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The UNESCO Action Plan and 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals for Climate Change

  • Thriveni, Thenepalli;Ramakrishna, Chilakala;Habte, Lulit;Ahn, Ji Whan
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.89-94
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    • 2018
  • UNESCO is an international specialized agency based on the United Nations (UN) located in the Paris. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization abbreviated as UNESCO. The mission and goal of UNESCO are to maintain the peace and security throughout the globe by encouraging international collaborations through educational, scientific, and cultural heritage in order to increase respect for principals of justice, international rules of law, and international human rights. Recently, the UNESCO published a new set of 17 goals for the nation's sustainable society. The Organization ensures to actively participate in UN activities to improve harmony and planning within the United Nations system. The 2030 agenda is primarily about shifting the world on to a sustainable and most in-depth. Currently, UNESCO launched broad goals and objectives for the international community including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Among these sustainable goals, climate change, water security is more significant. In this paper, we briefly reviewed the seventeen goals by UNESCO.

Eurocode 4: A modern code for the design of composite structures

  • Stark, Jan
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.327-343
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    • 2005
  • The European Standards Organisation (CEN) has planned to develop a complete set of harmonized European building standards. The Eurocodes, being the design standards, form part of this total system of European standards, together with standards for fabrication and erection and product standards. After a period of experimental use of the ENV(European Pre Standard)-versions of the Eurocodes, these are now converted into official EN's (European Standards). Design of composite steel and concrete buildings and bridges is covered by Eurocode 4. An overview will be given of the historic development of Eurocode 4, the structure and contents of the EN version and the present status and planning for completion. The Eurocode treatment of some selected technical items will be presented in more detail.

Optimization of trusses under uncertainties with harmony search

  • Togan, Vedat;Daloglu, Ayse T.;Karadeniz, Halil
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.543-560
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    • 2011
  • In structural engineering there are randomness inherently exist on determination of the loads, strength, geometry, and so on, and the manufacturing of the structural members, workmanship etc. Thus, objective and constraint functions of the optimization problem are functions that depend on those randomly natured components. The constraints being the function of the random variables are evaluated by using reliability index or performance measure approaches in the optimization process. In this study, the minimum weight of a space truss is obtained under the uncertainties on the load, material and cross-section areas with harmony search using reliability index and performance measure approaches. Consequently, optimization algorithm produces the same result when both the approaches converge. Performance measure approach, however, is more efficient compare to reliability index approach in terms of the convergence rate and iterations needed.

Real-Time Digital Image Stabilization for Cell Phone Cameras in Low-Light Environments without Frame Memory

  • Luo, Lin-Bo;Chong, Jong-Wha
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.138-141
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    • 2012
  • This letter proposes a real-time digital image stabilization system for cell phone cameras without the need for frame memory. The system post-processes an image captured with a safe shutter speed using an adaptive denoising filter and a global color correction algorithm. This system can transfer the normal brightness of an image previewed under long exposure to the captured image making it bright and crisp with low noise. It is even possible to take photos in low-light conditions. By not needing frame memory, the approach is feasible for integration into the size-constrained image sensors of cell phone cameras.

RSA vs DEM in view of particle packing-related properties of cementitious materials

  • Li, Kai;Stroeven, Piet
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.83-91
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    • 2018
  • Various systems for simulating particulate matter are developed and used in concrete technology for producing virtual cementitious materials on the different levels of the microstructure. Basically, the systems can be classified as two distinct families, namely random sequential addition systems (RSAs) and discrete element methods (DEMs). The first type is hardly being used for this purpose outside concrete technology, but became popular among concrete technologists. Hence, it is of utmost relevance to compare the two families in their capabilities, so that the reliability of produced data can be estimated. This paper pursues to do this on the basis of earlier published material of work performed by a succession of PhD students in the group of the second author. Limited references will be given to external sources.

Stress distribution in a passive fully grouted rock bolts

  • Karanam U. M. Rao;Dasyapu S. K.
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.122-128
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    • 2003
  • Rock bolts are widely used as a supplementary roof support system in hard-rock mining since a long time. Since the performance of fully grouted passive bolts depends on bond strength, in the present investigation extensive laboratory pull-out as well as push-out tests were conducted varying the bolt diameter, length and cement-water mixing ratios of grout. The load-displacement curves were developed and were verified with the numerical results obtained from finite element analysis using ALGOR software. Numerical models were validated for push-out tests and a detailed analysis was carried out to know the displacement, stress, strain distribution along the bolt.

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Bottom sediments of the Asan bay, west coast of Korea (아산만일대(牙山灣一帶) 해저퇴적물(海底堆積物)에 대(對)하여)

  • Kim, Sung-woo;Chang, Jeong-hae;Park, Yong-ahn
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.81-88
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    • 1978
  • Nearly 300 bottom sediments and 20 box-cores were sampled from the Asan bay. The central portion of the Asan bay is covered by sand, slightly gravelly sand and gravelly muddy sand. Between the central and marginal zones gravelly mud and slightly gravelly sandy mud are characteristically distributed. The gravel population in the sediments seems to be originated from the rocky bottom on the area near the bay because the gravel is angular and composed of the schist and gneiss. The quartz/feldspar ratio is about 3/2. It is considered to be that the amount of feldspar in this bay is much higher than that of any other areas in the Yellow Sea. This is considerd to be comparatively short distance of transport ion of these sediment from the provenance.

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Calcium Sulfo Aluminate (CSA) Cement from Coal Ash Utilized as Barriers for Radioactive Waste Disposal

  • Ramakrishna, Chilakala;Thriveni, Thenepalli;Whan, Ahn Ji
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we reviewed briefly about the barrier materials for the radioactive waste disposal. The primary concept of the radioactive waste disposal is safety. The goal of the radioactive waste management is to assure that the environment is not adversely affected and also public. There are a wide variety of materials are available for the radioactive waste disposal or storage. Among those coal fly ash is one of the significant materials are used as a barrier material. Here we reported, the Calcium sulfo aluminate (CSA) from coal fly ash is effectively suitable for the radioactive waste disposal. This is one of the ways of utilization of waste and manufactured the valuable materials for future indeeds.

A coupled damage-viscoplasticity model for the analysis of localisation and size effects

  • Georgin, J.F.;Sluys, L.J.;Reynouard, J.M.
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.169-188
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    • 2004
  • A coupled damage-viscoplasticity model is presented for the analysis of localisation and size effects. On one hand, viscosity helps to avoid mesh sensitivity because of the introduction of a length scale in the model and, on the other hand, enables to represent size effects. Size effects were analysed by means of three-point bending tests. Correlation between the fracture energy parameter measured experimentally and the density fracture energy modelling parameter is discussed. It has been shown that the dependence of nominal strength and fracture energy on size is determined by the ligament length in comparison with the width of the fracture process zone.

지난 10년간 암석학회지에 수록된 논문의 피인용 통계

  • 박계헌
    • The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.54-61
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    • 2002
  • 한국암석학회에서 발간하는 암석학회지에 지난 10년간 수록된 논문들이 여러 학술지에 얼마나 인용되고 있는지에 대한 통계조사를 실시하였다 대상학술지는 암석학회지 자체를 비롯하여 SCI 등재 국제학술지, 그리고 관련된 분야에서 국내의 대표적 학술지라고 생각할 수 있는 지질학회지, Geosciences Journal, 자원환경지질, 지구과학회지를 대상으로 하였다. 결과를 보면 지난 10년간 암석학회지에 수록된 논문의 수는 논평과 단보를 포함하여 총152편이며 가장 많은 논문을 게재한 저자는 김형식으로 21편의 논문을 게재하였다 암석학회지 논문의 피인용 회수는 총370회로 암석학회지에 가장 많은 158회 인용되었으며. SCI 학술지에는 46회 인용된 것으로 조사되었고, 다른 국내 학국지 중에서는 지질학회지에 72회로 가장 많이 인용되었다 가장 많은 피인용 빈도를 보인 논문은 Liu(1993)로 총 27회이고, 가장 많은 피인용 회수를 보인 저자는 권성택으로 81회이다. 다른 국내학술지들의 피인용 통계자료가 없어 직접적인 비교를 하기는 어렵지만 관련 분야의 학술지 중에서는 피인용 정도가 정상급 수준이라고 판단된다. 그러나 아직 여러 기준으로 볼 때 수준급인 국제학술지와는 차이가 있으며 더욱 개선되어야 할 것으로 생각한다.