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Suppression of Charge Recombination Rate in Nanocrystalline SnO2 by Thin Coatings of Divalent Oxides in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

  • Lee, Chae-Hyeon;Lee, Gi-Won;Kang, Wee-Kyung;Lee, Doh-Kwon;Ko, Min-Jae;Kim, Kyoung-Kon;Park, Nam-Gyu
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.31 no.11
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    • pp.3093-3098
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    • 2010
  • The core-shell $SnO_2$@AO (A=Ni, Cu, Zn and Mg) films were prepared and the effects of coatings on photovoltaic properties were investigated. Studies on X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, energy dispersive X-ray analysis and transmission electron microscopy showed the formation of divalent oxides on the surface of $SnO_2$ nanoparticles. It was commonly observed that all the dye-sensitized core-shell films exhibited higher photovoltage than the bare $SnO_2$ film. Transient photovoltage measurements confirmed that the improved photovoltages were related to the decreased time constants for electron recombination.

A Study on the Fluid Mixing Analysis for Proving Shell Wall Thinning of a Feedwater Heater (급수가열기 동체 감육 현상 규명을 위한 유동해석 연구)

  • Shin, Min-Ho;Hwang, Kyeong-Mo;Kim, Kyung-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.2017-2022
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    • 2004
  • There are multistage preheaters in the power generation plan to improve the thermal efficiency of the plant and to prevent the components from the thermal shock. The energy source of these heaters comes from the extracted two phase fluid of working system. These two-phase fluid can cause the so-called Flow Accelerated Corrosion(FAC) in the extracting piping and the bubble plate of the heater for example, in case of point Beach Nuclear Power Plant and in the Wolsung Nuclear Power Plant. The FAC is due to the mass transport of the thin oxide layer by the convection. FAC is dependent on many parameters such as the operation temperature, void fraction, the fluid velocity and pH of fluid and so on. Therefore, in this paper velocity was calculated by FLUENT code in order to find out the root cause of the wall thinning of the feedwater heaters. It also includeed in the fluid mixing analysis model are around the number 5A feedwater heater shell including the extraction pipeline. To identify the relation between the local velocities and wall thinning, the local velocities according to the analysis results were compared with distribution of the shell wall thicknes by ultrasonic test.

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A DAMAGE IDENTIFICATION METHOD FOR THIN CYLINDRICAL SHELLS (얇은 원통형 쉘에 발생한 손상 규명)

  • Oh H.;Cho J.;Lee U.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.394-399
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, a structural damage identification method (SDIM) is developed to identify the line crack-like directional damages generated within a cylindrical shell. First, the equations of motion fur a damaged cylindrical shell are derived. Based on a theory of continuum damage mechanics, a small material volume containing a directional damage is represented by the effective orthotropic elastic stiffness, which is dependent of the size and the orientation of the damage with respect to the global coordinates. The present SDIM is then derived from the frequency response function (FRF) directly solved from the dynamic equations of the damaged cylindrical shell. In contrast with most existing SDIMs which require the modal parameters measured in both intact and damaged states, the present SDIM requires only the FRF-data measured in damaged state. By virtue of utilizing FRF-data, one may choose as many sets of excitation frequency and FRF measurement point as needed to acquire a sufficient number of equations fer damage identification analysis. The numerically simulated damage identification tests are conducted to study the feasibility of the present SDIM.

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Mathematical modeling of the local temperature effect on the deformation of the heat-shielding elements of the aircraft

  • Antufiev, Boris A.;Sun, Ying;Egorova, Olga V.;Bugaev, Nikolay M.
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.59-68
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    • 2022
  • The physical and mathematical foundations of the heat-shielding composite materials functioning under the conditions of aerodynamic heating of aircraft, as well as under the conditions of the point effect of high-energy radiation are considered. The problem of deformation of a thin shallow shell under the action of a local temperature field is approximately solved. Such problems arise, for example, in the case of local destruction of heat-protective coatings of aircraft shells. Then the aerodynamic heating acts directly on the load-bearing shell of the structure. Its destruction inevitably leads to the death of the entire aircraft. A methodology has been developed for the numerical solution of the entire complex problem on the basis of economical absolutely stable numerical methods. Multiple results of numerical simulation of the thermal state of the locally heated shallow shell under conditions of its thermal destruction at high temperatures have been obtained.

Approximate formulation for bifurcation buckling loads of axially compressed cylindrical shells with an elastic core

  • Sato, Motohiro;Shimazaki, Kenta
    • Interaction and multiscale mechanics
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.313-320
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    • 2011
  • This paper proposes an approximate formulation to estimate the bifurcation buckling loads of cylindrical shells with soft elastic cores under the conditions of axial compression. In general, thin-walled, axially compressed cylindrical shells buckle into a diamond pattern in the elastic range. However, buckling symmetrical with respect to the axis of the cylinder may occur when the cylindrical shell is supported by an elastic medium. By considering this characteristic, we introduce the simplified approximate formulation that can give sufficiently accurate results for the bifurcation buckling loads of cylindrical shells. Moreover the results are compared with the exact buckling loads in order to confirm the accuracy of the proposed approximate formulation.

Strain gradient based static stability analysis of composite crystalline shell structures having porosities

  • Fenjan, Raad M.;Faleh, Nadhim M.;Ridha, Ahmed A.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.631-642
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    • 2020
  • This paper studies nonlinear stability behavior of a nanocrystalline silicon curved nanoshell considering strain gradient size-dependency. Nanocrystallines are composite materials with an interface phase and randomly distributed nano-size grains and pores. Imperfectness of the curved nanoshell has been defined based on an initial deflection. The formulation of nanocrystalline nanoshell has been established by thin shell theory and an analytical approach has been used in order to solve the buckling problem. For accurately describing the size effects related to nano-grains or nano-pores, their surface energies have been included. Nonlinear stability curves of the nanoshell are affected by the size of nano-grain, curvature radius and nano-pore volume fraction. It is found that increasing the nano-pore volume fraction results in lower buckling loads.

Deformation and stress analysis of a sandwich cylindrical shell using HDQ Method

  • Shokrollahi, Hassan
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.35-48
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, the response of a sandwich cylindrical shell over any sort of boundary conditions and under a general distributed static loading is investigated. The faces and the core are made of some isotropic materials. The faces are modeled as thin cylindrical shells obeying the Kirchhoff-Love assumptions. For the core material it is assumed to be thick and the in-plane stresses are negligible. The governing equations are derived using the principle of the stationary potential energy. Using harmonic differential quadrature method (HDQM) the equations are solved for deformation components. The obtained results primarily are compared against finite element results. Then, the effects of changing different parameters on the stress and displacement components of sandwich cylindrical shells are investigated.

Dependencies of Ultrasonic Velocities on the Wall Thickness in Polyvinyl Chloride Cortical Bone Mimics

  • Lee, Kang-Il
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.29 no.3E
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    • pp.140-145
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    • 2010
  • In the present study, tubular polyvinyl chloride (PVC) cortical bone mimics that simulate the cortical shell of long bones were used to validate the axial transmission technique for assessing the cortical thickness by measuring the ultrasonic velocities along the cortical shell of long bones. The ultrasonic velocities in the 9 PVC cortical bone mimics with wall thicknesses from 4.0 to 16.1 mm and inner diameters from 40 to 300 mm were measured as a function of the thickness by using a pair of custom-made transducers with a diameter of 12.7 mm and a center frequency of 200 kHz. In order to clarify the measured behavior, they were also compared with the predictions from a theory of guided waves in thin plates. This phantom study using the PVC cortical bone mimics provides useful insight into the dependencies of ultrasonic velocities on the cortical thickness in human long bones.

Transient Analysis of Composite Cylindrical Shells with Ring Stiffeners (링보강 복합재료 원통셸의 과도해석)

  • Kim, Yeong-Wan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.25 no.11
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    • pp.1802-1812
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    • 2001
  • The theoretical method is developed to investigate the effects of ring stiffeners on free vibration characteristics and transient response for the ring stiffened composite cylindrical shells subjected to the impulse pressure Loading. In the theoretical procedure, the Love's thin shell theory combined with the discrete stiffener theory to consider the ring stiffening effect is adopted to formulate the theoretical model. The concentric or eccentric ring stiffeners are laminated with composite and have the uniform rectangular cross section. The modal analysis technique is used to develop the analytical solutions of the transient problem. The analysis is based on an expansion of the loads, displacements in the double Fourier series that satisfy the boundary conditions. The effect of stiffener's eccentricity, number, size, and position on transient response of the shells is examined. The results are verified by comparison with FEM results.

DEVELOPMENT OF A REFINED STRUCTURAL MODEL FOR COMPOSITE BLADES WITH ARBITRARY SECTION SHAPES (임의의 단면 형상을 갖는 복합재료 블레이드의 첨단 구조해석 모델 개발)

  • Jung, Sung-Nam;Inderjit Chopra
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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    • 1999.11a
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    • pp.215-218
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    • 1999
  • A general structural model, which is an extension of the Vlassov theory, is developed for the analysis of composite rotor blades with elastic couplings. A comprehensive analysis applicable to both thick-and thin-walled composite beams, which can have either open- or closed profile is formulated. The theory accounts for the effects of elastic couplings, shell wall thickness, and transverse shear deformations. A semi-complementary energy functional is used to account for the shear stress distribution in the shell wall. The bending and torsion related warpings and the shear correction factors are obtained in closed form as part of the analysis. The resulting first order shear deformation theory describes the beam kinematics in terms of the axial, flap and lag bending, flap and lag shear, torsion and torsion-warping deformations. The theory is validated against experimental results for various cross-section beams with elastic couplings.

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