• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.75-86
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• 2020

The grid structures with welded hollow spherical joint (WHSJ) have gained increasing popularity for use in industrial buildings with suspended cranes, and usually welded with steel tube (ST). The fatigue performance of steel tube-welded hollow spherical joint (ST-WHSJ) is however not yet well characterized, and there is little research on fatigue life prediction methods of ST-WHSJ. In this study, based on previous fatigue tests, three series of specimen fatigue data with different design parameters and stress ratios were compared, and two fatigue failure modes were revealed: failure at the weld toe of the ST and the WHSJ respectively. Then, S-N curves of nominal stress were uniformed. Furthermore, a finite element model (FEM) was validated by static test, and was introduced to assess fatigue behavior with the hot spot stress method (HSSM) and the effective notch stress method (ENSM). Both methods could provide conservative predictions, and these two methods had similar results. However, ENSM, especially when using von Mises stress, had a better fit for the series with a non- positive stress ratio. After including the welding residual stress and mean stress, analyses with the local stress method (LSM) and the critical distance method (CDM, including point method and line method) were carried out. It could be seen that the point method of CDM led to more accurate predictions than LSM, and was recommended for series with positive stress ratios.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.579-601
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• 2013

Interference effects are of considerable concern for group hyperboloidal cooling towers, but evaluation methods and results are different from each other because of the insufficient understanding on the structure behavior. Therefore, the mechanical performance of hyperboloidal cooling tower shell under wind loads was illustrated according to some basic properties drawn from horizontal rings and cantilever beams. The hyperboloidal cooling tower shell can be regarded as the coupling of horizontal rings and meridian cantilever beams, and this perception is beneficial for understanding the mechanical performance under wind loads. Afterwards, the mean external latitude wind pressure distribution, CP(${\theta}$), was artificially adjusted to pursue the relationship between different CP(${\theta}$) and wind-induced responses. It was found that the maximum responses in hyperboloidal cooling tower shell are primarily dominated by the non-uniformity of CP(${\theta}$) but not the local pressure amplitude CP or overall resistance/drag coefficient CD. In all the internal forces, the maximum amplitude of meridian axial tension shows remarkable sensitivity to the variation of CP(${\theta}$) and it's also the controlling force in structure design, so it was selected as an indicator to evaluate the influence of CP(${\theta}$) on responses. Based on its sensitivity to different adjustment parameters of CP(${\theta}$), an comprehensive response influence factor, RIF, was deduced to assess the meridian axial tension for arbitrary CP(${\theta}$).

• 한국운동역학회지
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.297-307
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• 2021

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyze kinetic variables between thermotherapy and dynamic warm-up during drop-landing. Method: Twenty male healthy subjects (Age: 21.85 ± 1.90 years, Height: 1.81 ± 0.06 cm, Weight: 68.5 ± 7.06 kg) underwent three treatments applied on the thermotherapy of femoral muscles and a dynamic warm-up. The thermotherapy was performed for 15 minutes while sitting in a chair using an electric heating pad equipped with a temperature control device. Dynamic warm-up performed 14 exercise, a non-treatment was sitting in a chair for 15 minutes. Core temperature measurements of all subjects were performed before landing at a height of 50 cm. During drop-landing, core temperature, joint angle, moment, work of the sagittal plane was collected and analyzed. All analyses were performed with SPSS 21.0 and for repeated measured ANOVA and Post-hoc was Bonferroni. Results: Results indicated that Thermotherapy was increased temperature than other treatments (p = .000). During drop-landing, hip joint of dynamic warm-up was slower for angular velocity (p < .005), and left ankle joint was fastest than other treatments (p = .004). Maximum joint moment of dynamic warm-up was smaller for three joints (hip extension: p = .000; knee flexion/extension: p = .001/.000; ankle plantarflexion: p = .000). Negative work of dynamic warm-up was smaller than other treatments (p = .000). Conclusion: In conclusion, the thermotherapy in the local area doesn't affect the eccentric contraction of the thigh. The dynamic warm-up treatment minimized the joint moment and negative work of the lower joint during an eccentric contraction, it was confirmed that more active movement was performed than other treatment methods.

• Forest Science and Technology
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.181-191
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• 2018

This study was carried out in the teaching and research forest of the University of Dschang in Belabo, with the aim of analysing land-cover and land-use changes as well as carbon stocks dynamic. The databases used are composed of three Landsat satellite images (5TM of 1984, 7ETM + of 2000 and 8OLI of 2016), enhanced by field missions. Satellite images were processed using ENVI and ArcGIS software. Interview, focus group discussion methods and participatory mapping were used to identify the activities carried out by the local population. An inventory design consisting of four transects was used to measure dendrometric parameters and to identify land-use types. An estimation of carbon stocks in aboveground and underground woody biomass was made using allometric models based on non-destructive method. Dynamic of land-cover showed that the average annual rate of deforestation is 0.48%. The main activities at the base of this change are agriculture, house built-up and logging. Seven types of land-use were identified; adult secondary forests (64.10%), young secondary forests (7.54%), wetlands (7.39%), fallows (3.63%), savannahs (9.59%), cocoa farms (4.28%) and mixed crop farms (3.47%). Adult secondary forests had the highest amount of carbon ($250.75\;t\;C\;ha^{-1}$). This value has decreased by more than 60% for mixed crop farms ($94.67\;t\;C\;ha^{-1}$), showing the impact of agricultural activities on both forest cover and carbon stocks. Agroforestry systems that allow conservation and introduction of woody species should be encouraged as part of a participatory management strategy of this forest.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.237-246
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• 2021

The ILI, developed by the IWA (International Water Association), has been used in many countries as an indicator of water leakage. In Korea, the revenue water has been used as a performance indicator for waterworks although there is an opinion to replace it with the ILI. Hence, it has been necessary to investigate whether the ILI can replace the revenue water in Korea. The four main operating indicators (i.e., water service population, profit-loss ratio, fiscal self-reliance, and aged pipe rate) of 162 Korean waterworks were compared with the ILI with the linear regression method. Local water authorities with more than 1 million water service population, with more than 60% profit-loss ratio, more than 40% and less than 60% fiscal self-reliance, and more than 20% aged pipe rate showed meaningful correlation between the four parameters and the ILI. In the remaining cases, their correlations were little or weak. This means that using the ILI may not be an efficient method to represent the performance of the water supply system in Korea because of the lack of UARL (Unavoidable Annual Real Losses) data accuracy. To use the ILI in Korea, it will be required to carry out an additional research to accumulate reliable CARL (Current Annual Real Losses) and UARL data in the future.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.589-600
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• 2022

Investigations on the molten-pool sloshing behavior are of essential value for improving nuclear safety evaluation of Core Disruptive Accidents (CDA) that would be possibly encountered for Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFR). This paper is aimed at synthesizing the knowledge from our recent studies on molten-pool sloshing behavior with solid particles conducted at the Sun Yat-sen University. To better visualize and clarify the mechanism and characteristics of sloshing induced by local Fuel-Coolant Interaction (FCI), experiments were performed with various parameters by injecting nitrogen gas into a 2-dimensional liquid pool with accumulated solid particles. It was confirmed that under different particle-bed conditions, three representative flow regimes (i.e. the bubble-impulsion dominant, transitional and bed-inertia dominant regimes) are identifiable. Aimed at predicting the regime transitions during sloshing process, a predictive empirical model along with a regime map was proposed on the basis of experiments using single-sized spherical solid particles, and then was extended for covering more complex particle conditions (e.g. non-spherical, mixed-sized and mixed-density spherical particle conditions). To obtain more comprehensive understandings and verify the applicability and reliability of the predictive model under more realistic conditions (e.g. large-scale 3-dimensional condition), further experimental and modeling studies are also being prepared under other more complicated actual conditions.

• 한국수자원학회논문집
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.507-520
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• 2003

V형 여울은 하천 양안에 설치하여 여울의 가운데로 물의 흐름을 집중시켜 하도 중앙 직하류에 세굴로 인한 소(pool)를 형성하는 역할을 하는 인공 여울이다. V형 여울의 설치 목적은 평탄화된 하도에 소를 형성시켜 갈수시 어류의 서식처 노는 피난처를 제공하고, 홍수시에는 유속이 약한 구간을 발생시켜 어류의 피난처를 제공하는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 V형 여울의 수리 모형 실험을 실시하여 각 조건에 따른 세굴심을 측정하여 세굴 특성을 분석하였고, 나아가 수리량 조건 및 V형 여울 형태와 세굴 간의 정량적인 관계를 실험 결과로부터 도출하였다. 또한 V형 여울과 형태가 유사한 수제에서의 세굴심에 대한 기존의 연구 결과와 V형 여울의 경우를 비교하였다. 그 결과 Breusers와 Raudkivi(1991)가 제안한 수제에서의 세굴심 예측식은 V형 여울에서의 세굴심을 과소평가하지만 V형 여울께서의 세굴 특성을 일부 반영하는 것으로 나타났다. V형 여울의 세굴에 영향을 주는 인자들의 무차원화를 통해 V형 여울에서의 세굴심 예측식을 제안하였고 제안된 예측식은 V형 여울의 적용에 있어서 세굴심을 추정하는데 사용될 수 있고 판단된다. V형 여울의 세굴에 지배적인 영향을 주는 인자는 여울 중앙에서의 프루드 수이고, 그밖에 여울과 흐름의 각도와 여울 개구부의 폭도 부분적으로 영향을 준다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 1987

흐름수역(水域)에서 연직상향으로 방류되는 평면부력(平面浮力)?의 거동이 연속방정식(連續方程式), 운동량방정식(運動量方程式) 및 추적물수송식(追跡物輸送式)의 기본방정식을 수치적(數値的)으로 풀음으로서 해석(解析)된다. 난류확산(亂流擴散)에는 Prandtl의 혼합거리이론(混合距離理論)을 도입한 난류수송모형(亂流輸送模型)이 이용된다. 수치해과정(數値解過程)은 기본방정식을 유함수(流凾數)(stream function)식(式)과 골도수송(滑度輸送)(vorticity transport)식을(式) 이용하여 변환(變換)한 후, ?방류속도(放流速度), ?방류구폭(放流口幅) 등(等)으로 표현되는 변수(變數)와 흐름을 지배(支配)하는 무차원매개변수(無次元媒介變數)를 도입하여 무차원화(無次元化)하고 successive under-relaxation을 이용하여 Gauss-Seidal 반복법(反復法)으로 해를(解) 구(求)하는 것이다. 수치실험(數値實驗)은 방류(放流)Froude수(數)가 4~32, 방류속도(放流速度)와 가로흐름속도와의 비로(比) 정의되는 속도비가 8~15 의 범위의 흐름영역(領域)에서 수행되었다. 부력(浮力)?으로 인한 주변(周邊)흐름수역(水域)의 속도변화(速度變化), 온도상승(溫度上昇)범위, 흐름상태 및 골도(滑度)가 조사되었으며, ?의 경로에 대한 속도비와 방류밀도Froude 수의 영향이 또한 조사되었다. ?중심선의 속도, 온도변화, 국부밀도(局部密度)Froude 수(數)의 변화가 계산되며 퍼짐율(spreading rate)과 확산비(擴散比)(dispersion ratio)가 방류밀도(放流密度)Froude 수, 국부밀도(局部密度)Froude 수(數) 및 속도비(速度比)의 항(項)으로 해석되었다. 또한 속도와 온도분포를 상사(相似)(similarity)로 나타낼 수 있음이 밝혀졌으며, Gaussian 분포(分布)를 이용한 적분형해석(積分型解析)(integral type analysis)이 가능한 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국지진공학회논문집
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• 제9권2호통권42호
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• pp.37-46
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• 2005

현재까지 많은 스마트 면진시스템이 제안되었고 연구되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 스마트 면진시스템의 면진장치와 보조감쇠 장치로서 새로운 형태의 마찰진자시스템(FPS)과 MR 감쇠기를 각각 사용한다. 퍼지로직제어기(FLC)가 고유의 견실성과 비선형 및 불확실성을 쉽게 다룰 수 있는 능력이 있기 때문에 MR 감쇠기의 감쇠력을 조절하는데 FLC를 사용한다. 또한 FLC의 성능을 최적화 하기 위해서는 유전자알고리즘(GA)을 사용한다. GA를 사용함으로써 소속함수의 형상을 조절하는 것뿐만 아니라 적절한 퍼지제어규칙을 결정할 수 있다. 이를 위하여 본 연구에서는 부분개선 유전자알고리즘을 사용하였다. 이 방법은 유전자의 특정부분을 향상시키는데 효율적이다. FPS와 MR 감쇠기의 동적거동을 표현하기 위해서는 뉴로?퍼지 모델을 사용한다. FLC의 최적설계를 위하여 본 연구에서 제안된 방법의 효율성은 여러 가지 역사지진을 사용하여 계산된 동적응답을 기초로 하여 평가한다. 예제해석결과 제안된 방법은 적절한 퍼지규칙을 찾을 수 있고 GA로 최적화된 FLC는 수동제어기 뿐만 아니라 전문가의 지식에 기반한 FLC와 전통적인 준능동제어기보다 더 좋은 성능을 발휘한다.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2002년도 Proceedings of the International Welding/Joining Conference-Korea
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• pp.250-254
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• 2002

Intergranular corrosion of austenitic stainless steels is a conventional and momentous problem during welding and high temperature use. One of the major reasons for such intergranular corrosion is so-called sensitization, i.e., chromium depletion due to chromium carbide precipitation at grain boundaries. Conventional methods for preventing sensitization of austenitic stainless steels include reduction of carbon content in the material, stabilization of carbon atoms as non-chromium carbides by the addition of titanium, niobium or zirconium, local solution-heat-treatment by laser beam, etc. These methods, however, are not without drawbacks. Recent grain boundary structure studies have demonstrated that grain boundary phenomena strongly depend on the crystallographic nature and atomic structure of the grain boundary, and that grain boundaries with coincidence site lattices are immune to intergranular corrosion. The concept of "grain boundary design and control", which involves a desirable grain boundary character distribution, has been developed as grain boundary engineering. The feasibility of grain boundary engineering has been demonstrated mainly by thermomechanical treatments. In the present study, a thermomechanical treatment was tried to improve the resistance to the sensitization by grain boundary engineering. A type 304 austenitic stainless steel was pre-strained and heat-treated, and then sensitized, varying the parameters (pre-strain, temperature, time, etc.) during the thermomechanical treatment. The grain boundary character distribution was examined by orientation imaging microscopy. The intergranular corrosion resistance was evaluated by electrochemical potentiokinetic reactivation and ferric sulfate-sulfuric acid tests. The sensitivity to intergranular corrosion was reduced by the thermomechanical treatment and indicated a minimum at a small roll-reduction. The frequency of coincidence-site-lattice boundaries indicated a maximum at a small strain. The ferric sulfate-sulfuric acid test showed much smaller corrosion rate in the thermomechanically-treated specimen than in the base material. An excellent intergranular corrosion resistance was obtained by a small strain annealing at a relatively low temperature for long time. The optimum parameters created a uniform distribution of a high frequency of coincidence site lattice boundaries in the specimen where corrosive random boundaries were isolated. The results suggest that the thermomechanical treatment can introduce low energy segments in the grain boundary network by annealing twins and can arrest the percolation of intergranular corrosion from the surface.