• Journal of Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.75-83
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• 2013

Objectives: This study was conducted to estimate quartz concentrations in the airborne respirable dust from concrete manufacturing industries and to compare performance of two analytical methods, direct on filter(DOF) and the transfer methods in the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy(FTIR). Methods: Total 36 area samples were collected from 8 concrete manufacturing industries. Each respirable dust sample was collected by a 25 mm cassette attached to a 10 mm Dorr-Oliver nylon cyclone. The quartz content was estimated using the intensity of the absorption peak of quartz at $799cm^{-1}$ by FTIR. Results: By the comparison of quartz content in respirable dust between the two methods, the results of using DOF method were higher than that of transfer method. And the result of quartz concentrations in respirable dust estimated by DOF method were mostly higher than those by transfer method. Statistically significant difference of quartz concentrations in respirable dust were not found in shakeout, input, loading and transporting processes by two methods. But quartz concentrations in the molding process had the statistically significant difference between DOF and transfer method. Conclusions: The results of the study is suggested that, it be needed to correct the influence of the interferences in order to establish the DOF method when interfering minerals have an effect on quantitative analysis of quartz in respirable dust by the direct on filter method with FTIR.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 제20권1호
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• pp.809-812
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• 2008

Bleed test methods currently being specified in KS, ASTM and BS are the methods to read the height of bleed water and volume changes of mortar poured into transparent cylinder. Time for measuring of bleed are specified as 3, 20 hours in KS specification, while bleed is measured at 3 hour and change of volume is measured at 24 hour in ASTM and BS specification. Like these, bleed test takes a lot of time to conduct. Another method to measure the bleed is the pressure filter test. This method predict the bleed by measuring the passed water through the fiber glass filter under pressure. This pressure filter test developed by Schupack in 1971 has an advantage in predicting the bleed in shorter time. However, data correlating the pressure filter test results with amount of bleed are limited. Therefore, this study aims at verifying the availability of pressure filter test as a method to predict the bleed and deriving the relation between this test results and bleed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표회 논문집(I)
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• pp.506-509
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• 2006

Extended Kalman Filter iterate the prediction and the filtering based on Initial state for the next time step. EKF method for the estimation of nonlinear parameters of a structural dynamic system is necessary that initial of state vector and error covariance matrix. Because those are unknown exactly, generally selected random values. That occasion observability problem appear because of unknown initial values. In this study, for the estimation of the nonlinear parameters, a simple one degree of Freedom example is carried out by Extended Kalman Filter. And initial value assumption for Parameter Estimation of Dynamic System are developed. The result of analysis is compared with calculated standard values.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.381-382
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• 2007

In this paper, crack detection technique of concrete bridge is proposed robust against shadow and noise. Our technique consists of two steps. In the first step, crack candidate region is detected by preprocessing. Preprocessing techniques such as median filter, isolated point filter and morphological techniques, use utilized for detection of crack candidate regions. In the final step, crack is detected from crack candidate region by considering any connectivity between cracks. By experimental results, performance is improved 6.8% over the existing method.

• Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.287-293
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• 1999

In this paper, we give an affirmative answer to the question raised in [5]; whether L((P)) is principal or not. Using this fact, we try to give concrete form of module of quotient with respect to a torsion theory determined by L((P)).

• Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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• 한국지반공학회 2005년도 춘계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.1369-1376
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• 2005

In case of the drainage type tunnel, the residual water pressure is likely to act on the tunnel lining due to the decrease of water-passing capacity of the filter material. Therefore, this study discussions a method to predict the lining load with the consideration of water passing capacity of the filter material through the literature review and numerical analysis. It is expected from the results of case studies that the design load acting on the concrete lining in the drainage type tunnel could be assumed to be about 50% of the hydrostatic water pressure in steady-state ground-water condition.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• The 9th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.912-919
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• 2022

The study is an image-based assessment that uses image processing techniques to determine the condition of concrete with surface cracks. The preparations of the dataset include resizing and image filtering to ensure statistical homogeneity and noise reduction. The image dataset is then segmented, making it more suited for extracting important features and easier to evaluate. The image is transformed into grayscale which removes the hue and saturation but retains the luminance. To create a clean edge map, the edge detection process is utilized to extract the major edge features of the image. The Otsu method is used to minimize intraclass variation between black and white pixels. Additionally, the median filter was employed to reduce noise while keeping the borders of the image. Image processing techniques are used to enhance the significant features of the concrete image, especially the defects. In this study, the tonal zones of the histogram and its properties are used to analyze the condition of the concrete. By examining the histogram, the viewer will be able to determine the information on the image through the number of pixels associated and each tonal characteristic on a graph. The features of the five tonal zones of the histogram which implies the qualities of the concrete image may be evaluated based on the quality of the contrast, brightness, highlights, shadow spikes, or the condition of the shadow region that corresponds to the foreground.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.39-44
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• 2004

Fiber Bragg grating sensors are fabricated by core index modulation using UV laser and phasemask. Bragg wavelength of the grating is changed by the external strain. In this paper, a signal processing system of fiber Bragg grating sensor has studied in the optical wavelength domain. The system is based on the sweep semiconductor light source that consists of SLD, F-P tunable filter and etalon filter. The hysteresis effects of PZT in the F-P tunable filter are compensated. The long term measurement stability is obtained by controlling the temperature of F-P tunable filter and the SLD. We compare the strain data from fiber Bragg grating sensor and that from strain gauge at concrete hume pipe. We also get very good results for the long gauge displacement using fiber Bragg grating sensor which are identical to the data with short gauge length ordinary displacement sensor.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 한국전산구조공학회 2000년도 봄 학술발표회논문집
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• pp.365-370
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• 2000

A sliding mode fuzzy control (SMFC) algorithm is applied to design a controller for a benchmark problem on a wind- excited building. The structure is a 76-story concrete office tower with a height of 306 meters, hence the wind resistance characteristics are very important for the serviceability as well as the safety. A control system with an active tuned mass damper is assumed to be installed on the top floor. Since the structural acceleration is measured only at ,limited number of locations without measurement of the wind force, the structure of the conventional continuous sliding mode control may have the feed-back loop only. So, an adaptive least mean squares (LMS) filter is employed in the SMFC algorithm to generate a fictitious feed-forward loop. The adaptive LMS filter is designed based on the information of the stochastic characteristics of the wind velocity along the structure. A numerical study is carried out. and the performance of the present SMFC with the ,adaptive LMS filter is investigated in comparison with those of' other control, of algorithms such as linear quadratic Gaussian control, frequency domain optimal control, quadratic stability control, continuous sliding mode control, and H/sub ∞///sub μ/, control, which were reported by other researchers. The effectiveness of the adaptive LMS filter is also examined. The results indicate that the present algorithm is very efficient .

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.319-342
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• 2008

Identification of the nonlinear hysteretic behavior of a reinforced concrete (RC) bridge pier subjected to earthquake loads is carried out based on acceleration measurements of the earthquake motion and bridge responses. The modified Takeda model is used to describe the hysteretic behavior of the RC pier with a small number of parameters, in which the nonlinear behavior is described in logical forms rather than analytical expressions. Hence, the modified extended Kalman filter is employed to construct the state transition matrix using a finite difference scheme. The sequential modified extended Kalman filter algorithm is proposed to identify the unknown parameters and the state vector separately in two steps, so that the size of the problem for each identification procedure may be reduced and possible numerical problems may be avoided. Mode superposition with a modal sorting technique is also proposed to reduce the size of the identification problem for the nonlinear dynamic system with multi-degrees of freedom. Example analysis is carried out for a continuous bridge with a RC pier subjected to earthquake loads in the longitudinal and transverse directions.