• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.191-196
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• 2022

In this study, the anisotropic mechanical property of fused deposition modeling three-dimensional (3D) printing based on lamination direction was verified by a tensile test. Moreover, the property was applied to solid isotropic materials with penalization-based topology optimization. The case of the lower control arm, one of the automotive suspension components, was considered as a benchmark problem. The optimal topological results varied depending on the external load and anisotropic property. Based on these results, two test specimens were fabricated by varying the lamination direction of 3D printing; a tensile test utilizing 3D non-contact strain gauge was also conducted. The measured strain was compared with that obtained by computer-aided engineering response analysis. Quantitatively, the measurement and analysis results are found to have good agreement. The effectiveness of topology optimization considering the lamination direction of 3D printing was confirmed by the experimental result.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.434-439
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• 2010

A compliant mechanism is a mechanism that produces its motion by the flexibility of some or all of its members when input force or thermal load is applied. Whereas the topology optimizations based on homogenization and SIMP parameterization have been successfully applied for compliant mechanism design, ESO approach has been hardly considered yet for the optimization of these types of systems. In this paper, traditional ESO method is adopted to achieve the optimum design of a compliant mechanism for thermal load, since AESO method cannot consider the effect of both heat conduction and convection. Sensitivity number, a criterion for element removal in traditional ESO, was newly defined for input thermal loading. The procedure has been tested in numerical applications and compared with the results obtained by other methods to validate these approaches.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.49-54
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• 2000

A field emission display has spacers separating the emitting base and display face. The arrangement of the spacer is important for maintenance of required clearance, endurance of bending stresses, and efficient vacuum sealing. Topology optimization technique with material density was introduced to select the best position of the spacers from the available positions. The displacement and Von Mises stress distribution of the panels with optimal spacers were calculated by finite element method. Also the design guide for adding eliminating spacers was proposed.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.8-14
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• 2007

The geometry in the weight reduction design is very required to be started from the conceptual design with low cost, high performance and quality. In this point, a topological shape fur optimization concerned with conceptual design of structure is important. The method used in this paper combines three optimization techniques, where the shape and physical dimensions of the structure and material distribution are hierachically optimized, with the maximum rigidity of structure and lightweight. As the applications, the technology of weight reduction design is applied on designs of aluminum control arm and inner panel of hood.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.08a
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• pp.70-72
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 설계민감도 해석법과 위상최적화 기법을 사용하여 산란체의 물질상수 분포를 알기위한 수치해석 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 설계민감도 해석법과 보조변수법을 사용하여 복소 유전율에대한 목적함수의 미분정보를 계산하였고 이 민감도 정보를 통해 물질정보를 최적화 하였다. 최적화 기법으로 최대경사법(Steepest descent Method)을 사용하였으며 이 제안한 해석 기법을 2차원 TMz 모델에 적용함으로써 검증하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.2 s.245
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• pp.128-134
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• 2006

Topology optimization is an effective scheme to obtain the initial design concept: however, it is hard to apply in case of non-linear or multi-objective problems. In this study, a modified topology optimization method is proposed to generate a structure of a swing arm type actuator satisfying maximum compliance as well. as maximum stiffness using the multi-objective optimization. approach. The multi-objective function is defined to maximize the compliance in the direction of focusing of the actuator and the second eigen-frequency of the structure. The design of experiments are performed and the response surface functions are formulated to construct the multi-objective function. The weighting factors between conflicting functions are determined by the back-error propagation neural network and the solution of multi-objective function is acquired using the genetic algorithm.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2017.03a
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• pp.216-225
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• 2017

제조 기술의 고도화가 이루어진 현 시점에서, 제품의 설계방식도 단순구조설계가 아닌 최적설계를 통해 제품의 경제성과 안정성을 동시에 획득하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 인장, 압축, 비틀림과 같은 다양한 힘을 받는 자전거의 크랭크 암에 대해 최적 설계를 진행하였고, EDISON의 Plastic Deformation with Damage Mechanism Analysis SW 프로그램을 통해 유한 요소 해석을 수행했다. 해석은 크랭크암 내부에 응력 값이 가장 높은 $90^{\circ}$를 경계조건으로 표면 응력을 고려한 구조, 내부 응력을 고려한 구조, 트러스를 적용한 구조와 MATLAB을 통해 위상최적화 후 추가적으로 형상을 최적화한 구조를 설계했다. 끝으로 경제성과 안정성을 판단하는 기준으로 각각의 질량 대비 강성을 확인하여 최적의 형상을 제시하였다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.45-50
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• 1994

We have developed an algorithm of designing the binary phase gratings for even-numbered spot arrays which selectively cancel or suppress the unwanted even orders. Principles and properties which control the speed of the optimization algorithm are presented, and the results of the designed gratings are illustrated up to $1{\times}2에서 1\times}20$ array.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.826-833
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• 2010

Electric-thermal-structural actuated compliant mechanisms are mechanisms onto which electric voltage drop is applied as input instead of force. This mechanism is based on thermal expansion of material while being heated. Compliant mechanisms are designed subjected to electric charge input using BESO(bi-directional evolutionary structural optimization) method. Reliability-based topology optimization (RBTO) is applied to the topology design of actuators. performance measure approach (PMA), which has probabilistic constraints that are formulated in terms of the reliability index, is adopted to evaluate the probabilistic constraints. In this study, BESO method is used to obtain optimal topology of compliant mechanisms from initial design domain. PMA approach is used to evaluate reliability index. The procedure has been tested in numerical applications and compared with the results obtained by other methods to validate these approaches.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.66-77
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• 1996

Optimal topology design is to search the optimal configuration of a structure which can be used as a shape at the conceptual design stage. Our objective is to maximize the stiffness of the structures and ribs under a material usage constraintl. The density of each finite element is the design variable and its relationship with Young's modulus is expressed by quadratic form. The configuration is represented by the entire density distribution, the structural analysis is performed by finite element method and the optimiza- tion is performed by Feasible Direction Method. Feasible Direction Method can handle various problems simultaneously, that is, mult-objectives and multi-constraints. Total computation time can be reduced by the quadratic relationship between the density and the material property and fewer design variables than Homogenization Method. Toplogy optimization technique developed in this research is applied to design the shapes of the ribs.