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The Tall Frontier of Timber in Australia: Opportunities for Promotion Versus Industry Hurdles

  • Giorgio Marfella;Kimberly Winson-Geideman
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.137-143
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    • 2023
  • The use of Engineered Wood Systems (EWS), especially mass-timber, as a structural alternative or complement to steel and concrete is gaining interest and acceptance across different sectors of architecture, engineering, and construction, including in high-rise buildings. Focussing on the Australian context, this study examines the levels of adoption and barriers to using timber as a primary structural material in multi-storey buildings. Data collected from semi-structured interviews with stakeholders at the forefront of adoption in structural design, construction, and property development indicates that timber in multi-storey projects in Australia still faces industry-wide challenges. Designers' awareness and attitudes towards timber adoption are generally positive and suitable for flagship projects, including tall buildings, but for enduring and widespread impact, long-term investment in education within and outside the range of stakeholders already committed to promoting timber adoption is needed.

A Study on Economical Efficiency Evaluation of Semiforcing under Structure Watermelon Cultivators (반촉성 시설수박 재배농가의 경제적 효율성 분석)

  • Kim, Woong;Kim, Jai Hong
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.179-193
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    • 2006
  • Technical efficiency of semiforcing watermelon growers is 0.8248 on average, and distributed between 0.6744 and 0.9268. The result showed that semiforcing watermelon growers had by 18% of technical inefficiency and could be assumed that increasing technical efficiency could induce watermelon production more increase. Consequently, if growers' technical efficiency were improved while other environments were constant, watermelon production could be increased. Following the results from the inefficiency effect model, all assumption coefficient such as growers age etc, are significant at 10% level. Estimate of dispersion parameter ${\gamma}$ is 0.89, which confirms those differences between practical output and frontier output were derived from the technical efficiencies among growers. Differences of production system between high and low level growers in production efficiency were showed at side altitude, ventilation and heat-retaining in section of facilities and automation, soil test and calcium application in section of environment management, transplant preparation and duration of pollination in section of crop management and shipment place, sorting degree and management record analysis in section of business management respectively. As a result of analyzing consulting data by using standard diagnosis table of watermelon cultivation under structure which cultivated on semi-forced watermelon growers, gap between high and low level growers was 7.0 points in facility automation section, 7.1 points in environment section, 8.8 points in crop management section and 13.6 points in business management section, respectively, which were the biggest one among them. In case of excluding information-related items from the evaluation index of business management section, changes of business achievement are to occur. Therefore, it is recommended for us to review the standard diagnostic table of watermelon cultivation under structure by dividing evaluation index of management section into management and information.

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Real-time Motion Error Time and the Thermal Error Compensation of Ultra Precision Lathe (초정밀 가공기의 실시간 운동오차 및 열변형오차 보상)

  • Kwac Lee-Ku;Kim Hong-Gun;Kim Jae-Yeol
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.44-48
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    • 2006
  • Recently, demand the ultra precision product which is increasing rapidly is used extensively frontier industry field such as semi-conductor, computer, aerospace, precision machine. Ultra precision processing is the portion that is very needed to NT in the field of mechanical engineering. The latest date, together with radical advancement of electronic and photonics industry, necessity of ultra precision processing is on the increase for the manufacture of various kernel parts those are connected with these industrial fields. Specially, require motion accuracy of high resolution of nm order in stroke of hundreds millimeters according as diameter of processing object great and processing accuracy rises. In this case ,the response speed absolute delay because inertial mass of moving part is very large. Therefore, real time motion error compensation becomes very hardly. In this paper, we used ultra precision cutting unit(UPCU) to cope such problem. a UPCU is designed and tested to obtain sub-micrometer from accuracy in diamond turning of flat surfaces. The thermal growth spindle error is compensated for real time using a UPCU driven by piezoelectric actuator along with a laser encoder displacement sensor.

Experimental and ab initio Computational Studies on Dimethyl-(4-{4-{3-methyl-3-phenyl-cyclobutyl)-thiazol-2-yl]-hydrazonomethyl}-phenyl)-amine

  • Yuksektepe, Cigdem;Saracoglu, Hanife;Caliskan, Nezihe;Yilmaz, Ibrahim;Cukurovali, Alaaddin
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.31 no.12
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    • pp.3553-3560
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    • 2010
  • A new hydrazone derivative compound has been synthesized and characterized by IR, $^1H$-NMR, $^{13}C$-NMR and UV-vis. spectroscopy techniques, elemental analysis and single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD). The new compound crystallizes in monoclinic space group C2/c. In addition to the crystal structure from X-ray experiment, the molecular geometry, vibrational frequencies and frontier molecular orbitals analysis of the title compound in the ground state have been calculated by using the HF/6-31G(d, p), B3LYP/6-311G(d, p) and B3LYP/6-31G(d, p) methods. The computed vibrational frequencies are used to determine the types of molecular motions associated with each of the observed experimental bands. To determine conformational flexibility, molecular energy profile of (1) was obtained by semi-empirical (AM1) calculation with respect to a selected degree of torsional freedom, which was varied from $-180^{\circ}$ to $+180^{\circ}$ in steps of $10^{\circ}$. Molecular electrostatic potential of the compound was also performed by the theoretical method.

Differentiation among stability regimes of alumina-water nanofluids using smart classifiers

  • Daryayehsalameh, Bahador;Ayari, Mohamed Arselene;Tounsi, Abdelouahed;Khandakar, Amith;Vaferi, Behzad
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.489-499
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    • 2022
  • Nanofluids have recently triggered a substantial scientific interest as cooling media. However, their stability is challenging for successful engagement in industrial applications. Different factors, including temperature, nanoparticles and base fluids characteristics, pH, ultrasonic power and frequency, agitation time, and surfactant type and concentration, determine the nanofluid stability regime. Indeed, it is often too complicated and even impossible to accurately find the conditions resulting in a stabilized nanofluid. Furthermore, there are no empirical, semi-empirical, and even intelligent scenarios for anticipating the stability of nanofluids. Therefore, this study introduces a straightforward and reliable intelligent classifier for discriminating among the stability regimes of alumina-water nanofluids based on the Zeta potential margins. In this regard, various intelligent classifiers (i.e., deep learning and multilayer perceptron neural network, decision tree, GoogleNet, and multi-output least squares support vector regression) have been designed, and their classification accuracy was compared. This comparison approved that the multilayer perceptron neural network (MLPNN) with the SoftMax activation function trained by the Bayesian regularization algorithm is the best classifier for the considered task. This intelligent classifier accurately detects the stability regimes of more than 90% of 345 different nanofluid samples. The overall classification accuracy and misclassification percent of 90.1% and 9.9% have been achieved by this model. This research is the first try toward anticipting the stability of water-alumin nanofluids from some easily measured independent variables.

The finite element method for dynamics of FG porous truncated conical panels reinforced with graphene platelets based on the 3-D elasticity

  • Lingqin Xia;Ruiquan Wang;Guang Chen;Kamran Asemi;Abdelouahed Tounsi
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.375-389
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    • 2023
  • In this study, free vibration analysis of functionally graded (FG) porous truncated conical shell panels reinforced by graphene platelets (GPLs) has been investigated for the first time. Additionally, the effect of three different types of porosity distribution and five different types of GPLs patterns on dynamic response of the shell are also studied. Halpin-Tsai micromechanical model and Voigt's rule are used to determine Young modulus, shear modulus and Poisson's ratio with mass densities of the shell, respectively. The main novelties of present study are: applying 3D elasticity theory and the finite element method in conjunction with Rayleigh-Ritz method to give more accurate results unlike other simplified shell theories, and also presenting a general 3D solution in cylindrical coordinate system that can be used for analyses of different structures such as circular, annular and annular sector plates, cylindrical shells and panels, and conical shells and panels. A convergence study is performed to justify the correctness of the obtained solution and numerical results. The impact of porosity and GPLs patterns, the volume of voids, the weight fraction of graphene nanofillers, semi vertex and span angles of the cone, and various boundary conditions on natural frequencies of the functionally graded panel have been comprehensively studied and discussed. The results show that the most important parameter on dynamic response of FG porous truncated conical panel is the weight fraction of nanofiller and adding 1% weight fraction of nanofiller could increase 57% approximately the amounts of natural frequencies of the shell. Moreover, the porosity distribution has great effect on the value of natural frequency of structure rather than the porosity coefficient.

Relative Stability, Ionization Potential, and Chemical Reactivity of the Neutral and Multiply Charged $C_{60}$ (중성과 다중 전하를 가진 $C_{60}$의 상대적 안정도, 이온화 에너지 및 화학 반응성)

  • Sung, Yong Kiel;Son, Man Shick
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.41 no.3
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 1997
  • On the basis of our previous paper[Bull. Korean Chem. Soc. 1995, 16, 1015], the relative stability, ionization potential, and chemical reaction of the neutral and multiply charged $C_{60}$n ions(n=3+ to 6-) have been investigated by the semi-empirical MNDO method. $C_{60}^{1-}$ has the highest stability. The ionization potential values of the $C_{60}$ ions range from 15.31 eV of $C_{60}^{2+}$ to -13.01 eV of $C_{60}^{6-}$. These values show a linear relationship according to charges. The average IP per charge is 3.15 eV from our calculations and 3.22 eV from the linear function of IP. A charge- or electron-transfer reaction of $C_{60}^{n+}$ will only occur if the ionization potential of any guest molecule is lower than the electron affinity of the host $C_{60}^{n+}$. If the energy gap between ionization potential and electron affinity, ${\Delta}_{IP-EA}$, is high, charge-transfer reactions arise by the charge-controlled effect. However, if ${\Delta}_{IP-EA}$ is low, electron-transfer reactions arise by the frontier-controlled effect.

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Cellular Responses to Alcohol in Escherichia coli, Clostridium acetobutylicum, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (알코올에 대한 Escherichia coli, Clostridium acetobutylicum, Saccharomyces cerevisiae의 반응)

  • Park, Ju-Yong;Hong, Chun-Sang;Han, Ji-Hye;Kang, Hyun-Woo;Chung, Bong-Woo;Choi, Gi-Wook;Min, Ji-Ho
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.49 no.1
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    • pp.105-108
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    • 2011
  • The increased concern for the security of the oil supply and the negative impact of fossil fuels on the environment, particularly greenhouse gas emissions, has put pressure on society to find renewable fuel alternatives. Compared to the traditional biofuel, ethanol, higher alcohols offer advantage as gasoline substitutes because of their higher energy density and lower hygroscopicity. For this reason, microbial fermentation is known as potential producers for sustainable energy carriers. In this study, bacterial responses including cellular and molecular toxicity were studied in three different microorganisms, such as Escherichia coli, Clostridium acetobutylicum, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this study, it was analyzed specific stress responses caused by ethanol and buthanol using four different stress responsive genes, i.e. fabA, grpE, katG and recA. The expression levels of these genes were quantified by semi-quantitative reverse transcription-PCR. It was found that four genes have shown different responsive patterns when E. coli cultures were under stressful conditions caused by ethanol and buthanol, respectively. Therefore, in this study, the stress responsive effects caused by these alcohols and the extent of each stress response can be analyzed using the expression levels and patterns of different stress responsive genes.