• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.11-22
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• 2010

An analysis method is proposed for the transient linear or nonlinear analysis of dynamic interactions between a flexible dam body and reservoir impounding compressible water under earthquake loadings. The coupled dam-reservoir system consists of three substructures: (1) a dam body with linear or nonlinear behavior; (2) a semi-infinite fluid region with constant depth; and (3) an irregular fluid region between the dam body and far field. The dam body is modeled with linear and/or nonlinear finite elements. The far field is formulated as a displacement-based transmitting boundary in the frequency domain that can radiate energy into infinity. Then the transmitting boundary is transformed for the direct coupling in the time domain. The near field region is modeled as a compressible fluid contained between two substructures. The developed method is verified and applied to various earthquake response analyses of dam-reservoir systems. Also, the method is applied to a nonlinear analysis of a concrete gravity dam. The results show the location and severity of damage demonstrating the applicability to the seismic evaluation of existing and new dams.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.281-285
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• 2008

Eigenvalue reduction schemes approximate the lower eigenmodes that represent the global behavior of the structures. In the previous study, we proposed a two-level condensation scheme (TLCS) for the construction of a reduced system. And we have improved previous TLCS with combination of the iterated improved reduced system method (IIRS) to increase accuracy of the higher modes intermediate range. In this study, we apply previous improved TLCS to multi-level sub-structuring scheme. In the first step, the global system is recursively partitioned into a hierarchy of sub-domain. In second step, each uncoupled sub-domain is condensed by the improved TLCS. After assembly process of each reduced sub-eigenvalue problem, eigen-solution is calculated by Lanczos method (ARPACK). Finally, Numerical examples demonstrate performance of proposed method.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.731-742
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• 2007

This paper presents a new nonlinear analysis algorithm, that is, adaptive Newton-Raphson iteration method, The presented algorithm is based on the existing Newton-Raphson method, and the concept of it can be summarized as calculating the equivalent load for stiffness(ELS) and adapting this to the initial global stiffness matrix which has already been calculated and saved in initial analysis and finally calculating the correction displacements for the nonlinear analysis, The key characteristics of the proposed algorithm is that it calculates the inverse matrix of the global stiffness matrix only once irresponsive of the number of load steps. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm depends on the ratio of the active Dofs - the Dofs which are directly connected to the members of which the element stiffness are changed - to the total Dofs, and based on this ratio by using the proposed algorithm as a complementary method to the existing algorithm the efficiency of the nonlinear analysis can be improved dramatically.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.387-391
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• 1980

일반적으로 내진 설계라 함은 지진에 의하여 발생된 지진동이 특정한 구조물에 작용할 때 이 지 진동의 경향하에서도 구조물의 정상적인 기능을 추진할 수 있도록 설계하는 것을 말하는 바, 원자력발전소의 내진설계에 있어서도 원칙적으로는 동일한 개념이나 실시하는 규정이 타구조물에 비하여 훨씬 엄격한 것이 다른 점이라 하겠다. 현재 우리나라의 경우 원자력 발전소는 1기(고리 #1)가 가동중이고 2기(월성 #1, 고리 #2)가 거의 완공단계에 있으며 7기(고리 #3, #4, 월성 #2, 계마 #1, #2, 부구 #1, #2)가 건설작업중인 바 이중 부구의 경우만 프랑스(\ulcorner)에서 건설 예정이고 기타는 모두 미국 및 카나다에서 건설하였거나 건설 예정이므로 따라서 그 설계에 있어서도 제 규정은 대체로 미국것을 준용하고 있는 형편이다. 그러므로 본고에서 는 미국에서 시행되고 있는 방법 또는 규정에 의거하여 내진설계용 입력지진에 대하여 설명하고자 한다. 내진설계에 입력 으로 사용되는 지진을 설계기준지진(design basis earthquake, DBE)이라고 통칭하며 이 지진은 미국 규정에 의하면 응답스펙트럼(response spectrum)으로 정의되게 되어 있으며 또한 이 응답 스펙트럼에 준하는 인공정인 지진의 시간기득(artificial time history)을 작성 또는 선정하여 이를 발전소 구조물의 내진 해석 및 내진 시험 입력으로 사용하게 되어 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.120-131
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• 1997

This paper presents an approximate reanalysis methods of structures based on substructuring for an effective optimization of large-scale structural systems. In most optimal design procedures the analysis of the structure must be repeated many times. In particular, one of the main obstacles in the optimization of structural systems are involved high computational cost and expended long time in the optimization of large-scale structures. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate efficiently the structural behavior of new designs using information from previous ones, without solving basic equations for successive modification in the optimal design. The proposed reanalysis procedure is combined Taylor series expansions which is a local approximation and reduced basis method which is a global approximation based on substructuring. This technique is to choose each of the terms of Taylor series expansions as the basis vector of reduced basis method in substructuring system which is one of the most effective analysis of large -scale structures. Several numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of the solution process.

• The Journal of Korean Orthopaedic Ultrasound Society
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.15-20
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• 2010

Purpose: The goal of this study is to find out how useful ultrasonography is in measuring amount of effusion within the knee joint in comparison with physical examination and simple radiography. Materials and Methods: We evaluated total 60 cases which were suspicious for joint effusion. Average age was 61.3 years. The group was consisted of 22 males and 38 females, and 24 obese people and 36 non-obese people. Stroke test and patella floating test were done as physical examination. Amount of joint effusion was classified into 3 groups in simple lateral radiographic view and ultrasonography was used for recheck-up. Results: 39 cases were found positive in stroke test, and patella floating was shown in 20 cases. In simple lateral radiographic view, 47 cases of grade I, 7 cases of grade II and 3 cases of grade III were checked. Average $7.67{\pm}2.90mm$ amount of effusion was checked by ultrasonography. Amount of fluid in stroke test, patella floating test and simple lateral radiographic view showed close correlation with ultrasonography. Gender did not seem to affect physical examination, but strong correlation was found in female in simple radiography. Obese group showed closer relationship with all 3 exams compared with non-obese group. Physical examination was relatively effective with nonobese group, but not with obese group. And it was not easy to measure the amount of fluid with simple radiographic view, but we could obtain objective data from ultrasonography by measuring the amount of effusion dynamically. Conclusion: We concluded that more objective data was obtained with ultrasonography in comparison with physical examinations and simple radiography in the aspect of measuring amount of joint fluid.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.351-364
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• 2002

Conventional 3D ultrasound imaging using mechanical ID arrays suffers from poor elevation resolution due to the limited depth-of-focus (DOF). On the other hand, 3D imaging systems using 2D phased arrays have a large number of active channels and hence require a very expensive and bulky beamforming hardware. To overcome these limitations, a new real-time volumetric imaging method using curved 2-D arrays is presented, in which a small subaperture, consisting of 256 elements, moves across the array surface to scan a volume of interest. For this purpose, a 2-D curved array is designed which consists of 90$\times$46 elements with 1.5λ inter-element spacing and has the same view angles along both the lateral and elevation directions as those of a commercial mechanical 1-D array. In the proposed method, transmit and receive subapertures are constructed by cutting the four corners of a rectangular aperture to obtain a required image qualify with a small number of active channels. In addition the receive subaperture size is increased by using a sparse array scheme that uses every other elements in both directions. To suppress the grating lobes elevated due to the increase in clement spacing, fold-over array scheme is adopted in transmit, which doubles the effective size of a transmit aperture in each direction. Computer simulation results show that the proposed method can provide almost the same and greatly improved resolutions in the lateral and elevation directions, respectively compared with the conventional 3D imaging with a mechanical 1-D array.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.19 no.3 s.73
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• pp.303-312
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• 2006

This paper presents the equivalent nodal load for the element stiffness which represents the influence of the stiffness change such as the addition of elements, the deletion of elements, and/or the partial change of element stiffness. The reanalysis of structure using the equivalent load improves the efficiency very much because the inverse of the structural stiffness matrix, which needs a large amount of computation to calculate, is reused in the reanalysis. In this paper, the concept of the equivalent load for the element stiffness is described and some numerical examples are provided to verify it.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.29-35
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• 1997

The megastructure combined with the modular concept is an effcient structural system adequate for ultra-tail buildings for the future. An ingeneous structural control system can be developed by separating the internal subframe in one or many modules from the external megaframe, thus taking advantage of the effect of tuned mass dampers without adding any aditional mass. This so called mega-subcontrol system is generally modeled by a 20DF system for parametric study and for finding optimal values of the parameters. In this study the equation of motion for the system is obtained frist and the preconditions for the simplified modeling are investigated. Finally the optimal value for the subsreucture strffness is fomputed with given mass and damping ratios and transfer functions for responses are abtained for white noise ground exitation to verify the effectiveness of the mega-subcontrol system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.62-67
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• 1995

A method for determining impulsive responses and acoustic radiation for submerged shells of finite length has been presented. The method is a modal-based method, and uses a surface variational principle to obtain data in the frequency domain. The fast Fourier transform technique is used to convert the data to the time domain. The surface pressure responses of a cylindrical shell with endcaps wer compared with those of an infinite shell. It was shown that the surface pressures coincide exactly before any significant reflections from the endcaps occur. Traces of different types of waves were identified from the dispersion relations of the infinite shell. The contributions of flexural and longitudinal waves and these due to the direct radiation from the driving force to the fluid pressure were demonstrated using near-field plots. The exchange of energy between the shell and fluid was examined for shells with and without bulkheads. It was shown that a significant amount of the energy which enters the fluid returns to the shell and most of the energy is dissipated in the shell. It was also shown that the shell with bulkheads radiate significantly more energy into the far-field than the empty shell.