• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.319-336
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• 2015

Life cycle performance of corrosion affected RC structures is an important and challenging issue for effective infrastructure management. The accurate condition assessment of corroded RC structures mainly depends on the effective evaluation of deterioration occurring in the structures. Structural performance deterioration caused by reinforcement corrosion is a complex phenomenon which is generally uncertain and non-decreasing. Therefore, a stochastic modelling such as the gamma process can be an effective tool to consider the temporal uncertainty associated with performance deterioration. This paper presents a time-dependent reliability analysis of corrosion affected RC structures associated bond strength degradation. Initially, an analytical model to evaluate cracking in the concrete cover and the associated loss of bond between the corroded steel and the surrounding cracked concrete is developed. The analytical results of cover surface cracking and bond strength deterioration are examined by experimental data available. Then the verified analytical results are used for the stochastic deterioration modelling, presented here as gamma process. The application of the proposed approach is illustrated with a numerical example. The results from the illustrative example show that the proposed approach is capable of assessing performance of the bond strength of concrete structures affected by reinforcement corrosion during their lifecycle.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.25-30
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• 2013

나노크기 MOSFET 공정에서 회로의 신뢰도에 영향을 미치는 음 바이어스 온도 불안정성(NBTI), 핫 캐리어 주입(HCI), 시간 의존 유전체 파손(TDDB) 등과 같은 노화 현상들에 의해서 회로 성능의 심각한 저하를 가져올 수 있다. 그러므로, 본 논문에서는 디지털회로에서 발생할 수 있는 노화를 극복할 수 있는 적응형 보상 회로를 제안하고자 한다. 제안된 보상회로는 노화에 의해 감소하는 회로 성능을 적응적으로 보상해 주기 위해서 노화 정도에 따라 파워스위치 폭을 조절할 수 있고, 순방향 바디 바이어싱 전압을 걸어줄 수 있는 파워 게이팅 구조를 사용하여서 45nm의 공정기술에서 설계되었다.

• 한국건축시공학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.151-159
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• 2001

This study was performed to investigate the effect of time-dependent creep on the deformation. In the analysis, modified Cam-Clay model was adopted to describe the elastic-plastic behavior of clayey soil. In order to consider effect of creep, the secondary coefficient of consolidation $\alpha$ was supplemented to modified Cam-Clay model. To examine the reliability of the program which is developed in this study, the estimated values by this program were compared with the experimental results. The results of the analysis were in good agreement with the observed values in the field.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.62-65
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• 2003

VLM-ST process requires an additional human interaction due to the manual stacking and bonding. Hence, building time, building cost and the part quality are dependent on the skill of labor. In this present work, a novel rapid prototyping (RP) process, as an automatic VLM-ST (VLM-STA), has been proposed to improve building efficiency of VLM-ST process and reliability of products. The apparatus of VLM-STA is designed to embody the process. Several characteristics of the proposed process and the apparatus are discussed. In order to examine the efficiency and the applicability of the proposed process, various three-dimensional shapes, such as a piston and a human head shape, are fabricated on the apparatus.

• KIEE International Transactions on Electrophysics and Applications
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• 제3C권6호
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• pp.224-229
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• 2003

An ultra high frequency (UHF) coupler possessing ultra wide band (UWB) characteristics ranging from hundreds of MHz to several GHz is desirable for the detection of the partial discharge (PD) pulses because the pulses propagate with rise time shorter than one nanosecond in a gas-insulated substation (GIS). Thus, the authors have proposed a log-periodic antenna for GIS PD detection. Various parameters of the coupler such as frequency bandwidth, coupler gain, radiation pattern, and coupler geometry were considered throughout the simulations. The experiments for the detection characteristics of the coupler were carried out in the mock-up GIS chamber. The results indicated that the detection characteristics of the coupler are dependent on the installation angle of the coupler, the position of the coupler in the hand hole and the existence of the spacer.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.800-806
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• 2018

소프트웨어 효율성은 운용 환경에서 사용시간에 따라 고장없이 사용할 수 있는 확률이며, 소프트웨어 시스템 안정성에 영향을 미치는 가장 근본적인 요인이다. 정보기술 분야에서 활용되고 있는 컴퓨터 시스템의 오작동은 관련 산업분야에 중요한 손실을 야기할 수도 있다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 소프트웨어 고장시간 자료를 가지고 유한고장 NHPP 모형에 기반하여 다양한 위험함수에 의존한 소프트웨어 신뢰성 모형의 속성을 분석 하였다. 제안한 모형의 위험함수 패턴은 Goel-Okumoto모형은 상수가 되고, Minimax 모형과 Rayleigh모형은 증가패턴을 따르지만, 위험함수의 증가폭은 Minimax 모형이 Rayleigh모형과 Goel-Okumoto모형 보다 작은 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 평균값 함수m(t)의 참값 오차와 평균제곱오차(MSE)는 Minimax 모형이 모두 Rayleigh 모형과 Goel-Okumoto모형 보다 작아서 상대적으로 효율적이였다. 본 연구의 결과는 소프트웨어 개발자에게 위험함수에 관한 기본정보로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2013

연약지반위에 성토를 할 경우 초기 비배수 상태 뿐만 아니라 압밀 과정 중에도 큰 변형이 발생한다. 기존의 미소변형률 이론은 변형률이 작고 초기의 기하학적인 형상이 변형과정 동안 변하지 않는다고 가정하므로 큰 변형이 유발되는 지반공학 문제들을 해석하기 위해서는 대변형 해석을 수행하여야 한다. 힘평형 방정식과 유체 연속방정식이 결합된 압밀지배 방정식을 Updated-Lagrangian 형태로 수식화하고, Jaumann stress rate을 이용하여 역학적 구성관계를 표현하였다. 그리고 Nagtegaal이 제안한 회전을 고려한 구성관계를 적용하여 Newton의 반복과정을 통한 해의 수렴성과 정확도를 향상시켰다. 개발된 대변형 압밀해석 프로그램을 검증하기 위하여 켄틸레버보와 이차원 압밀문제를 해석하였다. 수치해석 결과는 큰 변형률과 기하학적 회전을 포함하는 대변형 문제를 효과적으로 묘사할 수 있음을 보여주었다. 기존의 미소변형이론에 근거한 유한요소 프로그램은 제안한 방법을 통하여 대변형 해석 프로그램으로 용이하게 전환될 수 있다.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제44권9호
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• pp.627-636
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• 2021

The three-dimensional organization of chromatin and its time-dependent changes greatly affect virtually every cellular function, especially DNA replication, genome maintenance, transcription regulation, and cell differentiation. Sequencing-based techniques such as ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq, and Hi-C provide abundant information on how genomic elements are coupled with regulatory proteins and functionally organized into hierarchical domains through their interactions. However, visualizing the time-dependent changes of such organization in individual cells remains challenging. Recent developments of CRISPR systems for site-specific fluorescent labeling of genomic loci have provided promising strategies for visualizing chromatin dynamics in live cells. However, there are several limiting factors, including background signals, off-target binding of CRISPR, and rapid photobleaching of the fluorophores, requiring a large number of target-bound CRISPR complexes to reliably distinguish the target-specific foci from the background. Various modifications have been engineered into the CRISPR system to enhance the signal-to-background ratio and signal longevity to detect target foci more reliably and efficiently, and to reduce the required target size. In this review, we comprehensively compare the performances of recently developed CRISPR designs for improved visualization of genomic loci in terms of the reliability of target detection, the ability to detect small repeat loci, and the allowed time of live tracking. Longer observation of genomic loci allows the detailed identification of the dynamic characteristics of chromatin. The diffusion properties of chromatin found in recent studies are reviewed, which provide suggestions for the underlying biological processes.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.499-511
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• 2019

The reliability of reinforced concrete structures is frequently compromised by the deterioration caused by reinforcement corrosion. Evaluating the effect caused by reinforcement corrosion on structural behaviour of corrosion damaged concrete structures is essential for effective and reliable infrastructure management. In lifecycle management of corrosion affected reinforced concrete structures, it is difficult to correctly assess the lifecycle performance due to the uncertainties associated with structural resistance deterioration. This paper presents a stochastic deterioration modelling approach to evaluate the performance deterioration of corroded concrete structures during their service life. The flexural strength deterioration is analytically predicted on the basis of bond strength evolution caused by reinforcement corrosion, which is examined by the experimental and field data available. An assessment criterion is defined to evaluate the flexural strength deterioration for the time-dependent reliability analysis. The results from the worked examples show that the proposed approach is capable of evaluating the structural reliability of corrosion damaged concrete structures.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.1086-1091
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• 2004

The boundary layer is a very important characteristic of a liquid-vapor interface since it governs the heat and mass transfer phenomena across an interface. However, the thickness of a boundary layer is generally micro- or nano-sized, which requires highly accurate measurement devices and, consequently, costs the related experiments very high and time-consuming. Due to these size dependent limitations, the experiments related with a nano-scaled size have suffered from the errors and the reliability of the obtained data. This study is performed to grasp the characteristics of a liquid-vapor interface, by using a molecular dynamics method. The simulation results were compared with other studies if possible. Although other studies reported that there existed a temperature discontinuity over an interface when the system was reduced to micro- or nano-sized, we confirmed that there was no such a temperature discontinuity.