• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.345-367
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• 2015

Past earthquakes have signaled the increased collapse vulnerability of mainshock-damaged bridge piers and urgent need of repair interventions prior to subsequent cascading hazard events, such as aftershocks, triggered by the mainshock (MS). The overarching goal of this study is to quantify the collapse vulnerability of mainshock-damaged substandard RC bridge piers rehabilitated with different repair jackets (FRP, conventional thick steel and hybrid jacket) under aftershock (AS) attacks of various intensities. The efficacy of repair jackets on post-MS resilience of repaired bridges is quantified for a prototype two-span single-column bridge bent with lap-splice deficiency at column-footing interface. Extensive number of incremental dynamic time history analyses on numerical finite element bridge models with deteriorating properties under back-to-back MS-AS sequences were utilized to evaluate the efficacy of different repair jackets on the post-repair behavior of RC bridges subjected to AS attacks. Results indicate the dramatic impact of repair jacket application on post-MS resilience of damaged bridge piers-up to 45.5 % increase of structural collapse capacity-subjected to aftershocks of multiple intensities. Besides, the efficacy of repair jackets is found to be proportionate to the intensity of AS attacks. Moreover, the steel jacket exhibited to be the most vulnerable repair intervention compared to CFRP, irrespective of the seismic sequence (severe MS-severe or moderate AS) or earthquake type (near-fault or far-fault).

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.679-683
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• 2013

BSR 소음은 특히 자동차에서 도로 표면과 엔진 및 차량내부 스피커등의 진동에 의해 발생한다. 이러한 현상은 진동하는 시스템의 약화된 체결부나 접촉부에서 공진모드와 가진력의 중첩으로 인해서 발생하는 불규칙한 타격이나 스틱슬립(stick-slip)으로 발생한다. 이와 같인 국부적인 현상을 관찰하기 위해서 모든 BSR 발생 부위를 상세 유한요소 모델로 만드는 과정은 현실적으로 불가능 하므로 부분구조 모델 (Sub-structure) 해석 기술이 필요하다. 이번 연구에서는 부분구조 모델 (sub-structure) 해석 기술을 적용하여 실제 가진력이 구조물을 통해 전달되어 발생하는 래틀(rattle)과 스퀵(Squeak)을 검출하고 분석하는 해석적인 방법을 정리하였다.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.925-942
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• 2016

With ongoing development of earthquake engineering research and the lessons learnt from a series of strong earthquakes, the seismic design concept of "resilience" has received much attention. Resilience describes the capability of a structure or a city to recover rapidly after earthquakes or other disasters. As one of the main features of urban constructions, tall buildings have greater impact on the sustainability and resilience of major cities. Therefore, it is important and timely to quantify their seismic resilience. In this work, a quantitative comparison of the seismic resilience of two tall buildings designed according to the Chinese and US seismic design codes was conducted. The prototype building, originally designed according to the US code as part of the Tall Building Initiative (TBI) Project, was redesigned in this work according to the Chinese codes under the same design conditions. Two refined nonlinear finite element (FE) models were established for both cases and their seismic responses were evaluated at different earthquake intensities, including the service level earthquake (SLE), the design-based earthquake (DBE) and the maximum considered earthquake (MCE). In addition, the collapse fragility functions of these two building models were established through incremental dynamic analysis (IDA). Based on the numerical results, the seismic resilience of both models was quantified and compared using the new-generation seismic performance assessment method proposed by FEMA P-58. The outcomes of this study indicate that the seismic resilience of the building according to the Chinese design is slightly better than that according to the US design. The conclusions drawn from this research are expected to guide further in-depth studies on improving the seismic resilience of tall buildings.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제36권12호
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• pp.1577-1583
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• 2012

횡방향 관통 효율 강화 탄체(PELE)는 기폭장치가 없는 새로운 개념의 발사체이다. PELE 는 배면이 닫혀있는 고밀도 피복과 저밀도 충전재로 구성되어있다. PELE 의 폭발 특성을 연구하기 위해 AUTODYN-3D code 를 이용하여 발사체와 표적체의 모델을 구축하였다. PELE 의 의해 알루미늄-2024 합금 표적체를 천공하는 과정을 시뮬레이션으로 구현하였으며 또한 다양한 내부 충전재에 의해 분산되는 표적체의 파편 특성도 연구하였다. PELE 파편의 유한요소해석은 AUTODYN-3D code 의 추계학적 파괴기준을 사용하여 구현되었다. 내부 충전재의 팽창으로 인해 파편은 속도를 얻으며 횡방향으로 분산된다. 따라서 손상영역의 범위가 증강한다. 관통 및 횡방향 분산 과정에서 생성되는 파편은 내부 충전재의 충격 압력에 따라 그 양과 형태가 다른 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권4호통권97호
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• pp.57-63
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• 1999

A thin metal plate such as detent spring has the shape deformation due to the phenomenon of spring back after press machining and heat treatment process. This requires the correction of spring shape and force in final inspection process. To do correction of the shape deformation the impact force is manually applied to the bended part of detent spring after measuring the shape deformation and spring force. To develop the automatic spring force correction system, applied force of occurring plastic deformation must be derived from the experimental method. But frequent change of spring shape and material makes it difficult to accomplish the experimental method to be applied. This paper describes the analytical method for detent spring force correction system is to be substituted for the experimental method. FEM(Finite Element Method) is used to find the boundary value between elastic and plastic deformation in the analytical method. To confirm the validity of the analytical method, the result of two methods is compared each other at various applied force conditions. It shows that the simulation result of the analytical method is consistent with the result of the experimental method within the error bound ${\pm}$5%. The result of this paper is useful for development of the automatic spring correction system and reduction of the complicated and tedious processes involved in experimental method.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2018

심층 처분시설에서 완충재는 지하수의 유입을 최소화하며, 역학적인 충격을 흡수하는 중요한 역할을 한다. 사용후 핵연료로부터 발생하는 붕괴열은 완충재의 온도를 변화시켜 역학적 성능에 큰 영향을 미치기 때문에 완충재 온도변화에 대한 정확한 예측이 필요하다. 이러한 온도 변화는 완충재의 열물성인 열전도도, 밀도, 비열에 영향을 받으며, 이에 대한 영향이 심층 처분시설의 열 해석에 고려되어야 한다. 특히 이들 열물성은 벤토나이트 완충재의 밀도와 함수비에 따라 변화하기 때문에 이에 대한 영향이 해석에 포함되어야한다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 완충재의 밀도와 함수비 변화 영향을 고려할 수 있는 유한요소법 기반의 열 해석 수치모델을 설정하였다. 또한 수치모델을 바탕으로 매개 변수 연구를 수행하여 각각의 열물성이 완충재의 온도 변화에 미치는 영향에 대해 살펴보았다.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.37-41
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 안전모 쉘 구조물의 정상부에 돌출부를 설치한 경우와 설치하지 않은 경우에 대해, 안전모의 두께를 변수로 응력과 변위거동 안전성을 유한요소법으로 해석하였다. 안전모는 오랫동안 착용해도 안전성을 높여주고, 충격에너지를 흡수하여 착용상의 불편함을 줄여주며, 머리와 목 부분을 보호할 수 있어야 한다. 응력해석결과에 의하면, 4,540N의 충격력이 안전모의 정상부 표면에 가해졌을 때 기존의 안전모에서는 3.7mm, 수정된 새로운 안전모에서는 3.2mm의 두께를 확보해야 안전하다는 것을 보여주고 있다. 변형거동 해석에 기초한 FEM 해석결과에 의하면, 기존의 안전모에서는 3.2mm, 수정된 새로운 안전모에서는 2.0mm의 두께를 유지해야 안전한 것으로 나타났다. 따라서, 안전모를 안전하게 설계하기 위해서는 안전모의 정상부에 돌출 구조물을 설치하는 것이 좀 더 안전하다할 수 있다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제76권3호
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• pp.293-310
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• 2020

This study derives the differential equations of free vertical bending and torsional vibrations for two- and three-pylon suspension bridges using d'Alembert's principle. The respective algorithms for natural vibration frequency and vibration mode are established through the separation of variables. In the case of the three-pylon suspension bridge, the effect of the along-bridge bending vibration of the middle pylon on the vertical bending vibration of the entire bridge is considered. The impact of torsional vibration of the middle pylon about the vertical axis on the torsional vibration of the entire bridge is also analyzed in detail. The feasibility of the proposed method is verified by two engineering examples. A comparative analysis of the results obtained via the proposed and more intricate finite element methods confirmed the former feasibility. Finally, the middle pylon stiffness effect on the vibration frequency of the three-pylon suspension bridge is discussed. It is found that the vibration frequencies of the first- and third-order vertical bending and torsional modes both increase with the middle pylon stiffness. However, the increase amplitudes of third-order bending and torsional modes are relatively small with the middle pylon stiffness increase. Moreover, the second-order bending and torsional frequencies do not change with the middle pylon stiffness.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.63-70
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• 2019

We aimed to propose a novel computational approach to predict the electromechanical performance of pre- and post-mitral valve cerclage annuloplasty (MVCA). Furthermore, we tested a virtual estimation method to optimize the left ventricular basement tightening scheme using a pre-MVCA computer model. The present model combines the three-dimensional (3D) electromechanics of the ventricles with the vascular hemodynamics implemented in a lumped parameter model. 3D models of pre- and post-MVCA were reconstructed from the computed tomography (CT) images of two patients and simulated by solving the electromechanical-governing equations with the finite element method. Computed results indicate that reduction of the dilated heart chambers volume (reverse remodeling) appears to be dependent on ventricular stress distribution. Reduced ventricular stresses in the basement after MVCA treatment were observed in the patients who showed reverse remodeling of heart during follow up over 6 months. In the case who failed to show reverse remodeling after MVCA, more virtual tightening of the ventricular basement diameter than the actual model can induce stress unloading, aiding in heart recovery. The simulation result that virtual tightening of the ventricular basement resulted in a marked increase of myocardial stress unloading provides in silico evidence for a functional impact of MVCA treatment on cardiac mechanics and post-operative heart recovery. This technique contributes to establishing a pre-operative virtual rehearsal procedure before MVCA treatment by using patient-specific cardiac electromechanical modeling of pre-MVCA.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.247-270
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• 2019

Wind-resistant design of existing cooling tower structures overlooks the impacts of rainfall. However, rainstorm will influence aerodynamic force on the tower surface directly. Under this circumstance, the structural response of the super-large cooling tower (SLCT) will become more complicated, and then the stability and safety of SLCT will receive significant impact. In this paper, surrounding wind fields of the world highest (210 m) cooling tower in Northwest China underthree typical wind velocities were simulated based on the wind-rain two-way coupling algorithm. Next, wind-rain coupling synchronous iteration calculations were conducted under 9 different wind speed-rainfall intensity combinations by adding the discrete phase model (DPM). On this basis, the influencing laws of different wind speed-rainfall intensity combinations on wind-driving rain, adhesive force of rain drops and rain pressure coefficients were discussed. The acting mechanisms of speed line, turbulence energy strength as well as running speed and trajectory of rain drops on structural surface in the wind-rain coupling field were disclosed. Moreover, the fitting formula of wind-rain coupling equivalent pressure coefficient of the cooling tower was proposed. A systematic contrast analysis on its 3D distribution pattern was carried out. Finally, coupling model of SLCT under different working conditions was constructed by combining the finite element method. Structural response, buckling stability and local stability of SLCT under different wind velocities and wind speed-rainfall intensity combinations were compared and analyzed. Major research conclusions can provide references to determine loads of similar SLCT accurately under extremely complicated working conditions.