• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.74-82
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• 1998

The grain boundary etching method as a technique for assessing degradation of structural materials used at elevated temperature has received much attention since it is simple, inexpensive and easy to apply to real plant components. In this study, the technique is applied to some aged petroleum and chemical plant components such as reactors and drums. As a degradation parameter, intersection number ratio ($N_i/N_o$), is employed. The intersection number ratio ($N_i/N_o$) is defined as the ratio of intersection number ($N_i$) obtained from 5-minute picric acid etched surface to the number ($N_o$) obtained from Nital etched surface. In order to study degradation level, several relationships were measured such as the correlation between shift in ductile brittle transition temperature, $({\Delta}DBTT)_{sp}$ and intersection number ratio, ($N_i/N_o$) and the correlation between the measured ($N_i/N_o$) values and Larson-Miller Parameter values.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.425-436
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• 2014

Although the strut-tie model approaches of current design codes are regarded as the valuable methods for designs of structural concretes with D-regions, the approaches have to be improved because of the uncertainties in terms of the concepts and provisions for designs of 3-dimensional structural concretes. To improve the uncertainties, a new strut-tie model approach is proposed in this study. In the proposed approach, the concepts of employing a 3-dimensional grid element allowing load transfers in all directions at a node to construct a strut-tie model, a numerical analysis approach to determine the effective strengths of concrete struts and nodal zones by reflecting the effects of reinforcing bars and 3-dimensional stress state, and maximum areas of struts and ties to examine their load carrying capacities are integrated into the strut-tie model approaches of current design codes.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.1007-1013
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• 2010

A new local refinement scheme for spline finite element method has been proposed; this scheme involves the use of hierarchical B-spline. NURBS has been widely used in CAD; however, the local refinement of NURBS is difficult due to its tensor-product property. In this study, we attempted to use hierarchical B-splines as local refinement strategy in spline FEM. The regions of high gradients are overlapped by hierarchically-created local meshes. Knot vectors and control points in local meshes are extracted from global meshes, and they are refined using specific schemes. Proper compatibility conditions are imposed between global and local meshes. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified on the basis of numerical results. Further, it is shown that by using a proposed local refinement scheme, the accuracy of the solution can be improved and it could be higher than that of the solution of a conventional spline FEM with relatively lower degrees of freedom.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.15 no.4 s.57
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• pp.243-249
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• 2005

Structural behavior of lattice girders of different loading conditions, loading patterns and shapes was analyzed by MIDAS, the finite element method. Optimal condition for lattice girders was represented.

• Composites Research
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.156-160
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• 2018

In this paper, evaluation method of structural integrity for cone-type composite lattice structures with hexagonal cell was conducted. A finite element analysis was used to evaluate the structural integrity of cone-type composite lattice structure. The finite element model for evaluation of structural integrity was generated using solid element. In order to consider the difference in mechanical properties between intersection and non-intersection part, the mechanical properties were applied considering the fiber volume fraction of each part. Compression test of cone-type composite lattice structure were conducted for verification of evaluation method of structural integrity. The analysis result showed 2% errors in displacement and good agreement with test result.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.169-177
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• 2002

We develop the weighted-averaging finite-element method which uses four kinds of element sets. By constructing global stiffness and mass matrices for four kinds of element sets and then averaging them with weighting coefficients, we obtain a new global stiffness and mass matrix. With the optimal weighting coefficients minimizing grid dispersion and grid anisotropy, we can reduce the number of grid points required per wavelength to 4 for a $1\%$ upper limit of error. We confirm the accuracy of our weighted-averaging finite-element method through accuracy analyses for a homogeneous and a horizontal-layer model. By synthetic data example, we reconfirm that our method is more efficient for simulating a geological model than previous finite-element methods.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.13-23
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• 2008

In this study, a finite element (FE) model updating method based on the hybrid genetic algorithm (HGA) is proposed to improve the grillage FE model for plate girder bridges. HGA consists of a genetic algorithm (GA) and direct search method (DS) based on a modification of Nelder & Mead's simplex optimization method (NMS). Fitness functions based on natural frequencies, mode shapes, and static deflections making use of the measurements and analytical results are also presented to apply in the proposed method. In addition, a multi-objective function has been formulated as a linear combination of fitness functions in order to simultaneously improve both stiffness and mass. The applicability of the proposed method to girder bridge structures has been verified through a numerical example on a two-span continuous grillage FE model, as well as through an experimental test on a simply supported plate girder skew bridge. In addition, the effect of measuring error is considered as random noise, and its effect is investigated by numerical simulation. Through numerical and experimental verification, it has been proven that the proposed method is feasible and effective for FE model updating on plate girder bridges.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1757-1760
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 유한요소 모델인 RMA-2를 이용하여 격자의 구성방법에 따른 만곡수로에서의 흐름특성분석을 비교하였다. 수치모의는 격자구성에 따라 균일격자망의 모형과 타원형 편미분 방정식을 이용한 모형에 대하여 실시하였다. 균일 격자망의 모형은 직선부에서는 가로세로비율에 따라 직사각형 격자를 구성하였고 곡선부에서는 곡률구간을 일정한 각도로 나누어 구성하였으며, 타원형 편미분 방정식을 이용한 모형은 격자간의 직교성을 만족하도록 구성하였다. 본 연구의 수치 모의는 Shukry(1950)의 $180^{\circ}$ 만곡수로실험과 동일한 조건으로 실시하였으며 각 지점에서의 합성 유속분포를 실험값과 비교하였다. 실험결과, 만곡부에서 타원형 편미분 방정식을 이용한 모형의 수치모의 결과는 균일격자를 이용한 모형에 비해 실험값과 잘 일치함을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.41 no.11
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• pp.1123-1133
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• 2008

It needs to conceptualize watershed with triangular or rectangular elements and to analyze the changes in hydrological components of each element for distributed modeling of rainfall-runoff process. This study is the network analysis of watershed grid for flow routing occurred in each element when analyzing rainfall-runoff process by one-dimensional kinematic wave equation. Single flow direction from D8-method(deterministic eight-neighbors method) is used, and the information of flow direction and flow accumulation are used to determine the computation order of each element. The application theory of finite volume method is suggested for each flow direction pattern between elements, and it is applied it to calculate the flow of each grid. Network analysis method from this study is applied to GRM(Grid based Rainfall-runoff Model) which is physically based distributed rainfall-runoff model, and the results from simplified hypothetical watersheds are compared with $Vflo^{TM}$ to examine the reasonability of the method. It is applied to Jungrangcheon watershed in Han river for verification, and examination of the applicability to real site. The results from Jungrangcheon watershed show good agreement with measured hydrographs, and the application of the network analysis method to real site is proper.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.59-62
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• 2009

유체-고체 상호작용(FSI)은 산업전반에서 꼭 필요한 분야이면서도 쉽게 접근하기가 어려운 전산역학 분야의 난제 중 하나이다. 유체-고체 상호작용의 전산해석에서 유체와 고체 사이의 불일치 격자망을 어떻게 처리하는가는 매우 어렵고 민감한 부분이 된다. 운동학적 연속성과 계면을 따른 응력의 평형을 추적하기 위해 유체와 고체의 계면에서는 각각의 영역에서 해석된 물리량들을 다른 영역으로 정확히 전달해야 하는데 대부분의 유체-고체 상호작용의 문제들은 불일치 격자를 가지고 있기 때문에 불일치 격자망을 효과적으로 처리하는 수단이 필요하다. 그래서 넓은 분야에 걸쳐 적용 가능한 유체 고체 상호작용 문제에 대한 효과적인 해석방법의 제안이 큰 의미를 갖는다고 생각한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 유체-고체 계면의 운동을 이동최소제곱 기반의 변절점 요소를 사용하여 모사함으로써 2차원 유체-고체의 상호작용(FSI)을 위한 새로운 접근방법을 제시하였다.