• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.277-287
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• 2009

Recently, the high-strength steel of 400~600MPa tensile strength is producing in the country. Use of high-strength steel member in the design of high-rise buildings is expected to increase the efficiency of structural design in the aspect of structure material weight and cost, however it has been used only a narrow extent. No efficient design method to use high-strength steel in the design of high-rise buildings has been developed. Therefore, in this study structural cost optimization technique that can minimize the structural material cost of high-rise buildings using high-strength steels is developed. The efficiency of the technique is evaluated by comparing the experience-based design for 6 high-rise building examples. As a result, the proposed techniques can save 7~21% of structural material cost compared with experienced-based design. And also, the rough guideline for effective use of high-strength steels in the structural design of high-rise buildings is introduced on the basis of results.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.477-485
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• 2012

Geometric configurations such as hull shape, wall thickness, stiffener layout, and type of construction materials are the key factors influencing the structural performance of pressure hulls. Traditional theoretical approach provides quick and acceptable solutions for the design of pressure hulls within specific geometric configuration and material. In this paper, alternative approaches that can be used to obtain optimal geometric shape, wall thickness, construction material configuration and stiffener layout of a pressure hull are presented. CAE(Computer Aided Engineering) based design optimization tools are utilized in order to obtain the required structural responses and optimal design parameters. Optimal elliptical meridional profile is determined for a cylindrical pressure hull design using metamodel-based optimization technique implemented in a fully-integrated parametric modeler-CAE platform in ANSYS. While the optimal composite laminate layup and the design of ring stiffener for a thin-walled pressure hull are obtained using gradient-based optimization method in OptiStruct. It is noted that the proposed alternative approaches are potentially effective for pressure hull design.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.693-696
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 레벨셋 방법을 이용하여, 소음을 차단하기 위한 음향 구조물의 형상 최적 설계를 수행하였다. 음향 결정 구조에서는 음향이 흩어져 있는 결정 구조에 의해서 굴절되기 때문에 결정 모양을 조정함으로써, 음향 거동을 제어 할 수 있다. 형상 최적 설계의 목적은 특정한 각도와 각속도로 입사되는 입사파에 대해서 음향 투과율(acoustic transmittance)이 최소가 되도록 음향 결정의 형상(inclusion shape)을 결정하는 것이다. 음향 압력(acoustic pressure)은 주기성을 갖는 음향 결정에 대해서 헬몰츠(Helmoltz)형태의 지배 방정식을 풀어서 얻을 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 음향 구조물로 결정이 수평 방향으로는 주기적으로 무한히 분포하고 수직방향으로는 유한한 층간 구조를 가지고 있는 소음 방어벽 (Noise barrier)을 고려한다. 결정의 위치는 고정되어 있고, 결정의 형상을 설계 변수로서 음파의 거동을 제어할 수 있도록 하였다. 주기적 구조물을 고려하기 때문에 결정의 좌와 우에 Bloch 이론을 적용해 주기적 경계조건을 부과하였고, 소음 방어벽 위와 아래에는 임피던스 행렬(impedance matrix)를 이용하여, 무한 균질 영역과 소음 방어벽사이의 음파 투과를 모사하였다. 복잡한 형상 변화를 표현하기 위해 임시적 경계를 이용한 레벨셋 방법을 사용하였다. 설계 민감도 해석을 통해 목적함수가 감소하는 방향으로 경계에서의 수직 벡터를 계산하고, 이를 헤밀턴-자코비(Hamilton-Jacob) 방정식에 대입하여, 최적의 형상을 나타내는 레벨셋 함수를 구하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.133-138
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• 1999

3차원 트러스 구조물을 설계대상으로, 구조계와 제어계의 동시최적설계문제에 대하여 고찰하였다. 구조 설계에대한 최소중량설계와 제어 설계에대한 외란 억제문제를 설계목적으로 고려하였다. 그리고, 본연구의 유용성을 입증하기위한 수치 시뮬레이션의 결과를 기술하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.3-7
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• 2002

컴퓨터 네트워킹 기술의 발달에 힘입어 분산처리를 이용한 기법이 복잡한 구조물의 최적설계에 널리 사용되고 있다. 최적설계시 구조물이 복잡하고 설계 변수가 많아질수록 설계 변수간의 교호작용이 복잡해지고 국부최적해가 많아지는 특성이 있다. 최근의 최적 설계는 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 다양한 전역 최적화 기법을 도입하여 적용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 진화이론을 바탕으로 한 유전자 알고리즘과 실험계획법을 바탕으로 한 반응표면법에 분산처리 기법을 도입하여 인공위성 추진 모듈의 최적화에 적용시켰다. 그 결과 유전자 알고리즘이 조금 더 좋은 최적값을 보였으며 해석시간은 반응표면법을 적용 시켰을 경우가 훨씬 짧았다. 병렬처리 기법을 이용한 위성구조체의 최적설계에 있어 유전자 알고리즘은 해의 전역성에서 반응표면법은 시간의 효율성에서 각각 장점을 보였다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.277-286
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• 2001

Among the ULSAB methods for the lightweight automobile body, Tailor Welded Blank(TWB) is adopted and the design process is developed for the existing component. Topology optimization conducted to find the distribution of the variable thickness. The number of parts and the welding lines are determined from it. In the detail design, size optimization is carried out to find the optimum thickness of each part and then, the final parting lines are tuned by shape optimization. A commercial optimization software GENESIS is utilized for the optimization processes.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.501-507
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• 2010

Structural optimization is performed to minimize the weight of a RC building structure, which has eight floors above ground and three underground, under gravity, wind, and seismic loads. Design optimization problem is formulated to find the values of the design variables that minimize the volume while satisfying various design and side constraints. To solved the optimization problem posed, several design techniques equipped in PIAnO, a commercial PIDO tool, are used. DOE is used to generate training points and structural analysis is performed using MIADS Gen, a general-purpose structural analysis CAE tool. Then, meta-models are generated from structural analysis results and accuracies of meta-models are evaluated. Next, design optimization is performed by using the verified meta-models and optimization technique equipped in PIAnO. Finally, we obtained optimal results, which could demonstrate the effectiveness of our design method.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.1-9
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• 2011

An optimal design method for a structural control system considering load variations due to their uncertain characteristics is studied in this paper. The conventional design problem for a control system generally deals with the optimization problem of a structural control system and interaction between the structure and the control device. This study deals with the optimization problem of a load-structure-control system and the more complicated interactions with each other. The problem of finding the load that maximizes the structural responses and the structural control system that minimizes the responses simultaneously is formulated as the min-max problem. In order to effectively obtain the optimal design variables, a co-evolutionary algorithm is adopted and, as a result, an optimal design procedure for the linear structural control system with uncertain dynamic characteristics is proposed. The example design and simulated results of an earthquake excited structure validates the proposed method.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.293-299
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• 2016

In this paper, a projection method is introduced which is used in topology design optimization. In the projection method, each active design variable is projected onto the design domain depending on the shape and size of the projection functions, and the finite element under this projection receives a solid material. Furthermore, the size of the projection function defines the minimum length scale of the structural members. Therefore, a designer can easily apply design constraints without complicated post-processing procedure. In addition, the projection method can be combined with the homogenization theory, and applied to material design problem for composite materials. Topology design optimization for the unit-cell of the periodic structures can maximize the effective material properties, which yields the optimal material distribution with maximum bulk or shear moduli under a given volume fraction.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.44-55
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• 1996

Since the use of computer for the ship structural design around mid 1960``s, specially many researches on the midship section optimum design were carried out from 1980. For a rule-based optimum design case, there has been a problem of handling a discrete design variable such as plate thickness for a practical use. To deal with the discrete design variable problems and to develop an effective new method using artificial neural network for the ship structural design applications, Neuro-Optimizer combing Hopfield Neural Network and other Simulated Annealing is proposed as a new optimization method and then applied to the fundamental skeletal structures and Midship section of Tanker. From the numerical results, it is confirmed that Neuro-Optimizer could be used effectively as a new optimization method for the structural design.