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Development of Virtual Construction Equipment Simulation System Based on BIM for Civil Engineering Project (토목시설물에 대한 BIM 기반 가상건설 장비 시뮬레이션 시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Sung-Hoon;Yoon, Young-Cheol;Joo, Cheol-Beom;Yoon, Dong-Ju
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.223-230
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    • 2017
  • BIM(building information modeling) has been actively applied to construction industries and to maximize its application through the life cycle of structure, various relevant technologies have been proposed. In particular, 4D sequencing management and 5D cost-related management were introduced as an improved version of the design review and interface control by 3D information design. On the other hand, the virtual construction using virtual construction equipment can sophisticatedly handle capacity, dynamic movement, collision boundaries of actual construction machines but it still stays at a low level in a technical sense. In this study, simulation systems based on BIM involving virtual construction equipment have been developed; then it is applied to the actual construction project to evaluate the safety and efficiency of construction equipments. It was confirmed that the simulation systems can be utilized to construct virtual construction site by using an effective 3D library of construction equipment and can plays a key role to secure construction safety and economic feasibility. Specifically, the simulation system are very useful for decision making by construction managers to select the optimum equipment and construction method with a better understanding for safety and cost-saving.

Estimation of the Optimal Generation Capacity of Solar-Wind Hybrid Power System for Economic Operations (태양광-풍력 복합발전시스템의 경제적 운용을 위한 최적 용량 산정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Seung-Chul;Moon, Un-Chul;Kwon, Byeong-Gook;Kim, Jong-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.156-162
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, a technique that estimate the optimal capacity of the solar-wind hybrid power system for minimizing the total monthly electric power expenses is presented. The hybrid power system is assumed to be operated in connection with the utility power system and electric bill be paid for the power not covered by the hybrid system generation. Monthly generation cost is estimated based on total life-cycle cost analysis. The monthly utility power bill is assumed to be increased quadratically in proportion with the net utility power consumption which is the difference between the total monthly load minus the hybrid system generations. Test results demonstrate applications potential of the proposed technique.

Development of Acoustic Emission Training Technique and Localization Method using Q-switched Laser and Multiple Sensors/Single Channel Acquisition (Q-switched 레이저와 다중센서/단일채널 신호수집을 이용한 복합재 구조 음향방출 트레이닝 및 위치탐지 기법 개발)

  • Choi, Yunshil;Lee, Jung-Ryul
    • Composites Research
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.145-150
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    • 2018
  • Various structural health monitoring (SHM) systems have been suggested for aerospace industry in order to increase its life-cycle and economic efficiency. In the case of aircraft structure madden with metal, a major concern was hot spots, such as notches, bolts holes, and where corrosion or stress concentration occurs due to moisture or salinity. However, with the increasing use of composites in the aerospace industry, further advanced SHM systems have been being required to be applied to composite structures, which have much complex damage mechanism. In this paper, a method of acoustic emission localization for composite structures using Q-switched laser and multiple Amplifier-integrated PZTs have been proposed. The presented technique aims at localization of the AE with an error in distance of less than 10 mm. Acoustic emission simulation and the localization attempt were conducted in the composite structure to validate the suggested method. Localization results, which are coordinates of detected regions, grid plots and color intensity map have been presented together to show reliability of the method.

Identification of Genetic Markers Distinguishing Golden Flounders from Normal Olive Flounders Paralichthys olivaceus Using Microsatellite Markers (황금색 넙치(Paralichthys olivaceus)의 발현을 예측할 수 있는 Microsatellite Marker 개발)

  • Kim, Min Sung;Kwak, Ju Ri;Kim, Tae Hwan;Han, Jae Yong;Park, Ji Been;Jo, Hyeon Kyeong;Suh, Jong-pyo;Lee, Woo-jai
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.492-498
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    • 2020
  • Despite its economic importance, olive flounder Paralichthys olivaceus aquaculture industry is facing a crisis with a continuous production decline. There have been many solutions to overcome the complicate predicament proposed. Increasing genetic diversity and discovering new commercial value through selective breeding are among them. The aims of the present study are to increase the selection power of the golden flounders. We examined the genetic diversity of the breeder population of golden flounders and developed selective markers for the golden flounder population. The 6 microsatellite (MS) markers were selected from melanogenesis-related genes, which are believed to be involved in the pigmentation of fish. All markers were polymorphic (except PO4) and 5 of them had PIC value of 0.6 or above. All makers had distinctive alleles indicating either normal or golden individuals. For examples, from PO4 marker, the frequency of an allele (316) in the golden population was 100% and in normal population was 0% (P<0.001). Although some more studies with more samples at the later generations should be performed to confirm this result, the 316 allele from PO4 marker could be a distinctive tool for decision of the colors in olive flounders at an early stage of the life cycle.

Consumer's Demands for the T-Commerce By the Technology Adoption Types (소비자의 기술혁신수용 유형에 따른 T-Commerce 수요도)

  • Park, Sun-Young
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.319-327
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of study is to investigate the customer oriented transaction environment for the customers' convenience, the plan of public policy in regard to the customer oriented T-Commerce, and the consumption pattern of customers' commercial transaction, necessary for the marketing strategy by analyzing the demand for the T-Commerce with the purchase intention and maximum willingness to pay according to the demographic factors, the pattern of commercial transaction, and the technology innovation types. The results showed that there were statistically significant relations between consumer's willingness price to pay for the T-commerce and the consumer's technology adoption types, monthly internet shopping amounts, and weekly TV-home shopping hours. The simulations on a basis of multiple regression analysis for the T-commerce were illustrated by those factors.

Predicting Movie Success based on Machine Learning Using Twitter (트위터를 이용한 기계학습 기반의 영화흥행 예측)

  • Yim, Junyeob;Hwang, Byung-Yeon
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.3 no.7
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    • pp.263-270
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    • 2014
  • This paper suggests a method for predicting a box-office success of the film. Lately, as the growth of the film industry, a variety of studies for the prediction of market demand is being performed. The product life cycle of film is relatively short cultural goods. Therefore, in order to produce stable profits, marketing costs before opening as well as the number of screen after opening need a plan. To fulfill this plan, the demand for the product and the calculation of economic profit scale should be preceded. The cases of existing researches, as a variable for predicting, primarily use the factors of competition of the market or the properties of the film. However, the proportion of the potential audiences who purchase the goods is relatively insufficient. Therefore, in this paper, in order to consider people's perception of a movie, Twitter was utilized as one of the survey samples. The existing variables and the information extracted from Twitter are defined as off-line and on-line element, and applied those two elements in machine learning by combining. Through the experiment, the proposed predictive techniques are validated, and the results of the experiment predicted the chance of successful film with about 95% of accuracy.

Web-Based Data Processing and Model Linkage Techniques for Agricultural Water-Resource Analysis (농촌유역 물순환 해석을 위한 웹기반 자료 전처리 및 모형 연계 기법 개발)

  • Park, Jihoon;Kang, Moon Seong;Song, Jung-Hun;Jun, Sang Min;Kim, Kyeung;Ryu, Jeong Hoon
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.57 no.5
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    • pp.101-111
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    • 2015
  • Establishment of appropriate data in certain formats is essential for agricultural water cycle analysis, which involves complex interactions and uncertainties such as climate change, social & economic change, and watershed environmental change. The main objective of this study was to develop web-based Data processing and Model linkage Techniques for Agricultural Water-Resource analysis (AWR-DMT). The developed techniques consisted of database development, data processing technique, and model linkage technique. The watershed of this study was the upper Cheongmi stream and Geunsam-Ri. The database was constructed using MS SQL with data code, watershed characteristics, reservoir information, weather station information, meteorological data, processed data, hydrological data, and paddy field information. The AWR-DMT was developed using Python. Processing technique generated probable rainfall data using non-stationary frequency analysis and evapotranspiration data. Model linkage technique built input data for agricultural watershed models, such as the TANK and Agricultural Watershed Supply (AWS). This study might be considered to contribute to the development of intelligent watercycle analysis by developing data processing and model linkage techniques for agricultural water-resource analysis.

A Study on the Feasibility of IGCC under the Korean Electricity Market (국내 전력거래제도하에서 IGCC 사업성 확보를 위한 정책 제언)

  • Ko, Kyung-Ho
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.118-127
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    • 2011
  • An IGCC was evaluated as one of the next generation technologies that would be able to substitute for coal-fired power plants. According to "The 4th Basic Plan of Long-term Electricity Supply & Demand" which is developed by the Electricity Business Acts, the first IGCC will be operated at 2015. Like other new and renewable energy such as solar PV, Fuel cell, The IGCC is considered as non-competitive generation technology because it is not maturity technology. Before the commercial operation of an IGCC in our electricity market, its economic feasibility under the Korean electricity market, which is cost-based trading system, is studied to find out institutional support system. The results of feasibility summarized that under the current electricity trading system, if the IGCC is considered like a conventional plant such as nuclear or coal-fired power plants, it will not be expected that its investment will be recouped within life-time. The reason is that the availability of an IGCC will plummet since 2016 when several nuclear and coal-fired power plants will be constructed additionally. To ensure the reasonable return on investment (NPV>0 IRR>Discount rate), the availability of IGCC should be higher than 77%. To do so, the current electricity trading system is amended that the IGCC generator must be considered as renewable generators to set up Price Setting Schedule and it should be considered as pick load generators, not Genco's coal fired-generators, in the Settlement Payment.

Verification Experiment and Analysis for 6kW Solar Water Heating System (Part 4 : Comparing Economics and Raising Competitiveness) (6kW급 태양열 온수급탕 시스템의 실증실험 및 분석 (제4보 경제성비교 및 경쟁력강화))

  • Lee Bong Jin;Kang Chaedong;Lee Sang Ryoul;Hong Hiki
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.232-242
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    • 2005
  • It has been recognized that solar water heating systems are economically inferior to conventional gas water-heaters and boilers using light oil as fuel in spite of having practical possibilities among other alternative energy facilities in Korea. The solar system, however, should be revaluated due to the sharp rise of oil prices recently. We have calculated the energy amount and cost through a series of research projects for the system by experiment and simulation, which lead to analyzing reliable life cycle costs. For the economic analysis, the gas water-heater and light oil boiler were taken as base cases while the solar systems implemented with these facilities were compared as alternatives. As a result, the solar system using the light oil as an auxiliary fuel surpassed the light oil boiler in economics. And a $50\%$ government subsidy for the initial cost is needed to maintain competitiveness with the gas hot-water heater. With this support, the simple payback period of the system can approach 12.8 years under $20\%$ additional curtailment of expenditure.

Collapse Probability of a Low-rise Piloti-type Building Considering Domestic Seismic Hazard (국내 지진재해도를 고려한 저층 필로티 건물의 붕괴 확률)

  • Kim, Dae-Hwan;Kim, Taewan;Chu, Yurim
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.7_spc
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    • pp.485-494
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    • 2016
  • The risk-based assessment, also called time-based assessment of structure is usually performed to provide seismic risk evaluation of a target structure for its entire life-cycle, e.g. 50 years. The prediction of collapse probability is the estimator in the risk-based assessment. While the risk-based assessment is the key in the performance-based earthquake engineering, its application is very limited because this evaluation method is very expensive in terms of simulation and computational efforts. So the evaluation database for many archetype structures usually serve as representative of the specific system. However, there is no such an assessment performed for building stocks in Korea. Consequently, the performance objective of current building code, KBC is not clear at least in a quantitative way. This shortcoming gives an unresolved issue to insurance industry, socio-economic impact, seismic safety policy in national and local governments. In this study, we evaluate the comprehensive seismic performance of an low-rise residential buildings with discontinuous structural walls, so called piloti-type structure which is commonly found in low-rise domestic building stocks. The collapse probability is obtained using the risk integral of a conditioned collapse capacity function and regression of current hazard curve. Based on this approach it is expected to provide a robust tool to seismic safety policy as well as seismic risk analysis such as Probable Maximum Loss (PML) commonly used in the insurance industry.