• 한국전문물리치료학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.30-39
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• 2017

Background: Scapular posterior tilt (SPT) is important in the prevention of abnormal scapular movement and pain during elevation of the arm. However, previous studies have overlooked increased upper trapezius (UT) muscle activity interrupting the normal force couple of scapular motion and compensation of levator scapulae (LS) muscle activated simultaneously with UT during SPT exercise. Objects: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of modified SPT with depression exercise versus SPT exercise on serratus anterior (SA), lower trapezius (LT), UT, and LS muscle activities and the clavicular tilt angle, in subjects with rounded shoulder posture (RSP) and myofascial pain in the UT muscle region. Methods: Eighteen subjects with RSP were recruited and randomly allocated to 2 groups; 9 in the SPT group and 9 in the SPT with depression group. All subjects met the specific RSP criteria and had myofascial pain of UT region. Depending on the allocated group, subjects performed the assigned SPT exercise and EMG data were recorded during the each exercise. Clavicular tilt angle was defined as the angle between the line joining the medial and lateral end of the clavicle and a horizontal line. Results: The SA muscle activity was significantly greater in SPT with depression than with SPT exercise (p<.05). The UT, LS muscle activity and the clavicular tilt angle was significantly lower in SPT with depression than with SPT exercise (p<.05). Conclusion: These findings were insightful because the potential risk of pain from overactivation of the UT and LS was considered, in contrast with SPT exercise. SPT with depression exercise can be implemented as an effective method to facilitate scapular muscle activity for stability and to prevent myofascial pain in the neck and shoulder.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.85-89
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• 2012

Objectives: This study was to evaluate the effect of vertical bone gain and success rate and analyze the failure cases using the hydrodynamic piezoelectric internal sinus elevation (HPISE) technique. Materials and Methods: Patients who had been operated in the three centers including Daegu Catholic University Medical Center were selected for this study. The mucoperiosteal flap was elevated, and the sinus floor was then broken by specially designed piezoelectric insert, with hydraulic pressure applied to the sinus membrane for even elevation. Afterward, implants were placed. Panoramic radiogram or computed tomogram was taken before and after surgery and at the second operation and prosthesis placement. Later, changes in vertical height were measured and compared. The survival rate was based on the criteria of Buser et al. and Cochran et al. Results: In this study, 8 implants failed out of a total of 169 implants, resulting a success rate of 95.3%. These failure cases were due to insufficient initial stability or sinus membrane perforation. The mean of radiographic vertical height change at prosthesis placement was 5.7 mm (0.5-10.5 mm). Conclusion: In this study, HPISE technique was found to be a predictable treatment for atrophic maxilla and an alternative technique to the lateral approach.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제37권6호
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• pp.647-653
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• 2013

Energy acquisition due to the increase of oil price is one of the most important issues and policy for most countries. Various tankers have been built in the world and sent to the trade market. It is necessary to build the port infrastructure and facilities to give them proper services such as mooring, packing, storing, and transshipment, etc. However, the domestic guidelines or standards for design and construction for the dolphin berth among these facilities are out of date and do not meet the recent trend of tanker types. Therefore, it requires amendment on the guidelines or standards. In this study, a detailed analysis of the tanker fleet, covering 8,000 ships under operation and order to build, is made to estimate the proper PBL(Parallel Body Length) of each tanker class. After discussion and comparison on the dolphin berth design and construction codes of various countries, those are the leading countries of tanker operation and management, suggestion was made to amend on the design code. The referred codes are of Korea, Japan, UK, USA, and Canada. The analysis of tanker fleet shows the PBL as 0.45L under the normal ballast condition. In order to verify the deduced amendment on the domestic design code for dolphin berth, it was selected one of the domestic dolphin berth, located at the Yeosu oil terminal, which is almost completed to construct. The design criteria and expected tankers to moor in that terminal were analyzed and the appropriateness and countermeasure for deficiency were summarized.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제68권6호
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• pp.747-760
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• 2018

In the present study, a methodology for developing fragilities of arch concrete dams to assess their performance against seismic hazards is introduced. Firstly, the probability risk and fragility curves are presented, followed by implementation and representation of the way this method is used. Amirkabir arch concrete dam was subjected to non-linear dynamic analyses. A modified three dimensional rotating smeared crack model was used to take the nonlinear behavior of mass concrete into account. The proposed model considers major characteristics of mass concrete. These characteristics are pre-softening behavior, softening initiation criteria, fracture energy conservation, suitable damping mechanism and strain rate effect. In the present analysis, complete fluid-structure interaction is included to account for appropriate fluid compressibility and absorptive reservoir boundary conditions. In this study, the Amirkabir arch concrete dam is subjected to a set of 8 three-component earthquakes each scaled to 10 increasing intensity levels. Using proposed nonlinear smeared crack model, nonlinear analysis is performed where the structure is subjected to a large set of scaled and un-scaled ground motions and the maximum responses are extracted for each one and plotted. Based on the results, fragility curves were plotted according to various and possible damages indexes. Discrete damage probabilities were calculated using statistical methods for each considered performance level and incremental nonlinear analysis. Then, fragility curves were constructed based on the lognormal distribution assumption. Two damage indexes were introduced and compared to one another. The results indicate that the dam has a proper stability under earthquake conditions at MCE level. Moreover, displacement damages index is more conservative and impractical in the fragility analysis than tensional damage index.

• 대한한방부인과학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.62-77
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• 2023

Objectives: The purpose of this study is to investigate the domestic study trends on habitual abortion treated with Korean medicine. Methods: We searched the studies on habitual abortion treated with Korean medicine via searching 5 Korean web databases. After searching studies, we analyzed 7 studies selected according to the selection and exclusion criteria. Results: Of the seven selected studies, five case-reporting studies and two retrospective chart analysis. The most applied intervention for habitual abortion was herbal medication. All patients took herbal medicine before pregnancy, and Seunggum-dan was widely used. 66.3% of pregnant patients after treatment took herbal medicine after pregnancy, and Anjeonyichen-tang was the most widely used. As a result of analyzing retrospective chart analysis studies, whether the patient's age was 35 years or older has a significant impact on the success rate of Korean medicine treatment. Conclusions: This study has provided a basis for using Korean medical intervention in the treatment of habitual abortion in clinical practice. In order to provide a more high-quality basis, reliable follow-up studies related to the effectiveness and stability of Korean medicine treatment for habitual abortion should be conducted in the future.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.205-218
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• 2022

Proper calculation of splitting tensile strength (STS) of concrete has been a crucial task, due to the wide use of concrete in the construction sector. Following many recent studies that have proposed various predictive models for this aim, this study suggests and tests the functionality of three hybrid models in predicting the STS from the characteristics of the mixture components including cement compressive strength, cement tensile strength, curing age, the maximum size of the crushed stone, stone powder content, sand fine modulus, water to binder ratio, and the ratio of sand. A multi-layer perceptron (MLP) neural network incorporates invasive weed optimization (IWO), cuttlefish optimization algorithm (CFOA), and electrostatic discharge algorithm (ESDA) which are among the newest optimization techniques. A dataset from the earlier literature is used for exploring and extrapolating the STS behavior. The results acquired from several accuracy criteria demonstrated a nice learning capability for all three hybrid models viz. IWO-MLP, CFOA-MLP, and ESDA-MLP. Also in the prediction phase, the prediction products were in a promising agreement (above 88%) with experimental results. However, a comparative look revealed the ESDA-MLP as the most accurate predictor. Considering mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) index, the error of ESDA-MLP was 9.05%, while the corresponding value for IWO-MLP and CFOA-MLP was 9.17 and 13.97%, respectively. Since the combination of MLP and ESDA can be an effective tool for optimizing the concrete mixture toward a desirable STS, the last part of this study is dedicated to extracting a predictive formula from this model.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.13-25
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• 2024

교통관리에서 교통상황을 판단하는 판단지표의 중요성과 필요성은 계속해서 높아지고 있다. 기존 교통상황 판단지표들은 속도, 교통량, 밀도 기반으로 각각의 특성에 맞춰 개발되었지만, 속성별 가지는 문제점과 종합적인 상황을 보여줄 수 없어 모니터링 지표로는 적합하지 않았다. 이에 본 연구에서는 도로 소통상황과 안전도를 판단하는 지표들을 통합하여 모니터링에 적합한 통합지표 개발을 목표로 하였다. 교통상황의 변화를 판단할 수 있고 안전도를 판단할 수 있는 지표들을 검토하고 실시간 ITS 데이터를 적용할 수 있도록 지표를 재정립하였다. 요인분석을 통해 지표 간 관계성을 분석하여 가중치를 도출한 뒤 하나의 통합지표를 개발하였다. 통합지표는 교통상황의 변화와 안전도의 변화를 보여줄 수 있는 지표로 향후 교통정보센터에 적용하여 종합적인 교통상황을 모니터링할 수 있는 교통환경으로의 발전에 기여할 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.479-490
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• 2012

본 연구에서는 고강도 강재의 플랜지 폭두께비가 강도 및 회전능력에 미치는 영향을 분석하고자 인장강도 800MPa급 고강도 강재인 HSB800, HSA800의 조립 H형강 보에 대해 실물대실험 연구를 수행하였다. 일반강재의 실험결과를 바탕으로 정립된 현행 기준의 폭두께비 규정을 고강도 강재에 그대로 확대 적용할 수 있는지의 여부를 평가하는 것을 연구의 주 목표로 하였다. 실험결과 고강도 휨부재는 강도측면에서 매우 만족스러운 성능을 발현하였으나, 회전능력측면에서는 일반강재 대비 부족한 성능을 발휘하였다. 이러한 고강도 강재의 부족한 회전능력은 항복참(yield plateau)의 부재와 높은 항복비를 갖는 고강도강의 재료적 특성과 관련됨을 입증하였다. 잔류응력 측정결과 잔류응력의 크기는 소재의 항복강도와 무관함을 재확인 할 수 있었다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.109-124
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• 1996

This study was performed to evaluate the performance of three passive samplers made in U.S.A. Three passive samplers selected for this study included products made by 3M, Gilian, and SKC in U.S.A. Three organic solvents, such as toluene, trichloroethylene, and n-hexane which are used frequently in Korean industry were selected for the study. Conclusions obtained from this study are summarized as follows. 1. For toluene and trichloroethylene, the overall accuracy of the results from all of three products was within 25 %, which is the criteria recommended by the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). For n-hexane, the overall accuracy of the results from two products except 3M was exceeding 25 %. Thus 3M product showed the best accuracy among three products. 2. When passive samplers collected organic vapors were exposed to clean air for two hours, there were 12 - 16 % loss of organic vapors due to reverse diffusion in Gilian products. There was no significant loss in results from other two products. 3. Air velocity affected greatly on the performance of passive samplers which did not have permeation membrane. At high velocity, 100 cm/sec, accuracies of results from Gilian and SKC were 57 - 108 and 128 - 164 %, respectively. However, the results from 3M samplers, which contain permeation membrane, indicated accuracy below 25 %. 4. When passive samplers collected organic vapors for eight hours, the accuracy was reduced. Thus, it is recommended that passive samplers be used for less than four hours.

• 콘크리트학회논문집
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.866-876
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• 2003

철근 콘크리트 기둥 부재의 경우 하중을 지지한 상태에서 화재의 영향을 받기 때문에 일반적인 재료실험 연구 결과는 그 구조적 거동에서 상이한 거동을 나타낸다. 본 연구에서는 350${\times}$350${\times}$3360mm의 실물크기 철근 콘크리트 기둥 12개에 대하여 재하 하중의 크기, 가열시간, 피복두께, 편심 크기 등을 변수로 하여 화해 시 이들 변수들의 영향을 고찰하였다. 고찰 대상은 기둥 콘크리트의 폭열, 기둥의 길이방향 팽창 및 수축, 좌굴 등이다. 이들 변수들이 기둥 축방향 팽창과 수축, 회전, 좌굴, ISO 기준에 따른 내화력, 구조적 안정성 등에 미치는 영향을 실험에 근거하여 정성적으로 평가하였다. 실험 결과, 축방향 수축은 가열시간에 가장 큰 영향을 받으며 철근이나 부재의 좌굴은 축력의 크기, 가열시간, 피복두께, 편심의 유무에 따른 순으로 영향을 받음이 관찰되었다. 실험 관찰을 통하여 ISO 기준에서 제시한 내화기준에 대한 정성적인 평가를 실시하였다.