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Structural safety factor for small unmanned aircraft (소형 무인기 구조 안전계수)

  • Kim, Sung-Joon;Lee, Seung-gyu;Kim, Tae-Uk
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.12-17
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    • 2017
  • Manned aircraft structural design is based on structural safety factor of 1.5, and this safety factor is equivalent to a probability of failure of between 10-2 and 10-3. The target failure probability of FARs is between 10-6 and 10-9 per flight according to aircraft type. NATO released STANAG 4703 to established the airworthiness requirements for small UAV which is less than 150kg. STANAG 4703 requires the Target Level of Safety according to MTOW. The requirements of failure probability for small UAV is between 10-4 and 10-5. In this paper, requirements of airworthiness certification for small UAV were investigated and the relationship of safety factors to the probability of structural failure is analyzed to reduce measure of safety factor and structural weight of unmanned aircraft.

Analysis of Buckling Characteristics for Hat Section Member Using Structural Foam and Plastic Reinforcement (구조용 폼과 플라스틱 보강재를 적용한 모자 단면 부재의 좌굴 특성 분석)

  • Lee, Tae-Hyun;Shin, Shoung-Gi
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.114-119
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    • 2008
  • The modern automotive industry develops innovative vehicle designs to meet increasing stability of car and performance demands of their customers. The improvement of frame rigidity by the structural foam is thought to be an effective means to improve the performance because of high applicability and minimum weight. The object of this paper is to examine the use of structural foam in a hat section as an optimum reinforcing means, to compare the reinforcing performance of structural foam versus a plastic reinforcement. The result of this paper indicated that reinforcing efficiencies are achieved by structural foam and plastic reinforcement shape.

Manufacture and Structural Test of the Small-scaled Composite Hingeless Hub Part for Helicopter (헬리콥터용 축소 복합재료 힌지없는 허브 부품 제작 및 구조 시험)

  • Kim, Deog-Kwan;Hong, Dan-Bi;Kee, Young-Jung;Rhee, Wook;Lee, Myeong-Kyu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.119-122
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    • 2003
  • This report describes the procedure of detailed design and structural test for the composite flexure which is a part of the hingeless hub system. First, stacking sequence design for composite flexure was done, and structural analysis by using NASTRAN was made to verify structural stability and safety. Using FPS installed at KIMM, composite flexure was laid up and cured using a autoclave. Before rotor ground test, the basic structural tests such as a bench test, tensile strength test and shear strength test, for flexure, were accomplished. Through replacing existing metal hub part with new fabricated composite flexure, improvement of aeroelastic stability and weight reduction were achieved. This result will be applied to composite rotor system design fur helicopter.

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An Experimental Structural Performance of Steel Concrete Hybrid Deck for Bridge (교량용 강ㆍ콘크리트 합성 바닥판의 실험적 구조성능)

  • 정연주;정광회;구현본;김병석
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.524-529
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents a experimental structural performance of steel-concrete hybrid bridge deck, which has studs to connect steel plate and concrete and T beam to improve structural performance, by steel plate shape, studs and load location. It proved that steel-concrete hybrid deck has a high structural performance and lightweight due to the efficient use of steel plate as a structural member, which has only used as formwork. In failure mode, few specimen failed at punching shear and many specimen at concrete crushing, therefore proved it has sufficient stability to punching shear which is the most frequent damage of bridge deck. Steel-concrete hybrid deck of plane steel plate has a high structural performance, and that of corrugated steel plate has a high reduction of weight.

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Numerical and theoretical modelling of low velocity impact on UHPC panels

  • Prem, Prabhat R.;Verma, Mohit;Ramachandra Murthy, A.;Rajasankar, J.;Bharatkumar, B.H.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.63 no.2
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    • pp.207-215
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    • 2017
  • The paper presents the studies carried out on low velocity impact of Ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) panels of size $350{\times}350{\times}10mm^3$ and $350{\times}350{\times}15mm^3$. The panels are cast with 2 and 2.5% micro steel fibre and compared with UHPC without fiber. The panels are subjected to low velocity impact, by a drop-weight hemispherical impactor, at three different energy levels of 10, 15 and 20 J. The impact force obtained from the experiments are compared with numerically obtained results using finite element method, theoretically by energy balance approach and empirically by nonlinear multi-genetic programming. The predictions by these models are found to be in good coherence with the experimental results.

The Static Structural Design and Test of High Speed Propeller Blade (고속 프로펠러 블레이드 정적 구조 설계 및 시험)

  • Park, Hyun-Bum;Choi, Won
    • The KSFM Journal of Fluid Machinery
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.11-18
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    • 2014
  • The recent high speed propeller with blade sweep is required to have high strength to get the thrust to fly at high speed. The high stiffness and strength carbon/epoxy composite material is used for the major structure and skin-spar-foam sandwich structural type is adopted for advantage in terms of the blade weight. As a design procedure for the present study, the structural design load is estimated through investigation on aerodynamic load and then flanges of spars from major bending loads and the skin from shear loads are sized using the netting rule and Rule of Mixture. In order to investigate the structural safety and stability, stress analysis is performed by finite element analysis code MSC. NASTRAN. It is found that current methodology of composite structure design is a valid method through the static structural test of prototype blade.

Structural Vibration Control using Instantaneous Optimal Control (순간 최적제어에 의한 구조물의 진동제어)

  • 최창근;권대건
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 1998.04a
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    • pp.365-372
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    • 1998
  • Recently, constructions of large and slender structures have been increased owing to the advancement of the structural technologies and that of the new light-weight and high-strength construction materials. Consequently, vibration problems of those slender structures have become a new issue in the area of structural engineering. Active control for those structures is the method that keeps the structures safe from the external loads, especially dynamic loads, by enforcing active forces derived from control devices. In this paper, a procedure for the instantaneous optimal control for structural vibration is presented. Numerical method and experiment are performed for evaluating the effectiveness of active control for reducing vibration of structures.

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Distributed Hybrid Genetic Algorithms for Structural Optimization (구조최적화를 위한 분산 복합 유전알고리즘)

  • 우병헌;박효선
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2002.10a
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    • pp.203-210
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    • 2002
  • The great advantages on the Genetic Algorithms(GAs) are ease of implementation, and robustness in solving a wide variety of problems, several GAs based optimization models for solving complex structural problems were proposed. However, there are two major disadvantages in GAs. The first disadvantage, implementation of GAs-based optimization is computationally too expensive for practical use in the field of structural optimization, particularly for large-scale problems. The second problem is too difficult to find proper parameter for particular problem. Therefore, in this paper, a Distributed Hybrid Genetic Algorithms(DHGAs) is developed for structural optimization on a cluster of personal computers. The algorithm is applied to the minimum weight design of steel structures.

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Outrigger Systems for Tall Buildings in Korea

  • Chung, Kwangryang;Sunu, Wonil
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.209-217
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    • 2015
  • Outrigger systems are highly efficient since they utilize the perimeter zone to resist lateral forces, similar to tubular systems. The entire structural weight can be reduced due to the system's significant lateral strength. Therefore, it is the most commonly selected structural system for tall and supertall buildings built in recent years. In this paper, issues regarding the differential shortening effect during construction of the outrigger system and the special joints used to solve these issues will be addressed. Additionally, the characteristics of wind and seismic loads in Korea will be briefly discussed. Lastly, buildings in Korea using an outrigger as their major structural system will be introduced and the structural role of the system will be analyzed.