• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.59-70
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• 1992

Inelastic nonlinear behavior of a hyperbolic cooling tower under wind loading is studied using a finite element program developed on a Cray Y-MP. Convergence studies for the elastic and inelastic analyses are performed using three mesh models. It is shown that the mesh convergence plays an important role in accurately predicting the inelastic behavior of a cooling tower. Even though the cooling tower resists the applied forces through membrane stresses, it is found that the bending stresses play an important role in the failure and behavior of the cooling tower. The present analysis gives a shape factor of 1.48, which indicates a significant redistribution of meridional stresses. It is further evidenced by the distribution of meridional reinforcement yielding which reaches up to $30^{\circ}$ from the windward meridian. The present practice of using elastic analysis for calculating the design stresses appears to be at least safe and conservative. A more comprehensive study should lead to conclusions that would allow use of a higher-than-one shape factor, thus requiring less meridional reinforcement than the present design method does.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.43-55
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• 2008

The complexity of determining strain associated with shear modulus and damping ratio in torsional tests has been resolved by means of several approaches. Particularly, the modified equivalent radius approach is adequate to when generating the plots of equivalent radius ratio versus strain more effectively over any range of strains in resonant column and torsional shear (RC/TS) tests. The modified equivalent radius approach was applied for hyperbolic, modified hyperbolic, and Ramberg-Osgood models in evaluating damping ratio. Results showed that using a single value of equivalent radius ratio based on conventional equivalent radius approach is not appropriate. A new model was developed to consider the soil damping behavior at small strains as well as hysteretic damping and it was attempted to determine adjustments are required in evaluating strain associated damping when combining the two damping components.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.11-20
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• 1993

Nonlinear inelastic behavior of an HP saddle shell has been examined by a finite element computer program developed on a Cray Y-MP. The mesh convergence is studied using three progressively refined finite element mesh models, $16{\times}16$, $32{\times}32$ and $64{\times}64$, for the elastic and inelastic analyses. It is shown that the $32{\times}32$ mesh model gives a solution that is very close to that given by the $64{\times}64$ mesh model, thus, showing a convergence. The inelastic analysis shows that the shell has a tremendous capacity to redistribute the stresses. At the ultimate, the concrete cracks and the reinforcement yieldings are spread out all over the shell, indicating that the stress distribution in the shell is approaching that given by the classical membrane theory. The present computer program provides a very useful tool for evaluating the nonlinear ultimate behavior of concrete shells during the design process.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.5C
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• pp.183-190
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• 2009

It is necessary to predict the deformation and stresses on soils to establish the nonlinear stress-strain relationship of geomaterials at various strain levels. Especially, a need exists to establish the pre-failure nonlinear characteristic of cemented granular geomaterials used in road constructions. In this paper, therefore, conventional granular soils were mixed with various cementing materials, such as cement and fly ash from coal combustion by-products. Then, the normalized nonlinear behavior of cemented geomaterials was assessed using unconfined compression test. In addition, various constitutive models of soils were evaluated for estimating pre-failure non-linear behavior of cemented geomaterials from the test results.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.65-73
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• 2000

An elasto-plastic constitutive model was proposed, in which the behavior at small-to-large strain level can be modeled. The proposed model is based on the anisotropic hardening description with the generalization of isotropic hardening rule and the total stress concept. From a mathematical approach it was proved that the model includes the previous successful models. The model was verified by a series of resonant column tests, torsional shear tests and triaxial tests, and the proposed model predicted small-to-large strain behavior more consistently and accurately than the hyperbolic model and the Ramberg-Osgood model for a weathered granitic soil. In addition, the nonlinearity under small strain condition was predicted appropriately for the torsional shear test results.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.21-28
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• 2011

Several theoretical soil nonlinear models to predict damping ratio, which is one of the typical dynamic properties of soils, it is impractical to predict damping ratio. The resonant column and torsional shear test(RC-TS) is used to represent the dynamic behavior of soils from intermediate to medium shear strains. A limitation of RC-TS is measure precise shear strain in large strains and the modified equivalent radius($R_{eq}$) was obtained using both modified hyperbolic model and Ramberg-Osgood model. Bonneville clays were tested using RC-TS test to obtain rotation and torque. The measured rotation and torque were then compared with calculated rotation and torque using curve-fitting method. Then, the nonlinear soil model parameters were obtained and the equivalent radius was calculated using the model parameters.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.363-363
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• 2019

활성화 함수(activation function)는 기계학습(machine learning)의 학습과정에 비선형성을 도입하여 심층적인 학습을 용이하게 하고 예측의 정확도를 높이는 중요한 요소 중 하나이다(Roy et al., 2019). 일반적으로 기계학습에서 사용되고 있는 활성화 함수의 종류에는 계단 함수(step function), 시그모이드 함수(sigmoid 함수), 쌍곡 탄젠트 함수(hyperbolic tangent function), ReLU 함수(Rectified Linear Unit function) 등이 있으며, 예측의 정확도 향상을 위하여 다양한 형태의 활성화 함수가 제시되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기계학습을 통하여 수위예측 시 정확도 향상을 위하여 Hybrid 활성화 함수를 제안하였다. 연구대상지는 조수간만의 영향을 받는 한강을 대상으로 선정하였으며, 2009년 ~ 2018년까지 10년간의 수문자료를 활용하였다. 수위예측 알고리즘은 Python 내 Tensorflow의 RNN (Recurrent Neural Networks) 모델을 이용하였으며, 강수량, 수위, 조위, 댐 방류량, 하천 유량의 수문자료를 학습시켜 3시간 및 6시간 후의 수위를 예측하였다. 예측정확도 향상을 위하여 입력 데이터는 정규화(Normalization)를 시켰으며, 민감도 분석을 통하여 신경망모델의 은닉층 개수, 학습률의 최적 값을 도출하였다. Hybrid 활성화 함수는 쌍곡 탄젠트 함수와 ReLU 함수를 혼합한 형태로 각각의 가중치($w_1,w_2,w_1+w_2=1$)를 변경하여 정확도를 평가하였다. 그 결과 가중치의 비($w_1/w_2$)에 따라서 예측 결과의 RMSE(Roote Mean Square Error)가 최소가 되고 NSE (Nash-Sutcliffe model Efficiency coefficient)가 최대가 되는 지점과 Peak 수위의 예측정확도가 최대가 되는 지점을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 현재 Data modeling을 통한 수위예측의 정확도 향상을 위해 기초가 되는 연구이나, 향후 다양한 형태의 활성화 함수를 제안하여 정확도를 향상시킨다면 예측 결과를 통하여 침수예보에 대한 의사결정이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• Horticultural Science & Technology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.165-170
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• 2014

The objective of this study was to make growth and yield models of sowthistle (Ixeris dentata Nakai) by using an expolinear functional equation in a closed-type plant production system. The growth and yield of hydroponically-grown sowthistle were investigated under four different planting distances ($15{\times}10$, $15{\times}15$, $15{\times}20$, and $15{\times}25$ cm). Shoot dry weights per plant was the highest at $15{\times}25$ cm, but was the lowest at $15{\times}10$ cm. Shoot dry weights per area was the highest at $15{\times}15$ cm, but was the lowest at $15{\times}25$ cm. The optimum planting density and planting distance for yield of sowthistle were 44 plants/$m^2$ and $15{\times}15$ cm, respectively. Shoot dry weights per plant and per area were showed as an expolinear type functional equation. A linear relationship between shoot dry and fresh weights was observed to be linear regardless of the planting distance. Crop growth rate, relative growth rate and lost time in an expolinear functional equation showed quadratic function form. Radiation use efficiency of sowthistle was $4.3-6.1g{\cdot}MJ^{-1}$. The measured and estimated shoot dry weights showed a good agreement using days after transplanting as input data. It is concluded that the expolinear growth model can be a useful tool for quantifying the growth and yield of sowthistle in a closed-type plant production system.

• Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.93-101
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• 2020

In order to predict the nonlinear behaviour of the soil, the elasto-plastic hyperbolic model was selected, which was considered to be relatively simple and highly predictable. The soil parameter determination and the behavior analysis program were developed by formalizing the functions related to the constitutive model. Each soil parameter was determined from the results of the drained triaxial compression tests of Baekma river sand with the change of relative density. The stress-strain behavior was predicted using the soil parameters determined under each condition. As a result, the deviator stress for the axial strain is verified to have a good match between the measured value and predicted value at each relative density. In the relationship between the volumetric stain and the axial strain, when the relative density is loose, the measured value and predicted value tend to match, and when relative density is dense, the predicted value of the volumetric strain appears somewhat smaller than the measured value due to the limitation of the constitutive model.

• Geotechnical Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.19-32
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• 1989

The vertical loads of buried Hume pipes were calculated using the finite element method, in which the hyperbolic soil model, the nonlinear hysteretic stress path model and soil-structure interface model were used. The obtained results were compared and discussed with those from the classic methods such as Marston-Spangler's theory and so on. The effects of excavation width and depth to the top of pipe along with soil parameters and type of excavation, which have not been included in the classic methods, were investigated. In addition, a calculation method of the vertical load for buried Hume pipes was proposed and it is presumed to be easily applied in the practical fields.