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Analysis on Green BIM based Atrium Sizes in the Early Design Stage (Green BIM기반 초기설계 단계에서 타입별 아트리움의 규모산정에 관한 연구)

  • Jeong, Seung-Woo;Lee, Kweon-Hyoung;Kim, In-Han;Choo, Seung-Yeon
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.58-70
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    • 2013
  • This study for establishing specific standards of atrium design aims to discuss design of atrium to consider energy performance atrium in office buildings. In order to evaluate a type and a scale of atrium at the early design stage, modeling details of mass design were set as standards of conceptual design. In the experiment, Project Vasari was used to analyze modeling and energy consumption, based on the LOD 100-step suggested by AIA, because there is no guideline to specify a level of modeling details at each design process. From this analysis, the correlation among a simple-typed atrium and scale and energy load was considered. The result of this research is as follows: First, the single-sided atrium reduced energy the most, and it was followed by three-sided, two-sided, four-sided and continuous-typed ones. On the whole, they could decrease energy by up to about 15%. Also, the atrium with a wide facade facing in the south was more favorable to reduce energy. Second, planning the atrium within 10~30% of the whole building area was more energy efficient. Third, rather than the depth, adjusting the length in designing an atrium could reduce cooling and heating loads by 1.5% per 1m. As explained above, energy performance evaluation considering types and planning elements of atrium helps to assess alternatives in a reasonable way. In particular, considering the use of building needs to be preceded to select a type of atrium, although it is also important to consider its planning elements.

Energy Performance and Cost Assessment for Implementing GroundSource Heat Pump System in Military Building (군사시설 내 지열 히트펌프 시스템 적용에 따른 에너지 성능과 비용 절감 효과 평가)

  • Byonghu Sohn;Kyung Joo Cho;Dong Woo Cho
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.45-57
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    • 2022
  • The Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of Korea is showing a lot of interest in net zero-energy buildings (NZEBs) to reduce energy consumption of military facilities and to promote green growth policy in military sector. The application of building passive technologies and renewable energies is essential to achieving NZEBs. This paper analyzed energy performance and energy cost on the conventional heating and cooling system (baseline scenario) and three different alternative scenarios (ALT 1, ALT 2 and ALT 3) applied in a hypothetical military building. A building modeling and simulation software (DesignBuilder V6.1) with EnergyPlus calculation engine was used to calculate the energy consumption for each scenario. Overall, when the GSHPs are applied to both space airconditioning and domestic hot water (DHW) production, Alt-2 and Alt-3, the amount of energy consumption for target building can be greatly reduced. In addition, when the building envelope performance is increased like Alt-3, the energy consumption can be further reduced. The annual energy cost analysis showed that the baseline was approximately 161 million KRW, while Alt-3 was approximately 33 million KRW. Therefore, it was analyzed that the initial construction cost increase could be recovered within about 6.7 years for ALT 3. The results of this study can help decision-makers to determine the optimal strategy for implementing GSHP systems in military buildings through energy performance and initial construction cost assessment.

A Study on the Application of a Drone-Based 3D Model for Wind Environment Prediction

  • Jang, Yeong Jae;Jo, Hyeon Jeong;Oh, Jae Hong;Lee, Chang No
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.93-101
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    • 2021
  • Recently, with the urban redevelopment and the spread of the planned cities, there is increasing interest in the wind environment, which is related not only to design of buildings and landscaping but also to the comfortability of pedestrians. Numerical analysis for wind environment prediction is underway in many fields, such as dense areas of high-rise building or composition of the apartment complexes, a precisive 3D building model is essentially required in this process. Many studies conducted for wind environment analysis have typically used the method of creating a 3D model by utilizing the building layer included in the GIS (Geographic Information System) data. These data can easily and quickly observe the flow of atmosphere in a wide urban environment, but cannot be suitable for observing precisive flow of atmosphere, and in particular, the effect of a complicated structure of a single building on the flow of atmosphere cannot be calculated. Recently, drone photogrammetry has shown the advantage of being able to automatically perform building modeling based on a large number of images. In this study, we applied photogrammetry technology using a drone to evaluate the flow of atmosphere around two buildings located close to each other. Two 3D models were made into an automatic modeling technique and manual modeling technique. Auto-modeling technique is using an automatically generates a point cloud through photogrammetry and generating models through interpolation, and manual-modeling technique is a manually operated technique that individually generates 3D models based on point clouds. And then the flow of atmosphere for the two models was compared and analyzed. As a result, the wind environment of the two models showed a clear difference, and the model created by auto-modeling showed faster flow of atmosphere than the model created by manual modeling. Also in the case of the 3D mesh generated by auto-modeling showed the limitation of not proceeding an accurate analysis because the precise 3D shape was not reproduced in the closed area such as the porch of the building or the bridge between buildings.

A study on the disinfection performance of indoor microorganism using energy consumption analysis for indoor bio-safety (건물 재실자의 미생물 안전을 위한 면역건물 기술의 에너지 사용 연구)

  • Choi, Sang-Gon
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.111-118
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    • 2009
  • In this study the real situation of apartment house in seoul is reproduced with multi-zone modeling program CONTAM2.4. This model include disinfection system which is consist of dilution, filtration, UVGI(ultra violet germicidal irradiation). It's energy consumption was also analyzed through the linked model of CONTAM and TRNSYS according to the combination of components. The comparison of total energy consumption through energy analysis revealed that adjusting the air change rate of the UVGI air sterilizer to maintain the same indoor microbe removal capability was more advantageous in terms of energy consumption.

A Study on Evaluation Method of Energy Performance by using BIM (BIM을 활용한 에너지성능평가 기법에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Seung-kil;Chun, Jung-kil;Son, Won-tug;Choi, Hyun-Sang;Choi, Young-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.147-152
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    • 2013
  • According to the obligation of BIM application, the guidelines of energy simulation based on BIM are being presented. Although there is the advantage to minimize the error in energy analysis using the energy model, there are still issues about insufficient standards and the compatibility of the gbXML. Therefore, it is necessary to establish the processes to utilize and apply BIM methods for energy simulation. This study was examined on the compatibility of data for energy simulation by the gbXML schema and energy efficiency by BIM.

Development of analytical modeling for an energy-dissipating cladding panel

  • Maneetes, H.;Memari, A.M.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.587-608
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    • 2009
  • Modern earthquake-resistant design aims to isolate architectural precast concrete panels from the structural system so as to reduce the interaction with the supporting structure and hence minimize damage. The present study seeks to maximize the cladding-structure interaction by developing an energy-dissipating cladding system (EDCS) that is capable of functioning both as a structural brace, as well as a source of energy dissipation. The EDCS is designed to provide added stiffness and damping to buildings with steel moment resisting frames with the goal of favorably modifying the building response to earthquake-induced forces without demanding any inelastic action and ductility from the basic lateral force resisting system. Because many modern building facades typically have continuous and large openings on top of the precast cladding panels at each floor level for window system, the present study focuses on spandrel type precast concrete cladding panel. The preliminary design of the EDCS was based on existing guidelines and research data on architectural precast concrete cladding and supplemental energy dissipation devices. For the component-level study, the preliminary design was validated and further refined based on the results of nonlinear finite element analyses. The stiffness and strength characteristics of the EDCS were established from a series of nonlinear finite element analyses and are discussed in detail in this paper.

Development of the IFC based IDF Converter for Energy Performance Assessment in the Early Design Phase (초기 설계단계 에너지 성능평가를 위한 IFC 기반 IDF 변환기 개발)

  • Kim, In-Han;Kim, Ji-Eun;Choi, Jung-Sik
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.146-155
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    • 2011
  • As the seriousness of environmental pollution being on a rise, a low carbon and environment-friendly design for energy efficiency has been issued. With respect to energy in the construction industry, an adoption of BIM which is possible for the various energy performance assessments in the early design phase has been actively working on. In the most cases of energy performance assessment, the data compatibility from the lack of standard software and format became a problem and the improvement for data compatibility system has been needed. This study is to develop the IFC based IDF converter as a middleware which connects between BIM software and energy analysis software. For the building energy performance assessment, Energy Plus and IFC are selected for the standard energy analysis software and its file format. Parameters are organized by steps and the integrated material library is built so it is trying to reduce the existing problem of energy software interface as much as possible. The development of IDF Converter will promote the spread of related fields with increasing the BIM standard and the utilization of energy performance assessment.

BIM-Based Integrated Module for Apartment Environmental Performance and Energy Analysis (BIM기반 공동주택 환경성능 및 에너지 해석 시스템 통합 개발)

  • Suh, Hye-Soo;Lee, Soo-Hyun;Lim, Jae-Sang;Choi, Cheol-Ho
    • Journal of KIBIM
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2014
  • As interest in green building has increased, construction market has evolved through BIM-based architecture also, BIM-based technologies have been developed simultaneously. Due to this aspect, the need of environmental analysis software utilizing BIM data became essential. This study shows that BIM-based integrated module provides objective analysis to proceed quick decision-making for a proposal. In addition to that, this integrated module creates a model through BIM data to analyze and report residential environment and energy consumption such as, daylight, view, ventilation and privacy in order to practically apply the BIM technology from the schematic design.

Mechanical properties of new stainless steel-aluminum alloy composite joint in tower structures

  • Yingying Zhang;Qiu Yu;Wei Song;Junhao Xu;Yushuai Zhao;Baorui Sun
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.49 no.5
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    • pp.517-532
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    • 2023
  • Tower structures have been widely used in communication and transmission engineering. The failure of joints is the leading cause of structure failure, which make it play a crucial role in tower structure engineering. In this study, the aluminum alloy three tube tower structure is taken as the prototype, and the middle joint of the tower was selected as the research object. Three different stainless steel-aluminum alloy composite joints (SACJs), denoted by TA, TB and TC, were designed. Finite element (FE) modeling analysis was used to compare and determine the TC joint as the best solution. Detail requirements of fasteners in the TC stainless steel-aluminum alloy composite joint (TC-SACJ) were designed and verified. In order to systematically and comprehensively study the mechanical properties of TC-SACJ under multi-directional loading conditions, the full-scale experiments and FE simulation models were all performed for mechanical response analysis. The failure modes, load-carrying capacities, and axial load versus displacement/stain testing curves of all full-scale specimens under tension/compression loading conditions were obtained. The results show that the maximum vertical displacement of aluminum alloy tube is 26.9mm, and the maximum lateral displacement of TC-SACJs is 1.0 mm. In general, the TC-SACJs are in an elastic state under the design load, which meet the design requirements and has a good safety reserve. This work can provide references for the design and engineering application of aluminum alloy tower structures.

Modeling and Control of a Two-Stage DC-DC-AC Converter for Battery Energy Storage System (배터리 에너지 저장 장치를 위한 2단 DC-DC-AC 컨버터의 모델링 방법)

  • Hyun, Dong-Yub;Jung, Seok-Eon;Hyun, Dong-Seok
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.422-430
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    • 2014
  • This study proposes a small-signal model and control design for a two-stage DC-DC-AC converter to investigate its dynamic characteristics in relation to battery energy storage system. When the circuit analysis of the two-stage DC-DC-AC converter is attempted simultaneously, the mathematical procedure of deriving the dynamic equation is complex and difficult. The main idea of modeling the two-stage DC-DC-AC converter states that this topology is separated into a bidirectional DC-DC converter and a single-phase inverter with an equivalent current source corresponding to that of the inverter or converter. The dynamic equations for the separated converter and inverter are then derived using the state-space averaging technique. The procedures of building the small-signal model of the two-stage DC-DC-AC converter are described in detail. Based on the derived small-signal model, the individual controllers are designed through a frequency-domain analysis. The simulation and experimental results verify the validity of the proposed modeling approach and controller design.