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A hybrid approach to predict the bearing capacity of a square footing on a sand layer overlying clay

  • Erdal Uncuoglu;Levent Latifoglu;Zulkuf Kaya
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.34 no.5
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    • pp.561-575
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    • 2023
  • This study investigates to provide a fast solution to the problem of bearing capacity in layered soils with easily obtainable parameters that does not require the use of any charts or calculations of different parameters. Therefore, a hybrid approach including both the finite element (FE) method and machine learning technique have been applied. Firstly, a FE model has been generated which is validated by the results of in-situ loading tests. Then, a total of 192 three-dimensional FE analyses have been performed. A data set has been created utilizing the soil properties, footing sizes, layered conditions used in the FE analyses and the ultimate bearing capacity values obtained from the FE analyses to be used in multigene genetic programming (MGGP). Problem has been modeled with five input and one output parameter to propose a bearing capacity formula. Ultimate bearing capacity values estimated from the proposed formula using data set consisting of 20 data independent of total data set used in MGGP modelling have been compared to the bearing capacities calculated with semi-empirical methods. It was observed that the MGGP method yielded successful results for the problem considered. The proposed formula provides reasonable predictions and efficient enough to be used in practice.

Development of SWAT SD-HRU Pre-processor Module for Accurate Estimation of Slope and Slope Length of Each HRU Considering Spatial Topographic Characteristics in SWAT (SWAT HRU 단위의 경사도/경사장 산정을 위한 SWAT SD-HRU 전처리 프로세서 모듈 개발)

  • Jang, Wonseok;Yoo, Dongsun;Chung, Il-moon;Kim, Namwon;Jun, Mansig;Park, Younshik;Kim, Jonggun;Lim, Kyoung-Jae
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.351-362
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    • 2009
  • The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model, semi-distributed model, first divides the watershed into multiple subwatersheds, and then extracts the basic computation element, called the Hydrologic Response Unit (HRU). In the process of HRU generation, the spatial information of land use and soil maps within each subwatershed is lost. The SWAT model estimates the HRU topographic data based on the average slope of each subwatershed, and then use this topographic datum for all HRUs within the subwatershed. To improve the SWAT capabilities for various watershed scenarios, the Spatially Distributed-HRU (SD-HRU) pre-processor module was developed in this study to simulate site-specific topographic data. The SD-HRU was applied to the Hae-an watershed, where field slope lengths and slopes are measured for all agricultural fields. The analysis revealed that the SD-HRU pre-processor module needs to be applied in SWAT sediment simulation for accurate analysis of soil erosion and sediment behaviors. If the SD-HRU pre-processor module is not applied in SWAT runs, the other SWAT factors may be over or under estimated, resulting in errors in physical and empirical computation modules although the SWAT estimated flow and sediment values match the measured data reasonably well.

Analysis of BRD Components Over Major Land Types of Korea

  • Kim, Sang-Il;Han, Kyung-Soo;Park, Soo-Jea;Pi, Kyoung-Jin;Kim, In-Hwan;Lee, Min-Ji;Lee, Sun-Gu;Chun, Young-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.653-664
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    • 2010
  • The land surface reflectance is a key parameter influencing the climate near the surface. Therefore, it must be determined with sufficient accuracy for climate change research. In particular, the characteristics of the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) when using earth observation system (EOS) are important for normalizing the reflected solar radiation from the earth's surface. Also, wide swath satellites like SPOT/VGT (VEGETATION) permit sufficient angular sampling, but high resolution satellites are impossible to obtain sufficient angular sampling over a pixel during short period because of their narrow swath scanning. This gives a difficulty to BRDF model based reflectance normalization of high resolution satellites. The principal objective of the study is to add BRDF modeling of high resolution satellites and to supply insufficient angular sampling through identifying BRDF components from SPOT/VGT. This study is performed as the preliminary data for apply to high-resolution satellite. The study provides surface parameters by eliminating BRD effect when calculated biophysical index of plant by BRDF model. We use semi-empirical BRDF model to identify the BRD components. This study uses SPOT/VGT satellite data acquired in the S1 (daily) data. Modeled reflectance values show a good agreement with measured reflectance values from SPOT satellite. This study analyzes BRD effect components by using the NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and the angle components such as solar zenith angle, satellite zenith angle and relative azimuth angle. Geometric scattering kernel mainly depends on the azimuth angle variation and volumetric scattering kernel is less dependent on the azimuth angle variation. Also, forest from land cover shows the wider distribution of value than cropland, overall tendency is similar. Forest shows relatively larger value of geometric term ($K_1{\cdot}f_1$) than cropland, When performed comparison between cropland and forest. Angle and NDVI value are closely related.

The Effects of Ownership Concentration on Savings Bank Diversification by using Panel Data (패널데이터를 이용한 저축은행 소유집중도와 다각화)

  • Bae, Soo Hyun
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between the controlling shareholding ratio and the business diversification of savings banks The difference in this study is the analysis of the relationship between the controlling shareholding ratio of the savings bank and the business diversification using panel data. In this study, the semi-annual financial statements for the period 2014-2018 were used on the basis of a sample of 79 saving banks. The research model is analyzed using random effects generalized linear square (GLS) model considering the autocorrelation problem. As a result of the empirical analysis, it is estimated that the relationship between the controlling shareholding ratio of the savings bank and the business diversification is significant (+). This is the result of supporting the hedging hypothesis.

Numerical Modelling Techniques of VPMM for Manta Type UUV (만타형 UUV의 VPMM 전산해석기법 개발)

  • Sang-Eui Lee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2023.05a
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    • pp.151-151
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    • 2023
  • An accurate prediction of the hydrodynamic maneuvering darivatives is essential to desing a robust control system of a UUV(unmanned underwater vehicle). Typically, these derivatives were estimated by either the towing tank experiment or semi-empirical methods. With the enhancement of high performance computing capacity, a numerical analysis using computational fluid dynamics has reach the level of experiment. Therefore, the aims of the present research are to numerically develop a computational model for the vertical planar motion mechanism of a UUV and to estimate the hydrodynamics loads in 6-DOF. The target structure of the present study was manta type UUV (12meter length). The numerical model was developed in 1/ 6 model scale. Numerical results were compared with the results of the towing tank experiment for validation. In the present study, a commercial RANS-based viscous solver STARCCM+ (ver 17.06) was used.

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Statistical Study For The prediction of pKa Values of Substituted Benzaldoxime Based on Quantum Chemicals Methods

  • Al-Hyali, Emad A.S.;Al-Azzawi, Nezar A.;Al-Abady, Faiz M.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.55 no.5
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    • pp.733-740
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    • 2011
  • Multiple regression analysis was used for the calculation of pKa values of 15 substituted benzaldoximes by using various types of descriptors as parameters. These descriptors are based on quantum mechanical treatments. They were derived by employing semi-empirical calculation represented by the PM3 model and an Abinitio method expressed by Hartree-Fock(HF) model performed at the 6-311 G(d, p) level of theory. The parameters tested for their ability to represent the variations observed in the experimental pKa(s) are atomic and structural properties including Muliken charges on the atoms of hydroxyl group and C=N bond, the angle $C_6-C_1-C_7$, and length of O-H bond. Molecular properties are also used like energies of HOMO and LUMO, hardness(${\eta}$), chemical potential(${\mu}$), total energy(TE), dipole of molecule(DM), and electrophilicity index(W). The relation between pKa values and each of these parameters of the studied compounds is investigated. Depending on these relations, two sets of parameters were constructed for comparison between the PM3 and HF methods. The results obtained favor the Abinitio method for such applications although both models proved to have high predictive power and have sufficient reliability to describe the effect of substituents on pKa values of benzaldoxime compounds under consideration which is clear from the values of correlation coefficient $R^2$ obtained and the consistency between the experimental and the calculated values.

Numerical Analysis for Three-Dimensional Tsunami Force Acting on Multi-Onshore Structures (육상구조물군에 작용하는 지진해일파력의 3차원수치해석)

  • Lee, Kwang Ho;Ha, Sun Wook;Lee, Kui Seop;Kim, Do Sam
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.31 no.2B
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    • pp.175-185
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    • 2011
  • This study investigates tsunami force acting on a group of onshore structures numerically by using three-dimensional one-field model for immiscible multi-phase flows, which is based on Navier-Stokes solver. In particular, we studied on the characteristics of tsunami with respect to the arrangement of onshore structures and the distance from seawall trough numerical experiments. For validation of the numerical method used in this study to calculate tsunami force, numerical results for tsunami force on the structures in coastal area are compared with available experimental data. Furthermore, a detail study on the efficiency of the numerical method is performed for the estimation of tsunami force based on the hydrostatic and hydrodynamic methods in which the numerical results are used. The obtained results are compared to the previous experimental one and design criteria. Considering both experimental results and numerical analysis results, semi-empirical formula by regression analysis is proposed. As a result, it was confirmed that the numerical analysis is effective to estimate on tsunami force acting on onshore structures.

A study on microwave scattering characteristics in intertidal flats using polarimetric SAR (다편광 SAR 자료를 이용한 조간대 표면 퇴적물에서의 마이크로파 산란 특성 연구)

  • Park, Sang-Eun;Kim, Duk-Jin;Moon, Woo-Il M.
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.271-276
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    • 2006
  • In this paper a polarimetric airborne SAR measurement has been used to study the radar polarimetric characteristics in the intertidal area on the south coastof the Korea. The L-band NASA/JPL airborne SAR (AIRSAR) data, which were acquired on the intertidal zone during PACRIM-II Korea campaign on September 30, 2000, were used for this research. The most intertidal zones of Yeoja Bay are composed of muddy soils with high silt and clay percentage. Models of microwave scattering from rough surfaces, i.e., semi-empirical model, and Extended Bragg model, were applied to investigate the surface characteristics of intertidal zones.

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Eulerian-based Numerical Modeling for Impingement Prediction of Supercooled Large Droplets (과냉각대형액적 충돌예측을 위한 오일러리안 기반 수치 모델링)

  • Jung, Sung-Ki;Kim, Ji-Hong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.8
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    • pp.647-654
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    • 2012
  • Supercooled large droplet issues in aircraft icing have been continually reported due to the important safety considerations. In order to simulate the impingement behavior of large droplets, a two-dimensional and compressible Navier-Stokes code was developed to determine the flow field around the test model. Also, the Eulerian-based droplet impingement model including a semi-empirical approach for the droplet-wall interaction process and droplet break-up was developed. In particular, the droplet-wall interactions were considered as numerical boundary conditions for the droplet impingement simulation in the supercooled large droplet conditions. Finally, the present results were compared with the experimental test data and the LEWICE results. The droplet impingement area and maximum collection efficiency values between present results and wind tunnel data were in good agreements. Otherwise, the inclination of collection efficiency of the present result is over-predicted than the wind tunnel data around a lower surface of the NACA 23012 airfoil.

Aerodynamic Design of a Canard Controlled 2D Course Correction Fuze for Smart Munition (카나드 기반의 지능탄 조종 장치 공력설계)

  • Park, Ji-Hwan;Bae, Ju-Hyeon;Song, Min-Sup;Myong, Rho-Shin;Cho, Tae-Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.43 no.3
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    • pp.187-194
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    • 2015
  • Course correction munition is a smart projectile which improves its accuracy by the control mechanism equipped in the fuze section with canard. In this paper, various aerodynamic configurations of the fuze section were analysed by utilizing a semi-empirical method and a CFD method. A final canard configuration showing the least drag was then determined. During the CFD simulation, it was found that the k-${\omega}$ SST turbulence model combined with O-type grid base is suitable for the prediction of the base drag. Finally, the aerodynamic characteristics of the smart munition and the change of drag due to the canard installation were analysed.