• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.101-107
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• 2006

The force and moment simulation of a steady-state rolling tire taking the effect of tread pattern into account is described using a steady-state transport method with ABAQUS. Tread meshes can not fully consider a tread pattern because detailed tread meshes are not allowed in the steady-state transport method. Therefore, the tread elements are modeled to have orthotropic property instead of isotropic property. The force and moment simulation has been carried out for the cases of both isotropic and orthotropic properties of tread elements. Both cases of simulation results are then compared with the experimental results. It is verified that the orthotropic case is in a better agreement with the experimental result than the isotropic case. Angle effects of tread pattern have been studied by changing the orientation angle of orthotropic property of tread. It is shown that the groove angle in the tread shoulder region has a more effect on force and moment of a tire than that in the tread center region.

• 전산구조공학
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.145-155
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• 1996

이 논문은 평면 상의 영역 경계와 조절선(control curve)에 맞추어서 요소망을 자동 생성하는 알고리즘을 제시하는데 목적이 있다. 여기서 제안하는 알고리즘은 요소망 생성 영역의 경계와 조절선들을 하나의 수퍼 루프(super loop)로 연결하고, 루프(loop)위에 있는 두 절점을 연결하는 최소벌점(minimum penalty)의 경로를 따라서 순환적으로 분할하여 요소를 생성하는 기법에 바탕을 두고 있다. 이 방법은 요소망 생성영역의 형상에 제한이 없으며, 모든 과정을 쉽게 자동화 할 수 있기 때문에 복잡한 영역의 요소망을 최소한의 사용자 개입을 통해서 간편하게 처리할 수 있는 프로그램으로 쉽게 이행할 수 있다. 이 알고리즘은 곡면 요소망 생성이나, 적응적 요소망 생성등에 쉽게 확장하여 적용할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.139-170
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• 2013

We extend a p-hierarchical decomposition of the second degree finite element space of N$\acute{e}$d$\acute{e}$lec for tetrahedral meshes in three dimensions given in [1] to meshes with hexahedral elements, and derive p-hierarchical decompositions of the second degree finite element space of Raviart-Thomas in two dimensions for triangular and quadrilateral meshes. After having proved stability of these subspace decompositions and requiring certain saturation assumptions to hold, we construct a local a posteriori error estimator for fem and bem coupling of a time-harmonic electromagnetic eddy current problem in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We perform some numerical tests to underline reliability and efficiency of the estimator and test its usefulness in an adaptive refinement scheme.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제45권12호
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• pp.1021-1030
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• 2017

본 논문은 유한요소 열해석 시 불일치하는 격자 접촉면의 열교환계수를 효과적으로 계산하는 방법에 대해 논의한다. 원래 유한요소해석은 두 경계면 사이의 격자가 일치해야 하는데, 복잡하고 다양한 재질의 형상들의 접촉면을 모두 일치하기 위해서는 많은 수고와 계산량이 소요된다. 본문은 이를 극복하기 위해 서로 다른 두 격자면의 접촉 열교환계수를 각 절점으로 효과적으로 분배하는 새로운 기법을 제안하였다. 제시된 기법의 지향점을 서술하고 이를 위해 격자면의 형상에 의존성이 낮은 절점 가중치 분배 기법을 서술하였다. 그리고 이를 3차원의 곡면 접촉면에도 적용하여 제시한 방법론의 범용성을 확인함으로서 열해석을 포함한 여타 유한요소 해석 기법에도 적용 가능함을 알 수 있다.

• 대한조선학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.27-32
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• 1986

This paper describes an application of the adaptive finite element computations to a free surface flow problem in a canal. A-posteriori error estimates for the adaptive finite element computations are based on the dual extremum principles. Previously the dual extremum principles were applied to compute the upper and lower bounds of the added mass of two-dimensional cylinders in a canal[1,2]. However, the present method improves the convergence of the computed results by utilizing the local error estimates and by applying the adaptive meshes in the finite element computations. In a test result using triangular elements it is shown that the numerical error in the adaptive finite elements reduces quadratically compared with that in a uniform mesh subdivision.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제76권3호
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• pp.379-393
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose an automatic procedure to improve the accuracy of finite element solutions using enriched 2D solid finite elements (4-node quadrilateral and 3-node triangular elements). The enriched elements can improve solution accuracy without mesh refinement by adding cover functions to the displacement interpolation of the standard elements. The enrichment scheme is more effective when used adaptively for areas with insufficient accuracy rather than the entire model. For given meshes, an error for each node is estimated, and then proper degrees of cover functions are applied to the selected nodes. A new error estimation method and cover function selection scheme are devised for the proposed adaptive enrichment scheme. Herein, we demonstrate the proposed enrichment scheme through several 2D problems.

• Coupled systems mechanics
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.71-93
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• 2019

Finite element simulations of solid mechanics problems often involve the use of Non-Confirming Meshes (NCM) to increase accuracy in capturing nonlinear behavior, including damage and plasticity, in part of a solid domain without an undue increase in computational costs. In the presence of material nonlinearity and plasticity, higher-order variables are often needed to capture nonlinear behavior and material history on non-conforming interfaces. The most popular formulations for coupling non-conforming meshes are dual methods that involve the interpolation of a traction field on the interface. These methods are subject to the Ladyzhenskaya-Babuska-Brezzi (LBB) stability condition, and are therefore limited in their implementation with the higher-order elements needed to capture nonlinear material behavior. Alternatively, the enriched discontinuous Galerkin approach (EDGA) (Haikal and Hjelmstad 2010) is a primal method that provides higher order kinematic fields on the interface, and in which interface tractions are computed from local finite element estimates, therefore facilitating its implementation with nonlinear material models. The inclusion of higher-order interface variables, however, presents the issue of preserving material history at integration points when a increase in integration order is needed. In this study, the enriched discontinuous Galerkin approach (EDGA) is extended to the case of small-deformation plasticity. An interface-driven Gauss-Kronrod integration rule is proposed to enable adaptive enrichment on the interface while preserving history-dependent material data at existing integration points. The method is implemented using classical J2 plasticity theory as well as the pressure-dependent Drucker-Prager material model. We show that an efficient treatment of interface variables can improve algorithmic performance and provide a consistent approach for coupling non-conforming meshes in inelasticity.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.257-266
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• 2012

Walls are the most important vertical load-carrying elements of masonry structures. Their bond designs are different from one country to another. This paper presents the shear effects of some structural bond designs commonly used for masonry walls. Six different bond designs are considered and modeled using finite element procedures under lateral loading to examine the shear behavior of masonry walls. To obtain accurate results, finite element models are assumed in the inelastic region. Crack development patterns for each wall are illustrated on deformed meshes, and the numerical results are compared.

• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.436-442
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• 2012

Traumatic loading during car accidents or sports activities can lead to cervical spinal cord injury. Experiments in spinal cord injury research are mainly carried out on rabbit or rat. Finite element models that include the rat cervical spinal cord and adjacent soft tissues should be developed for efficient studies of mechanisms of spinal cord injury. Images of a rat were obtained from high resolution MRI scanner. Polygonal surfaces were extracted structure by structure from the MRI data using the ITK-SNAP volume segmentation software. These surfaces were converted to Non-uniform Rational B-spline surfaces by the INUS Rapidform rapid prototyping software. Rapidform was also used to generate a thin shell surface model for the dura mater which sheathes the spinal cord. Altair's Hypermesh pre-processor was used to generate finite element meshes for each structure. These processes in this study can be utilized in modeling of other biomedical tissues and can be one of examples for reverse engineering on biomechanics.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.819-822
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• 2006

This paper has the objects of deciding dynamic instability regions of thick plates on inhomogeneous Pasternak foundation by finite element method and providing kinematic design data for mats and slabs of building structures. In this paper, dynamic stability analysis of tapered opening thick plate is done by use of Serendipity finite element with 8 nodes considering shearing strain of plate. To verify this finite element method, buckling stress and natural frequencies of thick pate with or without in-plane stress are compared with existing solutions. The results are as follow that this finite element solutions with $4{\times}4$ meshes are shown the error of maximum 0.56% about existing solutions, and the larger foundation parameters, the farther dynamic instability regions are from vertical axis of graph presented relation of ${\beta}\;and\;\overline{\omega}/\omega$.