• Animal Bioscience
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• 제35권8호
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• pp.1215-1222
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• 2022

Objective: A feeding trial was carried out to determine the effect of dietary inclusion of silymarin seed extract on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, excreta microbiota, excreta gas emission, blood profiles, and meat quality in broilers. Methods: A total of 1,088 one-day-old Ross 308 broiler chicks (mixed-sex) with an initial body weight of 42.34±0.82 g, were randomly allocated into 1 of 4 dietary treatments with 17 replicates of 16 chicks per cage and fed a basal diet supplemented with 0%, 0.02%, 0.04%, and 0.06% of silymarin. Results: The inclusion of silymarin supplementation linearly increased the body weight of broilers during days 7 to 21 and 1 to 35 days. On day 35, broilers fed a diet containing graded levels of silymarin supplementation linearly increased the nutrient digestibility of dry matter, gross energy, and nitrogen and cecal Lactobacillus counts (p = 0.038). While silymarin supplement linearly reduced the methyl mercaptans (p = 0.039) and acetic acid (p = 0.007) emission in broilers. No significant effects were observed on the blood profile. Relative weights of organs such as breast muscle, bursa of fabricius were increased (linear effect, p<0.05), water holding capacity was enhanced by increasing the silymarin level from 0% to 0.06%. A linear reduction (p>0.05) in drip loss from meat samples during days 1, 3, 5, and 7 by the addition of graded level of silymarin to the diet. Conclusion: An increasing level of silymarin supplementation to the diet of broiler would be beneficial to enhance growth performance, nutrient digestibility, excreta microflora, blood profile, and meat quality traits.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.141-164
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• 2018

In this paper, the thermal effect on buckling and free vibration characteristics of functionally graded (FG) size-dependent Timoshenko nanobeams subjected to an in-plane thermal loading are investigated by presenting a Navier type solution for the first time. Material properties of FG nanobeam are supposed to vary continuously along the thickness according to the power-law form and the material properties are assumed to be temperature-dependent. The small scale effect is taken into consideration based on nonlocal elasticity theory of Eringen. The nonlocal equations of motion are derived based on Timoshenko beam theory through Hamilton's principle and they are solved applying analytical solution. According to the numerical results, it is revealed that the proposed modeling can provide accurate frequency results of the FG nanobeams as compared to some cases in the literature. The detailed mathematical derivations are presented and numerical investigations are performed while the emphasis is placed on investigating the effect of the several parameters such as thermal effect, material distribution profile, small scale effects, aspect ratio and mode number on the critical buckling temperature and normalized natural frequencies of the temperature-dependent FG nanobeams in detail. It is explicitly shown that the thermal buckling and vibration behaviour of a FG nanobeams is significantly influenced by these effects. Numerical results are presented to serve as benchmarks for future analyses of FG nanobeams.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.205-225
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• 2016

In this study the finite element method is utilized to predict the deflection and vibration characteristics of rectangular plates made of saturated porous functionally graded materials (PFGM) within the framework of the third order shear deformation plate theory. Material properties of PFGM plate are supposed to vary continuously along the thickness direction according to the power-law form and the porous plate is assumed of the form where pores are saturated with fluid. Various edge conditions of the plate are analyzed. The governing equations of motion are derived through energy method, using calculus of variations while the finite element model is derived based on the constitutive equation of the porous material. According to the numerical results, it is revealed that the proposed modeling and finite element approach can provide accurate deflection and frequency results of the PFGM plates as compared to the previously published results in literature. The detailed mathematical derivations are presented and numerical investigations are performed while the emphasis is placed on investigating the effect of the several parameters such as porosity volume fraction, material distribution profile, mode number and boundary conditions on the natural frequencies and deflection of the PFGM plates in detail. It is explicitly shown that the deflection and vibration behaviour of porous FGM plates are significantly influenced by these effects. Numerical results are presented to serve as benchmarks for future analyses of FGM plates with porosity phases.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.295-318
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• 2018

This research studies thermo-elastic behavior of rotating micro discs that are employed in various micro devices such as micro gas turbines. It is assumed that material is functionally graded with a variable profile thickness, density, shear modulus and thermal expansion in terms of radius of micro disc and as a power law function. Boundary condition is considered fixed-free with uniform thermal loading and elastic field is symmetric. Using incompressible material's constitutive equation, we extract governing differential equation of four orders; to solution this equation, we utilize general differential quadrature (GDQ) method and the results are schematically pictured. The obtained result in a particular case is compared with another work and coincidence of results is shown. We will find out that surface effect tends to split micro disc's area to compressive and tensile while nonlocal parameter tries to converge different behaviors with each other; this convergence feature make FGIMs capable to resist in high temperature and so in terms of thermo-elastic behavior we can suggest, using FGIMs in micro devices such as micro turbines (under glass transition temperature).

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.463-472
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• 2019

Initial thermo-elastic and steady state creep deformation of a rotating functionally graded simple blade is studied using first-order shear deformation theory. A variable thickness model for cantilever beam has been considered. The blade geometry and loading are defined as functions of length so that one can define his own blade profile and loading using any arbitrary function. The blade is subjected to a transverse distributed load, an inertia body force due to rotation and a distributed temperature field due to a thermal gradient between the tip and the root. All mechanical and thermal properties except Poisson's ratio are assumed to be longitudinally variable based on the volume fraction of reinforcement. The creep behaviour is modelled by Norton's law. Considering creep strains in stress strain relation, Prandtl-Reuss relations, Norton' law and effective stress relation differential equation in term of effective creep strain is established. This differential equation is solved numerically. By effective creep strain, steady state stresses and deflections are obtained. It is concluded that reinforcement particle size and form of distribution of reinforcement has significant effect on the steady state creep behavior of the blade.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.357-371
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• 2022

This paper presents a parametric study on the free vibration analysis of a functionally graded material (FGM) circular plate with non-uniform thickness resting on a variable Pasternak elastic foundation. The mechanical properties of the material vary in the transverse direction through the thickness of the plate according to the power-law distribution to represent the constituent components. The equation of motion of the circular plate has been carried out based on the classical plate theory (CPT), and the differential quadrature method (DQM) is employed to solve the governing equations as a semi-analytical method. The grid points are chosen based on Chebyshev-Gauss-Lobatto distribution to achieve acceptable convergence and better accuracy. The influence of geometric parameters, variable elastic foundation, and functionally graded variation for clamped and simply supported boundary conditions on the first three natural frequencies are investigated. Comparisons of results with similar studies in the literature have been presented and two-dimensional mode shapes for particular plates have been plotted to illustrate the effect of variable thickness profile.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.307-320
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• 1989

본 논문은 모재 제작을 위한 Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition(MCVD) 장치의 새로운 설계를 제안하였다. MCVD 공정의 기본 장치로는 선반장치와 원료가스공급 장치가 포함되고, 언덕형 광섬유 설계, 공정의 특성 및 MCVD 모재의 굴정율 형태를 측정하는 실험장치를 각기 실현하였다. 연구결과, 중심부 딥(dip)이나 범프(bump) 가 보이지 않는 이상적 언덕형 굴절율 광섬유 모재를 얻었다.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.641-665
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• 2014

This paper presents the analytical solutions for the size-dependent static analysis of the functionally graded (FG) beams with various boundary conditions based on the nonlocal continuum model. The nonlocal behavior is described by the differential constitutive model of Eringen, which enables to this model to become effective in the analysis and design of nanostructures. The elastic modulus of beam is assumed to vary through the thickness or longitudinal directions according to the power law. The governing equations are derived by using the nonlocal continuum theory incorporated with Euler-Bernoulli beam theory. The explicit solutions are derived for the static behavior of the transversely or axially FG beams with various boundary conditions. The verification of the model is obtained by comparing the current results with previously published works and a good agreement is observed. Numerical results are presented to show the significance of the nonlocal effect, the material distribution profile, the boundary conditions, and the length of beams on the bending behavior of nonlocal FG beams.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 경량 프로파일러를 이용한 프로파일을 측정하여 매크로 텍스쳐 크기를 산정하고 분석하였다. 밀입도, 배수성, SMA, 기층 포장에 대한 프로파일을 측정하여 포장에 사용된 골재에 의한 매크로 텍스쳐 크기를 분석하였으며, 재료분리가 일어난 지역의 프로파일을 측정하여 매크로 텍스쳐 깊이를 분석하였다. 본 연구 결과 프로파일 분석을 통하여 효과적으로 매크로 텍스쳐 크기를 산정할 수 있었으며, 아스팔트 혼합물 종류별로 텍스쳐 크기를 분석할 수 있었다. 또한, 매크로 텍스쳐 크기를 산정하여 분석함으로써 재료분리가 일어난 지역을 탐지할 수 있었다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.1131-1138
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 지하에 매설된 통신 관로를 레이저 투영 영상 분석에 의해 검사하는 새로운 기법을 제안한다. 레이저 다이오드, 발광 다이오드와 카메라로 구성된 장비가 관내에 직접 투입되며, 레이저 다이오드는 관벽에 투영 영상을 생성하고 발광 다이오드는 내부 조명 장치로 사용되며, 카메라는 관로 영상을 획득한다. 카메라에서 전달된 다양한 조건의 관로 영상에 대해 투영 영역을 정확히 분할하기 위하여, 새로운 객차 모델과 다중 임계치 기법을 이용한다. 분할된 투영 고리의 형상은 최소 직경과 푸리에 표기자에 의해 표현하여 관로의 상태를 규칙에 기반하여 분류한다. 국부적인 최소 직경과 전역적인 푸리에 표기자를 모두 사용하므로 파손된 관로, 찌그러진 관로 등의 다양한 조건에서 높은 분류 성능을 나타낼 수 있으며, 여러 상태의 영상에 대한 실험 결과는 2% 미만의 오분류로 높은 성능을 나타냈다.