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Prediction of Temperature and Moisture Distributions in Hardening Concrete By Using a Hydration Model

  • Park, Ki-Bong
    • Architectural research
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.153-161
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents an integrated procedure to predict the temperature and moisture distributions in hardening concrete considering the effects of temperature and aging. The degree of hydration is employed as a fundamental parameter to evaluate hydro-thermal-mechanical properties of hardening concrete. The temperature history and temperature distribution in hardening concrete is evaluated by combining cement hydration model with three-dimensional finite element thermal analysis. On the other hand, the influences of both self-desiccation and moisture diffusion on variation of relative humidity are considered. The self-desiccation is evaluated by using a semi-empirical expression with desorption isotherm and degree of hydration. The moisture diffusivity is expressed as a function of degree of hydration and current relative humidity. The proposed procedure is verified with experimental results and can be used to evaluate the early-age crack of hardening concrete.

Emergence and Structure of Complex Mutualistic Networks

  • Lee, KyoungEun;Jung, Nam;Lee, Hyun Min;Maeng, Seung Eun;Lee, Jae Woo
    • Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.149-153
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    • 2022
  • The degree distribution of the plant-pollinator network was identified by analyzing the data in the ecosystem and reproduced by a model of the growing bipartite mutualistic networks. The degree distribution of pollinator shows power law or stretched exponential distribution, while plant usually shows stretched exponential distribution. In the growth model, the plant and the pollinator are selected with probability Pp and PA=1-Pp, respectively. The number of incoming links for the plant and the pollinator is lp and lA, respectively. The probability that the link of the plant selects the pollinator of the existing network given as $A_{k_i}=k^{{\lambda}_A}_i/{\sum}_i\;k^{{\lambda}_A}_i$, and the probability that the pollinator selects the plant is $P_{k_i}=k^{{\lambda}_p}_i/{\sum}_i\;k^{{\lambda}_p}_i$. When the nonlinear growth index is 𝛌X=1 (X=A or P), the degree distribution follows a power law, and if 0≤𝛌X<1, the degree distribution follows a stretched exponential distribution. The cumulative degree distributions of plants and pollinators of 14 empirical plant-pollinators included in Interaction Web Database were calculated. A set of parameters (PA,PP,lA,lP) that reproduces these cumulative degree distributions and a growth index 𝛌X (X=A or P) were obtained. We found that animal takes very heterogenous connections, whereas plant takes a more flexible connection network.

Seismic Performance Evaluation of Multi-Span Bridges considering Effect of Lateral Load Distributions and Equivalent SDOF methods (횡하중 분포와 등가단자유도 방법의 영향을 고려한 다경간 교량의 내진성능 평가)

  • Song, Jong-Keol;Nam, Wang-Hyun;Chung, Yeong-Hwa
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.26 no.A
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    • pp.163-171
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    • 2006
  • To evaluate inelastic seismic responses of multi-span-bridge, the equivalent single-degree-of-freedom (ESDOF) methods and the lateral load distributions are applied to the capacity spectrum method(CSM). From the pushover analysis results using the four ESDOF methods and the six types lateral load distributions, the ESDOF method more than lateral load distribution is found to have an important influence upon the pushover analysis. The effects of the higher mode on the bridge seismic behaviors are also increased as the number of pier increase. Therefore, it can be concluded that lateral load distributions and ESDOF methods for reflection of higher mode effects should be considered in the seismic analysis of the bridge structural.

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Effect of liquid viscosity on the degree of uniformity of drops from swirl spray nozzles (와류 분무 노즐에 의해 형성되는 액적들의 균일도에 액체의 점도가 미치는 영향)

  • 이상용;김인구;조한권
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.538-546
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    • 1989
  • Effect of liquid viscosity was studied experimentally on the drop size distributions of the liquid sprays from swirl atomizers. Glycerine-Water mixtures were used as test fluids for the experiments. Drop sizes of the liquid sprays were measured with the light scattering method. The concept of the standard deviation was introduced to represent the degree of uniformity of the drop size distributions. Experimental results show that the spray drops become coarser and less uniform with the liquid of higher viscosity. The effect of viscosity on the Sauter mean diameter and the standard deviation appeared to be more significant with the lower injection pressure. It was also confirmed that the Sauter mean diameter increases with the increase of the liquid viscosity and with the decrease of the injection pressure.

On the Design of Block Lengths for Irregular LDPC Codes Based on the Maximum Variable Degree

  • Chung, Kyu-Hyuk
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.35 no.11C
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    • pp.907-910
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents the design of block lengths for irregular low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes based on the maximum variable degree $d_{{\upsilon},max}$. To design a block length, the performance degradation of belief-propagation (BP) decoding performance from upper bounds on the maximum likelihood (ML) decoding performance is used as an important factor. Since for large block lengths, the performance of irregular LDPC codes is very close to the Shannon limit, we focus on moderate block lengths ($5{\times}10^2\;{\leq}\;N\;{\leq}\;4{\times}10^3$). Given degree distributions, the purpose of our paper is to find proper block lengths based on the maximum variable degree $d_{{\upsilon},max}$. We also present some simulation results which show how a block length can be optimized.

THE DIMENSION REDUCTION ALGORITHM FOR THE POSITIVE REALIZATION OF DISCRETE PHASE-TYPE DISTRIBUTIONS

  • Kim, Kyung-Sup
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.51-64
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    • 2012
  • This paper provides an efficient dimension reduction algorithm of the positive realization of discrete phase type(DPH) distributions. The relationship between the representation of DPH distributions and the positive realization of the positive system is explained. The dimension of the positive realization of a discrete phase-type realization may be larger than its McMillan degree of probability generating functions. The positive realization with sufficient large dimension bound can be obtained easily but generally, the minimal positive realization problem is not solved yet. We propose an efficient dimension reduction algorithm to make the positive realization with tighter upper bound from a given probability generating functions in terms of convex cone problem and linear programming.

A Study on Store Image and Clothing Satisfaction of the Clothing Distribution type (의류 유통업태의 점포이미지와 의복만족도에 관한 연구)

  • 임숙자;김선희
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.185-195
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study is to identify store image and clothing satisfaction of various clothing distribution type and is to compare the difference due to demographic variables. The data were obtained 407 housewives using questionnaire. The results were as follows. First Store image of clothing distribution types was found significant differences in product service atmosphere. Second Clothing satisfaction of clothing distribution types was founded significant differences in price brand name fashion design material sewing size. Third The new distribution types in general were not visited upon despite their high degree of recognition and using experience of new distribution types was founded significant differences in Store image of new distribution types. Fourth Among demographic variables significant difference in usage of the distributions was founded. Fifth Among demographic variables significant difference in usage of the distributions was founded. Fifth Among demographic variables significant difference in clothing satisfaction of the distributions was founded.

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A Study on the Focal Mechanism of the Hongsung Earthquake from the P-Wave Polarity Distributions (초동극성분포를 이용한 홍성지진의 Focal Mechanism 연구)

  • 김준경
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.121-136
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    • 1991
  • The focal mechanism of the Hongsung Earthquake (1978. Oct. 7, M$_L$=5.0, Latitude 36.62N, Longitude 1 26.67E) was evaulated using the polarity distribution of the P-Waveforms. Through the non-linear computer process, the compatibility of polarity distributions of the 9 P-Waveforms observed at teleseismic distances from the Hongsung Earthquake epicenter was investigated to those of the focal mechanism determined from the varying strike, dip and rake angles. The resultant values for the strike and dip angle of the principal fault plane, which apparently matches very well the sunface lineament of the Hongsung region, are determined to be about 247 degree and 78 degree with uncertainties, respectively. However, the rake angle of the focal mechanism has wide range of 40 degree to 160 degree, which is mainly due to the poor coverage of the azimuthal angle of the observed seismic stations. Due to the consistency of principal stress axes, the resultant focal mechanism could support the current stress regime of that region, which may be caused by subduction of the Pacific Plate under the Eurasia Plate along the Japan Trench. It also provides information of seismic source characteristics of the part of the Korean Peninsula for aseismic design criteria such as Site Specific Response Spectrum and Strong Ground Motion Time History for the nuclear power plants and related nuclear waste disposal facility sites.

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Identification of nonlinear discrete systems in the time domain (시간 영역에서의 비선형 이산계 식별)

  • 최종호
    • 전기의세계
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    • v.29 no.11
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    • pp.742-750
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    • 1980
  • The problem of nonlinear time-invariant system identification by estimation of Wiener kernels is studied for discrete time systems with inputs having symmetric probability distributions. G-functionals are constructed. It is further shown that under idealized conditions, these seemingly different techniques yield the same results. The results of identification of asimulated second degree system is presented.

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