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Geotechnical problems in flexible pavement structures design

  • Mato G. Uljarevic;Snjezana Z. Milovanovic;Radovan B. Vukomanovic;Dragana D. Zeljic
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.32 no.1
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    • pp.35-47
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    • 2023
  • Deformability of road pavements in the form of ruts represent a safety risk for road users. In the procedures for dimensioning the pavement structure, the requirement that such deformations do not occur is imperatively included, which results in the appropriate selection of elements (material, geometry) of the pavement structure. Deformability and functionality, will depend of the correct design of pavement structure during exploitation period. Nevertheless, there are many examples where deformations are observed on the pavement structure, in the form of rutting at parts of the road with relatively short length, realised in the same climatic and the same geoenvironmental conditions. The performed analysis of deformability led to the conclusion that the level of deformation is a function of the speed of traffic. This effect is observed on city roads, but also outside of urban areas at roads with speed limits are significant, due to the traffic management, traffic jams (intersections, etc.). Still, the lower speed cause greater deformations. The authors tried to describe the deformability of flexible pavement structures, from the aspects of geotechnical problems, as a function of driving speed. Outcome of the analysis is a traffic load correction coefficient, in terms of using the existing methods of flexible pavement structures design.

Ergonomic(Cognitive) Evaluation of the Traffic Sign System around Seoul Metropolitan Area (수도권 도로 교통 표지판의 인지 공학적 평가 분석)

  • Kim, Jeong-Ryong;Gwak, Jong-Seon;Lee, Don-Gyu
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.133-147
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    • 1999
  • Traffic signs without a cognitive consideration in their design may cause information-processing problem that could result in a mental confusion among drivers often lead to a serious traffic accident. Therefore, in this study, several traffic signs currently used in Seoul Metropolitan area have been sampled and analyzed to identify design problems that usually caused by neglecting drivers cognitive ability. To classify the practical design problems, five major information-processing problems have been suggested: indistinguishable information, information conflict, missing information, sign-load mismatch, and information overload. In order to solve these cognitive problems, new traffic signs have been suggested in this study. An experiment was also performed to validate the new traffic sign. Twenty-four healthy subjects participated in the experiment. They were asked to answer the Question after observing the traffic signs continuously displayed on computer screen. The result indicated that subjects improved the accuracy in understanding the signs by 1.4 times when they used the suggested traffic sign compared to the old one. Based upon the results, a cognitive guideline was suggested for correct and speedy reading of traffic signs by improving information processing and reducing of human error. In conclusion, the traffic sign may well be applied to design an intelligent traffic sign system to increase the safety and comfort of drivers, especially in complex load condition.

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A Load-balancing Routing Protocol in Ad Hoc Networks (애드 흑 네트워크에서 부하 균등을 고려한 라우팅 프로토콜)

  • 안상현;임유진;김경춘
    • Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.252-259
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    • 2003
  • In the case of link congestion, most of the existing ad-hoc routing protocols like AODV and DSR do not try to discover a new route if there is no change in the network topology. Hence, with low mobility, traffic may get concentrated on some specific nodes. Since mobile devices have low battery power and low computing capability, traffic concentration on a specific node is not a desirable phenomenon. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a new protocol called SLAP (Simple Load-balancing Ad-hoc routing Protocol) which resolves the traffic concentration problem by letting each node check its own load situation and give up its role as a packet forwarder gracefully in the case of high traffic load. We compare the performance of SLAP with that of AODV and DSR in terms of the forwarding traffic distribution.

Development of Statistical Truck Load Model for Highway Bridge using BWIM System (BWIM 시스템을 이용한 고속도로 교량 차량하중 모형 개발)

  • Park, Min-Seok;Jo, Byung-Wan;Bae, Doo-Byong
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.26 no.1A
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    • pp.143-153
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    • 2006
  • In design of bridges, estimation of actions and loadings is very important for the safety and maintenance of bridges. In general, effect of traffic loading on the bridge can be modeled as live load (including impact load) and fatigue load. For estimation of traffic loading, it is important to get reliable and comprehensive truck statistical data such as the traffic and weight information. To get statistical data, Bridge Weigh-In-Motion (BWIM), which measures the truck weights without stopping the traffic, is need to be developed. In this study, BWIM system with various functions is developed first. Then this system is used to get comprehensive truck data. Traffic loadings including fatigue and live loading are formulated from the truck data acquired from the bridges. Objectives of this study are to develop the BWIM system, to apply the system in test bridge in Highway, and to formulate the live and fatigue loading for bridge design.

Load Balance System for the SFC Based DLP solution (SFC 기반 DLP 솔루션을 위한 부하분산 시스템)

  • Song, Wang-Eun;Jung, Sou-Hwan
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.451-453
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, we propose a Load Balance System for SFC based on DLP solution. SFC based on DLP solution does not distribute to the user data and each DLP server manages all traffic generated by the user device. When using existing algorithms such as the Load Balance Round Robin, Least Connection does not consider the resource usage of DLP server so traffic is not efficiently distributed due to different user traffic usage. It causes system failure and overload of the DLP server. Therefore, we propose the architecture of a Load Balance system for SFC based on DLP solution to perform the Load Balance based on the resource usage of DLP server through a LBM server in this paper.

An Improvement for Evaluating Load Carrying Capacity by Passing Vehicles of PSC-BOX Bridge (PSC박스 교량의 통행차량에 의한 내하력 평가기법 개선)

  • Shin, Jae-In;Park, Chang-Ho;Lee, Sang-Sun;Lee, Beyong-Ju
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.147-151
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    • 2007
  • Load testing is an effective means in calculating the rating value of bridge. In Korea, load carrying capacity of bridge is modified by response modification factor that is determined from comparisons of measured values and analysis results. This paper presents the development of a method for determining the response modification factor, using traffic load. The proposed method is based on the results of computer simulations of traffic action effects. A comparison between the proposed method and the present method shows good agreement in estimating the modified load carrying capacity of bridges.

Load Balanced QoS Routing for Precomputation of QoS Routes (QoS 경로의 선계산을 적용한 부하분산 QoS 라우팅)

  • 홍종준
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.121-127
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, we propose a load balancing QoS routing on a targe scale network. We use the scheme in which it calculates the cost of resources with a precomputation and then selects a path among multiple paths based on the calculated cost for each resources. We also use the QoS routing scheme for the transit and the intra-traffic on a large scale domain-based network. For a domain in networks, this routing scheme precomputes K multiple paths between all pairs made up with each ingress and egress border routers along with the consideration of a load balancing, and then picks up paths having the high probability on the Path selection. This routing scheme can be applied for the transit traffic and the intra traffic and combines the Inter-domain and intra-domain routings seamlessly and put a high priority on the transit traffic Thus, these schemes make Possible both the global use of network resources and the load balancing.

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Traffic Summary for Analyzing Network Load in Mobile Communication System (이동통신 망 부하 해석을 위한 대표통화량의 설정)

  • Lee, Y.D.;Koh, S.G.;Ahn, B.J.
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.379-393
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we propose a method to summarize the monthly traffic amount for analyzing network load in mobile communication system. We used the traffic data obtained from a domestic telecommunication company. Based on the statistical properties of the traffic data, we devise an efficient method to summarize monthly traffic amount.

Structural Analysis of Wireless Traffic Signal Using Finite Element Method (유한요소법을 이용한 Wireless 교통신호등 구조 해석)

  • Kang, Sung-Jun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.11
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    • pp.5334-5337
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, the structure of traffic lights removed the wire for the completion of urban aesthetics is analyzed. The finite element model consists of shell elements from three-dimensional CAD model of actual traffic signal. Traffic light pole, horizontal stand shape, thickness, stiffeners, etc. are considered in this study. Analysis of stress and deformation is performed by applying wind load. When the wind load is applied, the result on traffic signal is analyzed. This study is to perform the basic tasks for improving the design.

A Topology Independent Heuristic Load Balancing Algorithm for Multiprocessor Environment (다중 프로세서 환경에서 연결구조에 무관한 휴리스틱 부하평형 알고리즘)

  • Song Eui-Seok;Sung Yeong-Rak;Oh Ha-Ryoung
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2005
  • This paper proposes an efficient heuristic load balancing algorithm for multiprocessor systems. The algorithm minimizes the number of idle links to distribute load traffic and reduces its communication cost. Each processor iteratively tries to transfer unit load to/from all neighbor processors. However, real load transfer is collectively done after all load traffic is calculated. This prevents useless traffic and thus reduces the overall load traffic. The proposed algorithm can be employed in various interconnection topologies with slight modifications. In this paper, it is applied to hypercube, mesh, k-ary n-cube and general graph environments. For performance evaluation, simulation studies are performed. The proposed algorithm and the well-known existing algorithms are implemented and compared. The results show that the proposed algorithm always balances the loads perfectly. furthermore, in comparison with the existing algorithms, it reduces the communication costs by 77%, 74% and 73% in the hypercube, the mesh, and k-ary n-cube, respectively.