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Improvement of Flight Safety by Horizontal Stabilizer Design Improvement of Rotorcraft (회전익 항공기 수평 안정판의 설계 개선을 통한 비행 안전성 향상)

  • Lee, Yoon-Woo;Kim, Dae-Han;Jang, Min-Wook;Hyun, Young-Jin;Lee, Sook
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.134-141
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    • 2019
  • This paper is a study on design improvement of rotorcraft horizontal stabilizer. The rotorcraft horizontal stabilizer stabilizes the behavior of the pitch, yaw, etc. from the aircraft. Because of this role, horizontal stabilizers are a major component (Flight Safety Part) that affects flight safety on rotorcraft. However, when the rotorcraft was operated in domestic, cracks were found in the inner structure of the horizontal stabilizer and design improvement was needed. In this paper, we identified the two causes of the horizontal stabilizer crack defects through fracture analysis and structural analysis. The first is the tightening torque when the bolt is tightened, and the second is the lead-lag behavior of aircraft. In order to improve these two causes, bolt fastening method, flange structure and thickness were changed and composite ring was applied. In order to verify the design improvement, the structural analysis was performed and the structural strength was improved. Also Fatigue analysis of the internal structure (Rib 1) was performed and it was confirmed that the requirements were satisfied.

A study on the Structural Relationship among Innovation Activity, Innovation Performance, and Business Performance of Export Firms (수출기업의 혁신활동, 혁신성과, 경영성과 간의 구조적 관계에 관한 연구)

  • Yong-Hyun Cho
    • Korea Trade Review
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    • v.46 no.5
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    • pp.195-211
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship among innovation activities, innovation performance, and management performance of export firms. I first undertake a review of previous studies related to innovation activity, innovation performance, and export firms' innovation. Based on this, I set up a research model and hypotheses. First, The innovation activity is classified into product innovation activity, process innovation activity, and administrative innovation activity. Innovation performance is divided into product quality improvement and cost reduction. And the business performance is regarded as financial performance of export's firms. This study examined whether innovation activity affect innovation performance such as product quality improvement and cost reduction. In addition, I examined whether these innovation performance affects business performance (financial performance). To achieve this, a total of 368 questionnaires are used in this study and PLS (Partial Least Square) was used to analyze structural equation. As a result, this study shows that product innovation activity have a positive effect on product quality improvement, and process innovation activity also have a positive effect on product quality improvement. However, it was found that neither product innovation activity nor process innovation activity had an effect on cost reduction. And it was found that administrative innovation did not affect product quality improvement, but had a positive effect on cost reduction. Also, it was found that quality improvement, which is an innovation performance, did not affect the financial performance of export's firms, and cost reduction, which is an innovation performance, had a positive effect on the financial performance of the export's firms.

An Investigative Study on the Structural Characteristics of High-Rise Complexes in Korea (국내 고층 주상복합 건물의 구조적 특성에 관한 조사 연구)

  • Kang Suk-Won;Lee Sung-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.4 no.4 s.16
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    • pp.137-144
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    • 2003
  • Recently, the interest in a complex building increases rapidly in Korea. High-rise complex is not simply the combination of a residential apartment and a business office as previous but a building with the object of the convenience of the residents familiar with city-life style through adapting the high class life style and new residential culture to the business space, and the efficiency in using the limited building site in the town. This study presents an exploratory analysis focusing the structural system with the help of the extensive survey of the construction site in Korea, and aims a guideline for the structural design and construction of high rise complex. Through the survey, change and development in the design and the construction can be seen as the height and size of the complex grow. It is almost indispensable to design a structural system against lateral forces like earthquake or wind, which is usually measured by story drift ratio or story displacement. Improvement of the structural materials and their usages is also included for the efficiency of the structural system. Useful slab-beam system contributing to the decrease of the story height is still a concern.

Performance Evaluation of Seismic Stopper using Structural Analysis and AC156 Test Method

  • Ryu, Hyun-su
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.277-285
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    • 2020
  • Recently, studies have been actively conducted on seismic design and improvement of the seismic performance of bridges, buildings, factories, and plants. In particular, heavy items that are being manufactured or waiting to be shipped from factories (such as generators, engines, and boilers) must be equipped with seismic stoppers to prevent them from moving or falling during an earthquake. Seismic stoppers should be suitably determined by the size and weight of these heavy items; however, they have no general design standard. In this study, structural analyses and seismic tests were conducted to evaluate the performance of newly designed seismic stoppers. Structural analysis was performed on three stopper models to estimate the external load at which the yield stress of the material was not exceeded. Based on the analysis results, a seismic test of the stopper was carried out in accordance with the AC156 test method. Finally, product specifications for all three seismic stopper models were determined and their static/dynamic load performance was evaluated.

Vector space based augmented structural kinematic feature descriptor for human activity recognition in videos

  • Dharmalingam, Sowmiya;Palanisamy, Anandhakumar
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.499-510
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    • 2018
  • A vector space based augmented structural kinematic (VSASK) feature descriptor is proposed for human activity recognition. An action descriptor is built by integrating the structural and kinematic properties of the actor using vector space based augmented matrix representation. Using the local or global information separately may not provide sufficient action characteristics. The proposed action descriptor combines both the local (pose) and global (position and velocity) features using augmented matrix schema and thereby increases the robustness of the descriptor. A multiclass support vector machine (SVM) is used to learn each action descriptor for the corresponding activity classification and understanding. The performance of the proposed descriptor is experimentally analyzed using the Weizmann and KTH datasets. The average recognition rate for the Weizmann and KTH datasets is 100% and 99.89%, respectively. The computational time for the proposed descriptor learning is 0.003 seconds, which is an improvement of approximately 1.4% over the existing methods.

A Work Process for Productivity Improvement of Concrete Structural Frame Work in Tall Building (초고층 골조공사 생산성 향상을 위한 작업 프로세스 개선)

  • Jang Ji-Sun;Shin Yoon-Seok;Kang Kyoung-In
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.161-164
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    • 2005
  • According to the trend of tail building, it is essential to improve productivity in tall building construction. However, the study on that is insufficient until now. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to propose a new work process of efficient concrete structural fame work to improve productivity in tall building construction. The results of being applied proposed work process are that the 5day cycle time of concrete structural frame work is cut by 0.5day and the quantity of rebar to be demanded in concrete structural frame work is reduced.

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The needs for advanced sensor technologies in risk assessment of civil infrastructures

  • Fujino, Yozo;Siringoringo, Dionysius M.;Abe, Masato
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.173-191
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    • 2009
  • Civil infrastructures are always subjected to various types of hazard and deterioration. These conditions require systematic efforts to assess the exposure and vulnerability of infrastructure, as well as producing strategic countermeasures to reduce the risks. This paper describes the needs for and concept of advanced sensor technologies for risk assessment of civil infrastructure in Japan. Backgrounds of the infrastructure problems such as natural disasters, difficult environment, limited resource for maintenance, and increasing requirement for safety are discussed. The paper presents a concept of risk assessment, which is defined as a combination of hazard and structural vulnerability assessment. An overview of current practices and research activities toward implementing the concept is presented. This includes implementation of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems for environment and natural disaster prevention, improvement of stock management, and prevention of structural failure.

A Comparative Study on Reliability Index and Target Performance Measure Based Probabilistic Structural Design Optimizations (신뢰도지수와 목표성능치에 기반한 확률론적 구조설계 최적화기법에 대한 비교연구)

  • 양영순;이재옥
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2000
  • Probabilistic structural design optimization, which is characterized by the so-called probabilistic. constraints which introduce permissible probability of violation, is preferred to deterministic design optimization since unpredictable inherent uncertainties and randomness in structural and environmental properties are to be taken quantitatively into account by probabilistic design optimization. In this paper, the well-known reliability index based MPFP(Most Probable Failure Point) search approach and the newly introduced target performance measure based MPTP(Minimum Performance Target Point) search approach are summarized and compared. The present comparison focuses on the number of iterations required for the estimation of probabilistic constraints and a technique for improvement which removes exhaustive iterations is presented as well. A 10 bar truss problem is examined for this.

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Survey of Building Structural Elements located at Underground for Improvement of Fire Resistant Performance (건축물 지하 구조부재의 내화성능 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, In-Kyu
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.76-84
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    • 2008
  • Researches on fire resistant performance of primary structural elements such as columns and beams located at above the ground have actively been doing than those located at the below the ground from many researchers. But the structural elements such as columns at underground is very important in aspects of not only structural performance but also fire environment. The columns at the basement carry all the structural loads from the above and that means very critical in fire circumstances than that located at above the grounds. To evaluate the fire resistance performance of primary structural elements located at below the ground we conducted several sorts of surveys that contained fire regulations from several countries and structural types, materials and status of passive fire protection methods.

A Case Study of 3D and 4D CAD Application for the Domestic Construction Project (국내 건설공사 3D 및 4D CAD 적용사례로 본 현황분석)

  • Gi, Sang-Bok;Kang, Leen-Seok;Kwon, Jung-Hui;Moon, Jin-Seok;Bak, Sang-Min
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.120-125
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this case study is to find out current issue and improvement directions of the application of 3D and 4D to the construction project including building, highway and railway projects. For the study, the main functions of the 3D and 4D simulation of current system are analyzed and proposed improvement directions for 3D CAD utilization in 4D environment. Case studies of CAD application include land development for housing complex, highway project and express railway project.

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