• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.109-118
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• 2015

Ultimate flexural buckling strength of cylindrical steel shells for the wind turbine tower structure was investigated by applying the geometrically and materially nonlinear finite element method. The effects of initial imperfection, radius to thickness ratio, and type of steel on the ultimate flexural strength of cylindrical shell were analyzed. The flexural strengths of cylindrical shells obtained by FEA were compared with design flexural strengths specified in Eurocode 3 and AISI. The shell buckling modes recommended in DNV-RP-C202 and the out-of-roundness tolerance and welding induced imperfections specified in Eurocode 3 were used in the nonlinear FE analysis as initial geometrical imperfections. The radius to thickness ratios of cylindrical shell in the range of 60 to 210 were considered and shells are assumed to be made of SM520 or HSB800 steel.

• 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.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 2010

In this study, structural analyses were carried out on the composite sandwich panel which was tested under compression loading. In the structural analyses, three types of finite element modelling were considered and linear buckling analysis and nonlinear analysis were performed for each FE-model. Through the analyses, it was found that shell elements for face parts and solid elements for core part were appropriate for the better prediction of the buckling load of the panel. If the material failure of the face is critical than overall buckling of the sandwich panel, the use of one shell element through the thickness direction was suitable in the FE-model for the better predictions of failure location and failure load.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.19 no.3 s.73
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• pp.247-258
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• 2006

For the perforated cylindrical shell submerged in fluid, it is almost impossible to develop a finite element model due to the necessity of the fine meshing of the shell and the fluid at the same time. This necessitates the use of solid shell with equivalent material properties. Unfortunately the effective elastic constants are not found in any references even though the ASME code is suggesting those for perforated plate. Therefore in this study the equivalent material properties of perforated shell are suggested by performing several finite element analyses with respect to the ligament efficiencies.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.108-117
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• 2010

The frame element is commonly used for construction stage analysis PSC bridges. However, the frame element does not show sufficient information in the curved PSC box bridges. For the case of curved PSC bridges, the deformations in the inner and outer web are different. In this case, the different jacking forces are required in the inner and outer webs. And it is impossible to calculate different jacking forces in the inner and outer webs if we use the frame element for construction stage analysis. In order to overcome this problem, the use of shell element is essential for a three-dimensional construction stage analysis of PSC bridges. In the following, the formulation of an assumed strain shell element and its application of PSC box girder bridge analysis are presented.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.525-530
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• 2005

In this study, it is presented analysis results of bending problems in the anisotropic thick shell and the anisotropic thin shell bending problems. In the numerical analysis of various mechanical problems involving complex partial differential equations, finite element method is used. Both Kirchoffs assumptions and Mindlin assumptions are used as the basic governing equations of bending problems in the anisotropic shells. The analysis results are compared between the anisotropic thick shells and the anisotropic thin shells for the various width-thickness ratios. The numerical method of this study will be contributed not only to analysis the bending behavior of anisotropic shells but also to design the anisotropic shells.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.122-125
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• 2005

The AutoForm previously used the membrane element and it accomplished sheet metal forming analysis. The membrane analysis has been widely applied to various sheet metal forming processes because of its saving time effectiveness. However, it's well known that the membrane analysis can not provides correct information for the processes which considerable bending effects. From this time research it tried to compare the formation analysis result which uses the shell element which is applied newly in the AutoForm and actual products. The shell element is compromise method between continuum analysis and membrane analysis. The Finite element method by using shell element is the most economical numerical method. From analysis results, FEA by using shell element can estimate accurately the problems happened in actual auto-body panel.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.5979-5986
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• 2013

This study carried out a geometrical nonlinear dynamic analysis of laminated composite shell structures. Based on the first-order shear deformation shell theory and nonlinear formulation of Sanders, the Newmark method and Newton-Raphson iteration are used for dynamic solution considering nonlinear effects. The effects of radius, fiber angles, and layup sequences on the nonlinear dynamic response for various parameters are studied using a nonlinear dynamic finite element program developed for this study. The several numerical results were in good agreement with those reported by other investigators for square composite plates, and the new results reported in this paper show the significant interactions between the radius, fiber angles and layup sequence in the laminate. Key observation points are discussed and a brief design guideline of laminated composite shells is given.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.382-388
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• 2010

This paper describes the standardized finite element model for carbody structures of railway vehicle made of sandwich composites. Recently, sandwich composites were widely used to railway vehicle due to the improvement of energy efficiency, high specific stiffness and strength, weight reduction and space saving in korea. Therefore, structural integrity should be verified using finite element analysis prior to the manufacture of composite railway vehicle. The standardized finite element model for composite carbody structures was introduced through comparing the results of real structural test under vertical, compressive, twisting load and natural frequency test of various railway vehicles in this study. The results show that the quadratic shell element is suitable to model the reinforced metal frame used to improve the flexural stiffness of sandwich panel compared to beam element, and layered shell and solid element are recommended to model the skin and honeycomb core of sandwich panel compared to sandwich shell element. Also, the proposed standard finite element model has the merit of being applied to crashworthiness problem without modifications of finite element model.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.327-330
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• 2009

PSC 박스 교량의 시공 중 거동 특성을 고려하기 위하여 뼈대 요소를 이용한 시공단계의 설계가 수행되고 있다. 그러나 PSC 박스 교량 중 곡선 램프교 등의 경우는 교량의 외측 및 내측의 변위 및 응력 값이 현저히 다르다. 따라서 PSC 박스 교량의 텐던량 및 시공 중 긴장력이 외측 및 내측에서 다르게 산정되어야 함에도 불구하고 현실적으로는 계산이 불가능하여 같은 양의 텐던과 부적절한 긴장력을 사용하고 있어 비효율적인 설계와 시공이 이루어지고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 내외측의 텐던량을 다르게 고려할 수 있고 교량의 내외측 반력, 응력, 변위 분포를 얻을 수 있는 3차원 해석이 필수적으로 요구 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 PSC 박스 교량의 3차원 거동 해석을 위하여 텐던 및 크리프, 건조수축을 반영한 준적합 쉘요소를 이용하여 수치해석을 수행하였으며 크리프 및 건조수축의 특성은 ACI코드와 CEB/FIP 코드를 적용하여 비교분석하였다. 각각의 결과 값이 상이한 경우도 있지만 대체로 두 코드는 비슷한 양상을 보였으며 CEB/FIP 가 좀 더 경제적인 설계가 됨을 알 수 있었다.