• 한국암반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국암반공학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.79-93
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• 2006

It is well known that acoustic emission (AE) is indicator of rock fracturing or damage as rock is brought to failure under the uniaxial compressive loads. In this paper, an experimental study on the source location of acoustic emission on the cylindrical specimens of granite under uniaxial compression test was made. The AE source location was made by measuring the six channel AE data. Comparing to this experiment, the numerical method is applied to model the initiation and propagation of fracture by AE using a numerical code, RFPA (Realistic Failure Process Analysis). This code incorporates the mesoscopic heterogeneity in Young's modulus and rock strength characteristic of rock masses. In the numerical models, values of Young's modulus and rock strength are realized according to a Weibull distribution in which the distribution parameters represent the level of heterogeneity of the medium. The results of the simulations show that RFPA can be used not only to produce acoustic emission similar to those measurements in our experiments, but also to predict fracturing patterns under uniaxial loading condition.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.375-401
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• 2014

It is generally accepted that material heterogeneity has a great influence on the deformation, strength, damage and failure modes of rock. This paper presents numerical simulation on rock failure process based on the characterization of rock heterogeneity by using a digital image processing (DIP) technique. The actual heterogeneity of rock at mesoscopic scale (characterized as minerals) is retrieved by using a vectorization transformation method based on the digital image of rock surface, and it is imported into a well-established numerical code Rock Failure Process Analysis (RFPA), in order to examine the effect of rock heterogeneity on the rock failure process. In this regard, the numerical model of rock could be built based on the actual characterization of the heterogeneity of rock at the meso-scale. Then, the images of granite are taken as an example to illustrate the implementation of DIP technique in simulating the rock failure process. Three numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the impact of actual rock heterogeneity due to spatial distribution of constituent mineral grains (e.g., feldspar, quartz and mica) on the macro-scale mechanical response, and the associated rock failure mechanism at the meso-scale level is clarified. The numerical results indicate that the shape and distribution of constituent mineral grains have a pronounced impact on stress distribution and concentration, which may further control the failure process of granite. The proposed method provides an efficient tool for studying the mechanical behaviors of heterogeneous rock and rock-like materials whose failure processes are strongly influenced by material heterogeneity.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.864-880
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• 2003

A unified picture for magnetism, superconductivity, quantum optics and other properties of molecule-based materials has been presented on the basis of effective model Hamiltonians, where necessary parameter values have been determined by the first principle calculations of cluster models and/or band models. These properties of the matetials are qualitatively discussed on the basis of the spin and pseudo-spin Hamiltonian models, where several quantum operators are expressed by spin variables under the two level approximation. As an example, ab initio broken-symmetry DFT calculations are performed for cyclic magnetic ring constructed of 34 hydrogen atoms in order to obtain effective exchange integrals in the spin Hamiltonian model. The natural orbital analysis of the DFT solution was performed to obtain symmetry-adapted molecular orbitals and their occupation numbers. Several chemical indices such as information entropy and unpaired electron density were calculated on the basis of the occupation numbers to elucidate the spin and pair correlations, and bonding characteristic (kinetic correlation) of this mesoscopic magnetic ring. Both classical and quantum effects for spin alignments and singlet spin-pair formations are discussed on the basis of the true spin Hamiltonian model in detail. Quantum effects are also discussed in the case of superconductivity, atom optics and quantum optics based on the pseudo spin Hamiltonian models. The coherent and squeezed states of spins, atoms and quantum field are discussed to obtain a unified picture for correlation, coherence and decoherence in future materials. Implications of theoretical results are examined in relation to recent experiments on molecule-based materials and molecular design of future molecular soft materials in the intersection area between molecular and biomolecular materials.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.36-49
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• 2016

도시 철도는 도시 광역권 교통수단으로, 주요 노선들이 만나는 환승역사의 경우, 역사내 보행 통행시 극심한 혼잡을 야기하며, 승강장 내 교통약자를 포함한 이용객들의 안전사고 위험이 높게 나타난다. 반영구적 도시교통 기반시설로의 도시철도역사는 초기 건설 당시 장기 이용 수요 예측을 실시하지만, 향후 신설 노선 및 환승(예정)역을 정확히 파악할 수 없고 건설완료 이후 토지이용계획이 급변할 경우, 예측 수요와 실제 수요는 상이하게 나타날 수 있으며, 확장이 제한적이고 대규모 추가공사 비용이 요구되기 때문에 도시철도 역사가 지닌 물리적 특성 및 이용자 요구에 따라 효율적인 개선이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 도시철도역사 구조, 이동 동선 등 물리적 요소와 시시각각 변하는 도시철도 내 이용수요 등 변수를 고려하여 다양한 시나리오에 대한 효과분석이 가능한 도시철도역사 평가용 시뮬레이터 핵심 모형을 소개하고, 해당 시뮬레이터를 활용하여, 사당역 대피 시나리오를 분석하였다. 분석결과, 시뮬레이터 활용하여 유사상황 발생시 입체 공간 상에서 다양한 조건을 고려한 다수의 대피 경로 탐색이 용이하였으며, 사당역의 경우, 대피경로 정보제공을 통해 기존 대비 약 60% 대피시간을 절감할 수 있는 것으로 분석되었다.