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Optimized Ballast Water Exchange Management for Bulk Carrier (BULK 선용자동 Ballast Water Management Plan 개발)

  • HONG CHUNG YOU;PARK JE WOONG
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.67-72
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    • 2004
  • Many port states such as New Zealand, the USA, Australia and Canada have strict regulations to prevent ships which arrive in their port from discharging polluted ballast water which contain harmful aquatic organism and pathogens. They are notified that transfer of polluted ballast water can cause serious injury to public health and damage to property and environment. For this reason, they perceived that the ballast exchange in deep sea is the most effective method, together with submitting the ballast management plan which contains the effective exchange method, ballast system and safety consideration. In this study, we pursued both nautical engineering analysis and optimization of algorithm in order to generate the sequence of stability and rapidity. Heuristic Algorithm was chosen on the basis of optimality and applicability to a sequential exchange problem. We have built an optimized algorithm, for automatic exchange of ballast water, by redefining core elements of the $A^\ast$ algorithm, such as node, operator and evaluation function. Final version of the optimized algorithm has been applied to existing bulk carrier and the performance of the algorithm has been verified successfully.

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Homogeneity of lightweight aggregate concrete assessed using ultrasonic-echo sensing

  • Wang, H.Y.;Li, L.S.;Chen, S.H.;Weng, C.F.
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.225-234
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    • 2009
  • Dredged silt from reservoirs in southern Taiwan was sintered to make lightweight aggregates (LWA), which were then used to produce lightweight aggregate concrete (LWAC).This study aimed to assess the compressive strength and homogeneity of LWAC using ultrasonic-echo sensing. Concrete specimens were prepared using aggregates of four different particle density, namely 800, 1100, 1300 and 2650 kg/$m^3$. The LWAC specimens were cylindrical and a square wall with core specimens drilled. Besides compressive strength test, ultrasonic-echo sensing was employed to examine the ultrasonic pulse velocity and homogeneity of the wall specimens and to explore the relationship between compressive strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity. Results show that LWA, due to its lower relative density, causes bloating, thus resulting in uneven distribution of aggregates and poor homogeneity. LWAC mixtures using LWA of particle density 1300 kg/$m^3$ show the most even distribution of aggregates and hence best homogeneity as well as highest compressive strength of 63.5 MPa. In addition, measurements obtained using ultrasonic-echo sensing and traditional ultrasonic method show little difference, supporting that ultrasonic-echo sensing can indeed perform non-destructive, fast and accurate assessment of LWAC homogeneity.

Biguanide-Functionalized Fe3O4/SiO2 Magnetic Nanoparticles: An Efficient Heterogeneous Organosuperbase Catalyst for Various Organic Transformations in Aqueous Media

  • Alizadeh, Abdolhamid;Khodaei, Mohammad M.;Beygzadeh, Mojtaba;Kordestani, Davood;Feyzi, Mostafa
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.33 no.8
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    • pp.2546-2552
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    • 2012
  • A novel biguanide-functionalized $Fe_3O_4/SiO_2$ magnetite nanoparticle with a core-shell structure was developed for utilization as a heterogeneous organosuperbase in chemical transformations. The structural, surface, and magnetic characteristics of the nanosized catalyst were investigated by various techniques such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM), elemental analyzer (EA), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), $N_2$ adsorption-desorption (BET and BJH) and FT-IR. The biguanide-functionalized $Fe_3O_4/SiO_2$ nanoparticles showed a superpara-magnetic property with a saturation magnetization value of 46.7 emu/g, indicating great potential for application in magnetically separation technologies. In application point of view, the prepared catalyst was found to act as an efficient recoverable nanocatalyst in nitroaldol and domino Knoevenagel condensation/Michael addition/cyclization reactions in aqueous media under mild condition. Additionally, the catalyst was reused six times without significant degradation in catalytic activity and performance.

An Empirical Study on the Influence of Industrial Safety Education to Workers in Construction Field -Focus on the Supervisor and the Worker- (산업안전교육이 건설현장에 미치는 영향에 관한 실증적 연구 - 관리감독자와 일반근로자를 중심으로 -)

  • Jo, Jae-Hwan;Woo, Heung-Sik;Park, Min-Kyu
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.43-55
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    • 2009
  • In terms of deregulation requests from business, incidents at construction sites are rapidly increasing after reducing the regular safety training hours. Especially, to prevent incidents through safety trainings for construction site workers, who have lots of hazardous tasks than general manufacturing, is not only to protect property of both the companies and the country but also to increase their profits. That is why there are loud voices regarding that the safety training is a core mandatory to prevent industrial incidents. But, most companies, as soon as the deregulation for safety training is implemented, mitigated conducting safety trainings to prevent incidents. With this, the incidents are currently to be increased and caught in a vicious circle of many incidents at the smaller companies because of their absentmindedness regarding safety training due to their poorness as subcontractors of major companies, comparing to major companies. This study explains that the difference between managers and workers are existing about safety awareness and knowledge. And, we confirmed that the educational factor led by deficiency of safety awareness and knowledge was the major factor.

Measured data of thermophysical properties of concrete for a temperature range of $20^{\circ}C$ to $1100^{\circ}C$ (상온에서 $1100^{\circ}C$까지 온도변화에 따른 콘크리트의 열물성 측정치)

  • Shin, Ki-Yeol;Chung, Mo;Kim, Sang-Baik;Kim, Jong-Chul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.596-606
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    • 1998
  • Thermophysical properties and the compressive strength of concrete used in nuclear power plants in Korea were measured. The chemical composition of the concrete was also analyzed. The measured thermophysical properties include the density, the thermal conductivity, the thermal diffusivity and the specific heat for a wide temperature range of 20.deg. C to 1100.deg. C. The chemical composition of Korean concrete is similar to that of US basaltic concrete and the thermophysical properties are strongly temperature dependent. The density, the conductivity and the diffusivity decrease with an increase in temperature, and particularly the conductivity and the diffusivity are a 50-perdent decrease at 900.deg. C as compared with these values at room temperature. The specific heat increases until 500.deg. C, decreases from 700.deg. C to 900 .deg. C, and then increases again when temperature is above 900.deg. C. The measurement beyond 1100.deg. C is not acceptably accurate because the concrete decomposes to a liquid phase from a solid phase at that temperature. The results of this study can be applied, for example, to an analysis of the molten core-concrete interaction (MCCI) phenomenon of concrete structures at high temperature will also require those property data, especially for high temperature ranges.

Design of protocol for RFID/USN security (RFID/USN 보안을 위한 프로토콜 설계)

  • Park, Sang-Hyun;Park, Sang-Min;Shin, Seung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.103-109
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    • 2007
  • Payment and security requirement are playing an increasingly critical role in RFID system, allegedly the core of the ubiquitous, especially in logistics. Therefore, security technology has been playing essential role gradually unlike the past when only the perception of equipment was considered important technology. The current encoding system allows the access only to the user who has the secret key. Many encoding algorithm has been studied to ensure the security of secret key. Security protocol is the most typical way to authorize appropriate user perception by using the data and secret key to proceed the encoding and transmit it to the system in order to confirm the user. However, RFID system which transmits more than dozens of data per second cannot be used if the algorithm and protocol of the existing wired system are used because the performance will degrade as a consequence. Security protocol needs to be designed in consideration of property of RFID and hardware. In this paper, a protocol was designed using SNEP(Sensor Network Encryption Protocol), the security protocol used for the sensor similar to RFID- not the current system used in wired environment- and ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography: oval curve encoding), the encoding algorithm.

A Study on Lubricant additive of DME Common-rail Vehicle (DME 커먼레일 차량의 윤활향상제에 관한 연구)

  • Park, JungKwon;Kim, Hyunchul;Jeong, SooJin;Chon, MunSoo
    • Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.15-18
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    • 2013
  • The next generation alternative fuel of diesel, DME (Dimethyl Ether) discharges particulate matter hardly due to chemical structural as oxygen-fuel so it has the eco-friendly property. Despite these advantages, the DME has the technical difficulties to apply to the diesel engine because of a low calorific value, viscosity and compressibility effects. From this point of view, we performed experimental studies on improved reliability of DME common-rail vehicle and lubricity enhancement of DME fuel for empirical distribution of eco-friendly DME fuel. Also we analyzed solubility of lubrication enhancer according to a drop in temperature, try to secure reliability about core parts of DME vehicle by applying lubrication enhancer in the DME common-rail vehicle.

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A Trend Study on 2D to 3D Video Conversion Technology using Analysis of Patent Data (특허 분석을 통한 2D to 3D 영상 데이터 변환 기술 동향 연구)

  • Kang, Michael M.;Lee, Wookey;Lee, Rich. C.
    • Journal of Information Technology and Architecture
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.495-504
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    • 2014
  • This paper present a strategy of intellectual property acquisition and core technology development direction using analysis of 2D to 3D video conversion technology patent data. As a result of analysis of trends in patent 2D to 3D technology, it is very promising technology field. Using a strategic patent map using research of patent trend, you will keep ahead of the competition in 2D3D image data conversion market.

Evaluation of Bond Strength Properties with Changing the Aspect Ratio and Temperature of Concrete (콘크리트의 형상비 및 온도변화에 따른 부착강도 특성평가)

  • Kim, Hyun Seok;Jung, Won Kyong;Oh, Han Jin;Park, Jun Young;Kim, Hyung Bae
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2018
  • PURPOSES : The main purpose of this study is suggest of field bond strength evaluation method for more objective evaluation method through Evaluation of Bond Strength Properties with changing aspect ratio and temperature. METHODS : The evaluation is laboratory bond strength test. Using the core machine, the pull-off test method ; the bond strength test of interface layer the universal testing machine. RESULTS : As a result of the laboratory bond strength evaluation, it was verified that the bond strength by aspect ratio decreases linearly with increasing aspect ratio and the bond strength properties by temperature change existed at high and low temperature condition relative to odinary temperature condition. CONCLUSIONS : According to the results of laboratory bond strength evaluation, the field bond strength evaluation results suggest applying the proposed correction factor (0.8, 1.0, 1.4, 1.9) according to aspect ratio(0.5, 0.1, 1.5, 2.0), For more objective evaluation of the bond strength, it is analyzed that the evaluation value is within $6{\sim}32^{\circ}C$ and the result can be obtained within 5% of the coefficient of variation.

Effect of Washing Conditions on Dimensional Change and Mechanical Properties in Polyester/Spandex Knit Fabric (세탁조건에 따른 폴리에스터/스판덱스 편성물의 형태안정성과 역학적 특성 변화)

  • Roh, Eui Kyung;Kim, Eunae
    • Fashion & Textile Research Journal
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2018
  • This study comparatively analyzed the changes in the dimensional stability and the mechanical properties of stretch knit fabrics associated with washings conditions in order to determine the most appropriate washing method. Polyester and spandex knit fabrics were washed 25 cycles with nine washing condition profiles that controled detergent, hardness. temperature and RPM. The knit fabrics with repeated washings were evaluated by dimensional stability and measured by the KES-FB system. Polyester and spandex fibers have good chemical resistance. However, the changes in the dimensional stability and the mechanical properties were observed in washed knit fabrics. After repeated washings, the knit fabrics washed in an alkali or neutral detergent had good dimensional stability compared with the knit fabric washed in functional detergent. The washed knit fabrics were extended, stiff, rough, and had a smaller volume. The changes were the result of the rearrange of polyester fibers which twisted around spandex core and chemical interactions involving the detergent and the physical and mechanical forces of washing. Especially, using an alkali detergent resulted in increased stiffness and roughness of the knit fabric. In conclusion, the washing in water with low hardness and a neutral detergent can minimize the changes in dimensional stability and mechanical properties of polyester and spandex knit fabric.