• Wind and Structures
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.327-347
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• 2015

This paper investigates the effects of Reynolds number (Re) on the aerodynamic characteristics of a twin-deck bridge. A 1:36 scale sectional model of a twin girder bridge was tested using the Wall of Wind (WOW) open jet wind tunnel facility at Florida International University (FIU). Static tests were performed on the model, instrumented with pressure taps and load cells, at high wind speeds with Re ranging from $1.3{\times}10^6$ to $6.1{\times}10^6$ based on the section width. Results show that the section was almost insensitive to Re when pitched to negative angles of attack. However, mean and fluctuating pressure distributions changed noticeably for zero and positive wind angles of attack while testing at different Re regimes. The pressure results suggested that with the Re increase, a larger separation bubble formed on the bottom surface of the upstream girder accompanied with a narrower wake region. As a result, drag coefficient decreased mildly and negative lift coefficient increased. Flow modification due to the Re increase also helped in distributing forces more equally between the two girders. The bare deck section was found to be prone to vortex shedding with limited dependence on the Re. Based on the observations, vortex mitigation devices attached to the bottom surface were effective in inhibiting vortex shedding, particularly at lower Re regime.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.217-227
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• 2020

Based on translation models, both Gaussian and non-Gaussian wind fields are generated using spectral representation method for investigating the influence of non-Gaussian characteristics and directivity effect of wind load on fatigue damage of wind turbine. Using the blade aerodynamic model and multi-body dynamics, dynamic responses are calculated. Using linear damage accumulation theory and linear crack propagation theory, crack initiation life and crack propagation life are discussed with consideration of the joint probability density distribution of the wind direction and mean wind speed in detail. The result shows that non-Gaussian characteristics of wind load have less influence on fatigue life of wind turbine in the area with smaller annual mean wind speeds. Whereas, the influence becomes significant with the increase of the annual mean wind speed. When the annual mean wind speeds are 7 m/s and 9 m/s at hub height of 90 m, the crack initiation lives under softening non-Gaussian wind decrease by 10% compared with Gaussian wind fields or at higher hub height. The study indicates that the consideration of the influence of softening non-Gaussian characteristics of wind inflows can significantly decrease the fatigue life, and, if neglected, it can result in non-conservative fatigue life estimates for the areas with higher annual mean wind speeds.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.439-452
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• 2021

The concept of Performance objective assessment is extended to wind engineering. This approach applies using the Database-Assisted Design technique, relying on the aerodynamic database provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). A structural model of a low-rise building is analyzed to obtain influence coefficients for internal forces and displacements. Combining these coefficients with time histories of pressure coefficients on the envelope produces time histories of load effects on the structure, for example knee and ridge bending moments, and eave lateral drift. The peak values of such effects are represented by an extreme-value Type I Distribution, which allows the estimation of the gust wind speed leading to the mean hourly extreme loading that cause specific performance objective compromises. Firstly a fully correlated wind field over large tributary areas is assumed and then relaxed to utilize the denser pressure tap data available but with considerably more computational effort. The performance objectives are determined in accordance with the limit state load combinations given in the ASCE 7-16 provisions, particularly the Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) method. The procedure is then repeated for several wind directions and different dominant opening scenarios to determine the cases that produce performance objective criteria. Comparisons with two approaches in ASCE 7 are made.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.107-120
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• 2021

전기동력 분산추진 비행체는 다수의 프로펠러로 인하여 복잡한 프로펠러 후류 유동 및 기체와의 상호간섭이 발생한다. 이에 따라 초기설계 단계에서는 다양한 형상과 비행 조건에 대하여 프로펠러 구동 효과를 반영한 신속 공력 및 하중 해석이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 프로펠러 효과를 고려할 수 있는 패널 기반의 효율적인 공력해석 기법을 개발, 검증하였다. Actuator Disk Theory(ADT)에 기반하여 프로펠러 후류 영역의 유도 속도장을 계산하고, 이를 3차원 정상 용출-중첩 패널기법의 비행체 표면 경계조건에 반영하였다. 한국항공우주연구원의 Quad Tilt Propeller(QTP) 비행체 단독 프로펠러와 선행 실험 연구의 프로펠러-날개 형상을 벤치마크 문제로 선정하여 해석을 수행하였다. Actuator 기법 기반의 전산유체역학(CFD) 결과와의 비교를 통해 프로펠러의 후류 속도장과 프로펠러 구동에 따른 날개의 공력하중 분포 변화를 검증하였다. 자율비행 개인용 항공기(Optional Piloted PAV, OPPAV)와 QTP 공력해석에 기법을 적용하고, CFD와의 해석 소요 시간 및 결과 비교, 분석을 통해 기법의 실용성과 타당성을 확인하였다.

• 한국산업융합학회 논문집
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• 제25권4_2호
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• pp.587-594
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• 2022

In the 2000s, a lot of cable-type grand bridges are being built in consideration of economic aspects such as the reduction of logistics costs and the distribution of traffic volume due to rapid economic development. In addition, because the recently installed grand bridges are designed in an aesthetic form that matches the surrounding environment as well as the original function of the road bridge, and serves as a milestone in an area and is used as an excellent tourism resource, attracting many vehicles and people, there is an urgent need for a safety structure that can ensure the safety of not only vehicles but also people. In order to make cable-stayed bridge safe on wind for additional five safety structures, main girder models with and without safety structures for wind-tunnel experiments was made, and wind tunnel experiments was carried out to measure aerodynamic force coefficients. Also, wind-resistant analyses of 3D cable-stayed bridge were performed on the basis of wind-tunnel experiment results. From the wind tunnel experiments for the aerodynamic force coefficients of main girder with five safety structures and the wind resistant analyses of cable-stayed bridge without safety structure and with safety structure, it was concluded that the best form of wind-resistant safety was shown in the order of mesh, standard, bracing, hollow, and closed type. And wind-resistant safety of cable-stayed bridge with hollow and closed type on design wind speed 68.0m/sec was not secured. Finally, as five safety structures are installed, maximum rate of stress increments was shown in the order of steel main beam, steel floor beam, concrete floor beam and cables.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.38-43
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 항공기 날개 표면에서의 공력 하중 분포를 측정하는 풍동 시험 및 모형 설계와 제작에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 모형 날개에는 총 447개의 압력공을 표면에 수직하게 제작하였으며, 날개 내부에 설치한 압력 tube를 통해 모형 내부에 설치된 총 8개의 EPS modules에 연결하여 PSI-8400 system을 사용 압력 분포를 측정하였다. 풍동 시험은 국방과학연구소 아음속풍동을 사용 50m/sec에서 정속모드로 수행하였다. 시험은 하중분포 예측을 위해 받음각과 옆미끄럼각 변위, 플랩 및 외부장착물 설치에 따른 날개에서의 하중분포 측정을 위해 수행하였다. 본 시험 결과로 항공기 날개 구조 최적 설계 자료로의 활용 및 전산유체역학의 결과 검증에 활용 할 수 있을것으로 판단된다.

• 항공우주기술
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.8-27
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 현재 개발중에 있는 복합재료 선미익 항공기의 날개에 작용하는 하중해석을 수행하였다. 중량, 공력계수, 구조설계속도, 하중 등을 계산하기 위해 사용된 Tool은 Excel에서 운용되는 Visual Basic 프로그램으로 계산에 많은 도움을 주었다. 하중해석에 기본적으로 요구되는 항공기의 형상치수, 부품의 종류 및 중량 그리고 좌표계 등은 Catia 모델링, 실제측정 또는 재료밀도 값 등을 이용해 구하였으며, 이들 자료를 통하여 항공기의 중량, 무게중심, 관성모멘트, 구조설계속도, 날개의 하중분포, 힘과 모멘트 등을 계산하였다. 또한 항공기의 날개 및 동체의 임계하중 조건을 선정하는데 필수적인 항공기의 V-n 선도를 도시하였으며, 이 V-n 선도는 항공기의 최대중량 2,573 파운드 및 해면고도조건에서 설계속도 $V_A$, $V_C$, $V_D$ 및 하중계수 +3.8G, -1.52G에 대한 비행범위를 제시하고 있다. 앞으로는 V-n 선도로부터 선정된 임계하중을 이용하여 해석된 동체 및 날개에 대한 하중을 제시하고자 한다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.137-156
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• 2013

A wind tunnel test of a scaled-down model and field measurement were effective methods for elucidating the aerodynamic behavior of a chimney under a wind load. Therefore, the relationship between the results of the wind tunnel test and the field measurement had to be determined. Accordingly, the set-up and testing method in the wind tunnel had to be modified from the field measurement to simulate the real behavior of a chimney under the wind flow with a larger Reynolds number. It enabled the results of the wind tunnel tests to be correlated with the field measurement. The model surface roughness and different turbulence intensity flows were added to the test. The simulated results of the wind tunnel test agreed with the full-scale measurements in the mean surface pressure distribution behavior.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회B
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• pp.3247-3252
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• 2007

Endwall losses contribute significantly to the overall losses in modern turbomachinery, especially when aerodynamic airfoil load and pressure ratio are increased. Hence, reducing the extend and intensity of the secondary flow structures helps to enhance overall efficiency. From the large range of viable approaches, a promising combination positioning and height of endwall contouring was chosen. The objective of this study is to document the three-dimensional flow in a turbine cascade in terms of streamwise vorticity, total pressure loss distribution and static pressure distribution on the endwall and blade surface and to propose an appropriate positioning and height of the endwall contouring which show best secondary, overall loss reduction among the simulated endwall. The flow through the gas turbine were numerically analyzed using three dimensional Navier-Stroke equations with a commercial CFD code ANSYS CFX-10. The result shows that the overall loss is reduced near the flat endwall rather than contoured endwall, and the case of contoured endwall installed at 30% from leading edge with height of 25% for span showed best performance.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제75권4호
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• pp.487-496
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• 2020

Most of the previous works on numerical analysis of galloping of transmission lines are generally based on the quasisteady theory. However, some wind tunnel tests of the rectangular section or hangers of suspension bridges have shown that the galloping phenomenon has a strong unsteady characteristic and the test results are quite different from the quasi-steady calculation results. Therefore, it is necessary to check the applicability of the quasi-static theory in galloping analysis of the ice-covered transmission line. Although some limited unsteady simulation researches have been conducted on the variation of parameters such as aerodynamic damping, aerodynamic coefficients with wind speed or wind attack angle, there is a need to investigate the numerical simulation of unsteady galloping of two-dimensional iced transmission line with comparison to wind tunnel test results. In this paper, it is proposed to conduct a two dimensional (2-D) unsteady numerical analysis of ice-covered transmission line galloping. First, wind tunnel tests of a typical crescent-shapes iced conductor are conducted firstly to check the subsequent quasisteady and unsteady numerical analysis results. Then, a numerical simulation model consistent with the aeroelastic model in the wind tunnel test is established. The weak coupling methodology is used to consider the fluid-structure interaction in investigating a two-dimension numerical simulation of unsteady galloping of the iced conductor. First, the flow field is simulated to obtain the pressure and velocity distribution of the flow field. The fluid action on the iced conduct at the coupling interface is treated as an external load to the conductor. Then, the movement of the conduct is analyzed separately. The software ANSYS FLUENT is employed and redeveloped to numerically analyze the model responses based on fluid-structure interaction theory. The numerical simulation results of unsteady galloping of the iced conduct are compared with the measured responses of wind tunnel tests and the numerical results by the conventional quasi-steady theory, respectively.