The highway junctions are the areas where frequent congestion occurs due to a conflict between vehicles entering the main road from the connecting road and vehicles passing through the main road, which is the main target of microscopic and macroscopic traffic flow study. The importance of study on the behavior and the interaction between vehicles at the highway junctions has been emphasized as an essential element of the Cooperation Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS) and Autonomous Vehicle technology. In this study, merging location and time of vehicles in acceleration lane of highway merging area is recorded by aerial videos from drones, and vectormodelling method was developed with merging location (y-axis) and merging time (x-axis). In the vector model, the vector region of the traffic flow is represented by the realistic expressible vector region and the stable entry into the highway. The model is compared with the traffic conditions according to speed, traffic volume, and density in main line and connecting road. This study can be used as a basic data for understanding the behavior of vehicles at the highway junctions and It is expected to be used as an operational indicator for advanced transportation such as lamp metering, C-ITS, and Autonomous Vehicle technology to stable traffic flow on the highway.

Reinforced earth retaining walls are easier to construct and more economical than concrete retaining walls, and the applicability to the parts where the retaining wall structures are needed is gradually increasing. Since 1980, reinforced earth retaining walls have been used in various ground and environmental conditions, and various types of damage have been found in the maintenance stage due to various conditions of the applied site. Especially, when the ground is sloped, the damage is more serious than the case where it is not. Therefore, in this study, the long-term behavior of reinforced earth retaining wall constructed on the expressway according to the slope of the ground is analyzed.

Roller Compacted Concrete Pavement (RCCP) is placed by roller compaction of a mixture of less cement and unit water content and more aggregates and provides excellent early strength development with the help of interlocking of aggregates and hydration. The unit cement content of RCC pavements accounts for 85% of conventional pavements, with low drying shrinkage. As low drying shrinkage leads to smaller crack widths than ordinary concrete, RCC pavements can help elevate reflecting crack resistance if applied to a base layer of a composite pavement system. In a composite pavement with an asphalt surface laid over a concrete base, pavement temperature change is important in predicting pavement performance. As movement of the lower concrete layer is determined by temperature depending on pavement depth, temperature data of the pavement structure serves as an important parameter to prevent and control reflecting crack. Among the causes of reflecting crack, horizontal behavior of the lower concrete layer and curling-caused vertical behavior of joints/cracks are considered closely related to temperature change characteristics of the lower concrete course (Baek, 2010). Previous studies at home and abroad about reflecting crack have focused on pavement behavior depending on daily and yearly in-service temperature changes of a composite pavement (Manuel, 2005). Until now, however, studies have not been conducted on initial temperature characteristics of concrete in composite pavements where asphalt surface is placed over an RCC base. Annual temperature changes of in-service concrete pavements go up to 60 ℃, and those of asphalt overlays become around the twice at 110 ℃. This study evaluated initial crack behavior of composite pavement by investigating pavement temperature by depth of an RCC base and analyzing joint movement depending on change to temperatures of continuously jointed pavements. Findings from the study suggest that in composite pavements and asphalt overlays, time of laying asphalt has an important impact on crack behavior and reflecting crack.

Since the road management paradigm has changed into the user-oriented circumstance, the functionality of the crucial road maintenance factors became important than before. Among these factors, the roughness directly related to the ride quality for driver became to get more attention. IRI(International Roughness Index) is recently the most widely used roughness indices in the world. IRI is a reasonable index that reflects the vertical displacement(bounce) of vehicle as the road profile changes. Since IRI reflects the vertical behavior of vehicle, it reflects ride quality indirectly. However, there are various rotational behaviors such as roll, yaw, and pitch in addition to the vertical displacement. Profiles, which MRI range was 1.13-4.12m/km, were measured in five sections and the profiles were entered into CarSIM to simulate vehicle behavior. As a result, the pitch was the largest in all sections, followed by roll and yaw, relatively. Especially, the amount of yaw is about 5% of the pitch or about 7% of the roll. The behavior of moving vehicle was measured using INS(inertial navigation system) and accelerometer in the section where the road surface profile was measured. As a result, as in the simulation, the pitch was the largest in all the sections and the amount of yaw is only about 7% of the pitch or about 18% of the roll. Field experiments were conducted to analyze the effect of the rotational behavior of the actual driving vehicle on the ride quality. 33 panels evaluated the ride quality on a ten-point scale while driving on 35 sections with various roughnesses. 35 test sections were selected considering the roughness distribution of actual expressway. The panel was selected considering age, driving experience, gender, and expertise. Of the total 1,155 responses, 964 responses were used for the analysis, except 191 responses measured at low driving speeds. In addition, the amount of vehicle behavior and road surface profile were measured using INS and laser. As a result of correlation analysis between MPR(mean panel rating) and vehicle behavior, correlation coefficient of bounce was the highest with 0.814, and the order of pitch was 0.798, and roll was 0.734, relatively. As a result of regression analysis for predicting ride quality, regression model combining bounce and roll was statistically the most suitable. This model is expected to reflect the ride quality more effectively because it can consider the vehicle behavior due to the longitudinal profile change of the road surface as well as the vehicle behavior due to the difference between the left and right wheel path road profile.

In general, the road roughness is managed by the roughness factor(or level, index) which is numerically or quantitatively generated(or converted) from the surface profile. However, it should be mentioned that the various roughness indexes including IRI(i.e. International Roughness Index) consider only vertical displacement and one longitudinal profile. In this research, the new roughness index, which evaluates reasonably the ride quality, was developed through the extensive correlation analysis between various vehicle behavior and ride quality. The bounce and pitch of moving vehicle are caused by the change of longitudinal profile. On the other hand, the roll is caused by the difference of the left and right profiles. Since the pitch is caused by the bounce difference between the front and rear axles of a vehicle, the two values occur in a similar pattern. In this study, the bounce and roll of a vehicle were predicted with a half car model, which is connected with two quarter car models. A half-car model was used to calculate the roll rotation angle of the vehicle body according to the change of the road profile. The roll rotation angle was used to calculate the coordinates of the head position of the passenger in the passenger seat. Finally, the coordinates were used to calculate the horizontal and vertical displacement of the head position. The new roughness index is the cumulative RMS value of the horizontal and vertical displacement occurring at the head position while moving at a speed of 80 km/h per km. The first and second experiment results presented that the coefficient of determination(i.e. R2) for the new roughness index was the highest with 0.80. Moreover, the R2 values of MRI, HRI, and RN were also relatively high such as 0.73 ~ 0.79. The feasibility test was conducted on sections that show the greater IRI variation between left and right wheel-pass among the pilot sites. Because a prediction result came from MRI and IRI, the difference between KERI and MRI was relatively lager with the increment of IRI difference between right and left wheel-pass. In this case, the roll was high, and the satisfaction of the ride quality was relatively low. Based on the other field survey results obtained in Seoul, the portion of IRI difference between left and right wheel-pass was above 0.4m/km that presented approximately seven times higher value than the measured IRI values on the expressway. In addition, the sectors showed IRI difference level higher than 2.0m/km were approximately 70 times higher than those in expressway. Thus, it is possible that the KERI could successfully and reasonably evaluate the ride quality on various road types.

Road construction and maintenance of deteriorated pavement has been continued since industrialization. Demand for aggregate with a good quality has been increasing from limited resources, but it is difficult to supply aggregates smoothly due to environmental protection regulations (Jo et al., 2015). Accordingly, efforts are being made in the road construction industry to utilize industrial products for the purpose of efficient use of resources and environmental preservation. Steel slag which contains a non-reactive CaO is used primarily as a material for embankment and soil covering depending on the expansion and environmental issues. On the other hand, steel slag shows a variety of performance improvements as including increased elasticity factors, increased indirect tensile strength, and improved plastic deformation resistance when handling the expansion issue with sufficient aging processing (Ali et al., 1991, Asi et al., 2007). In this study, the behavior characteristics of the slag asphalt concrete mixture were analyzed according to temperature to encourage the use of steel slag aggregate. Specimens with steel slag showed a higher initial strain than those with natural aggregates. But strain of specimens were nearly similar over the repeated temperature changes. The experimental results for specimens with these characteristics were less likely to cause the performance problems from temperature because the measured strains were relatively small than strain caused from other loads. In conclusion, it is necessary to design and construction process reflecting the behavior characteristics according to temperature to encourage the use of steel slag aggregate.

On the expressway, culvert structures serve as a channel or channel connecting villages and towns blocked by clay. The culvert structures are mainly constructed of reinforced concrete or corrugated steel sheets in various ground conditions. Most culverts are divided into aging and damage trends according to the number of public years. However, most of the damage to the culvert structures applied on the soft ground is likely to be caused by the subsidence of the ground. In addition, even if the settlement of the paper sheet is stabilized, if the road is constructed at the upper part, the culvert structure is also expanded at the time of the expansion work, and damage due to a behavior different from that before the expansion work may be found. Therefore, in this study, the behavior of the culvert structures according to the ground supporting force was analyzed. For this purpose, the causes of damage are derived through design review and field investigation.

Airport concrete slabs behave by combined loads including environmental loads and traffic loads. To analyze the behavior of concrete slabs by combined load, the dynamic strain gages were embedded at 2 depths(50mm, 450mm) and 3 locations(corner, Center and Mid-Edge). And the thermometers were embedded at 5 depths(50mm, 150mm, 250mm, 350mm, 450mm) in actual airport concrete slabs. HWD(Heavy Weight Deflectometer) is a device to measure the deflection by applying an impact load. The values calculated by the HWD test are deflection, ISM(Impact Stiffness Modulus), LTE(Load Transfer Efficiency). Concrete slabs tend to expand during the summer when the temperature is high, and contract during the winter when the temperature is low. In addition, the drying shrinkage occurs as age increases. Field HWD test were conducted in March, May, August, and November to examine seasonal and age-specific changes. Furthermore, the temperature difference between top and bottom of concrete slabs causes the curl-up and curl-down behavior. The test was conducted 3 times at 12o`clock, 16o`clock, 21o`clock, 3o`clock, 7o`clock to examine temporal changes. The strain of the slab at HWD strike was measured 500 times per second because the strain occurred instantaneously, and the temperature was measure 1 times per 10 minutes. The calculated values and the measured values varied according to environmental loads. In order to examine these values in various angles, the equivalent linear temperature difference obtained by converting the temperature by depth into the uppermost lowermost temperature difference, the temperature of the slab which changes seasonally as a whole, and the drying shrinkage which occurs as the age increases are considered. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to clarify the behavior of concrete slabs by combined load considering long - term drying shrinkage, annual variation of temperature, and daily variations. This study was supported by Incheon International Airport Corporation(BEX00625) and Korea Airports Corporation.

This study explores determinants of purchase intentions for vegan fashion products based on the modified planned behavior model. Survey data from 434 university students were subjected to an analysis using descriptive statistics, factor analysis, and structural equation modeling. The results showed that almost half of the consumers surveyed recognized vegan fashion products and a little more than a half of consumers surveyed had purchase experience for vegan fashion products. Clothing, bags, and shoes are the most frequently purchased vegan fashion product categories. From the results of the model test, purchase intentions on vegan fashion products were determined by attitude, subjective norms, ethical responsibility, and ethical identity of the consumers. When consumers have a more positive attitude, have higher subjective norms, stronger ethical responsibility, and stronger ethical identity regarding the purchase of vegan fashion products, they are likely to have a greater intention to purchase vegan fashion products. The findings contribute to the literature by adding test results for vegan fashion products among the ethical product categories, highlighting the importance of the consideration of product category, which can give somewhat different results when exploring ethical consumption. Based on these findings, marketers need to use special tags or signage highlighting the ethical values and meanings of vegan fashion products to better communicate with target consumers with a high level of ethical responsibility and to help increase consumers’ control over purchase behaviors through reducing barriers generated by insufficient product information.

Comprehensive calculations of the Rh decoration effect on zigzag CNTs with n ranging from 7 to 12 were conducted in this work to understand the effect of Rh doping on geometric structures and electronic behaviors upon metallic and semiconducting CNTs. The obtained results indicated that Rh dopant not only contributes to the deformation of C-C bonds on the sidewall of CNTs, but also transforms the electron distribution of related complexes, thereby leading to a remarkable increase of the conductivity of pure CNTs given the emerged novel state within the energy gap for metallic CNTs and the narrowed energy gap for semiconducting CNTs. Our calculations will be meaningful for exploiting novel CNT-based materials with better sensitivity to electrons and higher electrical conductivity compared with pure CNTs.

Pohang earthquake occurred on November 15, 2017, with a magnitude of 5.4. The damage of the structure caused by the Pohang earthquake was the most significant in 4-story piloti-type buildings, where the damage patterns were different according to the location of columns and walls at the first story. One　building with a staircase at a corner shows shear failure at columns, and Another building with a staircase in the middle shows no failure or shear failure at staircase walls. Therefore, two different piloti-type buildings were selected; one has a staircase at a corner and another has in the middle, and the seismic behavior of the buildings were examined by nonlinear dynamic analysis applying a ground motion measured at Pohang. Analytical model well simulated the actual behavior of the piloti-type buildings during the earthquake. Analysis results showed that walls have an insufficient shear strength wherever the location of the staircase is and columns with insufficient transverse reinforcement could be failed when the staircase is located at a corner. Conclusively, structural engineers should design columns and walls in piloti-type buildings to possess sufficient capacity according to the location of staircase.

Structural insulated panels, structurally performed panels consisting of a plastic insulation bonded between two structural panel facings, are one of emerging products with a viewpoint of its energy and construction efficiencies. Of the SIPs, Cyclic test was conducted by two kinds of specimens: single panel and double panels. Cyclic test results, which were equivalent to static test results, showed that maximum load was 45.42kN, allowable shear load was 6.3kN/m. Furthermore the accumulated energy dissipation capability for double panels was as 2.3 times as that for single panel. From performance of structural tests, the allowable shear load for panels was suggested to be at least 6.1kN/m.

Grain-growth behavior in the 95Na1/2Bi1/2TiO3-5BaTiO3 (mole fraction, NBT-5BT) system has been investigated with the addition of Na2CO3. When Na2CO3 is added to NBT-5BT, the growth rate is higher than desired and grains are already impinging each other during the initial stage of sintering. The grain size decreases as the sintering temperature increases. With the addition of Na2CO3, a liquid phase infiltrates the interfaces between grains during sintering. The interface structure can be changed to be more faceted and the interface migration rate can increase due to fast material transport through the liquid phase. As the sintering temperature increases, the impingement of abnormal grains increases because the number of abnormal grains increases. Therefore, the average grain size of abnormal grains can be decreased as the temperature increases. The phenomenon can provide evidence that grain coarsening in NBT-5BT with addition of Na2CO3 is governed by the growth of facet planes, which would occur via mixed control.

This study examined the relationship between the eating out behavior of families and a low-salt management by housewives in Jeonju area. Self-administered questionnaires were collected from 420 housewives. Descriptive statistical analyses was completed using SPSS v. 19.0 and Stata 13.0. The frequency of eating out and delivered food of housewives in their 20s was significantly higher than that of the older housewives (p<0.001). The high order frequency delivered foods were chicken menu and Chinese food. The determinants of the eating out menu were children’s preference and meal time. The average scores of ‘interest on low-salt diet’, ‘attitude toward a low-salt purchasing’, and ‘praxis a low-salt diet’ were 2.70±0.95, 3.06±1.13, and 3.26±0.91, respectively. The level of a low-salt management housewives in their 20s was higher than that of the older housewives (p<0.001). Regression analysis showed that various factors (e.g. age, number of children, education level, and frequency of the eating out) correlated with the low-salt diet of subjects. For the adequate eating out behavior of families and low-salt management of housewives, information and consumer education to take family-related situations into consideration are necessary.

Long-span marine bridges are generally designed as long-span bridges in order to secure the running route of the ship and reduce the cost and time of the bridge pier construction. In long-span bridges, the range of load resistance transmitted by the superstructure and cable is determined by the mast and foundation. In the other words, the range of designable span length would be determined by the mast and foundation condition. The floating bridge is a type in which the superstructure is supported by the force of buoyancy without the pier mounted on the seabed so that the buoyancy of the floating bridge is balanced by the dead load and buoyancy of the structure. As a technique to overcome the weakness of existing long span bridges, it is possible to consider the type of cable supported bridges with floating tower. In this study, according to the tendon arrangement and initial tension distribution, the static global performance of the long-span bridges with floating tower were evaluated.

A pultruded fiber reinforced polymer plastic (PFRP) structural is one of the most widely used composite member in construction. In generally, PFRP members is composed of plate elements so that it needs to evaluate stability problems when they are used by construction members. On the other hand, creep effect may be occurred in PFRP members under sustained load. Primary to experiment for PFRP creep, previous works are studied. In the previous work related to buckling of PFRP member, it can be calculated buckling strength of PFRP members when it is known that material property of longitudinal and transverse direction of PFRP members. The researches for creep behavior of PFRP has been conducted and time-dependent degradation elastic moduls can be predicted by the empirical equation. In this study, it will be conducted creep test for PFRP and time-dependent stress-strain relationship will be plotted. It is expected that long-term buckling behavior of PFRP is evaluated by theoretical and numerical method such as finite element method.