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Control Allocation of Reaction Wheels for Maximum Torque Generation (반작용 휠의 최대 가용 토크 분배법칙)

  • Choi, Yoon-Hyuk;Lee, Hen-Zeh;Bang, Hyo-Choong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.36 no.7
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    • pp.651-657
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    • 2008
  • A new approach for maximizing torque capability of low efficient reaction wheel assembly is addressed in this paper. At first, to find out a solution in constrainted field, weighted pseudo-inverse and momentum minimized allocation are suggested instead of a general control allocation called pseudo-inverse. The second method is a structural manner to enlarge torque capability of specific axis by changing installed skew angle of wheels. Two proposed methods are applied to large angle maneuvers of satellite. Improvement of control performance and feasibility for applying to commercial satellite attitude control are demonstrated by numeric simulations.

Shape Design and Performance Evaluation of FRP Box-type Stiffener For the Application of RC Structure (철근콘크리트용 FRP Box 휨 보강재의 형상 설계 및 거동 평가)

  • Kwon, Min-Ho;Jung, Woo-Young;Spacone, Enrico
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Advanced Composite Structures
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.40-46
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents the design, fabrication and performance of a reinforced concrete beam strengthened by GFRP box plate and its possibility for structural rehabilitations. The load capacity, ductility and failure mode of reinforced concrete structures strengthened by FRP box plate were investigated and compared with traditional FRP plate strengthening method. This is intended to assess the feasibility of using FRP box plate for repair and strengthening of damaged RC beams. A series of four-point bending tests were conducted on RC beams with or without strengthening FRP systems the influence of concrete cover thickness on the performance of overall stiffness of the structure. The parameters obtained by the experimental studies were the stiffness, strength, crack width and pattern, failure mode, respectively. The test yielded complete load-deflection curves from which the increase in load capacity and the failure mode was evaluated.

Dynamic Characterization of Sub-Scaled Building-Model Using Novel Optical Fiber Accelerometer System

  • Kim, Dae-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.601-608
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents the damage assessment of a building structure by using a novel optical fiber accelerometer system. Especially, a sub-scaled building model is designed and manufactured to check up the feasibility of the optical fiber accelerometer for structural health monitoring. The novel accelerometer exploits the moir$\acute{e}$ fringe optical phenomenon and two pairs of optical fibers to measure the displacement with a high accuracy, and furthermore a pendulum to convert the displacement into acceleration. A prototype of optical fiber accelerometer system has been successfully developed that consists of a sensor head, a control unit and a signal processing unit. The building model is also designed as a 4-story building with a rectangular shape of $200{\times}300$ mm of edges. Each floor is connected to the next ones by 6 steel columns which are threaded rods. Basically, a random vibration test of the building model is done with a shaker and all of acceleration data is successfully measured at the assigned points by the optical fiber accelerometer. The experiments are repeated in the undamaged state and the damaged state. The comparison of dynamic parameters including the natural frequencies and the eigenvectors is successfully carried out. Finally, the optical fiber accelerometer is proven to be prospective to evaluate dynamic characteristics of a building structure for the damage assessment.

The Strategy between In-house Design and Business Domain (인하우스 디자인 구조모델과 사업도메인 전략)

  • ;杉山 和雄
    • Archives of design research
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.319-326
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    • 2002
  • This study is clarifying the relationship between domain and in-house design based on the perspective on organization and task of a design organization. Accordingly, the growth and expansion of organization requires a new strategy in respect of design sector and business domain. It is a guideline for developing advanced business domain and design management in the limited strategic system of design department to analyze relatively the structural model of design, and to seek for any feasibility of strategic application. And this study comes to be basic data for defining the relationship between domain and in-house design. Consequently, both of strategic design management to back up the task of design organization and the module to support the design planning should be flexibly systemized.

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Redistribution of Vacancy Concentration in Metal Specimens under Stress-induced Diffusion at a High Temperature (고온 환경하 응력 확산에 의한 금속시편내 격자결함 재분포)

  • Yoon, Seon-Jhin;Cho, Yong-Moo
    • Design & Manufacturing
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2018
  • In this study, we calculated the redistribution of vacancy concentration in metal specimens induced by stress-induced diffusion at a high temperature. To deduce the governing equation, we associated the unit volume change equation of strains with a differential equation of vacancy concentration as a function of stress using the stress-strain relationship. In this governing equation, we considered stress as the only chemical potential parameter to stay in the scope of this study, which provided the vacancy concentration equation as of stress gradient in metals. The equation was then mathematically delineated to derive a analytical solution for a transient, one-dimensional diffusion case. With the help of Korhonen's approximation and the boundary conditions, we successfully deduced a general solution from the governing equation. To visualize the feasibility of our solutions, we applied the solution to two different stress-induced cases - a rod with fixed concentrated stresses at both ends and a rod with varying concentrated stresses at both ends. Although it is necessary to legitimatized the model in the future for improvement, our results showed that the model can be used to interpret the location of structural defects, the formation of vacancy, and furthermore the high temperature behavior of metals.

In-Process Control of an Infant Formula with Rice Starch using Rheology (쌀 전분의 유동성을 함유한 영.유아용 조제분유의 공정 관리)

  • Heo, Young-Suk;Konuklar, Gul
    • Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.45-49
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    • 2008
  • We studied the feasibility of monitoring and controlling the manufacturing process of an infant formula with rice starch by testing in-process samples using rheology. We used DSC to first determine the gelatinization temperature of the rice starch, a key ingredient of this product. With this characteristic temperature and the process design known, rheological measurements were conducted on the in-process samples for detecting the presence and extent of gelatinization and retrogradation of rice starch; in-process samples were collected from the carbohydrate tank, after the homogenizer, and the finished product tank. The correlation between the rheological measurements on these samples and manufacturing performance proved that rheology is a very sensitive tool for monitoring the structural development of this infant formula during main process, and their influence on sterilization efficiency. We observed that the lower degree of gelatinization during main process, a shorter residence time in the finished product tank, and using caustic flush rather than clean-in-place additively lead to higher sterilization efficiency. These findings can be utilized for a rational design and analysis of the manufacturing process for infant formulas containing rice starch.

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Phase Transition Characteristics in $Ge_xSb_{100-x}$ Film for Optical Storage Media

  • Park Tae-jin;Kang Myung-jin;Choi Se-young
    • 정보저장시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.124-127
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    • 2005
  • Rewritable optical memory devices such as an CD-RW and DVD+RW are data storage media, which take advantage of the different optical properties in the amorphous and crystalline states of phase change materials. The switching property, structural transformation, transformation kinetics and chemical bindings of $Ge_xSb_{100-x}$($6{\le}x{\le}$34) were studied to investigate the feasibility of applying $Ge_xSb_{100-x}$ alloys in optical memory. The $Ge_xSb_{100-x}$ thin film was deposited by RF magnetron co-sputtering system and phase change characteristics were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), static tester, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer (ICP-AES) and atomic force microscopy (AEM). Optimum fiim composition of $Ge_xSb_{100-x}$ was studied and its minimum time fur laser induced crystallization and optical contrast fur phase transition was performed. These results might be correlated with the binding energies between Ge and Sb, and indicate that $Ge_xSb_{100-x}$ have an potential far optical memory applications.

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Economical assessment and selection of corrosion protections for marine steel piles (해상 강관말뚝 활용을 위한 방식기법 선정 및 경제성 검토)

  • Lee, Ju-Hyung;Lee, Jong-Ku;Park, Jae-Hyun;Kwak, Ki-Seok;Chung, Moon-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.03a
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    • pp.551-560
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    • 2009
  • Introduced was a new anti-corrosive method with improved ease of construction, economy, and durability that could be applicable for steel-composite drilled shaft. The feasibility and economy of sea-water-resistant steel was evaluated under the assumption that it was to substitute carbon steel for steel casing of drilled shaft foundation as a load carrying structural member not just as a sacrifice casing, and that anti-corrosive protection measures as required by the domestic standards was applied. Sea-water-resistant steel was found to cost 30% to 55% more, depending on pile diameter and the type of applied anti-corrosive measures, than carbon steel for the service life time of 70 years: 50% to 90% more for 100 years of service life.

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Embedded smart GFRP reinforcements for monitoring reinforced concrete flexural components

  • Georgiades, Anastasis V.;Saha, Gobinda C.;Kalamkarov, Alexander L.;Rokkam, Srujan K.;Newhook, John P.;Challagulla, Krishna S.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.369-384
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    • 2005
  • The main objectives of this paper are to demonstrate the feasibility of using newly developed smart GFRP reinforcements to effectively monitor reinforced concrete beams subjected to flexural and creep loads, and to develop non-linear numerical models to predict the behavior of these beams. The smart glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) rebars are fabricated using a modified pultrusion process, which allows the simultaneous embeddement of Fabry-Perot fiber-optic sensors within them. Two beams are subjected to static and repeated loads (until failure), and a third one is under long-term investigation for assessment of its creep behavior. The accuracy and reliability of the strain readings from the embedded sensors are verified by comparison with corresponding readings from surface attached electrical strain gages. Nonlinear finite element modeling of the smart concrete beams is subsequently performed. These models are shown to be effective in predicting various parameters of interest such as crack patterns, failure loads, strains and stresses. The strain values computed by these numerical models agree well with corresponding readings from the embedded fiber-optic sensors.

Damage detection for pipeline structures using optic-based active sensing

  • Lee, Hyeonseok;Sohn, Hoon
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.461-472
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    • 2012
  • This study proposes an optics-based active sensing system for continuous monitoring of underground pipelines in nuclear power plants (NPPs). The proposed system generates and measures guided waves using a single laser source and optical cables. First, a tunable laser is used as a common power source for guided wave generation and sensing. This source laser beam is transmitted through an optical fiber, and the fiber is split into two. One of them is used to actuate macro fiber composite (MFC) transducers for guided wave generation, and the other optical fiber is used with fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensors to measure guided wave responses. The MFC transducers placed along a circumferential direction of a pipe at one end generate longitudinal and flexural modes, and the corresponding responses are measured using FBG sensors instrumented in the same configuration at the other end. The generated guided waves interact with a defect, and this interaction causes changes in response signals. Then, a damage-sensitive feature is extracted from the response signals using the axi-symmetry nature of the measured pitch-catch signals. The feasibility of the proposed system has been examined through a laboratory experiment.