• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.701-720
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• 1998

Research advances in dental implantology have led to the development of several different types of materials and it is anticipated that continued research will lead to advanced dental implant materials. Currently used pure titanium has relatively low hardness and strength which may limit its ability to resist functional loads as a dental implant. Ti-6Al-4V also has potential problems such as corrosion resistance. osseointegration properties and neurologic disorder due to aluminium and vanadium, known as highly toxic elements, contained in Ti-6Al-4V. Newly developed titanium based alloys(Ti-20Zr-3Nb-3Ta-0.2Pd-1In, Ti-20Zr-3Nb-3Ta-0.2Pd) which do not contain toxic metallic components were designed by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) with alloy design techniques using Zr, Nb, Ta, Pd, and In which are known as non-toxic elements. Biocompatibility and osseointegration properties of these newly designed alloys were evaluated after implantation in rabbit femur for 3 months. The conclusions were as follows : 1. Mechanical properties of the new designed Ti based alloys(Ti-20Zr-3Nb-3Ta-0.2Pd-1In, Ti-20Zr-3Nb-3Ta-0.2Pd) demonstrated close hardness and tensile strength values to Ti-6Al-4V. 2. New desinged experimental alloys showed stable corrosion resistance similar to the pure Ti but better than Ti-6Al-4V. However, the corrosion rate was higher for the new alloys. 3. Cell culture test showed that the new alloys have similar cell response compared with pure Ti and Ti-6Al-4V with no cell adverse reaction. 4. New designed alloys showed similar bone-metal contact ratio and osseointegration properties compared to pure Ti and Ti-6Al-4V after 3 months implantation in rabbit femur. 5. Four different surface treatments of the metals did not show any statistical difference of the cell growth and bone-metal contact ratio.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.134-145
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• 1996

Since the skid-steer loader is able to work for excavating, lifting and transporting load even at the narrow space, they are widely used in the regular farm and the livestock farm. The skid-steer loader normally adopts the hydrostatic transmission because the power to move the machine backward and forward should be delivered independently on both sides of wheels. Contrast to the mechanical system such as chain and belt transmissions, however, the hydrostatic transmission is less efficient in the use of energy and more difficult in the maintenance. This study was intended to investigate the feasibility of using triangular-type belt clutch and V-belt transmission for the newly developed skid-steer loader in order to overcome the problems stated in the hydrostatic transmission. In the developed triangular-type belt clutch, the centers of driving, driven and idler sheaves are arranged in the triangular shape in a plane, and V-belts were loaded loosely on three sheaves. The power is transmitted by pressing the idler connected to a lever on the loosened V-belt. Contrast to the normal belt clutch using two sheaves, the newly developed belt clutch has the characteristics of small contact-angle of the driving sheave at no bucket load and increasing contact-angle at the time of power transmission. The results of research can be summarized as follows: 1) The developed triangular-type belt clutch adopted a spring-loaded slackside idler which could transmit more power than a fixed idler could by sacrificing the belt life. The life of V-belt used in the power transmission reached at 500 hours(6 months) when the engine power of 11.8 ㎾ was transmitted. Also, it was feasible to develop the large industrial skid-loader with the V-belt transmission by using the proper set of sheaves. 2) The developed skid-steer loader changed the rotating radius and speed with bucket loads as the conventional skid steer loader did. The rotating speed was 47 deg/s at the maximum bucket load of 2.74 kN when the minimum rotating radius was 1.5m. 3) The power required in turning at the bucket load of 2.74 kN was 4 ㎾ and the slippage of V-belt was less than 1%.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.46-54
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• 2014

암반 구조물의 안정성에 결정적인 영향을 미치는 절리의 특성을 파악하기 위해서는 일반적으로 직접전단시험을 통한 연구가 수행되고 있으나, 본 연구에서는 3차원 개별요소법에 근거한 3DEC을 사용하여 직접전단시험을 수치해석적으로 수행하였다. 톱니각과 강도가 상이한 인공 절리시험편에 대해 수직하중을 4단계로 변화시켜가며 일정수직하중 조건에서 실험실 직접전단시험으로 최대전단강도를 측정하였다. 그리고 실내시험을 통해 얻은 시험편의 역학적 물성으로 수치해석 모델링을 수행하였고, 획득한 전단강도를 실험실 직접전단시험으로 수행한 전단강도와 비교 분석하였다. 그 결과 개별요소법에 의한 수치해석은 암반의 전단거동을 잘 모사할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.523-531
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• 2019

암석역학이나 암반공학의 여러 활용 분야 중 발파, 천공 및 기계굴착의 경우에는 파괴인성이 중요한 요소이며, 암석의 파괴인성을 측정하기 위한 여러 가지 방법들이 제안되었다. 본 연구에서는 간단히 시험편을 제작할 수 있고, 압축 하중으로 암석의 모드 I 파괴인성을 구할 수 있도록 쐐기 분열 시험편(Wedge Splitting Test Specimen)을 이용하였다. 쐐기의 작용하는 연직하중에 의한 수직 및 수평하중 모두를 고려한 균열선단의 응력상태로부터 수치해석을 통한 응력확대계수의 식을 제안하였다. 쐐기 분열 시험편에 의해 구해진 모드 I 파괴인성값을 GD와 SENB 시험편의 시험 결과와 비교하여 시험법의 타당성을 확인하였다.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.141-147
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• 2015

Gas foil thrust bearings (GFTBs) have attractive advantages over rolling element bearings and oil film thrust bearings, such as oil-free operation, high speed stability, and high-temperature operation. However, GFTBs have lower load carrying capacity than the other two types of bearings owing to the inherent low gas viscosity. The load carrying capacity of GFTBs depends mainly on the compliance of the foil structure and the formed hydrodynamic wedge, where the gas pressure field is generated between the top foil and the thrust runner. The load carrying capacity of the GFTBs is very important for the suitable design of oil-free turbomachinery with high performance. The aim of the present study is to identify the characteristics of the load carrying performance of GFTBs. A new test rig for the experimental measurements is designed to provide static loads up to 800 N using a pneumatic cylinder. The maximum operating speed of the driving motor is 30,000 rpm. A series of experimental tests—lift-off test, static load performance test, and maximum load capacity test—estimate the performance of a six-pad GFTB, in terms of the static load, driving torque, and temperature. The maximum load capacity is determined by increasing the static load until the driving torque rises suddenly with a sharp peak. The test results show that the torque and temperature increase linearly with the static load. The estimated maximum load capacity per unit area is approximately 80.5 kPa at a rotor speed of 25,000 rpm. The test results can be used as a design guideline for GFTBs for realizing oil-free turbomachinery.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.273-286
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• 2020

The pile group foundation is widely used for gravity pier of high-speed railway bridges in China. If a moderate or strong earthquake occurs, the pile-surrounding soil will exhibit obvious nonlinearity and significant pile group effect. In this study, an improved pushover analysis model for the pile group foundation with consideration of pile group effect is presented and validated by the quasi-static test. The improved model uses simplified springs to simulate the soil lateral resistance, side friction and tip resistance. PM (axial load-bending moment) plastic hinge model is introduced to simulate the impact of the axial force changing of pile group on their elastic-plastic characteristics. The pile group effect is considered in stress-stain relations of the lateral soil resistance with a reduction factor. The influence factors on nonlinear characteristics and plastic hinge distribution of the pile group foundation are discussed, including the pier height, longitudinal reinforcement ratio and stirrup ratio of the pile, and soil mechanical parameters. Furthermore, the displacement ductility factor, resistance increase factor and yielding stiffness ratio are provided to evaluate the seismic performance of soil-pile system. A case study for the pile group foundation of a railway simply supported beam bridge with a 32 m-span is conducted by numerical analysis. It is shown that the ultimate lateral force of pile group is not determined by the yielding force of the single one in these piles. Therefore, the pile group effect is essential for the seismic performance evaluation of the railway bridge with pile group foundation.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.114-120
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• 2005

Urethane is a high polymeric and elastic material useful in designing mechanic parts that cannot be molded with rubber or plastic material. In particular, urethane is high in mechanical strength and anti-abrasive. Hereby, a urethane coated aluminum wheel is used to support of the OHT vehicle moving back and forth to transport products. For the sake of verifying the safety of the vehicle, structural safety fur applied maximum dynamic load on a urethane wheel must be examined carefully while driving. Therefore, we performed a dynamic simulation on the OHT vehicle model and we determined the driving load. The area definition of applied load may be obtained from the previous study of Hertzian and Non-Hertzian contact force model having exact properties of contact material. But the static analysis is simulated after we have performed the actual contact area test for each load since the proper material properties of urethane have not been guaranteed. In this study, the method of distributing loads for each node is included. Finally, in coMParison with the results of analysis and load-displacement curve obtained from the compression test, we have defined the material properties of urethane. In the analysis, we verified the safety of the wheel. Finally, we performed a mode analysis using the obtained material properties. With these results, we presented a reliable finite element model.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.165-177
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• 2015

Purpose: Accurate monitoring of soil strength is a key technology applicable to various precision agricultural practices. Soil strength has been traditionally measured using a cone penetrometer, which is time-consuming and expensive, making it difficult to obtain the spatial data required for precision agriculture. To improve the current, inefficient method of measuring soil strength, our objective was to develop and evaluate an in-situ system that could measure horizontal soil strength in real-time, while moving across a soil bin. Methods: Multiple cone-shape penetrometers were horizontally assembled at the front of a vertical plow blade at intervals of 5 cm. Each penetrometer was directly connected to a load cell, which measured loads of 0-2.54 kN. In order to process the digital signals from every individual transducer concurrently, a microcontroller was embedded into the measurement system. Wireless data communication was used between a data storage device and this real-time horizontal soil strength (RHSS) measurement system travelling at 0.5 m/s through an indoor experimental soil bin. The horizontal soil strength index (HSSI) measured by the developed system was compared with the cone index (CI) measured by a traditional cone penetrometer. Results: The coefficient of determination between the CI and the HSSI at depths of 5 cm and 10 cm ($r^2=0.67$ and 0.88, respectively) were relatively less than those measured below 20 cm ($r^2{\geq}0.93$). Additionally, the measured HSSIs were typically greater than the CIs for a given numbers of compactor operations. For an all-depth regression, the coefficient of determination was 0.94, with a RMSE of 0.23. Conclusions: A HSSI measurement system was evaluated in comparison with the conventional soil strength measurement system, CI. Further study is needed, in the form of field tests, on this real-time measurement and control system, which would be applied to precision agriculture.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.2777-2783
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• 2015

전력 피크 감소는 전력 공급자 뿐 아니라 사용자에게도 점점 중요한 기술이 되고 있다. 전기 부하 스케줄링은 기기의 주기적 작동 시간을 여러 개의 시간 조각들로 분리하고 여러 기기들에 대해 작동 시간 조각들을 통합적으로 교차 배치하여 전력 피크를 줄이는 기법이다. 본 논문에서는 부하 스케줄링 알고리즘인 EDF, LSF, TCBM, lazy 스케줄러의 성능을 분석하고 개선 방안을 제시한다. 분석을 위해 스케줄링 정책들을 분산제어 시뮬레이션 환경에서 구현하고, 실제 전력 사용 데이터를 이용한 광범위한 실험을 통해 전력 편차, 스위칭 횟수, 온도 범위 위반 비율 등의 관점에서 스케줄링 정책별 성능 특성을 논한다. 또한, 과도한 스위칭 방지를 위해 제한적 선점 기능을 제안하고 그 효과를 입증한다. 실험결과, 스케줄러 용량을 실제 전력 요구에 맞춰 설정하면 성능이 극대화됨을 확인하였으며, 스케줄링을 통해 150W 보다 큰 전력편차를 가지는 비율이 원래 21.5%에서 3.2%까지 감소함을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.151-158
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• 2002

외부 후 긴장 공법은 설계에 수반되는 구조해석이 비교적 명확하여 강교량 구조물뿐만 아니라 건축 구조물 등 그 적용범위가 매우 넓다. 본 연구에서는 외부 비부착 강연선 및 강봉을 가진 Steel I-Beam의 휨거동과 보강효과를 연구하기 위하여 우선 합리적인 이론해를 제시하고, 긴장력 도입 후 정적 휨 재하 실험을 수행하여 긴장력 도입 정도에 따른 휨 보강정도를 분석하였다. 또한, 강봉을 사용한 경우와 강연선을 사용한 경우로 시험체를 분류하여, 긴장재 종류에 따른 휨거동 특성과 보강효과를 비교 분석하였다. 아울러 강봉의 개수와 편향부 유.무에 따른 Beam의 휨거동 특성과 부재의 처짐의 증가에 따른 Tendon 위치의 편심량 값이 변화하고, 그에 따른 프리스트레스트 I-Beam의 휨 거동에 미치는 영향을 규명하였다.