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Time-dependent analysis of slender, tapered reinforced concrete columns

  • de Macedo Wahrhaftig, Alexandre
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.229-247
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    • 2020
  • This study analyzed stresses in concrete and its reinforcement, computing the additional loading transferred by concrete creep. The loading varied from zero, structure exclusively under its self-weight, up to the critical buckling load. The studied structure was a real, tapered, reinforced concrete pole. As concrete is a composite material, homogenizing techniques were used in the calculations. Due to the static indetermination for determining the normal forces acting on concrete and reinforcement, equations that considered the balance of forces and compatibility of displacement on cross-sections were employed. In the mathematical solution used to define the critical buckling load, all the elements of the structural dynamics present in the system were considered, including the column self-weight. The structural imperfections were linearized using the geometric stiffness, the proprieties of the concrete were considered according to the guidelines of the American Concrete Institute (ACI 209R), and the ground was modeled as a set of distributed springs along the foundation length. Critical buckling loads were computed at different time intervals after the structure was loaded. Finite element method results were also obtained for comparison. For an interval of 5000 days, the modulus of elasticity and critical buckling load reduced by 36% and 27%, respectively, compared to an interval of zero days. During this time interval, stress on the reinforcement steel reached within 5% of the steel yield strength. The computed strains in that interval stayed below the normative limit.

Performance Improvements through Controling Residual Dispersion Per Span in WDM Transmission Links with Zero Net Residual Dispersion (전체 잉여 분산이 영인 WDM 전송 링크에서 광 중계 거리 당 잉여 분산 제어를 통한 성능 향상)

  • Lee, Seong-Real
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.656-661
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    • 2009
  • High-quality transmission of $24{\times}40$ Gbps WDM signals obtained through controling residual dispersion per span (RDPS) in optical transmission links with zero net residual dispersion (NRD) of inline dispersion management (DM) of optical transmission links is researched. It is confirmed that RDPS values, which is improving system performance, depends on launch power of WDM channels, but optimal RDPS, which can simultaneously improve WDM signals with relative wide launch power ranges, becomes to be 210~230 ps/nm. Also, it is shown that effective launch power range that making eye opening penalty (EOP) of worst channel to below 1 dB is more increased as RDPS is more increased.

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Experimental study on the consolidation of saturated silty clay subjected to cyclic thermal loading

  • Bai, Bing;Shi, Xiaoying
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.707-721
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    • 2017
  • The objective of this paper is to experimentally study the consolidation of saturated silty clay subjected to repeated heating-cooling cycles using a modified temperature-controlled triaxial apparatus. Focus is placed on the influence of the water content, confining pressure, and magnitudes and number of thermal loading cycles. The experimental results show that the thermally induced pore pressure increases with increasing water content and magnitude of thermal loading in undrained conditions. After isothermal consolidation at an elevated temperature, the pore pressure continues to decrease and gradually falls below zero during undrained cooling, and the maximum negative pore pressure increases as the water content decreases or the magnitude of thermal loading increases. During isothermal consolidation at ambient temperature after one heating-cooling cycle, the pore pressure begins to rise due to water absorption and finally stabilizes at approximately zero. As the number of thermal loading cycles increases, the thermally induced pore pressure shows a degrading trend, which seems to be more apparent under a higher confining pressure. Overall, the specimens tested show an obvious volume reduction at the completion of a series of heating-cooling cycles, indicating a notable irreversible thermal consolidation deformation.

A Study on Approximation-Synthesis of Transition Segment in Speech Signal (음성신호에서 천이구간의 근사합성에 관한 연구)

  • Lee See-Woo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.167-173
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    • 2005
  • In a speech coding system using excitation source of voiced and unvoiced, it would be involved a distortion of speech quality in case coexist with a voiced and unvoiced consonants in a frame. So, I propose TSIUVC(Transition Segment Including Unvoiced Consonant) extraction method by using pitch pulses and Zero Crossing Rate in order to unexistent with a voiced and unvoiced consonants in a frame. And this paper present a TSIUVC approximate-synthesis method by using frequency band division. As a result, this method obtains a high quality approximation-synthesis waveform within TSIUVC by using frequency information of 0.547kHz below and 2.813kHz above. And the TSIUVC extraction rate was $91\%$ for female voice and $96.2\%$ for male voice respectively This method has the capability of being applied to a new speech coding of Voiced/Silence/TSIUVC, speech analysis, and speech synthesis.

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Combustion Characteristics of Cylindrical Premixed Combustor using Liquid Fuel by Self Evaporation (자열증발된 액체연료를 적용한 원통형 예혼합 연소기의 연소특성)

  • Lee, Pil Hyong;Song, Ki Jong;Hwang, Sang Soon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.7-15
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    • 2016
  • The fuel in conventional liquid fuel combustor is atomized by spray method for high efficiency and low emissions. To improve the overall fuel efficiency and lower pollutant emissions in liquid fuel combustion systems, the effective spatial and temporal separation of droplet evaporation from normal spray process is needed. In this paper, the recuperation of high temperature burnt gas for fuel evaporation was proposed to develop a cylindrical premixed combustor. The recuperation process using U shaped tube is effective to evaporate the liquid fuel. The results show that the flame mode is changed into red radiation flame, blue flame and lift off flame with decreasing equivalence ratio as gas fuel combustion mode. In particular, the blue flame is found to be very stable at heating load 9.2 kW and equivalence ratio 0.731. NOx was measured blow 105 ppm ($O_2$ zero base) from equivalence ratio 0.705 to 0.835. CO which is a very important emission index in liquid fuel combustor was observed below 5 ppm ($O_2$ zero base) under the same equivalence region.

Temperature Dependence of The Magnetoimpedence Effect in Nanocrystalline $Fe_{84}Zr_7B_6Cu_1Al_2$ Alloy

  • Kwon, Hye-Suk;Lee, Heebok;Kim, Yong-Kook;Yoon, Sung-Ho;Kim, Taik-Kee;Yu, Seong-Cho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Magnestics Society Conference
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    • 2000.09a
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    • pp.473-479
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    • 2000
  • The nanocrystalline Fe$_{84}$Zr$_{7}$B$_{6}$Cu$_{1}$ $Al_{2}$ alloy was annealed at 450 $^{\circ}C$ and 550 $^{\circ}C$ for l hour to achieve the ultra-soft magnetic properties such as large magnetoimpedence ratio(MIR), the incremental permeability ratio(PR), nearly zero coercivity, zero magnetostriction, etc. The PR and MIR of the sample were measured from 100 kHz to 10 MHz at a cryogenic chamber where the temperature can be varie from 10 K to 300 K. The increment of MIR value is proportional to increasing temperature. The maximum PR values measured at high frequency above 1 MHz remain almost same despite of the temperature variation from 10 K to 300 K except the sharpness in PR curves. However, the maximum PR values measured below 1 MHz show drastic increment at above 150K due to thermal activation of magnetic domains.s.s.

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An Active Clamp High Step-Up Boost Converter with a Coupled Inductor

  • Luo, Quanming;Zhang, Yang;Sun, Pengju;Zhou, Luowei
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.86-95
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    • 2015
  • An active clamp high step-up boost converter with a coupled inductor is proposed in this paper. In the proposed strategy, a coupled inductor is adopted to achieve a high voltage gain. The clamp circuit is included to achieve the zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) condition for both the main and clamp switches. A rectifier composed of a capacitor and a diode is added to reduce the voltage stress of the output rectifier diode. As a result, diodes with a low reverse-recovery time and forward voltage-drop can be utilized. Since the voltage stresses of the main and clamp switches are far below the output voltage, low-voltage-rated MOSFETs can be adopted to reduce conduction losses. Moreover, the reverse-recovery losses of the diodes are reduced due to the inherent leakage inductance of the coupled inductor. Therefore, high efficiency can be expected. Firstly, the derivation of the proposed converter is given and the operation analysis is described. Then, a steady-state performance analysis of the proposed converter is analyzed in detail. Finally, a 250 W prototype is built to verify the analysis. The measured maximum efficiency of the prototype is 95%.

Frequency Dependance of Inductance of FeCoB Amorphous Magnetic Films (FeCoB계 아몰퍼스 자성박막의 인덕턴스의 주파수 의존성)

  • 신용진;소대화;김현욱;서강수;임재근
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.413-417
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    • 1998
  • In this paper, we investigate frequency dependance of inductance of FeCoB amorphous magnetic films. $(Fe_{1-x}Co_x)_{79}Si_2B_{19}$ was used as the basic composition of amorphous magnetic film having near zero magnetostriction. The amorphous magnetic films were fabricated with x=0.94 and x=0.95 by using sputtering method at high frequency. The films were anneald under non-magnetic field and near crystallization temperatures(30min at $280^{\circ}C$, 30min and 1hr at $400^{\circ}C$, respectively). As the results of the experiments with the fabricated films, the lowest coercive force was 0.084[Oe] at 400[W] of the input power and the crystallization temperature was $360^{\circ}C$ . In the case 30min at 40$0^{\circ}C$ the inductance value in the low frequency with x=0.95 was higher by 488% than that with x=0.94. The quality factor Q was below 0.7 for all samples. We obtained the highest quality value at 400[KHz] with 30min at $280^{\circ}C$ and x=0.94. The value was about 0.62. Also, the quality factor value was about 0.35 at 1[MHz] with 30min at $280^{\circ}C$ and x=0.95.

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Preparation and Characterization of Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Micro-spheres for the Sustained Release of AZT

  • Gilson Khang;Lee, Jin-Ho;Lee, Jin-Whan;Cho, Jin-Cheol;Lee, Hai-Bang
    • Macromolecular Research
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.80-88
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    • 2000
  • Biodegradable microspheres were prepared with poly(L-lactide-co-glycolide) (PLGA, 75 : 25 by mole ratio) by an oil/oil solvent evaporation method for the sustained release of anti-AIDS virus agent, AZT The microspheres of relatively narrow size distribution (7.6$\pm$ 3.8 ㎛) were obtained by controlling the fabrication conditions. The shape of microspheres prepared was smooth and spherical. The efficiency of AZT loading into the PLGA microsphere was over 93% compared to that below 15% for microspheres by a conventional water/oil/water method. The effects of Preparation conditions on the morphology and in vitro AZT release pattern were investigated. in vitro release studies showed that different release pattern and release rates could be achieved by simply modifying factors in the fabrication conditions such as the type and amount of surfactant, initial amount of loaded drug, the temperature of solvent evaporation, and so on. PLCA microspheres prepared by 5% of initial drug loading, 1.0% (w/w) of surfactant concentration, and 25$\^{C}$ of solvent evaporation temperature were free from initial burst effect and a near-zero order sustained release was observed. Possible mechanisms of the near-zero order sustained release for our system have been proposed.

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A Study of the Development of a Korea Wind Chill Temperature Index (I) - Focusing on the Distribution of Existing Wind Chill Temperature Index and Sensitivity Analysis of Model - (한국형 체감온도지수 개발연구(I) -기존 체감온도지수 분포 및 민감도 분석 -)

  • Park, Jong-Kil;Jung, Woo-Sik;Kim, Eun-Byul;Park, Gil-Un
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.28 no.7
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    • pp.878-890
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    • 2007
  • This study aimed to provide a fundamental basis for the development and promotion of a Korea windchill temperature index model in the field of human biometeorology. For this, a sensitivity model currently being used by KMA (Korea Meteorological Administration) was analyzed. The results of the analysis showed that the Korean peninsula could be divided into the urban area, the coastal/island area, the inland area, and the mountain area. The average temperature was highest in the coastal/island area, while it was lowest in the mountain regions. The lowest temperature in the urban and coastal/island areas was 20 degrees below zero and that in the inland and mountain regions were 30 degrees below zero. As for wind speed, both average and maximum wind speed were highest in the coastal/island area. The distribution of temperature and wind speed in winter was similar to that of the entire period. The results of the JAG/Tl and Missenard model sensitivity showed that temperature tends to have more influence on sensitivity than any other factors. In sub-zero temperature, however, the influence of wind speed tends to increase.