• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제45권5호
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• pp.418-424
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• 2018

Background Complication rates after flap coverage for pressure ulcers have been high historically. These patients have multiple risk factors associated with poor wound healing and complications including marginal nutritional status, prolonged immobilization, and a high comorbidities index. This study utilizes the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) to examine perioperative outcomes of flap coverage for pressure ulcers. Methods Data from the NSQIP database (2005-2015) for patient undergoing flap coverage for pressure ulcers was identified. Demographic, perioperative information, and complications were reviewed. One-way analysis of variance and Pearson chi-square were used to assess differences for continuous variables and nominal variables, respectively. Multivariate logistic regression was performed to identify independent risk factors for complications. Results There were 755 cases identified: 365 (48.3%) sacral ulcers, 321 (42.5%) ischial ulcers, and 69 (9.1%) trochanteric ulcers. Most patients were older male, with some degree of dependency, neurosensory impairment, high functional comorbidities score, and American Society of Anesthesiologists class 3 or above. The sacral ulcer group had the highest incidence of septic shock and bleeding, while the trochanteric ulcer group had the highest incidence of superficial surgical site infection. There was an overall complication rate of 25% at 30-day follow-up. There was no statistical difference in overall complication among groups. Total operating time, diabetes, and non-elective case were independent risk factors for overall complications. Conclusions Despite patients with poor baseline functional status, flap coverage for pressure ulcer patients is safe with acceptable postoperative complications. This type of treatment should be considered for properly selected patients.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.14-19
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• 2005

One area in which composites have been used rather extensively is for fabricating pressure vessel. These structures can be readily manufactured by filament winding, which is, as far as composite fabrication techniques are concerned, a relatively inexpensive method for producing composite structures. Unfortunately, the higher strength material and fabrication costs are not the only disadvantages of fiber-reinforced polymer composites when they are compared to metals. Additionally, these materials tend to exhibit brittle behavior. This is of particular concern when they are subjected to a low-velocity impact during routine handling a significant amount of structural damage can be introduced into the composites. The goals of this paper are to understand the impact damage behavior and identify the effect of surface coating materials on impact resistance in filament wound composite pressure vessels. For these, a series of low velocity impact tests was performed on specimens cutting from the full scale pressure vessel by the instrumented impact testing machine. The specimens are classified into two types with and without surface protective material. The visualization for impact damage is made by metallurgical microscope. Based on the impact force history and damage, the resistance parameters were employed and its validity in identifying the damage resistance of pressure vessel was reviewed. As the results, the impact resistance of the filament wound composites and its dependency on the protective material were evaluated quantitatively.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.34-42
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• 2022

기체메탄-액체산소 소형로켓엔진에서 추진제 공급조건과 연소실 압력 사이의 상관관계를 조사하고, 고정된 연소실 압력에서 당량비 변화에 따른 성능특성을 분석하기 위해 지상연소시험이 수행되었다. 상관관계 조사를 통해 연소실 압력은 산화제 공급압력에 선형적으로 비례함이 확인되었다. 연소시험 결과, 당량비가 연료희박 조건으로부터 화학양론비에 가까워질수록 로켓엔진의 주요 성능인자인 추력, 비추력 및 특성속도는 증가하는 경향을 보였으나, 특성속도 효율 및 비추력 효율의 당량비에 대한 종속성은 그 반대의 경향을 보였다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.462-470
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• 2012

일반화된 Hoek-Brown 암반파괴조건식을 Mohr-Coulomb 파괴조건에 기초한 암반구조물 해석법에 적용시키기 위해서는 등가 마찰각과 등가 점착력을 계산하는 과정이 필요하다. Balmer(1952)이론에 기초한 기존의 접선 순간마찰각과 순간점착력 계산식은 최소주응력 ${\sigma}_3$의 함수로 표시되므로 등가 강도정수의 정수압 의존성 및 응력경로 의존성을 이해하는 데 적합지 않다. 이 연구에서는 응력불변량을 이용하여 일반화된 Hoek-Brown식의 접선 순간마찰각과 순간점착력 계산하는 방법을 제시하여 기존의 방법이 갖는 단점을 극복하였다. 제시된 방법을 이용한 예제 해석을 통해 접선 순간마찰각과 순간점착력의 정수압 의존특성 및 파괴곡면의 팔면체 단면에서 Lode각의 의존성을 고찰하였다. 접선 순간마찰각은 삼축신장 응력조건에서 가장 크며, 접선 순간점착력은 삼축압축 응력조건에서 가장 큰 것으로 나타났다. 접선 순간마찰각과 순간점착력의 정수압 및 Lode각 의존성은 GSI 값이 큰 양호한 암반에서 상대적으로 큰 것으로 나타났다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.160-166
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• 2012

This paper presents a Reynolds equation solver for hydrostatic gas bearings, implemented to run on graphics processing units (GPUs). The original analysis code for the central processing unit (CPU) was modified for the GPU by using the compute unified device architecture (CUDA). The red-black Gauss-Seidel (RBGS) algorithm was employed instead of the original Gauss-Seidel algorithm for the iterative pressure solver, because the latter has data dependency between neighboring nodes. The implemented GPU program was tested on the nVidia GTX580 system and compared to the original CPU program on the AMD Llano system. In the iterative pressure calculation, the implemented GPU program showed 20-100 times faster performance than the original CPU codes. Comparison of the wall-clock times including all of pre/post processing codes showed that the GPU codes still delivered 4-12 times faster performance than the CPU code for our target problem.

• 한국분말야금학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국분말야금학회 2001년도 추계학술강연 및 발표대회
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• pp.46-46
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• 2001

The microstructure of the 1020 mild steel target in the region ahead of craters, made by colliding against Cu and W-Cu shaped-charge jets. has been investigated in the present work. The region ahead of the crater impacted by the Cu shaped-charge jet reveals grain refinement implying the formation of sub-grains, while that of W-Cu one leads to martensitic transformation indicating that the region was heated up to an austenitic region which was followed by rapid cooling. The pressure of W-Cu shaped-charge jet impacting against the target when calculated is higher than that of Cu one. The microhardness of the region ahead of the crater impacted by the W-Cu shaped-charge jet is also higher than that of the Cu one. The microstructure of W-Cu slug that remains inside of the crater depicts the occurrence of the remarkable elongation of W particles during the liner collapse. The microstructural evolution of the region ahead of the crater is discussed on the basis of the pressure dependency of the ferrite/austenite transformation in the steel.

• 대한조선학회논문집
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.305-314
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• 2015

In this paper, a numerical analysis is carried out to study the drag of conical cavitators, supercavity generation devices for the high-speed underwater vehicle. The realizable k-∊ turbulence model and the Schnerr-Sauer cavitation model are applied to calculate steady-state supercavitating flows around cones of various cone angles. The calculated drags of the cones are decomposed of the pressure and the friction parts and their dependency on the geometry and the flow conditions have been analyzed. It is confirmed that the pressure drag coefficients of the cones can be estimated by a simple function of both the cone angle and the cavitation number while the friction drag coefficients approximately by well-known empirical formulas, e.g., Schults-Grunow's for the drag of the flat plate. Finally a practical method for estimating the total drags of supercavitating cones is suggested, which can be useful consequently for the design of conical cavitaors.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국지구물리탐사학회 2009년도 학술대회 초록집
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• pp.155-159
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• 2009

화약류를 이용한 균열제어공법은 자원 및 석유개발, 토목 등 다양한 분야에서 적용되어 오고 있다. 암반을 대상으로 균열제어설계를 위해서는 다양한 암반의 물성과 가압방식의 변화에 따른 파괴과정을 이해할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 반무한 암반 내 시추된 원형공벽에 임의의 입사파가 작용하여 주변에 균열이 전파하는 동적파괴현상을 수치해석적으로 모사하였다. 탄성정수는 국내의 암반분류에서 적용하는 물성치를 사용하였으며 하중가압속도는 1-100MPa/${\mu}s$의 범위까지 변화시키며 암반 내 균열전파양상을 살펴보았다.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제21권8호
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• pp.448-455
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• 2009

A performance analysis of the regenerative gas turbine system with afterfogging is carried out. Because of the high temperature at the outlet of air compressor, afterfogging has a potential of improved recuperation of exhaust heat than inlet fogging. Thermodynamic analysis model of the gas turbine system is developed by using an ideal gas assumption. Using the model, the effects of pressure ratio, water injection ratio, and ambient temperature are investigated parametrically on thermal efficiency and specific power of the cycle. The dependency of pressure ratio giving peak thermal efficiency is also investigated. The results of numerical computation for the typical cases show that the regenerative gas turbine system with afterfogging can make a notable enhancement of thermal efficiency and specific power. In addition, the peak thermal efficiency is shown to decrease almost linearly with ambient temperature.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.386-392
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• 2015

Flow characteristics inside a 10 inch ball valve have been analyzed using three-dimensional numerical analysis and experiments. Continuity and three-dimensional Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations have been used as governing equations for the numerical analysis. The numerical model has been constructed through the grid dependency test and validation with the results of experiments to ensure reliability and numerical effectiveness. The shear stress transport (SST) model has been used as the turbulence closure. The experimental test-rig has been constructed to measure pressure, temperature and flow rate along the pipeline. Some valve opening angles have been tested to evaluate the flow characteristics inside the ball valve and pipeline. The results show that the rapid pressure variations is observed while the valve opening angle decreases, which caused by flow separation at the downstream of the ball valve.