• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.45-54
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• 2020

The IMV is a combination of four two-way valve systems which replace a conventional four-way spool valve to improve efficiency mostly in excavator hydraulics. As the environmental regulations for construction equipment have tightened, some overseas advanced companies have released commercial excavators in which the MCV is implemented with the IMVs. Development of the IMV type MCV relies on the control algorithm as well as the robust performance of proportional flow control valves. In this study, the IMV controller was designed and verified with experiments for the excavator working unit, which determines the IMV mode of operation and the extent of the valve opening in consideration of the load conditions on hydraulic actuators. First, the open-loop controller was designed with a joystick command vs. a PSV reference current map comprising several control parameters in to compensate for the different flow characteristics and non-linearities of two-way flow control valves. Second, the closed-loop controller was designed with the PI control fed by the actuator displacement and outputs actuator percent effort equivalent to the operator's joystick command. Finally, the performance of the IMV type MCV was verified with the trajectory control of position references derived from the energy consumption test standard. Experimental results showed the control performance of the IMV developed in this study, and suggest that future studies to be conducted to advance technical progress.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.263-270
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• 2017

In this study, two geometrically identical multi-storey steel buildings with different lateral load resisting systems are structurally analyzed under same earthquake conditions and they are compared with respect to their construction costs of their structural systems. One of the systems is a steel structure with eccentrically steel braced frames. The other one is a RC wall-steel frame system, that is a steel framed structure in combination with a reinforced concrete core and shear walls of minimum thickness that the national code allows. As earthquake resisting systems, steel braced frames and reinforced concrete shear walls, for both cases are located on identical places in either building. Floors of both buildings will be of reinforced concrete slabs of same thickness resting on composite beams. The façades are assumed to be covered identically with light-weight aluminum cladding with insulation. Purpose of use for both buildings is an office building of eight stories. When two systems are structurally analyzed by FEM (finite element method) and dimensionally compared, the dual one comes up with almost 34% less cost of construction with respect to their structural systems. This in turn means that, by using a dual system in earthquake zones such as Turkey, for multi-storey steel buildings with RC floors, more economical solutions can be achieved. In addition, slender steel columns and beams will add to that and consequently more space in rooms is achieved.

• The Korean Journal of Health Service Management
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.17-27
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• 2017

Objectives : The rapidly changing consumer-centric and customer-oriented nature of the medical environment results in significant cognitive load. We aimed to clarify the situation of emotional labor and job stress among hospital employees and seek policies and hospital management for employees' emotions. Methods : The study was conducted through a questionnaire about emotional labor and job stress among 554 individuals working in Seoul, in 9 national, public, and private hospitals. Results : The results of the emotional labor and job stress questionnaire showed statistically significant differences in surface behavior and job stress; both had higher values in employees from the private hospitals than employees from public hospitals. Conclusions : This study found that the stress of emotional labor is a serious problem in government medical institutions. In addition, these institutions need to provide internal customer satisfaction through the hospital ombudsman and harmonize work and healing programs by including plans for improvement.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.234-248
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• 1995

A super-heat pump system composed of a suction line heat exchanger, low and high stage economizers, and a screw compressor is simulated to examine the energy performance and design options. CFC12, HCFC22, HFC134a, HCFC22/HCFC142b, HFC32/HFC134a, and HFC125/HFC134a are used as working fluids for comparison. The results indicate that the proposed system charged with appropriate mixtures is up to 33.4% more energy efficient than the normal system with CFC12. The performance of the super-heat pump system charged with mixtures was influenced by such factors as the temperature matching, heat source temperature difference, low stage economizer, and high stage economizer. The fluids with a larger liquid specific heat such as HFC134a would have more benefits when a suction line heat exchanger is installed. 40%HCFC22/60%HCFC142b mixture seems to be a good candidate to replace CFC12. On the other hand, 25%HFC32/75% HFC134a would be a good long term candidate to replace HCFC22.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.510-520
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• 2014

Unlike other mass production in small variety, shipbuilding process is a project-based method in single variety, which causes unpredictable volatility in the planning system. In shipyards, series of manufacturing processes from fabrication to erection is sequentially carried out. In order to predict unfavorable changes such as overload or low load of working volume, computerized simulation has been being gradually adopted. The data used in the simulation are processed from the database of the main scheduling and planning system. Thus the quality of those data is very crucial for the meaningful results. Unfortunately, research on the verification of data quality is very rare and hardly known to the authors. In this work, using the database of scheduling and product information system of a large domestic shipyard, the data required for the simulation are qualitatively analyzed and verified.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.47-57
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• 2015

With the ever growing demand of data applications, the joint macro-relay networks are emerging as a promising heterogeneous deployment to provide coverage extension and throughput enhancement. However, the current cellular networks are usually designed to be performance-oriented without enough considerations on the traffic variation, causing substantial energy waste. In this paper, we consider a joint macro-relay network with densely deployed relay stations (RSs), where the traffic load varies in both time and spatial domains. An energy-efficient scheme is proposed to dynamically adjust the RS working modes (active or sleeping) according to the traffic variations, which is called traffic-aware relay sleep control (TRSC). To evaluate the performance of TRSC,we establish an analytical model using stochastic geometry theory and derive explicit expressions of coverage probability, mean achievable rate and network energy efficiency (NEE). Simulation results demonstrate that the derived analytic results are reasonable and the proposed TRSC can significantly improve the NEE when the network traffic varies dynamically.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 1995

Model material technique, which requires only the small space of experimental set-up and low cost for experiment, is used to estimate the deformed profile and the forging load in rotary forging. The materials and working conditions are determined to satisfy the similitude conditions between the model test and the prototype test. The model material of the so-called plasticine and the mild steel are chosen as specimens, and they represent almost the same value of strain gardening exponent in the stress-strain relationship. Lubricant in the model test is also carefully selected so that it gives the same frictional conditions at the tool-specimen interface. Experiments for two kinds of specimens are carried out in each testing equipment at room temperatue. From the experiments the deformed dimensions and the forging loads are measured and compared with each other by using the simulation coefficients. It is shown that there are good agreements between the model test and the prototype test. Finally, for verifying the availability of the model material technique this mathod is applied to forging of bevel gear product. the good result is obained which can demonstrate that the model material technique is very efficent for estimating or developing a new process.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.935-944
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• 1987

The surface rolling, one of the plastic working processes, provides good surface roughness with the reduction of diameter and the increase of surface hardness. In this study three Nachi 6000ZZ bearing were used for surface rolling on ductile cast iron. The results obtained are as follows; (1) The good surface roughness can be obtained with roller surface radius of curvature of 24mm after the 2nd rolling. (2) The surface roughness of ductile cast iron was 0.48.mu.mRmax by the contact pressure of 140kgf/mm$^{2}$ and surface hardness was Hv 395 with roller surface radius of curvature of 24mm after the 2nd rolling. (3) The reduction of specimen diameter of ductile cast iron were -12.8.mu.m due to rolling. (4) Within the diameter variation of -11.mu.m, surface roughness and surface hardness were increased, but at the range of exceeding -14.mu.m of the diameter variation the surface roughness became worse and the surface roughness became worse and the surface hardness was increased. (5) Dynamic contact area was about 25% to 30% of static contact area. The calculated contact pressure showed a good agreement with the experimental contact pressure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.143-149
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• 2002

Ball reducer with waved grooves has many advantages over other reducers for the high-reduction ratios, low noise and low energy loss, etc. The mechanism of force transmission is very similar to that of cam and follower in automobile valve train system especially in the contact geometry. In this study, we have investigated the traces of contact between ball and outer race and the working behaviors with a certain reduction ratio. In order to verify the contact behaviors between ball and outer race, which determines the critical endurance life the contact velocity and load are computed for a cycle. During some period of a cycle, the contact velocity reverses its direction very suddenly, which causes undesirable endurance performance of this machinery. From the computational investigation in this work, we hope to predict similar contact damages in other machinery due to this kind of contact behaviors, which is very common in many contact phenomena.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.17-22
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• 2003

The present study was conducted to obtain the fundamental knowledge on the manufacturing and operating characteristics of a small scale CPL (Capillary Pumped Loop) heat pipe. CPL heat pipes are able to transfer heat effectively at any orientation in a gravitational field over long distances. An experimental model with an evaporator of a circular plate shape was designed and manufactured and its operating performances were tested. A Bronze powder sintered metal plate of 3 mm thick and $\Psi$ 50 mm was used as wick and ethanol was used as working fluid. An experimental apparatus was set up to ascertain the operating conditions oi CPL at different heat load and an surrounding temperature at the condenser was maintained about 13$^{\circ}C$.