• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.19 no.2 s.63
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• pp.47-52
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• 2005

This paper introduces a procedure for free span and fatigue analysis of offshore pipelines per DNV-RP-F105, 2002. The new method includes the axial force and deflection load in pipelines. The screening criteria were established to calculate the allowable span lengths in the new design codes. The screening criteria allows a certain amount of vortex-induced vibration due to wave and current loading. However, the induced pipe stresses are very small and usually below the limit stresess of typical S-N curves. In contrast, the conventional criteria did not allow any vortex-induced vibration in the free span of pipelines. Thus, the screening criteria yields reduced allowable span lengths. A simplified procedure was established to calculate the fatigue damage due to long-term current distribution. The long-term current statistics was assumed with a 3-parameter Weibull distribution. The fatigue damage was estimated for the span lengths obtained from the screening criteria for various conditions. Sample calculations show the effect of axial force for various boundary conditions. Comparisons with conventional criteria are included.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.8 no.10
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• pp.842-846
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• 2002

Design of gas concentration process using a fully thermally coupled distillation is conducted with the commercial design software HYSYS. Detailed procedure of the design is explained, and the performance of the process is compared with that of a conventional system A structural design is exercised for the design convenience. The design outcome indicates that the procedure is simple and efficient. The structural information yielded from equilibrium distillation gives an easy formulation of distillation system which is the initial input required from the setup of the distillation system The performance of the new process indicates that an energy saving of 17.6 % is obtained compared with the conventional process while total number of trays maintains at the same.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.49-56
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• 1999

Crustal velocity model is very important to determine the hypocenters of the local earthquakes because the real crust is more complex and heterogeneous than simple homogeneous layerd model. But the exact crust model in and around Kyeongsang basin area is not fixed till now. To solve this problem Joint Hypocenter Determination(JHD) method is applied to the 133 local earthquakes that is recorded at KIGAM local network from Dec. 14 1994. to May 14, 1998. According to the comparision of earthquake locations and depths for the conventional procedure and JHD relocation procedure each locations is very similar but depth distributions are different. An initial depth distribution derived from the conventional methods is irregular and does not show the general trends. JHD relocations reduce scatter and define a dipping plane which is parallel to and apart 15km north from Ulsan fault.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.137-146
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• 1999

Analysis of R/C columns requires modeling of the plastic hinge region, as well as nonlinear material characteristics. This becomes a challenging task in view of the nonlinearity of both steel and concrete. Furthermore, formation and progression of plasticity in the hinge is a difficult phenomenan to simulate, especially under reversed cyclic loading and decaying strength conditions. This research provide one analytical model employed in column analysis, including the analysis procedure for establishing inelastic force-deformation relationships. The analytical results show good correlation with experimental data. The employed procedure with the adopted analytical models can be used to compute inelastic displacements of concrete columns with welded reinforcement grids. The inelastic deformability beyond the peak was similar to those indicated by columns with conventional ties. The superior performance of columns with welded grids may be attributed to the improved confinement characteristics of grids associated with increased rigidity of welded ties.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.41-47
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• 1981

Many new radar techniques have appeared on the electronic scene in recent years, such as a variety of automatic computer processing. However, even with the advent of these sophisticated radar techniques, an old problem continues to plague all radars: the problem of transmission line losses. With the higher performance required today, the Waveguide testing and trouble-shooting techniques remain essentially unchanged in principle. This paper dealt with the rf pulse "Time-domain Reflectometry" to inspect radar wave-guide system and compared with the conventional methods. During the investigation, it was verified that the pulsed TDR for wave-guide is superior to the conventional methods; 1. Disassembling is not needed to locate the discontinity points and measure the reflections of trobled points. 2. The results of the data are more precise. 3. The condition of individual component is able to the photographed and recorded permanently. 4. Since rf pulse TDR is based on the well-known basic radar principle, such a test set requires the minimum of training to operate. With the level of transmission line problems, the prospect of increasing complexity of equipment, and no relief in sight, the benifits must be emphasizied to adopt such a testing procedure.procedure.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.8-12
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• 2003

Crustal velocity model is very important to determine the hypocenters of the local earthquakes, because the real crust is more complex and heterogeneous than simple homogeneous layered model. But the exact crust model in and around Kyeongsang basin area is not fixed till now. To solve this problem, Joint Hypocenter Determination(JHD) method is applied to the 151 local earthquakes, that is recorded at KIGAM local network from Mar. 25, 1999 to Dec. 16, 2001. According to the comparison of earthquake locations and depths for the conventional procedure and JHD relocation procedure, each locations is very similar, but depth distributions are different. An initial depth distribution derived from the conventional methods is irregular and does not show the general trends. JHD relocations reduce scatter and define a dipping plane.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.527-543
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• 2012

This paper presents a response spectrum analysis procedure suitable for base isolated regular buildings subjected to near fault ground motions. This procedure is based on the fact that the isolation system may be treated separately since the superstructure behaves as a rigid body on well selected isolation systems. The base isolated building is decomposed into several single-degree of freedom systems, the first one having the total weight of the building is isolated while the remainder when superposed they replicate approximately the behavior of the superstructure. The response of the isolation system is governed by a response spectrum generated for a single isolated mass. The concept of the procedure and its application for the analysis of base isolated structures is illustrated with an example. The present analysis procedure is shown to be accurate enough for the preliminary design and overcomes the limits of applicability of the conventional linear response spectrum analysis.

• The Journal of Korean Academy of Prosthodontics
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.412-420
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• 2000

A treatment should be functional, esthetic, conservative and periodontally healthy in order to meet criteria of an ideal dental procedure. In a prsthodontic patient with horizontal and/or vertical space deficiency, orthodontic tooth movement should be considered as a pre-prosthetic procedure. With a conventional technique, orthodontic treatment is a time-consuming and uncomfortable procedure. Pre-prosthetic orthodontic treatment, however, is no longer difficult procedure with the help of recently developed techniques, such as passive bracketing. The present article outlines the problems and causes of horizontal and vertical space deficiency in prosthodontic patients, and presents efficient pre-prosthetic orthodontic treatment modalities with typical clinical cases.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.9A
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• pp.2355-2364
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• 1998

In conventional fractal decoding procedure, the reconstructed image is obtained by a rpredefined number of iterations starting with an arbitrary initial image. Its convergence speed depends on the selection of the initial image. It should be solved to get high speed convergence. In this paper, we theoretically reveal that conventional method is approximately decomposed into the decoding of the DC and AC components. Based on this fact, we proposed a novel fast fractal decoding algorithm made up of two steps. The averaged-image considered as an optimal initial image is estimated in the first step. In the second step, the reconstructe dimag eis genrated from the output image obtained in the first step. From the simulations, it is shown that the output image of the first step approximately converges to the averaged-image with only 15% calculations for one iteration of conventional method. And the proposed method is faster than various decoding mehtods and evenly equal to conventioanl decoding with the averaged-image. In addition, the proposed method can be applied to the compressed data resulted from the various encoding methods because it does not impose any constraints in the encoding procedure to get high decoding speed.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.191-198
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• 2002

Cooling tower design procedure was set up using conventional Merkel theory, The design data could be different depending on the characteristic curve that the engineer chose. It reveals that the consistent and reasonable criteria are required based on the exact information of the cooling tower Performance. In this study, an off-design performance analysis program for a counterflow-type cooling tower was developed and verified by comparing with experimental data. Also, the off-design performance with various operating conditions was analyzed.