• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.55 no.6
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• pp.145-154
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• 2013

Recently, damage occurrence by wind erosion has been increasing in society. In times past, such problems only took place in desert area ; however, in recent years, the wind erosion problem is spreading out to agricultural land. Wind erosion in agricultural land can cause loss of loam soils, the disturbance of the photosynthesis of the crop fields and serious economic losses. To overcome the mentioned problems, installation of windbreak fence can be recommended which function as disturbing strong wind and wind erosion. However, there is still no proper guideline to install the windbreak fence and the installation used to rely on the intuition of the workers due to the lack of related studies. Therefore, this study measured the aerodynamic resistance of screens of the windbreak fence using the apparatus for testing screens. The apparatus for testing screens was designed to measure pressure loss around the screen. Measured pressure loss by wall friction compensated for pressure loss to calculate the aerodynamic resistance of screens. The result of pressure loss by regression analysis derived the aerodynamic coefficient of Darcy-Forchheimer equation and power law equation. The aerodynamic resistance was constant regardless of the overlapped shape when the screen was overlapped into several layers. Increasing the number of layers of the screen, internal resistance increased significantly more, and pressure loss caused by the screen also increased linearly when the wind speed was certain conditions, but permeability had no tendency. In the future, the results of this study will be applied to the computational fluid dynamics simulation. The simulation models will be also validated in advance by wind tunnel experiments. It will provide standard of a design for constructing windbreak fence.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.66 no.1
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• pp.85-96
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• 2018

This study investigates the response of functionally graded (FG) gas pipe under unsteady internal pressure and temperature. The pipe is proposed to be manufactured from FGMs rather than custom carbon steel, to reduce the erosion, corrosion, pressure surge and temperature variation effects caused by conveying of gases. The distribution of material graduations are obeying power and sigmoidal functions varying with the pipe thickness. The sigmoidal distribution is proposed for the 1st time in analysis of FG pipe structure. A Two-dimensional (2D) plane strain problem is proposed to model the pipe cross-section. The Fourier law is applied to describe the heat flux and temperature variation through the pipe thickness. The time variation of internal pressure is described by using exponential-harmonic function. The proposed problem is solved numerically by a two-dimensional (2D) plane strain finite element ABAQUS software. Nine-node isoparametric element is selected. The proposed model is verified with published results. The effects of material graduation, material function, temperature and internal pressures on the response of FG gas pipe are investigated. The coupled temperature and displacement FEM solution is used to find a solution for the stress displacement and temperature fields simultaneously because the thermal and mechanical solutions affected greatly by each other. The obtained results present the applicability of alternative FGM materials rather than classical A106Gr.B steel. According to proposed model and numerical results, the FGM pipe is more effective in natural gas application, especially in eliminating the corrosion, erosion and reduction of stresses.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.493-502
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• 2019

Internal stability is an important safety issue for levees, embankments, and other earthen structures. Since a large part of the world's population lives near oceans, lakes and rivers, floods resulting from breaching of dams can lead to devastating disasters with tremendous loss of life and property, especially in densely populated areas. There are some main factors that affect the internal stability of dams, levees and other earthen structures, such as the erodibility of the soil, the water velocity inside the soil mass and the geometry of the earthen structure, etc. Thus, the mechanism of internal erosion and stability of soils is very complicated and it is vital to investigate the assessment methods of internal stability of soils in embankment dams and their foundations. This paper presents an improved support vector machine (SVM) model to predict the internal stability of soils. The grid search algorithm (GSA) is employed to find the optimal parameters of SVM firstly, and then the cross - validation (CV) method is employed to estimate the classification accuracy of the GSA-SVM model. Two examples of internal stability of soils are presented to validate the predictive capability of the proposed GSA-SVM model. In addition to verify the effectiveness of the proposed GSA-SVM model, the predictions from the proposed GSA-SVM model were compared with those from the traditional back propagation neural network (BPNN) model. The results showed that the proposed GSA-SVM model is a feasible and efficient tool for assessing the internal stability of soils with high accuracy.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.221-225
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• 2002

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between internal derangement and osteoarthrosis in the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Materials and Methods: One hundred and six MR images of TMJs in 53 patients were evaluated. Disc displacements and osseous changes of the TMJs were assessed. Lateral and rotational disc displacements were also evaluated on coronal images. Results: No significant differences in the frequency of osseous changes of the TMJs between disc displacement with reduction and disc displacement without reduction groups were found. The erosion of the condylar head and the sclerosis of the articular eminence were more frequent in the internal derangement group than in the no disc displacement group. The flattening was the most frequently observed osseous change of both the condylar head and articular eminence. Conclusion : The relationship between internal derangement and osteoarthrosis is obscure, but it is thought that both disorders adversely affect each other.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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• 1992.11a
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• pp.44-49
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• 1992

액체를 취급하는 기계.장치는 유속 및 회전속도 등이 빠르게 되면 유체충격과 정압의 저하에 따른 국부적 비등으로 인해 캐비테이션(cavitation) 현상이 발생한다. 이러한 캐비테이션현상에 따른 소음과 진동율 초래하고, 또한 기포의 붕괴에 따른 형격압으로 캐비테이션-침식(cavitation-erosion)이 발생하여 기계.장치의 구성재료에 손실이 일어남으로써 이들 기계의 효율을 저하시킴과 아울러 수명을 단종시킬 수 있다. 더욱이 부식성의 액체에 사용되는 기계.장치의 금속재료에는 캐비테이션(erosion-corrosion)이 중첩하여 발생하는 경우는 침식과 부식이 상호간에 가속하는 상승효과 때문에 기계.장치의 수명에 치명적인 영향을 미친다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 초음파 진동장치에 의한 각종 유중에서 베어링 합금 1종, 7종 및 켈-멧 4종에 대한 캐비테이션-침식실험을 실시하여, 침식손상거동및 특성등을 구명하고저 하였다.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.76-83
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• 2014

This study was carried out an experimental and finite element analysis on the fracture behavior of straight pipes with local wall thinning under internal pressure. Local wall thinning was machined on the pipes in order to simulate erosion/corrosion metal loss. The configurations of the eroded area has an eroded ratio of d/t=0.80~0.92 and an eroded length of l=25, 50 and 102 mm. Three-dimensional elastic-plastic analyses were also carried out using the finite element method, which is able to accurately simulate failure behaviors. In regards to the relation ship between pressure and eroded ratio, the criterion that can be used safely under operating pressure and design pressure were obtained from this calculation. The results of this calculation were in relatively good agreement with that of the experiment.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.55-62
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• 2023

Internal erosion is one of the main causes of levee damage and collapse, and representative of this is backward erosion piping. This type of internal erosion accounts for one-third of the damage to levees, meaning it is important to predict and prevent it. In this work, experiments were conducted with the aim of detecting piping in advance by using a tracer. Experiments were undertaken by changing the head difference, soil diameter, and the installation of the cutoff wall. A tracer was injected twice, once at the beginning of the experiment and once after the piping occurred. A key finding was that the piping process significantly affectedthe concentration variation of the tracer in a soil layer. Hence, a tracer concentration curve monitored at downstream could provide information about piping occurrence. It is expected that the results of this study can be used to prevent levee damage and collapse caused by piping.

• The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.477-487
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• 2010

Objectives : This study was carried out to investigate the effects of sihogeji-tang on indomethacin-induced gastric mucosal lesions in rats. Methods : Experimental rats were classified into three groups. The normal group had no inflammation elicited. The control group was rats administered water after elicitation of gastro-inflammation. The sample group were administered sihogeji-tang after gastro-inflammation elicitation. Results : In the common morphology and histochemical change, the control group were observed to have various injuries by hemorrhagic erosion, while the sample group had noticeably fewer injuries than the control. In the immunohistochemical change, the distribution of HSP-70, PCNA treated with sihogeji-tang noticeably increased over the control group. The distribution of NF-kB, COX-2 treated with sihogeji-tang noticeably decreased compared to the control group. (p<0.05) Conclusions : Sihogeji-tang had significant effects on indomethacin-induced gastric mucosal lesions in rats.

• The Journal of Korean Medicine
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• v.28 no.2 s.70
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• pp.224-240
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• 2007

Objectives : This study was carried out to investigate the effect of Jiyu-tang on gastric and ileac mucosal ulcer induced by indomethacin in mouse. Methods : The normal group was that no inflammation elicited mouse. Control group is that water administered mouse after gastro-inflammation elicitation. Sample group is that Jiyu-tang administered mouse after gastro-inflammation elicitation. Results : In the common morphology and histochemical change, control group were observed various injury by hemorrhagic erosion, while sample group was noticeably decreased than control group. In the immunohistochemical change, the distributions of COX-1 treated with Jiyu-tang noticeably increased than control group(p<0.05). The distributions of COX-2, MAC 387 and HSP-70, PCNA and TUNEL treated with Jiyu-tang noticeably decreased than control group(p<0.05). Conclusions : According to the above results, it is supposed that Jiyu-tang is applicable to gastric and ileac mucosal ulcer.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.22 no.12
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• pp.33-40
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• 2021

The deterioration of underground facilities, disturbance of the ground due to underground development activities, and changes in ground water can cause ground subsidence accidents in the urban areas. The investigation on the geotechnical and hydraulic factors affecting the ground subsidence accident is very significant to predict the ground subsidence risk in advance. In this study, an analysis DB was constructed through 3D ground modeling to utilize the currently operating geotechnical survey information DB and ground water behavior information for risk prediction. Additionally, using these results, the relationship between the actual ground subsidence occurrence history and ground conditions and ground water level changes was confirmed. Furthermore, the methodology used to visualize the risk of ground subsidence was presented by reconstructing the engineering characteristics of the soil presented according to the Unified Soil Classification System (USCS) in the existing geotechnical survey information into the internal erosion sensitivity of the soil, Based on the result, it was confirmed that the ground in the area where the ground subsidence occurred consists of more than 40% of sand (SM, SC, SP, SW) vulnerable to internal erosion. In addition, the effect of the occurrence frequency of ground subsidence due to the change in ground water level is also confirmed.