• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2013

Human spaceflight experience in extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is limited to two regimes: the micro-gravity environment of Earth orbit, and the lunar surface environment at one-sixth of Earth's gravity. Future human missions to low-gravity bodies, including asteroids, comets, and the moons of Mars, will require EVA techniques that are beyond the current experience base. In order to develop robust approaches for exploring these small bodies, the dynamics associated with human exploration on low-gravity surface must be characterized. This paper examines the translational and rotational motion of an astronaut on the surface of a small body, and it is shown that the low-gravity environment will pose challenges to the surface mobility of an astronaut, unless new tools and EVA techniques are developed. Possibilities for addressing these challenges are explored, and utilization of the International Space Station to test operational concepts and hardware in preparation for a low-gravity surface EVA is discussed.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.93-104
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• 2010

Objectives : The purpose of this study is to observe the effects of work environment and low back pain on the structural and muscle strength changes in lumbar spine to helpful for preventation and cure of low back pain. Methods : Through measuring of lumbosacral angle, lumbar lordotic angle, lumbar gravity line ratio analyzed structure of lumbar spine and using Trunk Extension Flexion Program of CYBEX NORM System(cybex770+TMC, USA) analyzed Flex. PT, Ext. PT, E/F ratio of lumbar spine of company employees given a medical examination. Results : According to work environment, lumbar gravity line ratio is higher in white collar group than in blue collar group, Ext. PT is significantly lower in white collar group than in blue collar group. According to low back pain or not, lumbar gravity line ratio, Ext. PT is lower in low back pain group than in non-low back pain group. Conclusions : Work environment and low back pain effects on the structural and muscle strength changes in lumbar spine.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.78-87
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• 2021

KSLV 상단의 임무 다각화를 위해서는 저중력 환경에서 액체 추진제의 거동을 정확히 파악하고 있어야 한다. 지상에서 저중력 환경을 모사하는 방법은 자유낙하 방법이 있지만, 공기저항이 항상 동반된다. 공기 저항을 제거하기 위하여 공기 저항 차단캡슐을 이용한 낙하 시험을 진행하였다. 공기 저항 차단캡슐 내부에 시험체를 위치하고 7 m 높이에서 1.2초 동안 낙하하여 시험체의 저중력 환경을 조성하였다. 낙하하는 동안 0.01 g 이하의 중력가속도를 측정하였으며 지표면에 도달하기 전 최소 가속도는 약 0.005 g였다. 추후 낙하 높이 및 낙하 시간이 증가한다면 개선될 수 여지가 있다.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.38-43
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• 2012

In the extreme conditions of launch vehicle in a space, such as cryogenic temperature and low-gravity environment, the mass gauging of remaining propellants becomes a difficult problem. Pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) method is one of the attractive mass gauging methods under low-gravity due to its simplicity and reliability. PVT gauging experiment with various mass flow rates of helium injection is carried out with the experimental apparatus creating cryogenic homogeneous condition as the condition of low-gravity. Experimental results are analyzed by a novel PVT gauging analysis method which considers all instantaneous changes of pressure and temperature in the ullage volume with small time intervals. It is observed that the gauging error from the novel PVT gauging analysis is -0.11% with 2 slpm mass flow rate of helium injection.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.12-20
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• 2011

변성암복합체, 옥천층군, 조선누층군 및 화성암류에서 지하 지질분포 및 밀도 불연속면을 파악하기 위해 충주호 주변에 있는 256개 지점에서 중력측정을 실시하였다. 부게 중력이상은 옥천층군에서 높은 값을 가지며 조선누층군으로 갈수록 상대적으로 낮은 값의 분포를 보였다. 지하 밀도 불연속면의 평균심도는 약 2.0 km이며, 전반적으로 문주리층과 황강리층이 서창리층보다 중력기반 심도가 상대적으로 얇으며, 옥천계 동측에 위치한 조선누층군이 옥천층군보다 비교적 두꺼운 기반 심도로 분포된 것으로 파악되었다.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.264-270
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• 2011

This paper focuses on possibility to design and fabrication new combination of bullet core to substitute current toxic material of heavy metal such as lead by environment-friendly ones. The core is designed as dual structure to manipulate the core center of gravity easily by combining materials, which of basis is tungsten of low cost and easily acquired. Those combinations are W-M series such as W-Cu, W-Sn, W-Cu-Sn, and W-Cu-Ni to target the density of lead, $11.34g/cm^3$ through powder-metallurgy. Out of four, combination of W-Cu-Ni shows the highest compression density of 96% and is confirmed as the most suitable substitution for lead due to the excellent property of matter and sintering. All combination samples is simulated on the PRODAS software for designing and structure analysis by adjusting the center of gravity of dual core samples forward and backward. The simulations confirm the similarity of current bullet core with respect to properties of mass, aero dynamics, and flying stability.

• Animal cells and systems
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.195-200
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• 2000

In this article I discuss the main results of our research in space biology from the simple early investigations with human Iymphocytes in the early eighties until the projects in tissue engineering of the next decade on the international space station ISS. The discovery that T Iymphocyte activation is nearly totally depressed in vitro in 0g conditions showed that mammalian single cells are sensitive to the gravitational environment. Such finding had important implications in basic research, medicine and biotechnology. Low gravity can be used as a tool to investigate complicated and still obscure biological process from a new perspective not available to earth-bound laboratories. Low gravity may also favor certain bioprocesses involving the growth of tissues and thus lead to commercial and medical applications. However, shortage of crew time and of other resources, lack of sophisticated instrumentation, safety constraints pose serious limits to biological endeavors in space laboratories.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제28권5호
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• pp.469-480
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• 1995

Gravity and magnetic surveys were carried out to investigate the three-dimensional configuration and characteristics of the landfills at Nanjido waste disposal site. For terrain correction and three-dimensional density inversion of gravity data an algorithm, which calculates the gravity effect of a three-dimensional body by using the solid angle method, is developed. This algorithm has been proved to give more accurate terrain correction values for the small survey area having varied topography like Nanjido site as compared with widely used methods such as Hammer's method and multiquadric equation method. Density inversion of gravity anomaly data gives very useful information about the lateral and vertical variation of the landfills, which can be used to discriminate the kinds of wastes. The average density of filled materials appears to be $1.7\;g/cm^3$ which is much higher than the value $(0.8\;g/cm^3)$ estimated by Seoul City. The lateral variation of density shows high correlation with the pattern of ongoing depression of the landfills. The northern region of the landfill no. 1, which shows low density and high depression, is closely associated with the industrial waste and sludge filled area. The magnetic anomaly data provide information about relative concentration of magnetic materials, which is also very useful to investigate characteristics of the fills. Several high positive anomaly regions on the reduced-to-pole magnetic anomaly map are appeared to be associated with the industrial waste fills, but certain industrial waste fills show low negative anomalies. This kind of magnetic information can be used in selecting drilling locations over landfills away from buried metal products during the stabilization process.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.774-778
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• 2004

The atomization process of a circular $SF_{6}$ liquid jet issued into an otherwise quiescent, high-pressure $N_2$ gas was observed to explore the breakup mechanism of liquid ligaments involved in turbulent atomization. Both liquid and gas temperatures were fixed at a room temperature but the gas pressure was elevated to more than twice the critical pressure of $SF_{6}$. Therefore, the liquid surface was in a thermodynamic state close to a critical mixing condition with suppressed vaporization. Since the surface tension and the surface gas density approach zero and the surface liquid density, respectively, phenomena equivalent to those which would appear when a very high speed laminar flow of water were injected into the atmospheric-pressure air can be observed by issuing $SF_{6}$ liquid at low speeds in micro-gravity environment which avoid disturbances due to gravity forces. The instability ob near-critical mixing surface jet was quantitatively characterized using a newly developed device, which could issue a very small amount of $SF_{6}$ liquid at small constant velocity into a very high-pressure $N_2$ gas.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.339-345
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• 2008

기름과 가스 수송 라인 및 선박 내에 설비된 유체 기계들에 관련된 파이프 내에 층상류 흐름이 존재할 수 있다. 이 때문에 수평 혹은 작은 경사 파이프 내에 발생할 수 있는 층상류 흐름을 예측하기 위한 많은 이론과 상관식이 제시되었다. 기존 연구들은 각 상의 물성, 점성, 밀도 및 파이프의 기하학적 형상 등이 층상류 흐름에 주는 효과에 관한 것이 대부분이고, 중력의 크기 및 파이프의 큰 경사 기울기에 관한 연구성과는 매우 드문 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에는 중력크기 및 파이프 경사도 변화가 층상류 발생 조건에 미치는 영향에 대해 이론적 연구가 수행되었다. 또한 본 해석을 통하여 0.17g 및 0.33g 조건에서는 비록 수직상향 흐름일지라도 매우 낮은 액체상의 유량조건에서는 층상류 흐름이 존재할 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.