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Technique to Evaluate Safety and Loaded Heavy Equipment Grade in RC Building during Demolition Work (RC건축물 해체공사의 안전성 평가기법 및 탑재장비 등급 제안)

  • Park, Seong-Sik;Lee, Bum-Sik;Kim, Hyo-Jin;Sohn, Chang-Hak
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.195-204
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    • 2011
  • During mechanical demolition of RC structures, weights of dismantling equipment and demolition waste of building are applied to unexpected load which did not be considered during the design of structural member. Nevertheless, the loading of dismantling equipment and dismantling process are mainly dependent on field managers' field workers' or experiences without considering safety of structural member by a structural engineer. It is urgently required that reflecting actual circumstance of mechanical demolition, safety evaluation method to evaluate the safety and the guideline for appropriate capacity of structural member to support dismantling equipment weight, be provided. Through site investigation and questionnaire on field workers, this paper proposed demolition waste load, load factor, strength reduction factor, and so on. These are essential to safe evaluation of a building, ready to demolition. Considering actual circumstance of mechanical demolition, safety evaluation method of building and design method of slab and beam was suggested to a dilapidated building. An capability to loading of dismantling equipment was proposed, applied to RC slab and RC beam. Therefore, the suggested safety evaluation method and the guideline for an capability to loading of dismantling equipment weight can reasonably evaluate the capacity of structural member in demolition and use effectively as increasing efficiency and improving safety of demolition through proper management of dismantling equipments.

Development of A Quantitative Risk Assessment Model by BIM-based Risk Factor Extraction - Focusing on Falling Accidents - (BIM 기반 위험요소 도출을 통한 정량적 위험성 평가 모델 개발 - 떨어짐 사고를 중심으로 -)

  • Go, Huijea;Hyun, Jihun;Lee, Juhee;Ahn, Joseph
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.15-25
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    • 2022
  • As the incidence and mortality of serious disasters in the construction industry are the highest, various efforts are being made in Korea to reduce them. Among them, risk assessment is used as data for disaster reduction measures and evaluation of risk factors at the construction stage. However, the existing risk assessment involves the subjectivity of the performer and is vulnerable to the domestic construction site. This study established a DB classification system for risk assessment with the aim of early identification and pre-removal of risks by quantitatively deriving risk factors using BIM in the risk assessment field and presents a methodology for risk assessment using BIM. Through this, prior removal of risks increases the safety of construction workers and reduces additional costs in the field of safety management. In addition, since it can be applied to new construction methods, it improves the understanding of project participants and becomes a tool for communication. This study proposes a framework for deriving quantitative risks based on BIM, and will be used as a base technology in the field of risk assessment using BIM in the future.

Powder Metallurgy for Light Weight and Ultra-Light Weight Materials

  • Kieback, B.;Stephani, G.;Weiβgarber, T.;Schubert, T.;Waag, U.;Bohm, A.;Anderson, O.;Gohler, H.;Reinfried, M.
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.10 no.6
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    • pp.383-389
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    • 2003
  • As in other areas of materials technology, the tendency towards light weight constructions becomes more and more important also for powder metallurgy. The development is mainly driven by the automotive industry looking for mass reduction of vehicles as a major factor for fuel economy. Powder metallurgy has to offer a number of interesting areas including the development of sintered materials of light metals. PM aluminium alloys with improved properties are on the way to replace ferrous pars. For high temperature applications in the engine, titanium aluminide based materials offer a great potential, e.g. for exhaust valves. The PM route using elemental powders and reactions sintering is considered to be a cost effective way for net shape parts production. Furthermore it is expected that lower costs for titanium raw materials coming from metallurgical activities will offer new chances for sintered parts with titanium alloys. The field of cellular metals expands with the hollow sphere technique, that can provide materials of many metals and alloys with a great flexibility in structure modifications. These structures are expected to be used in improving the safety (crash absoption) and noise reduction in cars in the near future and offer great potential for many other applications.

A Study on Cost Optimization of Preventive Maintenance for the Second Driving Devices for Korea Train Express (KTX 2차 구동장치에 대한 예방정비 비용의 최적화에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Jin-Tae;Kim, Chul-Su
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2016
  • Although the second driving device of KTX, which consists of the wheel and the axle reduction gears unit, is a mechanically integrated structure, its preventive maintenance (PM) requires two separate intervals due to the different technical requirements. In particular, these subsystems perform attaching and detaching work simultaneously according to the maintenance directive. Therefore, to reduce the unnecessary amount of PM and high logistic availability of the train, it is important to optimize PM with regard to reliability-centered maintenance toward a cost-effective solution. In this study, fault tree analysis and reliability of the subsystems, considering the criticality of the components, were performed using the data derived from field data in maintenance. The cost optimization of the PM was derived from a genetic algorithm considering the target reliability and improvement factor. The cost optimization was derived from a maximum of the fitness function of the individual in generation. The optimal TBO of them using the genetic algorithm was 2.85x106 km, which is reduced to approximately 21% compared to the conventional method.

A Hardware Implementation of the Underlying Field Arithmetic Processor based on Optimized Unit Operation Components for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems (타원곡선을 암호시스템에 사용되는 최적단위 연산항을 기반으로 한 기저체 연산기의 하드웨어 구현)

  • Jo, Seong-Je;Kwon, Yong-Jin
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.88-95
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    • 2002
  • In recent years, the security of hardware and software systems is one of the most essential factor of our safe network community. As elliptic Curve Cryptosystems proposed by N. Koblitz and V. Miller independently in 1985, require fewer bits for the same security as the existing cryptosystems, for example RSA, there is a net reduction in cost size, and time. In this thesis, we propose an efficient hardware architecture of underlying field arithmetic processor for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems, and a very useful method for implementing the architecture, especially multiplicative inverse operator over GF$GF (2^m)$ onto FPGA and futhermore VLSI, where the method is based on optimized unit operation components. We optimize the arithmetic processor for speed so that it has a resonable number of gates to implement. The proposed architecture could be applied to any finite field $F_{2m}$. According to the simulation result, though the number of gates are increased by a factor of 8.8, the multiplication speed We optimize the arithmetic processor for speed so that it has a resonable number of gates to implement. The proposed architecture could be applied to any finite field $F_{2m}$. According to the simulation result, though the number of gates are increased by a factor of 8.8, the multiplication speed and inversion speed has been improved 150 times, 480 times respectively compared with the thesis presented by Sarwono Sutikno et al. [7]. The designed underlying arithmetic processor can be also applied for implementing other crypto-processor and various finite field applications.

Lifetime Prediction of Geogrids for Reinforcement of Embankments and Slopes through Time-Temperature Superposition

  • Koo, Hyun-Jin;Kim, You-Kyum;Kim, Dong-Whan
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.147-154
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    • 2005
  • The creep resistance of geogrids is one of the most significant long-term safety characteristics used as the reinforcement in slopes and embankments. The failure of geogrids is defined as creep strain greater than 10%. In this study, the accelerated creep tests were applied to polyester geogrids at various loading levels of 30, 50% of the yield strengths and temperatures using newly designed test equipment. Also, the new test equipment permitted the creep testing at or above glass transition temperature($T_g$) of 75, 80, $85^{\circ}C$. The time-dependent creep behaviors were observed at various temperatures and loading levels. And then the creep curves were shifted and superposed in the time axis by applying time-temperature supposition principles. The shifting factors(AFs) were obtained using WLF equation. In predicting the lifetimes of geogrids, the underlying distribution for failure times were determined based on identification of the failure mechanism. The results confirmed that the failure distribution of geogrids followed Weibull distribution with increasing failure rate and the lifetimes of geogrids were close to 100 years which was required service life in the field with 1.75 of reduction factor of safety. Using the newly designed equipment, the creep test of geogrids was found to be highly accelerated. Furthermore, the time-temperature superposition with the newly designed test equipment was shown to be effective in predicting the lifetimes of geogrids with shorter test times and can be applied to the other geosynthetics.

Assessment of PM Emission Factors Made by Construction Machineries (건설현장의 공사장비에 의한 미세먼지 배출계수 평가)

  • Lee, Im Hack;Lee, Kyoung Bin;Kim, Jin Sik;Kim, Shin Do
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.311-318
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    • 2014
  • The goles of this study were that we calculated the difference between the emission factors currently used officially and the emission factors that calculated by atmospheric dispersion modeling results and actual field measurements of dust concentrations and that we investigated how we applied to the emission factors appropriate to the reality in Korea. At the results, we calculated the Business As Usual ambient dust concentration concerning U.S. EPA method emissions, and we thought that the emission reduction efficiency had to be 99.7% if the ambient dust concentration that measured in this study could be satisfied. In other words, U.S. EPA dust emission calculation method is very overestimated than reality, so it is important that our country obtain reliable construction site dust emissions estimation methods by continuous researches.

Impact of Work stopped on Site Productivity and Productivity Achievement Ratio (작업중단이 현장 생산성과 생산성달성율에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim Tae-Wan;Yu Jung-Ho;Lee Hyun-Soo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute Of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • autumn
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    • pp.311-314
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    • 2003
  • This study takes a statistical approach to quantify tile impact of wort stopped on the following day's site productivity. Therefore, this study is aimed to verify this null hypothesis: 'A work stopped in a construction field does not impact on the following day's productivity and productivity achievement ratio'. For the purpose, work, stopped is presumed as a dummy variable impacting site productivity in multiple linear regression analysis. Moreover, the quantified impact of work slopped on productivity achievement ratio is identified based on this study. This study shows that construction managers should persevere in their efforts to secure the work continuity in order to improve site productivity and productivity achievement ratio.

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An Equalizing Algorithm for Cell-to-Cell Interference Reduction in MLC NAND Flash Memory (MLC NAND 플래시 메모리의 셀 간 간섭현상 감소를 위한 등화기 알고리즘)

  • Kim, Doo-Hwan;Lee, Sang-Jin;Nam, Ki-Hun;Kim, Shi-Ho;Cho, Kyoung-Rok
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.59 no.6
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    • pp.1095-1102
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    • 2010
  • This paper presents an equalizer reducing CCI(cell-to-cell interference) in MLC NAND flash memory. High growth of the flash memory market has been driven by two combined technological efforts that are an aggressive scaling technique which doubles the memory density every year and the introduction of MLC(multi level cell) technology. Therefore, the CCI is a critical factor which affects occurring data errors in cells. We introduced an equation of CCI model and designed an equalizer reducing CCI based on the proposed equation. In the model, we have been considered the floating gate capacitance coupling effect, the direct field effect, and programming methods of the MLC NAND flash memory. Also we design and verify the proposed equalizer using Matlab. As the simulation result, the error correction ratio of the equalizer shows about 20% under 20nm NAND process where the memory channel model has serious CCI.

Estimation of Fugitive Dust Emission by Administrative Districts (전국 시도별 비산먼지 배출량 산정 (2001년도))

  • Kim H.G;Jung Y.W;Hong J. H
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.263-276
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    • 2004
  • According to the annual emission estimates of U.S.A., fugitive dust, the particulate matter entrained in the ambient air which is caused from man-made or natural activities such as movement of soil, vehicles, equipments and windblown dust, contributes 90% of PM$_{10}$ emission. In spite of an importance of fugitive dust emission in PM$_{10}$ estimation, it is excluded in the national emission inventory of Korea so far. In this paper, an emission inventory of fugitive dust for each region and in major cities throughout the country, which is the first time in Korea these values have been compiled, is presented. Sources of fugitive dust emission have been classified into paved/unpaved roads, construction operations, agricultural operations, and natural sources. The emission factors of the existing fugitive dust emission were reassessed in a way that significantly improved the reliability of the estimated result. The Korea's first national emission inventory of fugitive dust by administrative districts proposed in this paper would provide scientific reference data for establishing an reduction strategy of PM$_{10}$ and preparing effective control measures, and would contribute to academic achievement in the atmospheric environments field and the establishment of CAPSS (Clean Air Policy Support System).stem).