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NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL FREE-SURFACE FLOW AND WAVE TRANSFORMATION OVER CONSTANT-SLOPE BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY

  • DIMAKOPOULOS AGGELOS S;DIMAS ATHANASSIOS A
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2005.09b
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    • pp.842-845
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    • 2005
  • A method for the numerical simulation of two-dimensional free-surface flow resulting from the propagation of regular gravity waves over topography with arbitrary bottom shape is presented. The method is based on the numerical solution of the Euler equations subject to the fully nonlinear free-surface boundary conditions and the appropriate bottom, inflow and outflow conditions using a hybrid finite-differences and spectral-method scheme. The formulation includes a boundary-fitted transformation, and is suitable for extension to incorporate large-eddy simulation (LES) and large-wave simulation (LWS) terms for turbulence and breaking wave modeling, respectively. Results are presented for the simulation of the free-surface flow over two different bottom topographies, with constant slope values of 1:10 and 1:20, two different inflow wave lengths and two different inflow wave heights. An absorption outflow zone is utilized and the results indicate minimum wave reflection from the outflow boundary. Over the bottom slope, lengths of waves in the linear regime are modified according to linear theory dispersion, while wave heights remain more or less unchanged. For waves in the nonlinear regime, wave lengths are becoming shorter, while the free surface elevation deviates from its initial sinusoidal shape.

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A modified shear strength reduction finite element method for soil slope under wetting-drying cycles

  • Tu, Yiliang;Zhong, Zuliang;Luo, Weikun;Liu, Xinrong;Wang, Sui
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.739-756
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    • 2016
  • The shear strength reduction finite element method (SSRFEM) is a powerful tool for slope stability analysis. The factor of safety (FOS) of the slope can be easily calculated only through reducing effective cohesion (c′) and tangent of effective friction angle ($tan{\varphi}^{\prime}$) in equal proportion. However, this method may not be applicable to soil slope under wetting-drying cycles (WDCs), because the influence of WDCs on c′ and $tan{\varphi}^{\prime}$ may be different. To research the method of estimating FOS of soil slopes under WDCs, this paper presents an experimental study firstly to investigate the effects of WDCs on the parameters of shear strength and stiffness. Twelve silty clay samples were subjected to different number of WDCs and then tested with triaxial test equipment. The test results show that WDCs have a degradation effect on shear strength (${\sigma}_1-{\sigma}_3)_f$, secant modulus of elasticity ($E_s$) and c′ while little influence on ${\varphi}^{\prime}$. Hence, conventional SSRFEM which reduces c′ and $tan{\varphi}^{\prime}$ in equal proportion cannot be adopted to compute the FOS of slope under conditions of WDCs. The SSRFEM should be modified. In detail, c′ is merely reduced among shear strength parameters, and elasticity modulus is reduced correspondingly. Besides, a new approach based on sudden substantial changes in the displacement of marked nodes is proposed to identify the slope failure in SSRFEM. Finally, the modified SSRFEM is applied to compute the FOS of a slope example.

국제회의참석-해저석유자원과 개발

  • Hong, Jun-Gi
    • The Science & Technology
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    • v.4 no.4 s.16
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    • pp.85-97
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    • 1971
  • 1.서론 2.대륙붕유전의 개요 A.continental shelf B.continental Slope C.continental ridge 3.미국의 해저석유생산의 현황 A.개론 B.매장량과 생산능력 C.탐사와 개발 D.core drilling E.개발 F.생산 G.운반 4.OCS 유전에 대한 개발문제 5.Off shore 작업의 기술의 발달

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A Three Dimensional Study on the Probability of Slope Failure(II) (사면(斜面)의 삼차원(三次元) 파괴확률(破壞確率)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究)(II))

  • Kim, Young-Su;Tcha, Hong-Jun;Jung, Sung-Kwan
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.3
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 1983
  • The probability of failure is used to analyze the reliability of three dimensional slope failure, instead of conventional factor of safety. The strength parameters are assumed to be normal variated and beta variated. These are interval estimated under the specified confidence level and maximum likelihood estimation. The pseudonormal and beta random variables are generated using the uniform probability transformation method according to central limit theorem and rejection method. By means of a Monte-Carlo Simulation, the probability of failure is defined as; Pf=M/N N : Total number of trials M : Total number of failures Some of the conclusions derived from the case study include; 1. Three dimensional factors of safety are generally much higher than 2-D factors of safety. However situations appear to exist where the 3-D factor of safety can be lower than the 2-D factor of safety. 2. The F3/F2 ratio appears to be quite sensitive to c and ${\phi}$ and to the shape of the 3-D shear surface and the slope but not to be to the unit weight of soil. 3. In cases that strength parameters are assumed to be normal variated and beta variated, the relationships between safety factor and the probability of failure are fairly consistent, regardless of the shape of the 3-D shear surface and the slope. 4. As the c-value is increased, the probability of failure for the same safety factor is increased and as the ${\phi}-value$ is increased, the probability of failure for the same safety factor is decreased.

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Distribution between Air-Soil Concentration of Organochlorine Pesticides (유기염소계 살충제의 대기-토양간 분배)

  • Choi, Min-Kyu;Chun, Man-Young
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.299-304
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    • 2007
  • This paper was studied to investigate the equilibrium state between organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) concentration of air and soil, and to know whether soil is a secondary pollution source of OCPs in air or not. The OCPs concentration of air ($C_{air}$) and soil ($C_{soil}$) is not related to molecular weight, vapor pressure ($P_L$) and octanol-air partition coefficient ($K_{oa}$). The slope of the regression line between soil-air partition coefficient ($K_{sa}$) and scavenging coefficient ($C_{soil}/C_{air}$) was 0.2952, which the OCPs concentration between air and soil did not reached to the equilibrium state. The soil/air fugacity quotients ($f_{soil}/f_{air}$) of p, p'-DDT/DDD/DDE and ${\beta}-HCH\;(0.30{\sim}0.67$), which is smaller than 1, means the deposit of OCPs from air to soil. However, $f_{soil}/f_{air}$ of heptachlor, heptachlor epoxide, ${\alpha}/{\gamma}-chlordane$, trans-nonachlor, endosulfan sulfate and ${\alpha}/{\gamma}-HCH\;(1.90{\sim}73.25)$, which is greater than 1, means that soil is secondary pollution source of OCPs in air.

Alteration of 4-Aminopyridine-Sensitive, Voltage-Dependent $K^+-Channel$ in Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells of One-Kidney, One-Clip Goldblatt Hypertensive Rats

  • Kim, Hoe-Suk;Kim, Se-Hoon;Jeon, Byeong-Hwa;Chang, Seok-Jong
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.4 no.5
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    • pp.385-391
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    • 2000
  • Using the patch-clamp technique, we investigated the alteration of 4-aminopyridine(4-AP)-sensitive, voltage-dependent $K^+$ channel (Kv) in the mesenteric arterial smooth muscle cell (MASMC) of renovascular hypertensive model, one-kidney one-clip Goldblatt hypertensive rat (GBH). To isolate $K_V$ current, internal pipette solution contained 5 mM ATP and 10 mM EGTA. Under these condition, MASMC was depolarized by 4-AP, but charybdotoxin did not affect membrane potential. Membrane potential of hypertensive cell $(-40.3{\pm}3.2\;mV)$ was reduced when compared to that of normotensive cell $(-59.5{\pm}2.8\;mV).$ Outward $K^+$ current of hypertensive cell was significantly reduced when compared to normotensive cell. At 60 mV, the outward currents were $19.10{\pm}1.91$ and $14.06{\pm}1.05$ pA/pF in normotensive cell and hypertensive cell respectively. 4-AP-sensitive $K^+$ current was also smaller in hypertensive cell $(4.28{\pm}0.38\;pA/pF)$ than in normotensive cell $(7.65{\pm}0.52\;pA/pF).$ The values of half activation voltage $(V_{1/2})$ and slope factor (k1) as well as the values of half inactivation voltage $(V_{1/2})$ and slope factor (k1) were virtually similar between GBH and NTR. These results suggest that the decrease of 4-AP-sensitive $K^+$ current contributes to a depolarization of membrane potential, which leads to development of vascular tone in GBH.

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F-ratio of Speaker Variability in Emotional Speech

  • Yi, So-Pae
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 2008
  • Various acoustic features were extracted and analyzed to estimate the inter- and intra-speaker variability of emotional speech. Tokens of vowel /a/ from sentences spoken with different modes of emotion (sadness, neutral, happiness, fear and anger) were analyzed. All of the acoustic features (fundamental frequency, spectral slope, HNR, H1-A1 and formant frequency) indicated greater contribution to inter- than intra-speaker variability across all emotions. Each acoustic feature of speech signal showed a different degree of contribution to speaker discrimination in different emotional modes. Sadness and neutral indicated greater speaker discrimination than other emotional modes (happiness, fear, anger in descending order of F-ratio). In other words, the speaker specificity was better represented in sadness and neutral than in happiness, fear and anger with any of the acoustic features.

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Polarization Characteristics of Polymers: Poly(vinylchloride), Poly(ethyleneterephthalate), Poly(propylene), and Poly(carbonate) (고분자물질들의 분극 특성: Poly(vinylchloride), Poly(ethyleneterephthalate), Poly(propylene), Poly(carbonate))

  • Choi, Chil-Nam;Yang, Hyo-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.46 no.1
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    • pp.19-25
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    • 2002
  • We measured the variations of potentials and current densities for several polymers. The results were carefully examined to identify various factors such as temperature and pH to influence the potential and rate. The Tafel slope for anodic dissolution was determined by the polarization effect under these conditions. The optimum conditions were established for each case. The second anodic current density peak and maximum current density were designated as the relative polarization sensitivity $(I_r/I_f)$. The mass-transfer coefficient value $({\alpha})$ was determined by the Tafel slope for anodic dissolution on the basis of the polarization effect under optimum conditions.

Shapes of Vowel F0 Contours Influenced by Preceding Obstruents of Different Types - Automatic Analyses Using Tilt Parameters-

  • Jang, Tae-Yeoub
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.105-116
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    • 2004
  • The fundamental frequency of a vowel is known to be affected by the identity of the preceding consonant. The general agreement is that strong consonants trigger higher F0 than weak consonants. However, there has been a disagreement on the shape of this segmentally affected F0 contours. Some studies report that shapes of contours are differentiated based on the consonant type, but others regard this observation as misleading. This research attempts to resolve this controversy by investigating shapes and slopes of F0 contours of Korean word level speech data produced by four male speakers. Instead of entirely relying on traditional human intuition and judgment, I employed an automatic F0 contour analysis technique known as tilt parameterisation (Taylor 2000). After necessary manipulation of an F0 contour of each data token, various parameters are collapsed into a single tilt value which directly indicates the shape of the contour. The result, in terms of statistical inference, shows that it is not viable to conclude that the type of consonant is significantly related to the shape of F0 contour. A supplementary measurement is also made to see if the slope of each contour bears meaningful information. Unlike shapes themselves, slopes are suspected to be practically more practical for consonantal differentiation, although confirmation is required through further refined experiments.

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A Study on the Wide Reach Nozzle of Sprayer (III) (휴반용 분무기의 Nozzle에 관한 연구(III))

  • 원장우
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.3147-3152
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    • 1973
  • The factors to influence the travelling distance of sprayed particles for the medium range nozzle may by the groove depth of swirl plate, the cap slope, the diameter of cap hole, and pressure. 1. This study was conducted to examine Interaction effects among four factors to the travelling distance. The results of this study are summarized as followa; a) Interaction effects among four factors the groove depth(G), cap slope(C), diameter of cap hole(D), and pressure (P), were significant to influence the travelling distance except for $G{\times}P,\;C{\times}D{\times}P\;and\;G{\times}C{\times}D{\times}P$. b) Interaction effects with the pressure were very smaller than interaction effects among the other factors. c) Effect of change of the groove depth of swirl plate on the travelling distance of sprayed particles was generally a linear, the increasing rate of the change was about 0.345, which was very significant. d) Effect of change of cap slope on the travelling distance was generally a linear or a dull quadratic, the increasing rate was very small. e) Main effect of change of cap slope in the medium range nozzle was very smaller than that of the close range nozzle on the travelling distance, which was estimated by the changing of turning radius of flowing course in nozzle. f) Interaction effect between two factors in the medium range nozzle was more significant than that of the close range nozzle on the travelling distance.

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