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Evaluation of Eco-Village Planning Characteristics by Introducing Landscape Unit System (경관단위체계를 도입한 생태마을계획의 특성 평가)

  • 황보철;이명우
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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    • v.32 no.3
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    • pp.60-75
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this research is to evaluate five types of eco-village planning in order to introduce a landscape unit concept and theory in Korea. Although they had different backgrounds and motives of eco-villages planning, their common goal is to always maintain ecological planning and design in their villages. As concrete methods of ecological planning, we suggest three fundamental planning theories. 1. The boundary of a plan unit should be a watershed. 2. The survey and analysis of village ecotopes should be done in that defined watershed. 3. These results should be applied in the site and lot planning of eco-villages. These 3 steps should be done in a process and relevantly. In the evaluation of the five eco-village planning types, we found three results. 1. On a viewpoint of watershed, most planners recognized a watershed in survey and planning stages unconsciously. But they did not mention watersheds concretely and did not use this concept in the planning stage. 2. They did not define the concept of ecotope, but most planners recognized land-uses and vegetations of villages and vicinities as ecotopes. Also these could be proper ecotopes, but they did not use these compartment of ecotopes in the planning of ecosystem structure in villages. In addition, they did not deeply survey and analyze the ecotopes of villages and its vicinity. 3. On the viewpoint of sites and lots planning, they did not relevantly use the characteristics of watersheds and ecotopes in sites and lots planning. Therefore, they failed to implement the indigenous lots and subdivisions plan. In the size of lots and sites, they did not seriously consider the carrying capacity of ecosystem. We hope that our suggestion about the establishment of eco-villages planning is a fundamental theoretical framework of ecological planning in future eco-village planning.

Design and performance validation of a wireless sensing unit for structural monitoring applications

  • Lynch, Jerome Peter;Law, Kincho H.;Kiremidjian, Anne S.;Carryer, Ed;Farrar, Charles R.;Sohn, Hoon;Allen, David W.;Nadler, Brett;Wait, Jeannette R.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.17 no.3_4
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    • pp.393-408
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    • 2004
  • There exists a clear need to monitor the performance of civil structures over their operational lives. Current commercial monitoring systems suffer from various technological and economic limitations that prevent their widespread adoption. The wires used to route measurements from system sensors to the centralized data server represent one of the greatest limitations since they are physically vulnerable and expensive from an installation and maintenance standpoint. In lieu of cables, the introduction of low-cost wireless communications is proposed. The result is the design of a prototype wireless sensing unit that can serve as the fundamental building block of wireless modular monitoring systems (WiMMS). An additional feature of the wireless sensing unit is the incorporation of computational power in the form of state-of-art microcontrollers. The prototype unit is validated with a series of laboratory and field tests. The Alamosa Canyon Bridge is employed to serve as a full-scale benchmark structure to validate the performance of the wireless sensing unit in the field. A traditional cable-based monitoring system is installed in parallel with the wireless sensing units for performance comparison.

A Study on the Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emission of the Detached Houses in Daegu (대구광역시 단독주택의 에너지 및 온실가스 배출원단위 작성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yu-Lan;Yoon, Hae-Kyung;Kim, Ju-Young;Jeon, Gyu-Yeob;Hong, Won-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.35-42
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    • 2011
  • In the energy consumption of buildings in Korea, the housing sector accounts for 53% of a total energy consumption. Although the researches of energy consumption on the new detached houses and apartment houses have been conducted numerous times, the researches of energy consumption characteristics on the existing detached houses are lack of studies. Thus in this study, the actual condition of energy consumption characteristics on the existing detached houses in Daegu city was examined, and then energy consumption unit and green house gas emission unit was compiled to present a fundamental data for an effective way of reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emission in the buildings. The results showed that the energy consumption for heating in the existing detached house was greater than other energy consumption and the heating energy sources were city gas and fuel oil. As the fuel oil consumption got larger, the energy consumption unit and greenhouse gas emission unit became bigger. Based on these results, it will be able to develop a plan for reducing energy and greenhouse gas emission in the existing detached houses in the future.

Fundamental Properties of Lightweight Foamed Concrete Depending on Admixture Incorporation (혼화재료의 치환에 따른 경량기포 콘크리트의 기초적 특성분석)

  • Choi, Sung-Yong;Shin, Jae-Kyung;Jeong, Kwang-Bok;Han, Min-Cheol;Han, Cheon-Goo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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    • v.7 no.2 s.24
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    • pp.77-83
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    • 2007
  • This study investigated the fundamental properties of the lightweight foamed concrete depending on various admixtures, and the results were summarized as following. When 20% of cement kiln dust(CKD) and 0.002% of stabilizing agent were mixed to lightweight foamed concrete, it was necessary to use a superplasticizer because flowability was decreased. However, it could reduce sinking depth which were the extensive trouble of lightweight foamed concrete. Bulk density was divided into '0.4' and '0.5' grades on KS according to unit volume weight. The compressive strength was less than that of plain concrete when admixtures were applied, but the results exceeded the minimum strength of the each grades on KS. Totally, it is found that the combination of 20% of CKD and 0.002% of stabilizing agent makes it possible to reduce a sinking depth, recycle resources, and save cost when were mixed.

Cycle Simulation for the Performance Prediction of a High Pressure Unit Injection System of a Diesel Engine (디젤엔진용 고압분사 유닛인젝터의 성능예측을 위한 사이클 시뮬레이션)

  • 김철호
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.63-74
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    • 2001
  • In this study, a cycle simulation program of a Unit-Injection(UI) system was developed to estimate the injection performance of newly designed injection system. A fundamental theory of the simulation program is based on the conservation law of mass. Loss of fuel mass in the system due to leakage, compressibility effect of the liquid fuel and friction loss in the control volume was considered in the algorithm f the program. For the evaluation of the simulation program developed, the experimental result which was offered by the Technical Research Center of Doowon Precision Industry Co. was incorporated. Two main parameters; the maximum pressure in the plunger chamber and total fuel mass(kg) injected into the engine cylinder per cycle, were measured and compared with the simulation results. It was found that the maximum error rate of the simulation result to the experimental output was less than 3% in the rated rotational speed (rpm) range of the plunger cam.

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An Experimental Study on the Mixing and Mechanical Properties of Artificial Lightweight Aggregate(ALA) Concrete (인공경량골재 콘크리트의 배합과 역학적 성상에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • 김화중;김태섭;전명훈;안상건
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 1991.04a
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    • pp.99-104
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    • 1991
  • It is necessary to generalize the use for structural ALA Concrete in our country, as increasing in the need for the development of ALA and the use of ALA Concrete which is related with the diminution of the self load and foundation section of structure responding to the realistic requirement against the decrease of natural aggregate and the high-rising and large-sizing of structures. This little study, therefore intended to help in the mixing design of concrete by considering the fundamental properties of ALA Concrete used with expanded clay, which is considered by acopting the experimental factors such as unit cement content, water cement ratio and the rate of fine aggregate. By considering the results of this experiment, it has difficulty in getting expected slump with the unit water content of normal concrete because of the large absorption of lightweight aggregate, and because the weight of unit volume and specific gravity ALA Concrete are small it appears that the strength and Elastic Modulus of that are small too and that it is more ductile than normal concrete.

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Work Measurement in Robot Ergonomics (Robot Ergonomics의 일환으로서 로봇 작업측정에 관한 연구)

  • 권규식
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.21 no.48
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    • pp.201-211
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    • 1998
  • The fundamental object of work measurement is to precisely establish the time standards, which are the indices of labor productivity. This study discussed the development of robot work measurement method that could establish the time standard effectively. In manufacturing industries the various robot tasks are generally classified and standardized by the unit motions. The Robot Modularization of the Unit Motion (ROMUM) was realized by the module of two steps GET and PUT unit motions. This method reduced time and effort of analysis, and could be done with ease. Therefore, ROMUM will increase the convenience of use for the unskilled worker and decrease the time required, cost and errors. And, it will contribute to reduce the unnecessary motion by robot motion analysis.

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Variable apartment building planning by using combinable container house module (가변적 평면이 가능한 컨테이너 모듈형 조립식 공동주택의 건축계획)

  • Cho, Tae-heum;Chin, Kyung-Il
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.95-100
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    • 2017
  • Purpose: Now a day, Most of the residential house in Korea consists of apartment buildings. However, in the case of old apartment buildings, dwelling environment condition depends on management effort by residents. But we can't rebuild or restructure only old single dwelling unit in apartment buildings. And we can't move every single dwelling unit in the apartment building. Therefore, this study suggests a prototype of combinable container dwelling module apartment. Method: The method of research is exploring the case of previously constructed containers. Based on the case, This study suggests prototypes to create a variable apartment design with dwelling container units. Based on the prototype, various combinations are proposed to produce various types of dwelling space. Finally, this study makes an example plan for the apartment by using the container unit modules. Results: This study suggests combinable container apartment building prototypes. And it may be a fundamental study of changing the apartment building concept.