The (Ga1-xZnx)(N1-xOx) solid solution is attracting extensive attention for photocatalytic water splitting and wastewater treatment owing to its narrow and controllable band gap. To optimize the photocatalytic performance of the solid solution, the key points are to decrease its band gap and recombination rate. In this study, (Ga1-xZnx)(N1-xOx) nanofibers with various Zn fractions are prepared by electrospinning followed by calcination and nitridation. The effect of the composition and crystallinity of electrospun oxide nanofibers on the morphology and optical properties of the obtained solid-solution nanofibers are systematically investigated. The results show that the final shape of the (Ga1-xZnx) (N1-xOx) material is greatly affected by the crystallinity of the oxide nanofibers before nitridation. The photocatalytic properties of (Ga1-xZnx)(N1-xOx) with different Ga:Zn atomic ratios are investigated by studying the degradation of rhodamine B under visible light irradiation.

ZnO micro/nanocrystals are formed by a vapor transport method. Mixtures of ZnO and TiO powders are used as the source materials. The TiO powder acts as a reducing agent to reduce the ZnO to Zn and plays an important role in the formation of ZnO micro/nanocrystals. The vapor transport process is carried out in air at atmospheric pressure. When the weight ratios of TiO to ZnO in the source material are lower than 1:2, no ZnO micro/nanocrystals are formed. However, when the ratios of TiO to ZnO in the source material are greater than 1:1, the ZnO crystals with one-dimensional wire morphology are formed. In the room temperature cathodoluminescence spectra of all the products, a strong ultraviolet emission centered at 380 nm is observed. As the ratio of TiO to ZnO in the source material increases from 1:2 to 1:1, the intensity ratio of ultraviolet to visible emission increases, suggesting that the crystallinity of the ZnO crystals is improved. Only the ultraviolet emission is observed for the ZnO crystals prepared using the source material with a TiO/ZnO ratio of 2:1.

ZnO crystals with different morphologies are synthesized through thermal evaporation of the mixture of Zn and Cu powder in air at atmospheric pressure. ZnO crystals with wire shape are synthesized when the process is performed at 1,000 oC, while tetrapod-shaped ZnO crystals begin to form at 1,100 oC. The wire-shaped ZnO crystals form even at 1,000 oC, indicating that Cu acts as a reducing agent. As the temperature increases to 1,200 oC, a large quantity of tetrapod-shaped ZnO crystals form and their size also increases. In addition to the tetrapods, rod-shaped ZnO crystals are observed. The atomic ratio of Zn and O in the ZnO crystals is approximately 1:1 with an increasing process temperature from 1,000 oC to 1,200 oC. For the ZnO crystals synthesized at 1,000 oC, no luminescence spectrum is observed. A weak visible luminescence is detected for the ZnO crystals prepared at 1,100 oC. Ultraviolet and visible luminescence peaks with strong intensities are observed in the luminescence spectrum of the ZnO crystals formed at 1,200 oC.

This study investigated a bio-tensegrity structural system that combines the characteristics of a general tensegrity structural system with a biological system. The final research objective is to accomplish a changeability for the structural system as like the movement of the natural bio-system. In the study, we present a shape finding procedure for the two stage bio-tensegrity system model inspired by the movement pattern of animal backbone. The proposed system is allowing a dynamic movement by introducing the concept of “saddle” for the variable bio-tensegrity structure. Several shape finding analysis example and results are presented and shows a efficient validation and suitability.

ZnO micro/nanocrystals at large scale were synthesized through the thermal evaporation of Al-Zn mixtures under air atmosphere. The effect of synthetic temperature and time on the morphology of the micro/nanocrystals was examined. It was found that the temperature and time affected the morphology of the ZnO crystals. At temperatures below 900 oC, no crystals were synthesized. At a temperature of 1000 oC, ZnO crystals with a rod shape were synthesized. With an increase in temperature from 1000 oC to 1100 oC, the morphology of the crystals changed from rod shape to wire and granular shapes. As the time increased from 2 h to 3 h at 1000 oC, tetrapod-shaped ZnO crystals started to form. XRD patterns showed that the ZnO crystals had a hexagonal wurtzite structure. EDX analysis revealed that the ZnO crystals had high purity. It is believed that the ZnO nanowires were grown via a vapor-solid mechanism because no catalyst particles were observed at the tips of the micro/nanocrystals in the SEM images.

In this study, a shape of connector on seismic reinforced strip, which did not cause any physical damage to concrete column and can repair and reinforcement was decided by using nonlinear finite element analysis. Load displacement was applied on the concrete attached by strip. Stress distribution of connector by extension of concrete were checked. Through stress distribution of this analysis results, the most favorable shape was selected as a shape of the connector.

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.

To reduce manufacturing costs of crystalline silicon solar cells, silicon wafers have become thinner. In relation to this, the properties of the aluminium-back surface field (Al-BSF) are considered an important factor in solar cell performance. Generally, screen-printing and a rapid thermal process (RTP) are utilized together to form the Al-BSF. This study evaluates Al-BSF formation on a (111) textured back surface compared with a (100) flat back surface with variation of ramp up rates from 18 to 89˚C/s for the RTP annealing conditions. To make different back surface morphologies, one side texturing using a silicon nitride film and double side texturing were carried out. After aluminium screen-printing, Al-BSF formed according to the RTP annealing conditions. A metal etching process in hydrochloric acid solution was carried out to assess the quality of Al-BSF. Saturation currents were calculated by using quasi-steady-state photoconductance. The surface morphologies observed by scanning electron microscopy and a non-contacting optical profiler. Also, sheet resistances and bulk carrier concentration were measured by a 4-point probe and hall measurement system. From the results, a faster ramp up during Al-BSF formation yielded better quality than a slower ramp up process due to temperature uniformity of silicon and the aluminium surface. Also, in the Al-BSF formation process, the (111) textured back surface is significantly affected by the ramp up rates compared with the (100) flat back surface.

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.

이 논문에서는 진동형상의 민감도로 유도한 피셔정보행렬(Fisher Information Matrix)를 이용하는 가속도계의 최적위치 결정 기법 MS-EIDV(modal sensitivity-effective independence distribution vector)을 제안하고, 이를 사용하여 구조물의 동적 거동을 잘 반영하여 가속도계의 최적위치를 결정할 수 있는 합리적인 기준을 제시한다. 실험을 위한 가속도계의 최적위치는 구조물의 변수가 기지값이어야 결정되지만 구조물의 변수값은 실험결과를 사용한 SI(system identification)기법과 같은 역해석을 통해 구해지기 때문에, 본 논문에서는 구조변수의 오차를 감안하여 미지의 구조물의 현 상태를 통계적으로 반영하는 방법을 제시하였다. 제안된 방법들의 검증을 위해 주파수영역 SI기법을 적용하였으며, 구조변수 추정 결과를 통해 현장에서 계측하고자하는 진동형상의 수에 따른 최소 필요 가속도계의 개수를 제시하였다. 수치예제에서는 진동형상만을 이용한 최적위치 결정법인 EIDV기법과 제안된 MS-EIDV기법에 의해 추정된 구조 변수 결과를 비교하였다.

본 연구에서는 연직하중을 받는 평면 케이블의 처짐 형상을 결정하는 기법을 제안하였다. 케이블의 일반정리에 의하여 케이블의 처짐 형상을 구하는 경우 임의의 한 점에서 처짐이 기지값으로 주어져야 하지만, 본 연구에서는 이러한 처짐값이 주어지지 않는 일반적인 경우에 대하여 케이블의 정리와 기하학적 적합조건식을 토대로 케이블의 처짐 형상을 반복계산에 의해 결정하는 기법을 제시하였다. 또한, 본 기법은 케이블의 신장을 고려하는 경우에도 적용이 가능하도록 확장하였다. 본 연구의 기법으로 케이블의 신장이 발생하지 않는 경우에 대한 해석과 신장이 발생하는 경우에 대한 실내 모형실험 및 해석을 수행한 결과 제안한 기법이 타당한 것으로 판명되었다.

The basic systems of spatial structures such as shells, membranes, cable-nets and tensegrity structures have been developed to create the large spaces without column. But there are some difficulties concerning structural stability, surface formation and construction method. Tensegrity systems are flexible structures which are reticulated spatial structures composed of compressive members and cables. The rigidification of tensegrity systems is related to selfstress states which can be achieved only when geometrical and mechanical requirements are simultaneously satisfied. In this paper, the force density method allowing form-finding for tensegrity systems is presented. And various modules of unit-structures are investigated and discussed using the force density method. Also, a model of double-layered single curvature arch with quadruplex using supplementary cable is presented.

In this study, the 'force density method' for shape finding of cable net structures is presented. This concept is based on the force-length ratios or force densities which are defined for each branch of the net structures. This method renders a simple linear 'analytical form finding' possible. If the free choice of the force densities is restricted by further condition, the linear method is extended to a nonlinear one. The nonlinear one can be applied to the detailed computation of networks. In this paper, the general inverse matrix is introduced to solve the nonlinear equilibrium equation including Jacobian matrix which is rectangular matrix. Several examples for linear and nonlinear analysis applied additional constraints are presented. It is shown that the force density method is suitable for form finding of cable net and the general inverse matrix can be applied to solve the nonlinear equation without Lagrangian factors.

In general, the cutting pattern of the membrane structures is determined by dividing the complicated curved 3-D surface into several 2-D plane strip by using flattening technique. In this procedure, however, some discrepancies ore occurred between actual stresses of equilibrated state and designed uniform stresses because the material properties are not considered. These deviations can cause the critical structural problems, wrinkling or overstress, and thus a optimization process should be considered. In this paper, a new analytical method for determining an optimum cutting pattern considering material properties is presented. Here, iterative procedure is introduced to decrease the errors caused in numerical process. The optimization method proposed can diminish the deviations occurred by material properties and numerical errors, simultaneously. As a results, it is shown that the final stress distributions for the HP shell model are sufficiently near to design stress distributions, and it can be concluded that this method can be used to obtain the optimized cutting pattern of membrane structures.

아황산금나트륨염을 이용하여 형성된 약 20μm 금도금층의 표면형상 및 우선적 결정 성장 방향에 대하여 전류밀도, 온도, 농도, pH, 교만속도, 금이온농도가 미치는 영향에 대하여 연구하였다. 표면형상은 cathode 근처의 금이온농도가 증가하는 조건[전류밀도(13.0mA/cm22→4.6mA/cm2)], 온도 (30˚C→60˚C), pH(12.0→9.0), 교반효과(Orpm→3200rpm), 금이온농도(10g /1→l4g/1)으로 갈수록 porous한 조직에서 미세한 조직으로의 변화가 관찰되었다. X선분석에 의하면 금도금층의 결정성장의 주방향은 표면형상과 밀접한 관계를 나타내었으며 표면형상이 미세화되는 조건인 전류밀도(13.0→14.6mA/cm2), pH(12.0→9.0)는 감소 할수록, 온도(30˚C→60˚C), 교반속도(0rPm→3200rpm), 금이온농도(10g/1→g/1)]는 증가 할수록 결정성장의 주회절피크는 (111)에서 (220)으로 그 성장면이 변하고 있음이 조사되었다.

아라고나이트는 탄산칼슘(CaCO3)의 동질이상 중 하나이며, 해양 생태계를 포함한 다양한 환경에서 생물학적 및 이화학적 침전 과정을 통해 형성된다. 이러한 아라고나이트의 형성 및 성장뿐만 아니라 아라고나이트 내 스트론튬(Sr)과 같은 미량원소의 치환 특성은 화학종의 농도와 온도와 같은 핵심 인자들에 의해 많은 영향을 받는다. 본 연구에서는 해양 생태계와 유사한 용액 온도와 아라고나이트에 대한 이 용액의 다양한 포화도 조건에서 아라고나이트 내 Sr 병합 특성이 규명되었다. 반응 용액의 주입속도(0.085-17 mL/min), 반응 용액의 이온 농도([Ca]=[CO3] 0.01-1M), 혼합 용액의 온도(5-40 oC)의 다양한 실험 조건에서 컨스턴트-에디션 (constant-addition) 방법을 통해 순수한 아라고나이트가 합성되었다. 또한, 모든 Sr 병합 실험 조건(0.02-0.5 M, 15-40 oC)에서도 순수한 아라고나이트가 형성되었다. 합성된 아라고나이트의 결정도와 결정크기는 포화도 및 온도가 증가함에 따라 상대적으로 더 크게 증가하며 아라고나이트 결정이 더 많이 성장하였음을 지시하였다. 그러나 BET-비표면적을 이용하여 계산된 결정성장속도는 결정 형상 변화에 크게 영향을 받는 것으로 나타나 해석에 주의가 요구된다. 아라고나이트 내 Sr의 분배계수(KSr)는 반응이온의 농도가 0.02에서 0.5 M로 증가할 때 2.37에서 1.57로, 온도가 15에서 40˚C로 증가할 때 1.90에서 1.54로 감소하였으며, 모든 조건에서 KSr 값이 1보다 높게 관찰되었다. 이러한 결과는 KSr가 결정성장속도와 역의 상관관계로서 아라고나이트 내 Sr 병합이 호정성 관계임을 나타낸다.