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Evaluation of extension in service life and layer thickness reduction of stabilized flexible pavement

  • Nagrale, Prashant P.;Patil, Atulya
    • Advances in Computational Design
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.201-212
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    • 2018
  • Decrease in availability of suitable subbase and base course materials for highway construction leads to a search for economic method of converting locally available troublesome soil to suitable one for highway construction. Present study insights on evaluation of benefits of stabilization of subgrade soils in term of extension in service life (TBR) and layer thickness reduction (LTR). Laboratory investigation consisting of Atterberg limit, Compaction, California Bearing Ratio, unconfined compressive strength and triaxial shear strength tests were carried out on two types of soil for varying percentages of stabilizers. Vertical compressive strains at the top of unstabilized and stabilized subgrade soils were found out by elastoplastic finite element analysis using commercial software ANSYS. The values of vertical compressive strains at the top of unstabilized and stabilized subgrade, were further used to estimate layer thickness reduction or extension in service life of the pavement due to stabilization. Finite element modeling of the flexible pavement layered structure provides modern technology and sophisticated characterization of materials that can be accommodated in the analysis and enhances the reliability for the prediction of pavement response for improved design methodology. If the pavement section is kept same for unstabilized and stabilized subgrade soils, pavement resting on lime, fly ash and fiber stabilized subgrade soil B will have service life 2.84, 1.84 and 1.67 times than that of unstabilized pavement respectively. The flexible pavement resting on stabilized subgrade is beneficial in reducing the construction material. Actual savings would depend on the option exercised by the designer for reducing the thickness of an individual layer.

An Efficient FTL Algorithm for Flash Memory (플래시 메모리를 위한 효율적인 사상 알고리즘)

  • Chung Tae-Sun;Park Hyung-Seok
    • Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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    • v.32 no.9
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    • pp.483-490
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    • 2005
  • Recently, flash memory is widely used in embedded applications since it has strong points: non-volatility, fast access speed, shock resistance, and low power consumption. However, due to its hardware characteristics, it requires a software layer called FTL(flash translation layer). The main functionality of FTL is to convert logical addresses from the host to physical addresses of flash memory We present a new FTL algorithm called STAFF(State Transition Applied Fast Flash Translation Layer). Compared to the previous FTL algorithms, STAFF shows five times higher performance than basic block mapping scheme and requires less memory. We provide performance results based on our implementation of STAFF and previous FTL algorithms.

Fabry-Perot Filter Constructed with Anisotropic Space Layer and Isotropic Mirrors

  • Qi, Hongji;Hou, Yongqiang;Yi, Kui;Shao, Jianda
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 2013
  • In this study a new design concept of the Fabry-Perot filter, constructed with an anisotropic space layer and a couple of isotropic mirrors, was proposed based on the Maxwell equations and the characteristic matrix method. The single- and double-cavity Fabry-Perot filters were designed, and their optical properties were investigated with a developed software package. In addition, the dependence of the transmittance and phase shift for two orthogonal polarization states on the column angle of the anisotropic space layer and the incidence angle were discussed. We demonstrated that the polarization state of electromagnetic waves and phase shifts can be modulated by exploiting an anisotropic space layer in a polarization F-P filter. Birefringence of the anisotropic space layer provided a sophisticated phase modulation with varied incidence angles over a broad range, resulting in a wide-angle phase shift. This new concept would be useful for designing optical components with isotropic and anisotropic materials.

The application of shallow seismic reflection method for Chechon limestone area (제천 석회석 지역의 탄성파 반사법의 적용)

  • Suh, Beak-Soo;Lee, Duk-Jae
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.20 no.A
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    • pp.303-309
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    • 2000
  • Seismic reflection method is applied to detect shallow location of limestone in Chechon area. The data using hammer source is compared with that of weight drop. Small size hammer and weight-drop are used as energy source and 100Hz geophones are used for data aquisition. Data processing is conducted utilizing the available processing technique of "Geobit", which is seismic data processing software developed by KIGAM. The result of above data processing, the velocity of topsoil layer is 1,250m/sec. The velocity of this area is higher than other area because loading trucks pass this area and make this layer compact. And in limestone area, hammer is proposed to energy source instead of weight drop because the energy propagates the layer very well.

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An Application Layer Design for Humanoid Robot in the Controller Area Network(CAN) (CAN내장 휴머노이드 로봇에 대한 응용층 설계)

  • Ku, Ja-Bong;Huh, Uk-Youl
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2004.11c
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    • pp.258-260
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    • 2004
  • The Controller Area Network (CAN) is being widely used in real-time control applications such as automobiles, aircraft, and automated factories. Unfortunately, CAN, in its current form, is not able to either share out the system bandwidth among the different devices fairly or to grant an upper bound on the transmission times experienced by the nodes connected to the communication medium as it happens, for instance, in the token-based networks. In this paper, we present An Application Layer Design for Humanoid Robot in the CAN. Besides introducing the new algorithm, this paper also presents some performance figures obtained using a specially developed software simulator and experimentation for composition of CAN which uses JTAG mode of a parallel debugging., while the behavior of the new algorithm is compared with the traditional CAN systems. in order to see how effective they are.

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Optimal Treatment of Unconstrained Visco-elastic Damping Layer on Beam to Minimize Vibration Responses (동적응답을 최소화하는 비구속형 제진보의 제진부위 최적설계)

  • Lee, Doo-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.656-661
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    • 2005
  • An optimization formulation of unconstrained damping treatment on beams is proposed to minimize vibration responses using a numerical search method. The fractional derivative model is combined with RUK's equivalent stiffness approach in order to represent nonlinearity of complex modulus of damping materials with frequency and temperature. The loss factors of partially covered unconstrained beam are calculated by the modal strain energy method. Vibration responses are calculated by using the modal superposition method, and of which design sensitivity formula with respect to damping layout is derived analytically. Plugging the sensitivity formula into optimization software, we can determine optimally damping treatment region that gives minimum forced response under a given boundary condition. A numerical example shows that the proposed method is very effective in minimizing vibration responses with unconstrained damping layer treatment.

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Web Service-based Enactment Architecture for the Efficient Process Execution (효율적인 프로세스 실행을 위한 웹서비스 기반의 실행 아키텍처)

  • Yun, Ho-Seong;Jeong, Ji-Su;Choe, In-Jun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.710-713
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    • 2004
  • There have been numerous research and development efforts to automate business processes or execute business processes automatically. Especially, Web service is considered to be one of the most promising technologies. Existing Web service composition languages such as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) and BPML (Business Process Modeling Language) do not provide full semantic support for business processes. This paper proposes a 3-layer model that consists of business process layer and service layer which can seamlessly integrates business process semantics with service semantics. The proposed model and architecture will enable effective management of business processes as well-defined corporate assets, services that execute tasks to achieve goals of business processes, and software components that comprise services.

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An Experimental Study on the Vertical Dispersion of Plume in Convective Boundary Layer Using a Composite Turbulence Water Tank (複合因 擾亂 水槽를 이용한 대류 경계층에서의 연직방향 plume 확산에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 박옥현;서석진;이상훈
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.639-647
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    • 1999
  • Experimental methods of plume dispersion in convective boundary layer using a composite turbulence water tank have been established through (ⅰ) manufacturing of water tank system, (ⅱ) providing of tracer whose volatility is relatively low, (ⅲ) development of software for image processing of dispersed particles in fluid, and (ⅳ) application of appropriate similarity law. Using these methods, the vertical dispersion coefficient $$\sigma$_2$ at long distances on mesoscale and the centerline height $Z_c$ of plumes have been measured. Measurement of $$\sigma$_2$ have been validated through comparison with CONDORS field experiments, and analysed with respect to the intensity of heat flux and mechanical turbulence as well as plume release height. Downwind distance where plume center height approaches to final level has also been analysed in respect of these three parameters.

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Computational Design of a Disk-Shape Boundary-Layer Pump (원반형 경계층 펌프의 전산 설계)

  • Jeong, S.Y.;Chang, S.M.;Yang, J.S.
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.12-17
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    • 2010
  • A kind of disk-shape boundary layer pump is designed numerically by using a software of computational fluid dynamics, which is widely used for the special purposes such as artificial hearts, bio-fluidics and transportation of oceanic lives, etc. From the numerical simulation with an axisymmetric model, some benchmark problems are tested and compared with experimental results. The performance of disk pump is graphically visualized from the computational results, and converted to the dimensionless parameters. Finally, the obtained numerical data in the present investigation can be used for the baseline for new design to achieve a more efficient disk pump.

Improvement of Light Extraction Efficiency of LED Packages Using an Enhanced Encapsulant Design

  • Choi, Hyun-Su;Park, Joon-Sik;Moon, Cheol-Hee
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.370-376
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    • 2014
  • We optimized the design of the flat encapsulant of a light-emitting diode (LED) package to obtain higher light output power (LOP), both by experiment and simulation using three-dimensional ray-tracing software. In the experiment, the refractive index of the encapsulant was varied (1.41 and 1.53). In addition, double-layer structures with these refractive indices (1.41/1.53) were investigated by varying the shape of the interface between the two among flat, concave, and convex. The experiments showed that the LOP of the double-layer encapsulant with convex interface increased by 13.4% compared to the single-layer encapsulant with a refractive index 1.41, which was explained by the increase of the light extraction efficiency (LEE) in connection with the increase of the critical angle (${\theta}_c$) and the decrease of the Fresnel reflection.