• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.10 no.1 s.34
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• pp.63-72
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• 1998

The stiffness design method is presented as a drift control model of steel structures and applied to design of space trusses subjected to stress and displacement constraints. The stiffness design method is developed by integrating the resizing techniques for an effective drift control algorithm with the strength design process according to the commonly used design specifications such as allowable stress design. In the resizing technique the amount of material to be modified depends on the member displacement participation factors and is determined by an optimization technique. Using the stiffness design method, a structural design model for steel structures is proposed and applied to two verifying examples. As demonstrated in the examples, the displacement of the structures can be effectively controlled without expensive computational cost.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.311-319
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• 2017

The primary suspension system of a railway vehicle restrains the wheelset and the bogie, which greatly affects the dynamic characteristics of the vehicle depending on the stiffness in each direction. In order to improve the dynamic characteristics, different stiffness in each direction is required. However, designing different stiffness in each direction is difficult in the case of a general suspension device. To address this, in this paper, an optimization technique is applied to design different stiffness in each direction by using a conical rubber spring. The optimization is performed by using target and analysis RMS values. Lastly, the final model is proposed by complementing the shape of the weak part of the model. An actual model is developed and the reliability of the optimization model is proved on the basis of a deviation average of about 7.7% compared to the target stiffness through a static load test. In addition, the stiffness value is applied to a multibody dynamics model to analyze the stability and curve performance. The critical speed of the improved model was 190km/h, which was faster than the maximum speed of 110km/h. In addition, the steering performance is improved by 34% compared with the conventional model.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.285-287
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• 2004

최근 굴삭기의 대형화 및 고성능화 그리고, 내구성의 향상과 함께 다양한 작업 조건에 효율적인 운전 특성을 확보하기 위한 작업 장치의 구조 형상 최적화를 위한 많은 연구가 수행되고 있다［1,2］. (중략)

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.705-712
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• 2008

This study carried out simulation for structural layout design for concrete structures by using the models of the ground structure method. The micro lattice truss is modeled as assemblage of a number of unit cells. The progress of analysis repeat to undergo finite element analysis to feed-back results of stress to the stiffness of each member. Through the repeated this analysis, truss model is represented to form the topological materials and the structural shape with the use of the local stress condition without mathematical optimum tools. It is successful to analyse the shape-layout problem as numerical samples on the lattice truss model.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.49-56
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• 2008

A multi-objective optimization approach is presented for force design of tensegrity structures. The geometry of the structure is given a priori. The design variables are the member forces, and the objective functions are the lowest eigenvalue of the tangent stiffness matrix that is to be maximized, and the deviation of the member forces from the target values that is to be minimized. The multi-objective programming problem is converted to a series of single-objective programming problems by using the constraint approach. A set of Pareto optimal solutions are generated for a tensegrity grid to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 1994.10a
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• pp.82-84
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• 1994

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.45-55
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• 2001

The purpose of this paper is to present the optimal design method of viscoelastic dampers and support brace stiffnesses. The dynamics of visco-elastic dampers and support braces connected in series is modeled by state equation. A constraint on maximum story drifts which are computed using RMS\`s of story drifts and peak factors is added to the optimization problem. The number of variables is reduced by including the constraint associated with the dynamic behavior of the structure in the procedure to compute the gradient of the inequality equation about constraint on the maximum story drifts. In the design example, it is confirmed that the design of dampers considering support brace stiffnesses is necessary when sufficient brace stiffnesses cannot be supplied. It is also found that unnecessary brace stiffnesses can be removed by adding brace stiffnesses to optimal design variables and that the increase of damper volumes to compensate for the variation of maximum story drifts is pretty small.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.905-913
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• 2017

In this work, a method of size optimization is proposed to maximize the natural frequency of a rod that consists of a hidden shape in one part and an exposed shape in the other. The frequency response function of a rod composed of two parts is predicted by using the frequency response functions of each of the parts instead of the shapes of the parts. The mass and stiffness matrices of the rod are obtained by using the mass and stiffness matrices of the equivalent vibration systems, which are obtained by applying the experimental modal analysis method to the frequency response functions of the parts. Through several numerical examples, the frequency response function obtained by using the proposed method is compared with that of a rod to validate the prediction method based on equivalent vibration systems. A size optimization problem is formulated for maximizing the first natural frequency of a combined rod, which is replaced with an equivalent vibration system, and a rod structure is optimized by using an optimization algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.721-724
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• 2010

아웃리거 시스템은 고층건물의 구조설계 시에 횡변위를 제어하기 위해 사용되는 가장 효율적이고 널리 사용되는 구조시스템 중 하나이다. 아웃리거는 설치 위치의 최적성에 따라 횡변위 제어효과에 상당한 차이가 있으며, 1970년대 이후부터 아웃리거의 최적위치에 관한 연구가 활발히 진행되어 왔다. 아웃리거의 최적위치는 구조물의 전단벽, 아웃리거, 외각기둥의 요소간 강성비에 따라 변하는 값이므로, 아웃리거 시스템의 횡변위는 요소간 강성비와 아웃리거 위치 모두에 의해 영향을 받는다. 따라서 초기구조설계 단계에서 아웃리거의 위치에 대한 결정과, 각 요소간 강성비의 선택은, 전체 구조 시스템의 효율성에 상당한 영향을 미치게 된다. 하지만 아웃리거 시스템의 최적 효율을 보장하면서, 구조물의 초기 설계 시에 참고할 수 있는, 아웃리거의 최적위치와 요소간 강성비에 대한 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 GA(genetic algorithm)을 이용하여 초기 설계 시에 참고할 수 있는 고층건물의 횡변위를 최소로 하는, 아웃리거의 최적 위치 및 요소간 강성비에 대한 연구를 진행하고자 한다. 이를 위해 시공된 예제 건물에 적용을 통해 그 효과를 검증해 본다.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.35 no.8
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• pp.716-724
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• 1995

토폴로지 설계는 미리 형상이 결정되지 않은 새로운 개념의 제품을 설계하고자 할 때나 설계 경험이 풍부하지 못한 경우, 그 개념적 형상을 결정하는 데 매우 유용하다. 실제로 이러한 토폴 로지 설계의 결과를 최근 급속 시제품 제작기(rapid prototyping machine)와 함께 사용하게 되면 처음 개념설계에서 최초시제품의 형상을 예측하고 제작하는 데 많은 시간을 절약할 것으로 판 단된다. 그러나 토폴로지 최적화에 따른 구조물은 구조물의 한계 질량내에서 평균 강성이 가장 큰 구조물일 뿐, 국부적인 응력한계에 대한 최적화는 아니다. 따라서 최종적인 최적화 형상을 얻기 위해서는, 먼저 한계질량을 갖는 최적 토폴로지 구조물의 모델을 구하고, 이 모델에 대하여 설계변수에 따른 민감도 해석을 수행하여 최대응력의 한계값을 갖는 구조를 구하면 된다. 그림 10은 이러한 토폴로지 최적화와 민감도 해석을 통한 최적화를 수행하는 복합 최적설계 과정에 흐름도이다. 설계민감도 해석은 본 연구의 범위에 포함되지 않아서 여기서는 제외하였지만, 이에 관한 일반 상업화된 소프트웨어들이 많이 나와 있으므로 이를 참조하면 된다.