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Computations of Dynamic Wave Loads of a Catamaran (쌍동선의 파랑 동하중 추정)

  • H.H. Chun;M.S. Kim;J.H. Yang
    • Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.50-60
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    • 1999
  • In order to design a safe and economic catamaran, it is of clime importance to rigorously estimate the dynamic loads on the catamaran in waves. In this paper, the 2-D strip method by Lee et al.[3] is. extended to a 3-D method which can estimate the dynamic loads(horizontal and vertical shear forses, and bending and torsional moments) acting on the center of the cross deck of the catamaran travelling in an arbitrary wave heading angle. The computational results are compared with Wahab et al's experimental data[2], and also 2-D and 3-D numerical results published. It is found that in general, the 3-D method give much improved correlations with the experimental data compared with 2-D methods, but there are some discrcrepancy between the same 3-D results used by the same theory. In order to improve the accuracy, the effect of the viscous flow and the rigid consideration of the forward speed effect seem to be necessary.

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Understanding Instructor's Challenges of Content Based Instruction : For Pre-service Teachers in Early Childhood Education (내용기반 교수법을 근거로 예비 유아교사 교육을 실시한 교수자의 어려움)

  • Ahn, Hyo-Jin;Kim, Eunhyun
    • Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.181-200
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    • 2013
  • This study aimed at exploring how an instructor constructs meanings through content-based instruction (CBI) offered to pre-service teachers majoring in early childhood education. The course, early childhood mathematics education, was conducted during the spring semester in 2011. This study adopted a narrative inquiry, and data were collected through observations, interviews, and work samples. This study found that during the whole process from the preparation phase to the end-of-program evaluation, the instructor captured diverse challenging moments. During the preparation phase, she needed to have careful orchestration in designing lessons in order to overcome her feeling of pressure as a non-native speaker of English and design the integration of contents and English language learning to be truly powerful. In the phase of implementation, the lack of student motivation and building a good rapport between the instructor and the students were certainly challenges. The result of the student evaluations weakened her desire to implement CBI. The instructor incorporated diverse instructional strategies to overcome the obstacles. The instructor's experiences in this study will positively shape future educators' thinking and learning about meaningful and appropriate academic English instruction for content-area teaching of college students who were majoring in early childhood education.

Experimental Evaluation of the Moment Capacity of a Railway Electric Pole Foundation Adjacent to a Fill Slope (실물 재하시험을 통한 성토사면에 근접한 철도 전철주기초의 저항모멘트 평가)

  • Lee, Su-Hyung;Lee, Sung-Jin;Lee, Il-Wha
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.5-17
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    • 2012
  • The moment responses of electric pole foundations for a railway were investigated using real-scale load tests. Large overturning moments were applied to two circular rigid piles with a 0.75 m diameter and a 2.5 m embedded depth; the circular rigid piles were installed in an actual railway embankment fill. Two different loading directions-toward the fill slope and toward the track -were applied to evaluate the influence of the fill slope on the moment capacities of the foundations. It was found that the failure of the foundations that were constructed according to Korean railway practices exhibited a sudden overturning pattern without any significant pre-failure displacement. The moment capacity toward the fill slope was less than the moment capacity toward the track by 30%. From the test results, the geometry factor (K), which accounted for the reduction of the moment capacity, due to the fill slope, was 0.7. Moment capacities determined from the load tests were compared with those predicted from three existing design methods, and their applicability was discussed.

Evaluation of shear lag parameters for beam-to-column connections in steel piers

  • Hwang, Won-Sup;Kim, Young-Pil;Park, Yong-Myung
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.691-706
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    • 2004
  • The paper presents shear lag parameters for beam-to-column connections in steel box piers. Previous researches have analyzed beam-to-column connections in steel piers using a shear lag parameter ${\eta}_o$ obtained from a simple beam model, which is not based on a reasonable design assumption. Instead, the current paper proposes a cantilever beam model and has proved the effectiveness through theoretical and experimental studies. The paper examines the inaccuracy of the previous researches by estimating the effective width, the width-span length ratio L/b, and the sectional area ratio S of a cantilever beam. Two different shear lag parameters are defined using the cantilever model and the results are compared each other. The first type of shear lag parameter ${\eta}_c$ of a cantilever beam is derived using additional moments from various stress distribution functions while the other shear lag parameter ${\eta}_{eff}$ of a cantilever beam is defined based on the concept of the effective width. An evaluation method for shear lag stresses has been investigated by comparing analytical stresses with test results. Through the study, it could be observed that the shear lag parameter ${\eta}_{eff}$ agrees with ${\eta}_c$ obtained from the $2^{nd}$ order stress distribution function. Also, it could be observed that the shear lag parameter ${\eta}_c$ using the $4^{th}$ order stress distribution function almost converges to the upper bound of test results.

A MOM-based algorithm for moving force identification: Part I - Theory and numerical simulation

  • Yu, Ling;Chan, Tommy H.T.;Zhu, Jun-Hua
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.135-154
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    • 2008
  • The moving vehicle loads on a bridge deck is one of the most important live loads of bridges. They should be understood, monitored and controlled before the bridge design as well as when the bridge is open for traffic. A MOM-based algorithm (MOMA) is proposed for identifying the timevarying moving vehicle loads from the responses of bridge deck in this paper. It aims at an acceptable solution to the ill-conditioning problem that often exists in the inverse problem of moving force identification. The moving vehicle loads are described as a combination of whole basis functions, such as orthogonal Legendre polynomials or Fourier series, and further estimated by solving the new system equations developed with the basis functions. A number of responses have been combined, some numerical simulations on single axle, two axle and multiple-axle loads, being either constant or timevarying, have been carried out and compared with the existing time domain method (TDM) in this paper. The illustrated results show that the MOMA has higher identification accuracy and robust noise immunity as well as producing an acceptable solution to ill-conditioning cases to some extent when it is used to identify the moving force from bridge responses.

Experimental and numerical study on performance of long-short combined retaining piles

  • Xu, Chang J.;Ding, Hai B.;Luo, Wen J.;Tong, Li H.;Chen, Qing S.;Deng, Jian L.
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.255-265
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    • 2020
  • Laboratory tests are conducted to investigate the performance of retaining system with different combinations of long-short piles. Numerical analysis implemented using ABAQUS are verified by comparing numerical results with measured data. By performing numerical studies, the horizontal displacement of piles, heave of excavation bottom and bending moment of pile for various pile system with different pile lengths are investigated. Results show that long piles share higher bending moments than short piles. The increase in the number of short piles leads to a slight increase in the heave at excavation bottom for long-short pile retaining system. Retaining system with different long and short pile combinations have greater effects on the horizontal displacement of pile above the excavation bottom, compared to its counterparts below excavation bottom. For a given length of long pile, the bending moment and displacement of piles increase with the decrease in length of short piles, while the increasing rate of maximum moment of retaining pile system is insignificant. Results highlight that a reliable and economical pile retaining system can be designed by optimizing the number and length of short piles, provided that the working performance of retaining structures above excavation bottom meets the design requirement in practice.

Time dependent finite element analysis of steel-concrete composite beams considering partial interaction

  • Dias, Maiga M.;Tamayo, Jorge L.P.;Morsch, Inacio B.;Awruch, Armando M.
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.687-707
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    • 2015
  • A finite element computer code for short-term analysis of steel-concrete composite structures is extended to study long-term effects under service loads, in the present work. Long-term effects are important in engineering design because they influence stress and strain distribution of the structural system and therefore contribute to the increment of deflections in these structures. For creep analysis, a rheological model based on a Kelvin chain, with elements placed in series, was employed. The parameters of the Kelvin chain were obtained using Dirichlet series. Creep and shrinkage models, proposed by the CEB FIP 90, were used. The shear-lag phenomenon that takes place at the concrete slab is usually neglected or not properly taken into account in the formulation of beam-column finite elements. Therefore, in this work, a three-dimensional numerical model based on the assemblage of shell finite elements for representing the steel beam and the concrete slab is used. Stud shear connectors are represented for special beam-column elements to simulate the partial interaction at the slab-beam interface. The two-dimensional representation of the concrete slab permits to capture the non-uniform shear stress distribution in the horizontal plane of the slab due to shear-lag phenomenon. The model is validated with experimental results of two full-scale continuous composite beams previously studied by other authors. Results are given in terms of displacements, bending moments and cracking patterns in order to shown the influence of long-term effects in the structural response and also the potentiality of the present numerical code.

Out-Of-Plane Bending Stiffnesses in Offshore Mooring Chain Links Based on Conventional and Advanced Numerical Simulation Techniques (기존/개선 수치 해석 기법을 이용한 계류 체인 링크의 면외 굽힘 강성)

  • Choung, Joonmo;Lee, Jae-bin;Kim, Young Hun
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.297-309
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    • 2018
  • After an accident involving mooring link failures in an offloading buoy, verification of the fatigue safety in terms of the out-of-plane bending (OPB) and in-plane bending (IPB) moments has become a key engineering item in the design of various floating offshore units. The mooring links for an 8 MW floating offshore wind turbine were selected for this study. To identify the OPB stiffness (OPB moment versus interlink angle), a numerical simulation model, called the 3-link model, is usually composed of three successive chain links closest to the fairlead or chain hawse. This paper introduces two numerical simulation techniques for the 3-link analyses. The conventional and advanced approaches are both based on the prescribed rotation approach (PRA) and direct tension approach (DTA). Comparisons of the nominal stress distributions, OPB stiffnesses, hotspot stress curves, and stress concentration curves are presented. The multiple link analyses used to identify the tension angle versus interlink angle require the OPB stiffness data from the 3-link analyses. A convergence study was conducted to determine the minimum number of links for a multi-link analysis. It was proven that 10 links were sufficient for the multi-link analysis. The tension angle versus interlink angle relations are presented based on multi-link analyses with 10 links. It was found that the subsequent results varied significantly according to the 3-link analysis techniques.

The Design and Implementation of ACE(Application sharing collaboration Engine) for Collaboration Work (공동작업을 위한 어플리케이션 공유 공동작업 엔진의 설계 및 구현)

  • Oh, Ju-Byoung;Kim, Jin-Suk;Kim, Hye-Kyu
    • The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.606-619
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    • 1998
  • In this paper, we have tfesigned and ihlplemented ACE(Application sharing Collaboration Engine) which is pessible an application sharing to collaborate among peoples who are geographically dispersed. The application sharing is a technology whereby two or more users collaborate to share the output of single application running on one computer system to the other users, and to provide input to the applications. We defined ASO(Applicatio!1 Sharing Object) object and its behavior to share applications in real time and ACE processes a sharing using ASO object among the distributed systems. ASO is classified into activateASO, updateASO, inputASO, and controlASO. The each ASO's behavior involves both events which occur at specific moments such as keystrokes and mouse clicks and more persistent status which can be observed at any time such as the image on the screen. The implemented ACE can be applied to the data conferencing, distance education, and project collaboration for engineer in distributed environments.

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Moment Resisting Behaviors of Railway Electric Pole Foundation According to Form Work Methods (거푸집 설치 방법에 따른 철도 전철주기초의 모멘트 저항 거동)

  • Lee, Su-Hyung;Lee, Seung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.411-417
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    • 2013
  • The moment responses of electric pole foundations for a railroad were investigated using real-scale load tests. Large overturning moments were applied to two square rigid piles with a 1.1 m width and a 2.2 m embedded depth. Two different installation methods-with and without a form-were applied to evaluate the influence of the form work on the moment capacities of the foundations. The reduction of ground strength caused by the excavation without a form is more pronounce than the decrease of frictional strength due to the smooth concrete surface with a form. From the test results, it is found that the current design method which applies a proportional coefficient to consider the effect of a form work is not appropriate. When the normal and frictional stressed is considered separately, the effect of a form work can be estimated reasonably by reducing the friction angle between soil and foundation by 20%.