• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.831-847
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• 2017

Conventional geotechnical engineering soil binders such as ordinary cement or lime have environmental issues in terms of sustainable development. Thus, environmentally friendly materials have attracted considerable interest in modern geotechnical engineering. Microbial biopolymers are being actively developed in order to improve geotechnical engineering properties such as aggregate stability, strength, and hydraulic conductivity of various soil types. This study evaluates the geotechnical engineering shear behavior of sand treated with xanthan gum biopolymer through laboratory direct shear testing. Xanthan gum-sand mixtures with various xanthan gum content (percent to the mass of sand) and gel phases (initial, dried, and re-submerged) were considered. Xanthan gum content of 1.0% sufficiently improves the inter-particle cohesion of cohesionless sands 3.8 times and more (up to 14 times for dried state) than in the untreated (natural) condition, regardless of the xanthan gum gel condition. In general, the strength of xanthan gum-treated sand shows dependency with the rheology and phase of xanthan gum gels in inter-granular pores, which decreases in order as dried (biofilm state), initial (uniform hydrogel), and re-submerged (swollen hydrogel after drying) states. As xanthan gum hydrogels are pseudo-plastic, both inter-particle friction angle and cohesion of xanthan gum-treated sand decrease with water adsorbed swelling at large strain levels. However, for 2% xanthan gum-treated sands, the re-submerged state shows a higher strength than the initial state due to the gradual and non-uniform swelling behavior of highly concentrated biofilms.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.190-199
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• 2011

지형 효과가 포함된 태양복사 모델(GWNU)을 이용한 한반도의 태양광 자원지도를 개발하였다. 태양복사 모델의 입력 자료는 위성 관측 자료(MODIS, OMI, MTSAT-1R)와 수치 모델(RDAPS) 자료를 사용하였으며 특히 고해상도 지형 자료를 이용하여 지형 효과에 따른 한반도의 지표면 태양광 변화를 계산하였다. 계산 결과를 월 및 연 누적하여 분석하였을 때 여름철은 태양 고도각이 높아 지형 효과에 영향이 10% 이하로 적은 반면 겨울철은 20% 이상의 큰 차이가 나타났다. 또한 4 km 해상도의 지표면 태양광의 경우보다 1 km 해상도의 경우 지형 효과 포함에 따른 태양광 차이가 약 2배 정도 크게 나타났다. 즉 지표면에 도달하는 태양광을 정확히 모델링하기 위해서는 입력 자료뿐만 아니라 정확하고 고해상도의 지형 자료가 필연적이며 지형효과는 더욱 뚜렷이 나타나 실제와 유사할 것이다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.12-20
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• 1998

Exter ballistics of a typical high-speed projectile is studied through a flow-visualization experiment and an unstructured grid Navier-Srokes computation. Experiment produced a schlieren photograph that adequately shows the characteristic features of this complex flow, namely two kinds of oblique cone shocks and turbulent wake developing into the downstream. A hybrid scheme of finite volume-element method is used to simulate the compressible Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stok- es solution on unstructured grids. Osher's approximate Riemann solver is used to discretize the cinvection term. Higher-order spatial accuracy is obtained by MUSCL extension and van Albada ty- pe flux limiter is used to stabilize the numerical oscillation near the solution discontinuity. Accurate Gakerkin method is used to discretize the viscous term. Explict fourth-order Runge-Kutta method is used for the time-stepping, which simplifies the application of MUSCL extension. A two-layer k-$\varepsilon$ turbulence model is used to simulate the turbulent wakes accurately. Axisymmetric folw and two-dimensional flow with an angle of attack have been computed. Grid-dependency is also checked by carrying out the computation with doubled meshes. 2-D calculation shows that effect of angle of attack on the flow field is negligible. Axi-symmetric results of the computation agrees well with the flow visualization. Primary oblique shock is represented within 2-3 meshes in numerical results, and the varicose mode of the vortex shedding is clearly captured in the turbulent wake region.

• 폴리머
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.656-662
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• 2013

태양전지의 효율 증가를 위하여 유리비드가 함유된 polymethyl methacrylate(PMMA) 용액을 PMMA 필름 위에 코팅하여 유리비드가 코팅된 고분자 유연 패턴 필름을 제조하고 패턴 필름이 태양전지 효율에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 필름 위에 코팅된 유리비드로 인하여 빛의 입사각 0도에서 90도 범위에서 태양전지의 상대효율이 최대 3.4%까지 증가함을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 효율 증가는 빛의 입사각 변화에도 필름 표면에 형성되어 있는 구 형태의 유리비드로 인하여 빛이 수직으로 입사되어 방향성에 의한 태양전지 효율 감소가 최소화되기 때문이다. 태양전지상대효율 증가는 필름 표면 위의 유리비드가 반구의 형태를 가질 때 가장 높으며 유리비드 함량에 따라 증가되나 유리비드 함량이 너무 많은 경우, 오히려 광 투과도 감소 및 빛의 간섭 효과에 의하여 상대효율이 감소됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.79-83
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• 2004

The curved blocks which compose the bow and stem of a ship contain many skewed joints that are inclined horizontally and vertically. Most of these joints have a large fitness error and are continuously changing their form and are not easily accessible. The welding position and parameter values should be appropriately set in correspondence to the shape and the inclination of the joints. The welding parameters such as current, voltage, travel speed, and melting rate, are related to each other and their values must be in a specific limited range for the sound welding. These correlations and the ranges are dependent up on the kind and size of wire, shielding gas, joint shape and fitness. To determine these relationships, extensive welding experiments were performed. The experimental data were processed using several information processing technologies. The regression method was used to determine the relationship between current voltage, and deposition rate. When a joint is inclined, the weld bead should be confined to a the limited size, inorder to avoid undercut as well as overlap due to flowing down of molten metal by gravity. The dependency of the limited weld size which is defined as the critical deposited area on various factors such as the horizontally and vertically inclined angle of the joint, skewed angle of the joint, up or down welding direction and weaving was investigated through a number of welding experiments. On the basis of this result, an ANN system was developed to estimate the critical deposited area. The ANN system consists of a 4 layer structure and uses an error back propagation learning algorithm. The estimated values of the ANN were validated using experimental values.

• 한국해안·해양공학회논문집
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 1 MW급 수평축 조류발전기의 출력 및 유동특성을 분석하기 위해 3차원 레이놀즈 평균 나비어-스톡스 해석을 수행하였다. 난류해석을 위해 SST(shear stress transport) 난류모델을 사용하였고, 유동해석을 위한 계산영역은 육면체격자로 구성하였으며, 최적의 격자 크기를 결정하기 위하여 격자 의존성 시험을 수행하였다. 터빈의 노즈 형상 및 유입각도, 그리고 타워 구조물의 영향을 분석하였다. 노즈 형상의 경우 노즈의 직경 대비 축방향 길이의 비가 증가할수록 터빈 출력이 향상되는 결과를 확인할 수 있었고, 유입각도가 약 15° 이상에서는 터빈의 성능이 약 10% 이상 감소하는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 타워 구조물에 의하여 하류식 터빈의 경우 상류식 터빈에 비하여 성능이 1% 감소함을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2016

In this study, a parametric study of a centrifugal pump with double volute has been performed numerically using three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations. The shear stress transport model was selected as turbulence closure through turbulence model test. The finite volume method and unstructured grid system were used for the numerical analysis. The optimal grid system in the computational domain was determined through a grid dependency test. The expansion coefficient, circumferential and radial starting positions and length of divider were selected as the geometric parameters to be tested. And, the hydraulic efficiency and the radial thrust coefficient were considered as performance parameters. It was found that the radial thrust and hydrualic efficiency are more sensitive to the expansion angle and circumferential starting position of the divider than the other geometrical parameters.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.414-426
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• 1997

Numerical computations were conducted to characterize the three-dimensional laminar flow through an injector orifice having an inclined angle of 30 .deg.. For this study, the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in generalized curvilinear coordinates, using a pseudocompressibility approach for continuity equation, were solved. The computations were performed using the finite difference implicit, approximately factored scheme of Beam and Warming and multi-block grids of complete continuity at block interfaces. The multi-block computations were validated for the steady state using direct comparison of multi-block solutions with equivalent single-block ones, including 2-D 180.deg. TAD and 3-D 90.deg. pipe bend. The comparisons between the numerical solutions and the flow field measurements for a tube with sudden contraction were presented in this work for solution validation. Computational results showed the nature of complex flow fields within the inclined injector orifice, including strong pressure-driven secondary flows in the cross stream induced by the effect of streamline curvature. In addition, asymmetric secondary flows were induced in the Reynolds number range above assumed laminar flow regime considered. However, turbulence calculations and grid dependency studies are needed for more accurate computations.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.67-71
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• 2000

A quantum-chemical investigation on the conformations and electronic properties of trans(diphenyl-diheterocyclic) ethenes(t-PHEs) as building block for fully $\pi$-conjuated polymer are performed in order to display the effects of heterocyclic ring substitution. Structures for the molecules, t-PHEs were fully optimized by using semiempirical AM1, PM3 methods, and ab initio HF methods, with 6-31G basic set. The potential energy curves with respect to the change of single are obtained by using ab initio HF/6-31G basic set. The curves are not similar shapes in the molecules with respect to heterocyclic rings. It is shown that the steric repulsion interactions between phenyl ring and heterocyclic ring are subjected to different type with the respect to each heterocyclic ring. Electronic properties of the molecules were molecules were obtained by applying the optimized structures and selected geometries to the extended Huckel method. To investigate the change of HOMO-LUMO gap with respedt to the torsion angle, we select the optimized structures. By using the results, the dependency of conjugation for the energy gaps is analyzed. For t-PHE the energy gap increase up to 0.52 eV compared with its planar structure. In the cases of t-PHE and t-PHE, the energy gap increase by 1.29 and 1.15 eV, respectively, compared with its planar structure.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.119-125
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• 2008

The FAS(Fluoroalkylsilane)/Nafion inorganic-organic composite electrolyte membrane was successfully fabricated through sol-gel method. The FAS having hydrophobic functional group and silanol ligands is impregnated in $Nafion^{(R)}$ membrane to reduce methanol crossover. The prepared FAS/Nafion inorganic-organic composite electrolyte membrane consist of the hydrophobic FAS-derived silicate nano-particles and $Nafion^{(R)}$ matrix showed decrease of methanol crossover and reduction of humidity dependence without large sacrifice of proton conductivity. The microstructural analysis of the composite membranes was performed using FESEM and FTIR. And the effect of the incorporation of the hydrophobic FAS-derived silicate nano-particles into $Nafion^{(R)}$ membrane was investigated via solvent uptake, membrane expansion rate, humidity dependency of proton conductivity and contact angle measurement.