기후변화에 따라 수자원의 취약성이 증가하고 있고, 그로 인해 지하수 자원의 필요성이 강조되고 있다. 특히, 낙동강권역이 자리 잡은 한반도 남부는 매년 봄 가뭄과 같은 물 부족 현상이 빈번하게 발생하고 있다. 물 부족의 대안 으로 지하수 자원 이용이 대두되고 있으나, 지하수 자원의 활용에는 수질 안정성이 반드시 요구된다. 이 연구는 2023년 8월과 10월, 2회에 걸쳐 낙동강 하류 광려천 유역을 대상으로 지하수 관정 총 54개소와 하천수 총 5개의 지점에서 시 료를 채취하여 현장 수질 및 실내 수질 분석을 수행하였다. 현장에서 측정한 전기전도도의 값은 지하수와 하천수 모두 연구 지역 수계 하류로 갈수록 농도가 증가하는 경향을 보여 준다. 이는 하류의 농업 활동이 하천수에 직접적으로 유 입됨을 지시한다. 실내 수질 분석 결과 연구 지역의 수질 유형은 주로 [Ca-HCO3] 유형이 가장 많고, [Ca-SO4] 유형이 그 뒤를 이었다. 8월과 10월 시간에 따른 수질 유형의 변화를 확인하면, Ca 함량이 우세한 지역이 Na 함량이 우세한 지역으로 변화하고, 이러한 지하수 관정은 주로 하류에 위치하고 있음을 확인하였다. 결국 연구 지역 하류의 하천수·지 하수의 농도 변화는 공장단지, 폐수 처리시설, 농경지의 분포 현황 및 낙동강 하류의 유입과 밀접한 관계가 있고, 이를 통해 인위적인 오염이 발생하였음을 유추할 수 있다.

Whereas calcium deposition in soft tissues is not uncommon, highly-structured, identified as mature cancellous bone within soft tissues is not frequent. Here, we report an usual case of mature cancellous bone in cheek subcutaneous tissue in 15-year-old Korean male. Microscopically the cancellous bone was encompassed by epithelial cells, which was confirmed by immunohistochemical staining with cytokeratin AE1/3. The present mature cancellous bone in subcutaneous tissue could be originated from oral epithelium.

Epithelioid hemangioma is an unusual, which was at first described as angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) in 1969 and misinterpreted as the same disease with Kimura’s disease. But now it represents a distinctive vascular tumor, a different entity with those inflammatory conditions. Here, we present a case of epithelioid hemangioma appearing as a diffuse gingival nodular mass in 33‐year‐old male who had suffered from the idiopathic sharp pain of left mandible area previously and later extended to left maxillary region, therefore the gingival lesion was clinically estimated as malignancy associated with neural invasion. CT images revealed the soft tissue mass restricted to left maxillary gingiva without infiltration to underlying maxillary alveolar bone. Histologically, the circumscribed soft tissue mass consist of solid sheets of epithelioid to spindled cells, expressing reactivity for neither cytokeratin AE1/3 nor HMB‐45, but for CD31, endothelial cell marker. Therefore, the lesion was pathologically diagnosed as epithelioid hemangioma. Diagnostic evaluation for the neurologic symptoms of the patient revealed the trigeminal neuralgia, accompanying with the present epithelioid hemangioma incidentally. Awareness of epithelioid hemangioma should be emphasized not to be misdiagnosed as malignant disease like an invasive squamous cell carcinoma, malignant melanoma, or angiosarcoma. Proper evaluation and interpretation for neural symptom may lead to the correct differential diagnosis and therapeutic intervention

In this study, Ti powder was fabricated from Ti scrap by the Hydrogenation-Dehydrogenation (HDH)method. Hydrogenation reactions of Ti scrap occurred at near 450oC with a sudden increase in the reactiontemperature and the decreasing pressure of hydrogen gas during the hydrogenation process in the furnace. Thedehydrogenation process was also carried out at 750oC for 2hrs in a vacuum of 10-4torr. After the HDHprocess, a deoxidation treatment was carried out with the Ca(purity: 99.5) at 700oC for 2hrs in the vacuumsystem. It was found that the oxidation content of Ti powder that was deoxidized with Ca showed noticeablylower values, compared to the content obtained by HDH process. In order to fabricate Ti compacts, Ti powderwas sintered at 1100~1400oC for 2hrs under a vacuum of 10-4torr. The relative density of compact was 94.9%at 1300oC. After sintering, all of the Ti compacts showed brittle fracture behavior, which occurred in an elasticrange with short plastic yielding up to a peak stress.

In this study, Ti powder was fabricated from Ti scrap by a hydrogenation-dehydrogenation (HDH)method. The Ti powders were compacted by Spark plasma sintering (SPS) and the microstructure andmechanical properties of the powders were investigated. A hydrogenation reaction of Ti scrap occurred attemperatures near 450oC with a sudden increase in the reaction temperature and a decrease in the pressureof the hydrogen gas as measured in a furnace during the hydrogenation process. In addition, a dehydrogenationprocess was carried out at 750oC for 2hrs in a vacuum of 10-4torr. The Ti powder sizes obtained byhydrogenation-dehydrogenation and mechanical milling processes were in the range of 1~90µm and 1~100µm,respectively. To fabricate Ti compacts, Ti powders were sintered under an applied uniaxial punch pressure of40 MPa at in a range of 900~1200oC for 5 min. The relative density of a SPSed compact was 99.6% at 1100oC,and the tensile strength decreased with an increase in the sintering temperature. However, the hardnessincreased as the sintering temperature increased.

Microstructure and mechanical properties of WC-3wt% Co cemented carbides, fabricated by a sparkplasma sintering (SPS) process, were investigated in this study. The WC-3wt%Co powders were sintered at900~1100oC for 5min under 40MPa in high vacuum. The density and hardness were increased as the sinteringtemperature increased. WC-3wt%Co compacts with a relative density of 97.1% were successfully fabricated at1100oC. The fracture toughness and hardness of a compact sintered at 1100oC were 21.6MPa·m1/2 and4279Hv, respectively.