• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.73-77
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• 2014

Objective : The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of implant removal of percutaneous short segment fixation after vertebral fracture consolidation in terms of motion preservation. Methods : Between May 2007 and January 2011, 44 patients underwent percutaneous short segment screw fixation due to a thoracolumbar burst fracture. Sixteen of these patients, who underwent implant removal 12 months after screw fixation, were enrolled in this study. Motor power was intact in all patients, despite significant vertebral height loss and canal compromise. The patients were divided into two groups by degree of osteoporosis : Group A (n=8), the non-osteoporotic group, and Group B (n=8), the osteoporotic group. Imaging and clinical findings including vertebral height loss, kyphotic angle, range of motion (ROM), and complications were analyzed. Results : Significant pain relief was achieved in both groups at final follow-up versus preoperative values. In terms of vertebral height loss, both groups showed significant improvement at 12 months after screw fixation and restored vertebral height was maintained to final follow-up in spite of some correction loss. ROM (measured using Cobb's method) in flexion and extension in Group A was $10.5^{\circ}$ ($19.5/9.0^{\circ}$) at last follow-up, and in Group B was $10.2^{\circ}$ ($18.8/8.6^{\circ}$) at last follow-up. Both groups showed marked improvement in ROM as compared with the screw fixation state, which was considered motionless. Conclusion : Removal of percutaneous implants after vertebral fracture consolidation can be an effective treatment to preserve motion regardless of osteoporosis for thoracolumbar burst fractures.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.23-35
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• 2006

The effect of buildings on flow in urban canopy is one of the most important problems in local/micro-scale meteorology. A large eddy simulation model is used to simulate the flow structure in an urban neighborhood and the bulk effect of the buildings on surrounding flows is analyzed. The results demonstrate that: (a) The inflow conditions affect the detailed flow characteristics much in the building group, including: the distortion or disappearance of the wake vortexes, the change of funneling effect area and the change of location, size of the static-wind area. (b) The bulk effect of the buildings leads to a loss of wind speed in the low layer where height is less than four times of the average building height, and this loss effect changes little when the inflow direction changes. (c) In the bulk effect to environmental fields, the change of inflow direction affects the vertical distribution of turbulence greatly. The peak value of the turbulence energy appears at the height of the average building height. The attribution of fluctuations of different components to turbulence changes greatly at different height levels, in the low levels the horizontal speed fluctuation attribute mostly, while the vertical speed fluctuation does in high levels.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.4671-4676
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• 2010

화점높이 변화에 따른 풀 화재의 연소특성을 알아보기 위하여 인화성액체인 메탄올과 노르말 헵탄을 $100mm{\times}100mm{\times}50mm$ 크기의 사각형 용기에 내에 넣고 연소실험을 하였다. 용기의 재질은 스테인레스를 사용하였다. 연소시간, 질량감소속도, 화염온도, 화염높이 및 외부에서 화염으로의 공기유입속도 등을 측정하였으며 연소시 화염의 거동은 비디오카메라를 이용하여 촬영하였다. 실험을 통해서 화점의 높이가 증가할수록 외부에서 화염으로 유입되는 차가운 공기의 유입량이 증가하여 풀 화재의 연소특성이 감소함을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• 한국화재소방학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 지표화의 대표적인 연소물질인 굴참나무(Quercus Variabilis: Q.V.)와 소나무(Pinus Densiflora: P.D.) 낙엽을 이용하여 연료의 밀도 변화에 따른 열 유체속도, 연소온도, 질량감소속도, 화염높이 및 연소시간 등의 연소특성을 분석하였다. 바스켓 높이는 10cm, 지름 20, 30, 40 그리고 50cm의 원통형 바스켓에 밀도별로 각각 채운 후 표면에 점화원을 인가하여 실험을 실시하였다. 침엽수종 낙엽의 경우 밀도와 지름의 증가함에 따라 질량감소속도, 화염지속시간, 화염의 높이 그리고 연소시간은 증가한 반면, 활엽수종 낙엽의 경우 질량감소속도와 화염높이는 증가하다가 감소하였으며 화염지속시간과 연소시간은 증가하였다. 또한, 기체유속 및 온도는 화염 높이가 커질수록 증가하는 경향을 나타내었다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.205-213
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• 2016

Heat loss and fin efficiency of symmetric and asymmetric trapezoidal fins with variable slope of fin's top surface are obtained by using a two-dimensional analytic method. Shapes of symmetric and asymmetric fins are changed from rectangular through trapezoidal to triangular by adjusting the fin shape factor. The ratio of symmetric trapezoidal fin length to asymmetric trapezoidal fin length is presented as a function of fin base height and convection characteristic number. The ratio of symmetric trapezoidal fin efficiency to asymmetric trapezoidal fin efficiency is presented as a function of the fin base height and fin shape factor. One of results shows that asymmetric trapezoidal fin length is shorter than symmetric trapezoidal fin length (i.e., asymmetric trapezoidal fin volume is smaller than symmetric trapezoidal fin volume) for the same heat loss when the fin base height and fin shape factor are the same.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.14-22
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• 2007

측면 표면 기울기가 변화하는 역 사다리꼴 핀이 2차원 해석적 방법을 사용하여 최적화된다. 핀 바닥 경계조건을 위해서, 내부유체로부터 내벽까지의 대류와 내벽부터 핀 바닥까지의 전도가 고려된다. 핀 끝 면으로부터의 열손실은 무시되지 않는다. 실제적인 핀 길이에서의 최대 열손실, 그 최대 열손실이 발생할 때의 최적의 효율, 핀 길이 그리고 핀 바닥 높이가 핀 내 외부의 대류특성계수의 함수로 나타내어진다. 결과 중 하나는 핀 바닥 높이에 대한 핀 끝 높이의 비가 커질수록 최적의 핀 형상은 두껍고 짧아지는 형상이 됨을 보여준다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제72권4호
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• pp.479-489
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• 2019

The corrosion of reinforcement leads to a gradual decay of structural strength and durability. Several models for crack occurrence prediction and crack width propagation are investigated in this paper. Analytical and experimental models were used to predict the bond strength in the period of corrosion propagation. The manner of flexural strength loss is calculated by application of these models for different scenarios. As a new approach, the variation of the concrete beam neutral axis height has been evaluated, which shows a reduction in the neutral axis height for the scenarios without loss of bond. Alternatively, an increase of the neutral axis height was observed for the scenarios including bond and concrete section loss. The statistical properties of the parameters influencing the strength have been deliberated associated with obtaining the time-dependent bending strength during corrosion propagation, using Monte Carlo (MC) random sampling method. Results showed that the ultimate strain in concrete decreases significantly as a consequence of the bond strength reduction during the corrosion process, when the section reaches to its final limit. Therefore, such sections are likely to show brittle behavior.

• 한국유체기계학회 논문집
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.5-10
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• 2012

The effect of pressure-side opening length on three-dimensional flow fields and aerodynamic losses downstream of a cavity squealer tip has been investigated in a turbine rotor cascade for the squealer rim height-to-chord ratio and tip gap height-tochord ratio of $h_{st}/c$ = 5.05% and h/c = 2.0% respectively. The opening length-to-camber ratio is changed to be $OL/c_c$ = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, and 0.7 The results show that longer OL leads not only to weaker secondary flow but also to lower aerodynamic loss in the tip leakage vortex region, while it significantly widens the area with high aerodynamic loss in the passage vortex region. The aerodynamic loss coefficient mass-averaged all over the measurement plane is kept almost constant for $0.0{\leq}OL/c_c{\leq}0.3$, whereas it increases rapidly for $OL/c_c$ > 0.3 in proportion to $OL/c_c$. There is little deterioration in flow turning with increasing $OL/c_c$.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.388-397
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• 2000

Comparison of the heat conduction into a trapezoidal fin and the heat loss from the fin by convection is made in this study Also, the ratio of heat loss from each surface to the total heat loss and the temperature distribution are analyzed using a 3-D analytical method. A trapezoidal fin whose tip height is half the root height is chosen as the model. The results show that the heat transfer rates from the tip and from both sides are comparable with each other as the non-dimensional width and length vary while the heat transfer rate from the bottom and top is dominant.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.65-69
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• 2017

This paper presents a Technology-CAD (TCAD) simulation of the characteristics of crystalline Si pillar array solar cells. The junction depth and the surface concentration of the solar cells were optimized to obtain the targeted sheet resistance of the emitter region. The diffusion model was determined by calibrating the emitter doping profile of the microscale silicon pillars. The dimension parameters determining the pillar shape, such as width, height, and spacing were varied within a simulation window from ${\sim}2{\mu}m$ to $5{\mu}m$. The simulation showed that increasing pillar width (or diameter) and spacing resulted in the decrease of current density due to surface area loss, light trapping loss, and high reflectance. Although increasing pillar height might improve the chances of light trapping, the recombination loss due to the increase in the carrier's transfer length canceled out the positive effect to the photo-generation component of the current. The silicon pillars were experimentally formed by photoresist patterning and electroless etching. The laboratory results of a fabricated Si pillar solar cell showed the efficiency and the fill factor to be close to the simulation results.