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Design and Dynamic Behavior Prediction of a 4-DOF Piping Joint (4-자유도 배관 관절의 설계 및 동적 거동 예측)

  • Lee, Yunyong;Kang, Hwankook;Lee, Jong Rim;Lim, Seungchul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.298-307
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    • 2016
  • In the building process of FPSOs(floating production, storage and offloading units) is the increasing demand of high performance piping joints that can be installed on its turret system and maintain smooth and long-term flow of ultra-high pressure crude oil, being subjected to external excitations such as wind and wave on the sea. Following such a trend, in this paper, a new-type piping joint of four effective degrees of freedom has been designed, and its dynamic characteristics predicted through mathematical modeling and computer simulations. Moreover, via an example it was shown how the yaw motion in particular can be independently controlled for future durability test despite strong kinetic couplings.

An Investigation of Power Flow Mechanism in Beam-plate Built-up Structures with an Energy-absorbing Plate (보-판 결합 구조물에서 에너지 흡수체로 작용하는 판의 특성에 따른 파워 전달 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Yoo, Ji-Woo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.17 no.1 s.118
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    • pp.55-64
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    • 2007
  • In the built-up structure consisting of a stiff beam and a flexible plate, Grice showed that the plate behaves as an energy absorber in narrow frequency bands(called plate blocking effect). This paper deals with such beam-plate coupled structures, where the plate is an energy absorber and the excited beam is an energy path. It is found that such energy dissipation can occur in the relatively broad bands, if different stiffnesses are used in the rectangular plate. It was experimentally verified by Heckl that the energies in terms of one-third octave band averages transferred to the plate(or dissipated in the plate) increase for increased plate damping. This Paper, however, shows that the energy absorption suddenly reduces at the certain narrow frequency bands where the plate damping effect upon the coupled beam is maximum. Also, in order to minimize energy transfer through the beam in terms of one-third octave band averages, it is advantageous to increase the plate damping closer to the excitation point All these results are based on the wane method.

Wave Models and Experimental Studies of Beam-plate-beam Coupled Systems for a Mid-frequency Analysis (중주파수 대역 해석을 위한 Beam-plate-beam 연성 구조물의 웨이브 모형 연구와 시험적 규명)

  • Yoo, Ji-Woo;Thompson, D.J.;Ferguson, N.S.
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.17 no.2 s.119
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    • pp.121-129
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    • 2007
  • There has been much effort to find suitable methods for structural analysis in the mid-frequency region where traditional low frequency methods have increasing uncertainties whilst statistical energy analysis is not strictly applicable. Systems consisting of relatively stiff beams coupled to flexible plates have a particularly broad mid-frequency region where the beams support only a few modes whilst the plate has a high modal density and modal overlap. A system of two parallel beams coupled to a plate is investigated based on the wave method, which is an approximate method. Muller's method is utilised for obtaining complex roots of a dispersion wave equation, which does not converge in the conventional wave method based on a simple iteration. The wave model is extended from a single-beam-plate system, to a plate with two identical beams which is modelled using a symmetric-antisymmetric technique. The important hypothesis that the coupled beam wavenumber is sufficiently smaller than the plate free wavenumber is experimentally verified. Finally, experimental results such as powers and energy ratios show the validity of the analytical wave models.

Static Aeroelastic Response of Wing-Structures Accounting for In-Plane Cross-Section Deformation

  • Varello, Alberto;Lamberti, Alessandro;Carrera, Erasmo
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.310-323
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, the aeroelastic static response of flexible wings with arbitrary cross-section geometry via a coupled CUF-XFLR5 approach is presented. Refined structural one-dimensional (1D) models, with a variable order of expansion for the displacement field, are developed on the basis of the Carrera Unified Formulation (CUF), taking into account cross-sectional deformability. A three-dimensional (3D) Panel Method is employed for the aerodynamic analysis, providing more accuracy with respect to the Vortex Lattice Method (VLM). A straight wing with an airfoil cross-section is modeled as a clamped beam, by means of the finite element method (FEM). Numerical results present the variation of wing aerodynamic parameters, and the equilibrium aeroelastic response is evaluated in terms of displacements and in-plane cross-section deformation. Aeroelastic coupled analyses are based on an iterative procedure, as well as a linear coupling approach for different free stream velocities. A convergent trend of displacements and aerodynamic coefficients is achieved as the structural model accuracy increases. Comparisons with 3D finite element solutions prove that an accurate description of the in-plane cross-section deformation is provided by the proposed 1D CUF model, through a significant reduction in computational cost.

An EST Sequence Annotation System Based On Service Oriented Architecture (서비스 지향 구조 기반의 EST 서열 주해 시스템)

  • Nam, Seong-Hyeuk;Kim, Tae-Kyung;Kim, Kyoung-Ran;Cho, Wan-Sup
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, we present an EST sequence annotation system based on Service Oriented Architecture, called SeqWeB. We developed the web services of eight applications (Phred, cross_match, RepeatMasker, TGICL, ICAtools, CAP3, Phrap and Blast) which are located in sequence annotation process and integrated the web services through BFEL. SeqWeB uses an XML file format for data input and output to maximize interoperability between each application. SeqWeB can be extended or modified easily through some modification such as insertion, deletion and replacement because service-oriented architecture allows loose coupling between applications.

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Theoretical Studies on Dicyanoanthracenes as Organic Semiconductor Materials: Reorganization Energy

  • Park, Young-Hee;Kim, Yun-Hi;Kwon, Soon-Ki;Koo, In-Sun;Yang, Ki-Yull
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.1649-1656
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    • 2010
  • Internal reorganization energy due to the structural relaxation in hole or electron hopping mechanism is one of the measurements of key indices in designing an organic thin film transistor (OTFT) for flexible display devices. In this study, the reorganization energies of dicyanoanthracenes for the hole and electron transfer were estimated by adiabatic potential energy surface and normal mode analysis method in order to examine the effect on the energies for the positional variation of the cyano substituents in the anthracene as a protocol of acenes to design an organic field effect transistor. The reorganization energy for the hole transfer was reduced considerably upon cyanation of anthracene, especially at the 9,10-positions of anthracene, and the origin of the reduction was interpreted in terms of understanding the coupling of vibrational modes to the hole transfer.

Disturbance Observer Based Sliding Mode Control for Link of Manipulator Driven by Elastic Cable (탄성 케이블로 구동되는 조작기 링크의 외란 관측기 기반 슬라이딩모드 제어)

  • Kang, Min-Sig
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.22 no.10
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    • pp.949-958
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    • 2012
  • Position tracking control of a link of a slave manipulator which needed to track the corresponding link of a master manipulator was addressed in this paper. Since driving torque from motor is transmitted through a set of flexible cable to link, the motion control system is modeled by a two-mass model connected with elastic coupling which has finite stiffness. Relative vibration of two-mass resonant system is a serious problem to operate manipulator. This paper proposed sliding mode control to reduce resonant vibration and fine position tracking control. Also, a pseudo-sliding mode control which uses a saturation function instead of a signum function was discussed and showed that the pseudo-sliding mode control can improve disturbance regulation performance as well as guarantees fine command tracking without chattering which is an inherent drawback of basic sliding mode control. In addition, a disturbance observer based sliding mode control has been suggested to improve disturbance regulation performance. The feasibility of the proposed control design was verified along with some simulation results.

A Study on Machining of A V-groove on the Optical Fiber Connector Using a Miniaturized Machine Tool (소형공작기계를 이용한 광커넥터용 V 홈 가공에 관한 연구)

  • 이재하;박성령;양승한;이영문
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.21 no.5
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    • pp.38-45
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    • 2004
  • As optical communication is being substituted for telecommunication, the demand of a large variety of fiber optic components is increasing. V-groove substrates, one of the module components, are used to connect optical fibers to optical planar circuits and to arrange fibers. Their applications are multi-channel optical connectors and optical waveguide fiber coupling, etc. Because these substrates are a critical part of the splitter in a multiplexer and a multi fiber connector, precise and reliable fabrication process is required. For precisely aligning core pitch between fibers, machined core pitch tolerance should be within sub-microns. Therefore, these are generally produced by state-of-the-art micro-fabrication like MEMS. However, most of the process equipment is very expensive. It is also difficult to change the process line for custom designs to meet specific requirements using various materials. For various design specifications such as different values of the V angle and low-priced process, the fabrication method should be flexible and low cost. To achieve this goal, we have suggested a miniaturized machine tool with high accuracy positioning system. Through this study, it is shown that this cutting process can be applied to produce V-groove subtracts. We also show the possibility of using a miniaturized machining system for producing small parts.

A Study on the Passive Vibration Control of Large Scale Solar Array with High Damping Yoke Structure (고댐핑 요크 구조 적용 대형 태양전지판의 수동형 제진에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jae-Hyeon;Park, Yeon-Hyeok;Park, Sung-Woo;Kang, Soo-Jin;Oh, Hyun-Ung
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2022
  • Recently, satellites equipped with high-performance electronics have required higher power consumption because of the advancement of satellite missions. For this reason, the size of the solar panel is gradually increasing to meet the required power budget. Increasing the size and weight of the solar panel is one of the factors that induce the elastic vibration of the flexible solar panel during the highly agile maneuvering of the satellite or the mode of vibration coupling to the satellite or the mode of vibration coupling to the micro-jitter from the on-board appendages. Previously, an additional damper system was applied to reduce the elastic vibration of the solar panel, but the increase in size and mass of system was inevitable. In this study, to overcome the abovementioned limitations, we proposed a high -damping yoke structure consisting of a superplastic SMA(Shape Memory Alloy) laminating a thin FR4 layer with viscoelastic tape on both sides. Therefore, this advantage contributes to system simplicity by reducing vibrations with small volume and mass without additional system. The effectiveness of the proposed superelastic SMA multilayer solar panel yoke was validated through free vibration testing and temperature testing using a solar panel dummy.

Transparent Nano-floating Gate Memory Using Self-Assembled Bismuth Nanocrystals in $Bi_2Mg_{2/3}Nb_{4/3}O_7$ (BMN) Pyrochlore Thin Films

  • Jeong, Hyeon-Jun;Song, Hyeon-A;Yang, Seung-Dong;Lee, Ga-Won;Yun, Sun-Gil
    • Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.20.1-20.1
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    • 2011
  • The nano-sized quantum structure has been an attractive candidate for investigations of the fundamental physical properties and potential applications of next-generation electronic devices. Metal nano-particles form deep quantum wells between control and tunnel oxides due to a difference in work functions. The charge storage capacity of nanoparticles has led to their use in the development of nano-floating gate memory (NFGM) devices. When compared with conventional floating gate memory devices, NFGM devices offer a number of advantages that have attracted a great deal of attention: a greater inherent scalability, better endurance, a faster write/erase speed, and more processes that are compatible with conventional silicon processes. To improve the performance of NFGM, metal nanocrystals such as Au, Ag, Ni Pt, and W have been proposed due to superior density, a strong coupling with the conduction channel, a wide range of work function selectivity, and a small energy perturbation. In the present study, bismuth metal nanocrystals were self-assembled within high-k $Bi_2Mg_{2/3}Nb_{4/3}O_7$ (BMN) films grown at room temperature in Ar ambient via radio-frequency magnetron sputtering. The work function of the bismuth metal nanocrystals (4.34 eV) was important for nanocrystal-based nonvolatile memory (NVM) applications. If transparent NFGM devices can be integrated with transparent solar cells, non-volatile memory fields will open a new platform for flexible electron devices.

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