• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.1141-1150
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• 2012

This paper describes the shape optimization of impeller blades for an anti-heeling bidirectional axial flow pump used in ships. In general, a bidirectional axial pump has efficiency much lower than that of a classical unidirectional pump because of the symmetry of the blade type. In this study, by focusing on a pump impeller, the shape of the blades is redesigned to develop a bidirectional axial pump with higher efficiency. The commercial code employed in this simulation is CFX v.13. The CFD result of the pump torque, head, and hydraulic efficiency was compared. The orthogonal array (OA) and analysis of variance (ANOVA) techniques and surrogate-model-based optimization using orthogonal polynomials are employed to determine the main effects and their optimal design variables. According to the optimal design, we confirm an effective design variable for impeller blades and explain the optimal solution as well as the usefulness of satisfying the constraints of the pump torque and head.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.255-266
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• 2009

In this study, a robust aerospace system design process for the aerospace system is developed by considering the uncertainties of user requirements, manufacturing errors, and operational environment variation. User requirements are analyzed and quantified by decision making models and system engineering methods to select alternative concepts which satisfies the various requirements. Robust design and optimization method is applied to derive the robust solution of the selected system. First, a variance of objective function is calculated, and a mean value and a variance of target value are determined by the deterministic design optimization results of the system. A robust optimum design formulation is then needed to derive the robust solution that minimizes the variance of the response and moves the mean values to the target value. It is applied to Very Light Jet (VLJ) aircraft to which much attention is paid recently in civil aerospace market.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.41 no.7
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• pp.509-515
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• 2013

In this study, the real-coded adaptive range multi-objective genetic algorithm code, which represents the global multi-objective optimization algorithm, was developed for an airfoil shape design. In order to achieve the better aerodynamic characteristics than reference airfoil at landing and cruise conditions, maximum lift coefficient and lift-to-drag ratio were chosen as object functions. Futhermore, the PARSEC method reflecting geometrical properties of airfoil was adopted to generate airfoil shapes. Finally, two airfoils, which show better aerodynamic characteristics than a reference airfoil, were chosen. As a result, maximum lift coefficient and lift-to-drag ratio were increased of 4.89% and 5.38% for first candidate airfoil and 7.13% and 4.33% for second candidate airfoil.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.2 s.245
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• pp.149-156
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• 2006

A boundary-based design sensitivity analysis(DSA) technique is proposed for addressing shape optimization issues in the elastostatics problems. Sensitivity formula is derived based on the continuum formulation in a boundary integral form, which consists of the boundary solutions and shape variation vectors. Though the boundary element method(BEM) has been mainly used to obtain the boundary solution, the FEM is used in this paper because this is much more popular, and has greatly improved meshing and computing power recently. The advantage of the boundary DSA is that the shape variation vectors, which are also known as design velocity fields, are needed only on the boundary. Then, the step for determining the design velocity field over the whole domain, which was necessary in the domain-based DSA, is eliminated, making the process easy to implement and efficient. Problem of fillet design is chosen to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method. Accuracy of the sensitivity is good with this method even by employing the free mesh for the FE analysis.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.337-343
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• 2014

This paper presents a continuum-based shape design sensitivity analysis(DSA) method for crack propagation problems using a reproducing kernel method(RKM), which facilitates the remeshing problem required for finite element analysis(FEA) and provides the higher order shape functions by increasing the continuity of the kernel functions. A linear elasticity is considered to obtain the required stress field around the crack tip for the evaluation of J-integral. The sensitivity of displacement field and stress intensity factor(SIF) with respect to shape design variables are derived using a material derivative approach. For efficient computation of design sensitivity, an adjoint variable method is employed tather than the direct differentiation method. Through numerical examples, The mesh-free and the DSA methods show excellent agreement with finite difference results. The DSA results are further extended to a shape optimization of crack propagation problems to control the propagation path.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.163-172
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• 2009

BIM technologies based on three-dimensional parametric solid modeling can provide building industries with a wide range of information, and then enable not only to automate architectural drawings, detect clashes between building components, and estimate building materials, but also to manage effectively architectural and engineering information about building spaces, structures, energy, just-in-time delivery, facility management, and code checking. This paper presents an implementation to extract geometric data from IFC files, and validates the system with simple and complex buildings.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.527-536
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• 2009

A cascade apparatus was designed with only one blade. Its passage is a 160% width of the cascade pitch. This kind of apparatus can give more accurate experimental result than those applying multi-blades even though the apparatus is small. However, this causes difficulties to make the periodic condition along the pitchwise direction. In this study, sidewalls were designed to satisfy the periodic condition based on the flow structure using a gradient based optimization and a genetic algorism. The objective function was adopted the surface Mach number obtained on the cascade and fourteen design variables were selected for controlling sidewall shapes. The designed sidewalls using the genetic algorism shows better result.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.163-166
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 SRM의 토크 리플을 줄이기 위한 설계 방법을 제시한다. SRM의 형상을 최적화하기 위해 유한요소법과 최적화 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 기존의 토크 평균값을 이용한 설계법의 문제점을 제시하고 토크 형태를 구간 별로 목적 함수로 정의하여 토크 형태를 최적화하는 새로운 최적화 문제 정의 방법을 제안한다. 이러한 방법으로 최적화할 경우 SRM의 정적 토크 특성만을 고려한 기존 방법에 비해 고속으로 회전하는 SRM의 토크 성능을 보장할 수 있다는 장점이 있다.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2017.03a
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• pp.516-526
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• 2017

본 논문은 테오얀센 메커니즘을 적용한 보행 로봇 형상 및 라인 트레이싱을 위한 센서의 최적 설계를 수행한다. 소프트웨어를 활용하여 보행 로봇의 운동학적 해석(보행 곡선 추적, Ground Length, Ground Angle Coefficient), 최적화 및 상세 설계, 센서 추적 관련 시뮬레이션을 수행하고 분석하여 속도가 빠르며 안정적으로 주행하는 테오얀센 메커니즘 모델을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.601-604
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• 2010

기하형상이나 엔지니어링에 관한 정보를 3차원 모델기반으로 다루는 BIM기술은 기존의 2차원 도면작업들에 비해 업무의 효율성이나 신속성, 비용측면 등에서 많은 이점을 제공할 수 있어 건축계획 및 설계, 엔지니어링, 시공, 유지관리, 에너지분석 등 건설산업의 전 분야에 활용되고 있다. 본 논문은 BIM용 프로그램들간에 정보교환을 위해 사용되는 건물의 국제표준 정보모델인 IFC 파일로부터 구조해석을 위한 건물형상모델을 자동으로 구축하기 위한 방법을 제시하고, 실제 구현한 프로그램으로 적용사례를 보여준다.