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Active control of delaminated composite shells with piezoelectric sensor/actuator patches

  • Nanda, Namita;Nath, Y.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.42 no.2
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    • pp.211-228
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    • 2012
  • Present study deals with the development of finite element based solution methodology to investigate active control of dynamic response of delaminated composite shells with piezoelectric sensors and actuators. The formulation is based on first order shear deformation theory and an eight-noded isoparametric element is used. A coupled piezoelectric-mechanical formulation is used in the development of the constitutive equations. For modeling the delamination, multipoint constraint algorithm is incorporated in the finite element code. A simple negative feedback control algorithm coupling the direct and converse piezoelectric effects is used to actively control the dynamic response of delaminated composite shells in a closed loop employing Newmark's time integration scheme. The validity of the numerical model is demonstrated by comparing the present results with those available in the literature. A number of parametric studies such as the locations of sensor/actuator patches, delamination size and its location, radius of curvature to width ratio, shell types and loading conditions are carried out to understand their effect on the transient response of piezoceramic delaminated composite shells.

Finite Element Analysis of a Tile Projector for Control of Low-frequency Underwater Echoes (저주파 수중 반향음 제어를 위한 타일형 프로젝터의 유한요소 해석)

  • Lee, Jae-Wan;Woo, Sangbeom;Ohm, Won-Suk;Seo, Youngsoo
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2014.10a
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    • pp.625-629
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, a tile projector for the active control of low-frequency underwater echoes is studied using finite element method. Compared to the existing underwater actuators used for echo reduction, the tile projector is better suited for covering a wide area such as the hull of a submarine. In order to actively match the acoustic impedance at the water-object interface, the projector is driven to radiate a pressure wave that is the inverted replica of the echo at the interface. Finite element simulations demonstrate significant echo reductions due to the active impedance matching by the tile projector.

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Evaluation of interfacial shear stress in active steel tube-confined concrete columns

  • Nematzadeh, Mahdi;Ghadami, Jaber
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.469-481
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    • 2017
  • This paper aims to analytically investigate the effect of shear stress at the concrete-steel interface on the mechanical behavior of the circular steel tube-confined concrete (STCC) stub columns with active and passive confinement subjected to axial compression. Nonlinear 3D finite element models divided into the four groups, i.e. circumferential-grooved, talc-coated, lubricated, and normal groups, with active and passive confinement were developed. An innovative method was used to simulate the actively-confined specimens, and then, the results of the finite element models were compared with those of the experiments previously conducted by the authors. It was revealed that both the predicted peak compressive strength and stress-strain curves have good agreement with the corresponding values measured for the confined columns. Then, the mechanical properties of the active and passive specimens such as the concrete-steel interaction, longitudinal and hoop stresses of the steel tube, confining pressure applied to the concrete core, and compressive stress-strain curves were analyzed. Furthermore, a parametric study was performed to explore the effects of the concrete compressive strength, steel tube diameter-to-wall thickness ratio, and prestressing level on the compressive behavior of the STCC columns. The results indicate that reducing or removing the interfacial shear stress in the active and passive specimens leads to an increase in the hoop stress and confining pressure, while the longitudinal stress along the steel tube height experiences a decrease. Moreover, prestressing via the presented method is capable of improving the compressive behavior of STCC columns.

A Study on Excitation Error Estimation for Active Phased Array Antenna (능동위상배열안테나의 급전신호 오차 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Hyeon-Jong;Jung, Jin-Woo;Lim, Yeong-Seog
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2022
  • The active phased array antenna system performs beam steering, multi-beam formation and adaptive beam forming by controlling the amplitude and phase of signals fed to each radiating element. In order to obtain the desired radiation characteristics using an active phased array antenna system, the accurate amplitude and phase of the signal must be fed to each radiating element; however, due to various causes, the signal errors occurs in each radiating element. In this paper, a signal error estimation method of each radiating element is proposed. The proposed method simplifies the process of signal error estimation, and can quickly and accurately calculate the signal error.

Formulation of a Wittrick-Williams Algorithm for Computing Natural Frequencies of an Active Beam (능동보의 고유진동수 계산을 위한 휘트릭-윌리엄즈 알고리듬의 유도)

  • 김주홍;이우식
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.579-589
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, a Wittrick-Williams algorithm is developed for the spectral element model of an elastic-piezoelectric two-layer active beam. This algorithm may help calculate all the required natural frequencies, which lie below any chosen frequency, without the possibility of missing any due to close grouping or due to the abrupt sign changes of the determinant of spectral element matrix via infinity instead of via zero. A uniform active beam and a partially patched active beam are considered as the illustrative examples to confirm the present algorithm.

A Study on Fault Diagnosis for Planar Active Phased Array Antenna (평면 능동위상배열안테나 결함소자 진단방법에 관한 연구)

  • Jin-Woo Jung;Seung-Ho Kang
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 2023
  • A radiating elements fault diagnosis method with simplified radiation pattern measurement procedure was presented for planar active phased array antenna system. For presenting the mentioned method, the technique for linear approximation based on the radiation characteristics of a planar array configuration and a technique for solving a unique solution problem that occur in process of diagnosing a fault in a radiating elements were presented. Based on the presented method and a genetic algorithm, experimental simulations were performed for radiating element defect diagnosis according to various planar active phased array antenna configurations. As a result, it was confirmed that the presented radiating element fault diagnosis method can be smoothly applied to planar active phased antennas having various configurations.

Design of V/UHF band Small Dipole Circular Array Active Antenna (V/UHF대역 소형다이폴 원형배열 능동안테나 설계)

  • Ko, Ji-Hwan;Lee, Cheol-Soo;Kim, Kang-Uk;Cho, Young-Ki
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.6-16
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    • 2009
  • For the application to the direction finding(DF) antenna for V/UHF bands, circular active array composed of 9 dipole element has been investigate. For miniaturization of the overall size array, the element has been chosen to be of the top-hat dipole type. For the broadband operation over 20-1300MHz, some number of pin diodes have been inserted in each arms of each dipole element. By employing this type of each element dipole, the effective dipole length can be increased or decreased according as the inserted pin diodes is on or off. The active array antenna has been design to be directly connected to the balanced push full amplifier such that the amplifier may play a role as a balloon and may improve the sensitivity as a receiver as well. The active array antenna has been designed and fabricated. Some experimental results have been presented in comparison with simulated results.

THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS ON RECIPROCAL ACTION BY TORQUE APPLICATION IN MAXILLARY ARCHWIRE (상악호선에 torque 부여시 나타나는 상반작용에 관한 유한요소법적 연구)

  • Hwang, Chee-Il;Suhr, Cheong-Hoon
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.479-508
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    • 1994
  • This study was designed to investigate the reciprocal movement which was derived form application of active torque in ideal archwire by computer-aided three-dimensional finite element analysis of maxillary teeth and surrounding periodontal ligament composed of 2617 elements and 3725 nodes. Ideal archwire model was also made using the beam elements and the contact between the wire and the bracket slot was made using the gap element. In this study non-linear elastic behaviors of contact between the wire and the bracket slot were considered on. We put the active torque between the lateral and cenral incisor and between the second premolar and the first molar with/without cinch-back. The results were expressed by quantitative and visible ways. The findings of this study were as follows: 1. Reciprocal actions to active torque were complex system consisting of a combination of counter-torque, bucco-lingual linear displacement and tipping, rotation of the teeth, occluso-gingival linear displacement. 2. When active anterior crown labial torque was applied, crown labial tippings of the lateral were the greatest, and those of the central incisor was the next, Crown lingual tippings of the canine and the first premolar, mesial rotations and extrusion of the lateral and distal rotations and intrusion of the canine occurred. When anterior torque with the cinch-back was applied, amount of crown labial tippings of the lateral and central incisor were reduced. Amount of crown lingual tipping of the canine and the first premolar were increased. Mesial tippings and mesial rotations of the second molar occurred. 3. When active posterior crown lingual torque was applied, crown lingual tippings of the first moalr were the greatest, and crown labial tippings of the second premolar and the first premolar were the next, the crown lingual tipping of the second molar were a little. Mesial rotations of the second premolar occurred but those of the first premolar didn't occurred.

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Study on Pattern Synthesis of Conformal Phased Array Antenna (컨포멀 위상 배열 안테나의 패턴 합성에 대한 고찰)

  • Park, Dong-Chul;Kwon, Oh-Hyuk;Ryu, Hong-Kyun;Lee, Kyu-Song
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.26 no.12
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    • pp.1031-1043
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    • 2015
  • This paper describes the pattern synthesis method of two kinds of conformal array antenna using the Enhanced Adaptive Genetic Algorithm (EAGA). One is the $1{\times}16$ conformal array antenna on a curved cylindrical metallic surface with quadratic function, and the other is the 18-element conformal arrary antenna on a metallic surface obtained by the rotation of a quadratic function curve around the axis. The active element pattern is utilized in the pattern synthesis. Especially for the case of the rotated-type conformal array antenna the transformed active element pattern obtained from the Euler's angle rotation of the active element pattern of the planar concentric array is utilized, which reduces the synthesis time a lot. To verify the validity of the proposed synthesis method the MATLAB results are compared with the MWS results. Furthermore, for the case of $1{\times}16$ conformal array antenna the measured results are compared with the MATLAB synthesized results.

A New Type of the Active Array Antenna for IMT-2000 Base Stations by Using Dual-Polarization Diversity (새로운 형태의 IMT-2000 기지국용 이중편파 다이버시티 능동형 배열안테나)

  • 이학용;강기조;이병제;이종철;김종헌;김남영
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.359-365
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    • 2002
  • In this work, a new type of the active array antenna for IMT-2000 base stations by using dual-polarization diversity is proposed and developed. As an element of array antenna, a single micorstrip patch antenna of ${\pm}$ 45$^{\circ}$slanted is designed by obtaining the bandwidth of 1,885 ㎒ to 22,000 ㎒. The polarization isolation between two linearly polarized waves is less than 16 ㏈. The gain of element antenna is more than 7 ㏈i. finally, 2${\times}$8 dual-polarization active array antenna is developed with ElRP of 1,200 W and polarization isolation of 20 ㏈ by placing a low power amplifier at each antenna element.