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Damage identification of structures by reduction of dynamic matrices using the modified modal strain energy method

  • Arefi, Shahin Lale;Gholizad, Amin
    • Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.125-147
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    • 2020
  • Damage detection of structures is one of the most important topics in structural health monitoring. In practice, the response is not available at all structural degrees of freedom, and due to the installation of sensors at some degrees of freedom, responses exist only in limited number of degrees of freedom. This paper is investigated the damage detection of structures by applying two approaches, AllDOF and Dynamic Condensation Method (DCM), based on the Modified Modal Strain Energy Method (MMSEBI). In the AllDOF method, mode shapes in all degrees of freedom is available, but in the DCM the mode shapes only in some degrees of freedom are available. Therefore by methods like the DCM, mode shapes are obtained in slave degrees of freedom. So, in the first step, the responses at slave degrees of freedom extracted using the responses at master degrees of freedom. Then, using the reconstructed mode shape and obtaining the modified modal strain energy, the damages are detected. Two standard examples are used in different damage cases to evaluate the accuracy of the mentioned method. The results showed the capability of the DCM is acceptable for low mode shapes to detect the damage in structures. By increasing the number of modes, the AllDOF method identifies the locations of the damage more accurately.

Role Strain Coping Behaviors and Associated Variables among Non-professional Working Mothers (비전문직 취업모의 역할긴장에 대한 대처행동 및 관련변수 연구)

  • 조은숙
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.36 no.12
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    • pp.55-71
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of coping behaviors of non-professional working mothers and find out the individual and situational factors which affect the degree of coping behaviors. For this research, the working mothers in non-professional job with children under age 18 answered the structured questionaire. The findings were as follows. First, the degree of coping behaviors was rather high in multiple role management strategies, strengthening family system and positive thinking, but rather low in housework socialization and role reduction/standard adjustment. Second, the effect of associated variables were different according to the subcategories of coping behaviors. So we conclude that, the coping behaviors of the non-professional working mothers were different from those of professional working mothers in some aspects, althought they have much similarities. The different aspects were 1) The relationship of family income and the degree of housework socialization was more evident. 2) The work-related variables did not affect the coping process significantly because of the conservative sex-role attitued of them. Second, non-professional working mothers should use coping behaviors such as housework socialization, role reduction/standard adjustment more for the more effective management of the role strain. Third, the attitude of occupational and parental role was one of the most important factors in using the role strain coping behaviors. And such an unconscious use of the coping behavior won't be helpful in the feeling of control over environment including role strain and active coping of working mothers.

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Isolation and Characterization of Denitrifying Phenol-Degrading Bacterium Pseudomonas sp. HL100. (탈질화성 페놀 분해균 Pseudomonas sp. HL100의 분리 및 특성)

  • 박수동;김연희;이흥식
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.303-308
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    • 1998
  • A bacterial strain which utilizes phenol under denitrifying condition was isolated from the industrial waste water collected from the Chong-ju Industrial Complex. The strain was identified as Pseudomonas species from the morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics and designated as HL100. The strain can utilize phenol as the sole source of carbon and energy when nitrate is provided as the terminal electron acceptor. The isolated strain completely degraded 3 mM of phenol within 110 hour with concomitant reduction of nitrate to nitrite. The observed maximum doubling time was 20 hours. Under appropriate condition, complete reduction of nitrate to atmospheric N$_2$ was observed indicating that the isolated strain could perform complete steps of denitrification. The strain showed optimal growth at pH 7.0 and temperature of 37$^{\circ}C$ under denitrifying phenol-degrading condition. The strain can also utilize toluene as the sole carbon and energy source under the same growth condition. However, no growth was detected on xylene and benzene.

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Evaluation of Dynamic Properties of Trackbed Foundation Soil Using Mid-size Resonant Column Test

  • Lim, Yujin;Nguyen, Tien Hue;Lee, Seong Hyeok;Lee, Jin-Wook
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.112-119
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    • 2013
  • A mid-size RC test apparatus (MRCA) equipped with a program is developed that can test samples up to D=10 cm diameter and H=20 cm height which are larger than usual samples used in practice. Using the developed RC test apparatus, two types of crushed trackbed foundation materials were tested in order to get the shear modulus reduction curves of the materials with changing of shear strain levels. For comparison purpose, large repetitive triaxial compression tests (LRT) with samples of height H=60cm and diameter D=30 cm were performed also. Resilient modulus obtained from the LRT was converted to shear modulus by considering elastic theory and strain level conversion and were compared to shear modulus values from the MRCA. It is found from this study that the MRCA can be used to test the trackbed foundation materials properly. It is found also that strain levels of $E_{v2}$ mostly used in the field should be verified considering the shear modulus reduction curves and proper values of $E_{v2}$ of trackbed foundation must be used considering the strain level verified.

Strain monitoring of composite bogie side-frame using distributed optical fiber sensor (분포형 광섬유 센서를 이용한 복합소재 대차 사이드프레임의 변형 모니터링)

  • Yoon, Hyuk-Jin;Kim, Jung-Seok;Song, Kwang-Yong;Kim, Seung-Chul;Na, Hee-Seung
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.627-632
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    • 2010
  • Recently the research for lightening the railway vehicle is actively made according to the demand of the environment-friendly technology development contributing to the energy cost reduction and the green growth. The railway vehicle lightweight research is expanded to the load-supporting first structure from the secondary structure which doesn't support the load. After the composite car body development used in the Korean tilting train is completed, the composite bogie frame development in which the weight reduction efficiency is large is progressed. In this paper, distributed strain was monitored when the train load was added to the central part of the composite bogie side-frame. By using the optical fiber which was attached to the lower part of the side-frame and the developed Brillouin correlation domain analysis (BOCDA) system, the strain distribution could be measured with 3cm step over 3m section. This strain distribution was compared with the design value by the FE analysis when the load of 14ton and 18ton added. This experiment can verify the manufactured composite bogie side-frame.

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Influence of Stain on the High Frequency Impedance of Highly Magnetostrictive Films (고자왜막의 고주파임피던스에 미치는 스트레인의 영향)

  • ;M. Inoue;K. I, Arai
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.47-51
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    • 2000
  • To make a practical application of a micro-strain sensors with ultrahigh sensitivity, a strain on electrical properties of micro-patterned amorphous (Fe\ulcornerco\ulcorner)\ulcornerSi\ulcornerB\ulcorner films had influenced on the impedance over frequency range from 1 MHz to 1 GHz. Reflecting excellent magnetomachanical couping properties of films, high frequency impedance was subject to change sensitively by a strain : a change in impe-dance of 39% was observed at 200 MHz applied a strain of 224$\times$10\ulcorner. To determine a optimum shape of micro-patterned films, film impedance was analyzed by virtue of its constitutive components of resis-tance and reactance. Result was shown that reduction of the resistance term(hence increase of resultant reactance term) of impedance is more effective for enhancing the strain sensitivity of films at relatively low frequency range.

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Shearing characteristics of slip zone soils and strain localization analysis of a landslide

  • Liu, Dong;Chen, Xiaoping
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.33-52
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    • 2015
  • Based on the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion, a gradient-dependent plastic model that considers the strain-softening behavior is presented in this study. Both triaxial shear tests on conventional specimen and precut-specimen, which were obtained from an ancient landslide, are performed to plot the post-peak stress-strain entire-process curves. According to the test results of the soil strength, which reduces from peak to residual strength, the Mohr-Coulomb criterion that considers strain-softening under gradient plastic theory is deduced, where strength reduction depends on the hardening parameter and the Laplacian thereof. The validity of the model is evaluated by the simulation of the results of triaxial shear test, and the computed and measured curves are consistent and independent of the adopted mesh. Finally, a progressive failure of the ancient landslide, which was triggered by slide of the toe, is simulated using this model, and the effects of the strain-softening process on the landslide stability are discussed.

Welding deformation analysis based on improved equivalent strain method to cover external constraint during cooling stage

  • Kim, Tae-Jun;Jang, Beom-Seon;Kang, Sung-Wook
    • International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.805-816
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    • 2015
  • In the present study, external restraints imposed normal to the plate during the cooling stage were determined to be effective for reduction of the angular distortion of butt-welded or fillet-welded plate. A welding analysis model under external force during the cooling stage was idealized as a prismatic member subjected to pure bending. The external restraint was represented by vertical force on both sides of the work piece and bending stress forms in the transverse direction. The additional bending stress distribution across the plate thickness was reflected in the improved inherent strain model, and a set of inherent strain charts with different levels of bending stress were newly calculated. From an elastic linear FE analysis using the inherent strain values taken from the chart and comparing them with those from a 3D thermal elasto-plastic FE analysis, welding deformation can be calculated.

Evolution of Strain States and Microstructures During Three-roll Screw Rolling of Copper Rods (Three-roll Screw Rolling 공정 시 동봉재의 변형상태와 미세조직의 발달)

  • Kim, S.H.;Park, E.S.;Kim, H.J.;Bae, J.C.;Huh, M.Y.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.68-72
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    • 2008
  • In order to investigate the evolution of strain states during screw rolling, the samples of copper rod were rolled in a three-roll screw rolling mill. Microstructure observations and hardness measurements were carried out for examining the deformation history during screw rolling. The finite element method(FEM) was employed to calculate the evolution of strain states during screw rolling. The strain state in the roll gap is quite inhomogeneous through the rod thickness layers. It turned out that shear strain gradients through the thickness layers are reduced by applying a higher reduction.

A Prediction Model for Low Cycle and High Cycle Fatigue Lives of Pre-strained Fe-18Mn TWIP Steel (Fe-18Mn TWIP강의 Pre-strain에 따른 저주기 및 고주기 피로 수명 예측 모델)

  • Kim, Y.W.;Lee, C.S.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.11-16
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    • 2010
  • The influence of pre-strain on low cycle fatigue behavior of Fe-18Mn-0.05Al-0.6C TWIP steel was studied by conducting axial strain-controlled tests. As-received plates were deformed by rolling with reduction ratios of 10 and 30%, respectively. A triangular waveform with a constant frequency of 1 Hz was employed for low cycle fatigue test at the total strain amplitudes in the range of ${\pm}0.4\;{\sim}\;{\pm}0.6$ pct. The results showed that low-cycle fatigue life was strongly dependent on the amount of pre-strain as well as the strain amplitude. Increasing the amount of prestrain, the number of reversals to failure was significantly decreased at high strain amplitudes, but the effect was negligible at low strain amplitudes. A new model for predicting fatigue life of pre-strained body has been suggested by adding ${\Delta}E_{pre-strain}$ to the energy-based fatigue damage parameter. Also, high-cycle fatigue lives predicted using the low-cycle fatigue data well agreed with the experimental ones.