• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.311-326
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• 2024

Transmission tower structures are particularly susceptible to damage and even collapse under strong seismic ground motions. Conventional seismic analyses of transmission towers are usually performed by considering only ground motion uncertainty while ignoring structural uncertainty; consequently, the performance evaluation and failure prediction may be inaccurate. In this context, the present study numerically investigates the seismic responses and failure mechanism of transmission towers by considering multiple sources of uncertainty. To this end, an existing transmission tower is chosen, and the corresponding three-dimensional finite element model is created in ABAQUS software. Sensitivity analysis is carried out to identify the relative importance of the uncertain parameters in the seismic responses of transmission towers. The numerical results indicate that the impacts of the structural damping ratio, elastic modulus and yield strength on the seismic responses of the transmission tower are relatively large. Subsequently, a set of 20 uncertainty models are established based on random samples of various parameter combinations generated by the Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method. An uncertainty analysis is performed for these uncertainty models to clarify the impacts of uncertain structural factors on the seismic responses and failure mechanism (ultimate bearing capacity and failure path). The numerical results show that structural uncertainty has a significant influence on the seismic responses and failure mechanism of transmission towers; different possible failure paths exist for the uncertainty models, whereas only one exists for the deterministic model, and the ultimate bearing capacity of transmission towers is more sensitive to the variation in material parameters than that in geometrical parameters. This research is expected to provide an in-depth understanding of the influence of structural uncertainty on the seismic demand assessment of transmission towers.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.148-155
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 지하 콘크리트 구조물의 누수 균열에 사용되는 주입형 누수보수재료의 품질관리 방안으로 규격화된 국제표준 ISO TS 16774, Part 2 Test method for chemical resistance를 이용하여 현재 우리나라 누수보수현장에서 사용하고 있는 주입형 누수보수재료 2계열(합성고무계, 시멘트계), 3종류 씩, 총 9 종류의 보수재료에 대한 지하 콘크리트 구조물이 처한 화학적 환경의 저항 안정성을 연구 검토하였다. 그 결과, 합성고무계는 RG-3를 제외하고, 산에 대한 저항력을 높일 수 있는 재료적 검토가 필요하고, 시멘트계는 수산화나트륨, 염화나트륨에 대한 저항을 높일 수 있는 재료적 검토의 필요성이 확인되었다. 이러한 결과는 콘크리트 구조물의 화학적 환경에서의 보수재료 선정 시 기본 지표로 사용가능 할 것으로 판단된다. 또한, 추후에 연구 개발 되는 보수재료의 품질 향상에 반영할 수 있는 기준 자료의 활용을 기대할 수 있다.

• 한국농촌건축학회논문집
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.11-22
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to analyze the actual situation of residents' participation in rural development projects, to identify their performance and problems, and suggest ways to develop desirable villages in rural areas. From reviewing relevant pre-studies, this study was done by interview, questionnaire, and observation targeting 140 leaders and residents of exampled village of the project in Jeollanam-do, as well as by listening opinions of relative experts. This study is largely classified into 4 parts, review of character and appearing background of village development project, review of theoretical discussion about residents' participation, evaluation of accomplishments and analysis of participation, and establishing a model for habitants-participating village development project and how to improve it. As a result of questionnaire, it was found urgent for habitants to convert their thinking about village development and their participation in it, to realize a model of this project, as well as political stimulus to promote that. Therefore, measures must be required to improve current village development projects and to promote them. First of all, a preparation period is required to sufficiently provide the village where habitants are willing to participate in, from the state of place selection. Besides, it is required to run away from profit-making businesses aiming at foreign people, to improvement of residents' welfare in a long term, and enhanced resources management in a broad view. Waste of working expenses seems to be solved through direct operation by a corporation in charge of profit-making businesses, under superstition of residents' community. Finally conclusion, expansion and practicalization of education to residents are essential, to promote their participation in rural development projects. Especially it must be practical education for habitants such as 'community-ship' or 'technology education in each interesting part,' rather than tour of other villages and unilateral lectures from experts. Along with this, a long term plan and systematic participation is more essential. Since planning itself can be mutual learning to enhance residents' capacity, a chance must be established to discuss and plan each part including resources-research, by making them participate in.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.323-333
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• 2020

In recent years, there has been an upsurge for the usage of buckling restrained braces (BRB) rather than ordinary braces, as they have evidently performed better. If the overall brace buckling is ignored, BRBs are proven to have higher energy absorption capacity and flexibility. This article aims to deliberate an economically efficient yet adequate type of all-steel BRB, comprised of the main components as in traditional ones, such as : (1) a steel core that holds all axial forces and (2) a steel restrainer tube that hinders buckling to occurr in the core; there is a more practical detailing in the BRB system due to the elimination of a filling mortar. An investigation has been conducted for the proposed rectangular-tube core BRB and it is hysteric behavioral results have been compared to previous researches conducted on a structure containing a similar plate core profile that has the same cross-sectional area in its core. A loss of strength is known to occur in the BRB when the limiting condition of local buckling is not satisfied, thus causing instability. This typically occurs when the thickness of the restrainer tube's wall is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the core plate or its width. In this study, a parametric investigation for BRBs with different formations has been performed to verify the effect of the design parameters such as different core section profiles, restraining member width to thickness ratio and relative cross-sectional area of the core to restrainer, on buckling load evaluation. The proposed BRB investigation results have also been presented and compared to past BRB researches with a plate profile as the core section, and the advantages and disadvantages of this configuration have been discussed, and it is concluded that BRBs with tubular core section exhibit a better seismic performance than the ones with a plate core profile.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권22호
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• pp.9731-9737
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• 2014

Large scale secular registry or surveillance systems have been accumulating vast data that allow mathematical modeling of cancer incidence and mortality rates. Most contemporary models in this regard use time series and APC (age-period-cohort) methods and focus primarily on predicting or analyzing cancer epidemiology with little attention being paid to implications for designing cancer registry, surveillance or evaluation initiatives. This research models age-specific cancer incidence rates using logistic growth equations and explores their performance under different scenarios of data completeness in the hope of deriving clues for reshaping relevant data collection. The study used China Cancer Registry Report 2012 as the data source. It employed 3-parameter logistic growth equations and modeled the age-specific incidence rates of all and the top 10 cancers presented in the registry report. The study performed 3 types of modeling, namely full age-span by fitting, multiple 5-year-segment fitting and single-segment fitting. Measurement of model performance adopted adjusted goodness of fit that combines sum of squred residuals and relative errors. Both model simulation and performance evalation utilized self-developed algorithms programed using C# languade and MS Visual Studio 2008. For models built upon full age-span data, predicted age-specific cancer incidence rates fitted very well with observed values for most (except cervical and breast) cancers with estimated goodness of fit (Rs) being over 0.96. When a given cancer is concerned, the R valuae of the logistic growth model derived using observed data from urban residents was greater than or at least equal to that of the same model built on data from rural people. For models based on multiple-5-year-segment data, the Rs remained fairly high (over 0.89) until 3-fourths of the data segments were excluded. For models using a fixed length single-segment of observed data, the older the age covered by the corresponding data segment, the higher the resulting Rs. Logistic growth models describe age-specific incidence rates perfectly for most cancers and may be used to inform data collection for purposes of monitoring and analyzing cancer epidemic. Helped by appropriate logistic growth equations, the work vomume of contemporary data collection, e.g., cancer registry and surveilance systems, may be reduced substantially.

• 한국입자에어로졸학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.191-202
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• 2019

In this study, performance (particle removal efficiency and breathing resistance) of several commercially available face masks (electrostatic filter masks (KF80 certified), a nanofiber filter mask (KF80 certified), and an uncertified mask) with their filter structure and composition were evaluated. Also, effects of relative humidity (RH) of incoming air, water and alcohol exposure, and reusability on performance of face masks were examined. Monodisperse and polydisperse sodium chloride particles were used as test aerosols. Except the uncertified mask filter, PM_2.5 removal efficiency was found to be higher than 90%, and the nanofiber filter mask had the highest quality factor due to the low pressure drop and high removal efficiency (nanofibers were arranged in a densely packed pore structure and contained a significant amount of fluorine in addition to carbon and oxygen). In the case of the KF80 certified mask, the removal efficiency was little affected when the RH of incoming air increased. When the mask filters were soaked in water, the removal efficiency of mask filters was degraded. In particular, the uncertified mask filter showed the highest removal efficiency degradation (26%). When the mask was soaked in alcohol, the removal efficiency also decreased with the greater degree than the water soaking case. The nanofiber mask filter showed the strongest resistance to alcohol exposure among tested mask filters. During evaluation of reusability of masks in real life, the removal efficiency of certified mask filter was less than 4% for 5 consecutive days (2 hours per day), while the removal efficiency of uncertified mask filter significantly decreased by 30% after 5 days.

• 한국태양에너지학회 논문집
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.24-33
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• 2012

Recently, finishing materials at spandrel area, a part of curtain-wall system, are gradually forced to improve thermal insulation performance in order to enhance the building energy efficiency. Also, Building Integrated Photovoltaics(BIPV) systems have been installed in the exterior side of the spandrel area, which is generally composed of windows. Those BIPVs aim to achieve high building energy efficiency and supply the electricity to building. However, if transparent BIPV module is combined with high insulated spandrel, it would reduce the PV efficiency for two major reasons. First, temperature in the air space, located between window layer and finishing layer of the spandrel area, can significantly increase by solar heat gain, because the space has a few air density relative to other spaces in building. Secondly, PV has a characteristics of decreased Voltage(Voc and Vmp) with the increased temperature on the PV cell. For these reasons, this research analyzed a direct interrelation between PV Cell temperature and electricity generation performance under different insulation conditions in the spandrel area. The different insulation conditions under consideration are 1) high insulated spandrel(HIS) 2) low insulated spandrel(LIS) 3) PV stand alone on the ground(SAG). As a result, in case of 1) HIS, PV temperature was increased and thus electricity generation efficiency was decreased more than other cases. To be specific, each cases' maximum temperature indicated that 1) HIS is $83.8^{\circ}C$, 2) LIS is $74.2^{\circ}C$, and 3) SAG is $66.3^{\circ}C$. Also, each cases yield electricity generation like that 1) HIS is 913.3kWh/kWp, 2) LIS is 942.8kWh/kWp, and 3) SAG is 981.3kWh/kWp. These result showed that it is needed for us to seek to the way how the PV Cell temperature would be decreased.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.27-31
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• 2008

본 연구는 사료내 형태별 구리와 아연 첨가가 비육돈의 생산성, 영양소 소화율 도체 및 육질 특성에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 실시하였다. 3원 교잡종(Landrace x Yorkshire x Duroc) 비육돈 64두를 공시하였으며, 시험개시 시의 체중은 55.60 kg이었다. 1) 무기태 구리 $(CuSO_4{\cdot}5H_2O$ 30 ppm), 2) 유기태 구리(Cu-methionine, 30 ppm), 3)무기태 아연(ZnO, 80 ppm) 및 4) 유기태 아연(Zn-methionine, 80 ppm)으로 4개 처리를 하여 처리당 4반복, 반복당 4두씩 완전임의 배치하였다. 0-5주 동안 일당 사료 섭취량은 무기태 아연 처리구가 유기태 구리 및 아연 처리구와 비교하여 유의적으로 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 그러나 전체 시험기간 동안 일당 증체량, 사료 섭취량 및 사료 요구율은 처리구간에 유의적인 차이를 보이지 않았다(p>0.05). 시험 5주째의 건물 및 질소 소화율은 처리구간에 유의적인 차이를 보이지 않았으나(p>0.05), 시험 10주째의 건물 및 질소 소화율은 유기태 아연을 첨가한 처리구가 다른 처리구와 비교하여 유의적으로 낮게 나타났다(p<0.05). 육의 pH는 Cu-Met처리구가 아연을 첨가 급여한 처리구와 비교하여 유의적으로 높게 나타났으며, 관능검사에서 육색은 Cu-met과 $CuSO_4$ 처리구가 Zn-met과 ZnO처리구와 비교하여 유의적으로 높게 나타났고(p<0.05), 근내지방도는 Cu-met 처리구가 다른 처리구와 비교하여 유의적으로 낮게 나타났으며(p<0.05), 경도에 있어서는 Zn-met 처리구가 유기태 구리 및 무기태 아연 처리구와 비교하여 유의적으로 높게 나타났다(p<0.05). 결론적으로 환경오염을 야기 시키는 무기태 구리 및 아연의 첨가 대신 유기태 구리 및 아연의 첨가는 성장 능력, 등심 단면적 및 육색에 영향을 미치지 않았다.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권6B호
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• pp.697-707
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• 2008

격자기반 운동파 강우유출모형 KIMSTORM(grid-based KIneMatic wave STOrm Runoff Model)은 유역의 지표흐름, 지표하흐름 및 하천흐름의 시간적 변화와 공간적 분포를 모의할 수 있다. 본 모형은 유닉스 운영체제의 C++언어로 개발되었으며, 각 셀에서의 흐름을 모의하기 위하여 단방향흐름 알고리즘과 격자기반 수문학적 물수지요소를 채택하고 있으나 운영에 몇몇 제약사항이 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존모형을 개선하고자 하였으며, MS Windows 운영체제에서 실행 가능하도록 FORTRAN 90 언어를 이용하여 ModKIMSTORM을 개발하였다. 기존모형에 비해 개선된 주요사항으로, 물리적 기반의 침투기법인 GAML(Green-Ampt & Mein-Larson) 침투모형 추가, 격자 유출심과 Manning 조도계수에 의한 논에서의 지표유출 제어, 지표격자의 기저유출 요소 추가, 공간강우와 지점강우의 처리, 전 후 처리부문 개발, 5개 평가항목(피어슨의 결정계수 $R^2$, Nash & Sutcliffe 모형효율 E, 유출용적 편차 $D_v$, 첨두유출의 상대오차 $EQ_p$, 첨두시간의 절대오차 $ET_p$)을 이용한 모의결과의 자동 평가 기능을 개발하였다. 추가적으로, 모형의 계산효율을 향상시키고 지표격자의 기저유출을 하천격자로 이송하기 위하여 쉘정렬 알고리즘을 채택하였다. 모형의 입력자료는 ESRI ArcInfo W/S 또는 ArcView와 같은 GIS 소프트웨어 및 MS Excel을 이용하여 간단히 구축할 수 있으며, 모의결과의 공간적 분포를 확인할 수 있는 토양수분, 지표유출, 유출심 및 유속분포도는 BSQ, ESRI ASCII Grid, ESRI Binary Grid 및 IDRISI Raster 형식으로 출력할 수 있도록 개선하였다.

• 한국지반신소재학회논문집
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.77-86
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 지지부재가 설치된 띠형 강보강재에 대한 실내인발시험을 수행하였다. 주문진 표준사를 사용하여 상대밀도 80%인 모형지반을 조성하였고, 지지부재의 개수를 0~2개로 구분하여 실내인발시험을 수행하였다. 상재압은 $50kN/m^2{\sim}200kN/m^2$까지 4단계로 구분하여 적용하였고, 1mm/min 속도로 강보강재를 인발하였다. 표면이 매끄러운 띠형 강보강재의 인발저항력은 보강재 표면과 지반 사이에서 마찰저항만 발현되기 때문에 인발 초기에 급격히 증가하다가 지속적으로 감소하는 경향을 나타낸다. 반면, 지지부재를 설치한 강보강재의 인발저항력은 마찰저항뿐만 아니라 수동저항도 함께 발현되므로 계속적으로 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 보강재의 형태에 관계없이 최대인발저항은 상재압이 증가함에 따라 선형적으로 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 지지부재를 1개 설치한 경우에 비해 지지부재를 2개 설치했을 때의 최대수동저항은 작게 나타났다. 이는 지지부재의 설치 간격 및 위치에 따라 지지부재에서 발현되는 수동저항의 크기가 다르기 때문에 나타나는 현상으로 판단되며, 지지부재 설치 위치 및 간격에 따른 추가 인발시험을 통해 확인할 필요가 있다.