• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.196-205
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• 2023

Purpose: Surgical stabilization of rib fractures (SSRF) is widely used in patients with flail chests, and several studies have reported the efficacy of SSRF even in multiple rib fractures. However, few reports have discussed the hardware failure (HF) of implanted plates. We aimed to evaluate the clinical characteristics of patients with HF after SSRF and further investigate the related factors. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the electronic medical records of patients who underwent SSRF for multiple rib fractures at a level I trauma center in Korea between January 2014 and January 2021. We defined HF as the unintentional loosening of screws, dislocation, or breakage of the implanted plates. The baseline characteristics, surgical outcomes, and types of HF were assessed. Results: During the study period, 728 patients underwent SSRF, of whom 80 (10.9%) were diagnosed with HF. The mean age of HF patients was 56.5±13.6 years, and 66 (82.5%) were men. There were 59 cases (73.8%) of screw loosening, 21 (26.3%) of plate breakage, 17 (21.3%) of screw migration, and seven (8.8%) of plate dislocation. Nine patients (11.3%) experienced wound infection, and 35 patients (43.8%) experienced chronic pain. A total of 21 patients (26.3%) underwent reoperation for plate removal. The patients in the reoperation group were significantly younger, had fewer fractures and plates, underwent costal fixation, and had a longer follow-up. There were no significant differences in subjective chest symptoms or lung capacity. Conclusions: HF after SSRF occurred in 10.9% of the cases, and screw loosening was the most common. Further longitudinal studies are needed to identify risk factors for SSRF failure.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.735-743
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• 2001

This study was performed to evaluate the dynamic behavior of turbo pump unit. The acceptable separate margin of 1st critical speed was obtained by the use of elastic-ring inserted ball bearing, while the poor separate margin of 1$\^$st/ critical speed was appeared in the case without the elastic-ring. In addition, the results show that the stiffness and damping of plain seals gain more separate margin of 2nd critical speed. However the wear or the failure of seals could reduce the 2$\^$nd/ critical speeds near the operating speed.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.22-28
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• 2001

This study was performed to evaluate the dynamic behavior of turbo pump unit. The acceptable separate margin of $1^{st}$ critical speed was obtained by the use of elastic-ring inserted ball bearing, while the poor separate margin of $1^{\st}$ critical speed was appeared in the case without the elastic-ring. In addition, the results show that the stiffness and damping of plain seals give more separate margin of $2^{nd}$ critical speed. However the wear or the failure of seals could reduce the $2^{nd}$ critical speed near the operating speed.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2009년도 춘계 학술발표회
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• pp.1133-1138
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• 2009

This study was conducted in order to know the internal application of the critical strain graph. To evaluate critical strain graph, we carried out an uniaxial compression test with some of internal rocks: sandstone, shale, weathered granite, and pink granitic. Based on the uniaxial compression test, we deduced relations among critical strain, failure strain, uniaxial compression strength and modulus of elasticity. As a result, the study has found out the rocks, which have been tested, can be possibly evaluated by critical strain graph.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.1289-1296
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• 2019

Non-functional requirements plays a critical role in designing variety of applications domain ranges from safety-critical systems to simple gaming applications. Performance is one of the crucial non-functional requirement, especially in control and safety systems, that validates the design. System risk can be quantified as a product of probability of system failure and severity of its impact. In this paper, we devise a technique to do the performance analysis of safety critical and control systems and to estimate performance based risk factor. The technique elaborates Petri nets to estimate performability to ensure system dependability requirements. We illustrate the technique on a case study of Nuclear Power Plant system. The technique has been validated on 17 safety critical and control systems of Nuclear Power Plant.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제64권5호
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• pp.188-195
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• 2021

Acute fulminant myocarditis (AFM) occurs as an inflammatory response to an initial myocardial insult. Its rapid and deadly progression calls for prompt diagnosis with aggressive treatment measures. The demonstration of its excellent recovery potential has led to increasing use of mechanical circulatory support, especially extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Arrhythmias, organ failure, elevated cardiac biomarkers, and decreased ventricular function at presentation predict requirement for ECMO. In these patients, ECMO should be considered earlier as the clinical course of AFM can be unpredictable and can lead to rapid haemodynamic collapse. Key uncertainties that clinicians face when managing children with AFM such as timing of initiation of ECMO and left ventricular decompression need further investigation.

• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.337-357
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• 2022

The objective of this study is to present a data-driven machine learning (ML) framework for predicting ultimate shear strength and failure modes of reinforced concrete ledge beams. Experimental tests were collected on these beams with different loading, geometric and material properties. The database was analyzed using different ML algorithms including decision trees, discriminant analysis, support vector machine, logistic regression, nearest neighbors, naïve bayes, ensemble and artificial neural networks to identify the governing and critical parameters of reinforced concrete ledge beams. The results showed that ML framework can effectively identify the failure mode of these beams either web shear failure, flexural failure or ledge failure. ML framework can also derive equations for predicting the ultimate shear strength for each failure mode. A comparison of the ultimate shear strength of ledge failure was conducted between the experimental results and the results from the proposed equations and the design equations used by international codes. These comparisons indicated that the proposed ML equations predict the ultimate shear strength of reinforced concrete ledge beams better than the design equations of AASHTO LRFD-2020 or PCI-2020.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.302-309
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• 2017

이론적 연구를 통하여 말뚝지름과 말뚝설치간격, 성토재의 내부마찰각 그리고 성토고가 성토지지말뚝의 아칭효율에 미치는 영향을 살펴보았다. 성토지지말뚝 상부의 성토체에 발생하는 아치모델에 대하여 아칭효율을 계산함에 있어 아치의 천정부파괴 및 말뚝캡에 작용하는 하중계산을 통한 아칭효율이 같게 되는 임계 상대간격비를 구할 수 있는 식을 제시하였으며 설계에 유용하게 쓰일 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구에서 수행된 계산결과에 따르면 상대간격비가 작은 경우는 말뚝캡에 작용하는 하중을 통해 계산되는 아칭효율이 설계를 지배하게 됨을 알 수 있으며 상대간격비가 커질수록 아치의 천정부파괴에 의한 아칭효율이 설계를 지배함을 알 수 있다. 말뚝중심간 설치간격에 대한 말뚝지름의 비를 나타내는 ${\beta}$값이 커질수록 말뚝 캡에 작용하는 하중에 의해 계산되는 아칭효율이 설계를 지배하게 되는 임계 상대간격비가 작아짐을 알 수 있었는데 ${\beta}$값이 0.5인 경우 임계 상대간격비는 0.35이며 ${\beta}$값이 0.2인 경우 임계 상대간격비는 0.85이었다. 계산결과에 따르면 Rankine 수동토압계수($K_p$)가 클수록 임계 상대간격비는 작아져서 $K_p$가 5인 경우 임계 상대간격비는 0.23이었으며 $K_p$가 2인 경우 임계 상대간격비는 0.85이었다. 말뚝캡이 성토지반에 대해 차지하는 면적비가 9%인 경우 아칭효율은 54%이었으며 성토재의 수동토압계수가 3인 경우 아칭효율은 61%이었는데 두 경우 모두 말뚝캡에 작용하는 하중에 의해 계산되는 아칭효율이 지배하는 상대간격비가 0.5보다 큼을 알 수 있어 실제적인 설계에 적용될 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.15-19
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• 2001

Current leakage is the major failure mode of semiconductor device characteristic failures. Conventionally, failures such as short circuit breaks and gate breakdowns have been analyzed and the detected causes have been reflected in the fabrication process. By using a wafer-level emission-leakage failure analysis method (in-line QC), we analyzed leakage mode failure, which is the major failure detected during the probe inspection process for LSIs, typically DRAMs and CMOS logic LSIs. We have thus developed a new technique that copes with the critical structural failures and random failures that directly affect probe yields.

• 한국지반공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지반공학회 2000년도 가을 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.511-518
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• 2000

Characteristics of joint orientation, length, spacing and their distribution are very important factors for slope stability, Especially, the effect of joint spacing is an essential factor of slope stability. This study is to analyze the effect of joint spacing in cases of sliding and toppling, which is a typical failure mode. Joint spacing can divided into vertical spacing(spacing) and horizontal spacing(gap). And then, the spacing/length ratio of joint directly affect rock slope failure. When the ratio is below 0.05, the possibility of failure is rapidly increased. In case of toppling, the possibility of failure depends on the ratio of spacing to height of slope ratio slope. As the ratio decreases, the possibility of toppling failure increased. The critical ratio of spacing to height of slope is determined by the dip angle of the slope and the orientation of joint sets.