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INVESTIGATION OF DRAG REDUCTION MECHANISM BY MICROBUBBLE INJECTION WITHIN A CHANNEL BOUNDARY LAYER USING PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY

  • Hassan Yassin A.;Gutierrez-Torres C.C.
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.38 no.8
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    • pp.763-778
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    • 2006
  • Injection of microbubbles within the turbulent boundary layer has been investigated for several years as a method to achieve drag reduction. However, the physical mechanism of this phenomenon is not yet fully understood. Experiments in a channel flow for single phase (water) and two phase (water and microbubbles) flows with various void fraction values are studied for a Reynolds number of 5128 based on the half height of the channel and bulk velocity. The state-of-the art Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV) measurement technique is used to measure the instantaneous full-field velocity components. Comparisons between turbulent statistical quantities with various values of local void fraction are presented to elucidate the influence of the microbubbles presence within the boundary layer. A decrease in the Reynolds stress distribution and turbulence production is obtained with the increase of microbubble concentration. The results obtained indicate a decorrelation of the streamwise and normal fluctuating velocities when microbubbles are injected within the boundary layer.

Earth Pressure of a Reinforced Retaining Wall During Construction (보강토의 시공중 토압변화)

  • 노한성;최영철
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.13-19
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    • 2001
  • The use of reinforced soil have been increased due to it's cost effectiveness, flexibility and so on. In this study, a full-scale reinforced soil with rigid facing were constructed to investigate the soil pressure variation of reinforcing system. The results of soil pressure during backfill construction are described. The influence of facing stiffness on soil pressure is addressed. The results show that lateral earth pressures on the wall are active state during backfill. It is obtained that the lateral soil pressure highly depends on the installation condition of pressure cell and construction condition. Long-term measurement will be followed to verify the design assumptions with respect to the distribution of lateral stress on the facing.

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Response of Millet and Sorghum to Water Stress in Converted Poorly Drained Paddy Soil

  • Jung, Ki-Yuol;Yun, Eul-Soo;Park, Chang-Young;Hwang, Jae-Bok;Choi, Young-Dae;Oh, In-Seok
    • Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.409-416
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    • 2013
  • Millet and sorghum are major dryland cereal crops, however their growth and productivity is limited by soil water stress with varying intensity. The major objective of this study was to evaluate water stress of millet and sorghum yield under drainage classes of poorly drained soil and to test the effect of the installed pipe drainage in poorly drained paddy soil to minimize crop stress. The research was carried out in poorly drained paddy fields located at alluvial slopping area resulting in non-uniform water content distribution by the inflow of ground water from the upper part of the field. Stress Day Index (SDI) was determined from a stress day factor (SD) and a crop susceptibility factor (CS). SD is a degree of measurement by calculating the daily sum of excess water in the profile above 30cm soil depth ($SEW_{30}$). CS depends on a given excess water on crop stage. The results showed that sum of excess water day ($SWD_{30}$) used to represent the moisture stress index was lower on somewhat poorly drained soil compared with poorly drained soil on 117 days. CS values for sorghum were 57% on $3^{rd}$ leaf stage, 44% on $5^{th}$ leaf stage, 37% on panicle initiation, 23% on boot stage, and 16% on soft dough stage. For proso millet CS values were 84% on $3^{rd}$ leaf stage, 70% on $5^{th}$ leaf Stage, 65% on panicle initiation, 53% on boot stage, and 28% on soft dough stage. And for foxtail millet the values were 73% on $3^{rd}$ leaf stage, 61% on $5^{th}$ leaf stage, 50% on panicle initiation, 29% on boot stage, and 15% on soft dough stage. SDI of sorghum and millet was more susceptible to excess soil water during panicle initation stage more poorly drained soil than somewhat poorly drained soil. Grain yield was reduced especially in proso millet and Foxtail millet compared to Sorghum.

A three-dimensional finite element analysis for initial stress of maxillary incisiors during activation of upper utility arch wire (Utility Arch Wire 적용시 상악 중절치 및 측절치의 초기 응력 분포에 관한 3차원 유한요소법적 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-hyun;Cha, Kyung-Suk;Lee, Jin-Woo
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.29 no.4 s.75
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    • pp.411-424
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study was to find the difference of stress distribution of initial compressive and tensile stress when anterior section of upper utility arch was activated crown lingual torque of $5^{\circ},\;10^{\circ},\;15^{\circ}$ through three-dimensional finite element analysis. For this study the finite element model of upper central and lateral incisors, 1st. and 2nd. premolars and 1st. molars and each periodontal membrane and upper utility arch were made. From the solutions of ANSYS the followings were obtained. 1. $5^{\circ},\;10^{\circ},\;15^{\circ}$ crown lingual torque produce the almost similar distribution and measurement of initial compressive and tensile stress. 2. Acivated upper utility arch torqued central inciors lingually and lateral incisors labially.

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Correlation Analysis of Factors Influencing the Safety Behavior of Distribution Center Workers (물류센터 근로자의 안전행동에 미치는 영향요인의 상관관계 분석)

  • Park, Heejin;Jeong, Myeongjin;Jeong, Ryunnam;Heo, Joohye
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.155-161
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this study is to understand the causal relationship between the safety behavior of delivery man and safety awareness, work environment, and occupational stress, to derive factors for enhancing safety behavior, and to manage them with priority. It seeks to provide basic data on the factors. In this study, with the help of a community site for delivery man, we conducted a questionnaire survey of a total of 119 delivery man working at distribution centers. Questionnaires were created using safety behavior, safety awareness, work environment, and occupational stress measurement tools created using survey questions from other studies. As a result of the analysis, there was a significant difference between safety education and the experience of accidents associated with working period. In addition, there was a significant correlation between safety behavior due to conflicts related to occupational stress, safety awareness and safety behavior, and safety behavior due to the safety system in the work environment. As a result, we investigated whether it was an accident and the factors that influence safety behavior, and concluded that appropriate improvements were needed.

An Experimental Assessment of the Effects of Residual Stresses on Fracture Behavior of the Plate (압축잔류응력이 판의 파괴 특성에 미치는 영향에 관한 실험적 평가)

  • Jang, Chang-Doo;Park, Yong-Kwan;Song, Ha-Cheol;Kim, Byung-Il
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.435-440
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    • 2002
  • The quantitative assessment of the effect of the residual stress on fracture behavior was executed by some experiment and numerical analysis. First of all, artificial residual stresses were imposed on CT(Compact Tension) specimens by local heating using gas torch, and an appropriate distribution of residual stresses was obtained by thermal elastic-plastic FE analysis. To certify the result of the FE analysis, an experimental measurement was performed in accordance with ASTM standard. Fracture toughness test was executed on the several types of specimens. The first type was the specimen without residual stresses, and the others had different peak value of compressive residual stress at crack front via controlling the heat flux. All the test results were presented on th J resistance(JR) curves and discussed to verify the effect of compressive residual stresses on fracture behavior.

DETECTION OF ODSCC IN SG TUBES DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE CRACK AND ON THE PRESENCE OF SLUDGE DEPOSITS

  • Chung, Hansub;Kim, Hong-Deok;Kang, Yong-Seok;Lee, Jae-Gon;Nam, Minwoo
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.869-874
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    • 2014
  • It was discovered in a Korean PWR that an extensive number of very short and shallow cracks in the SG tubes were undetectable by eddy current in-service-inspection because of the masking effect of sludge deposits. Axial stress corrosion cracks at the outside diameter of the steam generator tubes near the line contacts with the tube support plates are the major concern among the six identical Korean nuclear power plants having CE-type steam generators with Alloy 600 high temperature mill annealed tubes, HU3&4 and HB3~6. The tubes in HB3&4 have a less susceptible microstructure so that the onset of ODSCC was substantially delayed compared to HU3&4 whose tubes are most susceptible to ODSCC among the six units. The numbers of cracks detected by the eddy current inspection jumped drastically after the steam generators of HB4 were chemically cleaned. The purpose of the chemical cleaning was to mitigate stress corrosion cracking by removing the heavy sludge deposit, since a corrosive environment is formed in the occluded region under the sludge deposit. SGCC also enhances the detection capability of the eddy current inspection at the same time. Measurement of the size of each crack using the motorized rotating pancake coil probe indicated that the cracks in HB4 were shorter and substantially shallower than the cracks in HU3&4. It is believed that the cracks were shorter and shallower because the microstructure of the tubes in HB4 is less susceptible to ODSCC. It was readily understood from the size distribution of the cracks and the quantitative information available on the probability of detection that most cracks in HB4 had been undetected until the steam generators were chemically cleaned.

The Development and its Application of Diagnostic Technique for Corrosion Defect of U-type Open Rack Vaporizer (개방형 U-type 기화기의 부식손상부 진단기법 개발 및 적용)

  • Jang S. Y.;Lee S. M.;Oh B. T.;Kho Y. T.
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.5 no.3 s.15
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    • pp.45-50
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    • 2001
  • Open rack vaporizer (ORV) has been used in liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in order to vaporize LNG into natural gas (NG) by heat exchange with seawater The U-type ORV which had been operated with seawater for 14 years is one of the important utilities of the gas production and the weld part of tube connected with header_ pipe had experienced many corrosion problems. To elucidate the cause of corrosion at weld part of vaporizer tube, corrosion potentials were compared by parts. This study concerns on the measurement of corrosion pit depth using non-destructive method and the evaluation of stress distribution in an aspect of safety with finite element analysis. In order to confirm the reliability of galvanic corrosion between weld parts and base metal, the measurement of corrosion potential by parts was conducted for 20 minutes in 3.5$\%$(wt.) NaCl solution. Many non-destructive methods were tried to measure the remaining thickness of vaporizer tube at fields. For general corrosion, tangential radiography test was confirmed as an effective method. In case of a fine corrosion pit, the shape of corrosion pit was reproduced using surface replication method. From collected data, stress distributions were quantitatively evaluated with 2-dimensional finite element method and the diagnostic evaluation on internal pressure of the U-type vaporizer could be made.

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Optical and Electrical Characteristics of GaN-based Blue LEDs after Low-current Stress (GaN계 청색 발광 다이오드에서 저전류 스트레스 후의 광 및 전기적 특성 변화)

  • Kim, Seohee;Yun, Joosun;Shin, Dong-Soo;Shim, Jong-In
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.64-70
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    • 2012
  • We analyzed the changes in electrical and optical characteristics of 1 $mm^2$ multiple-quantum-well (MQW) blue LEDs grown on a c-plane sapphire substrate after a stress test. Experiments were performed by injecting 50 mA current for 200 hours to TO-CAN packaged sample chips. We selected the value of injection current for stress through the junction-temperature measurement by using the forward-voltage characteristics of a diode to maintain a sufficiently low junction temperature during the test. The junction temperature at the selected injection current of 50 mA was 308 K. Experiments were performed under the assumption that the average junction temperature of 308 K did not affect the characteristics of the ohmic contact and the GaN-based materials. Before and after the stress test, we measured and analyzed current-voltage, light-current, light distribution on the LED surface, wavelength spectrum and relative external quantum efficiency (EQE). After the stress test, it was observed experimentally that the optical power and the relative EQE decreased. We theoretically investigated and experimentally proved that these phenomena are due to the increased nonradiative recombination rate caused by the increased defect density.

Non-contact Stress Measurement in Steel Member of PSC Box Bridge Using Raman Spectroscopy (라만 형광 분광법을 이용한 PSC 박스교 인장케이블 응력측정방법 연구)

  • Kim, Jongwoo;Kim, Namgyu
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.130-134
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, a laser-based non-contact load cell is newly developed for measuring forces in prestressed concrete tendons. First, alumina particles have been sprayed onto an empty load cell which has no strain gauges on it, and the layer has been used as a passive stress sensor. Then, the spectral shifts in fluorescence spectroscopy have been measured using a laser-based spectroscopic system under various force levels, and it has been found that the relation of applied force and spectral shift is linear in a lab-scale test. To validate the field applicability of the customized load cell, a full-scale prestressed concrete specimen has been constructed in a yard. During the field test, it was, however, found that the coating surface has irregular stress distribution. Therefore, the location of a probe has to be fixed onto the customized load cell for using the coating layer as a passive stress sensor. So, a prototype customized load cell has been manufactured, which consists of a probe mount on its casing. Then, by performing lab-scale uniaxial compression tests with the prototype load cell, a linear relation between compression stress and spectrum shift at a specific point where laser light had been illuminated has been detected. Thus, it has a high possibility to use the prototype load cell as a force sensor of prestressed concrete tendons.