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Evaluation of unsaturated soil slope stability by incorporating soil-water characteristic curve

  • Zhai, Qian;Tian, Gang;Ye, Weimin;Rahardjo, Harianto;Dai, Guoliang;Wang, Shijun
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.637-644
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    • 2022
  • Loess soils are unsaturated and widely distributed in the northwest zone in China. Many steep slope of unsaturated are observed are observed to be naturally stable. However, a low factor of safety (FoS) for these slopes would be computed from the slope stability analysis following local code practices. It seems that the analyzed results following the local code practices do not agree with the real condition as observed in the field. It is commonly known that soil suction plays an important role in slope stability due to a higher shear strength of the unsaturated soil as compared with that of the saturated soil. In this paper, it is observed that the computed FoS can also be affected by unsaturated unit weight of the soil. However, the effect of unsaturated unit weight of the soil on the slope stability is commonly ignored in engineering practice. Therefore, both the effects of shear strength and unit weight of the unsaturated soil on the computed FoS of unsaturated soil slope are investigated in this study. It is observed that the unsaturated unit weight of soil on the computed FoS increases with increase in slope angle. It is also observed that the effects of the unsaturated shear strength and unsaturated unit weight on the computed FoS are more significant than the effect of 3D analyses compared to the 2D analyses on the FoS.

Analysis of Disintegration Characteristics of OCC (골판지 고지의 해섬 특성 해석)

  • Lee Hak Lae;Youn Hye Jung;Lee Sang Gil;Kang Tae Young;Heo Young Dae
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.36 no.4 s.107
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2004
  • Linerboards and corrugating mediums are being produced using recycled old corrugated containers (OCC) as major raw materials. The utilization rate of recycled fibers is ex­pected to increase further in the future to reduce raw material cost. Use of recycled fibers as raw materials for linerboard, however, causes many problems for papermakers. As the utilization rate of recycled fiber and number of recycling of fibers increases, quality and process problems including strength reduction and deterioration of machine runn­ability will increase. To overcome the problem of strength reduction associated with the use of recycled fibrous materials for producing quality linerboards, diverse extensive research efforts and new technological approaches have been taken. In this study, disintegration characteristics of aee was evaluated by determining the unslushed contents. The amount of unslushed content of KOCC was lower than AOCC. But contaminants content of KOCC was higher than AOCC. As the consistency in disintegration increased, the amount of unslushed fiber content decreased.

A Study on the Change of Conservation Materials Properties Using Artificial Weathering Test (인공풍화 실험을 이용한 보존처리제의 물성 변화 연구)

  • Do, Min-Hwan;Han, Min-Su;Lee, Jang-Jon;Jun, Byung-Kyu;Song, Chi-Young
    • 보존과학연구
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    • s.29
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    • pp.149-162
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    • 2008
  • Because stone cultural heritages in Korea are mostly situated outdoors without any notable protection, there are severe damages from physical, chemical and biological weathering. And this in turn causes deformation and structural damage. To counteract this problem and increase durability, various kinds of conservation materials are used in the conservation and restoration treatment. However, there are not many practical and technological experiments on this subject. Accordingly this research is for analysis of effect for treatment to make use a resin of the ethyl silicate for the granite in Mt. Nam of Gyeongju. It takes a long time to confirm the test result regarding durability and side effects of the conservatives after treatment. So we built up an artificial environment through freezing and melting test, and evaluated the conservation materials. As a result of this experiment, porosity and absorptivity was increased in accordance with processing of freezing and melting test. But other things such as elastic wave speed, elastic modulus, uniaxial compressive strength and tensile strength was decreased. It will make a plan to form a method of research systematically for mechanism and element of weathering and to elicit a correlation among experiment of artificial weathering and practical natural weathering from next research.

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Bicriteria optimal design of open cross sections of cold-formed thin-walled beams

  • Ostwald, M.;Magnucki, K.;Rodak, M.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.53-70
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents a analysis of the problem of optimal design of the beams with two I-type cross section shapes. These types of beams are simply supported and subject to pure bending. The strength and stability conditions were formulated and analytically solved in the form of mathematical equations. Both global and selected types of local stability forms were taken into account. The optimization problem was defined as bicriteria. The cross section area of the beam is the first objective function, while the deflection of the beam is the second. The geometric parameters of cross section were selected as the design variables. The set of constraints includes global and local stability conditions, the strength condition, and technological and constructional requirements in the form of geometric relations. The optimization problem was formulated and solved with the help of the Pareto concept of optimality. During the numerical calculations a set of optimal compromise solutions was generated. The numerical procedures include discrete and continuous sets of the design variables. Results of numerical analysis are presented in the form of tables, cross section outlines and diagrams. Results are discussed at the end of the work. These results may be useful for designers in optimal designing of thin-walled beams, increasing information required in the decision-making procedure.

Quantitative Evaluation for Effectiveness of Consolidation Treatment by Using the Chemical of Ethyl Silicate Series for the Sandstone in Yeongyang (영양 사암을 대상으로 한 에틸실리케이트 계열 처리제의 강화효과 평가)

  • Lee, Jang-Jon;Han, Min-Su;Song, Chi-Young;Jun, Byung-Kyu;Do, Min-Hwan
    • 보존과학연구
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    • s.30
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    • pp.125-136
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    • 2009
  • Stone cultural heritages in Korea have a severe damages from chemical and biological weathering because most of them have been situated in outdoors without any suitable protection systems, and this in turn causes deformation and structural damage. To counteract these problems and increase durability, various kinds of conservation materials are used in the conservation and restoration treatments. However until now there are not many practical and technological experiments on this subject. This paper attempts quantitative evaluation of effectiveness about chemical of ethylsilicate based resin for sandstone in Yeongyang-gun. It takes a long time to evaluate durability and side effect after conservation materials treatment. So we use artificial weathering through freezing§ thawing experimental method. As a result of this experiment, porosity and absorptance increased, and elastic wave speed, elastic modules, unconfined compression strength and tensile strength decreased more than before. This study plans to make a scientific method study about weathering factor and mechanism, and to deduce correlation between artificial weathering and natural weathering.

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A Syudy on the Diffusion Joining of 7000 Al Alloy (7000계 Al 합금의 확산접합에 관한 연구)

  • Jin, Y.C.;Hong, E.S.;Kim, Y.S.;Lee, M.S.;Yoo, C.Y.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 1993
  • To investigate the properties of diffusion bonding of 7050 Al alloy, the diffusion bonding joints have been produced in self-made diffusion bonding hot-press which admits a defined application of the bonding pressure during the heating phase and also rapid cooling after the bonding process with various bonding condition. The strength of the bond increases with increasing the bonding time and temperature. Shear test at toom temperature showed that high strength up to 70% that of parent metal (320 MPa), 220 MPa for the specimen bonded 14 hr at $560^{\circ}C$, with 3 MPa. In this case, however, there is large deformation more than 20% reduction in thickness. The results were correlated with joint characteristics found by optical microstructure and by fractography by SEM. When the strengths of the bonds are more than 50% that of parent metal, a great deal of dimples stretched along the direction of shear stress are observed over the fractured surface of the bond. On the microstructure of the bond line, initial mophology of the bond line disapeared for the grain boundary migration with increasing the bonding time.

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An Exploratory Study on the Korean National R&D Trends Using Co-Word Analysis (단어동시출현분석을 통한 한국의 국가 R&D 연구동향에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Seo, Wonchul;Park, Hyunseok;Yoon, Janghyeok
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.1-18
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    • 2012
  • This paper identifies technology trends of national research and development (national R&D) by exploiting Korean national R&D patents, ranging from 2007 to 2010. In this paper, co-word analysis (CWA), which is a method to identify the relationship among technology terms by using their co-occurrences, is incorporated into network analysis to visualize the relationships among technology keywords of national R&D patents and calculate network indexes concerning inter-relationship diversity and strength of technology keywords. As a result, this research found that inter-relationship among technology keywords in national R&D are getting increasingly strengthening in an overall sense. In addition, the keyword inter-relationship diversity-strength map proposed in this paper revealed some significant technological keywords of national R&D : core technology keywords including "sensor", "film" and "fuel" and emerging keywords including "biosensor" and "thermoelectric". Because the proposed approach helps identify interdisciplinary trends of technology keywords from a massive volume of national R&D patents in a visual and quantitative way, we expect that the approach can be incorporated as a preliminary into the R&D planning process to assist R&D policy makers to understand technology convergence of national R&D and develop relevant R&D policies.

Yield displacement profiles of asymmetric structures for optimum torsional response

  • Georgoussis, George K.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.233-257
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    • 2013
  • Given the yield shear of a single-story inelastic structure with simple eccentricity, the problem of strength distribution among the resisting elements is investigated, with respect to minimize its torsional response during a ground motion. Making the hypothesis that the peak accelerations, of both modes of vibration, are determined from the inelastic acceleration spectrum, and assuming further that a peak response quantity is obtained by an appropriate combination rule (square root of sum of squares-SRSS or complete quadratic combination-CQC), the first aim of this study is to present an interaction relationship between the yield shear and the maximum torque that may be developed in such systems. It is shown that this torque may be developed, with equal probability, in both directions (clockwise and anticlockwise), but as it is not concurrent with the yield shear, a rational design should be based on a combination of the yield shear with a fraction of the peak torque. The second aim is to examine the response of such model structures under characteristic ground motions. These models provide a rather small peak rotation and code provisions that are based on such principles (NBCC-1995, UBC-1994, EAK-2000, NZS-1992) are superiors to EC8 (1993) and to systems with a stiffness proportional strength distribution.

Fundamental Issues in Graphene: Material Properties and Applications

  • Choi, Sung-Yool
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2012.08a
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    • pp.67-67
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    • 2012
  • Graphene, two-dimensional one-atom-thick planar sheet of carbon atoms densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice, exhibits fascinating electrical properties, such as a linear energy dispersion relation and high mobility in addition to a wide-range optical absorption and high thermal conductivity. Graphene's outstanding tensile strength allows graphene-based electronic and photonic devices to be flexible, bendable, or even stretchable. Recently many groups have reported high performance electronic and optoelectronic devices based on graphene materials, i.e. field-effect transistors, gas sensors, nonvolatile memory devices, and plasmonic waveguides, in which versatile properties of graphene materials have been incorporated into a flexible electronic or optoelectronic platform. However, there are several fundamental or technological hurdles to be overcome in real applications of graphene in electronics and optoelectronics. In this tutorial we will present a short introduction to the basic material properties and recent progresses in applications of graphene to electronics and optoelectronics and discuss future outlook of graphene-based devices.

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A Study on the Properties of Mix Design for Cementitious Material used in Modern Architecture (근대 건축에 사용된 시멘트계 재료의 배합 특성)

  • Lee, Chan-Young;Ahn, Jae-Cheol;Song, Jong-Mok;Kang, Byeung-Hee;Kim, Ki-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2012.11a
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    • pp.215-216
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the situation and feature of construction technology by analysis properties and the mixture proportion of a reinforced concrete building from the modern domestic and to leave technological records for the optimal maintenance of the cultural heritage. The study says, the case of the 1:3:6 mix concrete has been standard regardless of the kind of structures after the concrete has being used in earnest, However, The strength range is big from Water-Cement ratio difference according to the concrete casting site.

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