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Studies into a high performance composite connection for high-rise buildings

  • Lou, G.B.;Wang, A.J.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.789-809
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    • 2015
  • This paper presents experimental and numerical studies into the structural behavior of a high performance corbel type composite connection adopted in Raffles City of Hangzhou, China. Physical tests under both monotonic and quasi-static cyclic loads were conducted to investigate the load carrying capacities and deformation characteristics of this new type of composite connection. A variety of structural responses are examined in detail, including load-deformation characteristics, the development of sectional direct and shear strains, and the history of cumulative plastic deformation and energy. A three-dimensional finite element model built up with solid elements was also proposed for the verification against test results. The studies demonstrate the high rigidity, strength and rotation capacities of the corbel type composite connections, and give detailed structural understanding for engineering design and practice. Structural engineers are encouraged to adopt the proposed corbel type composite connections in mega high-rise buildings to achieve an economical and buildable and architectural friendly engineering solution.

Persulfate Wet Oxidation Method for the Determination of Total Phosphorus in Atmospheric Aerosols and Its Application for a Year-round Observation in Beijing

  • Okuda, Tomoaki;Gunji, Yuma;He, Kebin;Ma, Yongliang
    • Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.169-175
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    • 2013
  • Measurement of the phosphorus concentration in aerosols in Beijing, which was a representative East Asian mega-city, was carried out. The optimum procedure for analyzing phosphorus in aerosols was found in this study. Recovery of phosphorus in environmental samples through the improved method was almost 100%. The concentration of phosphorus in TSP was $145{\pm}47\;ng/m^3$, with a seasonal variation showing high concentrations in winter and low concentrations in summer. The concentrations of phosphorus in $PM_{2.5}$ accounted for $35{\pm}6%$ of those in TSP, with no seasonal variations. The major source of phosphorus in aerosols in Beijing was soil dust, and additional sources of phosphorus in fine particles could be coal combustion and biomass burning.

Development and Test of a Macro Traffic Simulation Model for Urban Traffic Management (도시 간선도로 교통류관리를 위한 교통모형의 개발 및 검증)

  • 이인원
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.79-103
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    • 1995
  • The elasticity of a model is considered most important. Without showing the proper elasticity any model cannot provide useful information for decision making. This paper demonstrates a macro model which can generate dynamic transport informations every 15 minutes. Without the Wardrop principles and the monotonicity assumptions for the link travel time and link volume relationship, the basic elements of this new modeling approache are composed of link density simulation, stochastic incremental route choice, departure time choice, destination choice and mode choice. The elasticity of the proposed model is examined based on elasticity equations and simulation results. Also the transferability from a mega city like Seoul to a big city like Daejon is demonstrated for the choice model. The issues centering around the dynamic relations among density(k), speed(u), and flow rate(v) are also discussed for the modeling of highly congested situations.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE INTEGRATION OF STADIUMS

  • Sven Schmedes
    • International conference on construction engineering and project management
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    • 2011.02a
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    • pp.269-272
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    • 2011
  • The impact of a new stadium on the urban context and regional development is significant. Especially where several new stadiums are built for single mega events like the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games or the Soccer World Cup the impact is even higher. Objective of this paper is to identify and analyze the key drivers for sustainable integration of stadiums within the existing context. The level of sustainability is analyzed based on four different categories: urban, social, environmental and economics. Particular focus is on the project management strategy for implementation of the key drivers during pre-design, design and execution. In conclusion key elements of the project management strategy for sustainable integration of a stadium within the urban, environmental, social and economic context are summarized.

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An Observation on the Change of the Style Image of Body Side by the Design of the Greenhouse (그린하우스 디자인에 의한 차체 측면의 스타일 이미지 변화 고찰)

  • Koo, Sang;Chang, Ho-Ik
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.19 no.1 s.63
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    • pp.163-170
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    • 2006
  • Recently automotive markets are on the way into maturing status with the mega merger between makers which brought equalizations of technology and upgrade of overall performance of vehicles. For the reason why it is the recent trend which has more importance on the software oriented element such as the style design of vehicles than the hardware such as the mechanical elements. This changing characteristics of automotive design which requires more creativity and finished style treatment on an automotive design demand the specific method of designing from the lingual concept of the vehicle. In this research the possibility has been observed the design elements between the greenhouse of the vehicle body with analyzing the shape elements of it and the change of the characteristics of body shape had been observed. The possibility of extract of creating the method of specifying the shape from the lingual concept had been examined either.

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Parameterization of the Company's Business Model for Machine Learning-Based Marketing Stress Testing

  • Menkova, Krystyna;Zozulov, Oleksandr
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.318-326
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    • 2022
  • Marketing stress testing is a new method of identifying the company's strengths and weaknesses in a turbulent environment. Technically, this is a complex procedure, so it involves artificial intelligence and machine learning. The main problem is currently the development of methodological approaches to the development of the company's digital model, which will provide a framework for machine learning. The aim of the study was to identify and develop an author's approach to the parameterization of the company's business processes for machine learning-based marketing stress testing. This aim provided the company's activities to be considered as a set of elements (business processes, products) and factors that affect them (marketing environment). The article proposes an author's approach to the parameterization of the company's business processes for machine learning-based marketing stress testing. The proposed approach includes four main elements that are subject to parameterization: elements of the company's internal environment, factors of the marketing environment, the company' core competency and factors impacting the company. Matrices for evaluating the results of the work of expert groups to determine the degree of influence of the marketing environment factors were developed. It is proposed to distinguish between mega-level, macro-level, meso-level and micro-level factors depending on the degree of impact on the company. The methodological limitation of the study is that it involves the modelling method as the only one possible at this stage of the study. The implementation limitation is that the proposed approach can only be used if the company plans to use machine learning for marketing stress testing.

A Study of Components in Form-Based Codes of Small to Mid Cities in US - Focused on Zoning Codes Including Architectural Design Elements - (미국 중소도시의 형태기반코드 구성요소에 관한 연구 - 건축계획요소를 포함한 조닝코드 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Sung-Yong;Ahn, Dong-Joon
    • Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.77-85
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    • 2018
  • Rapid urbanization has fostered development of modern cities. Although Conventional zoning played its role to control urban development, it also segregated land uses and created homogeneous development pattern. Mega cities with satellite bed towns has not shown their unique identity and characters. In order to develop comprehensive approach which may bring social and physical enhancement can be difficult to achieve by considering city as a two dimensions. On contrary, extensive analysis and proposals require an approach which can perceive city with three dimensions. Form-Based Codes (FBCs) are appeared as an alternative to conventional zoning with different design process and principles. FBCs approach urban place with three dimension and giving priority to form rather than land use. The purpose of this study was to analyze the necessity of FBCs and its concept, components and how this would change urban characteristics in the aspects of architectural design through analysis on 4 case studies for zoning codes of US cities. Through comparison of components in Form-Based Codes of 4 different cases, this study can show the reasons for differences in application of Form-Based Codes and how detailed components would play a role to establish better urban environments.

A study on the type of navigation interface design for information search in e-commerce (이커머스에서 정보 탐색을 위한 네비게이션 인터페이스 디자인 유형 연구)

  • Jung, Da-Young;Kim, Seung-In
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.10
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    • pp.411-418
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    • 2021
  • In this study, information search methods and user interface types provided to users were investigated for the top 100 e-commerce services selected by Statista and the National Retail Federation. And the characteristics of each type were derived by analyzing the interaction method of the user's manipulation with the visualization elements constituting the interface. The research results are as follows. First, as the information provision method, spread format was more often used as the number and hierarchy of information increased, and drop-down and mega menu methods were used more often as the number and hierarchy of information decreased. Second, as a visual classification method according to the information hierarchy, the background color, font change, and line were often used, and there were many cases where the background color and line were used at the same time. Third, there were various elements such as background color, text color, and line as an interaction method for user manipulation, and two or more of them were applied at the same time the most. This study is meaningful in that it defines the characteristics of each type through the analysis of the types of interfaces for e-commerce information search and items that can be the selection criteria for detailed elements.

An Observation on the Concept of Shape Grammar through the Body Proportion of the Mid-size Sedans (중형 세단의 차체 비례를 통한 자동차 조형문법의 개념고찰)

  • Koo, Sang
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.18 no.2 s.60
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    • pp.283-292
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    • 2005
  • Recently automotive markets are on the way into maturing status with the mega merger between makers which brought equalizations of technology and upgrade of overall performance of vehicles. And the needs of automobile also changed into replacement buying from the entry buying. For the reason why it is the recent trend which has more importance on the software oriented element such as the sane design of vehicles than the hardware like the mechanical elements. This changing characteristics of market which requires more creativity and finished style treatment on an automotive design demand the concept of shape grammar for conducting shape on the macroscopic view. In this research the possibility has been observed to use the body proportion as the concept of the shape grammar for analyzing the relations between the form, sign, and perception as a basic principle of organizing shapes.

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A Study on the Improvement Methods on Cabin Safety Actions in Aircraft Accidents -Focused on Cabin Crew Safety Performances & Passenger Perceptions of Cabin Safety Information - (항공기 비상사태에 대한 객실안전조치에 관한 연구 -객실승무원의 안전업무와 승객의 객실안전정보 인식을 중심으로-)

  • Yoo, Kyung-In;Yoo, Kwang-Eui;Lee, Chun-Ki
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.126-136
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    • 2013
  • Aircraft accidents these days, following the mega sizing trend of the aircraft, result in enormous losses of human lives apart from those of property, which cannot be replaced by any means. As most recently, in April 20, 2012, a Boeing 737 passenger plane departed Karachi on an augural flight to Islamabad, Pakistan, crashed close to an express highway on final approach, all 121 passengers and 6 crew members were killed. As such a large number of fatalities have been recorded in aircraft accidents while accident investigation results show that more than 95% of aircraft accidents are now survivable. There are three basic stages in surviving the aircraft accident: surviving the crash impact, the evacuation process and the hostile post evacuation environmental elements. These stages require the cabin crew's expeditious and appropriate actions on the basis of systematic and thorough cabin safety training in order to increase occupants' survivability, along with the passengers' preparedness. In this aspect, this paper examines the issues acting as the impediments to the passenger survival in inflight emergency situations, that are the deficiencies with cabin crew safety training, related performances and the shortcomings in passengers' knowledge on inflight safety information, leading to their inappropriate responses to emergency situations. These issues are analyzed and the root causes are identified, suggesting the resolving countermeasures.