• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.18-25
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• 2016

Bascule bridge, with its use to help vessels ply, has a several examples overseas of being serviced for more than decades years by careful maintenance, admitted its significance as landmarks for its rareness. Yeongdo Bridge, the sole bascule bridge in Korea was reconstructed in 2013 after being demolished because of its corrosion and aging, and now operates once in a day. Recently, safety inspections are executed thanks to demands getting higher for maintenance and safety of bridges, but measurement and analysis about bascule bridges are scarce. This study includes the analysis of the bascule bridge's behavior such as stress, vibration and reaction in normal condition and while it lifts up, based on measurement. We expect that this study will be used as an initial data to compare and confirm bridge's changes as service year and the number of operation increase.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.261-271
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• 2016

In the prediction of response of a pile in soil, numerical approaches such as a finite element method are generally applied due to complicate nonlinear behaviors of soils. However, the numerical methods based on the finite elements require heavy efforts in pile and soil modelling and also take long computing time. So their usage is limited especially in the early design stage in which principal dimensions and properties are not specified and tend to vary. On the contrary, theoretical approaches adopting linear approximations for soils are relatively simple and easy to model and take short computing time. Therefore, if they are validated to be reliable, they would be applicable in predicting responses of a pile in soil, particularly in early design stage. In case of wind turbines regarded in this study, it is required to assess their natural frequencies in early stages, and in this simulation the supporting pile inserted in soil could be replaced with a simplified elastic boundary condition at the bottom end of the wind turbine tower. To do this, analysis for a pile in soil is performed in this study to extract the spring constants at the top end of the pile. The pile in soil can be modelled as a beam on elastic spring by assuming that the soils deform within an elastic range. In this study, it is attempted to predict pile deformations and influence factors for lateral loads by means of the beam-on-spring model. As two example supporting structures for wind turbines, mono pile and suction pile models with different diameters are examined by evaluating their influence factors and validated by comparing them with those reported in literature. In addition, the deflection profiles along the depth and spring constants at the top end of the piles are compared to assess their supporting features.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.61-70
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• 2020

In dynamic centrifuge tests, equivalent shear beam (ESB) container minimizes the boundary effect between the soil model and the wall of the container so as to effectively simulate the boundary conditions of real field state. The ESB container at KAIST was evaluated to be performing properly by Lee et al. (2013). However, it is necessary to re-evaluate the performance of ESB container since the ESB container may have deteriorated over time. Thus, the performance of eight-year-old ESB container was re-evaluated through dynamic centrifuge tests. Firstly, the natural period of the empty ESB container was compared with the results of Lee et al. (2013). Then the boundary effect of sand-filled ESB container was evaluated. Results show that the dynamic behavior of the sand-filled ESB container was similar to that of the ground, despite a decrease in the natural period of the empty ESB container over time. In addition, the dynamic response of the ground built in the ESB container and the same ground simulated through numerical analysis with free-field boundary conditions were similar. Therefore, it was found that the boundary effect of the ESB container due to the decrease in the natural period was not significant.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.2272-2278
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• 2015

Recently the importance of renewable energy is stood out regarding to the international concern about global environmental issues. Wind power is beginning to receive attention as one of renewable energy, and world-wide researches about wind power are being carried out. In the wind power system, tower structure plays an important roles for continuous and stable generation of electricity. Researchers use various analytical models to research and develop about tower structures. In this study, the effects of natural frequencies of various wind turbine tower models have been analyzed. It is possible to simplify the detailed parts of models by using modified tower unit weight since the results of 1st natural frequency show that the difference is only 0.14%. Since the difference in natural frequency is greater than 10%, according to the boundary condition, the simple fix end support is not appropriate to represent the real structure of the tower. It is expected that the result of this study may be utilized to establish the criterion about appropriate modelling method.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.63-70
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• 2014

Design sensitivity analysis and topology design optimization for a piezoelectric crystal resonator are developed. The piezoelectric crystal resonator is deformed mechanically when subjected to electric charge on the electrodes, or vice versa. The Mindlin plate theory with higher-order interpolations along thickness direction is employed for analyzing the thickness-shear vibrations of the crystal resonator. Thin electrode plates are masked on the top and bottom layers of the crystal plate in order to enforce to vibrate it or detect electric signals. Although the electrode is very thin, its weight and shape could change the performance of the resonators. Thus, the design variables are the bulk material densities corresponding to the mass of masking electrode plates. An optimization problem is formulated to find the optimal topology of electrodes, maximizing the thickness-shear contribution of strain energy at the desired motion and restricting the allowable volume and area of masking plates. The necessary design gradients for the thickness-shear frequency(eigenvalue) and the corresponding mode shape(eigenvector) are computed very efficiently and accurately using the analytical design sensitivity analysis method using the eigenvector expansion concept. Through some demonstrative numerical examples, the design sensitivity analysis method is verified to be very efficient and accurate by comparing with the finite difference method. It is also observed that the optimal electrode design yields an improved mode shape and thickness-shear energy.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.77-86
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• 2020

In this study, the importance of implied strength correction for shallow depths at a region of moderate to low seismicity with primary focus on its effect upon site natural period and mean period of the ground motion is investigated. In addition to the most commonly used Modified Kondner-Zelasko (MKZ) model, this paper uses a quadratic/hyperbolic (GQ/H) model that can capture the stress - strain response at large strains as well as small strain stiffness dependence. A total of six site profiles by downhole tests are used and 1D site response analyses are performed using three input motions with contrasting mean periods. The difference between non-corrected and corrected analyses is conditional on the site period as well as mean ground motion period. The effect of periods is analyzed by correlating them with the effective peak ground acceleration, maximum shear strains and amplification factors. The comparative study reveals that the difference is more prominent in soft sites with long site periods. Insignificant differences are observed when soil profiles are subjected to ground motion with very short mean period.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.314-317
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• 2002

The sloshing phenomenon sometimes happens to be occurred in the liquid storage tank due to the unexpected and/or inevitable vibrating conditions and may result in severe effects on the structural stability. This study deals with the development of experimental techniques for the evaluation of sloshing behavior in the liquid storage tank and for the identification of natural frequencies and mode shapes by varying with various vibrating conditions. In addition, suitable method is suggested to minimize the sloshing effect on the liquid storage tank and its validity is experimentally investigate d.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.1-4
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• 1994

금속과 금속이 접합할 때 발생하는 고유 저항값은 접촉소재의 종류, 접촉면의 상태, 접촉조건(하중, 온도, 정적 또는 동적인 접촉 등), 주변환경에 따라서 변한다. 소재가 접촉할 때 발생되는 저항값의 변화특성을 적극적으로 이용한 것이 전기 저항법(Electrical Contact Resistance Method)이다. 접촉 저항법의 특징은 접촉시 발생되는 저항값이 미세하게 변화한다 할지라도 모두 계측이 가능하다는 점이다. 그동안의 연구는 ㅈ로 단일 접촉점(Single Contact Spots) 위주의 단편적인 실험적 연구를 통하여 접촉 저항법에 대한 신뢰도 확보에 노력하였으나, 최근에는 접촉점이 인접한 다른 접촉부위에 미치는 영향, 즉 다수 접촉점군(Multiple Contact Spots and Clusters)의 거동해석에 더욱 큰 연구 비중을 두고 있다. 접촉점군 상호간의 영향에 관한 연구가 많이 진행되기는 하였지만 해석모델의 적절성 여부가 실험적 데이타를 통하여 확인이 아직 안되었기 때문에 기존의 접촉저항 추정식을 직접 사용하기가 어려웠으나 최근에 볼군-원판 모델에 대한 접촉점과 다수의 접촉점군 상호간에 발생될 수 있는 접촉저항 특성을 실험적으로 해석하여 보다 정확한 해석모델이 제시되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.57-66
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• 2002

본 연구는 굽힘 하중하에서 탄성평판 구조 해석을 위한 경계적분방법 구성을 주목적으로 하고 체계적인 모듈화시스템 개발의 첫 이론 부분을 확립하였다. 굽힘 문제에서의 4개의 고유변수인 처짐, 기울기, 굽힘모우멘트, 상당 전단력의 항으로 경계적분방정식을 구성하였다. 물리적인 의미를 갖는 두 새로운 핵함수 도입으로 구성된 이들 적분방정식은 경계요소 구성시 나타나는 특이거동의 문제점을 간단한 두 탄성해에 의해 정규화 시켰으며 수치 적분 과정도 Cauchy 주치 적분 수렴성에서의 특별취급과는 달리 효율적으로 일반화시켰다. 경계적분식의 수치해석방법을 서술하였으며 집중하중하의 비대칭문제의 근사수치해를 도시하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.1319-1326
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• 2012

This study focuses on the influence of tractive forces on the self-stability of a bicycle. The eigen-value analysis of the self-stability of a passive rider control linear bicycle model can be used to analyze the self-stability. A linear bicycle model with front and rear driving forces is developed. The influence of tractive forces on the self-stability is identified by using the developed model. A nonlinear multi-body bicycle model is used to confirm the results of the linear analysis.