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Development of Self-Driven Pneumatic Robot for Boresonic Examination of Turbine Rotor (터빈로터 중심공 검사용 자기주행 공압형 로봇 개발)

  • Kang, Baejun;An, Myungjae;Lee, Chul-Hee
    • Journal of Drive and Control
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2021
  • This study presents a new principle for driving the robot aimed at reducing the position error for the boresonic examination of turbine rotor. The conventional method of inspection is performed by installing manipulator onto the flange of the turbine rotor and connecting a pipe, which is then being pushed into the bore. The longer the pipe gets, the greater sagging and distortion appear, making it difficult for the ultrasonic sensor to contact with the internal surface of the bore. A pneumatic pressure will ensure the front or rear feet of the robot in close contact with the inner wall to prevent slipping, while the ball screw on the body of the robot will rotate to drive it in the axial direction. The compression force required for tight contact was calculated in the form of a three-point support, and a static structural simulation analysis was performed by designing and modeling the robot mechanism. The driving performance and ultrasonic detection ability have been tested by fabricating the robot, the test piece for ultrasonic calibration and the transparent mock-up for robot demonstration. The tests have confirmed that no slipping occurs at a certain pneumatic pressure or over.

A Study on the Self-cleaning Surface Finishing Using PFOA Free Fluoric Polymer and Silica Nano-sol (PFOA Free 불소 고분자 및 실리카 나노졸을 이용한 self cleaning 표면 가공에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Sung-Min;Kwon, Il-Jun;Kim, Ran;Yeum, Jeong-Hyun;Yoon, Nam-Sik;Lee, Kyeung-Nam
    • Textile Coloration and Finishing
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2009
  • Super-hydrophobic surface, with a water contact angle greater than $150^{\circ}$, has a self cleaning effect termed 'lotus effect'. We introduced super-hydrophobicity onto aramid/rayon mixture fabric with dual-scale structure by assembling silica nano-sol. Mixture fabric was treated with silica nano-sol, fluoric polymer using various parameters such as particle size, concentration. Silica nano-sol size were measured using particle size analyzer. Morphological changes by particle size were observed using field emission scanning electron microscopy(FE-SEM), contact angle measurement equipment. The contact angle of water was about $134.0^{\circ}$, $137.0^{\circ}$, $143.0^{\circ}$, $139.5^{\circ}$ and $139.0^{\circ}$ for mixture fabric coated with 100.2nm, 313.7nm, 558.2nm, 628.5nm and 965.4nm silica nano-sol, compared with about $120.0^{\circ}$ for mixture fabric coated with fluoric polymer. When we mixed particle sizes of 100.2nm and 558.2nm by 7:3 volume ratio, the contact angle of water was about $146.2^{\circ}$. And we mixed particle sizes of 313.7nm and 558.2nm by 7:3 volume ratio, the contact angle of water was about $141.8^{\circ}$. Also we mixed particle sizes of 558.2nm and 965.4nm by 7:3 volume ratio, the best super-hydrophobicity was obtained. In this paper, we fabricated the water-repellent surfaces with various surface structures by using four types of silica nano-sol, and we found that the dual-scale structure was very important for the super-hydrophobicity.

Mode Shape Variation of Disc Brake with Respect to Contact Stiffness Variation (마찰재 접촉강성에 따른 디스크 브레이크 진동모드 형상화)

  • Kang, Jae-Young
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.127-132
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    • 2010
  • Eigensolutions associated with self-excited vibration of disc brake system can be obtained by complex eigenvalue analysis. The eigenvalue sensitivity to change in contact stiffness can be used to demonstrate stability criteria and eigenvalue veering. Dynamic instability on eigenvalue loci with respect to the variation of contact stiffness is found to be related to mode interaction between two adjacent modes. This modal interaction can be effectively shown by mode shape visualization. This paper presents the methodology to construct the mode shape of disc brake system where a disc and two brake pads are coupled with contact stiffness.

A Study on efficient contact analysis and optimum support design using commercial analysis software (상용 해석 소프트웨어를 이용한 접촉문제의 효과적 해석 및 최적 지지점 설계)

  • 최주호;원준호
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2004.10a
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    • pp.437-444
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    • 2004
  • In this study, an optimum support design problem is considered to minimize displacement of stacked plates under self weight condition. During the displacement analysis, several kinds of contact arise between the plates themselves and support bar. These can be easily considered if commercial analysis software, which provides capability to solve the contact problem, is used. It is found, however, that the computing time is extraordinarily long due possibly to the generality of the software and also to the ignorance of the control parameters used in the software. In this paper, the contact condition is imposed directly by the authors, while the software is used only to solve the ordinary displacement analysis problem. In this way, the computing time is decreased remarkably by more than 30 times, while yielding the same accurate results. Optimization is conducted based on this efficient analysis method to find minimum number of supporting bars using the response surface algorithm.

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The effect of contact sport athletes' recognition and wearing of mouthguards on wearing frequency (접촉성 운동선수의 마우스가드에 대한 인식과 착용감이 착용빈도에 미치는 영향)

  • Im, Joong-Jae;Lee, Hye-Eun
    • Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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    • v.44 no.3
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    • pp.89-96
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the types of mouthguards athletes who play contact sports use as well as their perceived discomfort of wearing them in order to analyze the relationship with wearing frequency so as acquire basic data for the development of more user-friendly mouthguards. Methods: The participants, who completed a self-report questionnaire, included 70 contact sports athletes, including high school contact (rugby and boxing) sport department affiliated athletes located in the city of Daejeon. Results: Breathing (p<0.01), fitting (p<0.05), ease of wearing (p<0.01), occlusion (p<0.05), and fatigue in muscles (p<0.05) were positively correlated with wearing frequency. Furthermore, the recognition of the mouthguards was not significantly correlated with wearing frequency. Conclusion: To prevent oral and maxillofacial trauma, multi-directional studies are imperative to develop mouthguards, which are comfortable and cost-efficient.

Henry James's The Wings of the Dove: Free Self and Identity (헨리 제임스의 『비둘기의 날개』 : 자유와 정체성의 문제)

  • Kim, Kyung-ah
    • English & American cultural studies
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.27-50
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    • 2009
  • Henry James tries to describe minutely in The Wings of the Dove the process in which a bad faith grows, is practiced in one's self, and spreads to a society. Through this fictional specificity, he embodies an analogy between a bad faith and social role-playing. That is, he shows, through the main characters such as Milly Theale and Merton Densher, how self interacts with the other and a society. In this interaction, there is some essential element, namely, an organic relationship between a self identity and a social role-model, which James describes very meticulously. Therefore, the characters are depicted as seeking to define self identity and eventually distorting it. Thus, The Wings of the Dove can be seen as a tragedy in which the characters who have this wrongly distorted self identity come to experience its effects. The distorted self identity appears to function as a social role. Milly distorts her true self identity by internalizing a dove-image for it. This results in a bad faith. Moreover, the American girl Milly utilizes it as a convenient social role-model which makes it easy for her to interact and engage with the others in the European society. Merton also evades adventurous and painful self-reflection and self-criticism by sticking to the mannerisms of gentlemanship and imitates the sublimity which Milly shows him. Thus, Milly and Merton clearly omit self-inspection and self-inquiry for the contact between a free self and a society, which is essential to obtain social objectivity, namely, intersubjectivity.

A study on the dressing time monitoring method of grinding wheel in surface grinding (연삭가공시 연삭숫돌의 드레싱 시기 검출 방법에 관한 연구)

    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.112-118
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    • 1998
  • In surface grinding, the contact between the grinding wheel and workpiece introduce heat and resistance, which restrict the self-dressing of the grits and result in burrs and cracks on the workpiece. Therefore, before or during the grinding operation, it is necessary to self-dress the grinding wheel for more accurate performance. In order to determine the dressing time monitoring method of grinding wheel in surface grinding, a three-dimensional computer simulation of the grinding operation has been attempted based on the contact mechanism and surface-shaping system between the grinding wheel and the workpiece. The optimal dressing time is determined based on the grain wear and work surface roughness.

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Dependence of the Thickness of Spacer Layers on the Current Voltage Characteristics of DB Resonant Tunneling Diodes Analyzed with a Self-Consistent Method (스페이서층 두께변화에 따른 공명터널링 다이오드에서 전류-전압 특성의 자기무모순법에 의한 해석)

  • 김성진;이상훈;성영권
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.31A no.3
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    • pp.46-52
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    • 1994
  • We investigated theoretically the current-voltage characteristics of resonant tunneling diodes with a single quantum well structure. using a self-consistent method. This method is a numerical analysis which is able to include the effects of the undoped spacer layer and the band bending by charge accumulation and depletion on the contact layers which have not been considered in the flat-band model reported by Esaki. so that it is better suited to explain experimental results. The structure used is an $AL_{0.5}Ga_{0.5}AS/GaAs/Al_{0.5}Ga_{0.5}AS$ single quantum well. In this work. we estimate the theoretical current-voltage characteristics of the same structure, and then, the dependence of the current-voltage curves on the thickness of undoped spacer layers sandwiched between the barrier and highly n-doped GaAs contact layer.

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Development of Multi-Porous Diamond Wheel for Smooth and Mirror Finishing of Die Materials (금형재료의 정밀연삭을 위한 다기공 다이아몬드 숫돌의 개발)

  • 허성중
    • Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.144-152
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    • 1997
  • Development of diamond wheel with fine grains and multi-pore structures were newely attempted to be studied in this paper. Wheels, that are employed for the smooth and mirrow finishing of die materials such as tungsten carbide alloy using tool and die materials, must have both performances to remove tool marks efficiently and to contact elastically with curved surfaces. Diamond abrasive grains were bonded firmly by a melamine to prevent the decrease of machining efficiency due to grain sinking within the bond materials. Also, highly foamed structures were developed to increase the flexibility of the wheel, and to induce active self-sharpening by increasing contact pressure between the wheel and work sufaces. In this paper, melamine-bonded diamond wheels are trial manufactured, then the forming method of wheels are explained.

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Predictors of Health-related Quality of Life among Spouses of Older Adults with Dementia in the Community-dwelling (재가 치매노인 배우자의 건강 관련 삶의 질 예측요인)

  • Jang, Hye-Young;Han, Song Yi
    • Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.518-527
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the factors influencing health-related quality of life among spouses of older adults with dementia based on an ecological model. Methods: This study used data from the 2015 Korean Community Health Survey with the subjects of 541 spouses of older adults with dementia. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA, and hierarchical multiple regression. Results: In this study, 26.5% of quality of life was explained by employment status, physical activity, perception of stress, perception of depressive symptom, self-rated health status, self-rated oral health status, and contact with neighbors. Conclusion: To develop more effective nursing intervention for improvement of quality of life, it needs to consider not only the individual system related factors but also community system related factors including contact with neighbors.