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Characteristics of the Smear Zone by Vertical Drain on Silt (연직배수재에 의한 실트질 지반에서의 스미어 존 특성 평가)

  • Kang, Yun;Kim, Seong-Wook;Yoo, Chan-Ho;Kim, Hong-Taek
    • 한국방재학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.02a
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    • pp.542-545
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    • 2007
  • The vertical drain method generate the disturbed zone, because the drainage should be penetrated into the in-situ ground. The characteristics of the smear zone generated cause the problems that the coefficient of permeability decreases and the consolidation time anticipated in the design is not properly shortened. In this study, in order to understand such influence, the laboratory test were carried out so as to reasonably determine the coefficient of consolidation in silt. For that procedure, mandrel of a diversity were penetrated into the soil tube with silt, and then the variation of pore water pressure was measured with the pore pressure meter, Then, the range of smear effect on silt was estimated with monitoring data through the laboratory test, and also analyzed with inputting the coefficient of consolidation into the theoretical equation.

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Non-invasive Methods for Determination of Cellular Growth in Podophyllum hexandrum Suspension Cultures

  • Chattopadhyay, Saurabh;Bisaria, V.S.;Scheper, T.;Srivastava, A.K.
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.331-334
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    • 2002
  • Culture conductivity and on-line NADH fluorescence were used to measure cellular growth in plant cell suspension cultures of Podophyllum hexandrum. An inverse correlation between dry cell weight and medium conductivity was observed during shake flask cultivation. A linear relationship between dry cell weight and culture NADH fluorescence was obtained during the exponential phase of batch cultivation In a bioreactor under the pH stat (pH 6) conditions. It was observed that conductivity measurement were suitable for biomass characterisation under highly dynamic uncontrolled shake flask cultivation conditions. However, if the acid/alkali feeding is done for pH control the conductivity measurement could not be applied. On the other hand the NADH fluorescence measurement allowed online-in situ biomass monitoring of rather heterogenous plant cell suspension cultures in bioreactor even under the most desirable pH stat conditions.

Study on Evaluation of Internal Leak of Turbine Control Valve in Power Plant Using Acoustic Emission Signal Measurement (음향방출 계측에 의한 터빈 제어밸브 내부누설 평가연구)

  • Lee, S.G.
    • Journal of Power System Engineering
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.65-70
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study is to verify availability of the acoustic emission in-situ monitoring method to the internal leak and operating conditions of the turbine major valves relating to safety for turbine operating and prevention of turbine trouble at nuclear power plants. In this study, acoustic emission tests are performed when the pressurized electro-hydraulic control oil flowed through turbine electro-hydraulic controller oil check valve and turbine power/trip fluid solenoid valve in the condition of actual turbine operating. The acoustic emission method was applied to the valves at the site, and the background noise was measured far the abnormal plant condition. To judge for the leak existence ell the object valves, voltage analysis and frequency analysis of acoustic signal emitted from infernal leak in the valve operating condition are performed. It was conformed that acoustic emission method could monitor for valve internal leak to high sensitivity.

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USING REMOTELY SENSED DATA TO ESTIMATE THE SURFACE HEAT FLUXES OVER TAIWAN'S CHAIYI PLAIN

  • Chang, Tzu-Yin;Liou, Yuei-An
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.422-425
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    • 2007
  • Traditionally, surface energy fluxes are obtained by model simulations or empirical equations with auxiliary meteorological data. These methods may not effectively represent the surface heat fluxes in a regional scale due to scene variability. On the other hand, remote sensing has the advantage to acquire data of a large area in an instantaneous view. The remotely sensed data can be further used to retrieve surface radiation and heat fluxes over a large area. In this study, the airborne and satellite images in conjunction with meteorological data and ground observations were used to estimate the surface heat fluxes over Taiwan's Chaiyi Plain. The results indicate that surface heat fluxes can be properly determined from both airborne and satellite images. The correlation coefficient of surface heat fluxes with in situ corresponding observations is over 0.60. We also observe that the remotely sensed data can efficiently provide a long term monitoring of surface heat fluxes over Taiwan's Chaiyi Plain.

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Ellipso-Microscopic Observation of Titanium Surface under UV-Light Irradiation

  • Fushimi, K.;Kurauchi, K.;Nakanishi, T.;Hasegawa, Y.;Ueda, M.;Ohtsuka, T.
    • Corrosion Science and Technology
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.265-270
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    • 2016
  • The ellipso-microscopic observation of a titanium surface undergoing anodization in $0.05mol\;dm^{-3}$ of $H_2SO_4$ was conducted. During irradiation by ultra-violet (UV) light with a wavelength of 325 nm, the titanium surface allowed for the flow of a photo-induced current and showed up as a bright, patch-like image on an ellipso-microscopic view. The brightness and patch-pattern in the image changed with flowing photo-induced current. The changes in the brightness and the image corresponded to the formation and/or degradation of titanium oxide due to the photo-electrochemical reaction of the oxide. An in situ monitoring using the ellipso-microscope revealed that the film change was dependent on the irradiation light power, by UV-light increases the anodic current and results in the initiation of pitting at lower potentials as compared with the non-irradiated condition.

Assessment of the crest cracks of the Pubugou rockfill dam based on parameters back analysis

  • Zhou, Wei;Li, Shao-Lin;Ma, Gang;Chang, Xiao-Lin;Cheng, Yong-Gang;Ma, Xing
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.571-585
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    • 2016
  • The crest of the Pubugou central core rockfill dam (CCRD) cracked in the first and second impounding periods. To evaluate the safety of the Pubugou CCRD, an inversion analysis of the constitutive model parameters for rockfill materials is performed based on the in situ deformation monitoring data. The aim of this work is to truly reflect the deformation state of the Pubugou CCRD and determine the causes of the dam crest cracks. A novel real-coded genetic algorithm based upon the differences in gene fragments (DGFX) is proposed. It is used in combination with the radial based function neural network (RBFNN) to perform the parameters back analysis. The simulated settlements show good agreements with the monitoring data, illustrating that the back analysis is reasonable and accurate. Furthermore, the deformation gradient of the dam crest has been analysed. The dam crest has a great possibility of cracking due to the uncoordinated deformation, which agrees well with the field investigation. The deformation gradient decreases to the value lower than the critical one and reaches a stable state after the second full reservoir.

Biological Evaluation for Characteristics of Leachate Toxicity from Municipal Solid Waste Landfill (생물학적 방법에 의한 도시생활폐기물 매립지의 침출수 독성특성 평가)

  • 황인영;류경무
    • Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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    • v.11 no.1_2
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 1996
  • Leachate from municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill, effluent from leachate treatment plant, and ground water sample from a monitoring well near landfill site were tested for an acute toxicity. Microtox toxicity test was used for testing the acute toxicity of leachate and other samples. EC$_{50}$ values which a concentration of pollutant for reducing 50% light output from luminescent bacteria, Photobacterium phosphoreum were determined to assess the toxicity of pollutants as well as the relative toxicity. In addition, characteristics of leachate were studied and compared to those of phenol and pentachlorophenol (PCP) which are typical aquatic toxic pollutants. For leachate, EC$_{50}$ for 30 min incubation was 10.8%, while for phenol and PCP, 46 ppm and 1.2 ppm, respectively. the relative toxicity of treated leachate by in situ aeration with activated sludge was reduced to more than 75% of toxicity of the untreated leachate. Microtox toxicity test was failed to figure out EC$_{50}$ values for groundwater from a monitoring well since the relative toxicity of the unconcentrated sample was too low to estimate EC$_{50}$. Addition of activated carbon to leachate was reduced the relative toxicity. The reduction Pattern of the relative toxicity of leachate by mechanical aeration was similar to that of PCP, but different from that of phenol. These findings suggest that the toxicity of leachate may come from PCP-like toxic compounds rather than phenol-like one. In conclusion, the process of aeration with activated sludge might be very important to reduce the environmental toxicity of leachate. And Microtox test could be a reasonable bioassay for screening and monitoring the environmental toxicity of leachate from municipal solid waste landfill as well as for determining the reduction efficiency of the leachate toxicity by various treatment processes in leachate treatment plant.

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Initial Stage of Film Formation and Material Properties of Cu Film deposited by MOCVD (MOCVD로 증착된 구리 필름의 초기성장 및 증착조건에 따른 박막특성)

  • 황의성;이영록;이지화
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.4 no.S1
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    • pp.113-117
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    • 1995
  • MOCVD of Cu films were carried out on gold-TiN(1000$\AA$)/Ti/Si wafers from hexafluoroacetylacetonate-Cu(l) vinyltrimethylsilane, Cu(l)(hafac)(vtms), in a small cold-wall type reactor. Effects of the substrate and bubbler temperatures on the film growth rate were studied, and a film with $\rho$=1.8$\pm$0.1$\mu$$\Omega$.cm could be deposited 150nm/min at Ts=200 and Tb=$30^{\circ}C$, respectively. The initial stage of the film formation was also investigated by in-situ laser reflectivity monitoring combined with SEM observations, based on which variations in the film properties depending on the growth conditions were discussed in terms of the nucleation rate and grain size.

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Tensile Failure Characterization of Composites for Railway Vehicle (철도차량 복합소재의 인장파괴 특성분석)

  • Kim, Jeong-Guk;Kwon, Sung-Tae;Kim, Jung-Seok;Yoon, Hyuk-Jin
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.1231-1235
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    • 2010
  • The tensile failure behavior of polymer matrix composite materials was investigated with the aid of a nondestructive evaluation (NDE) technique. The materials, E-glass fiber reinforced epoxy matrix composites, which are applicable to carbody materials in railway vehicles to reduce weight, were used for this investigation. In order to explain stress-strain behavior of polymer matrix composite sample, the infrared thermography technique was employed. A high-speed infrared (IR) camera was used for in-situ monitoring of progressive damages of polymer matrix composite samples during tensile testing. In this investigation, the IR thermography technique was used to facilitate a better understanding of damage evolution, fracture mechanism, and failure mode of polymer matrix composite materials during monotonic loadings.

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Comparison of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy with Raman Spectroscopy from the Point of Nondestructive Analysis of Biological Materials

  • Takeyuki Tanaka;Hidetoshi Sato;Jung, Young-Mee;Yukihiro Ozaki
    • Near Infrared Analysis
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.9-20
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    • 2000
  • Recently, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy have received keen interest as powerful techniques for nondestructive analysis of biological materials. The purpose of this review paper is to compare the advantages of NIR and Raman spectroscopy in the nondestructive analysis. Both methods are quite unique and often complementary. For example. NIR spectroscopy is very useful in monitoring in situ the content of components inside biological materials while Raman spectroscopy is very suitable for identifying micro-components on the surface of biological materials. In this article specific characters of the two spectroscopic methods are discussed first and then several examples of applications of NIR and Raman spectroscopy to the biological nondestructive analysis are introduced.