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Comparing Empirical Methods of Highway Capacity Estimation (실험적 용량산정 방법 비교 연구)

  • Moon, Jaepil;Cho, Won Bum
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2014
  • PURPOSES : Capacity is a main factor of determining the number of lane in highway design or the level of service in road on operation. Previous studies showed that breakdown may occur before capacity is reached, and then it was concluded that capacity is a stochastic value rather than a deterministic one. In general, estimating capacity is based on average over maximum traffic volume observed for capacity state. This method includes the empirical distribution method(EDM) and would underestimate capacity. This study estimated existing empirical methods of estimating stochastic highway capacity. Among the studied methods are the product limit method(PLM) and the selected method(SM). METHODS : Speed and volume data were collected at three freeway bottleneck sites in Cheonan-Nonsan and West Sea Freeway. The data were grouped into a free-flow state or capacity state with speeds observed in the bottlenecks and the upstream. The data were applied to the empirical methods. RESULTS : The results show that the PLM and SM estimated capacity higher than EDM. The reason is that while the EDM is based on capacity observations only, the PLM and SM are based on free-flow high volumes and capacity observations. CONCLUSIONS : The PLM and SM using both free-flow and capacity observations would be improved to enhance the reliability of the capacity estimation.

Physical property control for a batch polymerization reactor

  • Kim, In-Sun;Ahn, Sung-Mo;Rhee, Hyun-Ku
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1996.10a
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    • pp.263-266
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    • 1996
  • A method to determine an optimal temperature trajectory that guarantees polymer products having controlled molecular weight distribution and desired values of molecular weight is presented. The coordinate transformation method and the optimal control theory are applied to a batch PMMA polymerization system to calculate the optimal temperature trajectory. Coordinate transformation method converts the original fixed-end-point, free-end-time problem to a free-end-point, fixed-end-time problem. The idea is that by making the reactor temperature track the optimal temperature trajectory one may be able to produce polymer products having the prespecified physical property in a minimum time. The on-line control experiments with the PID control algorithm have been conducted to establish the validity of the scheme proposed in this study. The experimental results show that prespecified polymer product could be obtained with tracking the calculated optimal temperature trajectory.

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COMPUTATIONAL STUDY ON TWO DIMENSIONAL DAM BREAKING SIMULATION USING LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD (LBM을 이용한 Dam Breaking 수치해석 연구)

  • Jung, Rho-Taek;Hasan, Md. Kamrul
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.54-57
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    • 2011
  • In this paper we present an algorithm about how to simulate two dimensional dam breaking with lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). LBM considers a typical volume element of fluid to be composed of a collection of particles that represented by a particle velocity distribution function for each fluid component at each grid point. We use the modified Lattice Boltzmann Method for incompressible fluid. This paper will represent detailed information on single phase flow which considers only the water instead of both air and water. Interface treatment and conservation of mass are the most important things in simulating free surface where the Interface is treated by mass exchange with the water region. We consider the surface tension on the interface and also bounce back boundary condition for the treatment of solid obstacles. We will compare the results of the simulation with some methods and experimental results.

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Free-Form Curve Interpolation Method for Shape Preservation (형태 보존성을 위한 자유 형태 곡선 보간 방법)

  • Lee, A-Ri;Park, Cheol-Ho;Sim, Jae-Hong
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.758-765
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    • 1999
  • Shape-preserving property is the important method that controls the complex free form curve/surface. Interpolation method for the existed Shape-Preservation had problems that it has needed the minimization of a curvature-related functions for calculating single-valued data. Solving this problem, in this paper, it proposed to the algorithm of generalizing C piecewise parametric cubic that has shape-preserving property for both Single-value data and Multivalue data. When there are the arbitrary tangents and two data, including shape-preserving property, this proposed method gets piecewise parametric cubic polynomial by checking the relation between the shape-preserving property and then calculates efficiently the control points using that. Also, it controls the initial shape using curvature distribution on curve segments.

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Changes in the Free Amino Acid Content of the Shucked Oyster Crassostrea gigas Stored in Salt Water at 3℃

  • Tanimoto, Shota;Kawakami, Koji;Morimoto, Satoshi
    • Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.63-69
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    • 2013
  • Shucked oysters were soaked in an equal weight of salt water and stored at $3^{\circ}C$ for 7 days. Changes in the free amino acid content of the whole body and in the adductor muscle were evaluated by a practical distribution method. With the exception of aspartic acid and tyrosine, no significant changes in free amino acids or ammonia were observed in whole-body shucked oysters during the storage period. In contrast, the majority of free amino acids in the adductor muscle decreased significantly. Most of these free amino acids were detected in considerable amounts in the surrounding salt water after 7 days of storage. Both the weight of the whole body and the salinity of the surrounding salt water decreased significantly during the storage period. These results suggest that free amino acids were eluted from the cutting surface of the adductor muscle and indicate that the free amino acid content per shucked oyster and in the adductor muscle, decreases during cold storage.

A Study on the Thermal Stress Analysis of Axi-Symmetric Hollow Cylinder (축대칭 중공실린더의 길이방향 온도분포하의 열탄성응력 해석에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Jin;Cho, Jin
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.3152-3159
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    • 1996
  • Previous works about the cylindrical shape elastic body which is under longitudinal temperature distribution mostly show the results of free expansion, therefore exact thermo-elastic analysis is needed. The object of this work is to analyze the thermo-elastic problem of the hollow cylinder when the cylinder is under longitudinal temperature distribution. In this paper, the analytical solution is found by using Galerkin vector, and it is compared by the results of FEM. For displacements of cylinder, analytical values are almost same as the results of FEM, but free expansion is not fit for analytical solution and the results of FEM. stresses from analytical solution and the results of FEM show good agreement also. but the results are different near the end boundary, since St. Venant principle is applied.

Pricing the Storage of Inbound Containers with a Discrete Probability Distribution of Retrieval Times

  • Kim, Ki-Young;Kim, Kap-Hwan
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.165-177
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    • 2010
  • This paper discusses a method for pricing the storage of inbound containers in a container yard. The pricing structure is characterized by a free-time-limit and a storage price for the storage time that extends beyond the free-time-limit. A cost model is developed from the viewpoint of a public terminal operator as well as a private terminal operator. Unlike a previous study on this issue, this study assumes that the retrieval times follow a discrete probability distribution, which is more realistic than the previous study. A solution procedure is suggested and illustrated by using numerical examples.

The Study on the Application of Free Networks in Leveling (수준측양에 있어서 자유강조정법의 적용에 관한 연구)

  • 오창수
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.42-47
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    • 1988
  • In this study bias estimation method was applied to the free leveling networks adjustment by the concepts of free leveling networks. Optimum bias coefficients were determined by analizing the distribution of height errors with regard to bias coefficients. The object of this study lies in suggesting the utilities of free leveling networks adjustment, comparing one fixed-point and two fixed-points leveling networks adjustment.

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Vibration analysis of FGM beam: Effect of the micromechanical models

  • Hadji, Lazreg
    • Coupled systems mechanics
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.265-280
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, a new refined hyperbolic shear deformation beam theory for the free vibration analysis of functionally graded beam is presented. The theory accounts for hyperbolic distribution of the transverse shear strains and satisfies the zero traction boundary conditions on the surfaces of the functionally graded beam without using shear correction factors. In addition, the effect of different micromechanical models on the free vibration response of these beams is studied. Various micromechanical models are used to evaluate the mechanical characteristics of the FG beams whose properties vary continuously across the thickness according to a simple power law. Based on the present theory, the equations of motion are derived from the Hamilton's principle. Navier type solution method was used to obtain frequencies, and the numerical results are compared with those available in the literature. A detailed parametric study is presented to show the effect of different micromechanical models on the free vibration response of a simply supported FG beams.

Semi-analytical solutions of free and force vibration behaviors of GRC-FG cylindrical shells

  • Lei, Zuxiang;Tong, Lihong
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.687-699
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, free and force vibration behaviors of graphene-reinforced composite functionally graded (GRC-FG) cylindrical shells in thermal environments are investigated based on Reddy's third-order shear deformation theory (HSDT). The GRC-FG cylindrical shells are composed of piece-wise pattern graphene-reinforced layers which have different volume fraction. Based on the extended Halpin-Tsai micromechanical model, the effective material properties of the resulting nanocomposites are evaluated. Using the Hamilton's principle and the assumed mode method, the motion equation of the GRC-FG cylindrical shells is formulated. Using the time- and frequency-domain methods, free and force vibration properties of the GRC-FG cylindrical shell are analyzed. Numerical cases are provided to study the effects of distribution of graphene, shell radius-to-thickness ratio and temperature changes on the free and force vibration responses of GRC-FG cylindrical shells.