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Experimental study and FE analysis of tile roofs under simulated strong wind impact

  • Huang, Peng;Lin, Huatan;Hu, Feng;Gu, Ming
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.75-87
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    • 2018
  • A large number of low-rise buildings experienced serious roof covering failures under strong wind while few suffered structural damage. Clay and concrete tiles are two main kinds of roof covering. For the tile roof system, few researches were carried out based on Finite Element (FE) analysis due to the difficulty in the simulation of the interface between the tiles and the roof sheathing (the bonding materials, foam or mortar). In this paper, the FE analysis of a single clay or concrete tile with foam-set or mortar-set were built with the interface simulated by the equivalent nonlinear springs based on the mechanical uplift and displacement tests, and they were expanded into the whole roof. A detailed wind tunnel test was carried out at Tongji University to acquire the wind loads on these two kinds of roof tiles, and then the test data were fed into the FE analysis. For the purpose of validation and calibration, the results of FE analysis were compared with the full-scale performance ofthe tile roofs under simulated strong wind impact through one-of-a-kind Wall of Wind (WoW) apparatus at Florida International University. The results are consistent with the WoW test that the roof of concrete tiles with mortar-set provided the highest resistance, and the material defects or improper construction practices are the key factors to induce the roof tiles' failure. Meanwhile, the staggered setting of concrete tiles would help develop an interlocking mechanism between the tiles and increase their resistance.

High-Resolution Simulations of the Nuclear Star-Forming Ring

  • Kim, Sungsoo S.;Saitoh, Takayuki R.;Baba, Junichi
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.47.2-47.2
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    • 2013
  • We have performed a set of high-resolution simulations of nuclear star-forming ring that results in an inward gas migration from the galactic disk. Our simulations consider gas heating/cooling, star formation, and supernova feedback. The galactic potential was obtained from a snapshot of a 6.3 million particle simulation of a galactic disk at 1 Gyr, which manifests spiral arms and pseudo-bulge. The potential was modeled with a combination of 3-dimensional spherical (for the pseudo-bulge) and 2-dimensional cylindrical (for the disk) multipole expansion technique. With such a potential model, one can easily set up various realistic 3-dimensional potential models by slightly changing the expansion coefficients. We have performed a set of simulations with a few million gas particles covering the central ~6 kpc of the disk for different pseudo-bulge sizes and non-axisymmetry, and we report the dependence of the gas inflow rate, size of the star-forming ring, and star-formation rate in the ring on the size and strength of the non-axisymmetry in the bulge.

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A Stochastic Facility Location Model for Both Ameliorating and Deteriorating Items in Two-Echelon Supply-Chain Management (증식 및 진부화되는 제품을 취급하는 물류시스템의 최적 설비계획모델의 연구)

  • Hwang, Heung-Suk
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.384-391
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    • 2000
  • Most of the previous works on classical location models are based on the assumption that the value(or utilities) of inventory remains constants over time. In this study a special case of location problem is studied for both ameliorating and deteriorating items in two-echelon supply-chain management such as agricultural and fishery products. The objective of this study is to determine the minimum number of storage facilities among a discrete set of location sites so that the probability for each customer to be covered is not less than a critical value. We have formulated this problem using stochastic set-covering problem which can be solved by 0-1 programming method. Also we developed a computer program and applied to a set of problems for fish culture storage and distribution centers and the sample results well show the impact of ameliorating and deteriorating rate on the location problem. For the further study, a graphical user-interface with visualization for input and output is needed to be developed.

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A Study on Buckling Characteristics of 2-way Grid Single-Layer Domes Considering Rigidity-Effect of Roofing Covering Materials (지붕마감재 강성효과를 고려한 2방향 그리드 단층돔의 좌굴특성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Sang-Hoon;Suk, Chang-Mok;Jung, Hwan-Mok;Kwon, Young-Hwan
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.2 no.1 s.3
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    • pp.85-92
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    • 2002
  • Two way grid single-layer domes are of great advantage in fabrication and construction because of the simple fact that they have only four members at each junction. But, from a point of view of mechanics, the rectangular latticed pattern gives rise to a nonuniform rigidity-distribution in the circumferential direction. If the equivalent rigidity is considered in the axial direction of members, the in-plane equivalent shearing rigidity depends only on the in-plane bending rigidity of members and its value is very small in comparison to that of the in-plane equivalent stretching rigidity. It has a tendency to decrease buckling -strength of dome considerably by external force. But it is possible to increase buckling strength by the use of roofing covering materials connected to framework. In a case like this, shearing rigidity of roofing material increases buckling strength of the overall structure and can be designed economically from the viewpoint of practice. Therefore, the purpose of this paper, in Lamella dome and rectangular latticed dome that are a set of 2-way grid dome, is to clarify the effects of roofing covering materials for increasing of buckling strength of overall dome. Analysis method is based on FEM dealing with the geometrically nonlinear deflection problems. The conclusion were given as follows: 1. In case of Lamella domes which have nearly equal rigidity in the direction of circumference, the rigidity of roofing covering materials does not have a great influence on buckling-strength, but in rectangular latticed domes that has a clear periodicity of rigidity, the value of its buckling strength has a tendency to increase considerably with increasing rigidity of roofing covering materials 2. In case of rectangular latticed domes, as rise-span-ratio increases, models which is subjected to pressure -type-uniform loading than vertical-type-uniform loading are higher in the aspects of the increasing rate of buckling- strength according to the rate of shear reinforcement rigidity, but in case of Lamella dome, the condition of loading and rise-span-ratio do not have a great influence on the increasing rate of buckling strength according to the rate of shear reinforcement rigidity.

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Valid Inequalities and Facets for the Steiner Problem in a Directed Graph

  • Myung, Young-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.131-146
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    • 1996
  • In this paper, we describe the facial structure of the steiner problem in a directed graph by formulating it as set covering problem. We first characterize trivial facets and derive a necessary condition for nontrival facets. We also introduce a class of valid inequalities with 0-1 coefficients and show when such inequalities define facets.

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An Efficient Intrusion Detection System (IDS) Node Selection for Congested Systems in Wireless Mesh Networks

  • Choe, Jae-Un;Kim, Gi-Seong;Kim, Se-Heon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.525-528
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    • 2008
  • We propose a IDS node selection scheme for intrusion detection in wireless mesh networks. The proposed scheme considers network survivability and energy consumption. To utilize wireless resources efficiently, we apply a set covering problem (SCP) to IDS nodes selection problem. Our proposed scheme also considers congested networks.

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HEWITT REALCOMPACTIFICATIONS OF MINIMAL QUASI-F COVERS

  • Kim, Chang Il;Jung, Kap Hun
    • Korean Journal of Mathematics
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.45-51
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    • 2002
  • Observing that a realcompactification Y of a space X is Wallman if and only if for any non-empty zero-set Z in Y, $Z{\cap}Y{\neq}{\emptyset}$, we will show that for any pseudo-Lindel$\ddot{o}$f space X, the minimal quasi-F $QF({\upsilon}X)$ of ${\upsilon}X$ is Wallman and that if X is weakly Lindel$\ddot{o}$, then $QF({\upsilon}X)={\upsilon}QF(X)$.

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Human Cardiac Troponin I 면역분석을 위한 단일클론 항체의 특성화

  • O, Heung-Il;Yang, Jin-A;Baek, Ui-Hwan;Baek, Se-Hwan
    • 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.713-714
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    • 2000
  • Six monoclonal antibodies to human cardiac troponin I (hcTnI) were produced to eventually develop an immunosensor for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). For the characterization of these antibodies, a set of 11 different peptides covering selected ranges of the complete amino acid sequence of hcTnI was prepared and used for epitope mapping. Such analysis allowed to select an appropriate pair of antibodies that can form a sandwich type of immune complexes and was consequently used for an immunoassay.

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DIMENSIONALLY INVARIANT SPACES

  • Baek, In Soo
    • Journal of the Chungcheong Mathematical Society
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.245-250
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    • 2009
  • We consider a code function from the unit interval which has a generalized dyadic expansion into a coding space which has an associated ultra metric. The code function is not a bi-Lipschitz map but a dimension-preserving map in the sense that the Hausdorff and packing dimensions of any subset in the unit interval and its image under the code function coincide respectively.

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HEEGAARD SPLITTINGS OF BRANCHED CYCLIC COVERINGS OF CONNECTED SUMS OF LENS SPACES

  • Kozlovskaya, Tatyana
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.54 no.5
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    • pp.1851-1857
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    • 2017
  • We study relations between two descriptions of closed orientable 3-manifolds: as branched coverings and as Heegaard splittings. An explicit relation is presented for a class of 3-manifolds which are branched cyclic coverings of connected sums of lens spaces, where the branching set is an axis of a hyperelliptic involution of a Heegaard surface.