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Computational evaluation of experimental methodologies of out-of-plane behavior of framed-walls with openings

  • Anic, Filip;Penava, Davorin;Abrahamczyk, Lars;Sarhosis, Vasilis
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.265-277
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    • 2019
  • Framed masonry wall structures represent a typical high-rise structural system that are also seismically vulnerable. During ground motions, they are excited in both in-plane and out-of-plane terms. The interaction between the frame and the infill during ground motion is a highly investigated phenomenon in the field of seismic engineering. This paper presents a numerical investigation of two distinct static out-of-plane loading methods for framed masonry wall models. The first and most common method is uniformly loaded infill. The load is generally induced by the airbag. The other method is similar to in-plane push-over method, involves loading of the frame directly, not the infill. Consequently, different openings with the same areas and various placements were examined. The numerical model is based on calibrated in-plane bare frame models and on calibrated wall models subjected to OoP bending. Both methods produced widely divergent results in terms of load bearing capabilities, failure modes, damage states etc. Summarily, uniform load on the panel causes more damage to the infill than to the frame; openings do influence structures behavior; three hinged arching action is developed; and greater resistance and deformations are obtained in comparison to the frame loading method. Loading the frame causes the infill to bear significantly greater damage than the infill; infill and openings only influence the behavior after reaching the peak load; infill does not influence initial stiffness; models with opening fail at same inter-storey drift ratio as the bare frame model.

First Record of the Annular Sole, Brachirus annularis(Soleidae, Pleuronectiformes) from Korea (한국산 납서대과 어류 1미기록종, Brachirus annularis)

  • Kim, Maeng Jin;Koh, Soo Jin;Yoon, Byoung Sun;Kim, Sung-Tae;Song, Choon Bok
    • Korean Journal of Ichthyology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.178-182
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    • 2019
  • This is the first report of Brachirus annularis (Pleuronectiformes: Soleidae) from Korea. A specimen of B. annularis (229.0 mm standard length) was firstly collected by drift gill net at a fishing ground locating between Jejudo and Geomundo Islands, the southern coast of Korea on 31 March, 2019. This species was characterized by having five large, deep colored patches on the ocular side of body, each patch outlined by dark brown ring, united dorsal and anal fins jointed with caudal fin, and short pectoral fin. We add this species to the Korean fish fauna and propose its new Korean names, "Eol-luk-seo-dae-sok" and "Eol-luk-seo-dae" for the genus and species, respectively.

A Comparative Study on the Behavior of High-rise Buildings by 2D and 3D Dynamic Analysis with Considering the Ground (초고층 건물의 지반을 고려한 2D 및 3D 동적해석에 의한 거동 비교 연구)

  • You, Kwangho;Baek, Yong;Kim, Seungjin
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.5-14
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    • 2019
  • Recently, earthquakes have occurred in our country and seismic stability of high-rise buildings in large cities is being a growing interest and thus the related studies have been increased. Also the grounds are considered indirectly in most of seismic designs and analyses and seismic researches based on 3D dynamic analysis are insufficient. In this study, therefore, 2D and 3D dynamic analyses were performed based on the SSI complete model including grounds and the behavior was compared and analyzed. For dynamic modeling, linear time history analyses were performed by using MIDAS GTS NX. For this purpose, a high-rise building was assumed to be constructed on top of the bedrock and surrounded by a surface layer. A sensitivity analysis was performed with the selected parameters. The dynamic behavior was compared and analyzed in terms of horizontal displacements, drift ratios, bending stresses, and weak parts. In most cases, 2D dynamic behavior was calculated to be larger than 3D's and thus it shows more conservative results with increasing number and size of weak parts.

Viator vitreocola gen. et sp. nov. (Stylonematophyceae), a new red alga on drift glass debris in Oregon and Washington, USA

  • Hansen, Gayle I.;West, John A.;Yoon, Hwan Su;Goodman, Christopher D.;Goer, Susan Loiseaux-de;Zuccarello, Giuseppe C.
    • ALGAE
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.71-90
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    • 2019
  • A new encrusting red alga was found growing abundantly on glass debris items that drifted ashore along the coasts of Oregon and Washington. These included discarded fluorescent tubes, incandescent light bulbs, capped liquor bottles, and ball-shaped fishing-net floats. Field collections and unialgal cultures of the alga revealed that it consisted of two morphological phases: a young loosely aggregated turf and a mature consolidated mucilaginous crust. The turf phase consisted of a basal layer of globose cells that produced erect, rarely branched, uniseriate to multiseriate filaments up to $500{\mu}m$ long with closely spaced cells lacking pit-plugs. These filaments expanded in size from their bases to their tips and released single cells as spores. At maturity, a second phase of growth occurred that produced a consolidated crust, up to $370{\mu}m$ thick. It consisted of a basal layer of small, tightly appressed ellipsoidal-to-elongate cells that generated a mucilaginous perithallial matrix containing a second type of filament with irregularly spaced cells often undergoing binary division. At the matrix surface, the original filaments continued to grow and release spores but often also eroded. Individual cells, examined using confocal microscopy and SYBR Green staining, were found to contain a central nucleus, a single highly lobed peripheral chloroplast without a pyrenoid, and numerous chloroplast nucleoids. Morphological data from field and culture isolates and molecular data (rbcL, psbA, and SSU) show that this alga is a new genus and species which we name Viator vitreocola, "a traveller on glass."

Discovery of a New Mechanism to Release Complex Molecules from Icy Grain Mantles around Young Stellar Objects

  • Hoang, Thiem;Tram, Le Ngoc
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.44 no.1
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    • pp.70.4-70.4
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    • 2019
  • Complex organic molecules (COMs) are increasingly observed in the environs of young stellar objects (YSOs), including hot cores/corinos around high-mass/low-mass protostars and protoplanetary disks. It is widely believed that COMs are first formed in the ice mantle of dust grains and subsequently released to the gas by thermal sublimation at high temperatures (T>100 K) in strong stellar radiation fields. In this paper, we report a new mechanism that can desorb COMs from icy grain mantles at low temperatures (T<100K), which is termed rotational desorption. The rotational desorption process of COMs comprises two stages: (1) ice mantles on suprathermally rotating grains spun-up by radiative torques (RATs) are first disrupted into small fragments by centrifugal stress, and (2) COMs and water ice then evaporate rapidly from the tiny fragments (i.e., radius a <1nm) due to thermal spikes or enhanced thermal sublimation due to increased grain temperature for larger fragments (a>1 nm). We discuss the implications of rotational desorption for releasing COMs and water ice in the inner region of protostellar envelopes (hot cores and corinos), photodissociation regions, and protoplanetary disks (PPDs). In shocked regions of stellar outflows, we find that nanoparticles can be spun-up to suprathermal rotation due to supersonic drift of neutral gas, such that centrifugal force can be sufficient to directly eject some molecules from the grain surface, provided that nanoparticles are made of strong material. Finally, we find that large aggregates (a~ 1-100 micron) exposed to strong stellar radiations can be disrupted into individual icy grains via RAdiative Torque Disruption (RATD) mechanism, which is followed by rotational desorption of ice mantles and evaporation of COMs. In the RATD picture, we expect some correlation between the enhancement of COMs and the depletion of large dust grains in not very dense regions of YSOs.

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Seasonal and local time variations of sporadic E layer over South Korea

  • Jo, Eunbyeol;Kim, Yong Ha;Moon, Suin;Kwak, Young-Sil
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.61-68
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    • 2019
  • We have investigated the variations of sporadic E (Es) layer using the measurements of digisondes at Icheon ($37.14^{\circ}N$, $127.54^{\circ}E$, IC) and Jeju ($33.4^{\circ}N$, $126.30^{\circ}E$, JJ) in 2011-2018. The Es occurrence rate and its critical frequency (foEs) have peak values in summer at both IC and JJ in consistent with their known seasonal variations at mid-latitudes. The virtual height of the Es layer (h'Es) during equinox months is greater than that in other months. It may be related to the similar variation of meteor peak heights. The h'Es shows the semidiurnal variations with two peaks at early in the morning and late in the afternoon during equinoxes and summer. However, the semi-diurnal variation is not obvious in winter. The semi-diurnal variation is generally thought to be caused by the semi-diurnal tidal variation in the neutral wind shear, whose measurements, however, are rare and not available in the region of interest. To investigate the formation mechanism of Es, we have derived the vertical ion drift velocity using the Horizontal Wind Model (HWM) 14, International Geomagnetic Reference Field, and Naval Research Laboratory Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter Radar-00 models. Our results show that h'Es preferentially occur at the altitudes where the direction of the vertical ion velocity changes. This result indicates the significant role of ion convergence in the creation of Es.

Semi-active seismic control of a 9-story benchmark building using adaptive neural-fuzzy inference system and fuzzy cooperative coevolution

  • Bozorgvar, Masoud;Zahrai, Seyed Mehdi
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2019
  • Control algorithms are the most important aspects in successful control of structures against earthquakes. In recent years, intelligent control methods rather than classical control methods have been more considered by researchers, due to some specific capabilities such as handling nonlinear and complex systems, adaptability, and robustness to errors and uncertainties. However, due to lack of learning ability of fuzzy controller, it is used in combination with a genetic algorithm, which in turn suffers from some problems like premature convergence around an incorrect target. Therefore in this research, the introduction and design of the Fuzzy Cooperative Coevolution (Fuzzy CoCo) controller and Adaptive Neural-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) have been innovatively presented for semi-active seismic control. In this research, in order to improve the seismic behavior of structures, a semi-active control of building using Magneto Rheological (MR) damper is proposed to determine input voltage of Magneto Rheological (MR) dampers using ANFIS and Fuzzy CoCo. Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used to optimize the performance of controllers. In this paper, the design of controllers is based on the reduction of the Park-Ang damage index. In order to assess the effectiveness of the designed control system, its function is numerically studied on a 9-story benchmark building, and is compared to those of a Wavelet Neural Network (WNN), fuzzy logic controller optimized by genetic algorithm (GAFLC), Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) and Clipped Optimal Control (COC) systems in terms of seismic performance. The results showed desirable performance of the ANFIS and Fuzzy CoCo controllers in considerably reducing the structure responses under different earthquakes; for instance ANFIS and Fuzzy CoCo controllers showed respectively 38 and 46% reductions in peak inter-story drift ($J_1$) compared to the LQG controller; 30 and 39% reductions in $J_1$ compared to the COC controller and 3 and 16% reductions in $J_1$ compared to the GAFLC controller. When compared to other controllers, one can conclude that Fuzzy CoCo controller performs better.

A Study on the Drift of Cybersecurity Law by Element Analysis of Political Gridlock (입법교착 요소로 분석한 사이버안보법 표류에 관한 연구)

  • Bang, Hyu;Kwon, Hun-Yeong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.801-816
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    • 2021
  • This study analyzes the political and legislative progress that although basic acts to establish an integrated system of cybersecurity are steadily being proposed, they have not been passed as legislative deadlocks under the two major parties. It shall be analyzed through Korea's legislative system, including differences in contents and interests of the disposal act, the timing and cycle of election ect. The study analyzes why the basic cybersecurity law was previously scrapped and faced political gridlock situation by analyzing the differences in the contents and interests of the two major parties, and the timing and cycle of the proposed legislation.

Application of Kriging Methods and Runoff Analysis using Ground Rainfall and Radar Rainfall (지상강우와 레이더강우를 이용한 크리깅 기법의 적용과 유출해석)

  • Lee, Myungjin;Jang, Hongsuk;Joo, Hongjun;Kang, Narae;Kim, Hung Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2016.05a
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    • pp.287-287
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    • 2016
  • 최근 기후변화로 인해 돌발성 집중호우가 증가하는 추세로 홍수피해가 발생하고 있는데 이러한 피해를 예방하고 빠른 대처를 위해 강우의 정밀한 관측뿐만 아니라 강우의 정확한 공간 분포 파악에 대한 필요성이 중요하게 대두되고 있다. 그러나 일반적으로 지상우량계의 경우, 공간적인 강우분포 분석에 한계가 존재하여 레이더 강우자료와 함께 활용하는 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 강우장 추정시, 공간보간 기법인 크리깅 기법을 적용하여 강우장을 추정하고 유출 해석을 통해 그 적용성을 확인하고자 하였다. 국내에서 일반적으로 사용되는 크리깅 기법인 OK(Ordinary Kriging), CK(Co-Kriging) 외에도 KED(Kriging with External Drift) 기법을 적용하여 강우장을 추정하고 분포형 수문모형인 $Vflo^{TM}$의 입력자료로 사용하여 유출해석시 정확도를 비교 분석하였다. 추정된 강우장의 정량적 평가 결과, 지상강우만을 이용하는 OK 기법이 가장 우수한 결과를 나타내었다. 하지만 강우의 공간 분포 특성 반영 측면에서는 KED와 CK가 보다 더 좋은 결과를 나타내었다. 또한 유출해석의 경우 지형학적 매개변수 조정에 의한 강우 입력자료의 왜곡을 배제하기 위해 검 보정은 실시하지 않았으며 오차분석 결과에서 KED, CK, OK, Radar 순으로 관측유량을 잘 재현하는 것으로 확인되었다. 본 연구를 통해 공간보간 기법의 수문학적 적용성을 확인하였으며 모형의 검 보정을 통해 수문모형의 입력자료로서 활용성을 가질 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 또한 이를 통해 생성된 강우장을 활용한다면, 관측망의 밀도가 낮은 지역과 미계측 유역 등에 적용하여 수문시스템해석에 도움이 될 것으로 판단된다.

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Development of Ice Load Generation Module to Evaluate Station-Keeping Performance for Arctic Floating Structures in Time Domain

  • Kang, Hyun Hwa;Lee, Dae-Soo;Lim, Ji-Su;Lee, Seung Jae;Jang, Jinho;Jung, Kwang Hyo;Lee, Jaeyong
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.394-405
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    • 2020
  • To assess the station-keeping performance of floating structures in the Arctic region, the ice load should be considered along with other environmental loads induced by waves, wind, and currents. However, present methods for performance evaluation in the time domain are not effective in terms of time and cost. An ice load generation module is proposed based on the experimental data measured at the KRISO ice model basin. The developed module was applied to a time domain simulation. Using the results of a captive model test conducted in multiple directions, the statistical characteristics of ice loads were analyzed and processed so that an ice load corresponding to an arbitrary angle of the structure could be generated. The developed module is connected to commercial dynamic analysis software (OrcaFlex) as an external force input. Station-keeping simulation in the time domain was conducted for the same floating structure used in the model test. The mooring system was modeled and included to reflect the designed operation scenario. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed ice generation module and its application to station-keeping performance evaluation. Considering the generated ice load, the designed structure can maintain a heading angle relative to ice up to 4°. Station-keeping performance is enhanced as the heading angle conforms to the drift direction. It is expected that the developed module will be used as a platform to verify station-keeping algorithms for Arctic floating structures with a dynamic positioning system.