• Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.53-59
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• 2016

This study deals with the distribution of the clay minerals separated from clay fractions of ranch pastures in Korea and their chemical and mineralogical properties. Crystalline phases of the clay minerals were identified by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern and FT-IR spectra, and their relative chemical compositions were also analyzed by X-ray flourescence spectrometry (XRF). Primary minerals consisted mainly of quartz and mica and chlorite and kaolinite along with a trace of swelling micas were identified as secondary clay minerals. However, the relative content of these clay minerals was different with the locations, which led to significant effects on physical and chemical properties of soils like inorganic elemental composition. In particular, $SiO_2$ content was higher in Gochang ranch pasture than in other ranch pasture. Infrared (IR) spectra did not indicate any significant differences in organic functional groups among the locations. This study clearly showed that ranch pastures had different relative content of clay minerals and chemical properties depending on the location and consequently that those properties are worthy to be taken into account for soil amendment.

• Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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• v.49 no.6
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• pp.813-818
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• 2016

Distribution of clay minerals separated from clay fraction of corn fields in Korea has been investigated along with their characterization. Crystalline phases of the clay minerals were identified by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern, and their relative chemical compositions were analyzed by X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). The soils were found to have pH 6.4, organic matter $37.2g\;kg^{-1}$, available $P_2O_5$ $599mg\;kg^{-1}$, respectively, and exchangeable K, Ca and Mg were 1.2, 7.3 and $1.8cmol_c\;kg^{-1}$, respectively. Major primary minerals consisted mainly of quartz and mica, and kaolinite and chlorite were identified as major secondary clay minerals. For most of soils, mica phase was identified to be muscovite rather than biotite. The average contents of $SiO_2$, $Al_2O_3$ and $Fe_2O_3$ were 43.7, 23.6 and 8.8%, respectively, although they were different with the locations.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.77 no.1
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• pp.103-114
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• 2021

Ultra high strength concrete (UHSC) originally proposed by Richards and Cheyrezy (1995) composed of cement, silica fume, quartz sand, quartz powder, steel fibers, superplasticizer etc. Later, other ingredients such as fly ash, GGBS, metakaoline, copper slag, fine aggregate of different sizes have been added to original UHSC. In the present investigation, the combined effect of coarse aggregate (6mm - 10mm) and steel fibers (0.50%, 1.0% and 1.5%) has been studied on UHSC mixes to evaluate mechanical and fracture properties. Compressive strength, split tensile strength and modulus of elasticity were determined for the three UHSC mixes. Size dependent fracture energy was evaluated by using RILEM work of fracture and size independent fracture energy was evaluated by using (i) RILEM work of fracture with tail correction to load - deflection plot (ii) boundary effect method. The constitutive relationship between the residual stress carrying capacity (σ) and the corresponding crack opening (w) has been constructed in an inverse manner based on the concept of a non-linear hinge from the load-crack mouth opening plots of notched three-point bend beams. It was found that (i) the size independent fracture energy obtained by using above two approaches yielded similar value and (ii) tensile stress increases with the increase of % of fibers. These two fracture properties will be very much useful for the analysis of cracked concrete structural components.

• Korean Journal of Crystallography
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.216-221
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• 2001

Artificial stone plates were hydrothermally prepared in order to utilize the stone powder sludge which were generated from stone quarry . Calcium hydroxide and silica were added to sludge of which main phases were quartz and alumina, and the effect of vapour pressure, reaction time and added amount on the properties of plates were investigated. The compressive strength, water absorp-tion and apparent specific gravity of the plates, which were prepared from the mixture of 70% stone sludge, 20% calcium hydroxide and 10% silica for 3 hours at the conditions of pressing pressure of 200kg/㎠ and vapour pressure of 20 kg/㎠, were 614kg/㎠, 0.48%, 1.88 respectively. It was also possible to produce various colours and appearances by adding inorganic pigments.

• Clean Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 1998

Photodecomposition behaviors of volatile organic compounds (VOCs ; benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylenes) over UV irradiation and UV irradiation with $TiO_2$ powder catalyst were studied and the extent of degradation were also investigated under various reaction conditions. The reactions were conducted in a quartz annular reactor equipped with a medium pressure mercury lamp. As a result, the extents of degradation were 92% for toluene and ethylbenzene, 83% for benzene, and 82% for xylenes under UV irradiation. And they were 92% for toluene, 82% for xylene and ethylbenzene, and 53% for benzene under UV irradiation with $TiO_2$ powder. Analyses of reacted samples by FID-gas chromatograph with Purge & Trap concentrator and GC-MS indicated that the aromatics formed many intermediates.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.30 no.9
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• pp.1978-1980
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• 2009

A mesostructured form of carbon was fabricated from a template of mesostructured silica by using pentane, an aliphatic hydrocarbon precursor. To synthesize the mesostructured silica, a buffered (pH of 6.5) mixture of nonionic Pluronic P123 surfactant, sodium silicate, and acetic acid were used. The impregnated silica with Fe$(CO)_5$ (wt 5%) and pentane was placed in a quartz tube, treated with pentane vapor at 800 ${^{\circ}C}$ for two hours to synthesize the mesostructured carbon. The XRD patterns of the carbon replica in the low/wide angle regions, its TEM images, and nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherm revealed that the long-range framework order of mesostructure with the pore size centered on 2.8 nm was maintained to some extent mainly due to some portions of mesophase carbon that work as a support to fix the hexagonal frameworks by anchoring on the pore surface with an improved graphitic character. The dc conductivity of the mesostructured carbon in pressed powder form at 6.0 MPa was 2.08 S/cm.

• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.27-34
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• 1988

Soils behave non-linearly at high strain. This study investigated the non-linear behavior of silty sands (Mixture of Ottawa Sand and Quartz Powder) by resonant column tests. The results were ·compared with Ramberg-Osgood's non-linear equation. From the tests, it was shown that the change of shear modulus and damping ratio was more sharp at low fine content, high void ratio and low confining pressure. It was also found that famberg-Osgood parameter, R was approximately 2.0, however the range of C varied from 200 to 3200.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.711-714
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• 2005

This paper focused on development of geopolymer for wood wool ceramic board. Geopolymer can substitude ordinary portland cement and its accelerator of wood wool cement board as inorganic polymer. In this study, what we would obtain geopolymer's properties such as initial setting time(KS L 5108), flow(KS L 5102) and compressive strength of 3days aged(KS L 5105), was less than 1 hour, more than $110\%$, more than 40Mpa. Geopolymer have three essential materials called filler, hardener and geopolymer liquor. So, We applied filler by quartz, hardener by blast furnace slag powder, metakaoline and fly ash, geopolymer liquor by NaOH, KOH and sodium silicate solution. As result of this experiment, what we could obtain best fitted geopolymer's properties such as initial setting time, flow and compressive strength of 3days aged, was 45min, $116\%$ and 43.6Mpa. This result can be applicable to commercial wood wool ceramic board.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.159-162
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to develope an accurate procedure for measuring the glass content of fly ash produced by bituminous coal to assist in predicting their behavior in concrete. Quantitative mineralogical compositions of fly ashes were obtained by internal standard method using powder X-ray diffraction analysis. In the X-ray diffraction method, the specimen and standard fluorite were cautiously mixed and pulverized to 22$\mu$m in wet process so as to avoid the prefered orientation of the crystal and microabsorption effect of X-ray. calibration curve were fitted for several references peaks of four phases:$\alpha$-quartz. mullite, magnetite, hematite. The amount of glass was calculated by subtracting the amount of crystal phase and loss on ignition from the total amount. Glass content determined with this method ranged from 66.7 to 75.wt%.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.385-391
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• 2009

Need for plasma resistant ceramic materials has been continuously increased in semiconductor and display industry requiring plasma processing to realize ultra fine circuit process. Among promising candidates, alumina ceramics have still some advantages with respect to its economic aspect. In this study, fabrication of plasma resistant alumina ceramics was tried, and its processing optimization was also aimed. Careful processing control and thereby uniform microstructure of $Al_2O_3$ gave rise to enhanced plasma resistance, even comparable to market-governing commercial $Al_2O_3$. A further study is needed concerning ${\beta}-Al_2O_3$ materials system, presumably playing a decisive role in decreasing plasma resistance of $Al_2O_3$ ceramics.