• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.175-185
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• 2003

The extended tangent stiffness matrices and force-deformation relations of the elastic catenary element were initially derived through the addition of the unstrained length of cables to unknown nodal displacements. A beam-column element was then introduced to model the deck and pylon of cable-stayed bridges. The conventional geometric nonlinear analysis, initial force method, and TCUD method were summarized, with an effective method combining two methods presented to determine the initial shapes of cable-stayed bridges with dead loads. In this combined method, TCUD method was applied to eliminate vertical and horizontal displacements at cable-supported points of decks and on top of pylons, respectively. The initial force method was also adopted to eliminate horizontal and vertical displacements of decks and pylons, Finally, the accuracy and validity of the proposed combined method were demonstrated through numerical examples.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.1439-1450
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• 1995

Bellows is a familiar component in piping systems as it provides a relatively simple means of absorbing thermal expansion and providing system flexibility. In routine piping flexibility analysis by finite element methods, bellows is usually considered to be straight pipe runs modified by an appropriate flexibility factor; maximum stresses are evaluated using a corresponding stress concentration factor. The aim of this study is to develop a bellows finite element, which similarly includes more complex shell type deformation patterns. This element also does not require flexibility or stress factors, but evaluates more detailed deformation and stress patterns. The proposed bellows element is a 3-D, 2-noded line element, with three degrees of freedom per node and no bending. It is formulated by including additional 'internal' degrees of freedom to account for the deformation of the bellows corrugation; specifically a quarter toroidal section of the bellows, loaded by axial force, is considered and the shell type deformation of this is include by way of an approximating trigonometric series. The stiffness of each half bellows section may be found by minimising the potential energy of the section for a chosen deformation shape function. An experiment on the flexibility is performed to verify the reliability for bellows finite element.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.39-44
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• 1993

This paper is concerned with developing a finite element model incorporating boundary damper techniques which is applicable to the prediction of wave agitations in harbors. Based on the linear wave theory, a mild-slope equation is used. In order to consider the wave energy dissipations on solid boundary. the partial reflecting boundary condition is introduced. Radiating boundary condition is modeled by using tile second-order boundary damper developed by Bando et al. (1984). The near field region in harbor is discretized using 8-noded isoparametric elements, the boundary conditions are presented using 3-noded line elements. The numerical model is applied to a fully open rectangular harbor to prove its validity. Numerical experiments are also performed to investigate the effects of the wave reflection coefficients of solid boundary and the types of the dampers.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.100-107
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• 2018

The material and geometrical nonlinear finite elment analysis of UHPFRC 50M composite box girder was carried out. Constitute law in tension and compressive region of UHPFRC and HPC were modeled based on specimen test. The accuracy of nonlinear FEM analysis was verified by the experimental result of UHPFRC 50M composite girder. The UHPFRC 50M segmental composite box girder which has 1.5% steel fiber of volume fraction, 135MPa compressive strength and 18MPa tensile strength was tested. The post-tensioned UHPFRC composite girder consisted of three segment UHPFRC U-girder and High Strength Concrete reinforced slab. The parts of UHPFRC girder were modeled by 8nodes hexahedron elements and reinforcement bars and tendons were built by 2nodes linear elements by Midas FEA software. The constitutive laws of concrete materials were selected Multi-linear model both of tension and compression function under total strain crack model, which was included in classifying of smeared crack model. The nonlinearity of reinforcement elements and tendon was simulated by Von Mises criteria. The nonlinear static analysis was applied by incremental-iteration method with convergence criteria of Newton-Raphson. The validation of numerical analysis was verified by comparison with experimental result and numerical analysis result of load-deflection response, neutral axis coordinate change, and cracking pattern of girder. The load-deflection response was fitted very well with comparison to the experimental result. The finite element analysis is seen to satisfactorily predict flexural behavioral responses of post-tensioned, reinforced UHPFRC composite box girder.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.109-119
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• 2012

For membrane structure, there are three main steps in design and construction, which are form finding, statistical load analysis, and cutting patterning. Unlike the first two stages, the step of cutting pattern involves the translation of a double-curved surface in 3D space into a 2D plane with minimal error. For economic reasons, the seam lines of generated cutting patterns rely greatly on the geodesic line. Generally, as searching regions of the seam line are plane elements in the step of shape analysis, the seam line is not a smooth curve, but an irregularly divided straight line. So, it is how we make an irregularly divided straight line a smooth curve that defines the quality of the pattern. Accordingly, in this paper, we analyzed interpolation schemes using spline, and apply these methods to cutting pattern generation on the curved surface. To generate the pattern, three types of spline functions were used, i.e., cubic spline function, B-spline, and least-square spline approximation, and simple model and the catenary-shaped membrane was adopted to examine the result of generation. The result of comparing the approximation curves by the number of elements and the number of extracted nodes of simple model revealed that the seam line for less number of extracted nodes with large number of elements were more efficient, and the least-square spline approximation provided smoother seam line than other methods.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.183-195
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• 2003

In this study, the method of the finite element modeling for free vibration control of beam-type smart structures with bonded plate-type piezoelectric sensors and actuators is proposed. Constitutive equations for the direct piezoelectric effect and converse piezoelectric effect of piezoelectric materials are considered. By using the variational principle, the equations of motion for the smart beam finite element are derived. The proposed 2-node beam finite element is an isoparametric element based on Timoshenko beam theory. Therefore, by analyzing beam-type smart structures with smart beam finite elements, it is possible to simulate the control of the structural behavior by applying voltages to piezoelectric actuators and monitoring of the structural behavior by sensing voltages of piezoelectric sensors. By using the smart beam finite element and constant-gain feed back control scheme, the formulation of the free nitration control for the beam structures with bonded plate-tyPe Piezoelectric sensors and actuators is proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.264-264
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• 2019

개수로 흐름 해석을 위해 수치모형을 적용할 때 반드시 거쳐야 하는 과정이 격자망을 구성하는 일이다. 불규칙한 형상의 자연수로를 모의할 때 격자망 생성은 쉬운 일이 아니며, 따라서 가시적으로 격자망 생성을 돕고, 격자망의 수정도 용이한 도구가 요구된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 수심적분된 흐름방정식을 지배방정식으로 하여 개수로 흐름 해석을 용이하게 하고자 그래픽 사용자 인터페이스(GUI)를 개발하였으며, 이를 소개하고자 한다. 격자망은 기본적으로 사각형과 삼각형 요소로 구성될 수 있으며, 유한차분모형 등에서는 정형사각형 격자망을, 유한요소모형에서는 비정형 사각형 및 삼각형 격자망 또는 혼합망을 생성시킬 수 있다. 이산점(scatter points)이나 절점(node points)을 생성하거나 기존의 자료를 불러들여 삼각망 또는 사각망을 형성시킬 수 있으며, 연속선(polylines)을 작성하여 형성된 폐다각형(polygones)을 이용하여 정규 또는 비정규의 삼각망 또는 사각망을 형성시킬 수 있다. 또한 두 점사이를 선형 또는 반원 형태로 편향 정도(biased value)를 설정하여 원하는 개수만큼 나눌 수 있도록 하여, 보다 효율적인 격자형성이 가능토록 하였다. 기존 상용 프로그램에서 작성된 격자를 불러들여 활용 가능하며, 백그라운드 이미지로 지형도나 위성사진을 띄어놓고 이미지 상에서 격자를 형성할 수도 있다. 기본적으로 마우스를 이용하여 화면의 이동, 확대 및 축소와 점, 선, 요소의 생성 및 선택이 가능하다. 본 프로그램은 Qt와 modern OpenGL을 바탕으로 제작되었으며, 마이크로소프트사의 windows 뿐만 아니라 Mac OS, Linux 버전의 설치 파일 작성이 가능하다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.219-229
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• 2003

The extended tangent stiffness matrices and force-deformation relations of the elastic catenary element were initially derived through the addition of the unstrained length of cables to unknown nodal 'displacements. A beam-column element was then introduced to model the deck and pylon of cable-stayed bridges. The conventional geometric nonlinear analysis, initial force method, and TCUD method were summarized, with an effective method combining two methods presented to determine the initial shapes of cable-stayed bridges with dead loads. In this combined method, TCUD method was applied to eliminate vertical and horizontal displacements at cable-supported points of decks and on top of pylons, respectively. The initial force method was also adopted to eliminate horizontal and vertical displacements of decks and pylons. Finally, the accuracy and validity of the proposed combined method were demonstrated through numerical examples.