• Macromolecular Research
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.110-115
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• 2009

The electrical, morphological and rheological properties of melt and dry mixed composites of poly ethylene (PE)/graphite (Gr), polypropylene (PP)/Gr and PP/nickel-coated carbon fiber (NCCF) were investigated as a function of filler type, filler content and processing temperature. The electrical conductivities of dry mixed PP/NCCF composites were increased with decreasing processing temperature. For the melt mixed PP/NCCF composites, the electrical conductivities were higher than those of the melt mixed PE/Gr and PP/Gr composites, which was attributed to the effect of the higher NCCF aspect ratio in allowing the composites to form a more conductive network in the polymer matrix than the graphite does. From the results of morphological studies, the fillers in the dry mixed PP/NCCF composites were more randomly dispersed compared to those in the melt mixed PP/NCCF composites. The increased electrical conductivities of the dry mixed composites were attributed to the more random dispersion of NCCF compared to that of the melt mixed PP/NCCF composites. The complex viscosities of the PP/Gr composites were higher than those of the PP/NCCF composites, which was attributed to the larger diameter of the graphite particles than that of the NCCF. Furthermore, the fiber orientation in the 'along the flow' direction during melt mixing was attributed to the decreased complex viscosities of the melt mixed PP/NCCF composites compared those of the melt mixed PP/Gr composites.

• 한국콘크리트학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘크리트학회 2008년도 춘계 학술발표회 제20권1호
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• pp.865-868
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 최근 사용이 증대되고 있는 고성능 콘크리트의 폭렬현상을 방지하기 위해 일련의 연구 중 메탈라스 횡구속을 병행한 비탈형 거푸집을 사용한 고성능 콘크리트 RC기둥부재의 내화특성을 검토하였는데, 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 유동성 및 공기량은 모두 목표 범위를 만족하였고, 압축강도는 재령 28일에서 80 MPa이상으로 고강도범위를 나타내었다. 폭렬 특성으로는 섬유를 혼입하지 않은 플레인의 경우는 심한 폭렬이 발생하였고, 나일론(이하 NY)+폴리프로필렌(이하 PP) 섬유를 0.05%를 혼입한 경우에는 표면부에만 부분적인 박리폭렬이 발생하였다. 비탈형 거푸집 변화에 따라서는 비탈형 25-20, 비탈형 50-20의 경우에는 모두 마 감재부분에 폭렬이 발생하였는데, 비탈형 50-20의 경우가 비탈형 25-20보다 양호한 폭렬방지 성능을 나타내었다. 비탈형 50-40의 경우는 폭렬이 방지되었는데 질량감소율은 10%이하로 나타났고, 온도이력은 모재표면부 최고온도가 $376.1^{\circ}C$로 가장 우수한 내화 성능을 나타내었다.

• 폴리머
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.342-349
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• 2000

아이소탁틱 폴리프로필렌과 대두유 시스템으로부터 열유도 상분리 및 연신공정에 의하여 중공사막을 제조하였다. 막의 구조와 성능에 관계되는 각종 조업변수들의 영향을 조사하였고 이들을 최적화하였다. 폴리프로필렌/대두유의 용융점도가 microfibril 형성에 영향을 미침을 확인하였고 기핵제를 첨가함에 따라 핵생성 밀도가 증가하여 연신에 의한 구정 간의 기공형성이 향상되었다. 막을 열처리함으로써 연신 시 유도되었던 stress를 이완시켜 막의 수축현상을 방지하여 다공도를 유지할 수 있었다. 기핵제를 첨가한 경우 고-액 상분리에 의하여 구조가 형성되며 응고조의 온도 변화에 따라 핵 생성 밀도가 변화하게 되고 이에 따라 연신에 의한 기공 형성이 영향을 받게 되었다. 기핵제를 첨가하지 않은 경우 핵 생성이 활발하지 않아서 주로 액-액 상분리 거동이 구조 형성에 영향을 미치게 되며 응고조 온도 변화에 따른 효과가 기핵제를 넣은 경우와는 반대의 경향을 나타내었다.

• Fibers and Polymers
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.141-147
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• 2001

The effect of compositions of isophorone diisocyanate (IPDl)/4.4'-diphenylmethane diisocyalate (MDI) and polypropylene oxide diol (PPG, $M_w$: 3000)/1,4-butane diol (BD) on the properties of UV-cured polyurethane acrylate films based on 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA) was examined. UV-curable polyurethane acrylates were formulated from the prepolymer. trimethylol propane triacrylate (TMPTA) as a reactive diluent, and 1-hydroxycyclohexyl ketone (Irgacure 184) as a photoinitiator. Dynamic mechanical thermal properties and elastic properties of UV-cured polyurethane acrylates was fecund to depend on the chemical composition of IPDl/MDl and PPG/BD. As the BD content increased, the tensile storage modulus of all series samples increased significantly. The storage modulus increased in the order of samples A (IPDI based samples)> samples B (IPDI/MDl (7/3 molar ratio) based samples) > samples C (IPDI/MDl (5/5 molar ratio) based samples at the same composition. Two distinct louts modulus peaks for all samples are observed owing to the softs segment glass transition temperature ($T_gh$) and hard segment glass transition temperature ($T_gh$). The difference between $T_gh$, and $T_gh$, (Δ$T_g$) increases in the order of A > B > C at the same composition. In cycle test, the initial onset strain (%) was found to decrease with increasing BD content in PPG/BD and with increasing MDI content in IPDI/MDl.

• 한국막학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국막학회 2003년도 춘계 총회 및 학술발표회
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• pp.31-38
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• 2003

A pilot scale biofilter pretreatment-microfiltration system (BF-MF) was operated to investigate the effect of biofilter treatment in fouling reduction of microfiltration. Biofiltration was expected to reduce the membrane fouling by removal of turbidity and metal oxides. The hollow-fiber MF module with a nominal pore size of 0.1$\mu$m and a surface area of 8m$^2$ was submerged in a filtration tank and microfiltration was operated at a constant flux of 0.5 m/d. Biofiltration using polypropylene pellets was performed at a high filtration velocity of 320 m/d. Two experimental setups composed of MF and BF/MF, i.e., without and with biofilter pretreatment, were compared. Throughout the experimental period of 9 months, biofilter pretreatment was effective to reduce the membrane fouling, which was proved by the result of time variations of trans-membrane pressure and backwash conditions. The turbidity removal rate by biofiltration varied between 40% to 80% due to the periodic washing for biofilter contactor and raw water turbidity. In addition to turbidity, metals, especially Mn, Fe and Al were removed effectively with average removal rates of 89.2%, 67.8% and 64.9%, respectively. Further analysis of foulants on the used membranes revealed that turbidity and metal removal by biofiltration was the major effect of biofiltration pretreatment against microfiltration fouling.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제41권8호
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• pp.1101-1108
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• 2009

The ocean contains around eighty elements of the periodic table and uranium is also one among them, with a uniform concentration of 3.3 ppb and a relative abundance factor of 23. With a large coastline, India has a large stake in exploiting the 4 billion tonnes of uranium locked in seawater. The development of radiation grafting techniques, which are useful in incorporating the required functional groups, has led to more efficient adsorbent preparations in various geometrical configurations. Separation based on a polymeric adsorbent is becoming an increasingly popular technique for the extraction of trace heavy metals from seawater. Radiation grafting has provided definite advantages over chemical grafting. Studies related to thermally bonded non woven porous polypropylene fiber sheet substrate characterization and parameters to incorporate specific groups such as acrylonitrile (AN) into polymer back bones have been investigated. The grafted polyacrylonitrile chains were chemically modified to convert acrylonitrile group into an amidoxime group, a chelating group responsible for heavy metal uptake from seawater/brine. The present work has been undertaken to concentrate heavy metal ions from lean solutions from constant potential sources only. A scheme was designed and developed for investigation of the recovery of heavy metal ions such as uranium and vanadium from seawater.

• Fibers and Polymers
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.203-211
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• 2001

Residual stresses were predicted by a flow analysis in the mold cavity and residual stress distribution in the injection molded product was measured. Flow field was analyzed by the hybrid FEM/FDM method, using the Hele Shaw approximation. The Modified Cross model was used to determine the dependence of the viscosity on the temperature and the shear rate. The specific volume of the polymer melt which varies with the pressure and temperature fields was calculated by the Tait\`s state equation. Flow analysis results such as pressure, temperature, and the location of the liquid-solid interface were used as the input of the stress analysis. In order to calculate more accurate gap-wise temperature field, a coordinate transformation technique was used. The residual stress distribution in the gap-wise temperature field, a coordinate transformation technique was used. The residual stress distribution in the gap-wise direction was predicted in two cases, the free quenching, under the assumption that the shrinkage of the injection molded product occurs within the mold cavity and that the solid polymer is elastic. Effects of the initial flow rate, packing pressure, and mold temperature on the residual stress distribution was discussed. Experimental results were also obtained by the layer removal method for molded polypropylene.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.817-834
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• 2014

An experimental program was designed in the current work to examine the structural behavior of ferrocement beams reinforced with composite materials under three point loadings up to failure. The experimental program comprised casting and testing of twelve ferrocement beams having the dimensions of 120 mm width, 200 mm depth and 1600 mm length. The twelve beams were different in the type of reinforcements; steel bars, traditional wire meshes (welded and expanded wire meshes) and composite materials (fiberglass wire meshes and polypropylene wire meshes). The flexural performances of the all tested beams in terms of strength, ductility, cracking behavior and energy absorption were investigated. Also all the tested beams were simulated using ANSYS program. The results of the experimental tests concluded that the beam with fiber glass meshes gives the lowest first crack load and ultimate load. The ferrocement beam reinforced with four layers of welded wire meshes has better structural behavior than those beams reinforced with other types of wire meshes. Also the beams reinforced with metal wire meshes give smaller cracks width in comparing with those reinforced with non-metal wire meshes. Also the Finite Element (FE) simulations gave good results comparing with the experimental results.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.247-254
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• 2008

Resilient materials are generally used for the floating floors to reduce the floor impact sound. Dynamic stiffness of resilient material, which has the most to do with the floor impact sound reduction. The resilient materials available in Korea include EPS(styrofoam), recycled urethane types, EVA(ethylene vinylacetate) foam rubber, foam PE(polyethylene). glass fiber & rock wool, recycled tire, foam polypropylene. compressed polyester, and other synthetic materials. In this study, we tested dynamic stiffness of resilient material and floor impact sound reduction characteristic to a lot of kinds of resilient materials. It was found that dynamic stiffness of multi-layered damping material could be estimated if know value of each layer that compose whole structure. And the test showed that the amount of the heavy-weight impact sound reduction appeared by being influenced from this dynamic stiffness of resilient material. The dynamic stiffness looked like between other resilient materials, a similar to the amount of the heavy-weight impact sound reduction was shown.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2015

This study aims to synthesis the self-cleaning fibers. The nano-titanium dioxide ($TiO_2$) were blend with the polypropylene (grade 561R) at 1wt%, 3wt%, 5wt%, 10wt%, 15wt% and 20wt%. The $TiO_2$-fibers were obtained from single screw extruder. The mechanical, thermal, rheology and self-cleaning properties were also investigated. The results showed that the tensile strength of the $nTiO_2$-PP fibers decreased with increasing of the amount of $TiO_2$. The presents of the $TiO_2$ in the PP fibers significantly showed the improving of the self-cleaning properties under sunlight and 20 watt of UV radiation. The $TiO_2$-PP fibers in presents of $TiO_2$ 20wt% showed the best results of self-cleaning under 5 hours of the sunlight which the similar results were found under 5 hours of 20 watts of UV radiation.