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Seismic performance assessments of precast energy dissipation shear wall structures under earthquake sequence excitations

  • Zhang, Hao;Li, Chao;Wang, Zhi-Fang;Zhang, Cai-Yan
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.147-162
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    • 2020
  • This paper presents a novel precast energy dissipation shear wall (PEDSW) structure system that using mild steel dampers as dry connectors at the vertical joints to connect adjacent wall panels. Analytical studies are systematically conducted to investigate the seismic performance of the proposed PEDSW under sequence-type ground motions. During earthquake events, earthquake sequences have the potential to cause severe damage to structures and threaten life safety. To date, the damage probability of engineering structures under earthquake sequence has not been included in structural design codes. In this study, numerical simulations on single-story PEDSW are carried out to validate the feasibility and reliability of using mild steel dampers to connect the precast shear walls. The seismic responses of the PEDSW and cast-in-place shear wall (CIPSW) are comparatively studied based on nonlinear time-history analyses, and the effectiveness of the proposed high-rise PEDSW is demonstrated. Next, the foreshock-mainshock-aftershock type earthquake sequences are constructed, and the seismic response and fragility curves of the PEDSW under single mainshock and earthquake sequences are analyzed and compared. Finally, the fragility analysis of PEDSW structure under earthquake sequences is performed. The influences of scaling factor of the aftershocks (foreshocks) to the mainshocks on the fragility of the PEDSW structure under different damage states are investigated. The numerical results reveal that neglecting the effect of earthquake sequence can lead to underestimated seismic responses and fragilities, which may result in unsafe design schemes of PEDSW structures.

Comparison Analysis on Operation Characteristics of Design Consultancies between Korea and America (한국과 미국의 디자인컨설팅기업의 운영현황 비교 분석)

  • Lee, Jin Ryeol
    • Smart Media Journal
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.95-103
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to consider the action plans to make the industry of Korean design consultancies accomplish qualitative growth by comparing the operation characteristics of design consulting firms between Korean design firms and American ones. For this, questionnaire survey and comparison analysis was performed for the operation characteristics of 109 Korean design firms and 97 American ones. The analysis results shows that operation characteristics of Korean design firms comparing to those of American ones keep low in all 7 areas of building long-term partnership relationship, building multi- disciplinary organization, utilizing result-based compensation system, developing design at the strategic business level of clients, executing active design business, making convergent networking with other industry and performing specialized design services. In order to accomplish stable industry infrastructure of design consulting industry with qualitative growth, it requires continuous effort to execute 7 operation characteristics of Korean design firms.

Needs and Implementations of Enhanced Capstone Design Course in the Field of Civil Engineering (토목공학분야의 개선된 종합설계과목의 필요성 및 적용)

  • Kim, Jang-Ho Jay;Park, Joon-Hong;Choi, Sung-Uk;Heo, Jun-Haeng;Han, Kyong-Hee
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.152-163
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    • 2010
  • Civil engineering based on construction and maintenance of infrastructures for social and human development, it has a conservative aspects to adopt the high-technology and pace of change from ancient society. Therefore, the education of civil engineering consists of very similar contents from the past until now. Also, civil engineering, area is established the infrastructure widely included structure, geotechnical, hydraulic, environmental, surveying, construction management. Civil engineering have totally difference characteristics compared to manufacturing industry field for market interests such as mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, material engineering etc. Therefore, the capstone design concepts of civil engineering for public interests must be changed and applied unlike any other engineering areas capstone design. In this paper, the modified capstone design contents and instruction in civil engineering of Yonsei University is informed and evaluated using undergraduate students' course evaluations and learning assessment to verify the efficiency of modified capstone design in civil engineering.

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A Study on Design of Safety Transmission Unit for Next-Generation Train Control System (차세대 열차제어시스템 안전전송장치 설계에 관한 연구)

  • Tae-Woon Jung;Ho-Cheol Choo;Chae-Joo Moon
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.563-570
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    • 2023
  • The Safety Transmission Unit(STU) is a critical device used in railway systems to ensure safe and efficient operations by providing communication between trains and railway infrastructure. It is responsible for transmitting vital information and commands, allowing for the control and coordination of train movements. The STU plays a crucial role in maintaining the safety of passengers, crew, and the overall railway network. This paper presents the design and testing of a STU for the next-generation wireless-based train control system. An analysis of european and domestic standards was conducted to review requirements and ensure the design of a STU for the train control system meets international standards. Based on this analysis, hardware and software designs were developed to create an internationally recognized level of safety for the communication device. To verify the functionality of the STU, a simulator was developed, and it was confirmed that the designed features were successfully implemented.

A Design and Implementation of Security Image Information Search Service System using Location Information Based RSSI of ZigBee (ZigBee의 RSSI 위치정보기반 보안 영상정보 검색 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Myung-Hwan;Chung, Yeong-Jee
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.243-258
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    • 2011
  • With increasing interest in ubiquitous computing technology, an infrastructure for the short-distance wireless communication has been extended socially, bringing spotlight to the security system using the image or location. In case of existing security system, there have been issues such as the occurrences of blind spots, difficulty in recognizing multiple objects and storing of the unspecified objects. In order to solve this issue, zone-based location-estimation search system for the image have been suggested as an alternative based on the real-time location determination technology combined with image. This paper intends to suggest the search service for the image zone-based location-estimation. For this, it proposed the location determination algorism using IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee's RSSI and for real-time image service, the RTP/RTCP protocol was applied. In order to combine the location and image, at the event of the entry of the specified target, the record of the time for image and the time of occurrence of the event on a global time standard, it has devised a time stamp, applying XML based meta data formation method based on the media's feature data based in connection with the location based data for the events of the object. Using the proposed meta data, the service mode which can search for the image from the point in time when the entry of the specified target was proposed.

A Study on the RAM Application of a Light Rail Transit Business, Ac-cording to the Technique Application in System Engineering (시스템엔지니어링 기법 적용에 따른 경량전철사업의 RAM적용에 관한 고찰)

  • Lee, Seong-Gwon;Min, Kyong-Se;Jeon, Seo-Tak;Jung, Kye-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Systems Engineering
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.13-19
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    • 2011
  • A LRT(Light Rail Transit) is one of the Future Urban Railway Development Project. The project's goal is to reduce a transportation congestion in the center of the city. New transportation is intensely required in order to overcome a limit of the ground transportation that is the existing public transportation, A LRT(Light Rail Transit) construction project to be based on an unmanned driving system is the large composition system that a vehicle, a signal, communication, electric, track etc. were organically integrated as echo-friendly urban transportation systems. It also put a huge budget, which is a large-scale infrastructure projects. It is international trend that Light Rail Transit projects apply a technique in System Engineering for a schedule, cost, quality elevations, and to approach in viewpoints of life-cycle from initial construction steps to operation, abolition. This paper intends to analyze RAM requirements taking into consideration ISO/IEC 15288 throughout life-cycle from concept, design, manufacture, operation and maintenance to the final phase, decommissioning, and the study seeks to suggest directions of efficient use to domestic LRT projects.

Development of Integrated Ground Support System for Integrated Flight Test of Small UAVs (무인항공기의 통합비행시험을 위한 통합형 지상지원시스템 개발)

  • Jeong, Jae-Hyeon;Lim, Byoung-Do;Kim, Sung-Su;Ryoo, Chang-Kyung
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.40 no.9
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    • pp.800-806
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    • 2012
  • This paper proposes design and development of the Integrated Ground Support System (IGSS) for the flight test of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which combines ground support and ground control. The integrated flight test of the UAV is a necessary procedure to validate the functionality of the Unmanned Aerial System (UAS). In order to execute cost-effective and systematic flight tests, the IGSS is regarded as an inevitable infrastructure of UAS for small laboratories. The proposed IGSS has functions of ground control, radio communication, power generation, transportation and the maintenance of the UAV.

Software-Based Loran-C Signal Processing (소프트웨어 기반 Loran-C 신호 처리)

  • Im, Jun-Hyuck;Im, Sung-Hyuck;Kim, Woo-Hyun;Jee, Gyu-In
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.188-193
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    • 2010
  • With GPS being the primary navigation system, Loran use is in steep decline. However, according to the final report of vulnerability assessment of the transportation infrastructure relying on the global positioning system prepared by the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, there are current attempts to enhance and re-popularize Loran as a GPS backup system through the characteristic of the ground based low frequency navigation system. To advance the Loran system such as Loran-C modernization and eLoran development, research is definitely needed in the field of Loran-C receiver signal processing as well as Loran-C signal design and the technology of a receiver. We have developed a set of Matlab tools, which implement a software Loran-C receiver that performs the receiver's position determination through the following procedure. The procedure consists of receiving the Loran-C signal, cycle selection, calculation of the TDOA and range, and receiver's position determination through the Least Square Method. We experiences the effect of an incorrect cycle selection and various error factors (ECD, ASF, sky wave, CRI, etc.) from the result of the Loran-C signal processing. It is apparent that researches which focus on the elimination and mitigation of various error factors need to be investigated on a software Loran-C receiver. These aspects will be explored in further work through the method such as PLL and Kalman filtering.

A Study on the Implementation of a Portable Healthcare System using Zigbee (Zigbee를 이용한 휴대형 헬스케어 시스템 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Sung-In;Kim, Gwan-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.1793-1798
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    • 2007
  • Recently there are some trends to construct smart home system infrastructure depending upon the development of Information and Communication Technology. Also requirements of the Ubiquitous Healthcare Systems at home which can monitor the status of health continuously are increased rapidly comparing with hospitals. Healthcare service can be divided into two categories. The first one is Alarm Service that can be used for the emergency status and the other one is Remote Support Service which can monitor the patient including home environments and give those diagnosis information to medical office or to his family. Generally wired networks and fixed healthcare measuring system have some limits to transmit reliable realtime based information for both categories described above comparing with portable monitoring system. Getting over the inefficiency we will design and implement portable healthcare system under the wireless Zigbee network environments.

Design and Implementation of Sensor Information Management System based on Celery-MongoDB (Celery-MongoDB 를 활용한 센서정보 관리시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Kang, Yun-Hee
    • Journal of Platform Technology
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.3-9
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    • 2021
  • The management of sensor information requires the functions for registering, modifying and deleting rapidly sensor information about various many sensors. In this research, Celery and MongoDB are used for developing a sensory data management system. Celery supplies a queue structure based on asynchronous communication in Python. Celery is a distributed simple job-queue but reliable distributed system suitable for processing large message. MongoDB is a NoSQL database that is capable of managing various informal information. In this experiment, we have checked that variety of sensor information can be processed with this system in a IoT environment. To improve the performance for handling a message with sensory data, this system will be deployed in the edge of a cloud infrastructure.