• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.221-230
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• 2000

Sweep geometric models are based on the notion of moving a curve, surface or solid along some path. Sweeping allows definition of prismatic shell surfaces in a simple way, This paper describes an application of sweep geometric models for the optimization of prismatic shells. This geometric model is integrated with finite element formulations. A nine-node degenerated shell element is adopted to calculate the response of prismatic shells. Several examples we presented to demonstrate the process of optimization. From numerical examples, it is observed that sweep geometric models provide an efficient and reliable way of obtaining optimal solutions for a large class of prismatic shell structures.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.35-50
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 반복하중을 받는 철근 콘크리트 쉘구조물의 해석을 위한 비선형 유한요소 해법을 제시하였다 유한 요소로서는 충상화기법을 이용한 부재회전강성도를 갖는 4절점 평면 쉘요소가 개발되었다 두께 방향에 대한 철근과 콘크리트의 재료성질을 고려하기 위하여 충상화기법이 도입되었다. 재료적 비선형성에 대해서는 균열콘크리트에 대한 인장, 압축, 전단모델과 콘크리트중에 있는 철근모델을 조합하여 고려하였다. 이에 대한 콘크리트의 균열모델로서는 분산균열모델을 사용하였으며 철근에 대해서는 1축 응력상태로가정하여 등가의 분산 분포된 철근량으로 모델화하였다 구성모델은 재하, 제하 그리고 재재하과정을 포함하여 요소는 반복하중하에서 철근콘크리트 쉘의 거동을 파악할 수 있다 신뢰성 있는 실험결과와 비교를 통하여 본 논문의 해석방법이 반복하중을 받는 철근콘크리트 쉘구조의 비선형 해석에 적합한 방법임을 입증하고자 한다.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.135-141
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• 1995

Any arbitrarily shaped laminated composite shells of revolution can be sum of the conical shell elements. Therefore, finite element model of conical shell element will be developed in this study. To verify consistency and validity of this model, natural vibrations of this model is compared with the analytical solution of cylindrical shell. Herein, an extensive parametric study is presented to assess the modeling capability of this model in class of laminated composite cylinders. It is seen that the proposed model provides highly accurate results with analytical solution. Once development of this conical shell element is done, any arbitrarily shaped composite shells of revolution can be easily analyzed.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.71-78
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• 2018

This paper presents the assembling of multiple patches based on the single patch isogeometric formulation for the shear deformable shell element given in the previous study. The geometrically exact shell formulation has been accomplished with the shell theory based formulation and the generalized curvilinear coordinate system directly derived from the given NURBS geometry. For the knot elements matching across adjacent surfaces, the zero-th and first parametric continuity conditions are considered and the corresponding coupling constraints are implemented by a master-slave formulation between adjacent patches. The constraints are then enforced by a substitution method for condensation of the slave variables, thereby reducing the model size. Through numerical investigations, the important features of the first parametric continuity condition are confirmed. The performance of the multi-patch shell models is also examined comparing the rate of convergence of response coefficients for the zero and first order continuity conditions and continuity in coupling boundary between two patches is confirmed.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.481-494
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• 2001

An enhanced degenerated shell finite element (FE), which has been developed for inelastic analysis of reinforced concrete structures is described in this paper. Generally, Reissner-Mindlin (RM) assumptions are adopted to develop the degenerated shell FE so that transverse shear deformation effects is considered. However, it is found that there are serious defects such as locking phenomena in RM degenerated shell FE since the stiffness matrix has been overestimated in some situations. As remedies of locking phenomena, reduced integration, incompatible mode and assumed strain method have been used. Especially, the assumed strain method has been successfully used in many FEs. But contrarily, there is a few investigation on the performance of the assumed strains in the inelastic analysis of concrete structures. Therefore, shell formulation is provided in this paper with emphasis on the terms related to the stiffness matrix based on assumed strain method and microscopic concrete material model. Finally, the performance of the present shell element is tested and demonstrated with several numerical examples. From the numerical tests, the present result shows a good agreement with experimental data or other numerical results.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.83-98
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• 2000

자오방향 및 주변방향으로 피르스트레스트 하중이 작용된 축대칭 쉘 구조물을 기하학적으로 축대칭인 구조물의 특성을 최대한으로 이용할 수 있도록 회전 링요소로 모델화하였다 보강링 요소의 모델은 축대칭 쉘요소를 이용하였으며 본체 구조물과 절점에서 부착되있는 것으로 가정하여 이의 편심을 고려하였다 유체-구조물의 상호관계는 접촉면에서 구조물의 가속도에 비례한 부가질량으로 표현하였으며 부가질량은 유체를 비점성 비압축 및 비회전을 가정하여 유한요소법에 의해 구하였다 이에 대한 수치해석을 통하여 고유진동해석 및 지진하중을 주하중으로 한 동적해석을 실시하였다 프로그램을 통하여 해석한 결과를 프리스트레스 하중 하에서 고유진동수에 대한 정해와 비교한 결과 20개의 요소로 모델링한 경우에서도 정해와 근접한 해를 얻을 수 있었다 또한 내부유체가 있는 경우와 링보강을 한 경우에 대한 고유진동수를 문헌과 비교한 결과 근접한 해를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.59-70
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• 1990

The p-version of the finite element method is a new approach to finite element analysis in which the partition of the domain is held fixed while the degree p of approximating piecewise polynomials is increased. In this paper, the focus is on computer implementation of a new hierarchic p-convergence shell model based on blend mapping functions. Its rigid-body modes, round-off error, and convergence characteristics are investigated.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.307-317
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• 1991

A displacement-based finite element method is presented for the geometrically nonlinear analysis of eccentrically stiffened plates. The nonlinear degenerated shell and eccentric isobeam(isoparametric beam) elements are formulated on the basis of total Lagrangian and updated Lagrangian descriptions. To describe the stiffener's local plate buckling mode, some additional local degrees of freedom are used in the eccentric isobeam element. The eccentric isobeam element can be affectively employed to model the eccentric stiffener just like the case of the degenerated shell element. A detailed nonlinear analysis including the effects of stiffener's eccentricity is performed to estimate the critical load and the post buckling behaviour of an eccentrically stiffened plate. The critical buckling loads are found higher than analytic plate buckling load but lower than Euler buckling load which are the buckling strength requirements of classification society.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.21-27
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• 2001

In this paper, a nonlinear finite element procedure is presented for the dynamic analysis of reinforced concrete shells. A computer program, named RCAHEST(reinforced concrete analysis in higher evaluation system technology), for the analysis of reinforced concrete structures was used. A 4-node flat shell element will drilling rotational stiffness is used for spatial discretization. The layered approach is used to discretize behavior of concrete and reinforcement through the thickness. Material nonlinearity is taken into account by comprising tensile, compressive and shear models of cracked concrete and a model of reinforcing steel. The smeared crack approach is incorporated. Solution of the equations of motion is obtained by numerical integration using Hilber-Hughes-Taylor(HHT) algorithm. The proposed numerical method for the nonlinear dynamic analysis of reinforced concrete shells is verified by comparison with reliable analytical results.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.409-415
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• 2010

A finite element model for punching shear of flat plate structures is presented. A parametric study also has been conducted to verification of influence of several parameters in terms of the flexural reinforcement ratio, slab thickness. Reisnner-Mindlin assumptions are adopted to consider of shear deformation. Layered shell element is considered for the material non-linearities. The finite element model of this study was verified comparing with existing experimental results. The model is able to predict the capacity of the flat plate structures. The punching shear of flat plate structures varied depending on the flexural reinforcement ratio, slab thickness.