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Performance Analysis of Air Foil Bearings with Bump Friction (범프 마찰을 고려한 공기포일베어링의 성능해석)

  • Kim, Young-Cheol;Lee, Dong-Hyun;Kim, Kyung-Cheol
    • 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.12a
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    • pp.803-809
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    • 2005
  • This paper presents the theoretical model to investigate the effect of Coulomb damping in the sub-structure of a foil bearing. Foil deflection is restricted by friction of bumps. Equivalent viscous damping of the bump foils is derived from the Coulomb friction. Dynamic equation of the bumps is constituted by stiffness and damping terms. This point give the difference from Heshmat's frictionless and simple compliance bump model. The fluid is modeled with the compressible Reynolds equation. A perturbation approach is used to determine the static and dynamic performance of the bearing from the coupled fluid-structural model. The analysis result shows that the static and dynamic performance is enhanced by bump friction. This analysis technique would be extended to development of a high performance bearing.

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Eigenderivative Analysis by Modification of Design Parameter in the Proportional Damping System (설계파라미터 변경에 의한 비례 감쇠구조물의 동특성 변화 해석)

  • Lee, Jung-Woo;Oh, Jae-Eung;Lee, Jung-Youn
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.16 no.5 s.110
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    • pp.470-478
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    • 2006
  • An efficient method for change of eigenvectors and eigenvalues due to the modifying proportional damping structure using sensitivity coefficients is presented. Sensitivity coefficients are determined by iteration with eigenvalue and eigenvectors before modification of system. The proposed method is applied to examples of 3 degrees of freedom system and plate by modifying mass and stiffness. The predicted change of eigenvectors and eigenvalues are in a good agreement with these from the structural re-analysis after modification of mass and stiffness.

Effects of High Damping Rubber Bearing on Horizontal and Vertical Seismic Responses of a Pressurized Water Reactor

  • Bong Yoo;Lee, Jae-Han;Koo, Gyeong-Hoi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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    • 1995.05a
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    • pp.1021-1026
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    • 1995
  • The seismic responses of a base isolated Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) are investigated using a mathematical model which expresses the superstructure as lumped mass-spring model and the seismic isolator as an equivalent spring-damper. Time history analyses are performed for the 1940 E1 Centre earthquakes in both horizontal and vertical directions. In the analysis, structural damping of 5% is used for the superstructure. The isolator damping ratios of 12% for horizontal and 5% for vertical directions are used. The acceleration responses in base isolated PWR superstructure with high damping rubber bearings are much smaller than those in fixed base structure in horizontal direction. However, the vertical acceleration responses at the superstructure in the base isolation system are amplified to some extent. It is suggested that the vertical seismic responses at the superstructure should be reduced by introducing a soft vertical isolation device.

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Performance Analysis of Air Foil Bearings with Bump Friction (범프마찰을 고려한 공기포일베어링의 성능해석)

  • Kim, Young-Cheol;Kim, Dong-Hyun;Kim, Kyun-Woong
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.9 no.1 s.34
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    • pp.47-55
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    • 2006
  • This paper presents the theoretical model to investigate the effect of Coulomb damping in the sub-structure of a foil bearing. Foil deflection is restricted by friction of bumps. Equivalent viscous damping of the bump foils is derived from the Coulomb friction. Dynamic equation of the bumps is constituted by stiffness and damping terms. This point give the difference from Heshmat's frictionless and simple compliance bump model. The fluid is modeled with the compressible Reynolds equation. A perturbation approach is used to determine the static and dynamic performance of the bearing from the coupled fluid-structural model. The analysis result shows that the static and dynamic performance is enhanced by bump friction. This analysis technique would be extended to development of a high performance bearing.

Maximum vortex-induced vibrations of a square prism

  • Barrero-Gil, A.;Fernandez-Arroyo, P.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.107-121
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents an experimental investigation concerning the peak amplitudes of oscillation of a square prism due to Vortex-Induced-Vibrations (VIV) as a function of the mass damping parameter $m^*{\zeta}$(the so called Griffin--plot); $m^*$ and ${\zeta}$ being, respectively, the non-dimensional mass and the mechanical (structural) damping ratio. With this purpose in mind, an electromagnetic actuator has been employed to provide controlled damping. During the experiments the mass--damping parameter was in the range 0.15 < $m^*{\zeta}$ < 2.4. Experiments show that there is a value of $m^*{\zeta}$ below which VIV appears combined with galloping and the prism oscillation increases monotonically with the incoming flow velocity. For $m^*{\zeta}$ >0.3 the present experiments show a well-defined VIV phenomenon and, consequently, a Griffin-plot can be defined.

A family of dissipative structure-dependent integration methods

  • Chang, Shuenn-Yih;Wu, Tsui-Huang;Tran, Ngoc-Cuong
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.55 no.4
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    • pp.815-837
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    • 2015
  • A new family of structure-dependent integration methods is developed to enhance with desired numerical damping. This family method preserves the most important advantage of the structure-dependent integration method, which can integrate unconditional stability and explicit formulation together, and thus it is very computationally efficient. In addition, its numerical damping can be continuously controlled with a parameter. Consequently, it is best suited to solving an inertia-type problem, where the unimportant high frequency responses can be suppressed or even eliminated by the favorable numerical damping while the low frequency modes can be very accurately integrated.

Maximum Vortex-Induced Vibrations of a square prism

  • Barrero-Gil, A.;Fernandez-Arroyo, P.
    • Wind and Structures
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.341-354
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents an experimental investigation concerning the peak amplitudes of oscillation of a square prism due to Vortex-Induced-Vibrations (VIV) as a function of the mass damping parameter $m^*{\zeta}$ (the so called Griffin--plot); $m^*$ and ${\zeta}$ being, respectively, the non-dimensional mass and the mechanical (structural) damping ratio. With this purpose in mind, an electromagnetic actuator has been employed to provide controlled damping. During the experiments the mass--damping parameter was in the range 0.15 < $m^*{\zeta}$ < 2.4. Experiments show that there is a value of $m^*{\zeta}$ below which VIV appears combined with galloping and the prism oscillation increases monotonically with the incoming flow velocity. For $m^*{\zeta}$ >0.3 the present experiments show a well-defined VIV phenomenon and, consequently, a Griffin-plot can be defined.

Equivalent Viscous Damping Ratio of a Friction Damper Installed in a SDOF Building (단자유도 건물에 설치된 마찰감쇠기의 등가점성감쇠비)

  • Seong, Ji-Young;Min, Kyung-Won
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.199-208
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    • 2010
  • A friction damper installed at a building shows nonlinear behavior since its stick and slip states are occurred repeatedly depending on the amplitude of external loadings to dissipate input energy. Friction damping is existed for the building with a friction damper. In additionally viscous one is inherently included. Therefore, the building installed in such combined damping is quite involved to find the analytical solution. In this study, first, displacement and acceleration characteristics are identified based on the exact solution for a single-degree-freedom building with a friction damper having both friction and viscous damping. Second, in free vibration, the equivalent viscous damping ratio is obtained by the energy dissipation. Third, numerical analysis is carried out to find response configuration with various friction force ratios. Fourth, corresponding equivalent viscous damping ratio is derived with the finding that the response reaches into steady-state for both friction and viscous damped structure. It is deduced using balance of input external energy and output dissipation energy for steady-state response. Finally, the equivalent viscous damping ratios of free or harmonic vibration are verified through nonlinear analysis.

Development of Variable Voltage Sensing for Identification of Dynamic Characteristics of TLCDs (동조액체기둥감쇠기의 동적특성을 파악하기 위한 가변전압측정 시스템 개발)

  • Jang, Seok-Jung;Kim, Jun-Hee;Min, Kyung-Won
    • Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.275-281
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    • 2015
  • In this study, vertical motion of a Tuned Liquid Column Damper(TLCD) is measured by a variable voltage measurement system in the electric field and design parameters of the TLCD are determined. First, nonlinear damping term of the TLCD is replaced as the equivalent viscous damping term. The natural frequency and damping ratio of dynamic characteristics of the TLCD are verified. In addition, a novel liquid level measurement system is developed for measuring vertical motion of the TLCD. For the experimental achievement, experimental characterizations of natural frequency and damping ratio of the TLCD are undertaken utilizing the developed variable voltage sensing. Also, shake table testing is performed to determine the dynamic characteristics of the TLCD. As a result, the feasibility of the proposed liquid level measurement system is verified by comparison with the capacitive type wavemeter.

The effects of vertical earthquake motion on an R/C structure

  • Bas, Selcuk;Kalkan, Ilker
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.59 no.4
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    • pp.719-737
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    • 2016
  • The present study investigated the earthquake behavior of R/C structures considering the vertical earthquake motion with the help of a comparative study. For this aim, the linear time-history analyses of a high-rise R/C structure designed according to TSC-2007 requirements were conducted including and excluding the vertical earthquake motion. Earthquake records used in the analyses were selected based on the ratio of vertical peak acceleration to horizontal peak acceleration (V/H). The frequency-domain analyses of the earthquake records were also performed to compare the dominant frequency of the records with that of the structure. Based on the results obtained from the time-history analyses under the earthquake loading with (H+V) and without the vertical earthquake motion (H), the value of the overturning moment and the top-story vertical displacement were found to relatively increase when considering the vertical earthquake motion. The base shear force was also affected by this motion; however, its increase was lower compared to the overturning moment and the top-story vertical displacement. The other two parameters, the top-story lateral displacement and the top-story rotation angle, barely changed under H and H+V loading cases. Modal damping ratios and their variations in horizontal and vertical directions were also estimated using response acceleration records. No significant change in the horizontal damping ratio was observed whereas the vertical modal damping ratio noticeably increased under H+V loading. The results obtained from this study indicate that the desired structural earthquake performance cannot be provided under H+V loading due to the excessive increase in the overturning moment, and that the vertical damping ratio should be estimated considering the vertical earthquake motion.