• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1-9
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• 2016

Railroad bridges account for 25% of the entire high-speed rail network. Railway bridges are subject to gradual structural degradation or fatigue accumulation due to consistent and repeating excitation by fast moving trains. Wireless sensing technology has opened up a new avenue for bridge health monitoring owing to its low-cost, high fidelity, and multiple sensing capability. On the other hand, measuring the transient response during train passage is quite challenging that the current wireless sensor system cannot be applied due to the intrinsic time delay of the sensor network. Therefore, this paper presents a framework for monitoring such transient responses with wireless sensing systems using 1) real-time excessive vibration monitoring through ultra-low-power MEMS accelerometers, and 2) post-event time synchronization scheme. The ultra-low power accelerometer continuously monitors the vibration and trigger network when excessive vibrations are detected. The entire network of wireless smart sensors starts sensing through triggering and the post-event time synchronization is conducted to compensate for the time error on the measured responses. The results of this study highlight the potential of detecting the impact load and triggering the entire network, as well as the effectiveness of the post-event time synchronized scheme for compensating for the time error. A numerical and experimental study was carried out to validate the proposed sensing hardware and time synchronization method.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.155-160
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• 2017

A cabin of the agricultural tractor is designed to protect the driver from vibration transmitted due to the irregular ground and overturning of the tractor. The cabin is usually manufactured by welding frames and plates. Consequently, the welded state of the frame and plate affects the stiffness of the cabin structure. In this paper, the static and dynamic stiffness characteristics of the cabin are identified through finite element analysis and effects of the structure production error are investigated to insure the structural stiffness of the cabin.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.1 s.41
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• pp.1-7
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• 2005

The optimal seismic retrofitting of NPP(Nuclear Power Plant) cabinet structures that contain seismic category 1 relays was studied in this paper. During earthquake event, the failure modes of relays are not appeared in form of structural failure, but are appeared in form of contact chatter of relay. Therefore, the retrofitting of cabinet has to be aimed at the reducing of the structural response, such as acceleration. In this study, the optimal characteristic values of dampers were searched by ${\mu}$-GA (micro-Genetic Algorithm) scheme for several installation patterns. To keep accuracy and efficiency of analysis, the structural models of cabinet were considered as a frame structure. The responses of structure were obtained inform of acceleration response spectra derived from the results of nonlinear time history analysis including damping nonlinearity. The objective function of the optimum procedure was constructed based on the maximum ratio of maximum spectral value and target GERS (General Equipment Ruggedness Spectra). The results show the good improvements of fitness for adequate retrofitting pattern. Especially, the improvements of fitness were remarkable when the values of damping exponents are low.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.21-34
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• 2008

An improved optimum design method for reinforced concrete frames using integrated genetic algorithm(GA) with direct search method is presented. First, various sets of initially assumed sections are generated using GA, and then, for each resultant design member force condition optimum solutions are selected by regression analysis and direct search within pre-determined design section database. In advance, global optimum solutions are selected from accumulated results through several generations. Proposed algorithm makes up for the weak point in standard genetic algorithm(GA), that is, low efficiency in convergence causing the deterioration of quality of final solutions and shows fast convergence together with improved results. Moreover, for the purpose of elevating economic efficiency, optimum design based on the nonlinear structural analysis is performed and therefore makes all members resist against given loading condition with the nearest resisting capacity. The investigation for the effectiveness of the introduced design procedure is conducted through correlation study for example structures.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.55-60
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• 2010

The honeycomb composite joint structure designed for application to a tilting KTX railroad car body is subjected to bending loads of a cantilever type. Honeycomb sandwich composite panel-joint attached in the real tilting car body was fabricated and sectioned as several beam-joint specimens for the bending test. The fracture behaviors of these specimens under static loads were different from those under cyclic loads. Static bending loads caused shear deformation and fracture in the honeycomb core region, while fatigue cyclic bend loading caused delamination along the interface between the composite skin and the honeycomb core, and/or caused a fracture in the welded part jointed with the steel under-frame. These fracture behaviors could occur in other industrial honeycomb composite joints with similar sub-structures, and be used for improving design parameters of a honeycomb composite joint structure.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.10 no.3 s.36
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• pp.487-495
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• 1998

Recently, the space truss has been attracted by many designers because of their ability to support significant loads with a minimum material. And it is relatively flexible to design the configuration of structures. This paper presents a volume optimization for the space truss on the basis of result evaluated from nonlinear analysis. The optimization of the truss is done by nonlinear optimum GINO(General Interactive Nonlinear Optimizer) program. The objective function considered is the volume of the steel bars. The constraints for optimum design are the design limits, such as the axial force strength, maximum slenderness, minimum thickness, allowable deflection and ratio of the external diameter to thickness of the circular tube bars.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.71-91
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• 2006

Nowadays most enterprise want to organize all Information Technology elements for their vision and mission accomplishments by integration view Enterprise architecture is used by the solution. But IT is so more complex that it can't cover application development. This research defines software architecture framework by enterprise view and designs enterprise architecture framework for embracing application development. Software architecture framework consists of meta architecture, conceptual architecture, logical architecture, physical architecture. For enterprise architecture framework including enterprise software architecture framework, this research analyzes its perspectives and Views. After all, This research able to apply to systematic application development based on enterprise architecture and completely IT elements organization by enterprise view.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.277-280
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• 2008

In this paper behavior of U-Channel Bridge (UCB) was studied, and a new analysis model was proposed. Most of the time, permanent and traffic load actions are directly transmitted to main beams located under the carriageway, one of the most distinctive features of UCB is that the edge beams that support the bridge are above the deck, in contrast with a conventional overpass system. In This study models used with the frame elements, the frame and plate elements, and the solid elements were constructed. Assuming that the results of solid models were similar to the real behavior of UCB, results of another models was compared. The results of the models used with the frame and plate elements were similar to the results of solid models, the model used with the frame and plate elements was proposed as an analysis model.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.192.2-192.2
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• 2012

위성시스템 소형화, 탑재체 수용증대, 발사비용절감, 탐사임무 효율화 등의 요구로 인하여, 위성 설계에 있어 경량화는 오랜 기간 진행되어온 연구 주제였다. 이러한 연구결과로서, 위성 구조체를 복합재료로 대신하기 위한 구조 경량화 연구와 적용이 성과를 거두었으며, 현재 위성체 프레임이나 전개형 안테나, 광학구조물 등에 경량 탄소섬유 강화 복합재료의 적용은 보편화되어 있다. 한편, 위성시스템에서 전력, 통신, 명령/데이터처리, 자세제어 및 관측기기의 각종 전자장비를 보호하는 하우징 구조물에는 여전히 금속재료가 광범하게 적용되고 있다. 특히, 알루미늄 합금은 하우징 재료로 널리 사용되는데, 강도, 강성, 열전달, 우주방사, 전기전도도 및 EMI 차폐특성과 더불어 가공성이 우수하다는 장점을 지닌 반면에, 금속재료로서 중량이 상당하여 위성 경량화 관점에서는 한계를 갖게 하는 단점이 있다. 전자장비에 부여된 전자기능 측면에서 보면, 하우징은 기생 구조물로서, 경량으로 제공될수록 전자장비 전체 무게에서 전자유닛만의 무게가 차지하는 전기전자기능비가 향상되고 위성 경량화에 크게 기여할 수 있다. 구조 경량화를 위하여 전자장비 하우징을 경량 복합재로 대체하여 설계 및 제작하였으며, 복합재 하우징의 강도, 강성, 열전달, 우주방사, 전기전도도 및 EMI 차폐를 검증할 수 있는 방법에 대하여 검토하였다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.377-387
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• 2014

This study mainly treats a new type of the bracing friction damper system, which is able to minimize structural damage under earthquake loads. The slotted bolt holes are placed on the shear faying surfaces with an intention to dissipate considerable amount of friction energy. The superelastic shape memory alloy (SMA) wire strands are installed crossly between two plates for the purpose of enhancing recentering force that are able to reduce permanent deformation occurring at the friction damper system. The smart recentering friction damper system proposed in this study can be expected to reduce repair cost as compared to the conventional damper system because the proposed system mitigates the inter-story drift of the entire frame structure. The response mechanism of the proposed damper system is firstly investigated in this study, and then numerical analyses are performed on the component spring models calibrated to the experimental results. Based on the numerical analysis results, the seismic performance of the recentering friction damper system with respect to recentering capability and energy dissipation are investigated before suggesting optimal design methodology. Finally, nonlinear dynamic analyses are conducted by using the frame models designed with the proposed damper systems so as to verify superior performance to the existing damper systems.