• 한국운동역학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2007

Walking is not only an essential component of the human mobility, but also is a good exercise. Inability to walk freely can reduce an individual's quality of life and independence substantially. Being a relatively low impact activity, walking is particularly good for the elderly and research has shown that regular walking in the elderly reduces the chance of fall-related injuries and mental diseases as well. In spite of the documented benefits of regular walking, it is still difficult to walk without the aid of assistive devices for the frail elderly who have lower extremity problems. Assistive walking devices(AWD), such as crutches, canes, hiking-poles, T-Poles and walkers, are often prescribed to the elderly to make their walking be safe and efficient. Many researchers have demonstrated the effects of AWDs such as reducing lower extremity loading, improved dynamic/gait stability, yet, no study has been done for gait pattern when the elderly gait with AWDs. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine whether T-Poles, one of the AWDs, change the elderly gait pattern. Eight community-dwelling female elderly participated in this study. Laboratory kinematics during walking with T-Poles(PW) and with out T-Poles(NPW) was assessed. PW showed significant increase in step width, stride length, gait velocity and decrease in swing time. No significances were found in lower body joint angles but meaningful trend and pattern were found. Maybe the reason was due to the participants. Our participants were healthy enough so that the effect of T-Poles was minimum. PW also showed typical gait phases which are no single support phase during a gait cycle. It indicates that walking with T-Poles may guarantee safe and confident walking to the frail elderly.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.445-454
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• 2003

구조건전성 모니터링은 복합재 구조물이 운용되는 단계에서뿐만 아니라 설계 및 제작단계에서도 중요한 관심사가 되고 있다. 과도한 하중이나 저속충격은 모재균열이나 층간분리와 같은 복합재 파손의 원인이 될 수 있으며 이러한 손상은 구조물의 하중지지성능을 저하시키게 된다. 지능형 복합재 구조물에서의 구조건전성 모니터링기술의 개발은 항공기와 길은 복합재 구조물의 안전성 향상에 도움이 될 수 있다 본 연구에서는 압전세라믹 센서 및 광섬유 센서를 복합재 구조물의 건전성 모니터링에 적용하였으며 파손신호의 특징파악 틴 충격위치 검출을 위한 신호처리 방법을 제안하였다.

• 한국염색가공학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2017

An issue of major concern in the utilization of laminated composites based epoxy resin is associated with the occurrence of delaminations or interlaminar cracks, which may be related to manufacturing defects or are induced in service by low-velocity impacts. A strong interfacial filament/brittle epoxy resin bonding can, however, be combined with the high fracture toughness of weak interfacial bonding, when the filaments are arranged to have alternate sections of shear stress. To improve this drawback of the epoxy resin, UV-thermal dual curable resin were developed. This paper presents UV-thermal dual curable resin which were prepared using epoxy acrylate oligomer, photoinitiators, a thermal-curing agent and thermoset epoxy resin. The UV curing behaviors and characteristics of UV-thermal dual curable epoxy resin were investigated using Photo-DSC, DMA and FTIR-ATR spectroscopy. The mechanical properties of UV-thermal dual curable epoxy resin impregnated CF prepreg by UV curable resin content were measured with Tensile, Flextural, ILSS and Sharpy impact test. The obtained results showed that UV curable resin content improves the epoxy toughness.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.2133-2138
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• 2003

In general, flow entrainment of surrounding gas into a supersonic jet is caused by the pressure drop inside the jet and the shear actions between the jet and the surrounding gas. In the recent industrial applications, like supersonic ejector system or scramjet engine, the rapid mixing of two different gases is important in that it determines the whole performance of the flow system. However, the mixing performance of the conventional circular jet is very low because the shear actions are not enough. The supersonic jet discharging from a petal nozzle is known to enhance mixing effects with the surrounding gas because it produces strong longitudinal vortices due to the velocity differences from both the major and minor axes of petal nozzle. This study aims to enhance the mixing performance of the jet with surrounding gas by using the lobed petal nozzle. The jet flows from the petal nozzle are compared with those from the conventional circular nozzle. The petal nozzles employed are 4, 6, and 8 lobed shapes with a design Mach number of 1.7 each, and the circular nozzle has the same design Mach number. The pitot impact pressures are measured in detail to specify the jet flows. For flow visualization, the schlieren optical method is used. The experimental results reveal that the petal nozzle reduces the supersonic length of the supersonic jet, and leads to the improved mixing performance compared with the conventional circular jet.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제36권12호
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• pp.1577-1583
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• 2012

횡방향 관통 효율 강화 탄체(PELE)는 기폭장치가 없는 새로운 개념의 발사체이다. PELE 는 배면이 닫혀있는 고밀도 피복과 저밀도 충전재로 구성되어있다. PELE 의 폭발 특성을 연구하기 위해 AUTODYN-3D code 를 이용하여 발사체와 표적체의 모델을 구축하였다. PELE 의 의해 알루미늄-2024 합금 표적체를 천공하는 과정을 시뮬레이션으로 구현하였으며 또한 다양한 내부 충전재에 의해 분산되는 표적체의 파편 특성도 연구하였다. PELE 파편의 유한요소해석은 AUTODYN-3D code 의 추계학적 파괴기준을 사용하여 구현되었다. 내부 충전재의 팽창으로 인해 파편은 속도를 얻으며 횡방향으로 분산된다. 따라서 손상영역의 범위가 증강한다. 관통 및 횡방향 분산 과정에서 생성되는 파편은 내부 충전재의 충격 압력에 따라 그 양과 형태가 다른 것으로 나타났다.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.988-995
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• 2020

Air gun shock systems are commonly used as alternative explosion energy sources for underwater explosion (UNDEX) shock tests owing to their low cost and environmental impact. The airbag inflator of automotive airbag systems is also very useful to generate extremely rapid underwater gas release in labscale tests. To overcome the restrictions on the very small computational time step owing to the very fine fluid mesh around the nozzle hole in the explicit integration algorithm, and also the absence of a commercial solver and software for gas UNDEX of airbag inflator, an idealized airbag inflator and fluid mesh modeling technique was developed using nozzle holes of relatively large size and several small TNT charges instead of gas inside the airbag inflator. The objective of this study is to validate the results of an UNDEX response analysis of one and two idealized airbag inflators by comparison with the results of shock tests in a small water tank. This comparison was performed using the multi-material Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation and fluid-structure interaction algorithm. The number, size, vertical distance from the nozzle outlet, detonation velocity, and lighting times of small TNT charges were determined. Through mesh size convergence tests, the UNDEX response analysis and idealized airbag inflator modeling were validated.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제76권6호
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• pp.751-763
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• 2020

Available records of recent earthquakes show that near-field earthquakes have different characteristics than far-field earthquakes. In general, most of these unique characteristics of near-fault records can be attributed to their forward directivity. This phenomenon causes the records of ground motion normal to the fault to entail pulses with long periods in the velocity time history. The energy of the earthquake is almost accumulated in these pulses causing large displacements and, accordingly, severe damages in the building. Damage to structures caused by past earthquakes raises the need to assess the chance of future earthquake damage. There are a variety of methods to evaluate building seismic vulnerabilities with different computational cost and accuracy. In the meantime, fragility curves, which defines the possibility of structural damage as a function of ground motion characteristics and design parameters, are more common. These curves express the percentage of probability that the structural response will exceed the allowable performance limit at different seismic intensities. This study aims to obtain the fragility curve for low- and mid-rise structures of reinforced concrete moment frames by incremental dynamic analysis (IDA). These frames were exposed to an ensemble of 18 ground motions (nine records near-faults and nine records far-faults). Finally, after the analysis, their fragility curves are obtained using the limit states provided by HAZUS-MH 2.1. The result shows the near-fault earthquakes can drastically influence the fragility curves of the 6-story building while it has a minimal impact on those of the 3-story building.

• Journal of Medicine and Life Science
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.115-125
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• 2023

Arteriovenous fistula flow dysfunction is the leading cause of vascular access thrombosis and loss in patients undergoing hemodialysis. However, data regarding the influence of access flow rate measurements on the long-term outcomes of access are limited. This study aims to identify accesses at a high risk of thrombosis and loss among patients undergoing hemodialysis by measuring the access flow rate and exploring an optimal threshold value for predicting future access thrombosis. We enrolled 220 patients with arteriovenous fistula undergoing hemodialysis. The primary outcome was the occurrence of access thrombosis. Access flow rates were measured monthly using the ultrasound dilution method and were averaged using all measurements from patients with patent access. In patients experienced access thrombosis, those immediately before the thrombosis were selected. Using these data, we calculated the access flow rate threshold for thrombosis occurrence by analyzing the receiver operating characteristic curve, and the patients were divided into two groups according to whether access flow rates were higher or lower than 400 mL/min. During a median follow-up period of 3.1 years, 4,510 access flows were measured (median measurements per patient, 33 times; interquartile range, 11-54). A total of 65 access thromboses and 19 abandonments were observed. Access thrombosis and loss were higher in the lowflow group than in the high-flow group. This study revealed that low access flow rates are strongly associated with access thrombosis occurrence and subsequent loss of arteriovenous fistulas in patients undergoing hemodialysis.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.651-657
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• 2020

고체 입자들이 유체처럼 움직이는 유동층 공정은 에너지 전환 공정뿐만 아니라 범용 고분자 수지의 생산 공정에도 이용되고 있다. 범용 고분자 수지 중의 하나인 LLDPE(Linear low density polyethylene)도 기포 유동층 공정을 통해 전세계에서 생산되고 있다. 입자 크기에 비해 밀도가 낮은 LLDPE 입자들은 고분자 중합 반응을 위해 공급되는 수소에 의해서 유동화된다. 그러나 LLDPE 생산 공정은 기포유동층 공정임에도 불구하고 발생한 슬러그로 인하여 반응에 영향을 끼쳐 공정의 효율 저하를 불러올 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 상용 고분자 반응기를 모사한 pilot 규모의 고분자 합성 반응기(0.38 m l.D., 4.4 m High)와 동일한 시뮬레이션 모델을 구축하여 LLDPE 입자의 유동화 상태를 고찰하였다. 특히 기체 유속(0.45-1.2 m/s), 고체 입자 밀도(900-1900 kg/㎥), 입자 구형도(0.5-1.0), 입자 크기(120-1230 ㎛)의 변화에 따른 슬러그 특성을 세밀하게 고찰하기 위하여 전산입자유체해석(Computational particle-fluid dynamics, CPFD)을 이용하였다. CPFD를 통해서 일부 실험자들만 고찰할 수 있었던 flat slug의 발생을 시각적으로 구현하였으며 밀도, 구형도, 크기 등의 고체의 물리적 특성을 변화시킴에 따라 슬러그 발생을 저감시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국해양학회지:바다
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1997

군산 하구역에서 해양학적 환경의 시간적 변화양상을 이해하고 하구언 축조 이후 갑문의 조작에 의한 환경의 변화를 알아보기 위하여 1995년 6월부터 1996년 9월까지 약 500일간 매일 관측을 하였다. 조사대상 항목은 해양환경의 일반적인 조사대상인 영양염, 엽록소, 부유현탁물질 그리고 염분이었으며, 이들 자료를 설명하기 위하여 일차적으로 조석자료를 이용하였고, 또한 보조자료로서 기온, 강우량, 풍속등 기상 자료와 금강 하구언의 담수 방출량과 같은 하구언의 갑문조작 효과도 그 관련성을 조사하였다. 조석 위상에 따른 변화를 조사하기 위하여 1996년 4월에 26시간, 7월에 19시간에 걸쳐 시간별로 연속조사를 병행하였다. 시간별 조사에서 염분의 변화양상은 조위에 비례관계를 보였으며, 부유현탁물질과 엽록소는 창 낙조 사이에서 높은 농도를 보였다. 영양염류는 염분에 반비례하는 경향을 보였다. 500일 연속 관측에서 염분은 당수 방출량과 반비례하며, 엽록소는 봄철에 높은 농도를 보였다. 각 영양염류는 변화양상이 유사하였고, 염분과는 반비례 관계를 나타내었다. 부유현탁물질은 15일 주기인 조석 주기(neap-spring tide cycle)와 유사한 양상을 보였으며, 홍수기에는 담수 방출량에 의하여 주로 결정되었다. 금강 하구언의 갑문을 조작하기 이전과 비교해 볼 때 담수의 방출은 우기에 집중되고 있으며, 조류의 감소, 부유물질의 감소, 영양염류와 엽록소의 증가를 보였다.