• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.8 s.251
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• pp.873-879
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• 2006

To investigate applicability of the reference stress approach as simplified inelastic stress analysis to estimate local creep rupture, detailed finite element stress analyses of a T-piece pipe with different inner pressure and system loading levels are performed. The reference stresses are obtained from the finite element (FE) limit analysis based on elastic-perfectly-plastic materials, from which the local reference stress for creep rupture is determined from R5. The resulting inelastic stresses are compared with elastic stresses resulting from linear elastic FE calculations. Furthermore they are also compared with the stresses from full elastic-creep FE analyses. It shows that the stresses estimated from the reference stress approach compare well with those from full elastic-creep FE analysis, which are significantly lower than the elastic stress results. Considering time and efforts for full inelastic creep analysis of structures, the reference stress approach is shown to be a powerful tool for creep rupture estimates and also to reduce conservatism of elastic stress analysis significantly.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.143.2-143.2
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• 2005

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.1200-1209
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• 2003

In this paper, a unified methodology based on the local stress concept to estimate residual strength of locally thinned pipes. An underlying idea of the proposed methodology is that the local stress in the minimum section for locally thinned pipe is related to the reference stress, popularly used in creep problems. Then the problem remains how to define the reference stress, that is the reference load. Extensive three-dimensional finite element (FE) analyses were performed to simulate full-scale pipe tests conducted for various shapes of wall thinned area under internal pressure and bending moment. Based on these FE results, the reference load is proposed, which is independent of materials. A natural outcome of this method is the maximum load capacity. By comparing with existing test results, it is shown that the reference stress is related to the fracture stress, which in turn can be posed as the fracture criterion of locally thinned pipes. The proposed method is powerful as it can be easily generalised to more complex problems, such as pipe bends and tee-joints.

• 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.