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A Study for Analysis on Deformation of Rubble Mound Structure Using VOF and DEM Methods (VOF법과 DEM에 의한 사석구조물 변형예측모델과 그 적용성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Mi-Kum;Kim, Chang-Je
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.435-440
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    • 2010
  • A numerical model, which can compute deformation of rubble mound structures composed with various size materials, was proposed. In the numerical model, wave field into the mound structures was computed by CADMAS-SURF and the deformations of mound structures were computed by DEM. Interaction between wave field and sectional deformation of structure was considered and to present the variation of behaviors caused by various properties of materials, computation was carried out with random coefficients by Monte Carlo simulation method for contact stiffness and friction angle. The experiments were carried out with rubbles and glass balls with radius of 2.9cm, 2.6cm and 1.5cm. And the deformation characteristics of rubble mounds composed with various size materials were clarified. Furthermore the validity and the applicability of the model were discussed by comparing with the experimental results.

3D Finite Element Simulation of Pellet-Cladding Mechanical Interaction (3차원 유한요소를 이용한 핵연료와 피복관 기계적 거동 해석)

  • Seo, Sang Kyu;Lee, Sung Uk;Lee, Eun Ho;Yang, Dong Yol;Kim, Hyo Chan;Yang, Yong Sik
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.40 no.5
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    • pp.437-447
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    • 2016
  • In a nuclear power plant, the fuel assembly, which is composed of fuel rods, burns, and the high temperature can generate power. The fuel rod consists of pellets and a cladding that covers the pellets. It is important to understand the pellet-cladding mechanical interaction with regard to nuclear safety. This paper proposes simulation of the PCMI. The gap between the pellets and the cladding, and the contact pressure are very important for conducting thermal analysis. Since the gap conductance is not known, it has to be determined by a suitable method. This paper suggests a solution. In this study, finite element (FE) contact analysis is conducted considering thermal expansion of the pellets. As the contact causes plastic deformation, this aspect is considered in the analysis. A 3D FE module is developed to analyze the PCMI using FORTRAN 90. The plastic deformation due to the contact between the pellets and the cladding is the major physical phenomenon. The simple analytical solution of a cylinder is proposed and compared with the fuel rod performance code results.

Computational Efficiency of Thermo-Elasto-Viscoplastic Damage and Contact Analyses by Domain/Boundary Decomposition (영역/경계 분할에 의한 열탄점소성 손상 및 접촉 해석의 효율화)

  • Kim, Sung-Jun;Shin, Eui-Sup
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.153-161
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    • 2009
  • A domain/boundary decomposition method is applied for efficient analyses of thermo-elasto-viscoplastic damage and contact problems under the assumption of infinitesimal deformation. For the decomposition of a whole domain and contact boundaries, all the equality constraints on the interface and contact interfaces are restated with simple penalty functional. Therefore, the non-linearity of the problem is localized within finite element matrices in a few subdomains and on contact interfaces. By setting up suitable solution algorithms, the computational efficiency can be improved considerably. The general tendency of the computational efficiency is illustrated with some numerical experiments.

Analysis of the Static Friction Coefficient of Contacting Rough Surfaces in Miniature Systems (거친 면 접촉의 정적 마찰계수 해석)

  • 김태종
    • Tribology and Lubricants
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.230-236
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    • 2003
  • In applications such as MEMS and NEMS devices, the adhesion force and contact load may be of the same order of magnitude and the static friction coefficient can be very large. Such large coefficient may result in unacceptable and possibly catastrophic adhesion, stiction, friction and wear. To obtain the static friction coefficient of contacting real surfaces without the assumption of an empirical coefficient value, numerical simulations of the contact load, tangential force, and adhesion force are preformed. The surfaces in dry contact are statistically modeled by a collection of spherical asperities with Gaussian height distribution. The asperity micro-contact model utilized in calculation (the ZMC model), considers the transition from elastic deformation to fully plastic flow of the contacting asperity. The force approach of the modified DMT model using the Lennard-Jones attractive potential is applied to characterize the intermolecular forces. The effect of the surface topography on the static friction coefficient is investigated for cases rough, intermediate, smooth, and very smooth, respectively. Results of the static friction coefficient versus the external force are presented for a wide range of plasticity index and surface energy, respectively. Compared with those obtained by the GW and CEB models, the ZMC model is more complete in calculating the static friction coefficient of rough surfaces.

Effect of Coating Thickness on Rolling Contact Fatigue of CNx Coated Steel (CNx코팅된 강의 회전접촉피로에 미치는 코팅두께의 영향)

  • Choi, Byung Young;Umehara, Noritsugu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Heat Treatment
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.355-359
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    • 2000
  • Ion beam assisted deposition system was used to deposit CNx coatings with various thickness on the substrates of high-frequency induction hardened steels. Rolling contact fatigue tests were performed using Polymet RCF-1 machine with a constant supply of lubricant. Rolling contact fatigue life was substantially different in the steels with various thickness of CNx coatings. The optimum thickness of CNx coating was found to be $8.9{\mu}m$, showing the longest fatigue life, mainly caused by higher resistance to initiation of cracks and protective overcoat remaining to the surface failure during rolling contact fatigue. Cracks were initiated in the substrates under the surface of wear track and propagated to the surface, which eventually resulted in the failure. The reduction of fatigue life observed in the specimen with elimination of CNx coating during rolling contact fatigue was explained by the substrates deformation.

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Derivation of work-hardening exponent using continuous indentation technique (연속압입시험법을 이용한 가공경화지수의 유도)

  • Jeon, Eun-Chae;Ahn, Jeong-Hoon;Kwon, Dong-Il
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.256-261
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    • 2000
  • In this study, we derived work-hardening exponent using continuous indentation test technique. Continuous indentation test technique is a powerful method to evaluate mechanical properties, such as hardness, modulus, ${\sigma}-{\varepsilon}$ curves and etc. It has many merits conventional indentation test has. The relationship between true stress and mean contact pressure and between strain and indentation depth were derived. While the indenter pushes the materials, the region around the indenter is deflected elastically. It is called elastic deflection. And pile-up phenomenon related to plastic deformation around the indenter increased the contact depth, and sink-in phenomenon decreases. So we calibrated contact depth change by considering elastic deflection and pile-up/sink-in. Using calibrated contact depth we redefined the relationship between true stress and mean contact pressure and between strain and contact depth. Through these relationship we could derive work-hardening exponent by analyzing load-depth curves. And it showed good agreement with tensile test results.

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Flexural and Interfacial Bond Properties of Hybrid Steel/Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites Panel Gate with Steel Gate Surface Deformation for Improved Movable Weir (개량형 가동보에 적용하기 위한 하이브리드 강판/GFRP 패널 게이트의 강판게이트 표면형상에 따른 휨 및 계면 부착 특성 평가)

  • Kim, Ki Won;Kwon, Hyung Joong;Kim, Phil Sik;Park, Chan Gi
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.57 no.2
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    • pp.57-66
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study was to improved the durability of a improved movable weir by replacing the improved movable weir's metal gate with a hybrid steel/glass fiber reinforced polymer composites panel gate. Because the metal gate of a improved movable weir is always in contact with water, its service life is shortened by corrosion. This study made four type of hybrid steel/glass fiber reinforced polymer composites panel gate with different steel gate surface deformation (control, sand blast, scratch and hole), flexural. Fracture properties tests were performed depending on the steel gate surface deformation. According to the test results, the flexural behavior, flexural strength and fracture properties of hybrid steel/glass fiber reinforced polymer composites panel gate was affected by the steel panel gate surface deformation. Also, the sand blast type hybrid steel/glass fiber reinforced polymer composites panel gate shows vastly superior flexural and fracture performance compared to other types.

Analytical solution for nonlocal buckling characteristics of higher-order inhomogeneous nanosize beams embedded in elastic medium

  • Ebrahimi, Farzad;Barati, Mohammad Reza
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.229-249
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    • 2016
  • In this paper, buckling characteristics of nonhomogeneous functionally graded (FG) nanobeams embedded on elastic foundations are investigated based on third order shear deformation (Reddy) without using shear correction factors. Third-order shear deformation beam theory accounts for shear deformation effects by a parabolic variation of all displacements through the thickness, and verifies the stress-free boundary conditions on the top and bottom surfaces of the FG nanobeam. A two parameters elastic foundation including the linear Winkler springs along with the Pasternak shear layer is in contact with beam in deformation, which acts in tension as well as in compression. The material properties of FG nanobeam are supposed to vary gradually along the thickness and are estimated through the power-law and Mori-Tanaka models. The small scale effect is taken into consideration based on nonlocal elasticity theory of Eringen. Nonlocal equations of motion are derived through Hamilton's principle and they are solved applying analytical solution. Comparison between results of the present work and those available in literature shows the accuracy of this method. The obtained results are presented for the buckling analysis of the FG nanobeams such as the effects of foundation parameters, gradient index, nonlocal parameter and slenderness ratio in detail.

Thermal Deformation Measurement Spherical Glasses Lens Using ESPI (ESPI를 이용한 안경용 렌즈의 열변형 측정)

  • Kim, Koung-Suk;Jang, Ho-Sub;Kim, Hyun-Min;Yang, Seung-Pill
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.137-143
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    • 2008
  • The spherical glasses lenses are typically classified into two groups such as (+) diopter lens and (-) diopter lens by the refractive power index. The thermal deformation of a lens is occurred by external heat source and is changed respected to the diopter of a lens. In this paper, the thermal deformation of spherical glasses lenses were quantitatively measured by using ESPI (electronic speckle pattern interferometry) which has an advantage that the non-contact, non-destructive and precise deformation measurement is available due to the coherency characteristic. The temperature changes were measured by IR camera. It makes experiments over 14 types of the plastic glasses lenses. From the results, it was confirmed that the larger diopter lens showed the less thermal deformation in case of the (+) diopter lens. On the other hand, the thermal deformation of the (-) diopter lens was measured with uniform pattern when the same temperature changes were applied. Also, it was found that the thermnal deformation of the (+) diopter lens is less than that of the (-) diopter lens. Therefore, it is expected that when the thermal deformation is occurred to the various types of the lens, the variation of the focal length caused by the thermal distortion of a lens would be measured quantitatively.

Study on the Tightening Force and the Friction Coefficient in a Bolt tightened upto the Plastic Range (소성역체결 볼트의 체결력과 마찰계수에 관한 연구)

  • 손승요;신근하
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 1994.04a
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    • pp.33-37
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    • 1994
  • When a bolt is tightened up to the range of plastic deformation, yielding is governed by the combined stresses due to the axial force developed in the bolt and the frictional torque developed on the thread in contact with the nut. Consideration is taken account of the fact that the unused portion of the thread has least sectional area being subject to initial yielding. Once yielding has taken place some strain hardening effect will result, Incremental stress-strain relations are used to treat the continued yielding, which is equivalent to treat continued yielding as if summing up the effects of thin walled cylinders subject to plastic deformation. M10 bolts of common and fine series thread are used for computational purposes. Variation of axial forces and frictional torques vs. the frictional coefficients tare presented together with other plots showing some characteristics of bolt under plastic deformation.

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