• Wind and Structures
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.347-373
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• 2014

Since its development in the early 1980's the force balance technique has become a standard method in the efficient determination of structural loads and responses. Its usefulness lies in the simplicity of the physical model, the relatively short records required from the wind tunnel testing and its versatility in the use of the data for different sets of dynamic properties. Its major advantage has been the ability to provide results in a timely manner, assisting the structural engineer to fine-tune their building at an early stage of the structural development. The analysis of the wind tunnel data has evolved from the simple un-coupled system to sophisticated methods that include the correction for non-linear mode shapes, the handling of complex geometry and the handling of simultaneous measurements on multiple force balances for a building group. This paper will review some of the components in the force balance data analysis both in historical perspective and in its current advancement. The basic formulation of the force balance methodology in both frequency and time domains will be presented. This includes all coupling effects and allows the determination of the resultant quantities such as resultant accelerations, as well as various load effects that generally were not considered in earlier force balance analyses. Using a building model test carried out in the wind tunnel as an example case study, the effects of various simplifications and omissions are discussed.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.165-173
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• 2017

The aeromechanics predictions of HART I rotor obtained using a computational structural dynamics (CSD) code are evaluated against the wind tunnel test data. The flight regimes include low speed descending flight at an advance ratio of ${\mu}=0.151$ and cruise condition at ${\mu}=0.229$. A lifting-line based unsteady airfoil theory with C81 table look-up is used to calculate the aerodynamic loads acting on the blade. Either rolled-up free wake or multiple-trailer wake with consolidation (MTC) model is employed for the free vortex wake representation. The measured blade properties accomplished recently are used to analyze the rotor for the up-to-date computations. The comparison results on airloads and structural loads of the rotor show good agreements for descent flight and fair for cruise flight condition. It is observed that MTC model generally improves the correlation against the measured data. The structural loads predictions for all measurement locations of HART I rotor are investigated. The dominant harmonic response of the structural loads is clearly captured with MTC model.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.495-508
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• 2020

To investigate the structural behaviour of grouped tanks under wind loads, 2 problems need to be figured out, wind pressures on tank shells and critical loads of the shell under these pressure distribution patterns. Following the wind tunnel tests described in the companion paper, this paper firstly seeks to obtain wind loads on the external wall in a squarely-arranged cylindrical tank group by numerical simulation, considering various layouts. The outcomes demonstrate that the numerical method can provide similar results on wind pressures and better insights on grouping effects through extracted streamlines. Then, geometrically nonlinear analyses are performed using several selected potentially unfavourable wind pressure distributions. It is found that the critical load is controlled by limit point buckling when the tank is empty while excessive deformations when the tank is full. In particular, significant reductions of wind resistance are found on grouped full tanks compared to the isolated tank, considering both serviceability and ultimate limit state, which should receive special attention if the tank is expected to resist severe wind loads with the increase of liquid level.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.313-350
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• 2016

Taipei 101 Tower, which has 101 stories with height of 508 m, is located in Taipei where typhoons and earthquakes commonly occur. It is currently the second tallest building in the world. Therefore, the dynamic performance of the super-tall building under strong wind actions requires particular attentions. In this study, Large Eddy Simulation (LES) integrated with a new inflow turbulence generator and a new sub-grid scale (SGS) model was conducted to simulate the wind loads on the super-tall building. Three-dimensional finite element model of Taipei 101 Tower was established and used to evaluate the wind-induced responses of the high-rise structure based on the simulated wind forces. The numerical results were found to be consistent with those measured from a vibration monitoring system installed in the building. Furthermore, the equivalent static wind loads on the building, which were computed by the time-domain and frequency-domain analysis, respectively, were in satisfactory agreement with available wind tunnel testing results. It has been demonstrated through the validation studies that the numerical framework presented in this paper, including the recommended SGS model, the inflow turbulence generation technique and associated numerical treatments, is a useful tool for evaluation of the wind loads and wind-induced responses of tall buildings.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.215-224
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• 2019

Because of the particularity and complexity of direct air-cooling structures (ACS), wind parameters given in the general load codes are not suitable for the wind-resistant design. In order to investigate the wind loads of ACS, two 1/150 scaled three-span models were designed and fabricated, corresponding to a rigid model and an aero-elastic model, and wind tunnel tests were then carried out. The model used for testing the wind pressure distribution of the ACS was defined as the rigid model in this paper, and the stiffness of which was higher than that of the aero-elastic model. By testing the rigid model, the wind pressure distribution of the ACS model was studied, the shape coefficients of "A" shaped frame and windbreak walls, and the gust factor of the windbreak walls were determined. Through testing the aero-elastic model, the wind-induced dynamic responses of the ACS model was studied, and the wind vibration coefficients of ACS were determined based on the experimental displacement responses. The factors including wind direction angle and rotation of fan were taken into account in this test. The results indicated that the influence of running fans could be ignored in the structural design of ACS, and the wind direction angle had a certain effect on the parameters. Moreover, the shielding effect of windbreak walls induced that wind loads of the "A" shaped frame were all suction. Subsequently, based on the design formula of wind loads in accordance with the Chinese load code, the corresponding parameters were presented as a reference for wind-resistant design and wind load calculation of air-cooling structures.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.296-305
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• 1999

많은 터널 현장에서 계측을 수행하고 있지만, 일반적인 역해석 방법으로 이 계측자료를 통해 라이닝에 작용하는 변형율과 응력 등의 역학량을 추정하기는 어렵다. 그 이유는 현장에서 계측이 가능한 적은 변위수로부터 라이닝의 응력상태를 추정할 수 없기 때문이다. 계측의 시간과 비용을 고려해 볼 때, 계측자료를 이용할 수 있는 기법의 개발은 시급한 연구과제라 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 터널계측에서 계측 가능한 소수의 변위로 전테 라이닝의 변위와 응력 등의 역학량을 계산할 수 있는 역해석 모델을 개발하였다. 역해석 방법으로서 복공 외면에 작용하는 외력의 자승이 최소화될 때 해를 구하는 방법을 사용하였다. 라이닝 외면에 작용하는 하중을 가정하여 유한요소법으로 변위와 응력을 계산하고, 여기서 얻은 몇개의 변위를 계측 변위로 가정하여 역해석 모델에 입력함으로써 절점 변위, 요소의 변형율 및 응력 등을 다시 구하였다. 처음 계산된 변위와 역계산으로 구한 변위를 비교함으로써 모델의 신뢰성을 평가하였다. 자동계측으로 라이닝의 비교적 정확한 계측을 수행하고 있는 지하철 한강 하저터널 현장에서 얻은 계측변위를 개발한 역해석 모델을 적용하여 실제 계측한 응력과 유사한 결과를 얻었다.

• 한국공간구조학회논문집
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2006

Gust Factor법은 구조물의 등가정적 풍하중을 평가하는 일반적인 방법으로 구조물의 최대 응답시의 풍하중의 분포가 평균풍하중의 분포와 동일한 형상을 가진다는 가정하에 적용한다. 그러나 대스팬 구조물의 경우 평균 풍하중의 형상과 변동 풍하중의 형상이 다를 수 있어 1차모드뿐 아니라 고차모드의 영향을 고려하여 구조물의 풍응답과 풍하중을 산정하여야 한다. 본 논문에서는 등가정적 풍하중을 산정하기 위하여 현재 사용되고 있는 Gust Factor 법 (GF법), Load-response-correlation법 (LRC법)에 대해 고찰하고, Advanced Conditional Sampling 법 (ACS법)을 제안하였다. ACS법은 최대하중효과를 나타내는 순간에 선택된 풍압분포와 구조물의 동적거동에 의해 발생한 관성력을 합성하여 등가정적풍하중을 산정하는 방법이다. 최대하중 효과는 풍동실험에서 얻어진 풍압데이터를 이용하여 시간이력해석으로 평가한다. 제안된 ACS법과 기존의 GF법 및 LRC법을 지붕 구조물에 적용하여 등가정적 풍하중을 산출하고 이를 상호 비교 분석함으로써 ACS법의 유효성을 검증하고자 한다.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.505-517
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• 2009

Synchronous wind-induced pressures, measured in wind-tunnel tests on model buildings instrumented with hundreds of pressure taps, are an invaluable resource for designing safe buildings efficiently. They enable a much more detailed, accurate representation of the forces and moments that drive engineering design than conventional tables and graphs do. However, the very large volumes of data that such tests typically generate pose a challenge to their widespread use in practice. This paper explains how a wavelet representation for the time series of pressure measurements acquired at each tap can be used to compress the data drastically while preserving those features that are most influential for design, and also how it enables incremental data transmission, adaptable to the accuracy needs of each particular application. The loss incurred in such compression is tunable and known. Compression rates as high as 90% induce distortions that are statistically indistinguishable from the intrinsic variability of wind-tunnel testing, which we gauge based on an unusually large collection of replicated tests done under the same wind-tunnel conditions.

• 대한조선학회 특별논문집
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• 대한조선학회 2015년도 특별논문집
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• pp.74-78
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• 2015

When floating platform or drilling unit is located at operating station during its design life, it has to have the sufficient stability considering external environment. To evaluate whether offshore structure is complied with the required design criteria for intact stability, the factors which decrease the righting moment have to be considered. Wind heeling moment is one of main factors because the direction is opposite to the righting moment. According to 2009 MODU CODE (Code for the construction and equipment of Mobile Offshore Drilling Units, 2009), wind heeling moment derived from wind tunnel test on scale model of offshore structure enables to apply as alternative given formula and method in 2009 MODU CODE. However, there is no the specific method for applying data derived from wind tunnel test. Based on the following reasons, this paper presents that the calculation method of wind heeling moment utilizing non-dimensional coefficient relative to wind loads (wind forces and moments) and the comparison with each method applying an example.

• 한국지반공학회논문집
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.21-34
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• 2014

본 연구는 터널 열화 특성과 이와 관련된 각종 문헌 및 사례조사를 통하여 비교 분석하고 정량적인 해석을 위한 영향인자를 도출하여 입력변수를 결정하고 국내 고속철도 터널의 대표단면(풍화암)에 대하여 수치해석을 실시하였다. 해석 결과는 공용 후 30년 경과 시 열화로 인하여 천단침하량은 7.0%, 지표침하량은 30.2%이 증가하고 내공변위는 9.0mm가 수축 한 이후 점차 수렴되는 경향을 보였다. 또한 이완하중고는 공사 완료 후 50년 경과 시 터널고의 2.55배까지 증가하여 극한상태에서의 Terzaghi의 제안값 보다 상당히 큰 값을 나타내었으며, 이러한 소성영역의 확장으로 인하여 터널 라이닝에 3.20~3.66MPa의 축응력이 추가로 작용하게 되는 경향을 확인하였다. 따라서 이로부터 설계에 반영할 수 있는 정량적인 예측기법을 제안하였다.