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A Comparative Study on the Effect of Tamping Materials on the Impact Efficiency at Blasting Work (발파작업 시 충전매질에 따른 발파효과 비교 연구)

  • Bae, Sang-Soo;Han, Woo-Jin;Jang, Seung-Yup;Bang, Myung-Seok
    • Journal of the Korean Geosynthetics Society
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.57-65
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    • 2022
  • This study simulated the shock wave propagation through the tamping material between explosives and hole wall at blasting works and verified the effect of tamping materials. The Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian(ALE) method was selected to model the mixture of solid (Lagrangian) and fluid (Eulerian). The time series analysis was carried out during blasting process time. Explosives and tamping materials (air or water) were modeled with finite element mesh and the hole wall was assumed as a rigid body that can determine the propagation velocity and shock force hitting the hole wall from starting point (explosives). The numerical simulation results show that the propagation velocity and shock force in case of water were larger than those in case of air. In addition, the real site at blasting work was modeled and simulated. The rock was treated as elasto-plastic material. The results demonstrate that the instantaneous shock force was larger and the demolished block size was smaller in water than in air. On the contrary, the impact in the back side of explosives hole was smaller in water, because considerable amount of shock energy was used to demolish the rock, but the propagation of compression through solid becomes smaller due to the damping effect by rock demolition. Therefore, It can be proven that the water as the tamping media was more profitable than air.

EFFECT OF THE BOUNDARY CONDITION OF REDISTANCE EQUATION ON THE LEVEL SET SOLUTION OF SLOSHING PROBLEM (Redistance 방정식의 경계조건이 슬로싱 문제의 level set 해석에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, H.G.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.165-169
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    • 2009
  • The effect of the Dirichlet boundary condition for the redistance equation of level set method on the solutionof sloshing problem is investigated by adopting four Dirichlet boundary conditions. For the solution of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, P1P1 four-step fractional finite element method is employed and a least-square finite element method is used for the solutions of the two hyperbolic type equations of level set method; advection and redistance equation. ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) method is used to deal with a moving computational domain. It has been shown that the free surface motion in a sloshing tank is strongly dependent on the type of the Dirichlet boundary condition and the results of broken dam and sloshing problems using various Dirichlet boundary conditions are discussed and compared with the existing experimental results.

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Study of Hot Spinning Process for Head of CNG Storage Vessel (CNG 저장용기의 두부 성형을 위한 열간스피닝 공정에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hyun Woo;Jung, Sung Yuen;Kim, Chul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.547-554
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    • 2013
  • The fuel storage vessel installed in CNG vehicles can be largely divided into 3 parts: head, cylinder, and dome. Studies of the cylinder and dome parts have already been performed, but sufficient design data is not available about the head part. Therefore, expert field engineers heavily depend upon trial-and-error methods. Therefore, FE analysis is performed to review the hot spinning process for forming the head part of the CNG vessel using the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method. The effects of forming factors on the load were analyzed. The values of the factors were chosen to avoid defects in the head part and buckling, and the forming feasibility of the head part was investigated. Furthermore, a bursting test was performed to evaluate the safety of the storage vessel.

Computation of Dynamic Fluid-Structure Interaction in a 2-Dimensional Laminar Channel Flow Divided by a Plate (판으로 나뉘어진 2차원 충류 채널유동에서 동적 유체-구조물 상호작용 수치해석)

  • Namkoong, Kak;Choi, Hyoung-Gwon;Yoo, Jung-Yul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.26 no.12
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    • pp.1738-1746
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    • 2002
  • In the FSI (Fluid-Structure Interaction) problems, two different governing equations are to be solved together. One is fur the fluid and the other for the structure. Furthermore, a kinematic constraint should be imposed along the boundary between the fluid and the structure. We use the combined formulation, which incorporates both the fluid and structure equations of motion into a single coupled variational equation so that it is not necessary to calculate the fluid force on the surface of structure explicitly when solving the equations of motion of the structure. A two-dimensional channel flow divided by a Bernoulli-Euler beam is considered and the dynamic response of the beam under the influence of channel flow is studied. The Navier-Stokes equations are solved using a P2P1 Galerkin finite element method with ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian) algorithm. The internal structural damping effect is not considered in this study and numerical results are compared with a previous work fer steady case. In addition to the Reynolds number, two non-dimensional parameters, which govern this fluid-structure system, are proposed. It is found that the larger the dynamic viscosity and density of the fluid are, the larger the damping of the beam is. Also, the added mass is found to be linearly proportional to the density of the fluid.

Computational Model for Hydrodynamic Pressure on Radial Gates during Earthquakes (레디얼 게이트에 작용하는 지진 동수압 계산 모형)

  • Phan, Hoang Nam;Lee, Jeeho
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.323-331
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    • 2019
  • In this study, a computational model approach for the modeling of hydrodynamic pressures acting on radial gates during strong earthquakes is proposed. The use of the dynamic layering method with the Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian (ALE) algorithm and the SIMPLE method for simulating free reservoir surface flow in addition to moving boundary interfaces between the fluid domain and a structure due to earthquake excitation are suggested. The verification and validation of the proposed approach are realized by comparisons performed using the renowned formulation derived by the experimental results for vertical and inclined dam surfaces subjected to earthquake excitation. A parameter study for the truncated lengths of the two-dimensional fluid domain demonstrates that twice the water level leads to efficient and converged computational results. Finally, numerical simulations for large radial gates with different curvatures subjected to two strong earthquakes are successfully performed using the suggested computational model.

Numerical Simulation of Blood Cell Motion in a Simple Shear Flow

  • Choi, Choeng-Ryul;Kim, Chang-Nyung;Hong, Tae-Hyub
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.1487-1491
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    • 2008
  • Detailed knowledge on the motion of blood cells flowing in micro-channels under simple shear flow and the influence of blood flow is essential to provide a better understanding on the blood rheological properties and blood cell aggregation. The microscopic behavior of red blood cell (RBCs) is numerically investigated using a fluid-structure interaction (FSI) method based on the Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) approach and the dynamic mesh method (smoothing and remeshing) in FLUENT (ANSYS Inc., USA). The employed FSI method could be applied to the motions and deformations of a single blood cell and multiple blood cells, and the primary thrombogenesis caused by platelet aggregation. It is expected that, combined with a sophisticated large-scale computational technique, the simulation method will be useful for understanding the overall properties of blood flow from blood cellular level (microscopic) to the resulting rheological properties of blood as a mass (macroscopic).

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DEVELOPMENT OF A 2-D UNSTEADY FLOW SIMULATION CODE USING CARTESIAN MESHES (직교격자를 이용한 2차원 비정상 유동해석 코드 개발)

  • Jung, Min-Kyu;Lee, Jae-Eun;Park, Se-Youn;Kwon, Oh-Joon;Kwon, Jang-Hyuk;Shin, Ha-Yong
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.116-120
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    • 2009
  • A two-dimensional unsteady inviscid flow solver has been developed for the simulation of complex geometric configurations on adaptive Cartesian meshes. Embedded condition was used for boundary condition and a predictor-corrector explicit time marching scheme was used for time-accurate numerical simulation. The Cartesian mesh generator, which was previously developed for steady problem, was used grid generation for unsteady flow. The solver was based on ALE formulation for body motion. For diminishing the effects of cut-cells, the cell merging method was used. Using cell merging method, it was eliminated the CFL constraints. The conservation problem, which is caused cell-type variation around region swept by solid boundary, was also solved using cell merging method. The results are presented for 2D circular cylinder and missile launching problem.

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Evolutionary Optimization Design Technique for Control of Solid-Fluid Coupled Force (고체-유체 연성력 제어를 위한 진화적 최적설계)

  • Kim H.S.;Lee Y.S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.503-506
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    • 2005
  • In this study, optimization design technique for control of solid-fluid coupled force (sloshing) using evolutionary method is suggested. Artificial neural networks(ANN) and genetic algorithm(GA) is employed as evolutionary optimization method. The ANN is used to analysis of the sloshing and the genetic algorithm is adopted as an optimization algorithm. In the creation of ANN learning data, the design of experiments is adopted to higher performance of the ANN learning using minimum learning data and ALE(Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian) numerical method is used to obtain the sloshing analysis results. The proposed optimization technique is applied to the minimization of sloshing of the water in the tank lorry with baffles under 2 second lane change.

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Crack Identification Using Neuro-Fuzzy-Evolutionary Technique

  • Shim, Mun-Bo;Suh, Myung-Won
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.454-467
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    • 2002
  • It has been established that a crack has an important effect on the dynamic behavior of a structure. This effect depends mainly on the location and depth of the crack. Toidentifythelocation and depth of a crack in a structure, a method is presented in this paper which uses neuro-fuzzy-evolutionary technique, that is, Adaptive-Network-based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) solved via hybrid learning algorithm (the back-propagation gradient descent and the least-squares method) and Continuous Evolutionary Algorithms (CEAs) solving sir ale objective optimization problems with a continuous function and continuous search space efficiently are unified. With this ANFIS and CEAs, it is possible to formulate the inverse problem. ANFIS is used to obtain the input(the location and depth of a crack) - output(the structural Eigenfrequencies) relation of the structural system. CEAs are used to identify the crack location and depth by minimizing the difference from the measured frequencies. We have tried this new idea on beam structures and the results are promising.

Direct Numerical Simulation of Flow Characteristics of the Fluid Laden with Many Particles (입자가 포함된 유체의 유동특성에 대한 직접수치해석)

  • Cho, Sang-Ho;Choi, Hyoung-Gwon;Yoo, Jung-Yul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.9
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    • pp.1327-1334
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    • 2003
  • Flow characteristics of the fluid laden with many particles in the two-dimensional channel are investigated using the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the equation of motion of particles by direct numerical simulation. A four-step fractional step method with Crank-Nicolson scheme and ALE technique is used for P2P1 mixed finite element method. The motion and distribution of particles in the fluid is virtually described as a result of direct numerical simulation and the increase of viscosity is compared with theoretical equations. The effect of channel height on the relative viscosity and the tubular pinch effect are discussed.