• Composites Research
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.191-198
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• 2019

The basic mechanical properties of helicopter rotor blade are important parameters for the analysis of helicopter performance. However, it is difficult to estimate these properties because the most of rotor blades consist of various materials such as composite materials and metals, etc. In this paper, the bending/torsional stiffness for composite rotor blade of unmanned helicopter were evaluated through experimental and analytical studies. In finite element analysis, the bending/torsional stiffness were evaluated through the relationship of load-displacement and element stiffness matrix. The evaluated stiffness from the measured strains and displacements in bending and torsional test agreed well with the derived results of FEA.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.189-192
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• 2007

The qualification test of rubber product is consisted of uniaxial tensile, pure shear, biaxial and compression test. Uniaxial test result is used for material property of Finite Element Method. Comparison of uniaxial tensile test and analysis satisfied requirement. A study has qualificated result of QLS analysis model for material property of uniaxial test and shear modulus.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.41-47
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• 2007

Recent investigations into earthquake-induced damage have reported that liquefaction may take place on not only sands but also fine-contained soils or non-plastic silts. Although not a few study has been performed to understand the liquefaction of sands, relatively little effort has been devoted to improving our understanding of the liquefaction characteristics for non-plastic soils. Given that liquefaction strength is largely associated to shear wave velocity, bender element test as well as direct simple shear test is employed to examine the stiffness of non-plastic silt more precisely. Through the soil tests, the stiffness of non-plastic silts from the bender element tests is identified as slightly greater than that from the direct simple shear test. Further, the stiffness of non-plastic silts appears to be smaller than that of clay.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.309-323
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• 2005

Dynamic stiffness of subsurface materials is one of the most important geotechnical parameters in predicting deformational behavior of structures as well as practicing seismic design and performance evaluation. In an effort to measure the parameter efficiently and accurately, various borehole seismic testing techniques have been, thus, developed and used during past several decades. Moreover, recent rush of underground-space projects and increasing size of structures put more stress on reliable site investigation techniques in estimating stiffness of rock mass. In this paper, a new technique called 'in-hole seismic test' has been implemented to measure the dynamic stiffness of rock masses at subsurface foundations and tunnel-faces. The reliance of in-hole seismic test was evaluated by comparing the testing results at several rock sites with those of other borehole techniques and the technique tunnls out to be an efficient and accurate in-situ testing technique.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.107-114
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• 2001

비검측공 시험법을 현장타설말뚝의 건전도 평가 목적으로 적용함에 있어서 시험법의 적용성을 향상시키기 위한 연구가 진행되어 오고 있다. 본 논문에서는 같은 맥락에서 수행되어 온 일련의 해석적 연구 결과 중 시험법의 해상도에 관한 문제와 말뚝 주변 및 선단지반의 강성이 비검측공 시험결과에 미치는 영향에 관해 다루었다. 본 논문에서 수행한 연구결과에 의하면 충격응답기법의 해상도를 평가하기 위해서는 말뚝재료에 대한 지반의 강성비($V_{s}$ /$V_{c}$)와 말뚝의 길이에 대한 직경의 비(L/D)에 의존하는 기존 평가기준에 부가하여 말뚝의 상대적인 체적변화가 필히 고려되어야 한다는 결론을 얻었다. 한편, 말뚝이 수평으로 층이 진 주변 지반을 통과하여 말뚝선단부를 지지하는 지반(선단지반)에 근입되거나 지지되는 경우에 말뚝의 자유단 혹은 고정단 경계 조건은 주변 지반과 선단 지반의 강성비와 선단 지반에 대한 말뚝의 근입깊이에 따라 변화한다는 사실을 규명하였다. 말뚝의 건전도 평가 시에 사용하게 되는 말뚝의 공진주파수가 이들 조건에 따라 변화하므로 결과적으로 시험결과분석에 있어서 이들 영향이 필히 고려되어야 한다는 결론을 얻었다.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.6 no.2 s.20
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• pp.25-36
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• 2004

The pressuremeter test can be used as an effective tool for evaluating stiffness of lower pavement layers including subgrade and subbase. At present, the most practical and applicable methods for evaluation of the stiffness of the subgrade and subbase are PBT and CBR in Korea. However, these methods have inherent drawbacks and large variabilities of test results themselves. In this study, an evaluation method and a test procedure that can be used for decision of pavement stiffness using pressuremeter were developed. The obtained results representing stiffness of the subgrade and subbase can replace PBT's soil reaction value k and CBR in design methods. It is found that the developed procedure based on the pressuremeter can provide an effective correaltion between the PBT's soil reaction value k and PMT's reloading modulus ($E_R$).

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.41-49
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• 2009

Poor compaction of subgrade soil causes low stiffness and bearing capacity of sublayers so that faulting and differential settlements can be generated between new and old pavement surfaces in case of widening works. However, investigation of verifying the reason of producing the defects in the pavements are not performed in detail. In this study, several in-field tests including PMT and PBT were performed for obtaining stiffness of the sublayers in new and old pavements respectively of an widening project. Then, based on the obtained stiffness values and the measured deformations obtained by specially designed tilt meters, the main reasons of generating different deformations between the old and new pavement sections and the relationship between the deformation and stiffness are verified.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.69-79
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• 2008

This study presents the test results on the performance and the moisture retaining ability of semi rigid pavement using the moisture retaining grouting. The two kinds of the grouting materials were used for the Laboratory tests. The method of the tests includes the compression(3 hours and 7 days) and flexural strength(7 days) varying the P lot flow values. The test results show that the variation of the P lot value has no great effects on the strength, however, the different strength was found as the different grouting materials were used. The performance of the semi rigid pavement was evaluated varying the air void ration of the base asphalt pavement. The test results show that the flexural strength of the semi rigid pavement increases with increasing the air void of the base asphalt pavement so that the flexural strength of the semi rigid asphalt pavement can be effected by the air void of the base asphalt pavement. The moisture retaining tests were conducted and compared in the field the comparisons were made with the dense grade asphalt pavement and the semi rigid asphalt pavement with and without spraying the water. The difference of the temperature of the semi rigid pavement with the spraying water has recorded $11^{\circ}C$ when it compared with the dense grade asphalt pavement and $4^{\circ}C$, when it compared with the semi rigid pavement without the spraying the water. It can be seen that decrease the temperature of the pavement by the moisture retaining ability from the semi rigid pavement.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.691-698
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• 2014

This paper describes the manufacturing processes for a flexbeam and torque tube made of composite materials, along with the procedures for testing their basic properties. A flexbeam and torque tube can be considered to be key structural components of a bearingless rotor hub system. A hinge offset effect can be realized by a large elastic deformation and twist of the flexbeam, and the blade pitch control forces are transferred by the rotation of the torque tube. The basic property tests included bending and twist tests to determine the flap stiffness, lag stiffness, and torsion stiffness of the flexbeam, torque tube, and blade, and these tests were performed prior to starting the whirl tower test. In addition, the estimated results were compared with experimental data, and the calculations were found to be a good match for the analysis results and had a similar tendency. Through these results, we could confirm that a flexbeam and torque tube made of composite materials satisfied the structural stiffness requirements.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.507-515
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• 2015

This study was conducted to develop and verify a torque application device for use in a mechanical power-circulation test rig for 5.5 MW wind turbine gearboxes. The design and analysis of the torque application device was conducted. In addition, the torsional stiffness of the test rig was calculated using the rotational angle measurements for each of the components. The calculated stiffness of the test rig was $231.13kN{\cdot}m/rad$ for a clockwise torque application. The rated torque can be applied when the stiffness of the gearbox is greater than $1,064,400kN{\cdot}m/rad$ for a clockwise torque application. Because of the limited rotational angle of the test rig, the potential application of the rated torque is determined according to the torsional stiffness of the test gearbox.