• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.97-104
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• 2012

In the design procedure of the cooling tower the form-finding of the shell is the most important process, because the shape of the shell determines the sensitivity of dynamic behaviour of the whole tower against wind excitation. In engineering practice, geometric parameters of the shell are generally determined based on natural frequency analysis. 32 cooling tower shell geometries were selected through variation of the geometric parameters of an existing cooling tower shell. They were evaluated based on the first natural frequency. From the result three representative cooling towers are selected for the analysis of the structural behaviour by means of linear FE-method. As a result, a hyperbolic rotational shell with the small radius overall will yield the shell geometry with a higher first natural frequency and thus a wind-insensitive structure.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.10 no.1 s.34
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• pp.73-83
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• 1998

Considering dynamic behaviors according to initial tension forces, geometric nonlinearity and the effect of higher eigen modes to participate in dynamic behaviors increase as initial tension forces decrease, and from phase portrait we can realize that period attractors are produced in many area with complexity. If initial tension forxes increase, difference between linear and nonlinear solutions will decrease and the first eigen mode dominate the dynamic behaviors and observing phase portrait, period attractors appear in certain area regularly. These results may offer meaningful informations to nonlinear dynamic analysis using modal reduction methods such as Lanczos modal analysis. And actually nonlinear dynamic analysis needs very large computational efforts. So, if we determine the number of eigen modes to take part in modal analysis corresponding to initial tension forces we will get more accurate data close to exact nonlinear dynamic solutions.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.75-84
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• 2021

The authors had presented two previous papers[1,2] on Helicopter/Rotorcraft develoment in Europe and US. Meanwhile, the next generation rotorcrafts, currently under development in US and Europe, have new configurations (tilt-rotor, coaxial, compound) of rotor-type vertical takeoff/landing rotorcrafts to overcome the disadvantages of traditional helicopters. For developing these new types of rotorcrafts, the upgraded conceptual design/comprehensive programs are required. In US and Europe, they are already developing new program tools with their technologies and database obtained during more than last half centuries. For us, many academia, research institutes and industrial engineers have experienced and developed core technologies on rotorcrafts (aerodynamics, structural analysis, flight dynamics, and noise analysis etc.) comparable to US and Europe during last couple of decades of developing helicopters and various configurations of rotorcrafts. In this paper, the pros and cons of conceptual design/comprehensive tools currently used in US and Europe have been summarized. Furthermore, the possibilities and problems to develope our own design and analysis tools have been studied.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.11-20
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• 1993

Sensitivity information is required in the optimal design process. In structural optimization, sensitivity calculation is a bottleneck due to its complexities and expensiveness. Various schemes have been proposed for the calculation. Analytic and finite difference methods are the most popular at the present time. However, they have advantages and disadvantages in different ways. Semi-anayltic method has been suggested to overcome the difficulties. In spite of the excellency, the semi-analytic method has been found to possess numerical error quite much with respect to shape variables. In this research, the error from each method is evaluated and compared using a shape variable. A two-dimensional beam is selected for an example since it has mathematical solution. An efficient method is suggested for the structural optimization which utilizes finite element method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.247-247
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• 2021

국내외적으로 하도 내의 흐름을 해석하기 위해 다양한 2차원 흐름해석 모형이 적용되고 있다. 2차원 흐름해석 모형은 기존의 1차원 흐름 해석 모형에서 해석하기 어려운 확산형 홍수파 해석에 강점을 가지고 있어 도심 하천의 외수 범람 예측 등에도 사용되고 있다. 하지만 복잡한 지형 형상을 어떻게 격자로 구성하는가에 따라 해석의 효율성과 정확성이 크게 좌우된다. 초기의 2차원 흐름해석 모형은 주로 정형격자 기반의 단순한 셀을 제작하여 구동되었다. 하지만 매우 빠른 유속과 복잡한 형상을 반영하기 위해서는 전체 격자를 조밀하게 구성할 필요가 있으므로 계산 효율이 떨어지는 문제점이 있다. 그렇기 때문에 대안으로 삼각망과 혼합망 등 비정형 격자를 사용하여 필요한 구역만 격자를 조밀하게 구성하는 방법을 사용하고 있지만 이 방법 또한 추가적인 계산 과정에 따른 계산 시간의 증가가 필연적이다. 따라서 최근에는 정형격자와 비정형격자에 대하여 wet-dry front matrix 최적화, 절점제거법 등 다양한 기법을 통하여 계산 효율을 향상시키고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 HLLC Rimann solver와 2차 정확도 기법인 MUSCL-Hancock Method를 적용한 유한체적기반 천수방정식을 기반으로 다양한 격자 구성에 따른 2차원 흐름해석 모형의 효율성 분석을 수행하고, 이를 통해 최적의 흐름해석 방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.1063-1064
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• 2011

GIS에 이상전압이 흐를 때, 이를 계측하여 전력기기의 손상 및 고장을 미연에 방지하기 위해 SF6 계기용 변압기를 사용한다. 이러한 계기용 변압기는 절연 파괴가 일어나지 않도록 설계하여야 한다. 특히, 절연은 권선 부분이 중요한 구성 요소로, 권선간의 전기적 절연특성해석을 통하여 전계강도를 완화할 수 있는 절연 설계를 수행하여야 한다. SF6 계기용 변압기는 SF6가스의 유전율이 절연물에 비해 적기때문에 가스에서의 전계 집중 현상이 생기게 된다. 본 논문에서는 SF6 계기용 변압기의 권선간 절연특성해석을 수행하였다. 1차 권선과 2차 권선의 형상을 모델링하고 유한요소법을 사용하여 축대칭 2차원 전계해석을 수행한다. 이 때 발생하는 전계강도를 예측하고 최대전계강도가 발생하는 영역을 찾는다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.7-17
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• 1990

The objective of this paper is to provide a method of optimizing are as of the members as well as shape of both truss and arch structures. The design process includes satisfaction of stress and Euler buckling stress constraints for truss and combined stress constraints for arch structures. In order to reduce the number of detailed finite element analysis, the Force Approximation Method is used. A finite element analysis of the initial structure is performed and the gradients of the member end forces are calculated with respect to the areas and nodal coordinates. The gradients are used to form an approximate structural analysis based on first order Taylor series expansions of the member end forces. Using move limits, a numerical optimizer minimizes the volume of the structure with information from the approximate structural analysis. Numerical examples are performed and compared with other methods to demonstrate the efficiency and reliability of the Force Approximation Method for shape optimization. It is shown that the number of finite element analysis is greatly reduced and that it leads to a highly efficient method of shape optimization of structures.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.82-87
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• 1987

In this study a method of shape optimization is applied to two dimensional heat transfer system. For this the optimization problem is defined in a functional form including cost, constraints and the system governing equation. Then the material derivative concept in continuum mechanics and the adjoint variable method are employed for the shape design sensitivity analysis. With the sensitivity analysis results, an optimum is sought with the gradient projection optimization algorithm. The two dimensional isoparametric finite elements are used for accurate analysis and sensitivity calculations. The above method is employed to find the boundary shape to achieve a desired temperature distribution along a segment of the boundary subject to the maximum area constraint.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.117-126
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• 2002

In this paper, 3-D fame design using second-orders plastic-hinge analysis accounting for lateral torsional buckling is developed. This analysis accounts for material and geometric nonlinearities of the structural system and its component members. Moreover, the problem associated with conventional second-order plastic-hinge analyses, which do not consider the degradation of the flexural strength caused by lateral torsional buckling, is overcome. Efficient ways of assessing steel frame behavior including gradual yielding associated with residual stresses and flexure, second-order effect, and geometric imperfections are presented. In this study, a model consisting of the unbraced length and cross-section shape is used to account for lateral torsional buckling. The proposed analysis is verified by the comparison of the LRFD results. A case studs shows that lateral torsional buckling is a very crucial element to be considered in second-order plastic-hinge analysis. The proposed analysis is shown to be an efficient reliable tool ready to be implemented into design practice.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.287-294
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• 1998

입면의 형태가 임의의 층에서 큰 차이를 보이는 3차원 비정형 setback 구조물의 동적 거동 특성과 이들 구조물의 동적 거동에 미치는 바닥 슬래브의 면내 변형 효과를 분석하였다. 비정형 setback 구조물의 전반적인 동적 거동특성을 분석하기 위하여 베이스 부분의 평면적과 타워 부분의 평면적 비(R?), setback 발생위치(L?)등을 매개 변수로 사용하였다. 48개의 비정형 setback 구조물들에 대한 해석 수행 결과 setback 구조물은 정형 구조물에 비해 횡방향 1차 모드의 유효 모드 중량(effective modal weight)이 작게 나타나는 경향을 보이기 때문에 setback 구조물의 동적 거동을 파악하기 위해서는 등가 정적 해석법 대신에 동적 해석을 수행할 필요가 있음을 알 수 있었다. 바닥슬래브의 면내 변형은 보다 긴 구조물의 고유 진동 주기값을 가져오며 모드 순서 및 모드 형상에도 변화를 준다. 이러한 사실은 바닥슬래브의 면내 변형으로 인하여 횡방향 저항 요소들간의 전단력 분포와 층 변위가 영향을 받을 수 있다는 것을 의미한다. 이러한 현상은 횡방향 저항 요소들간의 강성 차가 심한 프레임-전단벽 시스템에서 두드러지게 나타난다.