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Fatigue life prediction of multiple site damage based on probabilistic equivalent initial flaw model

  • Kim, JungHoon;Zi, Goangseup;Van, Son-Nguyen;Jeong, MinChul;Kong, JungSik;Kim, Minsung
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.38 no.4
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    • pp.443-457
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    • 2011
  • The loss of strength in a structure as a result of cyclic loads over a period of life time is an important phenomenon for the life-cycle analysis. Service loads are accentuated at the areas of stress concentration, mainly at the connection of components. Structural components unavoidably are affected by defects such as surface scratches, surface roughness and weld defects of random sizes, which usually occur during the manufacturing and handling process. These defects are shown to have an important effect on the fatigue life of the structural components by promoting crack initiation sites. The value of equivalent initial flaw size (EIFS) is calculated by using the back extrapolation technique and the Paris law of fatigue crack growth from results of fatigue tests. We try to analyze the effect of EIFS distribution in a multiple site damage (MSD) specimen by using the extended finite element method (XFEM). For the analysis, fatigue tests were conducted on the centrally-cracked specimens and MSD specimens.

A Study of Flaw Detection in the Concrete Structure Using Geophysical Prospecting Method (물리탐사법을 이용한 콘크리트 구조물의 결함조사에 관한 연구)

  • Suh, Beak-Soo;Shon, Kwon-Ik;Jang, Sun-Woong
    • Journal of Industrial Technology
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    • v.20 no.A
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    • pp.295-301
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    • 2000
  • Various nondestructive prospecting method were applied to detect the flaws of concrete structure, but the satisfactory result could not be obtained, yet. Fracture and cavities existing concrete structure will have a bad effect on physical and mechanical characteristic of concrete. This study deal with detection of flaws using seismic first arrival and various inversion method in theoretical model. And ultrasonic seismic method is tried to experimental model to detect fracture and cavity.

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A Study on Construction of Automatic Inspection System for Welding Flaws (용접결함 검사 자동화 시스템 구축에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Chang-Hyun;Yu, Hong-Yeon;Hong, Sung-Hoon;Kim, Jae-Yeol
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.37-42
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this research is stability estimation of plant structure through classification and recognition about welding flaw in SWP(Spiral Welding Pipe). And, In this research, we used nondestructive test based on ultrasonic test as inspection method, and made up 2-axes inspection robot in order to control of ultrasonic probe on the SWP surface, and programmed to image processing and probabilistic neural network(PNN) classifying code by MATLAB programming. Through this process, we proved efficiency on the system of SWP stability Estimation.

Flaw Detection of Ultrasonic NDT in Heat Treated Environment Using WLMS Adaptive Filter (열처리 환경에서 웨이브렛 적응 필터를 이용한 초음파 비파괴 검사의 결함 검출)

  • 임내묵;전창익;김성환
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.18 no.7
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    • pp.45-55
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, we used the WLMS(Wavelet domain Least Mean Square) adaptive filter based on the wavelet transform to cancel grain noise. Usually, grain noise occurs in changes of the crystalline structure of metals in high temperature environment. It makes the detection of flaw difficult. The WLMS adaptive filtering algorithm establishes the faster convergence rate by orthogonalizaing the input vector of adaptive filter as compared with that of LMS adaptive filtering algorithm in time domain. We implemented the WLMS adaptive filter by using the delayed version of the primary input vector as the reference input vector and then implemented the CA-CFAR(Cell Averaging- Constant False Alarm Rate) threshold estimator. CA-CFAR threshold estimator enables to detect the flaw and back echo signals automatically. Here, we used the output signals of adaptive filter as its input signal. To Cow the statistical characteristic of ultrasonic signals corrupted by grain noise, we performed run test. The results showed that ultrasonic signals are nonstationary signal, that is, signals whose statistical properties vary with time. The performance of each filter is appreciated by the signal-to-noise ratio. After LMS adaptive filtering in time domain, SNR improves to about 2-3㏈ but after WLMS adaptive filtering in wavelet domain, SNR improves to about 4-6㏈.

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3-DIMENSIONAL FLOW FIELD ANALYSIS AND TIP SHAPE DESIGN IN A WIND TURBINE BLADE (풍력 발전기 블레이드에 걸친 3차원 유동장 해석 및 팁 형상 설계)

  • Jeong, Jae-Ho;Yoo, Cheol;Lee, Jung-Sang;Kim, Ki-Hyun;Choi, Jae-Woong
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.243-248
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    • 2011
  • The 3-dimensional flow field has been investigated by numerical analysis in a 2.5MW wind turbine blade. Complicated and separated flaw phenomena in the wind turbine blade were captured by the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes(RANS) steady flaw simulation using general-purpose code, CFX and the mechanism of vortex structure behavior is elucidated. The vortical flow field in a wind turbine rotor is dominated by the tip vortex and hub separation vortex. The tip vortex starts to be formed near the blade tip leading edge. As the tip vortex develops in the tangential direction, interacting with boundary layer from the blade tip trailing edge. The hub separation vortex is generated near the blade hub leading edge and develops nearly in the span-wise direction. Furthermore, 3-dimensional blade tip shape has been designed for increasing shrift power and reducing thrust force on the wind turbine blade. It is expected that the behavior of the tip vortex and hub separation vortex plays a major role in aerodynamic and aeroacoustic characteristics.

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Large Eddy Simulations on the Configuration Design of Afterbodies for Drag Reduction (저항감소를 위한 물체후방의 형상설계에 관한 LES 해석)

  • Park, Jong-Chun;Kang, Dae-Hwan;Chun, Ho-Hwan
    • Proceedings of the Korea Committee for Ocean Resources and Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 2003
  • When a body with slant angle after its shoulder is moving at high speed, the turbulent motion around the afterbody is generally associated with the flaw separation and determines the normal component of the drag. By changing the slant angle of afterbody, there exists a critical angle at which the drag coefficients change drastically. Understanding and control of the turbulent separated flows are of significant importance for the design of optimal configuration of the moving bodies. In the present paper, a new Large Eddy Simulation technique has been developed to investigate turbulent vortical motions around the afterbodies with slant angle. By basis of understanding the structure of turbulent flaw around the body, the new configuration of afterbodies are designed to reduce the drag of body and the nonlinear effects due to the interaction between the body configuration and the turbulent separated flows are investigated by use of the developed LES technique.

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Fully secure non-monotonic access structure CP-ABE scheme

  • Yang, Dan;Wang, Baocang;Ban, Xuehua
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.1315-1329
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    • 2018
  • Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) associates ciphertext with access policies. Only when the user's attributes satisfy the ciphertext's policy, they can be capable to decrypt the ciphertext. Expressivity and security are the two directions for the research of CP-ABE. Most of the existing schemes only consider monotonic access structures are selectively secure, resulting in lower expressivity and lower security. Therefore, fully secure CP-ABE schemes with non-monotonic access structure are desired. In the existing fully secure non-monotonic access structure CP-ABE schemes, the attributes that are set is bounded and a one-use constraint is required by these projects on attributes, and efficiency will be lost. In this paper, to overcome the flaw referred to above, we propose a new fully secure non-monotonic access structure CP-ABE. Our proposition enforces no constraints on the scale of the attributes that are set and permits attributes' unrestricted utilization. Furthermore, the scheme's public parameters are composed of a constant number of group elements. We further compare the performance of our scheme with former non-monotonic access structure ABE schemes. It is shown that our scheme has relatively lower computation cost and stronger security.

Ultrasonic Sensors for Steel Structure Inspection (강구조물(鋼構造物) 진단(診斷)을 위한 초음파(超音波) 센서)

  • Shin, Byoung-Churl
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.170-176
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    • 1998
  • The team mixed PbO, $ZrO_2$, $TiO_2$, $Nb_2O_5$ and $MnCO_3$, to make $Pb[(Zr_{0.54}\;Ti_{0.46})\;Nb_{0.005}]O_3+4%MnCO_3$. The electroded PZT ceramics were poled by 3 kV/mm at $110^{\circ}C$ for 600 s. We assembled the 0.4mm thick PZT slices into ultrasonic transducers. Central frequency of the probe is 5 MHz, which is proper to the thickness gauge for steel pipes and for flaw detector. The probe can detect a disk shape defect of 1mm diameter at 15cm deep in steel block. The new probe's Fresnel zone that the ultrasonic beam do not broaden is 13mm. Over the Fresnel zone, the ultrasonic beam spreads. Half of the beam spread angle of the probe is $4.3^{\circ}-4.6^{\circ}$. This probe can be used for the ultrasonic transducers for non-destructive testing of steel bridges.

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Fatigue Life Evaluation of Fiber Reinforced Composite Rotor Blades Considering Impact Damages (충격손상을 고려한 섬유강화 복합재 로터 블레이드의 피로수명 평가)

  • Kee, Young-Jung;Park, Jae-Hun;Kim, Sung-Man;Kim, Gi-Hun
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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    • v.14 no.spc
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    • pp.22-30
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    • 2020
  • Composite rotor blades for rotorcraft have an intrinsic vulnerability to foreign object impact from its inherent structural characteristics of insufficient strength in the thickness direction, which may easily lead to internal structure damage. Therefore, defects and strength reducing effects caused by foreign object impact should be considered in fatigue evaluation of composite blades. For this purpose, the flaw tolerant safe-life and fail-safe concepts were adopted in fatigue evaluation since 1980s, and recently those concepts have been replaced by the damage tolerance concept. In this paper, the relevant standards for fatigue evaluation are analyzed focusing on fiber reinforced composite rotor blades used in rotorcraft. In addition, fatigue evaluation procedure of composite blades considering impact damages is proposed by reviewing the practices implemented through domestic development projects.

J-R Curve Evaluation According to the Crack Length Measurement Techniques Under Reverse Cyclic Loading (역사이클하중하에서의 균열길이 측정법에 따른 파괴저항곡선의 평가)

  • 원종일;우흥식;석창성
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.96-101
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    • 1998
  • J-R curve tests were performed on 1T compact specimens of SA516 Gr. 70 carbon steels under reverse cyclic loading. A Direct-Current Potential Drop (DCPD) method, one of the nondestructive techniques to detect flaw of structure, is being increasingly used for monitoring crack initiation and stable crack growth in typical fracture mechanics specimens for J-R testing. In many aspects this method is simpler than the unloading compliance method. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the J-R Curve according to the crack length measurement techniques under reverse cyclic loading. In order to prove the reliability and repeatability of the DCPD method, the crack length measured by using DCPD method was compared to one determined from unloading compliance. Consequently, this DCPD method correlated well with J-R curves and crack extension measurements determined from unloading compliance method.

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