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Interaction and mechanical effect of materials interface of contact zone composite samples: Uniaxial compression experimental and numerical studies

  • Wang, Weiqi;Ye, Yicheng;Wang, Qihu;Luo, Binyu;Wang, Jie;Liu, Yang
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.571-582
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    • 2020
  • Aiming at the mechanical and structural characteristics of the contact zone composite rock, the uniaxial compression tests and numerical studies were carried out. The interaction forms and formation mechanisms at the contact interfaces of different materials were analyzed to reveal the effect of interaction on the mechanical behavior of composite samples. The research demonstrated that there are three types of interactions between the two materials at the contact interface: constraint parallel to the interface, squeezing perpendicular to the interface, and shear stress on the interface. The interaction is mainly affected by the differences in Poisson's ratio and elastic modulus of the two materials, stronger interface adhesion, and larger interface inclination. The interaction weakens the strength and stiffness of the composite sample, and the magnitude of weakening is positively correlated with the degree of difference in the mechanical properties of the materials. The tensile-shear stress derived from the interaction results in the axial tensile fracture perpendicular to the interface and the interfacial shear facture. Tensile cracks in stronger material will propagation into the weaker material through the bonded interface. The larger inclination angle of the interface enhances the effect of composite tensile/shear failure on the overall sample.

Relevance of Outsourcing S/W Process Quality and Product Quality with IT Adoption Factors (IT 도입요소를 고려한 외주 S/W 프로세스품질과 제품품질)

  • Lee, Jong-Moo;Park, Cheol-Soo;Yoo, Young-Kwan
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.131-153
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    • 2009
  • Due to the deterioration of the business environment, many companies become more interested in IT adoption to strengthen their internal competence. The recent expansion of the ERP adoption in the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can be interpreted as an example for this. However there are still a number of questions over the outsourcing effectiveness and its performance of IT adoption by characteristics of SMEs. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the software process quality and the product quality, and additionally the moderating effect of IT adoption factors, from the case of SMEs' ERP adoption by the outsourcing. For this purpose, the empirical analysis through the structural equation model has been carried out, based on the software quality model defined in ISO/IEC 15504 and ISO/IEC 9126. The result of analysis shows that the acquisition process quality can affect the product quality characteristics, currently applied in the national software quality certification, and this supports the practical usefulness of the ISO standard of software engineering. But another result shows that there is little moderating effect by IT adoption factors, in contrast to the expectation, and this can be explained due to the inappropriate measurement and the data constraint such as short duration-time of IT adoption. These can be used as an informative reference for continuing studies of the quality model application and the effect of IT adoption factors in SMEs.

Effect of specimen size on fracture toughness of reduced activation ferritic steel (JLF-l) (저방사화 철강재 (JLF-1)의 파괴인성에 미치는 시험편 크기의 영향)

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun;Yoon, Han-Ki;Park, Won-Jo;Katoh, Y.;Kohyama, A.
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.300-305
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    • 2003
  • Reduced activation ferritic (JLF-1) steel is leading candidates for blanket/first-wall structures of the D-T fusion reactor. In fusion application, structural materials will suffer effects of repeated changes of temperature. Therefore, the data base of tensile strength and fracture toughness at operated temperature $400^{\circ}C$ are very important. Fracture toughness ($J_{IC}$) and tensile tests were carried out at room temperature and elevated temperature ($400^{\circ}C$). Fracture toughness tests were performed with two type size to investigate the relationship between the constraint effect of a size and the fracture toughness resistance curve. As the results, the tensile strength and the fracture toughness values of the JLF-1 steel are slightly decreased with increasing temperature. The fracture resistance curve increased with increasing plane size and decreased with increasing thickness. The fracture toughness values of JLF-1 steel at room temperature and at $400^{\circ}C$ shows an excellent fracture toughness ($J_{IC}$) of about $530kJ/m^2\;and\;340kJ/m^2$, respectively.

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A Study on the Optimum Design of Three Span Continuous Preflex Composite Girder Bridge (3경간 연속 Preflex 합성형교의 최적설계에 관한 연구)

  • Koo, Min Se;Chang, Suong Su;Jeong, Jin Il
    • Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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    • v.10 no.1 s.34
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    • pp.125-135
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    • 1998
  • This study presents a design method for three-span continuous preflex composite girder bridges (3S-PCB) which imposes prestresses in the negative moment region by lifting or lowering interior supports and the design method is automated by a computer program which incorporates optimal design procedure. The objective function for the design of 3S-PCB minimizes the cost of construction materials and the constraint functions represent the limited dimensions of the design section and the allowable stress for each structural member as given in the specifications. Optimal design procedure used in this study is a modification of existing sequential unconstrained minimization technique (SUMT), a numerical analyses procedure for two-span continuous preflex composite bridges. The optimized design sections determined for each span length are compared with those of simple preflex composite beams (SPCB) and the optimal girder depth is determined by defining the relationship between girder depth and construction material costs.

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A simple damper optimization algorithm for both target added damping ratio and interstorey drift ratio

  • Aydin, Ersin
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.83-109
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    • 2013
  • A simple damper optimization method is proposed to find optimal damper allocation for shear buildings under both target added damping ratio and interstorey drift ratio (IDR). The damping coefficients of added dampers are considered as design variables. The cost, which is defined as the sum of damping coefficient of added dampers, is minimized under a target added damping ratio and the upper and the lower constraint of the design variables. In the first stage of proposed algorithm, Simulated Annealing, Nelder Mead and Differential Evolution numerical algorithms are used to solve the proposed optimization problem. The candidate optimal design obtained in the first stage is tested in terms of the IDRs using linear time history analyses for a design earthquake in the second stage. If all IDRs are below the allowable level, iteration of the algorithm is stopped; otherwise, the iteration continues increasing the target damping ratio. By this way, a structural response IDR is also taken into consideration using a snap-back test. In this study, the effects of the selection of upper limit for added dampers, the storey mass distribution and the storey stiffness distribution are all investigated in terms of damper distributions, cost function, added damping ratio and IDRs for 6-storey shear building models. The results of the proposed method are compared with two existing methods in the literature. Optimal designs are also compared with uniform designs according to both IDRs and added damping ratios. The numerical results show that the proposed damper optimization method is easy to apply and is efficient to find optimal damper distribution for a target damping ratio and allowable IDR value.

The Study on Antioxidation of Retinal (Retinol에 대한 항산화 연구)

  • 조춘구;한창규;홍우진
    • Journal of the Society of Cosmetic Scientists of Korea
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.58-70
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    • 2002
  • In an attempt to compare the antioxidation effects of constrain the oxidation and improve the structural stability, retinol and various antioxidants were together encapsulated by liposome. Four water soluble and four oil soluble antioxidants were tested for performance. The influence of tertiary butylhydroquinone(TBHQ), ${\alpha}$-glycosyl rutin(${\alpha}$-G rutin), licorece, pycnogenol as water soluble antioxidants and butylated hydroxytoluene(BHT), ${\alpha}$-lipoic acid, ferulic acid, natural concentrated tooopherol(no-tocopherol) as oil soluble antioxidants on the constraint of oxidation of retinol were investigated. Additional study was conducted to compare the synergic effect of antioxidation for retinol with licorice, pycnogenol, ${\alpha}$-lipoic acid and BHT. All the antioxidant used at the study constrained oxidation of retinol. The effect of antioxidation for retinol increased in order of licorice, pycnogenol, TBHQ, ${\alpha}$-G rutin as water soluble antioxidants and ${\alpha}$-lipoic acid, BHT, no-tocopherol, ferulic acid as oil soluble antioxidants. In conclusion, ${\alpha}$-lipoic acid is more effective retinol antioxidants than BHT. And the combination of ${\alpha}$-lipoic acid and BHT gave best synergic among six combinations.

Optimal Design Method of Dynamic Vibration Absorber to Reduce Resonant Vibration Response of Ship Local Structure (선박 국부구조의 공진응답 저감을 위한 동흡진기 최적 설계 방법)

  • Kwon, Hyuk;Cho, Daeseung
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.59 no.3
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    • pp.134-140
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    • 2022
  • Ship local structure sometimes experiences severe vibration due to the resonance with an excitation force generated by the propulsion system. In that case, the installation of dynamic vibration absorber such as Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) on the structure can be considered as an effective alternative countermeasure to reduce the troublesome vibration if structural modification or change of excitation frequencies is difficult. Meanwhile, the conventional optimal design method of TMD premises the target structure exposed on an excitation force without the constraint of its magnitude and frequency range. However, the frequencies of major ship excitation forces due to propulsion system are normally bounded and its magnitude is varied according to its operation speed. Hence, the optimal design of TMD to reduce the resonant vibration of ship local structure should be differently approached compared with the conventional ones. For the purpose, this paper proposes an optimal design method of TMD considering maximum frequency and magnitude variation of a target harmonic excitation component. It is done by both lowering the resonant response at the 1st natural frequency and locating the 2nd natural frequency over maximum excitation frequency for the idealized 2 degree of freedom system consisted of the structure and the TMD. For the validation of the proposed method, a numerical design case of TMD for a ship local structure exposed on resonant vibration due to a propeller excitation force is introduced and its performance is compared with the conventionally designed one.

Seismic behavior of deep-sea pipeline after global buckling under active control

  • Jianshuo Wang;Tinghao Meng;Zechao Zhang;Zhihua Chen;Hongbo Liu
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.261-267
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    • 2024
  • With the increase in the exploitation depth of offshore oil and gas, it is possible to control the global buckling of deep-sea pipelines by the snake lay method. Previous studies mainly focused on the analysis of critical buckling force and critical temperature of pipelines under the snake-like laying method, and pipelines often suffer structural failure due to seismic disasters during operation. Therefore, seismic action is a necessary factor in the design and analysis of submarine pipelines. In this paper, the seismic action of steel pipes in the operation stage after global buckling has occurred under the active control method is analyzed. Firstly, we have established a simplified finite element model for the entire process cycle and found that this modeling method is accurate and efficient, solving the problem of difficult convergence of seismic wave and soil coupling in previous solid analysis, and improving the efficiency of calculations. Secondly, through parameter analysis, it was found that under seismic action, the pipe diameter mainly affects the stress amplitude of the pipeline. When the pipe wall thickness increases from 0.05 m to 0.09 m, the critical buckling force increases by 150%, and the maximum axial stress decreases by 56%. In the pipe soil interaction, the greater the soil viscosity, the greater the pipe soil interaction force, the greater the soil constraint on the pipeline, and the safer the pipeline. Finally, the pipeline failure determination formula was obtained through dimensionless analysis and verified, and it was found that the formula was accurate.

Topology Design Optimization and Experimental Validation of Heat Conduction Problems (열전도 문제에 관한 위상 최적설계의 실험적 검증)

  • Cha, Song-Hyun;Kim, Hyun-Seok;Cho, Seonho
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.9-18
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    • 2015
  • In this paper, we verify the optimal topology design for heat conduction problems in steady stated which is obtained numerically using the adjoint design sensitivity analysis(DSA) method. In adjoint variable method(AVM), the already factorized system matrix is utilized to obtain the adjoint solution so that its computation cost is trivial for the sensitivity. For the topology optimization, the design variables are parameterized into normalized bulk material densities. The objective function and constraint are the thermal compliance of the structure and the allowable volume, respectively. For the experimental validation of the optimal topology design, we compare the results with those that have identical volume but designed intuitively using a thermal imaging camera. To manufacture the optimal design, we apply a simple numerical method to convert it into point cloud data and perform CAD modeling using commercial reverse engineering software. Based on the CAD model, we manufacture the optimal topology design by CNC.

The Structural Relationship between Leisure Attitude, Facilitation, Constraint, Satisfaction, and Re-participate Intention among Marine Sports Participants (해양스포츠 참여자의 여가태도, 촉진, 제약, 만족, 재참가 의도 간의 구조적 관계)

  • Ahn, Byoung-Wook;Kwon, Young-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.12
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    • pp.772-779
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    • 2019
  • This study identified the relationship between leisure attitudes, leisure promotion, leisure drugs, leisure satisfaction, and the intention to rejoin maritime sports by the participants of this study. The researchers selected 542 adult men and women who live in Seoul and the Incheon, Gyeonggi and Chungcheong provinces, and who were currently engaged in marine sports activities. Data processing was performed using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 18.0 for the frequency analysis, reliability analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation analysis and structural equation model analysis. The results of this study were as follows. First, the leisure attitudes of marine sports participants did not affect the promotion of leisure (p>.05). Second, the attitude towards leisure of the marine sports participants had a negative effect on using leisure pharmaceuticals (p<.05). Third, the leisure attitudes of marine sports participants affected their leisure satisfaction (p<.05). Fourth, the promotion of leisure activities of the marine sports participants did not affect their leisure satisfaction (p>.05). Fifth, the leisure restrictions of marine sports participants did not affect their leisure satisfaction (p>.05). Sixth, the leisure activities of marine sports participants affected the intention of rejoining (p<.05).