• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.171-183
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• 2017

Strengthening reinforced concrete (RC) beams with openings by using aramid fiber reinforcement polymers (AFRP) on the beams' surfaces offers a useful solution for upgrading concrete structures to carry heavy loads. This paper presents a repairing technique of the AFRP sheets that effectively strengthens RC beams, controls both the failure modes and the stress distribution around the beam chords and enhances the serviceability (deflection produced under working loads be sufficiently small and cracking be controlled) of pre-cracked RC beams with openings. To investigate the possible damage that was caused by the service load and to simulate the structure behavior in the site, a comprehensive experimental study was performed. Two unstrengthened control beams, four beams that were pre-cracked before the application of the AFRP sheets and one beam that was strengthened without pre-cracking were tested. Cracking was first induced, followed by repair using various orientations of AFRP sheets, and then the beams were tested to failure. This load was kept constant during the strengthening process. The results show that both the preexisting damage level and the FRP orientation have a significant effect on strengthening effectiveness and failure mode. All of the strengthened specimens exhibited higher capacities with capacity enhancements ranging from 21.8 to 66.4%, and the crack width reduced by 25.6-82.7% at failure load compared to the control beam. Finally, the authors present a comparison between the experimental results and the predictions using the ACI 440.2R-08 guidelines.

• Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.48-51
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• 2016

Many studies have been carried out in order to develop a frequency efficient communication system than the current communication system for satisfying the increasing demands of wireless data services in mobile communication systems. Service providers must maintain a lot of base station equipments to meet the increasing demands of wireless data service. Therefore service provider needs a system or method to reduce maintenance costs. The amount of wireless data service are changed according to the time of day, geographical location and so on. Power consumption can be reduced if the supplied power of communication systems is controlled by the amount of wireless data traffics. In this paper, power management system of base station's equipment for mobile communication is designed and implemented. The proposed power management system controls the power supplied to the mobile communication infrastructures depending on the service amount of wireless data. Field test result of the implemented system shows the proposed system saves 26% of the power consumption in the base stations.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.162-165
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• 2006

I-section prestressed concrete(I-PC) beam crack due to low tensile strength, may decrease rigidity and structural performance by excessive deflection. In an effort to this problem, in this research, I-section prestressed dual concrete(I-PDC) beam has been proposed, consisting of normal strength concrete in compression zone, and high performance steel fiber reinforced concrete(HPSFRC) with a bottom flange depth in tensile zone. Crack formation and its propagation are controlled by the HPSFRC in I-PDC beam. The initial cracking and service limit loads are increased along with the load carrying capacity and flexural stiffness.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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• v.32A no.4
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• pp.32-39
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• 1995

In this paper, a timer thresholds tuning algorithm is proposed, satisfying the required response time for traffic with time-critical applications and asynchronous traffic in FDDI network. Under light and medium load, priorities and timer thresholds play a minor role for medium access control. In these cases all quenes are served exhaustively with a ver high service probability and the packet loss probability approaches almost zero. Under overload condition, however, the performance of the FDDI Network is completely determined by the selection of the timer thresholds. The timer thresholds tuned by mathematical results is confirmed by simulation results using SIMAN/UNIX package. The allocation of guaranteed bandwidth can be controlled easily by tuning the timer thresholds according to the proposed rules.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10c
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• pp.159-161
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 부하제어 서비스 클래스와 같이 결정적인 수준의 보장을 지원할 수 없는 연결 구조를 이중화하여 실시간 RPC의 종료시한 만족도를 개선하는 기법을 제안하고 그 성능을 평가한다. 제안된 기법은 RPC의 여유시간에 따라 요청 혹은 응답 메시지 전송에 있어서 종료시한 만족가능성이 높은 연결을 선택하도록 함으로써 각 RPC 트랜잭션에 여유시간에 따른 우선순위를 부여할 수 있으며 분할 기준치의 효율적인 선택에 의해 성능의 향상을 기할 수 있다. 이를 위해 할당된 대역폭에 따른 최적의 분할 기준치를 통계적으로 추정하여 실험 결과와 비교하였다. SMPL을 기반으로 수행된 모의실험은 제안된 기법이 실험에서 주어진 인자값에 대해 실시간 RPC의 종료시한 만족도를 개선할 수 있으며 통계적으로 0.3% 이내에서 최적의 분할 기준치를 추정할 수 있음을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.1533-1538
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• 2011

The dynamic characteristics such as resonant frequencies and dampings have been utilized as important parameters in dynamic behavior and inverse analyses. In general, the dynamic parameters have been determined based on design and experimental data, but experimental studies on the time-dependent changes of the dynamic parameters during service have rarely been conducted. Especially, unlike highway bridges, it is much easier for railroad bridges to estimate accumulated amount of fatigue because of the controlled train operation, and the study of dynamic characteristic change due to fatigue is useful, since it can enhance the accuracy of dynamic analysis. In this paper, the dynamic characteristic change due to fatigue is measured via the modal test on the PSC girder during a fatigue test. The test specimen utilized in the test is the IT girder which enhances the sectional capacity of the conventional PSC girders. The test specimen is designed 10m long and the modal tests are conducted during the application of fatigue load two million times. The test result shows that considerable changes in the measured dynamic parameters are observed as the fatigue accumulates, and these changes during the service life should be considered in designing railroad bridges.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.1144-1150
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• 2015

Presence information provides various informations about users such as on-line status, current location, network connection method and connection address, and there are two kinds of presence information, SIP(Session Initiation Protocol) based presence information and XMPP(Extensible Massaging and Presence Protocol) based presence information. In this paper, a multiple server architecture that can handle these two kinds of presence information has been proposed. In this architecture, severs are added dynamically according to number of users to provide system scalability, and load of each server can be effectively controlled. In this system, a new XMPP stanza architecture and presence information data format are designed for load control. Furthermore message exchanging procedures between servers and users for dynamic server control has been also suggested. The performance of the proposed system has been analysed by simulation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.2A
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• pp.80-89
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• 2005

In IEEE 802.11 and 802.11e for ad hoc networks, DCF and EDCA use a contention-based protocol called CSMA/CA, which is simple to implement efficient when the system is light loaded. But the performance of CSMA/CA decreases dramatically when the system load is heavy because of increasing collisions. In PCF and HCF modes, stations are controlled by a base station by polling, no collision ever occurs. However, when the system load is light, the performance is poor because few stations have data to transfer. More important, PCF and HCF can not be used in the ad hoc networks. In this paper, we address a priority-based distributed polling mechanism (PDPM) that implements polling scheme into DCF or EDCA modes for ad hoc networks by adding a polling approach before every contention-based procedure. PDPM takes the advantages of polling mechanism that avoids most of collisions in a high load condition. At the same time, it also keeps the contention-based mechanism for a light loaded condition. PDPM provides quality of service (QoS) with fewer collisions and higher throughput compared with IEEE 802.11e.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.547-556
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• 2014

Korea expects a shortage in storage capacity for spent fuels at reactor sites. Therefore, a need for more metal and/or concrete casks for storage systems is anticipated for either the reactor site or away from the reactor for interim storage. For the purpose of interim storage and transportation, a dual purpose metal cask that can load 21 spent fuel assemblies is being developed by Korea Radioactive Waste Management Corporation (KRMC) in Korea. At first the gamma and neutron flux for the design basis fuel were determined assuming in-core environment (the temperature, pressure, etc. of the moderator, boron, cladding, $UO_2$ pellets) in which the design basis fuel is loaded, as input data. The evaluation simulated burnup up to 45,000 MWD/MTU and decay during ten years of cooling using the SAS2H/OGIGEN-S module of the SCALE5.1 system. The results from the source term evaluation were used as input data for the final shielding evaluation utilizing the MCNP Code, which yielded the effective dose rate. The design of the cask is based on the safety requirements for normal storage conditions under 10 CFR Part 72. A radiation shielding analysis of the metal storage cask optimized for loading 21 design basis fuels was performed for two cases; one for a single cask and the other for a $2{\times}10$ cask array. For the single cask, dose rates at the external surface of the metal cask, 1m and 2m away from the cask surface, were evaluated. For the $2{\times}10$ cask array, dose rates at the center point of the array and at the center of the casks' height were evaluated. The results of the shielding analysis for the single cask show that dose rates were considerably higher at the lower side (from the bottom of the cask to the bottom of the neutron shielding) of the cask, at over 2mSv/hr at the external surface of the cask. However, this is not considered to be a significant issue since additional shielding will be installed at the storage facility. The shielding analysis results for the $2{\times}10$ cask array showed exponential decrease with distance off the sources. The controlled area boundary was calculated to be approximately 280m from the array, with a dose rate of 25mrem/yr. Actual dose rates within the controlled area boundary will be lower than 25mrem/yr, due to the decay of radioactivity of spent fuel in storage.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.12C no.5 s.101
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• pp.679-686
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• 2005

Because EPON access network shares a medium and aggregates the traffic from EPON subscribers, scheduling media access control on EPON bandwidth allocation is very important. Furthermore DBA mechanism of EPON based on TDMA is out of specification and up to implementation. This paper deals with a DBA method to guarantee the QoS of the delay sensitive traffic on the base of best-effort service and delay priority queue management. The proposed method performs virtual scheduling algorithm for the integrated traffic. It uses the same MAC messages and tries to guarantee the QoS of higher priority traffic first with a simple DBA architecture. We evaluate the algorithm for traffic delay according to polling interval and traffic load of upstream and downstream. The results show that the proposed method can guarantee the QoS of the delay sensitive traffic with priority of the service classes.