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현악기의 물리적 모델링을 위한 최적의 멀티코어 프로세서 아키텍처 탐색 (Exploration of Optimal Multi-Core Processor Architecture for Physical Modeling of Plucked-String Instruments)

  • 강명수;최지원;김용민;김종면
    • 한국음향학회지
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    • 제30권5호
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    • pp.281-294
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    • 2011
  • 물리적 모델링 기반 음 합성 알고리즘은 음 합성 시 많은 연산량을 요구하며 이는 실시간 음 합성을 저해한다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 물리적 모델링 기반 현악기 사운드 엔진을 멀티코어 프로세서에 구현하고, 사운드 엔진을 위한 최적의 멀티코어 프로세서 구조를 제안한다. 대상 현악기의 단위음을 합성하기 위해 각 프로세싱 엘리먼트 (processing element, PE)당 합성하는 샘플 (sample-per-processing element, SPE) 수를 변화시키는 실험을 통해 시스템의 성능 (system performance), 시스템 면적 효율 (area efficiency), 에너지 효율 (energy efficiency)을 각각 측정하고, 측정된 결과를 바탕으로 최적의 멀티코어 프로세서 구조를 선택하였다. 모의실험 결과, 어쿠스틱 기타는 SPE가 5,513과 2,756일 때 가장 높은 시스템 면적 효율과 에너지 효율을 보였으며, 클래식 기타는 SPE가 22,050과 5,513일 때 시스템 면적 효율과 에너지 효율이 가장 높았다. 또한 이를 이용하여 44.1 kHz의 샘플링율을 갖도록 대상 악기의 단위음을 합성한 결과 원음과 스펙트럼에서 매우 유사함을 확인할 수 있었고, 울산대학교 대학원생 및 교수 10명을 대상으로 실시한 MUSHRA 주관 청취 테스트에서도 좋은 결과를 얻었다.

A THERMO-ELASTO-VISCOPLASTIC MODEL FOR COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND ITS FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS

  • Shin, Eui-Sup
    • Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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    • 제3권1호
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    • pp.45-65
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    • 2002
  • A constitutive model on oorthotropic thermo-elasto-viscoplasticity for fiber-reinforced composite materials Is illustrated, and their thermomechanical responses are predicted with the fully-coupled finite element formulation. The unmixing-mixing scheme can be adopted with the multipartite matrix method as the constitutive model. Basic assumptions based upon the composite micromechanics are postulated, and the strain components of thermal expansion due to temperature change are included In the formulation. Also. more than two sets of mechanical variables, which represent the deformation states of multipartite matrix can be introduced arbitrarily. In particular, the unmixing-mixing scheme can be used with any well-known isotropic viscoplastic theory of the matrix material. The scheme unnecessitates the complex processes for developing an orthotropic viscoplastic theory. The governing equations based on fully-coupled thermomechanics are derived with constitutive arrangement by the unmixing-mixing concept. By considering some auxiliary conditions, the Initial-boundary value problem Is completely set up. As a tool of numerical analyses, the finite element method Is used with isoparametric Interpolation fer the displacement and the temperature fields. The equation of mutton and the energy conservation equation are spatially discretized, and then the time marching techniques such as the Newmark method and the Crank-Nicolson technique are applied. To solve the ultimate nonlinear simultaneous equations, a successive iteration algorithm is constructed with subincrementing technique. As a numerical study, a series of analyses are performed with the main focus on the thermomechanical coupling effect in composite materials. The progress of viscoplastic deformation, the stress-strain relation, and the temperature History are careful1y examined when composite laminates are subjected to repeated cyclic loading.

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Experimental investigation of existing R/C frames strengthened by high dissipation steel link elements

  • Karalis, Apostolos A.;Stylianidis, Kosmas C.
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • 제5권2호
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    • pp.143-160
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents the results of an experimental program concerning the efficiency of a specific strengthening technique which utilizes a small steel link element connected to the R/C frame through bracing elements. Brittle types of failure, especially at the connections between steel and concrete elements, can be avoided by appropriate design of the local details. Five single storey one bay R/C frames scaled 1:3 were constructed according to older codes with substandard details. The first one was a typical bare reference frame. The other four were identical to the first one, strengthened by steel bracing elements. The behavior of the strengthened frames is described with respect to the reference bare frame. The concrete frames were constructed according to older code provisions by the use of smooth steel bars, low strength concrete, sparsely spaced stirrups and substandard details. The strengthening scheme aimed to the increase of both strength and deformation capacity of the original R/C frame. The inelastic deformations are purposely concentrated to a short steel link element connecting the steel bracing to the R/C frame. The results show that the steel link element can increase considerably the strength and the energy dissipation capacity of the frame.

Adaptive group of ink drop spread: a computer code to unfold neutron noise sources in reactor cores

  • Hosseini, Seyed Abolfazl;Afrakoti, Iman Esmaili Paeen
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • 제49권7호
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    • pp.1369-1378
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    • 2017
  • The present paper reports the development of a computational code based on the Adaptive Group of Ink Drop Spread (AGIDS) for reconstruction of the neutron noise sources in reactor cores. AGIDS algorithm was developed as a fuzzy inference system based on the active learning method. The main idea of the active learning method is to break a multiple input-single output system into a single input-single output system. This leads to the ability to simulate a large system with high accuracy. In the present study, vibrating absorber-type neutron noise source in an International Atomic Energy Agency-two dimensional reactor core is considered in neutron noise calculation. The neutron noise distribution in the detectors was calculated using the Galerkin finite element method. Linear approximation of the shape function in each triangle element was used in the Galerkin finite element method. Both the real and imaginary parts of the calculated neutron distribution of the detectors were considered input data in the developed computational code based on AGIDS. The output of the computational code is the strength, frequency, and position (X and Y coordinates) of the neutron noise sources. The calculated fraction of variance unexplained error for output parameters including strength, frequency, and X and Y coordinates of the considered neutron noise sources were $0.002682{\sharp}/cm^3s$, 0.002682 Hz, and 0.004254 cm and 0.006140 cm, respectively.

모유영양아의 인공영양아의 두발내 철분, 아연 및 구리의 함량비교 (Comparison of Hair Iron , Zinc and Copper Concentrations of Breast Fed and Formula Fed Infants)

  • 안홍석
    • Journal of Nutrition and Health
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    • 제31권4호
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    • pp.756-766
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    • 1998
  • The objectives of this study were to examine the growth pattern and hair trace element contents of healthy infants who were fed breast milk(BF infant) and formula (FF infant) during the first 6 months and its relationship to intake of trace elements. Bimonthyl anthropometric measurements were obtained on 32 infants through 6 months of age. Mean calculated energy, iron, zinc and copper intake from breast milk at 2 months of age were 432.4kcal/d, 0.19mg/d, 1.18mg/d and 0.22mg/d. The values obtained from formular were543.7kcal/d, 6.68mg/d , 2.82mg/d and 0.33mg/d , respectively. In spite of the significantly lower intake of energy and trace elements in BF infants than in FF infants, BF infants showed growth above the average Kroean infant standard growth rate and showed no significant growth rate difference or hair trace element content. Hair iron content in the BF infants at 6 mo. of age was positively related to birth weight and iron intake at 2 mo. of age. In contrast, hair zinc and copper content in the FF infants at 6 mo. of age as negatively related to height increment and weight increment during 6 months, respectively. These results support the suggesting that BF infant's higher iron, zinc and copper intake is attributed to the superior bioabailability of these trace elements from breast milk.

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A function space approach to study rank deficiency and spurious modes in finite elements

  • Sangeeta, K.;Mukherjee, Somenath;Prathap, Gangan
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제21권5호
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    • pp.539-551
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    • 2005
  • Finite elements based on isoparametric formulation are known to suffer spurious stiffness properties and corresponding stress oscillations, even when care is taken to ensure that completeness and continuity requirements are enforced. This occurs frequently when the physics of the problem requires multiple strain components to be defined. This kind of error, commonly known as locking, can be circumvented by using reduced integration techniques to evaluate the element stiffness matrices instead of the full integration that is mathematically prescribed. However, the reduced integration technique itself can have a further drawback - rank deficiency, which physically implies that spurious energy modes (e.g., hourglass modes) are introduced because of reduced integration. Such instability in an existing stiffness matrix is generally detected by means of an eigenvalue test. In this paper we show that a knowledge of the dimension of the solution space spanned by the column vectors of the strain-displacement matrix can be used to identify the instabilities arising in an element due to reduced/selective integration techniques a priori, without having to complete the element stiffness matrix formulation and then test for zero eigenvalues.

친환경 통합 디자인 프로세스의 디자인 적용에 관한 연구 -오피스 건물을 중심으로- (A Study on Design Application of Eco-Friendly Integrated Design Process)

  • 김민규;강희선
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • 제13권4호
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    • pp.87-94
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    • 2013
  • This Study, as a Eco-Friendly Design Process of Office for sustainable design, aims to develop a sustainable design process by letting the designers easily approach the concept of Eco-Friendly Design Process and applying this to Eco-Friendly Design Process when the designers perform design. Through a review on simulation, a research was made on the seriousness of environmental problems and control that was caused by design, Environmentally friendly design, sustainability, and sustainable design's background and definition were studied. In order to develop a Eco-Friendly Design Process, an existing review from Building Energy Simulation that proposed about energy environmentally friendly design element and sustainable design element's semantic similarities were restructured as sustainable design element comparative analysis. Restructured sustainable design elements and the relationship between sustainable design elements and the relationship of each product developmental process levels were analyzed. Finally, through clustering, sustainable design guideline were developed. This Eco-Friendly Design Process is expected to be applied to as one of the methods in solving the global environmental issues in design practice.

고무 몰드를 이용한 금속 분말의 온간 등가압 성형 (Warm Isostatic Pressing of Metal Powder by a Rubber Mould)

  • 양훈철;이지완;김기태
    • 대한기계학회논문집A
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    • 제26권9호
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    • pp.1831-1841
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    • 2002
  • The effect of a rubber mould on densification and deformation of aluminum alloy powder was investigated during warm isostatic pressing. The hyperelastic constitutive equations based on various strain energy potentials were employed to analyze deformation of rubber. The parameters in the strain energy potentials were obtained from experimental data for uniaxial and volumetric compression of Viton rubber at two warm temperatures. For elastoplastic response, the yield function of Shima and Oyane was implemented into a finite element program (ABAQUS) to predict compaction responses of metal powder during warm isostatic pressing. Finite element results were compared with experimental data for densification and deformation of aluminum alloy powder with/without a rubber mould under warm die pressing.

Numerically integrated modified virtual crack closure integral technique for 2-D crack problems

  • Palani, G.S.;Dattaguru, B.;Iyer, Nagesh R.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제18권6호
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    • pp.731-744
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    • 2004
  • Modified virtual crack closure integral (MVCCI) technique has become very popular for computation of strain energy release rate (SERR) and stress intensity factor (SIF) for 2-D crack problems. The objective of this paper is to propose a numerical integration procedure for MVCCI so as to generalize the technique and make its application much wider. This new procedure called as numerically integrated MVCCI (NI-MVCCI) will remove the dependence of MVCCI equations on the type of finite element employed in the basic stress analysis. Numerical studies on fracture analysis of 2-D crack (mode I and II) problems have been conducted by employing 4-noded, 8-noded (regular & quarter-point), 9-noded and 12-noded finite elements. For non-singular (regular) elements at crack tip, NI-MVCCI technique generates the same results as MVCCI, but the advantage for higher order regular and singular elements is that complex equations for MVCCI need not be derived. Gauss numerical integration rule to be employed for 8-noded singular (quarter-point) element for accurate computation of SERR and SIF has been recommended based on the numerical studies.

On the mixed-mode crack propagation in FGMs plates: comparison of different criteria

  • Nabil, Benamara;Abdelkader, Boulenouar;Miloud, Aminallah;Noureddine, Benseddiq
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제61권3호
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    • pp.371-379
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    • 2017
  • Modelling of a crack propagating through a finite element mesh under mixed mode conditions is of prime importance in fracture mechanics. In this paper, two crack growth criteria and the respective crack paths prediction in functionally graded materials (FGM) are compared. The maximum tangential stress criterion (${\sigma}_{\theta}-criterion$) and the minimum strain energy density criterion (S-criterion) are investigated using advanced finite element technique. Using Ansys Parametric Design Language (APDL), the variation continues in the material properties are incorporated into the model by specifying the material parameters at the centroid of each finite element. In this paper, the displacement extrapolation technique (DET) proposed for homogeneous materials is modified and investigated, to obtain the stress intensity factors (SIFs) at crack-tip in FGMs. Several examples are modeled to evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of the combined procedure. The effect of the defects on the crack propagation in FGMs was highlighted.