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Nonlinear seismic response of a masonry arch bridge

  • Sayin, Erkut
    • Earthquakes and Structures
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.483-494
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    • 2016
  • Historical structures that function as a bridge from past to present are the cultural and social reflections of societies. Masonry bridges are one of the important historical structures. These bridges are vulnerable against to seismic action. In this study, linear and non-linear dynamic analyses of historical Nadir Bridge are assessed. The bridge is modelled with three dimensional finite elements. For the seismic effect, artificial acceleration records are generated considering the seismic characteristics of the region where the bridge is located. Seismic response of the bridge is investigated.

Flow analysis of non-isothermal three dimensional filling phase in injection molding and its application (사출성형에서의 비등온, 3차원 유동해서과 그 응용)

  • 김대업;정근섭;이귀영
    • Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 1993
  • 사출성형 문제는 열전달과 유체유동이 복합된 문제라고 할수 있다. 사출성형 공정은 충진(filling), 보압(packing) 및 냉각과정(cooling phase)으로 이루어 진다. 충진과정은 높은 점성의 Non-Newtonian유체가 몰드내의 캐버티로 사출됨으로써 이루어지며 플라스틱의 점성도는 플라스틱의 온도 및 유동속도와 관련이 크며 이 flow-rate는 점도와 더불어 변화한다. CAE 유동해석 프로그램은 유체의 흐름과 열전달을 이용하여 충진과정을 이해하는데 이용되고 있다. 본 고에서는 사출성형 과정 중 충진과정에 대한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션과 그 적용사례에 대하여 살펴본다.

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A STUDY ON THE NURBS GRID GENERATION AND GRID CONTROL (NURBS를 이용한 격자생성 및 제어기법)

  • Yoon, Y.H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.04a
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    • pp.108-111
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    • 2007
  • A fast and robust method of grid generation to multiple functions has been developed for flow analysis in three dimensional space. It is based on the Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline of an approximation method. The grid generation method, details of numerical implementation. examples of application, and potential extensions of the current method are illustrated in this paper.

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A Study on the Behavior of the Free Surface in a Moving Cup of Different Shape (이송되는 컵 형상에 따른 자유표면의 거동 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yun-Sun;Hong, Tae-Hyub;Kim, Chang-Nyung
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.1220-1225
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    • 2009
  • A manipulator is operated for the motion of mechanical hands or arms. When a cup including liquid inside is shifted by a manipulator, it is important to know how a free surface of the liquid moves. In this study, non dimensional parameters have been found that affect the rise of the free surface in a cup moving with constant acceleration. The non-dimensional parameters are the dimensionless time, the ratio of inertia effect to viscous effect (the Reynolds number), aspect ratio of the liquid inside the cup and the acceleration ratio (the Froude number). Through this study, the height of the free surface rise in a cup has been predicted and the detailed velocities in the liquid have been examined. Generally, the maximum rise of the free surface is dependent on the Reynolds number and Froude number strongly, but on the aspect ratio weakly. However, the influence of the aspect ratio on the maximum rise of the free surface is not negligible in the range of 10 < Re < 100.

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Three Dimensional Unsteady Flow Characteristics inside the Catalytic Converter of 6 Cylinder Gasoline Engine (6기통 가솔린 엔진에 장착된 촉매변환기 내의 3차원 비정상 유동특성 해석)

  • 정수진;김우승
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.108-120
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    • 1998
  • A theoretical study of three-dimensional unsteady compressible non-reacting flow inside double flow of monolith catalytic converter system attached to 6-cylinder engine was performed for the achievement of performance improvement, reduction of light-off time, and longer service life by improving the flow distribution of pulsating exhaust gases. The differences between unsteady and steady-state flow were evaluated through the numerical computations. To obtains the boundary conditions to a numerical analysis, one dimensional non-steady gas dynamic calculation was also performed by using the method of characteristics in intake and exhaust system. Studies indicate that unsteady representation is necessary because pulsation of gas velocity may affect gas flow uniformity within the monolith. The simulation results also show that the level of flow maldistribution in the monolith heavily depends on curvature and angles of separation streamline of mixing pipe that homogenizes the exhaust gas from individual cylinders. It is also found that on dual flow converter systems, there is severe interactions of each pulsating exhaust gas flow and the length of mixing pipe and junction geometry influence greatly on the degree of flow distribution.

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Application of shear deformation theory for two dimensional electro-elastic analysis of a FGP cylinder

  • Arefi, M.;Rahimi, G.H.
    • Smart Structures and Systems
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.1-24
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    • 2014
  • The present study deals with two dimensional electro-elastic analysis of a functionally graded piezoelectric (FGP) cylinder under internal pressure. Energy method and first order shear deformation theory (FSDT) are employed for this purpose. All mechanical and electrical properties except Poisson ratio are considered as a power function along the radial direction. The cylinder is subjected to uniform internal pressure. By supposing two dimensional displacement and electric potential fields along the radial and axial direction, the governing differential equations can be derived in terms of unknown electrical and mechanical functions. Homogeneous solution can be obtained by imposing the appropriate mechanical and electrical boundary conditions. This proposed solution has capability to solve the cylinder structure with arbitrary boundary conditions. The previous solutions have been proposed for the problem with simple boundary conditions (simply supported cylinder) by using the routine functions such as trigonometric functions. The axial distribution of the axial displacement, radial displacement and electric potential of the cylinder can be presented as the important results of this paper for various non homogeneous indexes. This paper evaluates the effect of a local support on the distribution of mechanical and electrical components. This investigation indicates that a support has important influence on the distribution of mechanical and electrical components rather than a cylinder with ignoring the effect of the supports. Obtained results using present method at regions that are adequate far from two ends of the cylinder can be compared with previous results (plane elasticity and one dimensional first order shear deformation theories).

Free vibration analysis of thick CGFR annular sector plates resting on elastic foundations

  • Tahouneh, Vahid
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.50 no.6
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    • pp.773-796
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    • 2014
  • This paper deals with free vibration analysis of continuous grading fiber reinforced (CGFR) and bi-directional FG annular sector plates on two-parameter elastic foundations under various boundary conditions, based on the three-dimensional theory of elasticity. The plates with simply supported radial edges and arbitrary boundary conditions on their circular edges are considered. A semi-analytical approach composed of differential quadrature method (DQM) and series solution is adopted to solve the equations of motion. Some new results for the natural frequencies of the plate are prepared, which include the effects of elastic coefficients of foundation, boundary conditions, material and geometrical parameters. Results indicate that the non-dimensional natural frequency parameter of a functionally graded fiber volume fraction is larger than that of a discrete laminated and close to that of a 2-layer. It results that the CGFR plate attains natural frequency higher than those of traditional discretely laminated composite ones and this can be a benefit when higher stiffness of the plate is the goal and that is due to the reduction in spatial mismatch of material properties. Moreover, it is shown that a graded ceramic volume fraction in two directions has a higher capability to reduce the natural frequency than conventional one-dimensional functionally graded material. The multidirectional graded material can likely be designed according to the actual requirement and it is a potential alternative to the unidirectional functionally graded material. The new results can be used as benchmark solutions for future researches.

Three-dimensional cure simulation of composite structures by the finite element method (유한요소법을 이용한 복합재 구조물의 3차원 경화 수치모사)

  • Min, Kuoung-Jae;Park, Hoon-Cheol;Yoon, Kwang-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.39-45
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, a finite element formulation was introduced for the three-dimensional cure simulation of composite structures. Based on the formulation, a three-dimensional finite element code was developed. Numerical examples found in the literatures were solved for code verification. Results from the present analyses agreed well with the measured cure-induced temperatures. Unlike in one or two dimensional analysis, temperature and degree of cure were able to be calculated at any point within composite structures in the present analysis. The finite element program can be used for the cure simulation of composite structures with arbitrary geometry under non-uniform autoclave temperature distribution.

Multivariate Procedure for Variable Selection and Classification of High Dimensional Heterogeneous Data

  • Mehmood, Tahir;Rasheed, Zahid
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.22 no.6
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    • pp.575-587
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    • 2015
  • The development in data collection techniques results in high dimensional data sets, where discrimination is an important and commonly encountered problem that are crucial to resolve when high dimensional data is heterogeneous (non-common variance covariance structure for classes). An example of this is to classify microbial habitat preferences based on codon/bi-codon usage. Habitat preference is important to study for evolutionary genetic relationships and may help industry produce specific enzymes. Most classification procedures assume homogeneity (common variance covariance structure for all classes), which is not guaranteed in most high dimensional data sets. We have introduced regularized elimination in partial least square coupled with QDA (rePLS-QDA) for the parsimonious variable selection and classification of high dimensional heterogeneous data sets based on recently introduced regularized elimination for variable selection in partial least square (rePLS) and heterogeneous classification procedure quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). A comparison of proposed and existing methods is conducted over the simulated data set; in addition, the proposed procedure is implemented to classify microbial habitat preferences by their codon/bi-codon usage. Five bacterial habitats (Aquatic, Host Associated, Multiple, Specialized and Terrestrial) are modeled. The classification accuracy of each habitat is satisfactory and ranges from 89.1% to 100% on test data. Interesting codon/bi-codons usage, their mutual interactions influential for respective habitat preference are identified. The proposed method also produced results that concurred with known biological characteristics that will help researchers better understand divergence of species.

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS FOR 2-D FREE JET FLOW BY SMAC SCHEME (SMAC법에 의한 2차원 자유분류의 수치해석)

  • Jung, S.H.;An, Y.J.;Shin, B.R.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.04a
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    • pp.298-302
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    • 2009
  • Numerical analysis of two dimensional incompressible laminar free jet flow was carried out by using finite difference SMAC scheme. Flow characteristics of free jet flow such as jet width, similarity of jet velocity and hypothetical origin were investigated for different Reynolds numbers of Re=30 and 100. The reliability of predictions were confirmed by comparison with exact solution. Non-dimensional velocity distribution showed similarity of jet flow velocity after initial region. In the region of laminar flow, the location of hypothetical origin becomes more distant with Reynolds number.

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