• Journal of Veterinary Science
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.46.1-46.8
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• 2022

Background: Stenting is an effective treatment option for tracheal collapse in dogs. Cross-braided tracheal stents are currently the norm in veterinary medicine, but cross-and-hook braided stents have recently been adopted in human medicine. We examined whether stents manufactured using this novel braiding technique provided additional advantages for the treatment of tracheal collapse in dogs. Objectives: To evaluate the outcomes of cross-and-hook braided stent implantation in the treatment of tracheal collapse in dogs. Methods: The medical records of 22 client-owned dogs that underwent luminal placement of cross-and-hook braided Fauna Stents for the treatment of tracheal collapse between January 2018 and July 2021 were examined and data on canine signalment, clinical signs, diagnostic test results, surgical outcomes, and postoperative complications were retrieved and analyzed statistically. Results: Twenty-six stents were surgically implanted, with 20 dogs (90.9%) receiving one stent and the remaining two (9.1%) receiving two or more stents. All dogs survived the procedure. The median survival time at a median follow-up of 990 days was 879 days. At the final follow-up examination, loss or mild improvement of cough was observed in all dogs. Conclusions: Compared with conventional lumen stents, the cross-and-hook braided Fauna Stent offered a higher survival rate and improved clinical symptoms in all patients. The results of this study suggest that the Fauna Stent may be a promising treatment option for dogs with tracheal collapse.

• 지질공학
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.323-332
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• 2014

The Nobi fault zone, which generated the 1891 Nobi Earthquake (M8.0), includes five or six faults distributed in and around Gifu and Aichi prefectures, Japan. Because large cities are located near the fault zone (e.g., Gifu and Nagoya), and because the zone will likely be reactivated in the future, relatively thorough surveys have been conducted on the 1891 Nobi earthquake event, examining the fault geometry, house collapse rate, and the magnitude and distribution of earthquake intensity and fault displacement. In this study, we calculated the earthquake slip along faults in the Nobi fault zone by applying a 3D numerical analysis. The analysis shows that a zone with slip displacements of up to 100 mm included all areas with house collapse rates of 100%. In addition, the maximum vertical displacement was approximately ${\pm}1700mm$, which is in agreement with the ${\pm}1400mm$ or greater vertical displacements obtained in previous studies. The analysis yielded a fault zone with slip displacements of > 30 mm that is coincident with areas in which house collapse rates were 60% of more. The analysis shows that the regional slip sense was coincident with areas of uplift and subsidence caused by the Nobi earthquake.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.50-60
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• 1995

낙엽송과 잣나무의 판재두께별 건조특성(乾操特性)을 파악코져 $100^{\circ}C$에서 급속건조(急速乾燥)를 실시하여 건조중 함수율(含水率)과 건조경과(乾操經過), 건조속도(乾操速度), 초기할렬(初期割裂), collapse, 내부할렬(內部割裂)등의 건조결함(乾操缺陷)을 조사하여 추정건조(推定乾操)스케쥴을 작성한 결과는 다음과 같다. 건조시간별(乾操時間別) 건조중(乾操中) 함수율(含水率)은 판재두께가 얇을수록 급속한 곡선적 감소(減少)를 나타내었고 함수율(含水率) 20%에서 낙엽송의 건조속도(乾操速度)는 잣나무재보다 크고, 판재두께가 두꺼울수록 적었다. 추정건조(推定乾操)스케쥴을 작성한 결과 닥엽송은 잣나무재에 비해 건조조건(乾操條件)을 완화하게 해야 하고 판재 두께가 두꺼운 5cm, 6cm에서는 건조초기(乾操初期)의 조건(條件)을 가장 완화하게 해야 함을 알 수 있었다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.193-212
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• 2009

The resilience of a city confronted with a terrorist bomb attack is the background of the paper. The resilience strongly depends on vital infrastructure and the physical protection of people. The protection buildings provide in case of an external explosion is one of the important elements in safety assessment. Besides the aspect of protection, buildings facilitate and enable many functions, e.g., offices, data storage, -handling and -transfer, energy supply, banks, shopping malls etc. When a building is damaged, the loss of functions is directly related to the location, amount of damage and the damage level. At TNO Defence, Security and Safety methods are developed to quantify the resilience of city infrastructure systems (Weerheijm et al. 2007b). In this framework, the dynamic response, damage levels and residual bearing capacity of multi-storey RC buildings is studied. The current paper addresses the aspects of dynamic response and progressive collapse, as well as the proposed method to relate the structural damage to a volume-damage parameter, which can be linked to the loss of functionality. After a general introduction to the research programme and progressive collapse, the study of the dynamic response and damage due to blast loading for a single RC element is described. Shock tube experiments on plates are used as a reference to study the possibilities of engineering methods and an explicit finite element code to quantify the response and residual bearing capacity. Next the dynamic response and progressive collapse of a multi storey RC building is studied numerically, using a number of models. Conclusions are drawn on the ability to predict initial blast damage and progressive collapse. Finally the link between the structural damage of a building and its loss of functionality is described, which is essential input for the envisaged method to quantify the resilience of city infrastructure.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제48권10호
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• pp.893-900
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• 2010

In the present work, the impact loads and their effects on the surface damage under the simultaneous cavitation bubble and solid particle collapses in the sea water have been quantitatively investigated for the austenitic 304 stainless steel by using a vibratory cavitation test device. To do this, angular $SiO_2$ solid particles with an average size of $150{\mu}m$ were dispersed into the test liquid, and the measured impact amplitudes were converted into the impact loads by a steel ball drop test. The maximum impact load was determined to be 28.2 N in the absence of solid particles, but increased to 33.7 N in the presence of solid particles. In addition, the critical impact loads, $L_{crit}$, required to generate pits with sizes greater than $3{\mu}m$ were measured to be 19.6 N and 16.6 N, respectively, for the cavitation bubble collapse and solid particle collapse. As a result of the cavitation erosion test, the incubation time and erosion rate were 1.2 times lower and 1.5 times higher, respectively, by a solid particle collapse compared to those only by the cavitation bubble collapse, indicating a drastic decrease in a resistance to cavitation erosion by the solid particle collapse.

• 천문학회보
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.44-44
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• 2010

We study the effect of massive neutrinos on the evolution of the early mini-halos ($M\sim10^6h^{-1}M{\odot}at$ z~20) where the first stars may have formed. In the framework of the extended Press-Schechter formalism, we evaluate analytically the rates of merging of the mini-halos into zero-dimensional larger halos and one-dimensional mini-filaments. It is shown that the halo-to-filament merging rate increases with the neutrino mass fraction $f_v$ while the halo-to-halo merging rate decreases. Comparing the cases of $f_v$=0 and 0.10, the halo-to-filament merging rate for $f_v$=0.10 is 3 times larger than the other. The distribution of the epochs of the longest-axis collapse of these first filaments is also derived and found to reach a sharp maximum at z~8-9. Once the first mini-filaments form, they would provide bridges along which the matter and gas more rapidly accrete onto the constituent halos, causing the early formation of the first galaxies and rapid growth of their central blackholes. Furthermore, the longest axis collapse of these first mini-filaments would spur the supermassive blackholes to power the ultra-luminous high-z quasars.

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.39.2-39.2
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• 2017

Stars form through the gravitational collapse of molecular clouds. However, the rate at which a star gains most of its mass and the physics that drives the main phase of stellar growth is still unclear. The typical luminosity of observed protostars is smaller than what expected from the Shu's inside-out collapse model, which predicts a constant mass accretion rate. The episodic accretion model has been suggested as a solution of this luminosity problem. The JCMT Transient survey is a long term monitoring program using JCMT/SCUBA-2 to detect accretion variability of protostars in the eight nearby star-forming regions. Recently, we found a rise of the 850 micron flux at a clump in the Serpens main region at the rate of ~17% relative to the mean flux over previous observations. The submm clump is associated with a class I protostar, EC53, which has been reported as a binary system with a periodic variability. In this talk, we will provide a brief overview of the JCMT Transient Survey project, present the detection of the variable source, and discuss about follow-up observations.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.193-201
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• 2007

The present paper deals with the application of the explicit finite element code, PAM-CRASH, to simulate the crash behavior of steel thin-walled tubes with various cross-sections subjected to axial loading. An isotropic elastic, linear strain-hardening material model was used in the finite element analysis and the strain-rate sensitivity of mild steel was modeled by using the Cowper-Symonds constitutive equation with modified coefficients. The modified coefficients were applied in numerical collapse simulations of 11 types of thin-walled polygon tubes: 7 convex polygon tubes and 4 concave polygon tubes. The results show that the thin hexagonal tube and the thick octagonal tube showed relatively good performance within the convex polygon tubes. The crush strengths of the hexagonal and octagonal tubes increased by about 20% and 25% from the crush strength of the square tube, respectively. Among the concave tubes, the I-type tube showed the best performance. Its crush strength was about 50% higher than the crush strength of the square tube.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.47-57
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• 2012

고에너지 물질의 연소 현상을 해석하기 위하여 반드시 필요한 반응속도식과 이를 구성하고 있는 미 정상수를 결정하는 이론적 방법을 제안하였다. 개선된 I&G 모델은 기존의 반응속도식이 갖던 문제점들을 효과적으로 극복하면서 동시에 중요한 물리적 의미를 내포하는 형태로 제안되었다. 이는 공극붕괴(void collapse)로 인한 hotspot의 생성을 의미하는 점화 모델과 폭굉(detonation)으로의 천이를 의미하는 화염 발달 모델의 합으로 구성되어 있다. 또한 함께 소개된 이론적 모델은 고에너지 물질의 수치해석 기법인 Hydrocode를 사용하기 전에 미정상수 $b,\;G,\;x,\;I$를 결정함으로써 특정 고에너지 물질의 연소 특성을 규명하는데 사용된다. 이론적 방법은 기존의 고에너지 물질의 연소 시험을 모사한 수치해석적 방식보다 효율적이고 정확도가 높은 결과를 제공하므로 진일보 된 방법이라고 할 수 있다.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2012년도 제38회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.331-341
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• 2012

고에너지 물질의 연소 현상을 해석하기 위하여 반드시 필요한 반응속도식과 이를 구성하고 있는 미정상수를 결정하는 이론적 방법을 제안하였다. 개선된 I&G 모델은 기존의 반응속도식이 갖던 문제점들을 효과적으로 극복하면서 동시에 중요한 물리적 의미를 내포하는 형태로 제안되었다. 이는 공극붕괴(void collapse)로 인한 hotspot의 생성을 의미하는 점화 모델과 폭굉(detonation)으로의 천이를 의미하는 화염 발달 모델의 합으로 구성되어 있다. 또한 함께 소개된 이론적 모델은 고에너지 물질의 수치해석 기법인 Hydrocode를 사용하기 전에 미정상수 b, G, x, I를 결정함으로써 특정 고에너지 물질의 연소 특성을 규명하는데 사용된다. 이론적 방법은 기존의 고에너지 물질의 연소 시험을 모사한 수치해석적 방식보다 효율적이고 정확도가 높은 결과를 제공하므로 진일보 된 방법이라고 할 수 있다.