed varying degrees of dye penetration. 2. The canals filled with Vitapex and Vitapex in combination with gutta perch a cone revealed sudden increase of dye penetration with time passage compared to the canals obturated with Gutta-percha cone and Zinc-oxide eugenol cement. 3. In the canals filled with Vitapex, the mean dye penetration was 1.6mm at 1day, but the specimen exposed to the dye for 7days showed mean dye penetration of 9.2mm. 4. In the canals obturated with Vitapex and gutta-percha cone, the mean dye penetration was 2mm at 1day, 2.2mm at 2days, and 8mm at 7days.

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A Study on the Design & Production of High Functional Clothing Company (국내 특수 고기능 의류업체의 디자인 및 생산현황)

  • 최정욱;장승옥
    • Journal of the Korea Fashion and Costume Design Association
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.88-93
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    • 2004
  • I The Purpose of this study is to look in to the production of high-functional clothing industry, such as item, style, layout, labor, suggest some effective solutions and alternatives for them. 23124554 For this purpose, the companies specialized in manufacturing of special high-functional clothings were sampled for a survey using interview and a questionnaire. The results of this study can be summarized as follows; It was found that since demands for high-functional apparels are low and their sewing processes are much complicated requiring expensive equipments, only a few companies are engaged in such apparels. In addition, since the quantity of order s small and material inputs are more frequently changed, the sewing processes on the production line need to be changed together with the production layouts. On the other hand, as the materials used are very special, expensive equipments should be used, for which the companies feel much burdensome financially. Accordingly, t is deemed necessary for the high-functional apparel manufactures to specialize the processes requiring specialized equipments or outsource some of them or recruit highly-skilled workers.

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The crystal growth of amorphous materials in a 2.45 GHz microwave field (2.45 GHz 마이크로파장에서 무정형 재료로부터의 $PbTiO_3$결정 성장)

  • 박성수
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.255-262
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    • 1998
  • This study investigated the crystallization behaviour of sealing amorphous material heat-treated by conventional and microwave heating source. From X-ray diffraction and SEM analyses, it was shown that microwave heat-treated sample had well-grown $PbTiO_3$crystals and the high degree of crystallinity inspite of its heat-treated condition of shorten time and lower temperature as compared with a conventionally heat-treated sample. It was assumed that microwaves inhibit the nucleation of $PbTiO_3$crystal in nucleation stage, but promote the growth of $PbTiO_3$crystal above the critical size of crystal due to enhanced diffusion effect within the sample.

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PULPAL RESPONSE OF ADULT DOGS TO SEVERAL CAPPING MATERIALS : A HISTOLOGICAL STUDY (수종의 복조재에 대한 성견치수의 조직학적반응)

  • Song, Ho-Hwan;Kim, Yong-Kee
    • Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.518-536
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    • 1997
  • The purpose of the present study was to analyze the pulpal tissue reactions to several capping materials. 8 adult Mongrel dogs and 4 different capping materials (G I : Calcium hydroxide, G II : Bonding resin, G III : Glass ionomer liner, G IV : Bioactive ceramic) we-reused in the study. The results can be summarized as follows : 1. The formation of hard tissue barrier was observed to begin after 2 weeks in all groups with various forms or positions. 2. According to the result of statistical analysis, G I and G IV showed significantly higher degree of inflammation than G II, G III in 1-week samples(p<.05). And in 2-week samples, G I showed higher degree of inflammation than G II, G IV with statistical significance(p<.05). Howere, these inflammatory reactions have gradually dimiished with time resulting in negligible difference between groups. 3. No bacterial penetration was observed in any group. 4. Hard tissue formation was evident in all groups after 2 weeks regardless of material type in this experiment. Conclusion can be drawn from the above-mentioned results that the perfect marginal sealing after pulp capping procedure is thought to be the most important factor in determining the propgnosis of direct pulp capping.

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