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Synthesis and Microstructure of Fe-Base Superalloy Powders with Y-Oxide Dispersion by High Energy Ball Milling (고에너지 볼 밀링을 이용한 Y-산화물 분산 Fe-기초내열합금 분말의 합성 및 미세조직 특성)

  • Yim, Da-Mi;Park, Jong Kwan;Oh, Sung-Tag
    • Korean Journal of Materials Research
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    • v.25 no.8
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    • pp.386-390
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    • 2015
  • Fe-base superalloy powders with $Y_2O_3$ dispersion were prepared by high energy ball milling, followed by spark plasma sintering for consolidation. High-purity elemental powders with different Fe powder sizes of 24 and 50 mm were used for the preparation of $Fe-20Cr-4.5Al-0.5Ti-O.5Y_2O_3$ powder mixtures (wt%). The milling process of the powders was carried out in a horizontal rotary ball mill using a stainless steel vial and balls. The milling times of 1 to 5 h by constant operation (350 rpm, ball-to-powder ratio of 30:1 in weight) or cycle operation (1300 rpm for 4 min and 900 rpm for 1 min, 15:1) were applied. Microstructural observation revealed that the crystalline size of Fe decreased with an increase in milling time by cyclic operation and was about 15 nm after 3 h, forming a FeCr alloy phase. The cyclic operation had an advantage over constant milling in that a smaller-agglomerated structure was obtained. The milled powders were sintered at $1100^{\circ}C$ for 30 min in vacuum. With an increase in milling time, the sintered specimen showed a more homogeneous microstructure. In addition, a homogenous distribution of Y-compound particles in the grain boundary was confirmed by EDX analysis.

Study for Failure Examples of Injector, Idle Speed Actuator and Gasket in LPi System Vehicle (LPi 시스템 자동차의 인젝터, 공회전 액추에이터 및 개스킷 고장사례 연구)

  • Lee, Il-Kwon;Cho, Seung-Hyun;Kim, Han-Goo;Kim, Seung-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.48-53
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    • 2012
  • The purpose of this paper studies the failure cases including with system of liquefied phase injection in liquified petroleum gas vehicle. The first case, resulting with inspection the injector of LPG, it occasionally certified the injection damage phenomenon that the fuel efficiency(km/l) was decreased to 5% by carbon deposit with injector hole when the driver operates the vehicle. The second case, it certified the interference phenomenon of air flow with carbon deposit in ISA system control for idle speed of engine and throttle body suppling air into engine. As a result, the fuel efficiency was decreased 7%. The third case, the outer air during intake stroke was intermittently flowed in this gasket gap because of weaken adhesion power phenomenon for cylinder block by intake manifold gasket tearing. Consequentially, it certified the decrease for fuel efficiency to 3% by risen the amount of fuel injection as the air inflow quantity. These failure examples reduced the power performance of engine and the fuel efficiency of vehicle. It have to minimize of failure phenomenon preparing through quality management.

Design of Power Supply for Green PC using Low Voltage High Current LLC Resonant Converter (저전압 대전류 LLC 공진형 컨버터를 이용한 그린 PC용 전원공급장치 설계)

  • Yoo, Young-Do;Kim, In-Dong;Nho, Eui-Cheol;Ryu, Myung-Hyo;Baek, Ju-Won
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.211-219
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    • 2014
  • This paper proposes a low voltage high current LLC resonant converter for Green PC. Green PC is composed of a lot of blade PCs, and it is a centralized system to manage them in computer center. Green PC should require that its power supplies have several characteristics such as low output voltage, high output current, and high power conversion efficiency. Conventional PSFB (Phase Shift Full Bridge) converter is usually used as DC/DC converter for computer power supply because it has high power conversion efficiency thanks to ZVS (Zero Voltage Switching) operation under middle and high load conditions. However, this converter has some problems such as large switching noise and limitation of ZVS operation under light load condition. In order to improve the performance of power supply for Green PC, a new power supply using popular high efficiency LLC resonant converter for low voltage and high current application is proposed in this paper. The proposed power supply has ZVS capability over the entire load range, thus resulting in good efficiency and high switching frequency. Experimental results verify the performance of the proposed power supply for Green PC using 2[kW] (19[V], 105[A]) rated prototype converter.

Abnormal Behavior Recognition Based on Spatio-temporal Context

  • Yang, Yuanfeng;Li, Lin;Liu, Zhaobin;Liu, Gang
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.612-628
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    • 2020
  • This paper presents a new approach for detecting abnormal behaviors in complex surveillance scenes where anomalies are subtle and difficult to distinguish due to the intricate correlations among multiple objects' behaviors. Specifically, a cascaded probabilistic topic model was put forward for learning the spatial context of local behavior and the temporal context of global behavior in two different stages. In the first stage of topic modeling, unlike the existing approaches using either optical flows or complete trajectories, spatio-temporal correlations between the trajectory fragments in video clips were modeled by the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic model based on Markov random fields to obtain the spatial context of local behavior in each video clip. The local behavior topic categories were then obtained by exploiting the spectral clustering algorithm. Based on the construction of a dictionary through the process of local behavior topic clustering, the second phase of the LDA topic model learns the correlations of global behaviors and temporal context. In particular, an abnormal behavior recognition method was developed based on the learned spatio-temporal context of behaviors. The specific identification method adopts a top-down strategy and consists of two stages: anomaly recognition of video clip and anomalous behavior recognition within each video clip. Evaluation was performed using the validity of spatio-temporal context learning for local behavior topics and abnormal behavior recognition. Furthermore, the performance of the proposed approach in abnormal behavior recognition improved effectively and significantly in complex surveillance scenes.

Piezoelectric and Ferroelectric Properties of $[Bi_{1-x}(Na_{0.7-x}K_{0.2}Li_{0.1})]_{0.5}Ba_xTiO_3$ Lead-Free Piezoelectric Ceramics (비납계 $[Bi_{1-x}(Na_{0.7-x}K_{0.2}Li_{0.1})]_{0.5}Ba_xTiO_3$ 압전 세라믹의 압전-유전특성)

  • Lee, Dae-Su;Jeong, Soon-Jong;Kim, Min-Su;Park, Eun-Cheol;Song, Jae-Sung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.271-271
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    • 2006
  • The structural, dielectric and piezoelectric properties of $[Bi_{1-x}(Na_{0.7-x}K_{0.2}Li_{0.1})]_{0.5}BaxTiO_3$ (BNKLBxT) ceramics were studied for the compositional range, x = 0-0.08. The samples were prepared by conventional sintering technique. The result of X-ray diffraction (XRD) suggest that $Ba^{2+}$ diffuse into the $[Bi(Na_{0.7}K_{0.2}Li_{0.1})]_{0.5}TiO_3$ (BNKLT) lattices to form a solid solution with a single phase perovskite structure. The ceramic show excellent piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties, and optimum properties measured are as follows: piezoelectric constant $d_{33}=230pC/N$, planar electromechanical coupling factor $k_p\;=\;40.3%$, remanent polarization $P_r\;=\;30\;{\mu}C/cm^2$, and coercive field $E_c\; =\;2.5\;kV/mm$, respectively.

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Comparison of Stability on the Nano-crystalline Embedded InGaZnO and Amorphous InGaZnO Oxide Thin-film Transistors (나노결정 InGaZnO 산화물 박막트랜지스터와 비결정 InGaZnO 산화물 박막트랜지스터의 소자 신뢰성에 관한 비교 연구)

  • Shin, Hyun-Soo;Ahn, Byung-Du;Rim, Yoo-Seung;Kim, Hyun-Jae
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.473-479
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we have compared amorphous InGaZnO (a-IGZO) thin-film transistor (TFT) with the nano-crystalline embedded-IGZO ($N_c$-embedded-IGZO) TFT fabricated by solid-phase crystallization (SPC) technique. The field effect mobility (${\mu}_{FE}$) of $N_c$-embedded-IGZO TFT was 2.37 $cm^2/Vs$ and the subthreshold slope (S-factor) was 0.83 V/decade, which showed lower performance than those of a-IGZO TFT (${\mu}_{FE}$ of a-IGZO was 9.67 $cm^2/Vs$ and S-factor was 0.19 V/decade). This results originated from generation of oxygen vacancies in oxide semiconductor and interface between gate insulator and semiconductor due to high temperature annealing process. However, the threshold voltage shift (${\Delta}V_{TH}$) of $N_c$-embedded-IGZO TFT was 0.5 V, which showed 1 V less shift than that of a-IGZO TFT under constant current stress during $10^5$ s. This was because there were additionally less increase of interface trap charges in Nc-embedded-IGZO TFT than a-IGZO TFT.

Properties of Polymer-Modified Mortar with Styrene-Butyl Acrylate and Styrene Butadiene Rubber (S/BA와 SBR을 혼입한 폴리머 시멘트 모르타르의 특성)

  • Mun, Kyung-Ju;Song, Hae-Ryong;Hyung, Won-Gil
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.32 no.6
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    • pp.555-560
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    • 2008
  • Polymer-modified mortars have been largely used as paving materials, flooring, waterproofing material, adhesives, anticorrosive linings, deck coverings, and other various materials. The various types and properties of the mixed polymer largely affect the characteristics of polymer-modified mortar that has been mixed with polymer latexes. Consequently, its application purposes are varied according to these properties. This paper investigates the typical properties of polymer-modified mortars that contain styrene and butyl acrylate latexes and styrene butadiene rubber. They are then tested to obtain air contents, water-cement ratios, flexural and compressive strengths, water absorption, and chloride-ion penetration. From the test results, the superior flexural strength of polymer-modified mortars is obtained at a S/BA-2 and a polymer-cement ratio of 20%. And, the water absorption and chloride ion penetration depth are greatly affected by the polymer-cement ratio rather than the types of polymer. In the polymer-modified mortar and concrete structures, aggregates are bound by such a co-matrix phase, resulting in the superior properties of polymer-modified mortar and concrete compared to conventional mortar and concrete.

Adhesion Characteristics between Mold and Thermoplastic Polymer Film in Thermal Nanoimprint Lithography (열 나노임프린트 리소그래피에서의 몰드와 열가소성 폴리머 필름 사이의 응착 특성)

  • Kim, Kwang-Seop;Kang, Ji-Hoon;Kim, Kyung-Woong
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.255-263
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    • 2008
  • Adhesion tests were conducted to investigate the adhesion characteristics between mold and thermoplastic polymer film. Coating of anti-sticking layer (ASL), a kind of polymer material, imprint pressure, and separation velocity were considered as the process conditions. A piece of fused silica without patterns on its surface was used as a mold and the thermoplastic polymer films were made on Si substrate by spin-coating the commercial polymer solution such as mr-I PMMA and mr-I 7020. The ASL was derived from (1H, 1H, 2H, 2H - perfluorooctyl) trichlorosilane($F_{13}$-OTS) and coated on the fused silica mold in vapor phase. The pull-off force was measured in various process conditions and the surfaces of the mold and the polymer film were observed after separation. It was found that the adhesion characteristics between the mold and the thermoplastic polymer film and the release performance of ASL were changed according to the process conditions. The ASL was effective to reduce the pull-off force and the damage of polymer film. In cases of the mold coated with ASL, the pull-off force did not depend on imprint pressure and separation velocity.

Intravenous Administration of Substance P Attenuates Mechanical Allodynia Following Nerve Injury by Regulating Neuropathic Pain-Related Factors

  • Chung, Eunkyung;Yoon, Tae Gyoon;Kim, Sumin;Kang, Moonkyu;Kim, Hyun Jeong;Son, Youngsook
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.259-265
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    • 2017
  • This study aimed to investigate the analgesic effect of substance P (SP) in an animal model of neuropathic pain. An experimental model of neuropathic pain, the chronic constriction injury (CCI) model, was established using ICR mice. An intravenous (i.v.) injection of SP (1 nmole/kg) was administered to the mice to examine the analgesic effects of systemic SP on neuropathic pain. Behavioral testing and immunostaining was performed following treatment of the CCI model with SP. SP attenuated mechanical allodynia in a time-dependent manner, beginning at 1 h following administration, peaking at 1 day post-injection, and decaying by 3 days post-injection. The second injection of SP also increased the threshold of mechanical allodynia, with the effects peaking on day 1 and decaying by day 3. A reduction in phospho-ERK and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) accompanied the attenuation of mechanical allodynia. We have shown for the first time that i.v. administration of substance P attenuated mechanical allodynia in the maintenance phase of neuropathic pain using von Frey's test, and simultaneously reduced levels of phospho-ERK and GFAP, which are representative biochemical markers of neuropathic pain. Importantly, glial cells in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord (L4-L5) of SP-treated CCI mice, expressed the anti-inflammatory cytokine, IL-10, which was not seen in vehicle saline-treated mice. Thus, i.v. administration of substance P may be beneficial for improving the treatment of patients with neuropathic pain, since it decreases the activity of nociceptive factors and increases the expression of anti-nociceptive factors.

Gas Phase Thernal cis-trans Isomerization Reaction of 1-Bromopropene

  • Huh, D- Sung;Um, Jae-Young;Yun, Sun-Jin;Choo, Kwang-Yul;Jung, Kyung-Hoon
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.391-395
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    • 1990
  • The kinetics of thermnal cis-trans isomerization reaction of 1-bromopropene(1-BP) was studied at temperatures from 620.8 to 753.15 K over the pressure range 0.17-50.3 Torr. Both the inhibition effect by cyclohexene or propene and the catalytic effect by HBr showed a radical process as the main mechanism of the isomerization. In the suppression of the radical process by the inhibitors, the molecular process also contributed to overall reaction rate. The reactions demonstrated the first order kinetics under both uninhibited and inhibited conditions and could be represented by the expressions (R = 1.987 cal/mol/K) $k_{un}/s^{-1} = (3.45{\pm}1.50){\times}10^{11}$exp$[(- 48100{\pm}2000)/RT]\;k_{ink}/s^{-1} = (2.98{\pm}1.40){\times}10^{12}$exp$[(- 55800{\pm}1800)/RT]$> where $k_{un}$ is the observed rate constant of cis-1-bromopropene(1-B$P_c$) to trans-1-bromopropene(1-B$P_t$) under uninhibited condition at initial pressure of 50 Torr and $k_{ink}$ is the rate constant under maximal inhibition by cyclohexene. The ratio of rate constants for bromine atom elimination from the allylic hydrogen of reactant(1-BP) and from the inhibitors, propene and cyclohexene, were measured from the observed rates of the uninhibited and inhibited reactions. The inhibition efficiencies of cyclohexene and propene were compared kinetically from the rate constants and shown to give good agreement with the previous results reported from other alkyl bromide pyrolyses.