• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.1319-1327
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• 2000

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.375-387
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• 2014

The purpose of this paper is to propose a method for evaluation of varying stiffness coefficients of tailored conical shells (TCS). Furthermore, a comparison between buckling loads of these shells under axial load with the different fiber path is performed. A circular truncated conical shell subjected to axial compression is taken into account. Three different theoretical path containing geodesic path, constant curvature path and constant angle path has been considered to describe the angle variation along the cone length, along cone generator of a conical shell are offered. In the TCS with the arbitrary fiber path, the thickness and the ply orientation are assumed to be functions of the shell coordinates and influencing stiffness coefficients of the structure. The stiffness coefficients and the buckling loads of shells are calculated basing on classical shells theory (CST) and using finite-element analysis (FEA) software. The obtained results for TCS with arbitrary fiber path, thickness and ply orientation are derived as functions of shell longitudinal coordinate and influencing stiffness coefficients of structures. Furthermore, the buckling loads based on fiber path and ply orientation at the start of tailored fiber get to be different. The extent of difference for tailored fiber with start angle lower than 20 degrees is not significant. The results in this paper show that using tailored fiber placement could be applied for producing conical shells in order to have greater buckling strengths and lower weight. This work demonstrates the use of fiber path definitions for calculated stiffness coefficients and buckling loads of conical shells.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.831-845
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• 2014

This paper proposed a discrete wavelet transform based method for time-varying physical parameter identification of shear type structures. The time-varying physical parameters are dispersed and expanded at multi-scale as profile and detail signal using discrete wavelet basis. To reduce the number of unknown quantity, the wavelet coefficients that reflect the detail signal are ignored by setting as zero value. Consequently, the time-varying parameter can be approximately estimated only using the scale coefficients that reflect the profile signal, and the identification task is transformed to an equivalent time-invariant scale coefficient estimation. The time-invariant scale coefficients can be simply estimated using regular least-squares methods, and then the original time-varying physical parameters can be reconstructed by using the identified time-invariant scale coefficients. To reduce the influence of the ill-posed problem of equation resolving caused by noise, the Tikhonov regularization method instead of regular least-squares method is used in the paper to estimate the scale coefficients. A two-story shear type frame structure with time-varying stiffness and damping are simulated to validate the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed method. It is demonstrated that the identified time-varying stiffness is with a good accuracy, while the identified damping is sensitive to noise.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권7호
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• pp.2540-2549
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• 2022

For a pressurized water reactor power plant, the reactor coolant pump (RCP) is a kernel component. And for a canned motor RCP, the rotor system's properties determines its safety. The liquid coolant inside the canned motor RCP fills clearance between the metal shields of rotor and stator, forming a lengthy clearance flow. The influence of inlet preswirl on rotordynamic coefficients of clearance flow in canned motor RCP and their effects on the rotordynamic characteristics of the pump are numerically and experimentally investigated in this work. A quasi-steady state computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method has been used to investigate the influence of inlet preswirl. A vertical experiment rig has also been established for this purpose. Rotordynamic coefficients on different inlet preswirl ratios (IR) are obtained through CFD and experiment. Results show that the cross-coupled stiffness of the clearance flow would change significantly with inlet preswirl, but other rotordynamic coefficients would not change significantly with inlet preswirl. For the case of clearance flow between the stator and rotor cans, influence of inlet preswirl is not so significant as the IR is not large enough.

• International Journal of Railway
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.46-56
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• 2014

The superstructure of the railway track undertakes the forces that develop during train passage and distributes them towards its seating. The track panel plays a key role in terms of load distribution, while at the same time it maintains the geometrical distance between the rails. The substructure and ballast undergo residual deformations under high stresses that contribute to the deterioration of the so-called geometry of the track. The track stiffness is the primary contributing factor to the amount of the stresses that develop on the substructure and is directly influenced by the fastening resilience. Four methods from the international literature are used in this paper to calculate the loads and stresses on the track substructure and the results are compared and discussed. A parametric investigation of the stresses that develop on the substructure of different types of railway tracks (i.e. balastless vs ballasted) is performed and the results are presented as a function of the total static track stiffness.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.698-705
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• 1986

본 연구에서는 윤활이론에 따라 명확히 계산되고 그 신빙성이 실험적으로 검 증된 "동압유막 댐퍼"의 감쇠계수를 이용하여 외부댐핑을 갖는 회전축-구름베어링계와 회전축-저어널베어링계의 진동특성을 해석하고저 한다. 또한 해석결과를 토대로 회 전축계의 진동특성에 미치는 특성수 및 설계변수를 명확히 도출하여 동특성을 고려한 회전축계의 최적설계에 기여하고저 한다. 기여하고저 한다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.57-68
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• 1991

In this study, to analyse the dynamic characteristics of a machine-tool spindle system, the spindle is mathematically represented by a Timoshenko beam including the internal damping of beam material, and each bearing by four bearing coefficients; stiffness and damping coefficients in moment and radial directions. And the dynamic compliance of the system is calculated by introducing the transfer matrix method, and the complex modal analysis method has been applied for the modal parameter identification. The influence of the bearing coefficients, material damping factor and bearing span on the dynamic characteristics of the system is parametrically examined.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권11호
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• pp.762-769
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• 2017

준등방성 라미네이트내의 확장강성 계수는 방사방향으로균일하지만, 굽힘강성 계수는 플라이 적층순서에 의해 방사방향으로 변화한다. 이 논문에서는 복합재 광학에서 사용되는 단방향섬유 복합재료와 무작위로 분포된 단섬유 복합재료로 이루어진 세 가지 유형의 준 등방성 라미네이트 반사경내의 굽힘강성 계수의 방사방향의 변화량을 비교하였다. 단섬유 복합재료 반사경 방사방향의 확장강성 계수와 굽힘강성 계수는 균일하게 나타나는 반면, 단방향섬유 복합재료 반사경의 경우에는 굽힘강성 계수의 방사방향으로의변화량이 11%에서 많게는 26%까지 변화하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 강성계수의 차이로 인한 굽힘-비틀림-커플링 효과 등 강성 민감도 또한 큰 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 요소는 정밀성이 요구되는 광학분야에 복합재 반사경의 적용을 어렵게 할 커다란 문제점으로 인식되며, 이러한 복합재료의 이방성 성질로 인한 필연적인방사형 방향으로의 강성계수의 변화 및 그 영향성을 줄이기 위해서는 단섬유나 무작위로 공간에 흩어져있는 섬유 복합재료를 사용하는 것이 복합재 반사경내에 존재하는 굽힘강성 계수의 변화를 제거하는 하나의 방법이다.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.1520-1528
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• 2000

This study presents a method for determining bearing stiffness and damping coefficients of air-lubricated slider bearing, and shows influences of air-bearing surface geometry(recess depth, crown an d pivot location) on flying attitude and dynamic characteristics. To derive the dynamic lubrication equation, the perturbation method is applied to the generalized lubrication equation which based on linearized Boltzmann equation. The generalized lubrication equation and the dynamic lubrication equation are converted to a control volume formulation, and then, the static and dynamic pressure distributions are calculated by finite difference method. The recess depth and crown of the slider show significantly influence on flying attitude and dynamic characteristics comparing with those of pivot location.

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2003

An eigenvalue design sensitivity formulation of a general nonsymmetric-matrix rotor-bearing system is devised. using the DDM (direct differential method). Then, investigations on the design sensitivities of critical speeds are carried out for an APU turbogenerator with a spline shaft connection. Results show that the dependence of the rate of change of the critical speed on the stiffness changes of bearing models of spline shaft connection points is negligible, and thereby their modeling uncertainty does not present any problem. And the passing critical speeds up to the 4th critical speed are not sensitive to the design stiffness coefficients of four main bearings. Further, the dependence of the rate of change of the critical speed on the shaft-element length changes shows quantitatively that the spline shaft has some limited influence on the 4th critical speed but no influence on the 1st to 3rd critical speeds. With no adverse effect from the spline shaft, the APU system achieves a critical speed separation margin of more than 40% at a rated speed of 60,000 rpm.