• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.133-140
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• 2008

A reduced chemical kinetic mechanism is developed in order to predict the flame phenomena in premixed $CO/H_2/Air$ flames at atmospheric pressure, aimed at studying the coal gas combustion for the IGCC applications. The reduced mechanism is systematically derived from a full chemical kinetic mechanism involving 11 reacting species and 66 elementary reactions. This mechanism consists of four global steps, and is capable of explicitly calculating the concentration of 7 non-steady species and implicitly predicting the concentration of 3 steady state species. The fuel blend contains two fuels with distinct thermochemical properties, whose contribution to the radical pool in the flame is different. The flame speeds predicted by the reduced mechanism are in good agreement with those by the full mechanism and experimental results. In addition, the concentration profiles of species and temperature are also in good agreement with those by the full mechanism.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.539-551
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• 2005

Finite elements based on isoparametric formulation are known to suffer spurious stiffness properties and corresponding stress oscillations, even when care is taken to ensure that completeness and continuity requirements are enforced. This occurs frequently when the physics of the problem requires multiple strain components to be defined. This kind of error, commonly known as locking, can be circumvented by using reduced integration techniques to evaluate the element stiffness matrices instead of the full integration that is mathematically prescribed. However, the reduced integration technique itself can have a further drawback - rank deficiency, which physically implies that spurious energy modes (e.g., hourglass modes) are introduced because of reduced integration. Such instability in an existing stiffness matrix is generally detected by means of an eigenvalue test. In this paper we show that a knowledge of the dimension of the solution space spanned by the column vectors of the strain-displacement matrix can be used to identify the instabilities arising in an element due to reduced/selective integration techniques a priori, without having to complete the element stiffness matrix formulation and then test for zero eigenvalues.

• Food Science of Animal Resources
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.211-217
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• 2008

The objective of the present study was to develop cholesterol-reduced and phytosterol-supplemented mayonnaise using crosslinked $\beta$-cyclodextrin and examine its physicochemical and sensory attributes during 10 months of storage. The composition of cholesterol-reduced phytosterol-supplemented mayonnaise was similar to the control. The amount of cholesterol removed ranged from 90.67 to 92.47%. The TBA absorbance of the samples showed that the more phytosterol the sample contained, the lower the TBA absorbance value. The viscosity of cholesterol-reduced mayonnaise with 2.0% phytosterol decreased significantly during storage (p<0.05). The color changes of mayonnaise during storage showed a decrease in the L- and b-values, and an increase in the a-value. The experimental mayonnaise maintained emulsion stability, which was significantly lower in 2.0% phytosterol-supplemented mayonnaise. With regard to sensory attributes, most characteristics were similar to the control mayonnaise, however, the addition of phytosterol had a negative effect on stickiness and bitterness. These results indicate that the cholesterol-reduced and phytosterol-supplemented mayonnaise has decreased oxidation and maintains most of its physicochemical and sensory properties during storage.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.08a
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• pp.278.1-278.1
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• 2013

Among the prerequisites for stable neural interfacing are the long-term stability of electrical performance of and the excellent biocompatibility of conducting materials in implantable neural electrodes. Reduced graphene oxide offers a great potential for a variety of biomedical applications including biosensors and, particularly, neural interfaces due to its superb material properties such as high electrical conductivity, decent optical transparency, facile processibility, and etc. Nonetheless, there have been few systematic studies on the graphene-based neural interfaces in terms of biocompatibility of electrode materials and long term stability in electrical characteristics. In this research, we prepared the primary culture of rat hippocampal neurons directly on reduced graphene oxide films which is chosen as a model electrode material for the neural electrode. We observed that the viability of primary neuronal culture on the present structure is minimally affected by nanoscale graphene flakes below. These results implicate that the multilayer films of reduced graphene oxides can be utilized for the next-generation neural interfaces with decent biocompatibility and outstanding electrical performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.291-294
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• 2003

Ball indentation tests have been used to estimate the mechanical properties of materials by some investigators. In this study, load-depth curves from ball indentation tests have been analysed using the geometric conditions of ball indentation. Series of numerical calculations and experimental results showed that those curves could be simplified by linear functions. After linearizing the indentation curves, the estimation process of the flow properties became straight forward and the scatter of results could be drastically reduced.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.126-134
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• 1999

In this study, plasma source ion implantation was used to improve the wear properties of biocompatible titanium implant. In order to observe the effect of ion energy and dose on wear property of titanium implant, pin-on-disk type wear tests in Hank's solution were carried out. The friction coefficient of ion implanted specimens were increased from 0.47 to 0.65 under high energy and ion dose conditions. As increasing ion energy and ion dose, the amount of wear was reduced.

• Textile Coloration and Finishing
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.139-143
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• 1993

The effects of air-gap distance on properties of cellulose fiber spun from the 6 wt% solution of cellulose in monohydrate N-methylmorpholine N-oxide (NMMO) were investigated. The diameter of fiber spun was drastically reduced in 10 cm of air-gap distance at fixed drawing speed, however, no great change was observed beyond 40 cm. As the distance lengthened, the Cellulose II structure was first appeared and followed by Cellulose II and IV mixed morphology. Also the degree of crystallinity and the size of crystals were tending to decrease.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.316-325
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• 1996

A new accelerated neural network adopting modified sigmoid function was developed and applied to estimate engineering properties of rock from insufficient geological data. Developed network was tested on the well-known XOR and character recognition problems to verify the validity of the algorithms. Both learning speed and recognition rate were improved. Test learn on the Lee and Sterling's problems showed that learning time was reduced from tens of hours to a few minutes, while the output pattern was almost the same as other studies. Application to the various case studies showed exact coincidence with original data or measured results.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.11
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• pp.3249-3253
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• 2014

A novel triazole-functionalized phenolic resin was developed, and its thermal and flame-retardant properties were investigated. The triazole group was incorporated as a pendant unit on the phenolic resin via copper-mediated click chemistry between propargylated phenolic resin and benzyl azide. The newly-developed triazole-functionalized phenolic resin showed higher thermal stability and char yield, together with a reduced total heat release (THR), than the non-functionalized bare phenolic resin, indicating enhanced flame retardancy for the triazole-functionalized phenolic resin.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1993.10a
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• pp.11-17
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• 1993

In this study, the fundamental properties of High-Strength Concrete(HSC), such as the slump loss, the temperature increment, the strength development, are considered by experiment. In reducing the temperature and the slump loss, and developing the strength of HSC, the application of silica fume as an admixtures is very effective. And when gypsum is added, the slump loss is reduced and the strength of HSC is improved remarkably, but the temperature of concrete is increased, thus a more study to reduce the temperature increment is required