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Reconstruction of a Severe Open Tibiofibular Fracture using an Ipsilateral Vascularized Fractured Fibula with a Thoracodorsal Artery Perforator Free Flap

  • Lan Sook Chang;Dae Kwan Kim;Ji Ah Park;Kyu Tae Hwang;Youn Hwan Kim
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.50 no.5
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    • pp.523-528
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    • 2023
  • The Gustilo IIIB tibiofibular fractures often result in long bone loss and extensive soft tissue defects. Reconstruction of these complex wounds is very challenging, especially when it includes long bone grafts, because the donor site is limited. We describe our experience using a set of chimeric ipsilateral vascularized fibula grafts with a thoracodorsal artery perforator free flap to reconstruct the traumatic tibia defects. A 66-year-old male suffered a severe comminuted tibia fracture and segmented fibula fracture with large soft tissue defects as a result of a traffic accident. He also had an open calcaneal fracture with soft tissue defects on the ipsilateral side. All the main vessels of the lower extremity were intact, and the cortical bone defect of the tibia was almost as large as the fractured fibula segment. We used an ipsilateral vascularized fibula graft to reconstruct the tibia and a thoracodorsal artery perforator flap to resurface the soft tissue, using the distal ends of peroneal vessels as named into sequential chimeric flaps. After 3 weeks, the calcaneal defect was reconstructed with second thoracodorsal artery perforator free flap. Reconstruction was successful and allowed rapid rehabilitation because of reduced donor site morbidity.

Maximum Height and Velocity of Jumping Car in The Air (공중으로 점프한 차량의 최대 높이 및 속도)

  • Shin, Seong-Yoon;Lee, Hyun-Chang
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.17 no.10
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    • pp.55-60
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    • 2012
  • An free-fall object is received only force of gravity. Movement that only accept gravity is free-fall movement, and a free-falling object is free falling body. In other words, free falling body is only freely falling objects under the influence of gravity, regardless of the initial state of objects movement. In this paper, we assume, ignoring the resistance of the air, and the free-fall acceleration by the height does not change within the range of the short distance in the vertical direction. Under these assumptions, we can know about time and maximum height to reach the peak point from jumping vertically upward direction, time and speed of the car return to the starting position, and time and speed when the car fall to the ground. It can be measured by jumping degree and risk of accident from car or motorcycle in telematics.

Actual Analysis and Solution of Aquatic Leisure Activity Safety Accident Around Coast (연안역 수상레저활동 안전사고 실태분석 및 개선방안)

  • Jeong Jong-Seok
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.30 no.3 s.109
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    • pp.247-251
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    • 2006
  • By becoming 21st century which run be charactered as highly industrialized society which spreads diversification and individualization, there have been elevation of income level and increase of time for leisure activity by introducing 5 working days system. And this brings out increasing of aquatic leisure activity population and the contents of the leisure becomes very active. Static indoor activity which was the main current of the leisure activity in the past, however, it is now called for outdoor activity accompanied by the society growth and even expands towards that people get into action and experience by their own free will. With this point of view, the aquatic leisure run become a safe activity. But with a rapid growth of aquatic leisure activity, safety concerns become a serious problem. To prevent safety accident, training should be given, safety inspection and registration should be requested, and strong support of system is needed so users can have an insurance for safety accident. These complements are necessary for overall nourishment and management measure to charge in systematical safety for the users.

3-Dimensional Analysis of the Steam-Hydrogen Behavior from a Small Break Loss of Coolant Accident in the APR1400 Containment

  • Kim Jongtae;Hong Seong-Wan;Kim Sang-Baik;Kim Hee-Dong;Lee Unjang;Royl P.;Travis J. R.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.24-35
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    • 2004
  • In order to analyze the hydrogen distribution during a severe accident in the APR1400 containment, GASFLOW II was used. For the APR1400 NPP, a hydrogen mitigation system is considered from the design stage, but a fully time-dependent, three-dimensional analysis has not been performed yet. In this study GASFLOW code II is used for the three-dimensional analysis. The first step to analysis involving hydrogen behavior in a full containment with the GASLOW code is to generate a realistic geometry model, which includes nodalization and modeling of the internal structures such as walls, ceilings and equipment. Geometry modeling of the APR1400 is conducted using GUI program by overlapping the containment cut drawings in a graphical file format on the mesh view. The total number of mesh cells generated is 49,476. And the calculated free volume of the APR1400 containment by GASFLOW is almost the same as the value from the GOTHIC modeling. A hypothetical SB-LOCA scenario beyond design base accident was selected to analyze the hydrogen behavior with the hydrogen mitigation system. The source of hydrogen and steam for the GASFLOW II analysis is obtained from a MAAP calculation. Combustion pressure and temperature load possibilities within the compartments used in the GOTHIC analysis are studied based on the Sigma-Lambda criteria. Finally the effectiveness of HMS installed in the APR1400 containment is evaluated from the point of severe accident management

The Cause Analysis of a Fire Accident on Boryeong Thermal Power Plant using New Public Management Theory (신공공관리론으로 바라본 보령화력발전소 화재 사고의 원인)

  • Lee, Wonjoo;Park, Chanseok
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.268-281
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study was to find out how the administrative paradigm of the times affected the public sector's fire. Method: For this purpose, we investigated the New Public Management (NPM). In addition, the reasons of fire accident of Boryeong thermal power plant were analyzed in the limited values of NMP. Result: In theoretical investigation, the 3 values (managerial accountability, efficiency, expertise) of NMP and evaluation criteria were drew out. In investigation on reasons of fire accident, the improvement of accountability and expertise was insufficient due to the emphasis of the efficiency based on the introduction to free market by neoliberalism in public sector. Conclusion: In conclusion, we confirmed that the values of NMP were limited to forcingly apply to the public sector. This study is expected to contribute basic research references to fire administration theory.

Effects of heat and gamma radiation on the degradation behaviour of fluoroelastomer in a simulated severe accident environment

  • Inyoung Song ;Taehyun Lee ;Kyungha Ryu ;Yong Jin Kim ;Myung Sung Kim ;Jong Won Park;Ji Hyun Kim
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.54 no.12
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    • pp.4514-4521
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    • 2022
  • In this study, the effects of heat and radiation on the degradation behaviour of fluoroelastomer under simulated normal operation and a severe accident environment were investigated using sequential testing of gamma irradiation and thermal degradation. Tensile properties and Shore A hardness were measured, and thermogravimetric analysis was used to evaluate the degradation behaviour of fluoroelastomer. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy were used to characterize the structural changes of the fluoroelastomer. Heat and radiation generated in nuclear power plant break and deform the chemical bonds, and fluoroelastomer exposed to these environments have decreased C-H and functional groups that contain oxygen and double bonds such as C-O, C=O and C=C were generated. These functional groups were formed by auto oxidation by reacting free radicals generated from the cleaved bond with oxygen in the atmosphere. In this auto oxidation reaction, crosslinks were generated where bonded to each other, and the mobility of molecules was decreased, and as a result, the fluoroelastomer was hardened. This hardening behaviour occurred more significantly in the severe accident environment than in the normal operation condition, and it was found that thermal stability decreased with the generation of unstable structures by crosslinking.

Productivity Changes by Public Transport Reforms in the Seoul's Urban Bus Industry (Using Data Envelopment Analysis with Consideration of Accident Costs) (서울의 대중교통체계 개편에 따른 시내버스업체의 생산성 변화 (사고비용을 고려한 자료포락분석기법을 이용하여))

  • Oh, Mi-Young;Kim, Sung-Soo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.77-86
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    • 2008
  • Firstly, this study is to compare two types of productivity changes in Seoul's urban bus industry by public transport reforms: one with considering accident costs (ML), the other without considering accident costs (M). The directional distance function (DDF), which is a form of data envelopment analysis, and the Malmquist (Luenberger) productivity index (ML, M) are used for the analysis. The results show that productivity increased regardless of accident costs over time, and the ML index is a little higher than the M index, which means that most firms experienced more of a reduction ratio of accident costs than a reduction ratio of inputs. Secondly, this paper is to analyze how reforms affect productivity changes. The results show that operational speed improvements or passenger increases most affect productivity increases, which means that the installment of median bus lanes or introduction of free transfers among public transport modes were effective in reducing both inputs and accident costs. However, operational system reforms including mid-public management were related with productivity changes but they were not as effective.

The Experimental Study on the Transient Brake Time of Vehicles by Road Pavement and Friction Coefficient (노면 포장별 차량의 제동경과시간 및 마찰계수에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Lim, Chang-Sik;Choi, Yang-Won
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.30 no.6D
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    • pp.587-597
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    • 2010
  • When a car accident occurs, people who had an accident are not free from civil and criminal issues so that the accident investigator should reenact and analyze the accident situation accurately. In addition, the obtained documents through the analysis of such car accident occurrence and related factors have to be used to carry out the improvement of the areas that has numerous car accidents and complementary actions. The vehicle speed, accelerating force, braking power are currently known as the most affecting factors in accordance with many car accidents, traffic facilities, road design, etc. The vehicle's performance and rode friction coefficient road surface friction coefficient are affecting the most closely in this field. Especially, once the estimate of the speed of the accident moment relating to main eleven articles of Traffic Accident Exemption Law is very important and accuracy is required. However, currently the researches of these matters have not made exclusively yet in Korea. In this study by reflecting this current situation, until the sudden braking history is found from the car's sudden braking, it estimates accurately the transient brake time and rode friction coefficient by measuring a time of transient brake time through the precision speed detector (Vericom VC2000PC). The analysis of the experimental results calculated the transient brake time and friction coefficient to fit into the purpose of this study in the basis of different kind of various special purpose asphalt pavement and slip-prevention pavement and provided the fundamental data.

The Reconstruction of Hand with Microsurgery (미세수술을 이용한 수부 재건술)

  • Chung, Duke-Whan;Han, Chung-Soo;Yoo, Myung-Chul;Kim, Byung-Soon;Jeun, Chul-Woo;Son, Yong-Lak
    • Archives of Reconstructive Microsurgery
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 1992
  • The authors analyzed the clinical results of the reconstructive surgery for injuried hand with microsurgery in 33 patients, 35 cases at the department of orthopaedic surgery, school of medicine, Kyung Hee university from 1985 to 1992 and the results were as followings. 1. There were 31 men and 4 women who had a mean age of 23 years(range, 3 to 44 years) and the follow up evaluations averaged 19 months. 2. The causes of the injury were machinery injury in 25 cases, traffic accident in 2, frostbite in 4, burn in 3 and fall down in 1. 3. For the reconstructive procedure, scapular free flap was applied in 6 cases, radial forearm flap in 7, dorsalis pedis free flap in 4, neurovascular island flap in 6, gracilis free flap in 1, wrap around flap in 6, toe to thumb in 5. 4. 32 cases(91.4%)were successful in reconstructive surgery with microsurgery exept the failure of scapular free flap in 2 cases and dorsalis pedis free flap in 1. 5. The causes of failure in scapular free flap were infection in 1 case and thrombosis in 1. In dorsalis pedis free flap, the cause of failure was infection. In the analysis of above results, the reconstruction with microsurgery was effective procedure for reconstruction of injuried hand.

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A Study on the Development of Remote Diagnosis System for Nerve Conduction

  • Kim, Jong-Weon
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.286-291
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    • 1998
  • A remote measurement system for nerve conduction has been developed to aid patients with spinal cord injury by accident. Existing cooperation between rescuers and doctors can be supported through the introduction of multimedia desktop video conferencing. Such facilities provide several advantages over conventional video conferencing. In particular, patients may feel free because they can see a doctor through the video conferencing facilities. This paper describes the system implementation and evaluation. The author considers the network capability and image data handling, and introduces a method a transmit image data for this system.

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