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Cast cake rheology of ash-clay

  • Lee, K.G.;Kim, Y.T.;Kim, J.H.
    • Proceedings of the Korea Association of Crystal Growth Conference
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    • 1997.06a
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    • pp.41-44
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    • 1997
  • Dispersion and flocculation behaviors of clay-ash powders in a slurry state were examined, and we have systematically investigated the effects of colloid/interfaces variables on slip properties and the rheological behavior of ash-clay slurry. Ash-clay slurries have been characterized on the basis of the time dependent rheology which was done out by the gel-curve test. Gel-curve for the coagulated slip shows interesting rheological behavior which was caused by the formation of the new network structure and the readsoption of the polysilicon hydroxo species on the particle surfaces.

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Reliability-based design of prestressed concrete girders in integral Abutment Bridges for thermal effects

  • Kim, WooSeok;Laman, Jeffrey A.;Park, Jong Yil
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.305-322
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    • 2014
  • Reliability-based design limit states and associated partial load factors provide a consistent level of design safety across bridge types and members. However, limit states in the current AASHTO LRFD have not been developed explicitly for the situation encountered by integral abutment bridges (IABs) that have unique boundary conditions and loads with inherent uncertainties. Therefore, new reliability-based limit states for IABs considering the variability of the abutment support conditions and thermal loading must be developed to achieve IAB designs that achieve the same safety level as other bridge designs. Prestressed concrete girder bridges are considered in this study and are subjected to concrete time-dependent effects (creep and shrinkage), backfill pressure, temperature fluctuation and temperature gradient. Based on the previously established database for bridge loads and resistances, reliability analyses are performed. The IAB limit states proposed herein are intended to supplement current AASHTO LRFD limit states as specified in AASHTO LRFD Table 3.4.1-1.

Transient Response of The Optimal Taper-Flat Head Slider in Magnetic Storage Devices

  • Arayavongkul, R.;Mongkolwongrojn, M.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.990-994
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    • 2004
  • This paper presents a method to predict the transient characteristic of the air lubricated slider head in a hard disk drive by using optimization technique. The time dependent modified Reynolds equation based on the molecular slip flow approximation equations was used to describe the fluid flow within the air bearing and the implicit finite difference scheme is applied to calculate the pressure distribution under the slider head. The exhaustive search combined with the Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno method were employed to obtain optimum design variables which are taper angle, rail width and taper length in order to keep the forces and moments acting on the slider head in dynamic equilibrium. The results show that the optimal head slider of the magnetic head has good stability characteristic that can reach the steady state within 0.5 microsecond.

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Thermal buckling of smart porous functionally graded nanobeam rested on Kerr foundation

  • Karami, Behrouz;Shahsavari, Davood;Nazemosadat, Seyed Mohammad Reza;Li, Li;Ebrahimi, Arash
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.349-362
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    • 2018
  • Thermal buckling behavior of porous functionally graded nanobeam integrated with piezoelectric sensor and actuator based on the nonlocal higher-order shear deformation beam theory is investigated for the first time. Its material properties are assumed to be temperature-dependent and varying along the thickness direction according to the modified power-law rule. Note that the porosity with even type is considered herein. The equations of motion are obtained through Hamilton's principle. The influences of several parameters (such as type of temperature distribution, external electric voltage, material composition, porosity, small-scale effect, Ker foundation parameters, and beam thickness) on the thermal buckling of FG nanobeam are investigated in detail.

Thermal conductivity measurements of non-Newtonian fluids in a shear field (전단력 영역에서의 비뉴톤 유체의 열전도율 측정)

  • Lee, Dong-Ryeol;Irvine, Thomas F.
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.584-595
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    • 1998
  • An investigation was carried out to determine experimentally the thermal conductivities of non-Newtonian fluids in a shear field. Both time independent purely viscous and viscoelastic fluids were considered. A coaxial cylinder apparatus with a rotating outer cylinder was used to establish the velocity field in the test fluid. First, the thermal conductivity of distilled water measured to validate the instrument. The experimental water data agreed within 1% of literature values and there was no effect of outer cylinder rotation (shear field). However, for non-Newtonian fluids such as aqueous CMC and Separan solutions, there were significant increases in thermal conductivities of up to 70% for CMC and 50% for Separan depending on the shear rate, polymer concentration and temperature. Considering the shear rate dependent thermal conductivity in the study of heat transfer in non-Newtonian fluids could be important. As in natural convection, the momentum and energy equations could no longer be solved separately but would have to be solved simultaneously.

A Study on the Boundary Layer Thickness at a Liquid-Vapor Interface (기액계면의 경계층 두께에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Soon-Ho;Song, Chi-Sung;Choi, Hyun-Kyu;Lee, Jung-Hye;Kim, Kyung-Kun
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.1086-1091
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    • 2004
  • The boundary layer is a very important characteristic of a liquid-vapor interface since it governs the heat and mass transfer phenomena across an interface. However, the thickness of a boundary layer is generally micro- or nano-sized, which requires highly accurate measurement devices and, consequently, costs the related experiments very high and time-consuming. Due to these size dependent limitations, the experiments related with a nano-scaled size have suffered from the errors and the reliability of the obtained data. This study is performed to grasp the characteristics of a liquid-vapor interface, by using a molecular dynamics method. The simulation results were compared with other studies if possible. Although other studies reported that there existed a temperature discontinuity over an interface when the system was reduced to micro- or nano-sized, we confirmed that there was no such a temperature discontinuity.

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Development of a Computer Code for Analyzing Time-dependent Nuclides Concentrations in the Multi-stage Continuous HLW Processing System -Equilibrium Steady State Model (다단계 연속후처리를 포함하는 핵주기공정의 핵종농도 동적분포해석 코드개발-정상평형상태 해석모델)

  • 장남복;윤정선;신영균;오세기
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.173-181
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    • 2000
  • IAEA자료에 의하면 원자력 발전용 원자로는 1998년말 현재 세계 32개국에서 434기가 운전중이며, 총 출력은 3억 4889만kW인 것으로 나타났고, 이는 세계 총 발전량의 17%를 담당하는 것으로 확인되었다. 그러나 농축 우라늄 고체 핵연료를 사용하는 발전로 개념은 근본적으로 핵물질 SEU(Slightly Enriched Uranium)를 생산하기 위한 235U 농축과 노내에서 238U의 중성자 포획으로 전환.생성되는 Pu의 누적에 따른 핵확산 우려, 고준위 방사성 폐기물로 취급되는 사용후 핵연료 처리.처분에 관한 정책적.기술적 장기 전망의 불확실성, 그리고 설계기준사고인 LOCA로부터 중대사고로 이어지는 안전성 문제 등이 대두되고 있다. Th$^{233}$ /U용융염 핵연료주기를 이용하는 발전로 개념은 원자력 발전이 안고있는 고유문제들을 배제 또는 완화할 수 있는 방안으로 고려되고 있다.(중략)

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Design of a Korean Speech Recognition Platform (한국어 음성인식 플랫폼의 설계)

  • Kwon Oh-Wook;Kim Hoi-Rin;Yoo Changdong;Kim Bong-Wan;Lee Yong-Ju
    • MALSORI
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    • no.51
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    • pp.151-165
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    • 2004
  • For educational and research purposes, a Korean speech recognition platform is designed. It is based on an object-oriented architecture and can be easily modified so that researchers can readily evaluate the performance of a recognition algorithm of interest. This platform will save development time for many who are interested in speech recognition. The platform includes the following modules: Noise reduction, end-point detection, met-frequency cepstral coefficient (MFCC) and perceptually linear prediction (PLP)-based feature extraction, hidden Markov model (HMM)-based acoustic modeling, n-gram language modeling, n-best search, and Korean language processing. The decoder of the platform can handle both lexical search trees for large vocabulary speech recognition and finite-state networks for small-to-medium vocabulary speech recognition. It performs word-dependent n-best search algorithm with a bigram language model in the first forward search stage and then extracts a word lattice and restores each lattice path with a trigram language model in the second stage.

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Capillary Hysteresis Model in Unsaturated Flow : State of the Art

  • Park, Chan-Kun;Sonu, Jun-Ho
    • Korean Journal of Hydrosciences
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    • v.4
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    • pp.33-49
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    • 1993
  • The Purpose of this study is to classify existing hysteresis models and to discuss a possibility of a new type of the hysteresis model. The existing hysteresis models are classified into three types: the interpolation model, the scaling model and the domain model, of which only domain model is to simulate hysteresis curves based on the theoretical approach, It is useful to develop a hysteresis model that requires only one branch of hysteresis curves for the model calibration because obtaining hysteresis curves by experiments is expensive and time-concept by many investigators, however their models are not successful to accurately simulate real data of Rubicon Sandy Loam and Dune Sand. There is a possibility that a new model is based on the dependent domain concept considering the weighting factor, $P_a$($\theta$), which accounts for the pore blockage effect against air entry. Conclusively, a new model where the weighting factor $P_a$($\theta$) in Model III-1 (Mualem, 1984) reduces to a known variable through an appropriate method is an alternative model which required only one branch of main curves for the model calibration.

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Performance Analysis of a Semi-Active Variable Damper Featuring Electro-Rheological Fluids (ER 유체를 이용한 반능동식 가변댐퍼의 성능해석)

  • 최승복;정재천;최용빈;허승진;서문석
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.90-100
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    • 1993
  • This paper presents some inherent characteristics of a semi-active variable damper featuring electro-rheological (ER) fluid. The damping force of the damper can be selectively adjusted or controlled by employing electric field to the ER fluid domain. This is possible owing to the pressure drop across the piston occured by field-dependent variable yield stress of the ER fluid. This is fundamentally different than the performance of a conventional adjustable viscous damper. To demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority over the conventional one, the proposed damper is incorporated with a suspension system. A quarter car model with the suspension system is formulated and represented by a state equation. By choosing numerical values based on realistic package size, power requirements and suitable ER properties, the performance characteristics of the suspension system are obtained and evaluated in both frequency and time domains. The effects of constant electric field and on-off controlled electric field which relates to the damping force are also examined.

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