• Composites Research
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.58-64
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• 2015

The purpose of this paper is to suggest the effective equivalent finite element model for the impact limiter of a nuclear spent fuel shipping cask made of sandwich composite panels. The sandwich composite panels were composed of a metallic facesheet and a core material made of urethane foam, balsa wood and red wood, respectively. The effective equivalent finite element model for the impact limiter was proposed by comparing the results of low-velocity impact test of sandwich panels. An explicit finite element analysis based on LS-DYNA 3D was done in this study. The results showed that the solid elements were recommended to model the facesheet and core of sandwich panels for impact limiter compared to combination modeling method, in which the layered shell element for facesheet and solid element for core material are used. In particular, the solid element for balsa and red wood core materials should be modeled by the element elimination approach.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.1175-1183
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• 2010

A spacer grid assembly is one of the most important structural components in a Light Water Reactor(LWR) nuclear fuel assembly. In the case of the Zircaloy spacer grid assembly, the primary design consideration is to ensure that lateral dynamic crush strength of the spacer grid assembly is sufficient to resist design basis loads and thereby prevent seismic accidents, without a significant increase in the hydraulic head loss for the reactor coolant in the reactor core. In this study, factors affecting the lateral dynamic crush strength of a spacer grid assembly were analyzed by performing lateral dynamic crush tests and finite element analyses. Further, an effective and economical method to enhance the lateral dynamic crush strength of the spacer grid assembly is proposed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.65-71
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• 2005

Pyro-shock measurement system in launch vehicle is necessary to validate structural robustness and to prepare environmental qualification criteria for launch vehicle systems. This paper describes design, development and function test of prototype pyro-shock recorder to be employed on KSLV-I in the near future. Due to the limitation of telemetry transmission rate, pyro-shock recorder acquires and stores the shock sensor data with high sampling rate in short period and sends the data to the KSLV-I telemetry system with lower data rate. Signal conditioning in pyro-shock recorder is designed to enhance signal-to-noise ratio through proper placement of anti-aliasing filter.

• Composites Research
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.191-197
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• 2012

In this paper, the penetration behavior of carbon/epoxy composite laminates subjected to high velocity projectile impact was studied by numerical simulation. The composite laminates made of carbon/epoxy with $[45/0/-45/90]_{ns}$ stacking sequence and the spherical steel impactor were three-dimensionally modeled. The ply numbers of 16 and 24 and the impact velocities in the range of 140-250 m/s were considered. The analysis was performed using an explicit finite element code LS-DYNA. The residual velocity and the amount of damage were predicted and compared to the experimental results.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.455-462
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• 2016

This experimental study aims to evaluate the impact performance of UHPC exterior panels through high velocity impact tests. The impact performance of UHPC was compared with that of granite in terms of panel thickness, and strain histories were recoded on the rear face of panel specimens. The UHPC turned out to be a good exterior facade material, because the appearance of UHPC is natural enough and impact performance was superior to granite. After colliding, compression pulse reached to the rear face but that pulse was reflected in tension pulse with respect to the free point outside the rear face of the panel. This tension pulse caused the scabbing from the rear side, as the strain histories on the rear face showed three different regions as compression region, steady region and tension region. The shear plug deformation by shear force also was one of the primary reasons for the scabbing based on the observation. Therefore, the scabbing seemed to be affected by both tension and shear forces.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.183-186
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• 2010

교각에서의 기초세굴 단계 및 상부구조물의 영향에 따른 진동특성을 파악하기 위해 교각 시험체를 이용하여 충격진동실험과 Midas FEA ver.2.0를 이용한 유한요소해석을 수행하였다. 기초세굴 모의는 교각시험체 기초 주위의 지반을 단계별로 굴착하였으며, 상부구조물의 영향은 철근콘크리트 블록을 제작하여 교각 시험체 위에 재하하였다. 충격진동실험과 수치해석결과, 강성이 작아지거나 질량이 커질수록 1차 모드 고유진동수도 작아지는 등 유사한 경향을 나타내었다. 대체적으로 충격진동실험으로 구한 1차모드 고유진동수는 수치해석으로 구한 값보다 작은 경향을 나타내었으며, 이는 지반의 강성변화를 수치해석 모델에서 연속적으로 반영하지 못하는 한계로 인해 발생한 오차로 판단된다. 따라서 1차 모드 고유진동수의 변화를 이용한 교각 세굴 건전성 평가를 위한 유한요소해석을 위해서는 지반물성을 보다 잘 모의할 수 있는 기법의 개발이 필요하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.1663-1668
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• 2012

A spacer grid, which is one of the structural components in a PWR fuel, is an interconnected array of slotted grid straps that are welded at the intersections to form an egg-crate structure. The spacer grid is required to have sufficient lateral crush strength to enable nuclear reactor shut-down during abnormal operating environments. Previous studies on the lateral crush strength analysis of the spacer grid were performed using only the base material properties. In this study, to investigate the effect of the lateral crush strength of the spacer grid when using the mechanical properties in the weld zone instead of the base material properties, lateral crush strength analysis by considering the mechanical properties in the weld zone as obtained from the instrumented indentation technique was performed, and the results were compared with those of previous studies.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.187-192
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• 2013

Thin metallic sandwich plate with pyramidal metallic inner structures is manufactured from a continuous projection welding between face sheets and inner structures. Due to the welding pressure, imperfections of inner structures induced by the deformation of the inner structures occur. The imperfections affect the response of the thin metallic sandwich plate subjected to low-velocity impact loading. The goal of this paper is to obtain a proper dominant imperfection mode of the thin metallic sandwich plate with pyramidal metallic inner structures. The variation of impact responses of the thin metallic sandwich plate for different imperfection modes are investigated by finite element analysis. The results of the FE analysis are compared to those of drop impact experiments. From the results of the comparison, it has been shown that the dominant imperfection mode of the thin metallic sandwich plate with pyramidal metallic inner structures is all type of symmetric imperfection mode with symmetrical imperfections of four struts.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.105-112
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• 2013

In this study, the applicability of impact-echo method for assessment of residual strength of fire-damaged concrete is investigated. A series of standard fire test is performed to obtain fire-damaged concrete specimens. Impact-echo tests are executed on the specimens and the responses are analyzed. Compressive strengths of the fire-damaged concrete are evaluated and correlated with the ultrasonic wave velocities determined from the impact-echo responses. The effectiveness of impact-echo based ultrasonic wave velocity measurement for assessment of residual strength of fire-damaged concrete is discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.389-390
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• 2009

Recently, building structure damage and number of lives lost by bomb terror is increasing. Therefore, in this study, present basic data for development of impact resistance performance by evaluation on the impact resistance performance of fiber reinforced concrete by high velocity steel projectile test.