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A novel approach to the form-finding of membrane structures using dynamic relaxation method

  • Labbafi, S. Fatemeh;Sarafrazi, S. Reza;Gholami, Hossein;Kang, Thomas H.K.
    • Advances in Computational Design
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.123-141
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    • 2017
  • Solving a system of linear or non-linear equations is required to analyze any kind of structures. There are many ways to solve a system of equations, and they can be classified as implicit and explicit techniques. The explicit methods eliminate round-off errors and use less memory. The dynamic relaxation method (DR) is one of the powerful and simple explicit processes. The important point is that the DR does not require to store the global stiffness matrix, for which it just uses the residual loads vector. In this paper, a new approach to the DR method is expressed. In this approach, the damping, mass and time steps are similar to those of the traditional method of dynamic relaxation. The difference of this proposed method is focused on the method of calculating the damping. The proposed method is expressed such that the time step is constant, damping is equal to zero except in steps with maximum energy and the concentrated damping can be applied to minimize the energy of system in this step. In this condition, the calculation of damping in all steps is not required. Then the volume of computation is reduced. The DR method for form-finding of membrane structures is employed in this paper. The form-finding of the three plans related to the membrane structures with different loading is considered to investigate the efficiency of the proposed method. The numerical results show that the convergence rate based on the proposed method increases in all cases than other methods.

A study on Mossbauer Spectra of the $Ni_{1-x}Cd_xFeAlO_4$ system ($Ni_{1-x}Cd_xFeAlO_4$계의 Mossbauer 스펙트럼 연구)

  • 고정대;홍성락;백승도
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.192-197
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    • 1998
  • The Mossbauer spectra of the $Ni_{1-x}Cd_xFeAlO_4$ system were investigated with the Cd content x at room temperature. The spectra of the samples exhibit various patterns as follows 1) superparmagnetic relaxation for 0$\leq$x$\leq$0.2, 2) ferrimagnetic sextet for 0.3$\leq$x$\leq$0.5, 3) ferromagnetic relaxation for x=0.6, 0.7, 4) paramagnetic doublet for 0.8$\leq$x$\leq$1, with the Cd content x. In the samples with x values from 0 to 0.2, the substituted $Cd^{2+}$ ions transfer the $Al^{3+}$ ions from A-site to B-site mainly. The superparamagnetic relaxation effect and the ferromagnetic relaxation effect are derived from the $Al^{3+}$, $Cd^{2+}$ respectively. The magnetic structure of the $Ni_{1-x}Cd_xFeAlO_4$ system was explained by the Yafet-Kittel model.

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An Inventory Problem with Lead Time Proportional to Lot Size and Space Constraint (로트크기에 비례하는 리드타임과 공간 제약을 고려한 재고관리 정책)

  • Lee, Dongju
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.109-116
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    • 2015
  • This paper is concerned with the single vendor single buyer integrated production inventory problem. To make this problem more practical, space restriction and lead time proportional to lot size are considered. Since the space for the inventory is limited in most practical inventory system, the space restriction for the inventory of a vendor and a buyer is considered. As product's quantity to be manufactured by the vendor is increased, the lead time for the order is usually increased. Therefore, lead time for the product is proportional to the order quantity by the buyer. Demand is assumed to be stochastic and the continuous review inventory policy is used by the buyer. If the buyer places an order, then the vendor will start to manufacture products and the products will be transferred to the buyer with equal shipments many times. The mathematical formulation with space restriction for the inventory of a vendor and a buyer is suggested in this paper. This problem is constrained nonlinear integer programming problem. Order quantity, reorder points for the buyer, and the number of shipments are required to be determined. A Lagrangian relaxation approach, a popular solution method for constrained problem, is developed to find lower bound of this problem. Since a Lagrangian relaxation approach cannot guarantee the feasible solution, the solution method based on the Lagrangian relaxation approach is proposed to provide with a good feasible solution. Total costs by the proposed method are pretty close to those by the Lagrangian relaxation approach. Sensitivity analysis for space restriction for the vendor and the buyer is done to figure out the relationships between parameters.

Relaxation Effects of Nelumbinis Semen in Isolated Corpus Cavernosum (연자육이 음경해면체 이완에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Sun Young;Kim, Jin Taek;Kim, Ho Hyun
    • Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.180-188
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    • 2015
  • This study was conducted to investigate the relaxation effects and its mechanisms of Nelumbinis Semen(NS) extract in isolated rabbit corpus cavernous tissues. In order to examine the relaxation effects and its mechanisms of NS, we treated the ethanol extract of NS(0.01-3.0 mg/ml) and indomethacin(IM), tetraethylammonium chloride(TEA), Nω -nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA), methylene blue(MB) were treated before NS extract to contracted strips induced by PE 1 μM. We also treated calcium chloride(Ca) 1 mM after pretreatment of NS extract in Ca2+-free krebs-ringer solution to contracted strips induced by PE. Cell viability and NO concentration on human umbilical vein endothelial cell(HUVEC) was measured by MTT assay, Griess reagent system. eNOS production was investigated by histochemical and immunohistochemical staining. NS extract was significantly affected on the relaxation of cavernous strips and NS extract-induced relaxation was not different by pretreatment of IM, TEA, MB, but inhibited by the pretreatment of L-NNA. And increase of contraction induced by Ca2+ addition, in a Ca2+-free solution, was decreased by pretreatment of NS. NO concentration on HUVEC was increased. When NS extract was applicated on corpus cavernosum of penis(CCP) in SHR, ratio of smooth muscles to collage fibers by PE was decreased and formation of eNOS around helicine artery was increased. These results suggest that CCP relaxation effects of NS extract are shown by suppressing influx of extracellular Ca2+ through the production of NO and eNOS.

Field Application of Power Cable Diagnosis System (전력케이블 열화진단기법의 현장적용)

  • Kim, Ju-Yong;Han, Jae-Hong;Song, Il-Keun;Kim, Sang-Jun;Lee, Jae-Bong;Oh, Jae-Hyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2002.05c
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    • pp.148-151
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    • 2002
  • In order to prevent the failures of underground distribution power cables we need to measure insulation condition in the field. Until now we used DC high voltage as a power source for the cable diagnosis but it was not proper method to the XLPE insulation cables because DC high voltage can affect sound insulation and can't diagnose exactly insulation degradation. For these reasons we imported isothermal relaxation current measurement system called by KDA-1 from germany but it's reliability did not proved in our URD cables. DC voltage decay measurement system was developed by domestic company but they don't have field experience. In this paper we tried to prove reliability of these two systems in the field. Through the field diagnosis and Ac breakdown test the two systems showed similar results.

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A Study on the Surrogate Duality Theory (Surrogate 쌍대이론에 관한 연구)

  • 오세호
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.9 no.13
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    • pp.45-50
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    • 1986
  • 본 연구에서 고찰한 surrogate relaxation은 Lagrangian relaxation 방법과는 달리 제약식들을 선형조합으로 묶어 문제를 푼다. 수리계획 분계가 convexity를 만족하지 못하는 경우에는 Lagrangian의 경우와 마찬가지로 surrogate gap이 발생한다. Lagrangian 쌍대이론을 토대로 surrogate optimality condition을 알아보고 수리계획법의 특별 형태인 정수선형계획법에 적용해 보았다. 일반적으로 surrogate gap은 Lagrangian gap 보다 작기 때문에 좀더 근사하게 원 문제의 최적 목적 함수값에 접근할 수 있다. 따라서 branch and bound 알고리즘을 개발할 때 중요한 정보를 제공하는 것이다.

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Effect of Arsenic on Acetylcholine-Induced Relaxation in Blood Vessels

  • Lee, M.Y.;Chung, S.M.;Bae, O.N.;Chung, J.H.
    • Proceedings of the PSK Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.163.2-164
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    • 2003
  • Several epidemiological studies suggested that arsenic exposure was strongly correlated with the development of cardiovascular disease such as hypertension. In order to examine whether arsenic affects vasomotor tone in blood vessels, we investigated the effect of arsenic on agonist-induced vasorelaxation using the isolated rat aortic rings in vitro organ bath system.Treatment with arsenite inhibited acetylcholine-induced relaxation of aortic rings in a concentration-dependent manner. (omitted)

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NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS FOR THE CONTRACTION FLOW USING GRID GENERATION

  • Salem, S.A.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.16 no.1_2
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    • pp.383-405
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    • 2004
  • We study the incomprssible Navier Stokes equations for the flow inside contraction geometry. The governing equations are expressed in the vorticity-stream function formulations. A rectangular computational domain is arised by elliptic grid generation technique. The numerical solution is based on a technique of automatic numerical generation of acurvilinear coordinate system by transforming the governing equation into computational plane. The transformed equations are approximated using central differences and solved simultaneously by successive over relaxation iteration. The time dependent of the vorticity equation solved by using explicit marching procedure. We will apply the technique on several irregular-shapes.

Muscle Contraction and Relaxation Pattern Analysis of Spinal Cord Injured Patient (척추 손상 환자의 근신호 수축 및 이완 패턴 분석)

  • Lee, Y.S.;Lee, J.;Kim, H.D.;Park, I.S.;Ko, H.Y.;Kim, S.H.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1997 no.05
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    • pp.398-401
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    • 1997
  • The EMG signal of spinal cord injured patient is very feeble because that the information from central nervous system is not sufficiently transmitted to molter neuron or muscle fiber. Therefore the observer can not observe contraction and relaxation movement of muscle from the raw EMG signal. In this paper, we propose the muscle contraction and relaxation pattern analysis method of spinal cord injured patient whose EMG signal is composed of the sum of motor unit action potential train with additive white Gaussian noise and impulsive noise. From the EMG model, we denoise impulsive noise using median filter which is a kind of nonlinear filter and the output of median filter is transformed to wavelet transform domain for denoising additive white Gaussian noise using threshold level removal technique. As a result, we can obtain the clear contraction and relaxation pattern.

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Lattice-Reduction-Aided Detection based Extended Noise Variance Matrix using Semidefinite Relaxation in MIMO Systems (MIMO시스템에서 Semidefinite Relaxation을 이용한 잡음 분산 행렬 기반의 Lattice-Reduction-Aided 검출기)

  • Lee, Dong-Jin;Park, Su-Bin;Byun, Youn-Shik
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.11C
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    • pp.932-939
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    • 2008
  • Recently lattice-reduction (LR) has been used in signal detection for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The conventional LR aided detection schemes are combinations of LR and signal detection methods such as zero-forcing (ZF) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) detection. In this paper, we propose the Lattice-Reduction-aided scheme based on extended noise variance matrix to search good candidate symbol set in quantization step. Then this scheme estimates transmitted symbol with Semidefinite Relaxation by candidate symbol set. Simulation results in a random MIMO system show that the proposed scheme exhibits improved performance and a slight increase in complexity.