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Finite element modelling and design of partially encased composite columns

  • Chicoine, Thierry;Tremblay, Robert;Massicotte, Bruno
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.171-194
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, the behaviour of axially loaded partially encased composite columns made with light welded H steel shapes is examined using ABAQUS finite element modelling. The results of the numerical simulations are compared to the response observed in previous experimental studies on that column system. The steel shape of the specimens has transverse links attached to the flanges to improve its local buckling capacity and concrete is poured between the flanges only. The test specimens included 14 stubcolumns with a square cross section ranging from 300 mm to 600 mm in depth. The transverse link spacing varied from 0.5 to 1 times the depth and the width-to-thickness ratio of the flanges ranged from 23 to 35. The numerical model accounted for nonlinear stress-strain behaviour of materials, residual stresses in the steel shape, initial local imperfections of the flanges, and allowed for large rotations in the solution. A Riks displacement controlled strategy was used to carry out the analysis. Plastic analyses on the composite models reproduced accurately the capacity of the specimens, the failure mode, the axial strain at peak load, the transverse stresses in the web, and the axial stresses in the transverse links. The influence of applying a typical construction loading sequence could also be reproduced numerically. A design equation is proposed to determine the axial capacity of this type of column.

Development of a Transcutaneous Optical Information Transmission System for Total Artificial Heart Using Near Infrared Laser

  • Lee, Jung-Hoon;Kim, Wook-Eun;Choi, Jong-Hoon;Ahn, Jae-Mok;Min, Byoung-Goo
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1997 no.05
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    • pp.64-67
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    • 1997
  • In the total artificial heart(TAH), a transcutaneous information transmission system(TITS) is vely important to monitor the TAH status and detect the device failure, and repair the possible problems. First of all, the communication channel(skin) and method were simulated in terms of transmittance, scattering, reflection and absorption, then the system was designed with size reduction including low power consumption and reliability compared to the previous one. The informations are transmitted through the skin(approximately 1cm in depth) by frequency modulated near infrared(NIR) pulses using 780nm laser diodes as transmitters and photodiode as receiver with high speed and high spectral sensitivity. The logic high and low frequencies are 3MHz, 1MHz respectively. The system is a bidirectional data link for more than 38.4Kbps data rate, full-duplex with a bit error rate of less than $10^{-5}$.

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Energy-aware Tree Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (센서 네트워크에서 에너지 효율성을 고려한 트리 라우팅 프로토콜)

  • Hwang, So-Young;Jin, Gwang-Ja;Shin, Chang-Sub;Kim, Bong-Soo
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.33 no.8B
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    • pp.624-629
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    • 2008
  • Many routing protocols have been proposed for sensor networks where energy awareness and reliability are essential design issues. This paper proposes an Energy-aware Tree Routing Protocol (ETRP) for Wireless Sensor Networks. The proposed scheme relates to reliable and energy efficient data routing by selecting a data transmission path in consideration of residual energy at each node to disperse energy consumption across the networks and reliably transmit the data through a detour path when there is link or node failure. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperformed traditional Tree Routing (TR) by 23.5% in network lifetime.

TCP Performance Analysis over Mobile ad-hoc Networks (모바일 ad-hoc 네트워크에서 TCP 성능 분석)

  • Nam, Ho-Seok;Cho, Sol;Lee, Tae-Hoon;Kim, Jun-Nyun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.32 no.12B
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    • pp.800-808
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    • 2007
  • With the development of wireless data communication technology, all IP-based network will become compositions of wired and wireless networks. TCP is a connection-oriented, reliable transport protocol and has been used as de facto standard in most wired networks. Because TCP's congestion control algorithm could not distinguish congestion from BER, link failure and frequent route changes, TCP shows a poor performance over mobile ad-hoc networks. In this paper, the theoretical feature of TCP was studied and the performance of TCP over mobile ad-hoc networks was analyzed with ns2.

A Study on the Cost Analysis and Survivability of the All Optical Access Network Design using WGR (WGR을 사용한 완전 광 가입자망 설계의 경제성 비교 및 생존성에 관한 연구)

  • Choe, Han-Gyu;Gang, An-Gu;Jo, Gyu-Seop
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.132-139
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    • 2002
  • The implementation of passive optical network in the access network will result in design of the network that have characteristics of broadband, long distance transmission, transparency. Particularly, optical technologies of WDM and WGR have made a new access network of WDM-PON. This paper proposes the algorithm that determines structural elements of a survivable optical access network, and simulates the cost of various scheme of proposed network architectures. Our results show that multistage star is the most cost effective scheme than the other architectures and show that network architecture designed by proposed algorithm provides survivability with single link and 1st node failure.

Using Colours to alter Consumer Behaviour and Product Success

  • Page, Tom;Thorsteinsson, Gisli;Ha, Joong-Gyu
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.69-73
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    • 2012
  • This paper aims to present colour theories and show how they can be used to explain consumer's preferences of some products over others. It will, furthermore, attempt to link these theories to the design industry and look at how colour associations determine product success. Due to associative learning and personal preference, the colours of objects can cause consumers to either favour or dislike products over those with identical functions and efficiency. Age and gender affect the preferred colour choices of the individual, making some products more popular to particular groups of potential consumers. Designers can utilise colour theories to ensure that they use the most appropriate colour schemes to maximise and appeal to their targeted market successfully. A survey was conducted with 100 participants. It demonstrates the associative links between colours, emotions and product categories. It can be shown that the colour of an object can contribute to its success or failure in the market based on a number of different criteria. The design must use colour confidently to evoke certain emotions or connotations and must be carried out appropriately. The designer also has to consider whom it is that be viewing it and making the decision of preference.

Research on productivity analysis of tunnel refuse arrangement process due to ability variation of car-lift (카리프트의 성능 변화에 따른 터널공사 버력처리 공정 생산성 분석 연구)

  • Lee, Si-Wook;Shin, Jung-Min;Woo, Sung-Kwon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.593-596
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    • 2006
  • Productivity is the most important factor directly link to success and failure of a work in construction industry. To evaluate this productivity, simulation technique is verified as a fine inspection tool through various experiment reports. On this project, we have proved the part of improvement on productivity using this simulation technique, applied to this field sites. We have used CYCLONE, which is the most appropriate simulation technique on this project. As a result of Simulation analysis, it has been confirmed that the productivity was enhanced due to the advancement of equipment, hence the reduction of air is being effected.

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A Robust Route Maintenance Scheme Considering Node Mobility in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks (무선 Ad-hoc 네트워크에서 노드 이동성을 고려한 견고한 경로 관리 기법)

  • Kim, Kwan-Woong;Bae, Sung-Hwan;Kim, Dae-Ik
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.4A
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    • pp.309-315
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    • 2009
  • Wireless Ad-hoc networks are dynamic networks that consist of mobile nodes. Nodes in Ad-hoc networks are usually laptops, PDAs or mobile phones. These devices feature Bluetooth and/or IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) network interfaces and communicate in a decentralized manner. Due to characteristics of Ad-hoc networks, Mobility is a key feature of routing protocol design. In this paper, we present an enhanced routing maintenance scheme that cope with topology changes pre-actively. The key feature of the proposed scheme is to switch next-hop node to alternative neighbor node before link breakage for preventing route failure. From extensive experiments by using NS2, the performance of the proposed scheme has been improved by comparison to AODV protocol.

Subnetwork-based Segment Restoration for fast fault Recovery in the MPLS network (MPLS 통신망에서의 신속한 장애복구를 위한 서브네트워크 기반의 세그먼트 단위 자동복구 기법)

  • 신해준;장재준;김영탁
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.27 no.11C
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    • pp.1046-1054
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, we propose a subnetwork-based segment restoration scheme to reduce the restoration time and restoration resources. And we compare and analyze the restoration performance according to the size of divided subnetworks. Segment restoration is based on network partitioning where a large network is divided into several small subnetworks and the end-to-end data path is divided into multiple segments according to the subnetworks. In segment restoration, the link/node failure is restored by segment instead of end-to-end path. Because most faults are restored within the subnetwork, the restoration performance can be improved. From the simulation analysis, we verified that the proposed segment restoration has advantage of restoration time and backup resource utilization.

Damping BGP Route Flaps

  • Duan, Zhenhai;Chandrashekar, Jaideep;Krasky, Jeffrey;Xu, Kuai;Zhang, Zhi-Li
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.490-498
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    • 2007
  • BGP route flap damping(RFD) was anecdotally considered to be a key contributor to the stability of the global Internet inter-domain routing system. However, it was recently shown that RFD can incorrectly suppress for substantially long periods of time relatively stable routes, i.e., routes that only fail occasionally. This phenomenon can be attributed to the complex interaction between BGP path exploration and how the RFD algorithm identifies route flaps. In this paper we identify a distinct characteristic of BGP path exploration following a single network event such as a link or router failure. Based on this characteristic, we distinguish BGP route updates during BGP path exploration from route flaps and propose a novel BGP route flap damping algorithm, RFD+. RFD+ has a number of attractive properties in improving Internet routing stability. In particular, it can correctly suppress persistent route flaps without affecting routes that only fail occasionally. In addition to presenting the new algorithm and analyzing its properties, we also perform simulation studies to illustrate the performance of the algorithm.