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Effects of water saturation time on energy dissipation and burst propensity of coal specimens

  • Yang, Xiaohan;Ren, Ting;Tan, Lihai;Remennikov, Alex
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.205-213
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    • 2021
  • Water infusion has long been taken as an effective way to eliminate coal burst risk as coal properties can be loosen and soften by water infusion. However, not all industrial trials of water infusion for coal burst prevention have been necessarily effective in all situations as the effectiveness of this method can be affected by water infusion time, coal properties and the parameters of water injection. Hence, some fundamental issues including the effects of water infusion time on burst propensity and energy evolution need to be further discussed. In this paper, four groups of coal specimens with 0 day, 5 days, 10 days, and 15 days water saturation time are tested under uniaxial compression load with the application of AE monitoring. To comprehensively compare the burst behavior of coal specimens under different water saturation time, stress-strain curves, AE counts, fragmentation characteristics and burst propensity of these groups are analyzed. It was found by this research that sufficient water saturation can mitigate the burst behavior of coal samples while insufficient water infusion might cannot reach the burst mitigation aims.

Environmental Fatigue Crack Propagation Behavior of Aged Cast Stainless Steel (열화 주조 스테인리스강의 환경피로균열 진전 거동)

  • Jeong, Ill-Seok;Lee, Yong-Sung;Kim, Sang-Jai;Song, Taek-Ho;Cho, Sun-Young
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.78-83
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    • 2004
  • Environmental fatigue crack propagation of CF8M and CF8A steels used in the domestic PWR were investigated on the simulated PWR condition(Temperature: $316^{\circ}C$, Pressure: 15MPa). The test equipment for environmental fatigue(high temperature-high pressure loop, autoclave, load frame, measurement system) were designed. As-received and 60-year aged specimens were used in the test. To compare with environmental fatigue test, another test was performed in the air condition. The fracture surface of specimens were difficult to verify the fracture modes such as striation, intergranular crack and cleavage and so on. As the ferrite content of CF8M is increased, more particles covered fracture surface were peeled.

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A Newly Recorded Sea Star of Genus Henricia (Asteroidea: Spinulosida: Echinasteridae) from Jeju Island, Korea

  • Shin, Sook;Ubagan, Michael D.
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.390-393
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    • 2015
  • Some asteroid specimens were collected at a depth of 150 m near Moseulpo in Jeju Island, Korea using fishing nets on October 2014. The specimens were identified as Henricia pacifica Hayashi, 1940 belonging to the family Echinasteridae of order Spinulosida. In the Korean fauna, seven species of genus Henricia were reported of which two species, H. nipponica and H. ohshimai, were distributed in Jeju Island. The morphological characteristics of this species were re-described with illustrations.

A Newly Recorded Sea Star of Genus Henricia (Asteroidea: Spinulosida: Echinasteridea) from the East Sea of Korea

  • Shin, Sook;Ubagan, Michael D.
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.197-200
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    • 2015
  • Asteroid specimens were collected from Shinnam, Gangwondo in the East Sea of Korea with fishing nets on 12 September 2014. The specimens were identified as Henricia reticulata Hayashi, 1940, belonging to family Echinasteridea of order Spinulosida. This species can be distinguished by a larger disc and broader arms compared to those other Henricia species. The morphological characteristics of this species are re-described with illustrations. By previous work of this genus, six species have been reported in the Korean fauna.

New Records of Three Dysteriids (Ciliophora: Pyllopharyngea) from Korea

  • Park, Mi-Hyun;Min, Gi-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.189-196
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    • 2015
  • We verified three ciliates - Dysteria brasiliensis Faria et al., 1922, Dysteria lanceolata ${Clapar\grave{e}ede}$ and Lachmann, 1859, and Dysteria ovalis (Gourret and Roeser, 1886) Kahl, 1931 - as previously unrecorded species in Korea. These three ciliates were collected from Incheon Harbor and Geojin Harbor in Korea. We describe the three species based on live observations, protargolimpregnated specimens, and silver nitrate-impregnated specimens.

A Newly Recorded Species of the Genus Araniella Chamberin et Ivie, 1942 (Araneae:Araneidae) from Korea (한국산 꽃왕거미속(Araniella)의 1미기록종)

  • 김주필
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.17-19
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    • 1999
  • In the present paper, the author describes a newly recorded species, Araniella yaguinumai Tanikawa, 1995, from Korea. The specimens were collected from Chulwon, Kangwon-do, Korea. The examined specimens are deposited in the collection of the Arachno-logical Institute of Korea.

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Corrosion of Steel in Blended Concretes Containing OPC, PFA, GGBS and SF

  • Song, Ha-Won;Lee, Chang-Hong;Lee, Kewn Chu
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.171-176
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    • 2009
  • The chloride threshold level (CTL) in mixed concrete containing, ordinary Portland cement (OPC), pulverized fuel ash (PFA) ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS), and silica fume (SF) is important for study on corrosion of reinforced concrete structures. The CTL is defined as a critical content of chloride at the steel depth of the steel which causes the breakdown of the passive film. The criterion of the CTL represented by total chloride content has been used due to convenience and practicality. In order to demonstrate a relationship between the CTL by total chloride content and the CTL by free chloride content, corrosion test and chloride binding capacity test were carried out. In corrosion test, Mortar specimens were cast using OPC, PFA, GGBS and SF, chlorides were admixed ranging 0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.8, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0% by weight of binder. All specimens were cured 28 days, and then the corrosion rate was measured by the Tafel's extrapolation method. In chloride binding capacity, paste specimens were casting using OPC, PFA, GGBS and SF, chlorides were admixed ranging 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0% by weight of binders. At 28days, solution mixed with the powder of ground specimens was used to measure binding capacity. All specimens of both experiments were wrapped in polythene film to avoid leaching out of chloride and hydroxyl ions. As a result, the CTL by total chloride content ranged from 0.36-1.44% by weight of binders and the CTL by free chloride content ranged from 0.14-0.96%. Accordingly, the difference was ranging, from 0.22 to 0.48% by weight of binder. The order of difference for binder is OPC > 10% SF > 30% PFA > 60% GGBS.

Flexural and Punching Behaviors of Concrete Strengthening with FRP Sheets and Steel Fibers under Low-Velocity Impact Loading (FRP 시트 및 강섬유 보강 콘크리트의 저속 충격에서의 휨 및 펀칭 파괴 거동)

  • Min, Kyung-Hwan;Shin, Hyun-Oh;Yoo, Doo-Yeol;Yoon, Young-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2011
  • In this study, in order to observe the behaviors of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) strengthened and steel fiber reinforced concrete specimens for impact and static loads, flexural and punching tests were performed. For the one-way flexural and two-way punching tests, concrete specimens with the dimensions of $50{\times}100{\times}350$ mm and $50{\times}350{\times}350$ mm were fabricated, respectively. The steel fiber reinforced concrete specimens showed much enhanced resistance on two-way punching of static and impact loads. In addition the FRP strengthening system provided the outstanding performance under a punching load. Because of a large tensile strength and toughness of ultra high performance concrete (UHPC), the UHPC specimens retrofitted with FRP showed marginally enhanced strength and energy dissipating capacity.

Merging the cryptic genera Radicilingua and Calonitophyllum (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta): molecular phylogeny and taxonomic revision

  • Wolf, Marion A.;Sciuto, Katia;Maggs, Christine A.;Petrocelli, Antonella;Cecere, Ester;Buosi, Alessandro;Sfriso, Adriano
    • ALGAE
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    • v.36 no.3
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    • pp.165-174
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    • 2021
  • Radicilingua Papenfuss and Calonitophyllum Aregood are two small genera of the family Delesseriaceae that consist of only three and one taxonomically accepted species, respectively. The type species of these genera, Radicilingua thysanorhizans from England and Calonitophyllum medium from the Americas, are morphologically very similar, with the only recognized differences being vein size and procarp development. To date, only other two species were recognized inside the genus Radicilingua: R. adriatica and R. reptans. In this study, we analysed specimens of Radicilingua collected in the Adriatic and Ionian Sea (Mediterranean), including a syntype locality of R. adriatica (Trieste, northern Adriatic Sea), alongside material from near the type locality of R. thysanorhizans (Torpoint, Cornwall, UK). The sequences of the rbcL-5P gene fragment here produced represent the first molecular data available for the genus Radicilingua. Phylogenetic reconstruction showed that the specimens from the Adriatic and Ionian Seas were genetically distinct from the Atlantic R. thysanorhizans, even if morphologically overlapping with this species. A detailed morphological description of the Mediterranean specimens, together with an accurate literature search, suggested that they were distinct also from R. adriatica and R. reptans. For these reasons, a new species was here described to encompass the Mediterranean specimens investigated in this study: R. mediterranea Wolf, Sciuto & Sfriso. Moreover, in the rbcL-5P tree, sequences of the genera Radicilingua and Calonitophyllum grouped in a well-supported clade, distinct from the other genera of the subfamily Nitophylloideae, leading us to propose that Calonitophyllum medium should be transferred to Radicilingua.

Changes in Sound Absorption Capability and Air Permeability of Malas (Homalium foetidum) Specimens after High Temperature Heat Treatment

  • Kang, Chun-Won;Li, Chengyuan;Jang, Eun-Suk;Jang, Sang-Sik;Kang, Ho-Yang
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.149-154
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    • 2018
  • The changes in sound absorption capability and air permeability of Malas wood after high temperature heat treatment were investigated. The average air permeability of Malas in longitudinal direction after heated under the temperature of $190^{\circ}C$ during 3 hours was about 23.48 darcys and that of control was about 3.11 darcys. The noise reduction coefficients of Malas specimens were 17% for treatment and 10% for control. The means of sound absorption coefficient of specimens in the frequency range of 50~6,400 Hz were 42% for treatment and 17% for control, respectively.