• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2009

The effects of number of blades on the hydraulic performance of the inducer were studied using a computational method. Inducers with number of blades from 2 to 4 were used for computations and the hydraulic performances of the inducers were compared. The computational results showed that the hydraulic performance decreased due to the increase of the skin friction loss at blade passages as the blade number increased. The results also showed that the strength of the backflow became weak because of the decrease of unfavorable pressure gradient as the blade number increased.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.389-395
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• 2009

A specially designed flat plate was mounted vertically over the axial line in the wind tunnel of the Pusan National University. Strain balances were mounted in the trailing part of the plate to measure the skin friction drag over removable insertions of $0.55{\times}0.25m^2$ size. A set of the insertions was designed and manufactured: 3 mm thick polished metal surface and three compliant surfaces. The compliant surfaces were manufactured of a silicone rubber Silastic$^{(R)}$ S2 (Dow Corning company). To modify the viscoelastic properties of the rubber, its composition was varied: 90% rubber + 10% catalyst (standard), 92.5% + 7.5% (weak), 85% + 15% (strong). Modulus of elasticity and the loss factor were measured accurately for these materials in the frequency range from 40 Hz to 3 kHz. The aging of the materials (variation of their properties) for the period of one year was documented as well. Along with the drag measurement using the strain balance, velocity and pressure were measured for different coating. The strong compliant coating achieved 5% drag reduction within a velocity range $20{\sim}40$ m/s while standard and weak coatings increased drag reduction.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.135-142
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• 2016

Generally, closed slots are adopted to reduce the water friction loss in both the stator and the rotor of water filling submersible motor due to the special environment of operation. One of the obvious differences between the traditional induction motors and water filling submersible motors is that the submersible motors only need relatively smaller starting torque. This paper aims to analyze the slot leakage reactance of water filling submersible motor during starting transient operation. An improved analytical method which considered the magnetic saturation of the slot bridge and the skin effect of rotor bars is proposed. The slot permeance factor which has a direct impact on the slot leakage reactance is calculated. Then finite element models with different stator slot types are constructed and search coils are introduced to measure the slot flux linkage. Moreover, the starting performances of the models with two typical stator slots are compared and the flux leakage characteristics are obtained. Finally, the results obtained by finite element method are very close to the results obtained by analytical method.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.316-322
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• 2020

Endoscopic spine surgery is an advanced surgical technique for spinal surgery since it minimizes skin incision, muscle damage, and blood loss compared to open surgery. It requires, however, accurate positioning of an endoscope to avoid spinal nerves and to locate the endoscope near the target disk. Before the insertion of the endoscope, a guide needle is inserted to guide it. Also, the result of the surgery highly depends on the surgeons' experience and the patients' CT or MRI images. Thus, for the training, a number of haptic simulators for spinal needle insertion have been developed. But, still, it is difficult to be used in the medical field practically because previous studies require manual segmentation of vertebrae from CT images, and interaction force between the needle and soft tissue has not been considered carefully. This paper proposes AI-based automatic vertebrae CT-image segmentation and haptic rendering method using the proposed need-tissue interaction model. For the segmentation, U-net structure was implemented and the accuracy was 93% in pixel and 88% in IoU. The needle-tissue interaction model including puncture force and friction force was implemented for haptic rendering in the proposed spinal needle insertion simulator.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.834-845
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• 1995

An experimental study is made in a nearly two-dimensional 90.deg. curved duct to investigate the effects of interaction between streamline curvature and mean strain on turbulence. The initial shear at the entrance to the curved duct is varied by an upstream shear generator to produce five different shear conditions ; a uniform flow (UF), a positive weak shear (PW), a positive strong shear(PS), a negative weak shear (NW) and a negative strong shear(NS). With the mean field data of the case UF, variations of the momentum thickness, the shape factor and the skin friction over the convex(inner) surface and the concave (outer) surface are scrutinized quantitatively in-depth. It is found that, while the pressure loss due to curvature is insensitive to the inlet shear rates, the distributions of wall static pressure along both convex and concave surfaces are much influenced by the inlet shear rates.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.175-182
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• 2013

Purpose: Crushing injuries by car tires result from a combination of friction, shearing, and compression forces and the severity of injury is influenced by the acceleration. Because car-tire injuries of the lower leg in children are common these days but they have received little attention; thus, our purpose was to look closely into this problem. Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted of data from children under 15 years old age who visited an emergency department because of a car-tire-related crushing injury to the lower leg in pedestrian traffic accident from January 2008 to September 2012. The patient's age, sex, site of injury, degree of injury, associated injuries, type of surgery, and complications were reviewed. Results: There were 39 children, the mean age was 8.0 years, and 71.8% were boys. The dorsal part of the leg was involved most frequently. According to the severity classification, 15 children were grade I, 6 were grade II, and 18 were grade III. Among 24 patients, 13 were treated with skin graft and 3 were treated using a sural flap. Twelve patients developed complications, such as hypertrophic scarring, contractures, and deformities with significant bone loss. Conclusion: Various degrees of skin or soft tissue defects were caused in children by car tires. In this study, patients were often also had tendon or bone damage. Proper and timely initial treatments are needed to reduce the incidence of infection, the number of operative procedures, and the hospital stay.

• 한국지반신소재학회논문집
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.21-32
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• 2020

세계적으로 대규모 인프라 구조 건설 시장이 확대됨에 따라 극한지 및 극서지와 같은 극한 환경에서의 토목 구조물 시공이 계획 혹은 시공 중에 있다. 이에 따라 구조물의 지지력 확보를 위한 말뚝 기초의 시공이 필수적이나 극한지 및 극서지의 지반 변형 가능성으로 인해 말뚝 기초의 안정성 및 기능 상실이 우려된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 새로운 형식의 말뚝 기초를 개발함으로써 지반 변형에 대응하고자 하며, 극한지 및 극서지에서 발생 가능한 지반 변형을 크게 융기 및 침하로 구분하였다. 지반 변형 대응형 말뚝은 강관 말뚝 내부에 수축 및 팽창이 가능한 실린더가 삽입된 형태로 융기 및 침하 과정에서 실린더의 거동에 따른 말뚝 영향을 수치해석적으로 분석하였다. 수치해석 결과 지반 융기는 말뚝의 과도한 인장응력을 발생시켰으며, 실린더의 팽창 조건은 말뚝에 작용하는 인장 응력을 분담해 주어 전체적으로 말뚝에 작용하는 축 응력을 감소시켰다. 지반 침하는 부주면 마찰력 발생에 따른 말뚝의 압축응력을 증가시켜 주었는데, 실린더는 중립점 이하에 위치하여 수축 거동 시 최적의 효율을 보여주었다. 하지만 지반 변형 대응형 말뚝 시공 시 수축 및 팽창량은 상부 구조체의 허용 변위 범위를 준수하여야 하며, 설계 시 이에 따른 고려가 필요할 것으로 판단된다.