The algal blooms in stagnant streams and lakes have caused many problems. Excessive algae leads to disturbance of ecosystem and overload of water treatment processes. Therefore, phosphorus(P), source of algal blooms, should be controlled. In this study, a filtration trench has been developed to convert dissolved phosphorus into hydroxyapatite(HAP) so that it could be crystallized on the surface of ‘phosphorus removal granular material’; and residual particulate phosphorus could be removed by additional precipitation and filtration. The front and rear parts of filtration trench consisted of ‘phosphorus removal granular material contact bed’ and ‘limestone filtration bed’, respectively. As a result of the column test using phosphorus removal granular material and limestone serially, PO4-P was removed more than 90% when EBCT(empty bed contact time) of the contact bed was over 20 minutes; and T-P represented 60% of removal efficiency when total EBCT was over 1.5 hours. The results of column tests to figure out the sedimentation characteristics showed that more than 90% of particulate phosphorus could be removed within 24 hours. It was necessary to optimize the filtration part in order to increase removal efficiency of T-P additionally. Also, it was confirmed through the simulation of Visual MINTEQ that most of particulate phosphorus in the column tests is the form of HAP. Based on the results of the study, it could be suggested that the design parameters are over 0.5 hour of EBCT for phosphorus removal granular material contact bed and over 1.5 hours of EBCT for limestone filtration bed.

서울시 도로포장은 대부분 30년 이상 노후화된 포장으로서 이미 구조적 손상이 많이 진행된 상태이고, 기후변화로 인한 강수량 증가 등 환경적 요인으로 인해 포장 파손이 최근 급격히 증가하고 있다. 또한 설계당시의 포장 단면 두께가 현재의 교통량을 반영하지 않아 상당히 부족한 상태이다. 서울시의 버스교통량이 증가함에 따라 중차량에 의한 교통하중이 증가하고 기존 도로포장에 버스전용차로를 도입하여 중차량 교통하중이 집중되는 현상이 발생하고 있다. 이에 서울시는 도로파손을 해결하기 위해 아스팔트 도로포장의 두께와 다양한 아스팔트 혼합물을 적용하고 있다. 하지만 중차량 교통하중 집중현상, 교차로 및 버스정류장에서는 차량속도 감속으로 인해 소성변형이 발생하고 있다. 최근, 해외의 여러 기관에서는 소성변형 예측 모형 개발 또는 기존 모형을 개선하여 소성변형으로 인한 도로포장 파손을 예측하는 연구가 진행중이다. 이러한 모형들은 소성변형을 발생시키는 주요 원인을 고려하여 개발하였으며 이는 소성변형에 대한 도로포장의 수명 및 성능 변화를 예측하여 유지보수 공법과 적용 시기를 결정한다. 본 연구에서 개발한 소성변형 예측 모형은 하중재하 속도 및 횟수, 아스팔트 포장층 온도, 전단응력과 강도의 비율을 고려하여 개발하였다. 전단응력과 강도의 비율은 아스팔트 혼합물의 응집력과 마찰각의 영향을 받는 것으로 나타났으며 이를 고려하여 아스팔트 혼합물 물성을 활용한 다중 회귀분석을 적용하였다. 개발된 소성변형 예측 모형을 검증하기 위해 Westrack 자료를 활용하였으며 2.35%의 오차율을 보였고 LTPP 자료를 활용하였을 때는 1.19%의 오차를 보여 매우 높은 신뢰성을 보였다. 개발된 소성변형 예측 모형을 활용하여 아스팔트 혼합물 배합설계와 지불계수에 적용하였다. 배합설계의 경우, 교통량 및 차량속도와 같은 인자를 고려하여 최적의 아스팔트 바인더 함량을 결정할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 소성변형 예측 모형을 적용하여 설계 공용수명 대비 공용수명의 비율을 적용하여 아스팔트 혼합물의 지불계수를 결정할 수 있다

HNS사고는 대규모 화재와 폭발을 수반하며, 다수의 인명사고와 주변지역에 극심한 환경오염을 야기함으로 신속한 의사결정을 통하여 광범위한 확산을 막아야 한다. 본 연구는 국내 HNS사고사례를 해상이라는 특수성이 반영된 표준코드를 바탕으로 고품질, 표준화, 디지털화된 HNS사고 데이터베이스를 구축하여 사고발생 시 신속하고 합리적인 의사결정을 지원하고, 체계적인 통합관리 및 공유가 가능한 HNS사고이력관리시스템(HATS)을 설계하고 구현하였다. 또한 개발된 시스템을 활용하여 23년간 수집된 국내 HNS사고데이터 76건에 대해 각 항목별로 통계분석을 수행하여, 국내에서는 매년 평균 3.3건의 사고가 일어나며, 주요 HNS사고요인은 춘계기간 (41%), 계류장 (51 %), 케미컬운반선 (49 %), 승무원에 의한 과실 (45 %), 자일렌류 (12 %)인 것으로 확인되었다. (괄호안 : 사고분류기준별 해당 사고요인의 퍼센트 비율임)

The recent development of electro-optic devices and anticorrosion media has led to the necessity to investigate infrared optical systems with solid-solid interfaces of materials that often have the characteristic of amorphousness. One of the most promising classes of materials for those purposes seems to be the chalcogenide glasses. Chalcogenide glasses, based on the Ge-Sb-Se system, have drawn a great deal of attention because of their use in preparing optical lenses and transparent fibers in the range of 3~12 um. In this study, amorphous Ge-Sb-Se chalcogenide for application in an infrared optical product design and manufacture was prepared by a standard melt-quenching technique. The results of the structural, optical and surface roughness analysis of high purity Ge-Sb-Se chalcogenide glasses are reported after various annealing processes.

In the manufacturing industry fields, thousands of quality characteristics are measured in a day because the systems of process have been automated through the development of computer and improvement of techniques. Also, the process has been monitored in database in real time. Particularly, the data in the design step of the process have contributed to the product that customers have required through getting useful information from the data and reflecting them to the design of product. In this study, first, characteristics and variables affecting to them in the data of the design step of the process were analyzed by decision tree to find out the relation between explanatory and target variables. Second, the tolerance of continuous variables influencing on the target variable primarily was shown by the application of algorithm of decision tree, C4.5. Finally, the target variable, loss, was calculated by a loss function of Taguchi and analyzed. In this paper, the general method that the value of continuous explanatory variables has been used intactly not to be transformed to the discrete value and new method that the value of continuous explanatory variables was divided into 3 categories were compared. As a result, first, the tolerance obtained from the new method was more effective in decreasing the target variable, loss, than general method. In addition, the tolerance levels for the continuous explanatory variables to be chosen of the major variables were calculated. In further research, a systematic method using decision tree of data mining needs to be developed in order to categorize continuous variables under various scenarios of loss function.

PURPOSES : This research describes how to predict the life cycles of fatigue cracking based on NCHRP Report 704 as well as modified harmony search (MHS) algorithm. METHODS : The fatigue cracking regression model of NCHRP Report 704 was used in order to calculate the ESAL (Equivalent Single Axle Load) numbers up to pavement failure, based on using material parameters, composite modulus, and surface pavement thickness. Furthermore, the MHS algorithm was implemented to find appropriate material parameters and other structural conditions given the number of ESALs, which is related to pavement service life. RESULTS: The case studies show that the material and structural parameters can be obtained, resulting in satisfying the failure endurance of asphalt concrete structure, given the number of ESALs. For example, the required ESALs such as one or two millions are targeted to satisfy the service performance of asphalt concrete pavements in this study. CONCLUSIONS : According to the case studies, It can be concluded that the MHS algorithm provides a good tool of optimization problems in terms of minimizing the difference between the required service cycles, which is a given value, and the calculated service cycles, which is obtained from the fatigue cracking regression model.

This study is concerned about the optimal design of the main frame in a moper. Mopper is widely used for cleaning in the fields such as airport, subway, train station, large shopping mall, department store, hospital, government buildings, school, industrial building floor, etc. Especially, main frame in mopper are stressed by high, mostly loads. Nevertheless, design of main frame is dependent on experience, and it will cause reliability reduction and cost increase. This research purpose is to propose and verify a method to achieve higher product quality, lower costs, and far less physical testing. In this study, design parameters used for optimization are each thickness of 4 square pipes and 1 plate in the main frame. The result after optimization showed that the weight of main frame reduced to maximum 6.5% when compared with the initial design in main frame.

The object of this study is concerned about the optimal design of the supporting frame in a twist screen. Twist screen is widely used for grading and screening materials in the fields such as coal-selecting, mining-selecting, building materials, electrical power and chemical industry, etc. It is composed of base, supporting frame, vibrator, screen, spring, trough, clamp and etc. Especially, supporting frame in twist screen are stressed by high load, mostly it is shock-type loads. Nevertheless, design of base is dependent on experience, and it will cause reliability reduction and cost increase. The supporting plate is composed by the upper plate, the bracket and etc. This research purpose is to propose and verify a method to achieve higher product quality, lower costs, and far less physical testing. In this study, design parameters used for optimization are the upper plate thickness(8㎜, 10㎜, 12㎜) and the bracket thickness(8㎜, 10㎜, 12㎜) in the supporting frame. The result showed that base weight reduced to maximum 25.8% when compared with the current twist screen.

Recently, since the development of internet and online space, people experience new communication space and games different from traditional ones. People share their experiment of games and item in the online space with internet. This paper proposes the design of the MMORPG item’s pricing decision system. First, the on-going “chatting” in the game chatting system is collected by chatting API. This collected chatting is the information including terms of game item. Then, extracted terms of game item are classified on the basis of collective intelligence model and generate a table of weight. At last, this system can recommend suitable MMORPG item to users with the obtained weight table storing as ontology.

A topology optimization method for phononic crystals is developed for the design of sound barriers, using the level set approach. Given a frequency and an incident wave to the phononic crystals, an optimal shape of periodic inclusions is found by minimizing the norm of transmittance. In a sound field including scattering bodies, an acoustic wave can be refracted on the obstacle boundaries, which enables to control acoustic performance by taking the shape of inclusions as the design variables. In this research, we consider a layered structure which is composed of inclusions arranged periodically in horizontal direction while finite inclusions are distributed in vertical direction. Due to the periodicity of inclusions, a unit cell can be considered to analyze the wave propagation together with proper boundary conditions which are imposed on the left and right edges of the unit cell using the Bloch theorem. The boundary conditions for the lower and the upper boundaries of unit cell are described by impedance matrices, which represent the transmission of waves between the layered structure and the semi-infinite external media. A level set method is employed to describe the topology and the shape of inclusions. In the level set method, the initial domain is kept fixed and its boundary is represented by an implicit moving boundary embedded in the level set function, which facilitates to handle complicated topological shape changes. Through several numerical examples, the applicability of the proposed method is demonstrated.

PURPOSES : Effective speed management is necessary for preventing traffic crashes on the road. Speed hump is known as an effective tool for managing speed. Unlike existing studies which are mainly focused on humps for vehicles, this study proposed a novel method to determine design parameters for bicycle speed humps based on a multi-criteria decision making process. METHODS : Three objectives including the effectiveness of speed reduction, bicycle safety, and user's comfortability were incorporated into the proposed evaluation framework for determining design parameters. A multi-criteria value function was also derived and utilized as a part of the proposed method. RESULTS : Extensive simulations and statistical tests show that an integrated bike-box way is identified as the best in terms of operational efficiency and safety. CONCLUSIONS : It is expected that the outcomes of this study can be a valuable precursor for developing design guidelines for bicycle road and facility.

Most real world design evaluation and risk-based decision support combine quantitative and qualitative (linguistic) variables. Decision making based on conventional mathematics that combines qualitative and quantitative concepts always exhibit difficulty in modelling actual problems. The successful selection process for choosing a design/procurement proposal is based on a high degree of technical integrity, safety levels and low costs in construction, corrective measures, maintenance, operation, inspection and preventive measures. In this paper, a design decision support framework using a composite structure methodology grounded in approximate reasoning approach and evidential reasoning method is suggested for design evaluation of machinery space of a ship engine room at the initial stages. An illustrative example is used to demonstrate the application of the proposed framework.

현행 「항만 및 어항 설계기준」 상 부두의 접안능력은 하기재화중량톤수를 사용하여 나타내고 있으나 접안가능 최대 선박의 결정에 영향을 미치는 요인은 재화중량톤수보다는 선박의 질량이나 길이 및 폭 등이다. 따라서 안전하고 효율적인 항만 운영을 위해 현재의 기준을 개선할 필요가 있으며, 이 연구는 합리적인 접안능력 기준을 제시하기 위하여 수행되었다. 부두의 적정 접안능력을 검토 하기 위하여 울산항의 3개 부두를 선정하고, 통항 및 접안 안전성과 선체동요 및 구조 안정성을 종합적으로 평가하였다. 배수톤수가 일정한 경우 선박의 크기가 다소 증가하더라도 선박조종이나 계류 및 구조 안전성에 미치는 영향은 미미하였으며, 검토 대상 선박에서는 선박의 크기에 따른 유의적인 차이를 보이지 않았다. 평가 결과 배수톤수에 차이가 없다면 20,000 DWT급 선박은 부두접안가능능력의 50%, 40,000 DWT급 선박은 25%, 그리고 150,000 DWT급 선박은 13% 정도 선박의 크기를 증가시키더라도 부두 축조시의 설계기준에 적합한 것으로 검토되었다. 따라서 항로폭, 선회장, 선석 길이 및 계류라인의 배치 등에 문제가 없다면 재화중량톤수 대신에 배수톤수를 적용하여 부두 접안가능 최대 선박을 조정할 수 있다.

막 구조물을 설계하기 위해서는 우선 초기장력 도입으로 인한 구조물의 형상을 정확히 알아야 한다. 이를 위해서 모형을 통한 모델링이나 컴퓨터를 이용한 형상해석이 요구되며, 초기장력의 도입으로 형성되는 막 구조물의 곡면은 일반적으로 등장력 곡면이다. 이와 같은 특성을 가진 막 구조물은 모형만을 대상으로 형상을 구할 때에는 정량적으로 형상의 정보를 얻기가 힘들고, 형상해석만을 수행한 경우는 예기치 않은 문제가 발생하기도 한다. 또 설계자의 의도에 따른 형상은 실질적으로 등장력 곡면에 부합되지 않는 경우가 많고, 심지어 실현 불가능한 발생한다. 따라서 설계프로세스에 따른 구조물의 형상에 부합되면서 실현가능한 형상으로의 초기형상 결정과정은 막 구조물의 설계에 있어서 무엇보다 중요한 과정이다. 본 연구에서는 건축 설계프로세스에 따른 모델링과 수치적 형상해석과의 결과에 대한 차이를 살펴보고 피드벡 과정을 통하여 막 구조물의 초기형상을 결정하는 프로세스에 대해서 연구한다.