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Minimum Weight Design for Bridge Girder using Approximation based Optimization Method

  • ;Yearn-Tzuo(Andrew);Gar
    • Magazine of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.37 no.E
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 1995
  • Weight minimization for the steel bridge girders using an approximation based optimization technique is presented. To accomplish this, an optimization oriented finite element program is used to achieve continuous weight reduction until the optimum is reached. To reduce computational cost, approximation techniques are adopted during the optimization process. Constraint deletion as well as intermediate design variables and responses are also used for higher qualitv of approximations and for a better convergence rate. Both the reliability and the effectiveness of the underlying optimization method are reviewed.

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Finite element analysis of the structural material by the theory of continuum damage mechanics (연속체 손상역학에 따른 구조재료의 유한요소해석)

  • 김승조;김위대
    • Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.58-67
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    • 1991
  • A theory of continuum damage mechanics based on the theory of materials of type N was developed and its nonlinear finite element approximation and numerical simulation was carried out. To solve the finite elastoplasticity problems, reasonable kinematics of large deformed solids was introduced and constitutive relations based on the theory of materials of type-N were derived. These highly nonlinear equations were reduced to the incremental weak formulation and approximated by the theory of nonlinear finite element method. Two types of problems, compression moulding problem and pure bending problem, were solved for aluminum 2024.

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APPROXIMATION SCHEME FOR A CONTROL SYSTEM

  • KANG, SUNG-KWON
    • Honam Mathematical Journal
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.103-109
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    • 1994
  • Piezoceramic patches as collocated actuator and sensors are widely used in mechanical control systems. An approximation scheme for computing feedback gains arising in heat flux stabilization problem with such control mechanism is introduced. The scheme is based on a finite element method and a variational approach.

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Finite Element Analysis of Orbital Forming Process in Bearing Manufacturing (베어링 제조공정중 궤도단조공정의 유한요소해석)

  • Moon H. K.;Lee M. C.;Chung J. H.;Joun M. S.
    • Transactions of Materials Processing
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    • v.14 no.1 s.73
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    • pp.29-36
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, a useful rigid-plastic finite element method with various numerical schemes is presented for simulation of an orbital forming process. A new approach to reduce volume change during simulation is presented and an approximation method to reduce computational time is also presented. An actual orbital forming process found in a bearing making industry is simulated by the presented approach. The simulated results of the orbital forming process are compared with the experimental results.

Finite Element Analysis of Incompressible Transient Navier-Stokes Equation using Fractional-Step Methods (Fractional-Step법을 이용한 비압축성 비정상 Navier-Stokes 방정식의 유한 요소해석)

  • Kim, Hyung-Min;Lee, Shin-Pyo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.458-465
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    • 2003
  • The main objective of the research is to develop a research code solving transient incompressible Navier-Stokes equation. In this research code, Adams-Bashforth method was applied to the convective terms of the navier stokes equation and the splitted equations were discretized spatially by finite element methods to solve the complex geometry problems easily. To reduce the divergence on the boundaries of pressure poisson equation due to the unsuitable pressure boundary conditions, multi step approximation pressure boundary conditions derived from the boundary linear momentum equations were used. Simulations of Lid Driven Flow and Flow over Cylinder were conducted to prove the accuracy by means of the comparison with results of the previous workers.

FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATION AND COMPUTATIONS OF BOUNDARY OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS FOR THE NAVIER-STOKES FLOWS THROUGH A CHANNEL WITH STEPS

  • Lee, Hyung-Chun;Lee, Yong-Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.173-192
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    • 1999
  • We study a boundary optimal control problem of the fluid flow governed by the Navier-Stokes equations. the control problem is formulated with the flow through a channel with steps. The first-order optimality condition of the optimal control is derived. Finite element approximations of the solutions of the optimality system are defined and optimal error estimates are derived. finally, we present some numerical results.

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ERROR ANALYSIS OF FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATION OF A STEFAN PROBLEM WITH NONLINEAR FREE BOUNDARY CONDITION

  • Lee H.Y.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.22 no.1_2
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    • pp.223-235
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    • 2006
  • By applying the Landau-type transformation, we transform a Stefan problem with nonlinear free boundary condition into a system consisting of a parabolic equation and the ordinary differential equations. Fully discrete finite element method is developed to approximate the solution of a system of a parabolic equation and the ordinary differential equations. We derive optimal orders of convergence of fully discrete approximations in $L_2,\;H^1$ and $H^2$ normed spaces.

ON THE APPLICATION OF MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR A STRONGLY NONLINEAR SECOND-ORDER HYPERBOLIC EQUATION

  • Jiang, Ziwen;Chen, Huanzhen
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.23-40
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    • 1998
  • Mixed finite element method is developed to approxi-mate the solution of the initial-boundary value problem for a strongly nonlinear second-order hyperbolic equation in divergence form. Exis-tence and uniqueness of the approximation are proved and optimal-order $L\infty$-in-time $L^2$-in-space a priori error estimates are derived for both the scalar and vector functions approximated by the method.

A Solution of Variational Inequalities and A Priori Error Estimations in Contact Problems with Finite Element Method (접촉문제에서의 변분부등식의 유한요소해석과 A Priori 오차계산법)

  • Lee, Choon-Yeol
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.2887-2893
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    • 1996
  • Governing equations infrictional contact problems are introduced using variational inequality formulations which are regularized to overcome the diffculties of non-differentiability of the friction functional. Also finite element approximations and a priori error estimations are derived based on those formulations. Numerical simulations are performed illustrating the theoretical results.

EXTRAPOLATED EXPANDED MIXED FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATIONS OF SEMILINEAR SOBOLEV EQUATIONS

  • Ohm, Mi Ray;Lee, Hyun Young;Shin, Jun Yong
    • East Asian mathematical journal
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.327-334
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    • 2014
  • In this paper, we construct extrapolated expanded mixed finite element approximations to approximate the scalar unknown, its gradient and its flux of semilinear Sobolev equations. To avoid the difficulty of solving the system of nonlinear equations, we use an extrapolated technique in our construction of the approximations. Some numerical examples are used to show the efficiency of our schemes.