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Evaluation of Seismic Strengthening Approach at the Boundary Elements of RC Walls using Prestressed Wire Rope Units (프리스트레스트 와이어로프를 사용한 RC 벽체의 단부 경계요소 내진보강 평가)

  • Kwon, Hyuck-Jin;Yang, Keun-Hyeok;Byun, Hang-Yong
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.56-63
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    • 2018
  • The present study examined the reversal cyclic flexural behavior of walls with jacket section approach for seismic strengthening through forming the boundary elements at both ends of the wall. The prestressed wire ropes were used for the lateral reinforcement to confine the boundary element of the wall. The main parameter investigated was the height of the jacket section for strengthening. The limit height of the strengthening jacket section was determined by comparing the moment distributions between the existing and strengthened walls. Test results showed that the examined jacket section approach was significantly effective in enhancing the flexural resistance of walls, indicating 46% higher stiffness at peak strength and 210% greater work damage indicator, compared with the flexural performance of the unstrengthened wall. The ductility of the strengthened walls was insignificantly affected by the height of the jacket section when the height is greater than twice the wall length. The flexural capacity of the strengthened walls was 22% higher than the predictions obtained using the equivalent stress block specified in ACI 318-14.

Development and Application of an Explosion Modeling Technique Using PFC (PFC3D에서의 폭원모델링 기법의 개발 및 적용)

  • Choi Byung-Hee;Yang Hyung-Sik;Ryu Chang-Ha
    • Explosives and Blasting
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2004
  • An explosion modeling technique was developed by using the spherical discrete element code, PFC3D, which can be used to model the dynamic stress wave propagation phenomenon. The modeling technique is simply based on an idea that the explosion pressure should be applied to a PFC3D particle assembly not in the form of an external force (body force), but in the form of a contact force (surface force). According to this concept, the explosion pressure is applied to the wall particles by the scheme of radius expansion/contraction of inner-hole particles. The output wall force is compared to the input hole pressure in every time step, and a correction routine is activated to control the radius multiplier of the inner-hole particles. A comparative blast simulation far a cement mortar block of $80\times90\times80mm$ was conducted by using the conventional explosion modeling method and the new one. The results of the simulation are presented in a qualitative fashion.

A Study on Load Carrying Capacity of Ancient Stone Arch Bridge (고대 석조아치교량의 내하력에 관한 연구)

  • 정형식;황영철
    • Geotechnical Engineering
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 1992
  • The arch of an ancient stone arch bridge consists of blocky stone blocks. For the purpose of estimation of load carrying capacity of a stone bridge, the mechanically frail discontinuities between stone blocks should be taken account of. Since the current way of analysis regards the stone arch as a continuous member, the characteristic of discontinuties is not considered. In this paper, an ancient stone arch bridge is analyzed and load carrying capacity is estimated by Finite Element Method with the discontinuties between blocks being modelled as interface elements. From the result of the study, it is shown that the load carrying capacity of a stone arch bridge is dependent of friction angle and shear stiffness between arch blocks rather than compressive strength of arch block itself and the stone arch bridge of granite is more influenced by shear stiffness than friction angle. The load carrying capacity of HONG bridge of HEUNG GUK temple analyzed in this paper is estimated as that of a third grade bridge.

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A VLSI Architecture of Systolic Array for FET Computation (고속 퓨리어 변환 연산용 VLSI 시스토릭 어레이 아키텍춰)

  • 신경욱;최병윤;이문기
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.25 no.9
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    • pp.1115-1124
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    • 1988
  • A two-dimensional systolic array for fast Fourier transform, which has a regular and recursive VLSI architecture is presented. The array is constructed with identical processing elements (PE) in mesh type, and due to its modularity, it can be expanded to an arbitrary size. A processing element consists of two data routing units, a butterfly arithmetic unit and a simple control unit. The array computes FFT through three procedures` I/O pipelining, data shuffling and butterfly arithmetic. By utilizing parallelism, pipelining and local communication geometry during data movement, the two-dimensional systolic array eliminates global and irregular commutation problems, which have been a limiting factor in VLSI implementation of FFT processor. The systolic array executes a half butterfly arithmetic based on a distributed arithmetic that can carry out multiplication with only adders. Also, the systolic array provides 100% PE activity, i.e., none of the PEs are idle at any time. A chip for half butterfly arithmetic, which consists of two BLC adders and registers, has been fabricated using a 3-um single metal P-well CMOS technology. With the half butterfly arithmetic execution time of about 500 ns which has been obtained b critical path delay simulation, totla FFT execution time for 1024 points is estimated about 16.6 us at clock frequency of 20MHz. A one-PE chip expnsible to anly size of array is being fabricated using a 2-um, double metal, P-well CMOS process. The chip was layouted using standard cell library and macrocell of BLC adder with the aid of auto-routing software. It consists of around 6000 transistors and 68 I/O pads on 3.4x2.8mm\ulcornerarea. A built-i self-testing circuit, BILBO (Built-In Logic Block Observation), was employed at the expense of 3% hardware overhead.

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A Pilot Study of Implementing Bender Element to In-situ Civil Engineering Measurement (현장 토목 계측을 위한 벤더 엘리멘트의 적용성 연구)

  • Jung Jae-Woo;Jang In-Sung;Mok Young-Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.215-223
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    • 2005
  • Piezo-ceramics are special materials which transform energy from mechanical to electrical forms and vice versa. Bender elements are composite materials consisting of thin piezo-ceramics and elastic shims, and are widely used as actuators and transducers in the field of electronics, robotics, autos and mechatronics utilizing the effectiveness of energy transformation capability. In geotechnical engineering, commercial bender elements are used in laboratory as source and receiver in the measurements of soil stiffness. The elements were built by using various metal shims sandwiched between piezo-ceramics and coating over the composite in the research. A pair of elements were buried in a concrete block and used as source and receiver to measure the stiffness of the concrete. The test results were verified by comparing with the resonant column testing results. In a preliminary stage of the development of an in-situ seismic testing equipment using bender elements for soft clay materials, shear waves were generated and measured by burying the elements in the barrel of kaolinite and water mixture. The measured shear wave signals were so distinct for the first-arrival pick that applicability of the elements in the field measurements could be very promising.

Design of Algorithms for Unnecessary Sensor Barrier in IoT Environment (IoT 환경에서 불필요한 센서 차단 알고리즘 설계)

  • Lim, Hyeok;Shin, Yun-Ho;Yu, Dong-Gyun;Ryu, Seung-Han;Jung, Hoe-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.607-608
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    • 2016
  • Recently using a variety of sensors sensing the virtual(Virtual Sensing) technology that extracts specific data has been applied to IoT service interface. The utilization of such sensors while increasing IoT (Internet of Things) environmental sensor is an essential element. However, used in the IoT to the environment, while the increase in utilization of a specific sensor utilization falling sensors is generated. In this paper, we design unnecessary sensors removal algorithm as a way to solve this problem. Through the utilization of poor power to block the sensor can reduce the power consumption and user sensor control service through the monitoring by blocking the use of the sensor is considered that there can be provided a more effective and convenient.

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$DeNO_{x}$ Performance of Activated Carbon Catalysts Regenerated by Surfactant Solution (계면활성제 수용액에 의해 재생된 활성탄 촉매의 탈질 성능)

  • Park, Hye-Min;Park, Young-Kwon;Jeon, Jong-Ki
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.49 no.6
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    • pp.739-744
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    • 2011
  • Activated carbon SCR(CSCR) catalyst that is used to remove $NO_x$ in exhaust gas including boron discharged from the production process of liquid crystal display(LCD) shows deactivation when boron is deposited to block the pores within the catalyst or to cover its active sites. The spent carbon catalyst is regenerated by washing with various surfactants, drying and calcination. For comparison of the physical and chemical properties before and after the regeneration with the variables, type of surfactants and calcination condition, element analysis by ICP, $N_{2}$ adsorption were conducted. $DeNO_{x}$ in SCR with $NH_3$ was carried out in a fixed bed reactor at $120^{\circ}C$. The activated carbon catalyst regenerated through washing with a non-ionic surfactant in $H_{2}O$ at $90^{\circ}C$ and calcination under $N_{2}$ gas at $550^{\circ}C$ shows similar level of surface area and $NO_x$ removal efficiency with those of fresh catalyst.

Performance evaluation of fully-interconnected ATM switch (part II: for bursty traffic andnonuniform distribution) (완전 결합형 ATM 스위치의 성능분석 (II부 : 버스티 트래픽 및 비균일 분포에 대하여))

  • 전용희;박정숙;정태수
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.23 no.8
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    • pp.1926-1940
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    • 1998
  • This paper is the part II of research results on the performance evaluation of fully interconnected ATM switch, and includes the performance evaluation results for bursty traffic and nonuniform distribution. The switch model is a fyully interconnected switch type proposed by ETRI and is the proper architecutre for a small-sized switch element. The proposed switch consists of two steps of buffering scheme in the switch fabric in order to effectively absorb the effect of bursty nature of ATM traffic. The switch uses bit addressing method for addressing shcmeme and thus it is easy to implement multicasting function without adding additional functional block. In order to incorporate the bursty nature of traffic in ATM networks, we use IBP(Interrupted Bernoulli Process) model as an input traffic model as well as random traffic model which has been used as a traditional traffic model. In order to design the various scenarios for simulation, we considered both uniform and nonuniform output distribution, and also implemented multicast function. In this paper, we presented the simulation results in diverse environments and evaluated the performance of the switch.

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A Study on Smart EDR System Security Development (Smart EDR 시스템구축을 위한 보안전략과 발전방안)

  • Yoo, Seung Jae
    • Convergence Security Journal
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 2020
  • In the corporate information system environment, detecting and controlling suspicious behaviors occurring at the end point of the actual business application is the most important area to secure the organization's business environment. In order to accurately detect and block threats from inside and outside, it is necessary to be able to monitor all areas of all terminals in the organization and collect relevant information. In other words, in order to maintain a secure business environment of a corporate organization from the constant challenge of malicious code, everything that occurs in a business terminal such as a PC beyond detection and defense-based client security based on known patterns, signatures, policies, and rules that have been universalized in the past. The introduction of an EDR solution to enable identification and monitoring is now an essential element of security. In this study, we will look at the essential functions required for EDR solutions, and also study the design and development plans of smart EDR systems based on active and proactive detection of security threats.

Study of heavy fuel oil fly ash for use in concrete blocks and asphalt concrete mixes

  • Al-Osta, Mohammed A.;Baig, Mirza G.;Al-Malack, Muhammad H.;Al-Amoudi, Omar S. Baghabra
    • Advances in concrete construction
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.123-143
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    • 2016
  • Use of heavy fuel fly ash (HFFA) (diesel and cracked fuel) for power generation in Saudi Arabia has generated and accumulated large quantities of HFFA as a byproduct. In this research, HFFA is studied with the emphasis on the utilization of this waste material in concrete blocks and asphalt concrete mixes. Two types of mixes, one with low and other with high cement content, were studied for concrete blocks. Different mixes having varying percentages of HFFA (0% to 25%), as cement/sand replacement or as an additive, were studied. The performance of concrete blocks is evaluated in terms of compressive strength, water absorption, durability and environmental concerns. The results showed that blocks cannot be cast if more than 15% HFFA is used; also there is a marginal reduction in the strength of all the mixes before and after being exposed to the sulfate solution for a period of ten months. HFFA is studied in asphalt concrete mixes in two ways, as an asphalt modifier (3&5%) and as a filler (50%) replacement, the results showed an improvement in stiffness and fatigue life of mixes. However, the stability and indirect tensile strength loss were found to be high as compared to the control mix due to moisture damage, indicating a need of using antistripping agents. On environmental concerns, it was found that most of the concerned elements are within acceptable limits also it is observed that lower concentration of barium is leached out with the higher HFFA concentrations, which indicates that HFFA may work as an adsorbent for this leaching element.