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The influence of vehicles on the flutter stability of a long-span suspension bridge

  • Han, Yan;Liu, Shuqian;Cai, C.S.;Zhang, Jianren;Chen, Suren;He, Xuhui
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.275-292
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    • 2015
  • The presence of traffic on a slender long-span bridge deck will modify the cross-section profile of the bridge, which may influence the flutter derivatives and in turn, the critical flutter wind velocity of the bridge. Studies on the influence of vehicles on the flutter derivatives and the critical flutter wind velocity of bridges are rather rare as compared to the investigations on the coupled buffeting vibration of the wind-vehicle-bridge system. A typical streamlined cross-section for long-span bridges is adopted for both experimental and analytical studies. The scaled bridge section model with vehicle models distributed on the bridge deck considering different traffic flow scenarios has been tested in the wind tunnel. The flutter derivatives of the modified bridge cross section have been identified using forced vibration method and the results suggest that the influence of vehicles on the flutter derivatives of the typical streamlined cross-section cannot be ignored. Based on the identified flutter derivatives, the influence of vehicles on the flutter stability of the bridge is investigated. The results show that the effect of vehicles on the flutter wind velocity is obvious.

Irreversible Magnetization of MgB2 Superconductor

  • Kim, Mun-Seog;Kim, Kyu-Tae;Kim, Wan-Seop;Park, Po-Gyu;Lee, Kyu-Won;Lee, Sung-Ik
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.157-162
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    • 2005
  • We report the magnetic-field dependence of the irreversible magnetization of binary superconductor $MgB_2$. For the temperature region of $T\;<\;0.9T_c$, the contribution of the bulk pinning to the magnetization overwhelms that of the surface pinning. This was evident from the fact that the magnetization curves, M(H), were well described by the critical-state model without considering the reversible magnetization and the surface pinning effect. It was also found that the M(H) curves at various temperatures scaled when the field and the magnetization were normalized by the characteristic caling factors H$\ast$(T) and M$\ast$(T), respectively. This feature suggests that the pinning mechanism determining the hysteresis in M(H) is unique below $T\;=\;T_c$.

Probabilistic time-dependent sensitivity analysis of HPC bridge deck exposed to chlorides

  • Ghosh, Pratanu;Konecny, Petr;Lehner, Petr;Tikalsky, Paul J.
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.305-313
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    • 2017
  • A robust finite element based reinforced concrete bridge deck corrosion initiation model is applied for time-dependent probabilistic sensitivity analysis. The model is focused on uncertainties in the governing parameters that include variation of high performance concrete (HPC) diffusion coefficients, concrete cover depth, surface chloride concentration, holidays in reinforcements, coatings and critical chloride threshold level in several steel reinforcements. The corrosion initiation risk is expressed in the form of probability over intended life span of the bridge deck. Conducted study shows the time-dependent sensitivity analysis to evaluate the significance of governing parameters on chloride ingress rate, various steel reinforcement protection and the corrosion initiation likelihood. Results from this probabilistic analysis provide better insight into the effect of input parameters variation on the estimate of the corrosion initiation risk for the design of concrete structures in harsh chloride environments.

Study on the Transient Characteristics of the Sensor Tube of a Thermal Mass Flow Meter (열식 질량 유량계 센서관의 과도 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dong-Kwon;Han, Il-Young;Kim, Sung-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.308-313
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    • 2003
  • Thermal mass flow meters (TMFMs) are most widely used for measuring mass flow rates in the semiconductor industry. A TMFM should have a short response time in order to measure the time-varying flow rate rapidly and accurately. Therefore it is important to study transient heat transfer phenomena in the sensor tube of a TMFM that is the most critical part in the TMFM. In the present work, a simple numerical model for transient heat transfer phenomena of the sensor tube of a TMFM is presented. Numerical solutions for the tube and fluid temperatures in a transient state are obtained using the proposed model and compared with experimental results to validate the proposed model. Based on numerical solutions, heat transfer mechanism in a transient state in the sensor tube is explained. Finally, a correlation for predicting the response time of a sensor tube is presented. The correlation is verified by experimental results.

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A Systematic Review Exploring the Current State of Fashion Criticism -A Focus on the Fashion Designer Exhibition Reviews of Fashion Theory-

  • Choi, Kyung-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.273-294
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    • 2020
  • Considering the complex relationship between fashion curating and the critical approach of fashion exhibition reviews, this study explores the current state of fashion criticism in museology, focusing on fashion designer exhibition reviews of Fashion Theory. The author selected eighteen exhibition reviews of individual fashion designers' works from 1997 on to the current 2020 issues of Fashion Theory, which provides an interdisciplinary forum to analyze fashion as a cultural construction. The author performed a systematic review that qualitatively summarizes and/or synthesizes the findings of the studies on the topic with the process of a systematic review, such as key question formulation, analytic framework building, evidence mapping, critical appraisal, and evidence synthesis. The results of this study are as follows. First, the exhibition reviews included almost all stages of the inclusive fashion criticism model, based on an artifact study. Second, they reflected various critical discourses that offered current interpretations of historical and contemporary fashion. Third, they showed that fashion criticism in the museum context is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration of various fashion agents. Finally, they offered a bridge for crossing the boundaries of various scholarly fields, as they combine multidisciplinary scholarship with object-based methods.

Effect of rain on flutter derivatives of bridge decks

  • Gu, Ming;Xu, Shu-Zhuang
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.209-220
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    • 2008
  • Flutter derivatives provide the basis of predicting the critical wind speed in flutter and buffeting analysis of long-span cable-supported bridges. Many studies have been performed on the methods and applications of identification of flutter derivatives of bridge decks under wind action. In fact, strong wind, especially typhoon, is always accompanied by heavy rain. Then, what is the effect of rain on flutter derivatives and flutter critical wind speed of bridges? Unfortunately, there have been no studies on this subject. This paper makes an initial study on this problem. Covariance-driven Stochastic Subspace Identification (SSI in short) which is capable of estimating the flutter derivatives of bridge decks from their steady random responses is presented first. An experimental set-up is specially designed and manufactured to produce the conditions of rain and wind. Wind tunnel tests of a quasi-streamlined thin plate model are conducted under conditions of only wind action and simultaneous wind-rain action, respectively. The flutter derivatives are then extracted by the SSI method, and comparisons are made between the flutter derivatives under the two different conditions. The comparison results tentatively indicate that rain has non-trivial effects on flutter derivatives, especially on and $H_2$ and $A_2$thus the flutter critical wind speeds of bridges.

A New Method of Liquefaction Evaluation Based on Disturbed State Concept (교란상태개념에 기초한 새로운 액상화 평가 방법)

  • 박인준;김수일
    • Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.45-55
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    • 1998
  • Although a number of methods have been proposed to predict the liquefaction potential, few methods have been developed by using the characteristic of material's microstructure. In this research, fundamental procedure is proposed for the assessment of liquefaction potential in saturated soils based on the Disturbed Sate Concept(DSC) model which can provide a unified constitutive model for the characterization of entire stress-strain behavior under cyclic loading. From this concept, the value of disturbance at threshold state (Critical Disturbance, $D_C$) in the deforming microstructure provides the basis for initial liquefaction. This method is verified with respect to data from Cyclic Truly Triaxial test for saturated Ottawa sand. Also, the relationship between liquefaction and initial confinig stress is defined using definition of $D_C$. It is believed that the new procedure for identifying liquefaction based on the DSC model can capture the behavior of liquefation, and as a result, it is shown to be on improvement over the available empirical procedures.

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A Prediction of Undrained Shear Behavior of the Remolded Weathered Mudstone Soil Using the Constitutive Model (구성모델을 이용한 재성형 이암풍화토의 비배수 전단거동 예측)

  • Lee Sang-Woong;Choo In-Sig;Kim Young-Su;Kim Ki-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.31-40
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    • 2005
  • This study proposed a new yield function considering the spacing ratio of the critical state to predict the undrained shear behavior of anisotropic field ground. We have suggested a nonassociated constitutive model that used a newly modified plastic potential function in order to apply the yield function of the modified Cam-Clay model to the anisotropic consolidation. In this paper, we predicted undrained shear behavior of the remolded weathered mudstone soils in Phohang isotorpically and anisotropically consolidated using the suggested model. To evaluate the reliability of proposed model, we predictied undrained shear behavior of Bankok Clay isotropically, nomally consolidated and Drammen Clay Ko consolidated. The predicted results are consistent with the observed behavior.

Prediction of partial molar volumes of solutes in supercritical CO2 using the Peng-Robinson equation of state with various mixing rules and Kirkwood-Buff solution theory (3차 상태방정식과 여러 혼합법칙 및 Kirkwood-Buff용액이론을 이용한 초임계유체내에서의 용질의 무한희석 부분몰부피의 계산)

  • Jeon, Young-Pyo;Park, Jong-Seon;Kwon, Yong-Jung
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.19
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    • pp.253-260
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    • 1999
  • Two thermodynamic models were used to predict the partial molar volumes of solutes in supercritical carbon dioxide at infinite dilution: (1) the Peng-Robinson equation of state with various mixing rules including those based on $EOS/G^E$ (2) the Kirkwood Buff fluctuation integral with the hard sphere expansion (HSE) method. The Kirkwood-Buff fluctuation integral method, in which an equation of state for pure component and molecular parameters are required, produced better results especially near the critical point than the Peng-Robinson equation of state with the several mixing rules based an $EOS/G^E$. When the $EOS/G^E$ mixing rules were used, poorer results were obtained compared with the classical mixing rule and Kirkwood-Buff model.

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Development of a structure analytic hierarchy approach for the evaluation of the physical protection system effectiveness

  • Zou, Bowen;Wang, Wenlin;Liu, Jian;Yan, Zhenyu;Liu, Gaojun;Wang, Jun;Wei, Guanxiang
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.8
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    • pp.1661-1668
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    • 2020
  • A physical protection system (PPS) is used for the protection of critical facilities. This paper proposes a structure analytic hierarchy approach (SAHA) for the hierarchical evaluation of the PPS effectiveness in critical infrastructure. SAHA is based on the traditional analysis methods "estimate of adversary sequence interruption, EASI". A community algorithm is used in the building of the SAHA model. SAHA is applied to cluster the associated protection elements for the topological design of complicated PPS with graphical vertexes equivalent to protection elements.