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Evaluation of structural safety reduction due to water penetration into a major structural crack in a large concrete project

  • Zhang, Xiangyang;Bayat, Vahid;Koopialipoor, Mohammadreza;Armaghani, Danial Jahed;Yong, Weixun;Zhou, Jian
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.319-329
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    • 2020
  • Structural damage to an arch dam is often of major concern and must be evaluated for probable rehabilitation to ensure safe, regular, normal operation. This evaluation is crucial to prevent any catastrophic or failure consequences for the life time of the dam. If specific major damage such as a large crack occurs to the dam body, the assessments will be necessary to determine the current level of safety and predict the resistance of the structure to various future loading such as earthquakes, etc. This study investigates the behavior of an arch dam cracked due to water pressure. Safety factors (SFs), of shear and compressive tractions were calculated at the surfaces of the contraction joints and the cracks. The results indicated that for cracking with an extension depth of half the thickness of the dam body, for both cases of penetration and non-penetration of water load into the cracks, SFs only slightly reduces. However, in case of increasing the depth of crack extension into the entire thickness of the dam body, the friction angle of the cracked surface is crucial; however, if it reduces, the normal loading SFs of stresses and joints tractions reduce significantly.

Effect of Lateral Deformations of Guideway on Guidance Characteristics of Maglev Train (가이드웨이 횡변형의 자기부상열차 안내특성에의 영향 분석)

  • Kim, Ki-Jung;Lee, Jae-Kyoung;Han, Hyung-Suk;Yang, Seok-Jo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.39 no.11
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    • pp.1161-1167
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    • 2015
  • A slender guideway is essential in improving aesthetically and reducing its construction cost which accounts for about 70% of overall investment for maglev system. As the slender guideway, however, may increase its deformation, its effect on levitation stability and guidance performance needs to be analyzed. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect on guidance characteristics of maglev due to the lateral deformation of the guideway girder and lateral irregularity of guiderail. For doing this, 3D model considering lateral deformation of girder and irregularity of rail of the guideway is developed. Using the dynamic interaction model integrated with the proposed guideway and maglev vehicle including electromagnetics and its controller, guidance characteristics of maglev are analyzed. It is analyzed that the effect on lateral deformation of girder is relatively small compared to deformation on the lateral irregularities of guiderail.

Development of Road Tunnel Ventilation System with Electrostatic Precipitator (도로터널용 전기집진시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Jong-Ryul;Weon, Jong-Oung
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.80-83
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    • 2008
  • As SOC (Social Overhead Capital) has been expanded, the highway road construction has been accelerated and city road system has been more complicated. So, long road tunnels have been increased and traffic flow rate also has been raised. Accordingly, the exhausting gas of vehicle cars seriously deteriorates the tunnel inside air quality and driving view. In order to improve tunnel inside air quality, we may need to introduce a compulsory ventilation system as well as natural ventilation mechanism. The natural ventilation mechanism is enough for short tunnels, meanwhile longer tunnels require a specific compulsory ventilation facility. Many foreign countries already have been devoting on development of effective tunnel ventilation system and especially, some European nations and Japan have already applied their developed tunnel ventilation system for longer road tunnels. More recently, as the quality of life improved, our concerns about safety of driving and better driving environment have been increased. In order to obtain clearer and longer driving view, we are more interested in EP tunnel ventilation system in order to remove floating contaminants and automobile exhaust gas. Evan though it's been a long time since many European countries and Japan applied more economical and environment-friendly tunnel ventilation system with their self-developed Electrostatic Precipitator, we are still dependant on imported system from foreign nations. Therefore, we need to develop our unique technical know-how for optimum design tools through validity investigation and continuous possibility examination, eventually in order to localize the tunnel ventilation system technology. In this project, we will manufacture test-run products to examine the performance of system in order to develop main parts of tunnel ventilation system such as electrostatic precipitator, high voltage power generator, water treatment system, etc.

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Linking Algorithm between IoT devices for smart factory environment of SMEs (중소기업의 스마트팩토리 환경을 위한 IoT 장치 간 연계 알고리즘)

  • Jeong, Yoon-Su
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.233-238
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    • 2018
  • SMEs and small enterprises are making various attempts to manage SMEs in terms of equipment, safety and energy management as well as production management. However, SMEs do not have the investment capacity and it is not easy to build a smart factory to improve management and productivity of SMEs. In this paper, we propose a smart factory construction algorithm that partially integrates the factory equipment currently operated by SMEs. The proposed algorithm supports collection, storage, management and processing of product information and release information through IoT device during the whole manufacturing process so that SMEs' smart factory environment can be constructed and operated in stages. In addition, the proposed algorithm is characterized in that central server manages authentication information between devices to automate the linkage between IoT devices regardless of the number of IoT devices. As a result of the performance evaluation, the proposed algorithm obtained 13.7% improvement in the factory process and efficiency before building the Smart Factory environment, and 19.8% improvement in the processing time in the factory. Also, the cost of input of manpower into process process was reduced by 37.1%.

Experimental Study on Fire Resistant Capacity and Thermal Conduction of Construction Material Using the Circulation Resources (폐콘크리트 순환자원을 이용한 건설재료의 화재내력 및 단열성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Choi, Jea-Nam;Hong, Se-Hwa;Son, Ki-Sang
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2010
  • This is to show some basic data for introducing both circulated aggregate and recycled powder producing waste concrete. Standard-mixing design for 24MPa has been basically used and added and replaced normal aggregate with recycled powder made of waste concrete. In addition, polycarboxylate high-range water reducing agent has been used because recycled powder is missing adhesive strength and it is not compare with cement's adhesive strength. Compressive strength with powder mixture of 2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, and 10% has been decreased down to 80% of normal concrete material strength without recycled powder mixture. $200^{\circ}C$, $400^{\circ}C$ and $600^{\circ}C$ heated concrete were compressively tested in order to find out concrete strength resistant to high temperature. heat capacity was also tested, based on the expectancy of its low conductivity. In addition, thermal conduction test was tested in order to find out concrete insulation. According to this test, when concrete was tested by fire resistance, it using the circulation aggregate was same resulted by concrete using the natural aggregate. also, recycle powder was not effecting insulation performance. but it is fit to standard on concrete insulation of building law.

Efficient Construction of Euclidean Minimum Spanning Tree Using Partial Polynomial-Time Approximation Scheme in Unequality Node Distribution (비 균등 노드 분포환경에서 부분 PTAS를 이용한 효과적인 유클리드 최소신장트리 생성)

  • Kim, In-Bum;Kim, Soo-In
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.71-80
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    • 2014
  • Employing PTAS to building minimum spanning tree for a large number of equal distribution input terminal nodes can be a effective way in execution time. But applying PTAS to building minimum spanning tree for tremendous unequal distribution node may lead to performance degradation. In this paper, a partial PTAS reflecting the scheme into specific node dense area is presented. In the environment where 90% of 50,000 input terminal nodes stand close together in specific area, approximate minimum spanning tree by our proposed scheme can show about 88.49% execution time less and 0.86%tree length less than by existing PTAS, and about 87.57%execution time less and 1.18% tree length more than by Prim's naive scheme. Therefore our scheme can go well to many useful applications where a multitude of nodes gathered around specific area should be connected efficiently as soon as possible.

Influence of District Heating Return Temperature on Performance of Steam Turbine in Cogeneration Plant (지역난방 회수온도가 열병합발전소 증기터빈 성능에 미치는 영향 연구)

  • Kim, Jonghyun;Moon, Seung-Jae
    • Plant Journal
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    • v.14 no.3
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    • pp.42-48
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    • 2018
  • If the combined operation of Gwanggyo Cogeneration plant is similar to that of 2017, the CHP return temperature is lowered to $4^{\circ}C$, $6.3^{\circ}C$ and $7.8^{\circ}C$ according to the increase of heat surface area and the electric power is increased by 413 kW and 676 kW from its original 39,025 kW, and when the heat surface area is increased 75% electric power increases by 834 kW, totaling 39,859 kW. NPV, which is an economic analysis standard, is worth 350 million won, 500 million won, and 520 million won, and all measures to increase the heat surface area are proven to be worth the investment. As the heat transfer area increased, the electric power and NPV increased proportionally but the rise amount decreased. The electrical output and NPV were found to be the highest among the three options when the heat transfer area was increased by 75%.

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A Study on the Cooperative Strategy of Enterprises -Focusing on the Importance Weight of Cooperative Strategy Factors- (기업의 협력 전략 방안에 관한 연구 -협력전략 요소를 중심으로-)

  • Choi, Kyong-Soon;Kim, Sang-Wook
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.10
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    • pp.189-201
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    • 2013
  • With the rapid development of information and communication technologies, the boundaries of markets become blurred, and with the increasing uncertainties and risks of the future, competition among global companies becomes more intense. Accordingly the enterprises are considering or already taking cooperation strategies with enterprises in a competitive relationship as well as cooperative enterprises in a high correlation with one's own company as a plan to actively cope with changes in management environments. Thus, a cooperation strategy is an important element for the strengthening of the competitiveness of enterprises as well as the survival of the enterprises. However most preceding studies on cooperation strategies focus only on the effects of the properties of cooperation enterprises on the selection of cooperation partner enterprises and the business performance of the enterprises. Therefore, this study carried out an empirical analysis of the motivation and purpose of the construction of cooperation strategies by enterprise and what differences there are in factors to which importance is attached in selecting partners. In addition, this study analyzed the differences depending on the size: large and small enterprises and depending on the industry: electronics and chemical industries during AHP using a pairwise comparison technique.

Evaluation on Structural Safety for Bearing seat according to Replacement of Bridge Bearing (교량받침 교체에 따른 보자리 구조 안전성 평가)

  • Choi, Jung-Youl;Lee, Hee-Kwang;Chung, Jee-Seung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.753-760
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    • 2020
  • In this study, the structural safety of the bearing support was analysed by applying the vertical load (bearing design load) and horizontal load (horizontal force generated during an earthquake) using a precise three-dimensional numerical model. The results of stress and displacement of newly-poured concrete and welded rebars were confirmed numerically. Numerical results show that the increase in the horizontal force and the height of the beam causes the concrete cracking and the stress increase of the rebar connections due to the increase of the stress at the new concrete interface. Therefore, it was analyzed that the increase in the height of bearing support is directly related to the horizontal force and it is necessary to apply the bearing support height appropriate for the bearing support capacity. It was proposed that a method of setting the height of the bearing support suitable for the bearing capacity and determining the reinforcement by presenting the guideline with the correlation between the horizontal force acting on the bearing support and its height.

Recognition of Fire Levels based on Fuzzy Inference System using by FCM (Fuzzy Clustering 기반의 화재 상황 인식 모델)

  • Song, Jae-Won;An, Tae-Ki;Kim, Moon-Hyun;Hong, You-Sik
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.125-132
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    • 2011
  • Fire monitoring system detects a fire based on the values of various sensors, such as smoke, CO, temperature, or change of temperature. It detects a fire by comparing sensed values with predefined threshold values for each sensor. However, to prevent a fire it is required to predict a situation which has a possibility of fire occurrence. In this work, we propose a fire recognition system using a fuzzy inference method. The rule base is constructed as a combination of fuzzy variables derived from various sensed values. In addition, in order to solve generalization and formalization problems of rule base construction from expert knowledge, we analyze features of fire patterns. The constructed rule base results in an improvement of the recognition accuracy. A fire possibility is predicted as one of 3 levels(normal, caution, danger). The training data of each level is converted to fuzzy rules by FCM(fuzzy C-means clustering) and those rules are used in the inference engine. The performance of the proposed approach is evaluated by using forest fire data from the UCI repository.