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A Study on Interior Flooring Materials for Safe Elderly Nursing Home Environment (안전한 노인요양시설 환경을 위한 실내 바닥마감재에 관한 연구)

  • Chung, Miryum
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.19-26
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    • 2014
  • The number of elderly who wants to access to Nursing Homes (NH) will increase due to the rapid aging society and domestic changes. Those who move into NH expect 24/7 care service in safe environment. Providing space free from danger, especially from fall, for the frail elderly is essential. The purpose of this study is to categorize performance needs of flooring materials in the aspect of safety, and analyze materials so that adequate ones for each space in NH can be suggested. Performance needs are as follows; slip resistance (dry/wet), fire resistance, resilience, water resistance, soil retardant, anti-bacterial, gloss, sound absorbtion. maintenance, durability, ease replacement, color and pattern variety, visual and tactual texture, tactile warmth, IAQ, sustainable material (before use), impact to nature (after use). They are categorized under function, economy, sensibility and sustainability. It was found that there are better materials than common ones that has been used repeatedly in NHs, such as vinyl sheets and VCT. In overall, Cork flooring and nylon carpet met all four categories, followed by wool carpet, rubber and linoleum. For bedroom, wood flooring, Cork, rubber, wool carpet, nylon carpets were suggested. In bathroom with shower, rubber, vinyl sheet and porcelain tiles were safe materials. As living/dining room and corridor floors, wool carpet, nylon carpet, cork flooring would be excellent as they are resilient and durable. The result of this paper can be used by both NH managers and material companies, resulting better quality of life of the elderly by providing safe environment.

Cyclist's Performance Evaluation Used Ergonomic Method (인간공학적 방법을 이용한 사이클 선수의 경기력 평가 (우수선수의 경기력 벤치마킹을 중심으로))

  • Hah, Chong-Ku;Jang, Young-Kwan;Ki, Jae-Sug
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2009.11a
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    • pp.15-24
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    • 2009
  • Cycling that transform human energy into mechanical energy is one of the man-machine systems out of sports fields. Benchmarking means " improving ourselves by learning from others ", therefore benchmarking toward dominant cyclist is necessary on field. the goals of this study were to provide important factors on multi-disciplines (kinematics, physiology, power, psychology) for a tailored-training program that is suitable to individual characteristics. Two cyclist participated in this study and gave consent to the experimental procedure. one was dominant cyclist (years:21 yrs, height:177 cm, mass:70 kg), and the other was non-dominant cyclist(years:21, height:176, mass:70). Kinematic data were recorded using six infrared cameras (240Hz) and QTM (software). Physiological data (VO2max, AT) were acquired according to graded exercising test with cycle ergometer and power with Wingate test used by Bar-Or et. al ( 1977) and to evaluate muscle function with Cybex. Psychological data were collected with competitive state anxiety inventory (CSAI-2) that were devised by Martens et. al (1990) and with athletes' self-management questionnaire (ASMQ) of Huh (2003). It appears that the dominant's CV(coefficient of variability) was higher than non-dominant's CV in Sports Biomechanics domain, that the dominant's values for all factors ware higher than non-dominant's values in physical, and physiological domain, and their values between cognitive anxiety and somatic anxiety were contrary to each other in psychology. Further research on multi-disciplines may lead to the development of tailored-optimal training programs applicable with key factors to enhance athletic performance by means of research including athlete, coach and parents.

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Development of Evaluation Indicators for Determining the Reconstruction of Retired School Facilities (노후학교시설 개축 판별을 위한 평가지표 개발)

  • Meang, Joon-Ho;Kim, Sung-Joon;Song, Byung-Joon;Kim, Jae-Young
    • The Journal of Sustainable Design and Educational Environment Research
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2022
  • The main purpose of this study was to propose an objective basis model for determining business types through renovation and remodeling by quantifying and comprehensively reviewing functional, performance, structural safety, and economic indicators for rational renovation and remodeling of deteriorated school facilities. Delphi analysis and AHP analysis were applied as the main methodologies for setting evaluation indicators, and scores for each evaluation item was allocated based on 34 points in the function and performance fields, 51 points in the structural safety field, and 15 points in the economic field. In the future, judgment on the execution of objective and reasonable reconstruction can be expected, focusing on the evaluation indicator index model, and it is necessary to determine the business type for each target school teacher building through a multi-faceted review of the current status of the target school.

Management of RAMS for Railway System in view of System Life Cycle (시스템 수명주기 관점에서의 철도시스템 RAMS 관리 방안)

  • Lee, Chang-Hwan;Park, Byoung-Noh;Ahn, Heon-Chan
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.221-225
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    • 2011
  • The railway system consists of many items such as sub-systems, equipments and parts to accomplish the required function. Also the railway system is very complex system that these items are connected with interface among items. According with this complexity, the process of system engineering is applied to the construction of new railway project to manage systematically. In addition, the research about system engineering is progressing in recent. The RAMS management is one part of system engineering, and is to assure the required safety and performance. Also, this RAMS should be managed through system life cycle. This paper show the case study of management of RAMS during construction and operation phase in respect of system life cycle. As a result of this research, the best way of RAMS management based on system engineering in operation phase for railway system is suggested.

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Anti-Islanding Scheme for a Number of Grid-connected Inverters under Parallel Operation (병렬연결된 다수 대 계통연계형 인버터를 위한 단독운전 방지 기법)

  • Kim, Dong-Gyun;Park, Kwan-nam;Cho, Sang-Yoon;Lee, Young-Kwoun;Yu, Gwon-Jong;Song, Seung-Ho;Choy, Ick;Choi, Ju-Yeop
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2016.07a
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    • pp.351-352
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    • 2016
  • Since anti-islanding scheme of grid-connected inverter is a key function of standards compliance, unintentional islanding results in safety hazards, reliability, and many other issues. Therefore, many anti-islanding schemes have been researched, however, existing anti-islanding schemes show poor power quality and non-detection zone issues. Besides, most of them have problems which deteriorate performance of islanding detection under parallel-operation. Therefore, this paper proposes a new anti-islanding scheme that has both negligible power quality degradation, no non-detection zone and precise islanding detection under parallel-operation. Finally, both simulation and experimental results validate the proposed scheme.

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Selective Squib Activation and Check Circuit Design for Safeguarded Multi-Phase Missions (안전조치 포함 다단계 임무 수행을 위한 선택적 스퀴브 도화 및 점검 회로 설계)

  • Lee, Heoncheol;Kwon, Yongsung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.684-696
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    • 2018
  • The mission in missile systems can be conducted with multiple phases according to the characteristics of the systems and the targets. The safeguarded multi-phase mission includes a safeguarded phase before launch for considering the safety of operators in unexpected squib activation. However, the safeguard function should be disabled after launch to complete the mission. Therefore, the squib system needs to be selectively activated according to the phases. This paper presents a selective squib activation and check circuit design for safeguarded multi-phase missions in missile systems. The presented circuit design was implemented with various electronic components including a field-programmable gate array(FPGA). Its functions and performance were validated by both many ground tests and several flight tests.

Mine Operation Management System for a Large Opencast Mine

  • Kumar, L. Ajay;Renaldy, T. Amrith;Raj, D. Edwin David;Vinoth, S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Rock Mechanics Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.101-114
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    • 2008
  • An efficient mine management system demand constant attention of mine managers on the key performance indicators like production targets, equipment status, condition of haul roads, safety etc.. There is a wealth of information generated during day to day working of the mine. The success of a mining enterprise is a function of reliability of accumulated information and decision making on the basis of such information. In the present paper a computerized mine operations management system developed for a large opencast mine making use of the potential benefits of geographical information systems, real time kinematic global positioning systems and a communication network to improve the overall efficiency of the mine is presented.

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Reliability-based modeling of punching shear capacity of FRP-reinforced two-way slabs

  • Kurtoglu, Ahmet Emin;Cevik, Abdulkadir;Albegmprli, Hasan M.;Gulsan, Mehmet Eren;Bilgehan, Mahmut
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.87-106
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    • 2016
  • This paper deals with the reliability analysis of design formulations derived for predicting the punching shear capacity of FRP-reinforced two-way slabs. Firstly, a new design code formulation was derived by means of gene expression programming. This formulation differs from the existing ones as the slab length (L) was introduced in the equation. Next, the proposed formulation was tested for its generalization capability by a parametric study. Then, the stochastic analyses of derived and existing formulations were performed by Monte Carlo simulation. Finally, the reliability analyses of these equations were carried out based on the results of stochastic analysis and the ultimate state function of ASCE-7 and ACI-318 (2011). The results indicate that the prediction performance of new formulation is significantly higher as compared to available design equations and its reliability index is within acceptable limits.

Hybridization and Functionalization of Aqueous-based Polyurethanes

  • Chen, Kan-Nan
    • Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.129-129
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    • 2006
  • Conventional solvent-based polyurethane (PU) is well established for wide applications, such as textile treatments, surface coating, adhesive and so on. Due to the demands of safety, economic, and environmental protection, the solvent-based PU is restricted and has been phasing out and aqueous-based PU is becoming the world market trend, which is an environmental friendly product. The chemical resistance, physical and mechanical properties of aqueous-based PU are still not competible with solvent-based PU. Because of aqueous-based PU is a linear thermoplastic polymer with lower average molecular weight. Their improvements are normally performed by a post-curing reaction or a polymer hybridization to enhance the polymer cross-linking density. Hybridization of PU with aqueous-based epoxy resin or acrylate emulsion and then cured by a curing agent for improving the performance properties and reducing the cost of aqueous-based PU.Furthermore, a special function is added to aqueous-based PU increasing the application value, for examples, flame retardation, polymeric dyes, hydrophilic and etc.

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Framework and Technology of Integrated Ship-Shore Information System

  • Zhang, Ying-Jun;Dong, Fang;Zhang, Xiu-Guo;Zhu, Fei-Xiang
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.163-166
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    • 2004
  • Integrated Ship-Shore Information System makes use of advanced technology of marine mobile communication and extends the computer network of shipping company to ship. This system conveniently accomplishes the information exchange between company and ship, guarantees navigation safety and improves commercial performance. The framework of integrated ship-shore information system and the analysis of its function are provided in this paper. Meanwhile, the idea based on the specification of J2EE to build this system is put forward and the relevant technology is demonstrated.

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