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Free vibration of axially loaded Reddy-Bickford beam on elastic soil using the differential transform method

  • Yesilce, Yusuf;Catal, Seval
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.453-475
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    • 2009
  • The literature regarding the free vibration analysis of Bernoulli-Euler and Timoshenko beams on elastic soil is plenty, but the free vibration analysis of Reddy-Bickford beams on elastic soil with/without axial force effect using the Differential Transform Method (DTM) has not been investigated by any of the studies in open literature so far. In this study, the free vibration analysis of axially loaded Reddy-Bickford beam on elastic soil is carried out by using DTM. The model has six degrees of freedom at the two ends, one transverse displacement and two rotations, and the end forces are a shear force and two end moments in this study. The governing differential equations of motion of the rectangular beam in free vibration are derived using Hamilton's principle and considering rotatory inertia. Parameters for the relative stiffness, stiffness ratio and nondimensionalized multiplication factor for the axial compressive force are incorporated into the equations of motion in order to investigate their effects on the natural frequencies. At first, the terms are found directly from the analytical solutions of the differential equations that describe the deformations of the cross-section according to the high-order theory. After the analytical solution, an efficient and easy mathematical technique called DTM is used to solve the governing differential equations of the motion. The calculated natural frequencies of one end fixed and the other end simply supported Reddy-Bickford beam on elastic soil using DTM are tabulated in several tables and figures and are compared with the results of the analytical solution where a very good agreement is observed and the mode shapes are presented in graphs.

Preparation of Dinuclear, Constrained Geometry Zirconium Complexes with Polymethylene Bridges and an Investigation of Their Polymerization Behavior

  • Noh, Seok-Kyun;Jiang, Wen-Long
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.100-106
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    • 2004
  • We have prepared the polymethylene-bridged, dinuciear, half-sandwich constrained geometry catalysts (CGC)[Zr(η$\^$5/:η$^1$-C$\_$9/H$\_$5/SiMe$_2$NCMe$_3$)]$_2$[(CH$_2$)$\_$n/][n=6(9), n=12(10)]by treating 2 equivalents of ZrCl$_4$with the corresponding tetralithium salts of the ligands in toluene. $^1$H and $\^$13/C NMR spectra of the synthesized complexes provide firm evidence for the anticipated dinuciear structure. In $^1$H NMR spectra, two singlets representing the methyl group protons bonded at the Si atom of the CGC are present at 0.88 and 0.64 ppm, which are considerably downfield positions relative to the shifts of 0.02 and 0.05 ppm of the corresponding ligands. To investigate the catalytic behavior of the prepared dinuciear catalysts, we conducted copolymerizations of ethylene and styrene in the presence of MMAO. The prime observation is that the two dinuclear CGCs 9 and 10 are not efficient for copo-lymerization, which definitely distinguishes them from the corresponding titanium-based dinuclear CGC. These species are active catalysts, however, for ethylene homopolymerization; the activity of catalyst 10, which contains a 12-methylene bridge, is larger than that of 9 (6-methylene bridge), which indicates that the presence of the longer bridge between the two active sites contributes more effectively to facilitate the polymerization activity of the dinuciear CGC. The activities increase as the polymerization temperature increases from 40 to 70$^{\circ}C$. On the other hand, the molecular weights of the polyethylenes are reduced when the polymerization temperature is increased. We observe that dinuciear metallocenes having different-length bridges give different polymerization results, which reconfirms the significant role that the nature of the bridging ligand has in controlling the polymerization properties of dinuclear catalysts.

A Systematic Evaluation on the Management Efficiency of General Bank (일반은행의 시스템적 경영효율성 평가)

  • Jung, Hee-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.12 no.1 s.45
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    • pp.205-217
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this paper is to measure and analyze the efficiency of management in general bank. Each bank was analyzed to find out the efficiency and classified as efficient and inefficient bank. To the inefficient bank, the inefficient part and the extent are round out, the improvement methods of efficiency are suggested, and the effects of scale of bank on management efficiency by BCC model are analyzed. And, the differences between commercial bank and local bank also are examined. Empirical main results are as follows: Frist, After 2000, both of commercial and local bank shows the continuous improvement of the management efficiency. Second, the relative efficiency of management of commercial bank is higher than local bank except 2004. Third, there are differences in variables except equity ratio and no differences appeared in the management efficiency between commercial bank and local bank. Fourth, there are no influences or negative influences by M&A and reconstruction among banks in the effect of scale to the management efficiency.

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Optimization of Distillation-Pervaporation Membrane Hybrid Process for Separation of Water/Organic Solvent Mixtures (물/유기용매 분리를 위한 증류-투과증발막 혼성공정의 최적화)

  • Yang, Jeongin;Han, Myungwan
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.56 no.1
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    • pp.29-41
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    • 2018
  • Separating a mixture having an azeotrope or low relative volatility with single distillation column is difficult. Separating water-acetic acid mixture and water-ethanol mixture with a distillation column consumes a lot of energy. Pervaporation membrane can be used to separate the mixture in the concentration region where separation is difficult with distillation. We simulated a distillation-membrane hybrid process where membrane is located on the head of the distillation column for efficient separation of water-acetic acid and water-ethanol mixture. Permeability data were obtained from experiments and literature. We formulated an optimization problem for the process with total annual cost (TAC) as an objective function and major design variables as optimization variables. Major optimization variable affecting TAC of the hybrid process was shown to be distillate concentration. We also suggested a simplified optimization procedure to get a close-to-optimal solution.

Characteristics of Dynamic Compaction Energy for a Non-plastic Dredged Soil (비소성 준설토의 동다짐 에너지 특성 연구)

  • Hwang, Seong Chun;Yoon, Sang Chun
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.110-117
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    • 2011
  • Seashore landfill projects use undersea pump dredging method for construction of airport and factory site. Coarse grain soil from the dredging is considered for use at inland. West sea shore bottom consists of primarily coarser grained silt-sand and this component contains far more percentage than is the case with East sea and South sea area. This soil shows very different characteristic at consolidation and compaction behavior. This research targets to utilize this type of dredging soil. Test specimen is from West sea (Saemangum) dredged soil landfill site. Model analysis is done for getting prediction of original soil relative density and N-value from dynamic compaction energy variance. Dynamic compaction energy is calculated for efficient foundation design.

An Assessment of the Potential Area of Mountainous Wetland Using AHP (AHP를 이용한 산지습지 가능지역 평가)

  • Moon, Sang Kyun;Koo, Bonhak
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.27-43
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    • 2014
  • The purpose of this research is to assess potential area of mountainous wetland by GIS and AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). Mountainous wetland is topographically located at high altitude, so it's difficult to approach for researchers. And, it's difficult to investigate systematically because of the insufficient information of mountainous wetland. Therefore, it's necessary to study on potential area of mountainous wetland for systematic and efficient investigation. This research selected slope, wetting index, land-cover map and soil map as assessment items indicating environmental characteristics of mountainous wetland and established them by GIS DB. And, spatial value of mountainous wetland for each assessment item was drawn by existing investigation data and overlap analysis of mountainous wetland. Based on the numerical results of each assessment item, a survey was conducted and relative importance for each assessment item was decided by AHP. As the result, slope was the highest as 0.550 and ground coverage was the lowest as 0.083. The subject of this research was Yangsan-si and Ulsan of Gyeongnam and an analysis was conducted for mountainous wetland in those research areas. As the result, all of wetland was distributed in the range of potential area. And, field survey and literature search were conducted for the point that the distribution of mountainous wetland is expected. As the result, mountainous wetland was distributed. Therefore, mountainous wetland should be excavated through the results of this research and it should be helpful for effective investigation as providing information necessary to the following studies on mountainous wetland.

Construction of a Large Synthetic Human Fab Antibody Library on Yeast Cell Surface by Optimized Yeast Mating

  • Baek, Du-San;Kim, Yong-Sung
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.408-420
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    • 2014
  • Yeast surface-displayed antibody libraries provide an efficient and quantitative screening resource for given antigens, but suffer from typically modest library sizes owing to low yeast transformation efficiency. Yeast mating is an attractive method for overcoming the limit of yeast transformation to construct a large, combinatorial antibody library, but the optimal conditions have not been reported. Here, we report a large synthetic human Fab (antigen binding fragment) yeast surface-displayed library generated by stepwise optimization of yeast mating conditions. We first constructed HC (heavy chain) and LC (light chain) libraries, where all of the six CDRs (complementarity-determining regions) of the variable domains were diversified mimicking the human germline antibody repertoires by degenerate codons, onto single frameworks of VH3-23 and $V{\kappa}1$-16 germline sequences, in two haploid cells of opposite mating types. Yeast mating conditions were optimized in the order of cell density, media pH, and cell growth phase, yielding a mating efficiency of ~58% between the two haploid cells carrying HC and LC libraries. We constructed two combinatorial Fab libraries with CDR-H3 of 9 or 11 residues in length with colony diversities of more than $10^9$ by one round of yeast mating between the two haploid HC and LC libraries, with modest diversity sizes of ${\sim}10^7$. The synthetic human Fab yeast-displayed libraries exhibited relative amino acid compositions in each position of the six CDRs that were very similar to those of the designed repertoires, suggesting that they are a promising source for human Fab antibody screening.

Degradation of Chlorinated Hydrocarbons via a Light-Emitting Diode Derived Photocatalyst

  • Jo, Wan-Kuen;Lee, Joon Yeob
    • Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 2013
  • In this study, the applicability of visible light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) to the photocatalytic degradation of indoor-level trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE) over N-doped $TiO_2$ (N-$TiO_2$) was examined under a range of operational conditions. The N-$TiO_2$ photocatalyst was calcined at $650^{\circ}C$ (labeled N-650) showed the lowest degradation efficiencies for TCE and PCE, while the N-$TiO_2$ photocatalysts calcined at $350^{\circ}C$, $450^{\circ}C$, and $550^{\circ}C$ (labeled as N-350, N-450, and N-550, respectively) exhibited similar or slightly different degradation efficiencies to those of TCE and PCE. These results were supported by the X-ray diffraction patterns of N-350, N-450, N-550, and N-650. The respective average degradation efficiencies for TCE and PCE were 96% and 77% for the 8-W lamp/N-$TiO_2$ system, 32% and 20% for the violet LED/N-$TiO_2$ system, and ~0% and 4% for the blue LED/N-$TiO_2$ system. However, the normalized photocatalytic degradation efficiencies for TCE and PCE for the violet LED-irradiated N-$TiO_2$ system were higher than those from the 8-W fluorescent daylight lamp-irradiated N-$TiO_2$ system. Although the difference was not substantial, the degradation efficiencies exhibited a decreasing trend with increasing input concentrations. The degradation efficiencies for TCE and PCE decreased with increasing air flow rates. In general, the degradation efficiencies for both target compounds decreased as relative humidity increased. Consequently, it was indicated that violet LEDs can be utilized as energy-efficient light sources for the photocatalytic degradation of TCE and PCE, if operational conditions of N-$TiO_2$ photocatalytic system are optimized.

Development of Adsorbent for Heavy Metals by Activation of the Bark (활성화 수피를 이용한 중금속 흡착제 개발)

  • Park, Chang-Jin;Yang, Jae-E.;Ryu, Kyeong-Ryeol;Zhang, Yong-Seon;Kim, Won-Il
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.240-244
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    • 2004
  • The objective of this research was to develop the adsorbent far heavy metals by activating the bark sample. Barks from pine tree with diameters of $2{\sim}4\;mm$ were activated in the muffle furnace under a high relative humidity condition at temperatures of $600{\sim}900^{\circ}C$. The removal efficiency of the activated bark (ACTBARK) for Cu and Cd was temperature dependent showing the order of $900^{\circ}C$ > $800^{\circ}C$ > $700^{\circ}C$ > $600^{\circ}C$. The critical temperature was considered to be $900^{\circ}C$ to become an efficient adsorbent for Cu and Cd. The bark samples activated at temperatures lower than $700^{\circ}C$ showed a less removal efficiency than the crude bark. The ACTBARK activated at $900^{\circ}C$ removed more Cu and Cd from solution than the commercial activated carbon and charcoal. The ACTBARK (activated at $900^{\circ}C$) adsorbed all of the Cu and Cd in solution with concentrations less than 150 mg/L. The selectivity of the ACTBARK was in the order of Cu > Zn > Ni > Pb > Fe > Cd > Mn.

A Way to Enhance Efficiency of Nuclear Program in Korean R&D Program by Data Envelopment Analysis (자료포락분석법을 활용한 국가연구개발사업의 효율성 분석 - 원자력연구개발사업을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Tae-Hee;Kim, In-Ho;Ahn, Sung-Bong;Lee, Kye-Suk
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.70-87
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    • 2009
  • This paper studies the efficiency of public sector confronting with increasing oil price, economy crisis and energy-environment problems. In consideration that efficiency of national R&D program has been subjectively evaluated, this paper focuses objective validity by relative efficiency through a comparison among R&D programs in Korea. To implement this study, data published in national reports on R&D programs is used and analyzing method is induced by related books and theories. At the result of Data Envelopment Analysis on the collected data, this paper suggests the way to enhance the efficiency of nuclear R&D program. This study is the first on efficiency of national R&D programs applied DEA methods and is expected to contribute exploring the more efficient way of program management if more sophisticated DEA could be developed and applied.

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