• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.149-167
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• 2004

Offshore platforms have to serve in harsh environments and hence are likely to be damaged due to wave induced fatigue and environmental corrosion. Welded tubular joints in offshore platforms are most vulnerable to fatigue damage. Such damages endanger the integrity of the structure. Therefore it is all the more essential to assess the capacity of damaged structure from the point of view of its safety. Eight internally ring stiffened fatigue damaged tubular joints with nominal chord and brace diameter of 324 mm and 219 mm respectively and thickness 12 mm and 8 mm respectively were tested under axial brace compression loading to evaluate the reserve capacity of the joints. These joints had earlier been tested under fatigue loading under corrosive environments of synthetic sea water and hence they have been cracked. The extent of the damage varied from 35 to 50 per cent. One stiffened joint was also tested under axial brace tension loading. The residual strength of fatigue damaged stiffened joint tested under tension loading was observed to be less than one fourth of that tested under compression loading. It was observed in this experimental investigation that in the damaged condition, the joints possessed an in-built load-transfer mechanism. A bi-linear stress-strain model was developed in this investigation to predict the reserve capacity of the joint. This model considered the strain hardening effect. Close agreement was observed between the experimental and predicted results. The paper presents in detail the experimental investigation and the development of the analytical model to predict the reserve capacity of internally ring stiffened joints.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.16D no.2
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• pp.153-160
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• 2009

Efficient buffer management is closely related to system performance. Thus, much research has been performed on various buffer management techniques. However, many of the proposed techniques utilize the temporal locality of access patterns. In spatial database environments, there exists not only the temporal locality but also spatial locality, where the objects in the recently accessed regions will be accessed again in the near future. Thus, in this paper, we present a buffer management technique, called BEAT, which utilizes both the temporal locality and spatial locality in spatial database environments. The experimental results with real-life and synthetic data demonstrate the efficiency of BEAT.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.1C
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• pp.81-89
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• 2003

For improving the performance of noise suppression in tactical communication environments, an enhanced MELP vocoder is suggested, in which an acoustic noise suppressor is integrated into the front end of the MELP algorithm, and an FEC code into the channel side of the MELP algorithm. The acoustic noise suppressor is the modified IS-127 EVRC noise suppressor which is adapted for the MELP vocoder. As for FEC, the turbo code, which consists of rate-113 encoding and BCJR-MAP decoding algorithm, is utilized. In acoustic noise environments, the lower the SNR becomes, the more the effects of noise suppression is increased. Moreover, The suggested system has greater noise suppression effects in stationary noise than in non-stationary noise, and shows its superiority by 0.24 in MOS test to the original MELP vocoder. When the interleave size is one MELP frame, BER 10-6 is accomplished at channel bit SNR 4.2 ㏈. The iteration of decoding at 3 times is suboptimal in its complexity vs. performance. Synthetic quality is realized as more than MOS 2.5 at channel bit SNR 2 ㏈ in subjective voice quality test, when the interleave size is one MELP frame and the iteration of decoding is more than 3 times.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.61-71
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• 1992

Through the low-temperature(60-150${\circ}C$) hydrothermal treatment of perlite with the alkaline solution at various NaOH concentrations, the mode of volcanic glass alteration and resultant zeolite formation were investigated in a closed system. At a temperature of 80${\circ}C$ and alkalinities of pH range 8 to 12, corresponding to the natural environments of diagenetic zeolite formation, only weak dissolution of perlitic glass occurs without zeolite formation despite the residence time of 100 days. Activities of Si and Al increase progressively, as a consequence of increasing pH, whereas activity ratios of Si/Al decrease. Zeolites were synthesized from perlite in the alkaline solution at above 0.1M NaOH concentrations. Below the temperature of 100${\circ}C$ Na-P was mainly formed, whereas analcime was the dominant zeolite at the temperature range of 100-150${\circ}C$. During Na-P synthesis chabazite and Na-X were also formed as by-products in case of lower proportion of solution/sample(<10ml/g) and higher NaOH concentraion (>3M), respectively. The alteration modes of perlite in the zeolite synthesis reflect that the formation of synthetic zeolites occurs as an incongruent dissolution likely with the diagenetic formation of natural zeolites from volcanic glass. Considering much difference in reaction kinetics between natural and synthetic systems, however, the evaluated synthetic conditions in these experiments were not directly applicable to the natural diagenetic system.

• Journal of Mushroom
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.51-58
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• 2016

Basidiomycetous fungi are one of the most potent biodegraders because many of its species grow on dead wood or litter, in environments rich in lignocellulose. For the degradation of lignocellulose, basidiomycetes utilize their lignocellulytic enzymes, which typically include laccase (EC 1.10.3.2), lignin peroxidase (EC 1.11.1.14), xylanase (EC 3.2.1.8), and cellulase (EC 3.2.1.4). In recent years, the practical applications of basidiomycetes have ranged from the textile to the pulp and paper industries, and from food applications to bioremediation processes and industrial enzymatic saccharification of biomass. Recently, spent mushroom substrates of edible mushrooms have been used as sources of bulk enzymes to decolorize synthetic dyes in textile wastewater. In this review, the occurrence, mode of action, general properties, and production of lignocellulytic enzymes from mushroom species will be discussed. We will also discuss the potential applications of these enzymes.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.12-18
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• 1999

A deformable non-Uniform Rational B-Spline (NURBS) based volume is programed for the force reflecting exoskeleton haptic device. In this work, a direct free form deformation (DFFD) technique is applied for the realistic manipulation. In order to implement the real-time deformation, a nodal mapping technique is used to connect points on the virtual object with the NURBS volume. This geometric modeling technique is ideally incorporated with the force reflecting haptic device as a virtual interface. The results in this work introduce details for the complete set-up for the realistic virtual clay modeling task with force feedback. The force reflecting exoskeleton haptic manipulator, coupled with a supporting PUMA 560 manipulator and the virtual clay model are integrated with the graphics display, and results show that the force feedback from the realistic physically based virtual environment can greately enhance the sense of immersion.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.1037-1051
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• 2018

The genus Rhodococcus is a phylogenetically and catabolically diverse group that has been isolated from diverse environments, including polar and alpine regions, for its versatile ability to degrade a wide variety of natural and synthetic organic compounds. Their metabolic capacity and diversity result from their diverse catabolic genes, which are believed to be obtained through frequent recombination events mediated by large catabolic plasmids. Many rhodococci have been used commercially for the biodegradation of environmental pollutants and for the biocatalytic production of high-value chemicals from low-value materials. Recent studies of their physiology, metabolism, and genome have broadened our knowledge regarding the diverse biotechnological applications that exploit their catabolic enzymes and pathways.

• Journal of The Korean Digital Architecture Interior Association
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-42
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• 2007

Common residential environment is synthetic forms promote with organic organization of varied cultures and images. Users perceive and classify about these environments of feeling and atmosphere of each elements through their experiences and memories, not fixed point of view. In Korea, park designing of common residential room is in operation monotonously attach importance to economical efficiency without aesthetic structures, varied tries of materials, multiplicity, congruity of surrounding, and user-oriented plan. Recently, in policy of park designing has elements that obstruct to characteristic of environment because of applied to wrong guidelines which are end in investigation to model of an advanced countries'. In conclusion, this investigation shows improve on quality of park planning with the pivot of the matter is for users of common residential room. and park planning needs to multidimensional achieve.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.39-42
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• 2013

자동차 및 에너지 산업의 적용을 목표로 고망간강의 기계적 성질 향상 연구가 활발히 진행된 반면 내식성 연구는 미비하다. 본 연구에서는 염수 환경 및 H2S 환경에서 4종의 고망간강의 내식성에 미치는 크롬 및 망간의 영향을 조사하였다. 비교재로 사용된 탄소강 대비 실험재의 부식 속도는 침지 실험을 통해 얻어졌다. 또한 내식성 기구 고찰을 위하여 상평형 프로그램을 통하여 녹 층을 예측하고, 침지실험으로부터 얻어진 녹 층을 XRD, SEM-EDS 및 TEM-EDS로 분석하였다. 3.5% NaCl 용액에서 크롬 및 망간이 모두 내식성을 향상시킨 반면, synthetic seawater에서는 크롬만이 내식성을 향상시켰다. 또한 이들 염수 환경과 달리 H2S 환경에서 크롬과 망간 모두 내식성을 향상시키지 못했다. 환경에 따라 강의 내식성에 미치는 합금 원소의 영향이 상이한 원인은 각각의 환경에서 형성된 녹층의 구성 물질의 차이에 의한 것으로 이에 대하여는 본문의 된 녹 층 분석 결과에서 자세히 설명되었다.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.343-353
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• 2004

This paper presents the survivability, mobility, and functionality of a rover as part of a radar system for polar regions. Rovers can provide autonomy and precision for radars used to measure ice thickness and other characteristics of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. These rovers can be used to move radar antennas in precise patterns for synthetic aperture radars while providing environmental protection and power to the onboard radar equipment. This paper describes the mobility, actuation, sensing, winterization, control, and virtual prototyping of a polar rover. The rover has been successfully tested in Greenland.