• 한국CDE학회논문집
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.223-233
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• 2006

Layered manufacturing(LM) is emerging as a new technology that enables the fabrication of three dimensional heterogeneous objects such as Multi-materials and Functionally Gradient Materials (FGMs). Among various types of heterogeneous objects, more attention has recently paid on the fabrication of FGMs because of their potentials in engineering applications. The necessary steps for LM fabrication of FGMs include representation and process planning of material information inside an FGM. This paper introduces a new process planning algorithm that takes into account the processing of material information. The detailed tasks are discretization (i.e., decomposition-based approximation of volume fraction), orientation (build direction selection), and adaptive slicing of heterogeneous objects. In particular, this paper focuses on the discretization process that converts all of the material information inside an FGM into material features like geometric features. It is thus possible to choose an optimal build direction among various pre-selected ones by approximately estimating build time. This is because total build time depends on the complexity of features. This discretization process also allows adaptive slicing of heterogeneous objects to minimize surface finish and material composition error. In addition, tool path planning can be simplified into fill pattern generation. Specific examples are shown to illustrate the overall procedure.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.1596-1607
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• 2000

The optimal design of auto-catalyst needs a good compromise between the pressure drop and flow uniformity in the substrate. One of the effective methods to achieve this goal is to use the concept of radially variable cell density. But this method has not been examined its usefulness in terms of chemical behavior and conversion performance. In this work, two-dimensional performance prediction of catalyst coupled with turbulent reacting flow simulation has been used to evaluated the benefits of this method n the flow uniformity and conversion efficiency. The results showed that two cell combination of 93cpsc and 62 cpsc was the most effective for improved pressure drop and conversion efficiency due to balanced space velocity and efficient usage of geometric surface area of channels. It was also found that large temperature difference between the bricks in case that the edge of the frontal face of brick has too much lower cell density(less than 67% of cell density of the center of the brick). This study has also demonstrated that the present computational results show the better prediction accuracy in terms of CO, HC and NO conversion efficiencies compared to those of conventional 1-D adiabatic model by comparison with experimental results.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2005

From the geometric parameter study, an optimal ejector design procedure of pressure recovery system for chemical lasers was acquired. For given primary flow reservoir conditions, an up-scaled ejector was designed and manufactured. In the performance test, secondary mass flow rate of 100g/s air was entrained satisfying the design secondary pressure, $40{\sim}50torr$. Performance validation of a supersonic ejector system along with an investigation of effects of supersonic diffuser was conducted. Placement of the diffuser at the secondary inlet further reduced diffuser upstream pressure to 7torr. Lastly, the duplicate of apparatus (air 500g/s secondary mass flow rate each) was built and connected in parallel to assess proportionality behavior on a system to handle larger mass flow rate. Test and comparison of the parallel unit demonstrated the secondary mass flow rate was proportional to the number of individual units that were brought together maintaining the lasing pressure.

• Advances in Computational Design
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.15-30
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• 2021

With improvement in innovative manufacturing technologies, it became possible to fabricate any complex shaped structural design for practical applications. This allows for the fabrication of curvilinearly stiffened pressure vessels and pipes. Compared to straight stiffeners, curvilinear stiffeners have shown to have better structural performance and weight savings under certain loading conditions. In this paper, an optimization framework for designing curvilinearly stiffened composite pressure vessels and pipes is presented. NURBS are utilized to define curvilinear stiffeners over the surface of the pipe. An integrated tool using Python, Rhinoceros 3D, MSC.PATRAN and MSC.NASTRAN is implemented for performing the optimization. Rhinoceros 3D is used for creating the geometry, which later is exported to MSC.PATRAN for finite element model generation. Finally, MSC.NASTRAN is used for structural analysis. A Bi-Level Programming (BLP) optimization technique, consisting of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Gradient-Based Optimization (GBO), is used to find optimal locations of stiffeners, geometric dimensions for stiffener cross-sections and layer thickness for the composite skin. A cylindrical pipe stiffened by orthogonal and curvilinear stiffeners under torsional and bending load cases is studied. It is seen that curvilinear stiffeners can lead to a potential 10.8% weight saving in the structure as compared to the case of using straight stiffeners.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.95-104
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• 2007

A new design approach of complex geometries such as wing/body configuration is arranged by using overset mesh techniques under large scale computing environment. For an in-depth study of the flow physics and highly accurate design, several special overlapped structured blocks such as collar grid, tip-cap grid, and etc. which are commonly used in refined drag prediction are adopted to consider the applicability of the present design tools to practical problems. Various pre- and post-processing techniques for overset flow analysis and sensitivity analysis are devised or implemented to resolve overset mesh techniques into the design optimization problem based on Gradient Based Optimization Method (GBOM). In the pre-processing, the convergence characteristics of the flow solver and sensitivity analysis are improved by overlap optimization method. Moreover, a new post-processing method, Spline-Boundary Intersecting Grid (S-BIG) scheme, is proposed by considering the ratio of cell area for more refined prediction of aerodynamic coefficients and efficient evaluation of their sensitivities under parallel computing environment. With respect to the sensitivity analysis, discrete adjoint formulations for overset boundary conditions are derived by a full hand-differentiation. A smooth geometric modification on the overlapped surface boundaries and evaluation of grid sensitivities can be performed by mapping from planform coordinate to the surface meshes with Hicks-Henne function. Careful design works for the drag minimization problems of a transonic wing and a wing/body configuration are performed by using the newly-developed and -applied overset mesh techniques. The results from design applications demonstrate the capability of the present design approach successfully.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.452-465
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• 2016

본 연구에서는 의료 치료용으로 고강도 집속 초음파를 발생시킬 수 있는 오목한 환상형 배열 트랜스듀서의 구조를 최적설계하였다. 트랜스듀서는 곡률반경으로 40 mm를 가지는 여러 개의 동심원 채널로 이루어진 위상배열 구조이다. 구조 설계를 위해 트랜스듀서의 음장을 해석할 수 있는 이론식을 유도하였으며, 이론식 계산 결과의 타당성을 유한요소해석 결과와 비교함으로써 검증하였다. 배열 트랜스듀서의 기하학적 초점 이외 지점에서의 동적 집속 가능 유무도 함께 확인하였다. 또한 음장 내 원하지 않는 지점에 발생하는 그레이팅 로브의 레벨은 트랜스듀서의 채널수와 주파수와의 관계를 이용하여 개선될 수 있음을 확인하였다. 따라서 정점으로부터 특정 범위 내에 주엽이 존재하면서 그레이팅 로브를 포함한 최대 부엽의 크기를 체계적으로 줄일 수 있도록 트랜스듀서 구조를 최적 설계하였다. 설계된 구조는 모든 집속 지점에서 목표를 만족하는 성능을 보였다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제26권9호
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• pp.1931-1942
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• 2002

In this paper a formulation of robust optimization is presented and illustrated by a design example of vibratory micro gyroscopes in order to reduce the effect of variations due to uncertainties in MEMS fabrication processes. For the vibratory micro gyroscope considered it is important to match the resonance frequencies of the vertical (sensing) and lateral (driving) modes as close as possible to attain a high sensing sensitivity. A deterministic optimization in which the difference of both the sensing and driving natural frequencies is minimized as an objective function results in highly enhanced performance but apt to be very sensitive to fabrication errors. The formulation proposed is to attain robustness of the performance by including the sensitivity of the response with respect to uncertain variables as a term of objective function to be minimized. This formulation is simple and practically applicable since no detail statistical information on fabrication errors is required. The geometric variables, beam width, length and thickness of vibratory micro gyroscopes are adopted as design variables and at the same time considered as uncertain variables because here occur the fabrication errors. A robustness test in terms of a percentage yield by using the Monte Carlo simulation has shown that the robust optimum produces twice more acceptable designs than the deterministic optimum. Improvement of robustness becomes bigger as the amount of fabrication errors is assumed larger. Considering that the magnitude of fabrication errors and uncertainties in a MEMS structure are comparatively large, the present method is illustrated to be a viable approach for a robust MEMS design.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.373-380
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• 2020

For large-scale 5MW offshore wind turbines, the discrete equation of fluid domain and the motion equation of structural domain with geometric nonlinearity were built, the three-dimensional modeling of the blade considering fluid-structure interaction (FSI) was achieved by using Unigraphics (UG) and Geometry modules, and the numerical simulation and the analysis of the vibration characteristics for wind turbine structure under rotating effect were carried out based on ANSYS software. The results indicate that the rotating effect has an apparent effect on displacement and Von Mises stress, and the response and the distribution of displacement and Von Mises stress for the blade in direction of wingspan increase nonlinearly with the equal increase of rotational speeds. Compared with the single blade model, the blade vibration period of the whole machine model is much longer. The structural coupling effect reduces the response peak value of the blade displacement and Von Mises stress, and the increase of rotational speed enhances this coupling effect. The maximum displacement difference between two models decreases first and then increases along wingspan direction, the trend is more visible with the equal increase of rotational speed, and the boundary point with zero displacement difference moves towards the blade root. Furthermore, the Von Mises stress difference increases gradually with the increase of rotational speed and decreases nonlinearly from the blade middle to both sides. The results can provide technical reference for the safe operation and optimal design of offshore wind turbines.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.59-66
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• 2006

액체 로켓엔진에서의 고주파 연소불안정 제어를 위한 수동 안정화 제어 기구로 음향공을 적용하여 감쇠 효과의 적합성을 검증하였다. 우선, 기본형 모델링 연소실에서 발생한 유해 공진주파수는 음향공의 동조를 통하여 효과적으로 감쇠될 수 있음을 확인 하였다. 또한, 음향공의 기하학적 형상에 따른 음향 감쇠 효과를 비교하기 위하여, 주요 설계 변수를 변화시킨 몇 가지 음향공 모델에 대해 유해 공진주파수 감쇠 효과를 정량적으로 비교, 분석하였다. 선형음향해석과 실험적 방법 모두 만족할만한 일치성을 나타내었으며, 오리피스 입구 면적이 가장 크거나 오리피스 길이가 가장 짧은 경우에서 감쇠 효과가 가장 크게 나타났다. 결론적으로 음향공을 이용한 최적의 음향공 제어를 위해서는 음향공 부피를 고려한 최적의 음향공 설계가 절대적으로 필요함을 입증한다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제33권9호
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• pp.16-26
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 틸트로터 항공기 개념을 채택하고 있는 스마트무인기의 프롭로터 공력형상 설계를 수행하였다. 틸트로터 항공기의 프롭로터는 단일 형상의 로터가 회전익과 고정익의 두 가지의 비행모드에서 운용되어야 하므로 회전익으로서의 로터와 고정익으로서의 프로펠러 요구 성능을 동시에 만족할 수 있도록 형상 설계가 이루어 져야 한다. 프롭로터의 공력형상 설계는 로터의 성능, 비행체의 공력성능, 그리고 엔진의 성능데이터를 결합하여 이루어 졌다. 모멘텀-깃요소 이론에 바탕을 둔 로터의 성능해석코드에 대한 검증은 TRAM 데이터와의 비교를 통해 이루어 졌다. 프롭로터의 공력형상 설계는 틸트로터 항공기의 고정익과 회전익 성능을 동시에 만족할 수 있는 형상을 구현하기 위하여 다양한 형태의 성능 맵이 작성되었고, 이들 선도 위에서 최적의 성능이 구현될 수 있는 성능 및 형상 파라메타가 결정되도록 하였다.