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Bond Characteristics at the Interface between HMA Surface and RCC Base (아스팔트 표층과 RCC 기층 계면에서의 부착특성 연구)

  • Hong, Ki;Kim, Young Kyu;Bae, Abraham;Lee, Seung Woo
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 2017
  • PURPOSES : A composite pavement utilizes both an asphalt surface and a concrete base. Typically, a concrete base layer provides structural capacity, while an asphalt surface layer provides smoothness and riding quality. This pavement type can be used in conjunction with rollercompacted concrete (RCC) pavement as a base layer due to its fast construction, economic efficiency, and structural performance. However, the service life and functionality of composite pavement may be reduced due to interfacial bond failure. Therefore, adequate interfacial bonding between the asphalt surface and the concrete base is essential to achieving monolithic behavior. The purpose of this study is to investigate the bond characteristics at the interface between asphalt (HMA; hot-mixed asphalt) and the RCC base. METHODS : This study was performed to determine the optimal type and application rate of tack coat material for RCC-base composite pavement. In addition, the core size effect, temperature condition, and bonding failure shape were analyzed to investigate the bonding characteristics at the interface between the RCC base and HMA surface. To evaluate the bond strength, a pull-off test was performed using different diameters of specimens such as 50 mm and 100 mm. Tack coat materials such as RSC-4 and BD-Coat were applied in amounts of 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, and $1.1l/m^2$ to determine the optimal application rate. In order to evaluate the bond strength characteristics with temperature changes, a pull-off test was carried out at -15, 0, 20, and $40^{\circ}C$. In addition, the bond failure shapes were analyzed using an image analysis program after the pull-off tests were completed. RESULTS : The test results indicated that the optimal application rate of RSC-4 and BD-Coat were $0.8l/m^2$, $0.9l/m^2$, respectively. The core size effect was determined to be negligible because the bond strengths were similar in specimens with diameters of 50 mm and 100 mm. The bond strengths of RSC-4 and BD-Coat were found to decrease significantly when the temperature increased. As a result of the bonding failure shape in low-temperature conditions such as -15, 0, and $20^{\circ}C$, it was found that most of the debonding occurred at the interface between the tack coat and RCC surface. On the other hand, the interface between the HMA and tack coat was weaker than that between the tack coat and RCC at a high temperature of $40^{\circ}C$. CONCLUSIONS : This study suggested an optimal application rate of tack coat materials to apply to RCC-base composite pavement. The bond strengths at high temperatures were significantly lower than the required bond (tensile) strength of 0.4 MPa. It was known that the temperature was a critical factor affecting the bond strength at the interface of the RCC-base composite pavement.

Removal of Nitrate in Column Reactors Using Surfactant Modified Zeolite (SMZ를 이용한 컬럼반응조 내 질산성 질소의 제거)

  • 박규홍;이동호
    • Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.55-61
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    • 2003
  • The objective of this study was to investigate the characteristics of nitrate removal by conducting the column test in order to see the performance of surfactant modified zeolite (SMZ) as a permeable reactive barrier material. The prediction of nitrate removal was tested using the one-dimensional advective-dispersive model fitted to the experimental breakthrough curve. A methodology for scaling up to in-situ permeable reactive barrier was also proposed. The breakthrough of nitrate in the column packed with SMZ was well predicted using linear equilibrium adsorption model. The breakthrough time and half-life obtained by breakthrough experiment with variation of flowrates were decreased with the increase of flowrates. When 10㎥/day of groundwater containing the 50 mg/l of nitrate is to be treated to satisfy the potable water quality criteria (10 mg/l) by SMZ reactive barrier, 300 tons of SMZ and about 6 years of breakthrough time will be required, suggesting that 165 million wons are needed as barrier material expenses in each 6 years besides the initial design and construction expenses and the minimal monitoring and maintenance expenses.

Analysis of Bending Performance of Built-up Beam Headers (목재 조립보 헤더의 휨 성능 분석)

  • Jang, Sang Sik;Kim, Yun Hui;Park, Young Ran
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.118-125
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    • 2007
  • To obtain design data for built-up beams used as headers in light-frame timber construction, three members of $2{\times}6$ ($38{\times}140 mm$), $2{\times}8$ ($38{\times}184 mm$), $2{\times}10$ ($38{\times}235 mm$) and $2{\times}12$ ($38{\times}286 mm$) were built up as specimens of bending tests. The bending strengths of built-up headers were obtained through bending tests of these specimens, and it was considered that span tables can be calculated for various loading conditions based on the bending strengths of built-up headers. The bending strengths of built-up headers were determined as the bending stresses at 10 mm deflection of specimens from the results of bending tests of built-up beam specimens. Span tables for built-up headers were considered to be obtained by assuming five loading conditions for headers used in exterior walls and two loading conditions for headers used in interior walls. Among these 7 loading conditions, 5 loading conditions applied to headers in exterior walls included dead loads, live loads and snow loads and 2 loading conditions applied to headers in interior walls included dead loads and live loads.

Changes in Demographic and Housing Characteristics of New Towns in Korea: Focused on Five New Towns in Seoul Metropolitan Area (우리나라 신도시의 인구 및 주거특성 변화: 분당, 일산 등 1기 신도시를 중심으로)

  • Yoon, Jeong-Joong;Kim, Eun-Mi
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.235-246
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    • 2014
  • In the late 1980s, 5 new towns such as Bundang, Ilsan, Pyeongchon, Sanborn, Jungdong were constructed to solve housing problems and to disperse functions concentrated within Seoul. As the city got matured, it began to appear the initial signs of urban problems such as aging of high rise-density apartment sites, traffic congestion, lack of parking spaces and aging of infrastructure. Therefore, in order to cope with urban problems, it is very important to apprehend the process of urban growth, its change and the feature of physical/human elements. So, the purpose of this thesis is to analyze the changes in housing and population characteristics for past 20 years by use of Census data from 1995 to 2010. First, the new town's goal of population and housing plan at the time of construction was analyzed how it was achieved, and it is close to the performance of the goal. And the trend of changes in the population and household characteristics was analyzed by every five year's data. As the result of analysis, it shows socio-demographic changes such as aged and elderly population growth, rapid increase in one generation's household and single person household, highly educated city, monthly rent household's increase and charter household's reduction. Results of this analysis can be utilized to aforethought management of new towns. But it is required more sustained and systematic urban monitoring and data analysis because the one-off analysis of the city's characteristics alone is difficult enough to grasp them.

Performance Evaluation of Nitrogen Oxide Removal by Air Purification Blocks with Titanium Dioxide (이산화티타늄을 이용한 대기정화 블록의 질소산화물 제거 성능 평가)

  • Oh, Ri-On;Kim, Hwang-Hee;Park, Sung-Ki;Cha, Sang-Sun;Park, Chan-Gi
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.62 no.5
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2020
  • This study evaluated the nitrogen oxide (NOx) removal efficiency by air purification concrete blocks with titanium dioxide (TiO2). The concrete in the mixtures had a 30% water:cement ratio, to which TiO2 was added at 0%, 5%, and 10% of cement weight. The compressive strength reduction rate and removal efficiency of NOx were investigated. The result of the compressive strength test in the study indicated that addition rate of TiO2 did not lead to signifcant effect. In terms of the average removal efficiency of NOx, mix No. 1 using a TiO2 mixing ratio of 0% had a removal efficiency of 0.57% on average; thus, the removal effect w as not significant. For the other samples prepared by mixing, the average removal efficiencies for mix No. 2 (5% TiO2) were 58.86% and 62.05% for normal and washing surface treatments, respectively, and those of sample No. 3 (10% TiO2) were 59.94% and 67.61%. mixs No. 4 (5%) and No. 5 (10%), in which TiO2 diluted with distilled water was sprayed onto the block surface, had an average NOx removal efficiency of 61.72% and 68.48%, respectively. In terms of NOx removal efficiency, Mixs No. 3 and No. 5 with 10% TiO2 were better than Mixs No. 2 and No. 4 with 5% TiO2. In addition, analyzing the NOx removal efficiency results from the fixing method, it was capable to apply mixing (washing) and the diluted spray methods. Therefore, it was found that the diluted spray method applied in this study can be employed in any manufacture of air purification concrete blocks.

The 3rd Generation Genome Map of the Korean Cattle (Hanwoo) (제3세대 한우유전체지도작성)

  • Lee, Yong-Seok;Choi, In-Ho
    • Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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    • v.51 no.2
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2009
  • Recently, the $2^{nd}$ generation genome map of the Korean cattle (Hanwoo) has been constructed by comparison of the nucleotide sequence of the Korean cattle BAC clones with whole genome sequence of the bovine data-base (B_tau 2.1 build). The objective of this study was to update the $2^{nd}$ generation genome map of the Korean cattle using the similar approach. The nucleotide sequence of the Korean cattle BAC clones utilized in the construction of the $2^{nd}$ generation map was compared with the newly released bovine data-base (B_tau 3.1 build) to generate the $3^{rd}$ generation map. While, 5,105 BAC clones were localized on bovine chromosome in the $2^{nd}$ generation map, a total of 9,595 BAC clones, which spans about 37.27% of the bovine chromosome after eliminating the overlapping sequence among the clones, have been mapped on the bovine chromosome in the $3^{rd}$ generation map. Further analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the BAC clones will allow us to develop map and facilitate to pinpoint the genes that are important for the improvement of the performance in this cattle breed.

An Experimental Study on the Application of End-Expanded Soil Nailing Method (선단확장식 소일네일링 공법의 적용성에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Lee, Sang-Eun;Jang, Yun-Ho;Moon, Chang-Yeul;Jeong, Gyo-Cheol;Park, Young-Sun
    • The Journal of Engineering Geology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.525-534
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    • 2007
  • The peculiarity of end-expanded soil nailing method(EESNM) is in fixing the wedge-type steel body spreaded by collars and grouting its surroundings by cement milk within soils, after extending hole bottom over drilling hole diameter with top drill bit. The present study was done to establish the effect of this method. Laboratory model test were carried out to investigate the behavior characteristics with the performance of the pull-out test and failure experiment, after preparing soil test box having 1,300mm length, width 1,000mm, and height 1,100mm, and the same experimental condition was set up to compare with the general soil nailing method(GSNM). The pull-out force of about 23 percentage was increased, and the horizontal displacements 1.2 from 9.1 percentage in soil-nailed wall decreased in EESNM compare with GSNM. The axial force acting on nail increased considerably at load level over 7 ton in EESNM and 5 ton in GSNM. The predicted failure line from the maxima analyzed by axial tensile strain located at long distance from soil-nailed wall in EESNM. The EESNM demonstrated the superiority of reinforcement effect in comparison with GSNM from the results above mentioned.

Verification of Spatial Resolution in DMC Imagery using Bar Target (Bar 타겟을 이용한 DMC 영상의 공간해상력 검증)

  • Lee, Tae Yun;Lee, Jae One;Yun, Bu Yeol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.485-492
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    • 2012
  • Today, a digital airborne imaging sensor plays an important role in construction of the numerous National Spatial Data Infrastructure. However, an appropriate quality assesment procedure for the acquired digital images should be preceded to make them useful data with high precision and reliability. A lot of studies therefore have been conducted in attempt to assess quality of digital images at home and abroad. In this regard, many test fields have been already established and operated to calibrate digital photogrammetric airborne imaging systems in Europe and America. These test fields contain not only GCPs(Ground Control Points) to test geometric performance of a digital camera but also various types of targets to evaluate its spatial and radiometric resolution. The purpose of this paper is to present a method to verify the spatial resolution of the Intergraph DMC digital camera and its results based on an experimental field testing. In field test, a simple bar target to be easily identified in image is used to check the spatial resolution. Images, theoretically designed to 12cm GSD(Ground Sample Distance), were used to calculate the actual resolution for all sub-images and virtual images in flight direction as well as in cross flight direction. The results showed that the actual image resolution was about 0.6cm worse than theoretically expected resolution. In addition, the greatest difference of 1.5cm between them was found in the image of block edge.

Construction of CORBA Object-Group Platform for Distributed Real-Time Service (분산 실시간 서비스를 위한 CORBA 객체그룹 플랫폼의 구축)

  • Kim, Myung-Hee;Joo, Su-Chong
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.602-613
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    • 2001
  • Recently, the computing has developing in distributed object computing environment for supporting a programming paradigm of distributed application requiring interoperability between heterogeneous clients and servers. It involves the complex networking and the object-oriented technologies for various multimedia application service. In this paper, we construct the real-time object group platform for solving the difficulties of managements of distributed objects and the real-time constraints by requiring for real-time service supporting of applications in distributed computing environment. The existing researches are being tried to only improving the performance of systems by using real-time CORBA itself, or modifying the part of CORBA compliance. Hence, we design a new model of real-time object group platform that can support the real-time requirement without modifying the ORB. The structure of our real-time object group analyzed and defined the requirement about object management and real-time application service sides. And the role of the components of real-time object group is divided into 2 classes for reducing the side effect of interoperability between management and service. Also, we considered how to transparently express the parameters of real-time properties for clients and developers of server's service objects. If the expression of real-time parameters is transparent, then the developer can easily extend the real-time parameters simply and flexibly. Therefore, in this paper we defined the role of components of platform and described functions of each component and designed and then implemented the real-time object group platform. Finally, we showed the execution procedures of implemented our platform for verifying the functionality.

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Flexural Behavior of Large-Diameter Composite PHC pile Using In-Filled Concrete and Reinforcement (속채움 콘크리트와 철근으로 보강된 대구경 합성 PHC말뚝의 휨성능 평가)

  • Bang, Jin-Wook;Park, Chan-Kyu;Yang, Seong-Yeong;Kim, Yun-Yong
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.109-115
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    • 2016
  • A demand of high bearing capacity of piles to resist heavy static loads has been increased. For this reason, the utilization of large diameter PHC piles including a range from 700 mm to 1,200 mm have been increased and applied to the construction sites in Korea recently. In this study, in order to increase the flexural strength capacity of the PHC pile, the large diameter composite PHC pile reinforced by in-filled concrete and reinforcement was developed and manufactured. All the specimens were tested under four-point bending setup and displacement control. From the strain behavior of transverse bar, it was found that the presence of transverse bar was effective against crack propagation and controlling crack width as well as prevented the web shear cracks. The flexural strength and mid-span deflection of LICPT specimens were increased by a maximum of 1.08 times and 1.19 times compared to the LICP specimens. This results indicated that the installed transverse bar is in an advantageous ductility performance of the PHC piles. A conventional layered sectional analysis for the pile specimens was performed to investigate the flexural strength according to the each used material. The calculated bending moment of conventional PHC pile and composite PHC pile, which was determined by P-M interaction curve, showed a safety factor 1.13 and 1.16 compared to the test results.