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Anaerobic Corrosion Properties of Sangpyeongtongbo Excavated at Bigyeongdo, Seosan (서산 비경도 출수 상평통보의 혐기성 부식 특성)

  • Kim, Kyu Been;Chung, Kwang Yong
    • Journal of Conservation Science
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.167-179
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    • 2017
  • In this study, Sangpyeontongbo excavated at Bigyeongdo, Seosan, were investigated to determine the components of the corrosion products that were formed while they were buried underwater in an anaerobic environment. The causes of corrosion product formation were also determined. Microstructure observation, element mapping, principle component analysis for each year, and the detection of corrosion products were carried out. Results indicate that the concretions of corrosion products on the surface are needle-, hexahedral-, and octahedral-shaped; Pb, Cu, and S were among the elements detected. The Cu-S layer was clearly verified using element mapping. An analysis of major elements for each layer showed that Cu, S, and Pb were present and that most Zn was eliminated. The corrosion products detected were $PbCO_3$ (concretion) and $Cu_{1.96}S$ (metal). Accordingly, the anaerobic corrosion properties of Sangpyeongtongbo are summarized as follows: dezincification, copper sulfide, and lead compound.

A Study on the Environmentally Friendly Block (환경친화적 블록에 관한 연구)

  • Han, Woon-Woo;Lee, Kee-Se;Ahn, Tae-Bong
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.63-72
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    • 2005
  • The characteristics of environmentally friendly block, roughness, erosion, stability and dissolved oxygen(DO) were investigated by hydraulic experiment. It was found that the roughness of A-block was lower than I block and A block was more stable to the variation of flow. So it is expected that A-block will be more effective to the channel flow. It was also found that the erosion of channel bed was very small or rarely occurred and stable in the case of 3-dimensional A-block filled with sand. And 3-dimensional A-blocks assembled with A-blocks were more stable against the flow force than I block because of the united force of A-blocks. When the bed of channel was paved with 3-dimensional A-blocks, DO was increased higher than I block. So it is expected that A-block will be more advantageous to underwater environment than I block.

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The effects of water-based exercise on postural control in children with spastic cerebral palsy

  • Kim, Kyung Ho;Shin, Hwa Kyung
    • Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.77-82
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    • 2017
  • Objective: Swimming and water-based exercise (WE) programs can provide vigorous physical activity in a fun and a motivating environment. The properties of water, may make it easier for children with cerebral palsy (CP) to move and to participate in an WE program. The aims of this study was to evaluate the effect of WEs on postural control in children with spastic CP. Design: Quasi-experimental design (one group pretest-posttest design). Methods: Twenty preschoolers with spastic CP participated in this study. Prior to the application, sufficient warm-up training was performed to allow the subjects to adapt to the water. Afterwards, three different types of underwater leg exercises for the flexor, extensor, and adductor/abductor of muscles of the lower limb were performed. The WE program lasted during 8 weeks, with one-40 minute sessions per week (8 training session). The usual care was performed during the training session. The Korean-trunk control measurement scale (K-TCMS) and weight distribution variability (difference of both Fz) were measured before and after training session. Results: According to the results, the K-TCMS scores of the three sub-levels, including static sitting, dynamic sitting, and dynamic reaching, was significantly increased after the training session (p<0.05). Also, the weight distribution variability was significantly decreased after 8 weeks (p<0.05). Conclusions: We suggest that WEs may improve the postural control ability in children with spastic CP. Furthermore, we support the need for additional research on the effect of WE on gait or activity of daily living performance with a control group included.

Feature Vector Extraction Method for Transient Sonar Signals Using PR-QMF Wavelet Transform (PR-QMF Wavelet Transform을 이용한 천이 수중 신호의 특징벡타 추출 기법)

  • Jung, Yong-Min;Choi, Jong-Ho;Cho, Yong-Soo;Oh, Won-Tcheon
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.87-92
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    • 1996
  • Transient signals in underwater show several characterisrics, that is, short duration, strong nonstationarity, various types of transient sources, which make it difficult to analyze and classify transient signals. In this paper, the feature vector extraction method for transient SOMAR signals is discussed by applying digital signal processing methods to the analysis of transient signals. A feature vector extraction methods using wavelet transform, which enable us to obtain better recognition rate than automatic classification using the classical method, are proposed. It is confirmed by simulation that the proposed method using wavelet transform performs better than the classical method even with smaller number of feature vectors. Especially, the feature vector extraction method using PR-QMF wavelet transform with the Daubechies coefficients is shown to perform well in noisy environment with easy implementation.

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A Study on the classification of Underwater Acoustic Signal Using an Artificial Neural Network (신경회로망을 이용한 수중음향 신호의 식별에 관한 연구)

  • Na, Young-Nam;Shim, Tae-Bo;Han, Jeong-Woo;Kim, Chun-Duck
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.14 no.2E
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    • pp.57-64
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    • 1995
  • In this study, we examine the applicability of the classifier based on an artifical neural network (ANN) for the low-frequency acoustic signal in shallow water environment. The estimations of the Doppler shift and frequency spreading effect at 220 Hz reveal the frequency variation of less than 2 Hz with time This small variation enables the ANN-based classifier to identify signals using only tonal frequency information. The ANN consists of 4 layers, and has 60 input processing elements (PEs) and 4 output PEs, respectively. When measured tonal signals in the frequency 200-250 Hz are applied to the ANN-based classifier, the classifier can identify more than 67% of the signals for instantaneous frame and more than 91% for averaged one over 5 frames.

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ICCP Control and Monitoring System for Ships

  • Oh, Jin-Seok;Moon, Serng-Bae
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.291-294
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    • 2006
  • Corrosion is never avoided in the use rf materials with various environments. The underwater hull is normally protected against rusting by several coatings of anti-corrosive paint. The purpose of ICCP(Impressed Current Cathodic Protection) system is to eliminate the rusting or corrosion, which occurs on metal immersed in seawater. This thesis is about the ICCP control and monitoring system, which brings protection against the corrosion of the ship's hull in the sea environments. The test system for ICCP is composed of a power supply, anode, reference electrode and controller. The test system is composed power supply, anode, ref electrode, shunt and etc. The protection current is sent to the protection area though anode. Reference electrode senses whether or not the detected potential is within a range of protection of test equipment and then it is automatically controlled to increase or decrease the amount of protective current to be sent to the anode by controller. The monitoring system with LabView is also detected in order to check the normal state of the system at operation period, because an operator does not always watch over this system and thus the system cannot operate well because rf his or her negligent management. This paper was studied the variation of potential and current density with environment factors, velocity and time, and the experimental results will be explained Also, It is suggested that this system can accommodate a ship's automation for SCMS(Ship Control and Management System) and will be very useful.

Analysis of Jet Fuel for the Judgment of Soil Polluter (토양오염 원인자 판단을 위한 항공유 분석)

  • Lim, Young-Kwan;Jeong, Choong-Sub;Han, Kwan-Wook;Jang, Young-Ju
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.27-33
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    • 2014
  • The significance of soil environment is gradually increased due to the soil and underwater contamination caused by petroleum leak accidents. It requires a high cost and long period for the purification of soil compared with other environmental matrix such as water and air. For this reason, it has been embroiled in a legal conflict to find the pollution source and charge of cleanup. In this study, we analyzed the physical properties and typical additives of jet fuel to search a method that can distinguish kerosene and jet fuel contamination. In particular, the chemical marker in kerosene was visualized by the developer and the additives in jet fuel, such as antioxidant and metal deactivator were detected by GC-MS. This study could be used to judge petroleum source at soil contaminant accident sites.

Effectiveness Analysis for Survival Probability of a Surface Warship Considering Static and Mobile Decoys (부유식 및 자항식 기만기의 혼합 운용을 고려한 수상함의 생존율에 대한 효과도 분석)

  • Shin, MyoungIn;Cho, Hyunjin;Lee, Jinho;Lim, Jun-Seok;Lee, Seokjin;Kim, Wan-Jin;Kim, Woo Shik;Hong, Wooyoung
    • Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.53-63
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    • 2016
  • We consider simulation study combining static and mobile decoys for survivability of a surface warship against torpedo attack. It is assumed that an enemy torpedo is a passive acoustic homing torpedo and detects a target within its maximum target detection range and search beam angle by computing signal excess via passive sonar equation, and a warship conducts an evasive maneuvering with deploying static and mobile decoys simultaneously to counteract a torpedo attack. Suggesting the four different decoy deployment plans to achieve the best plan, we analyze an effectiveness for a warship's survival probability through Monte Carlo simulation, given a certain experimental environment. Furthermore, changing the speed and the source level of decoys, the maximum torpedo detection range of warship, and the maximum target detection range of torpedo, we observe the corresponding survival probabilities, which can provide the operational capabilities of an underwater defense system.

Characteristics of phenol degradation by using underwater dielectric barrier discharge plasma (수중 유전체 장벽 방전 플라즈마를 이용한 페놀의 분해 특성)

  • Shin, Gwanwoo;Choi, Seungkyu;Kim, Jinsu;Zhu, Qian;Weon, kyoungja;Lee, Sangill
    • Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.243-250
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    • 2019
  • This objective of this study was to investigate the degradation characteristics of phenol, a refractory substance, by using a submerged dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma reactor. To indirectly determine the concentration of active species produced in the DBD plasma, the dissolved ozone was measured. To investigate the phenol degradation characteristics, the phenol and chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentrations were evaluated based on pH and the discharge power. The dissolved ozone was measured based on the air flow rate and power discharged. The highest dissolved ozone concentration was recorded when the injected air flow rate was 5 L/min. At a discharge power of 40W as compared to 70W, the dissolved ozone was approximately 2.7 - 6.5 times higher. In regards to phenol degradation, the final degradation rate was highest at about 74.06%, when the initial pH was 10. At a discharged power of 40W, the rate of phenol decomposition was observed to be approximately 1.25 times higher compared to when the discharged power was 70W. It was established that the phenol degradation reaction was a primary reaction, and when the discharge power was 40W as opposed to 70W, the reaction rate constant(k) was approximately 1.72 times higher.

Design and Implementation of Remote Monitoring System for Underground Low Voltage Handhole Using Zigbee Communication (지그비 통신을 이용한 지중저압접속함 원격 모니터링 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Weon, La-Kyoung
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.58-67
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    • 2019
  • The low-voltage connection box used as a low-voltage transmission line of KEPCO is intended to branch or connect to an underground line. In comparison with the utility considering the aesthetics of the distance, and safety measures are needed. In this paper, temperature and humidity, $CO_2$, water level, acceleration, and vibration sensor are installed inside the underground low voltage handhole, and the sensor data is transmitted to the ground using the Zigbee module. Antenna (Bolted Antenna) for communication with the ground was proposed and the data reception through it was confirmed. In the LF mode and the HEX mode, the transmitted data was confirmed to be a perfect reception success rate. In the case of the bolted antenna, the difference between the ground state and the underwater state was observed as a result of the experiment in the environmental environment. However, It was judged that reception sensitivity was sufficient for communication. The received data could be confirmed through PC based GUI.