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Influence of Tether Length in the Response Behavior of Square Tension Leg Platform in Regular Waves

  • El-gamal, Amr R.;Essa, Ashraf
    • International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.19-28
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    • 2014
  • The tension leg platform (TLP) is a vertically moored structure with excess buoyancy. The TLP is regarded as moored structure in horizontal plan, while inherit stiffness of fixed platform in vertical plane. In this paper, a numerical study using modified Morison equation was carried out in the time domain to investigate the influence of nonlinearities due to hydrodynamic forces and the coupling effect between surge, sway, heave, roll, pitch and yaw degrees of freedom on the dynamic behavior of TLP's. The stiffness of the TLP was derived from a combination of hydrostatic restoring forces and restoring forces due to cables and the nonlinear equations of motion were solved utilizing Newmark's beta integration scheme. The effect of tethers length and wave characteristics such as wave period and wave height on the response of TLP's was evaluated. Only uni-directional waves in the surge direction was considered in the analysis. It was found that for short wave periods (i.e. 10 sec.), the surge response consisted of small amplitude oscillations about a displaced position that is significantly dependent on tether length, wave height; whereas for longer wave periods, the surge response showed high amplitude oscillations about that is significantly dependent on tether length.

A Study on Flow Characteristics with the Installed Location Change of Mechanical Deflector (기계적 편향판 설치위치의 변화에 따른 유동특성에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Kyoung-Ryun;Park, Jong-Ho
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.18 no.5
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    • pp.49-53
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    • 2015
  • Thrust vector control is the method which generates the side force and roll moment by controlling exhausted gas directly in a rocket nozzle. TVC is classified by mechanical and fluid dynamic methods. Mechanical methods can change the flow direction by several objects installed in a rocket nozzle exhaust such as tapered ramp tabs and jet vane. Fluid dynamic methods control the flight direction with the injection of secondary gaseous flows into the rocket nozzle. The tapered ramp tabs of mechanical methods are used in this paper. They installed at the rear in the rocket nozzle could be freely moved along axial and radial direction on the mounting ring to provide the mass flow rate which is injected from the rocket nozzle. TVC of the tapered ramp tabs has the potential to produce both large axial thrust and high lateral force. We have conducted the experimental research and flow analysis of ramp tabs to show the performance and the structural integrity of the TVC. The experiments are carried out with the supersonic cold flow system and the schlieren graph. This paper provides to analyze the location of normal shock wave and distribution of surface pressure on the region enclosed by the tapered ramp tabs.

Approximated Generalized Torques by the Hydrodynamic Forces Acting on Legs of an Underwater Walking Robot

  • Jun, Bong-Huan;Shim, Hyung-Won;Lee, Pan-Mook
    • International Journal of Ocean System Engineering
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    • v.1 no.4
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    • pp.222-229
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    • 2011
  • In this paper, we present the concept and main mission of the Crabster, an underwater walking robot. The main focus is on the modeling of drag and lift forces on the legs of the robot, which comprise the main difference in dynamic characteristics between on-land and underwater robots. Drag and lift forces acting on the underwater link are described as a function of the relative velocity of the link with respect to the fluid using the strip theory. Using the translational velocity of the link as the rotational velocity of the joint, we describe the drag force as a function of joint variables. Generalized drag torque is successfully derived from the drag force as a function of generalized variables and its first derivative, even though the arm has a roll joint and twist angles between the joints. To verify the proposed model, we conducted drag torque simulations using a simple Selective Compliant Articulated Robot Arm.

The study on MgO formation for AC PDP prepared by R.F. reactive magnetron Sputtering (반응성 R.F. 스퍼트링에 의한 AC PDP 용 MgO형성에 관한 연구)

  • Ha, H.J.;Lee, W.G.;Nam, S.O.;Ha, S.C.;Cho, J.S.;Park, C.H.
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1996.07c
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    • pp.1576-1578
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    • 1996
  • MgO protection layer in ac PDP prevents the dielectric layer from sputtering of ion in discharge plasma in addition to the contribution to the memory function and also have the additional important roll in lowering the firing Voltage due to a large secondary electron emission yield(${\gamma}$). The methode of Sputtering are easy to apply on mass production and to enlarge the size of the panel and are known to have the superior Adhesion and Uniformity of thin film. MgO protection layer of $1000{\AA}$ on dielectric layer by Reactive R.F magnetron sputtering is formed. Discharge characteristics have done with the formation of protection layer.

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Fatigue life prediction of horizontally curved thin walled box girder steel bridges

  • Nallasivam, K.;Talukdar, Sudip;Dutta, Anjan
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.387-410
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    • 2008
  • The fatigue damage accumulation rates of horizontally curved thin walled box-girder bridge have been estimated from vehicle-induced dynamic stress history using rain flow cycle counting method in the time domain approach. The curved box-girder bridge has been numerically modeled using computationally efficient thin walled box-beam finite elements, which take into account the important structural actions like torsional warping, distortion and distortional warping in addition to the conventional displacement and rotational degrees of freedom. Vehicle model includes heave-pitch-roll degrees of freedom with longitudinal and transverse input to the wheels. The bridge deck unevenness, which is taken as inputs to the vehicle wheels, has been assumed to be a realization of homogeneous random process specified by a power spectral density (PSD) function. The linear damage accumulation theory has been applied to calculate fatigue life. The fatigue life estimated by cycle counting method in time domain has been compared with those found by estimating the PSD of response in frequency domain. The frequency domain method uses an analytical expression involving spectral moment characteristics of stress process. The effects of some of the important parameters on fatigue life of the curved box bridge have been studied.

Syudy on the dynamic Stability of Ground Armored Moving Vehicle during cruising river (지상 전투차량의 수상 추진 시 동적 안정성에 대한 연구)

  • Ahn, Tai-Sul;Lee, Kyung-Hoon
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.252-255
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    • 2008
  • In this study, the characteristics of crossing a river of Ground Armored Vehicle (GAV) were evaluated by numerical method and real size tests. 3-D hybrid mesh systems were constructed by 3-D models of the GAV, and a commercial software, FLUENT, was used in numerical analysis. In order to deal with multi-phase problem (air and water), Volume Of Fluid (VOF) method was used, and Moving and Deforming Mesh (MDM) was adapted for unsteady motion of GAV. There were two steps in this research. Firstly, stability of the GAV which cruised a river was evaluated by changing several shapes of water-proof-front-wing of the GAV in steady state, and compared results (free surface shape and drag value in 10km/h) with those of real size tests. Secondly, results of unsteady analysis considering weight and moment of inertia of the GAV were presented. There were showed a maximum velocity with a designed water jet and dynamic stability including pitch, roll, and yaw moment. Based on these results, the optimal shape of water-proof-front-wing of the GAV was determined for a proto-type of the GAV.

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A Study on the Characteristics of Automatic Flatness Control System for Cold Rolling (냉각압연 가공용 자동 형상제어장치의 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Moon-Kyung;Jeon, Eon-Chan;Kim, Soon-Kyung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.2901-2907
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    • 1996
  • Flatness of cold rolled strip is vital to the quality of the product and productivity of the mill. Therefore, in recent year requirement for flatness control in strip rolling have become increasingly severe. The necessity for more accurate automatic gauge control and automatic flatness control(AFC) has increased by customer's requirement for cold rolled steel sheets with thinner gauge and better flatness quality. In this paper, the performance and functions of AFC system installed on the 4 hi-reversing mill has been investigated under actual conditions. The test results are as follows : The more strip thickness is thick, the smaller the I-value. The I-value is a strain measured by stressometer. Complex distributions of strip tension are controlled to remove not only a quarter buckle but also a simple center wave and edge wave. The defects caused by poor flatness have been drastically decreased. And a proper coolant temperature for work roll cooling system on the AFC system is about $50~55^{\circ}C$.

Development of Tire Lateral Force Monitoring System Using SKFMEC (SKFMEC를 이용한 차량의 타이어 횡력 감지시스템 개발)

  • Kim, Jun-Yeong;Heo, Geon-Su
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.24 no.7 s.178
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    • pp.1871-1877
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    • 2000
  • Longitudinal and lateral forces acting at tire are known to be closely related to the tractive ability, braking characteristics, handling stability and maneuverability of ground vehicles. However, it is not feasible in the operating vehicles to measure the tire forces directly because of high cost of sensors, limitations in sensor technology, interference with the tire rotation and harsh environment. In this paper, in order to develop tire force monitoring system, a new vehicle dynamics monitoring model is proposed including the roll motion. Based on the monitoring model, tire force monitoring system is designed to estimate the lateral tire force acting at each tire. A newly proposed SKFMEC (Scaled Kalman Filter with Model Emr Compensator) method is developed utilizing the conventional EKF (Extended Kalman Filter) method. Tire force estimation performance of the SKFMEC method is evaluated in the Matlab simulations where true tire force data is generated from a 14 DOF vehicle model with a combined-slip Magic Formula tire model.

Study on the Static/Dynamic Measurements and Structural Analysis Procedure of Wheel Loaders (휠로더의 정적/동적 실차 계측 및 강도 평가법에 대한 연구)

  • Choung, Joon-Mo;Kim, Gyu-Sung;Jang, Young-Sik;Choe, Ick-Hung;Heo, Min-Soo
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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    • pp.1303-1309
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents the static and dynamic measurements for the strength and motion characteristics as well as the improved procedures to assess strength of wheel loaders. Two scenarios for static measurement were decided by which cylinder was actuating. The dynamic measurement was performed for two types of motion, that is, simple reciprocation of the working devices and actual working motion including traveling, digging and dumping. The measured items were stresses, cylinder pressures and strokes. Stress induced by bucket working showed higher level than that by boom working. The measured cylinder speeds were relatively superior to the design speeds. Working stress histories were thought to be closer to static rather than dynamic. A fully assembled FE model was prepared for structural analysis. In this paper, a more simple method was suggested to avoid nonlinearity caused by heave of rear frame under digging forces. Also how brake affected on structural behavior and digging force was examined closely in relation with tire pressure. It was confirmed that the overall stress level of wheel loader during turning traveling with loaded bucket was far lower than the yield stress of material.

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A Study on the Characteristic Points of the Tourism Resources on the Historical Sites -In case of Kyungju and Kyoto- (문화유적지의 관광자원화 특성에 관한 연구 -경주와 교토를 중심으로-)

  • Chun Myung-Sook
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.93-101
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this research is to verify what are the characteristic points of the tourism resources in the historical sites and what kind of factors can roll as the tourism resources in two old cities, Kyungju and Kyoto, Those two old cities are the oldest cities in the world and they have several world cultural heritages that registered by UNESCO. In Old historic cultural sites has its own tourism resources factors and characters such as Uniqueness, Authenticity, Historical character, Regional character, Art factor, Religious factor,

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