• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.309-316
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• 2010

When the horizontal and vertical curves are superimposed in railway alignments, which affects the running stability, ride comfort, and track maintenance costs. However, when designing new lines or realigning existing ones, there are many cases of superimposition caused by the existing fixed points (bridge, tunnel, turnout, and catenary system, etc) on the conventional lines and undesirable impacts on the environment, etc. In this study, when the horizontal and vertical curves are superimposed, in order to optimize the horizontal curve in aspect of the ride comfort, the object function was developed and verified by vehicle dynamic analysis. Also, the solution algorithm for simplified evaluation method was presented.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.51-55
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• 2004

This paper presents a fast and stable imaging scheme using the localized nonlinear (LN) approximation of integral equation (IE) solutions for inverting electromagnetic data obtained in a crosswell survey. The medium is assumed to be cylindrically symmetric about a source borehole, and to maintain the symmetry a vertical magnetic dipole is used as a source. To find an optimum balance between data fitting and smoothness constraint, we introduce an automatic selection scheme for a Lagrange multiplier, which is sought at each iteration with a least misfit criterion. In this selection scheme, the IE algorithm is quite attractive for saving computing time because Green's functions, whose calculation is a most time-consuming part in IE methods, are repeatedly re-usable throughout the inversion process. The inversion scheme using the LN approximation has been tested to show its stability and efficiency, using both synthetic and field data. The inverted image derived from the field data, collected in a pilot experiment of water-flood monitoring in an oil field, is successfully compared with that derived by a 2.5-dimensional inversion scheme.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.702-705
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 초고층 전단벽-아웃리거 시스템에 대해, 기존의 근사해석법과 유전알고리즘을 이용하여, 물량최적설계 기반의 구성요소 단면 및 아웃리거 최적위치 결정에 관해 연구를 진행하였다. 아웃리거 시스템의 최적성은 아웃리거의 위치와 아웃리거 시스템을 구성하는 전단벽-아웃리거, 외곽기둥의 단면 성능의 복잡한 관계에 의해 역학적으로 결정된다. 하지만 기존의 아웃리거 시스템의 최적화 연구는 대부분 전단벽과 아웃리거, 외곽기둥의 단면은 고정된 상태에서, 아웃리거의 위치만 설계변수로 하여 아웃리거의 최적위치를 찾는 연구에 국한되어 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 G.A.를 이용하여, 아웃리거 설치위치뿐만 아니라 전단벽과 아웃리거, 외곽기둥의 단면까지 설계변수로 하여 물량최적설계 조건을 만족시키는 아웃리거시스템의 최적설계 연구를 진행하였다. 또한 반복 계산의 시간을 줄이기 위해 기존의 근사해석법을 사용하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 초고층 구조물의 초기 설계 시에 구성요소의 단면 및 아웃리거 설치 층의 선정에 적극 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.161-170
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• 1998

A general formulation of the long cylinder tolerance design for the joint structure is here presented. The aim of this paper is to calculate the tolerance of joint by defining tolerance as a kind of uncertainty and to obtain the robustness of the joint structure. It is formulated on the bases of the minimum sensitivity theorem. The objective function is the tolerance sensitivity for the Von-Mises stress. It also took into full account the stress, displacement and weight constraints. PLBA(Pshenichny-Lim-Belegundu-Arora) algorithm is used to solve the constrained nonlinear optimization problem. The finite element analysis is performed with CST(Constant-Strain-Triangle) axisymmetric element. Sensitivities for design variables are calculated by the direct differentiation method. The numerical result is presented for the cylindrical structure where the joint tolerance is treated as random variables.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.317-324
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• 2008

Optimum design for general or complex structures are required to the need of many numbers of structural analyses. However, current computational environment with single processor is not capable of generating a high-level efficiency in structural analysis and design process for complex structures. In this paper, a virtual parallel computing system communicated by an internet of personal computers and workstation is constructed. In addition, a routine executing Pro/E, ANSYS and optimization algorithm automatically are adopted in the distributed process technique of sequential approximate optimization for the purpose of enhancing the flexibility of application to general structures. By employing the distributed processing technique during structural analysis using commercial application, total calculation time could be reduced, which will enhance the applicability of the proposed technique to the general complex structures.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2003

The Delayed Feedback Control method (DFC) proposed by Pyragas applies an input based on the difference between the current state of the system, which is generating chaos orbits, and the $\tau$-time delayed state, and stabilizes the chaos orbit into a target. In DFC, the information about a position in the state space is unnecessary if the period of the unstable periodic orbit to stabilize is known. There exists the fault that DFC cannot stabilize the unstable periodic orbit when a linearlized system around the periodic point has an odd number property. There is the chaos control method using the prediction of the $\tau$-time future state (PDFC) proposed by Ushio et al. as the method to compensate this fault. Then, we propose a method such as improving the fault of the DFC. Namely, we combine DFC and PDFC with parameter W, which indicates the balance of both methods, not to lose each advantage. Therefore, we stabilize the state into the $\tau$ periodic orbit, and ask for the ranges of Wand gain K using Jury' method, and determine the quasi-optimum pair of (W, K) using a genetic algorithm. Finally, we apply the proposed method to a discrete-time chaotic system, and show the efficiency through some examples of numerical experiments.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.329-331
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• 2014

A simple realization of an alignment-free wireless power transmission (WPT) system is presented in this letter. The WPT system consists of a transmitter with three reconfigurable modes corresponding to various controllable magnetic field directions in the azimuthal plane and an algorithm for the optimum mode selection carried by sensing the reflected voltage of the system. Twelve light emitting diodes (LEDs) are used to confirm the on- and off-state of LEDs powered wirelessly by the transmitter at every $15^{\circ}$ of the azimuthal plane. A criterion voltage from the reflected power of the system is found by using the correlation between the reflected voltage and the on- and off-state of the LEDs. Simply by continuous; monitoring of the voltage from the system, the system maintains power to the LEDs. The system is realized by MATLAB/Simulink and a National Instrument data acquisition device (DAQ) board. Measurements using the system show on-state LEDs in the azimuthal plane except at the angles of $60^{\circ}$, $75^{\circ}$, $180^{\circ}$, and $300^{\circ}$.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.18-25
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• 2000

In the two-mass servo system driving a load through a flexible shaft, a shaft torsional vibration is often generated. PI controller has been generally used is speed control of such system because of the simplicity of structure and related theory. This paper presents the inertia ratio of the PI servo control system which can be designed by using optimal pole assignment method is fixed. Therefore, it's difficult to obtain the desired control characteristics for different systems only by PI control algorithm. To solve this problems the two-mass speed control system with PID controller is designed by using pole assignment method and an optimum PID parameters are derived by evaluating ITAE(Integral of time multiplied by the absolute error) performance index. But this design method has some problems due to a trade-off between the fast command following property and the attenuation of disturbances and vibrations. In this paper, 2-DOF PID control method which satisfies the command following property, the reduction of overshoot and the property of disturbance rejection at the same time is proposed. This is a practical speed controller using the desired value filter and the feedforward gain. From several simulations, it's clarified that the proposed 2-DOF PID controller is useful for the two-mass system, in comparison with the conventional PID controller.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1197-1214
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• 2015

There is a great difference in mechanical behavior between design model one-time loading and step-by-step construction process. This paper presents practical computational methods for simulating the structural behavior of long-span rigid steel structures during construction processes. It introduces the positioning principle of node rectification for installation which is especially suitable for rigid long-span steel structures. Novel improved nonlinear analytical methods, known as element birth and death of node rectification, are introduced based on several calculating methods, as well as a forward iteration of node rectification method. These methods proposed in this paper can solve the problem of element's 'floating' and can be easily incorporated in commercial finite element software. These proposed methods were eventually implemented in the computer simulation and analysis of the main stadium for the Universiade Sports Center during the construction process. The optimum construction scheme of the structure is determined by the improved algorithm and the computational results matched well with the measured values in the project, thus indicating that the novel nonlinear time-varying analysis approach is effective construction simulation of complex rigid long-span steel structures and provides useful reference for future design and construction.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.1472-1481
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• 2001

In this paper, an advanced shift controller that supervises the shift transients with adaptive compensation is presented. Modern shift control systems for vehicle automatic transmission are designe d to provide smooth transients for passengers' comfort and better component durability. In the conventional methods, lots of testing and calibration works have been done to tune gains of the controller, but it does not assure optimum shift quality at all times owing to system variations often caused by uncertainties in shifting hydraulic systems and external disturbances. In the proposed control scheme, an adaptive compensation controller with intelligent supervisor is implemented to achieve improved shift quality over the system variations. The control input pattern which generates clutch pressure commands in hydraulic actuating systems, is updated through a learning process to adjust for each subsequent shift based on continuous monitoring of shifting performance and environmental changes. The proposed algorithm is implemented and evaluated on the experimental test setup. Results from the experimental studies for several operation modes show both improved performance and adaptability of the proposed shift controller to uncertain changes of the shifting environment in vehicle power transmission systems.