• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.117-144
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• 2019

High Altitude and Long Endurance (HALE) aircraft are capable of providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities over vast geographic areas when equipped with advanced sensor packages. As their use becomes more widespread, the demand for additional range, endurance and payload capability will increase and designers are exploring non-conventional configurations to meet the increasing demands. One such configuration is the joined-wing concept. A joined-wing aircraft is one that typically connects a front and aft wings in a diamond shaped planform. One such example is the Boeing SensorCraft configuration. While the joined-wing configuration offers potential benefits regarding aerodynamic efficiency, structural weight, and sensing capabilities, structural design requires careful consideration of elastic buckling resulting from the aft wing supporting, in compression, part of the forward wing structural loading. It has been shown already that this is a nonlinear phenomenon, involving geometric nonlinearities and follower forces that tend to flatten the entire configuration, leading to structural overload due to the loss of the aft wing's ability to support the forward wing load. Severe gusts are likely to be the critical design condition, with flight control system interaction in the form of Gust Load Alleviation (GLA) playing a key role in minimizing the structural loads. The University of Victoria Center for Aerospace Research (UVic-CfAR) has built a 3-meter span scaled and flexible wing UAV based on the Boeing SensorCraft design. The goal is to validate the nonlinear structural behavior in flight. The main objective of this research work is to perform Ground Vibration Tests (GVT) to characterize the dynamic properties of the scaled flight vehicle. Results from the experimental tests are used to characterize the modal dynamics of the aircraft, and to validate the numerical models. The GVT results are an important step towards a safe flight test program.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.141-151
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• 2019

In this paper, it is aimed to present a detail investigation about the comparison of static and dynamic behavior of historical masonry arch bridges considering different arch curvature. $G{\ddot{o}}derni$ historical masonry two-span arch bridge which is located in Kulp town, Diyarbakir, Turkey is selected as a numerical application. The bridge takes part in bowless bridge group and built in large measures than the others. The restoration projects were approved and rehabilitation studies have still continued. Finite element model of the bridge is constituted with special software to determine the static and dynamic behavior. To demonstrate the arch curvature effect, the finite element model are reconstructed considering different arch curvature between 2.86 m-3.76 m for first arch and 2.64 m-3.54 m for second arch with the increment of 0.10 m, respectively. Dead and live vehicle loads are taken into account during static analyses. 1999 Kocaeli earthquake ground motion record is considered for time history analyses. The maximum displacements, principal stresses and elastic strains are compared with each other using contour diagrams. It is seen that the arch curvature has more influence on the structural response of historical masonry arch bridges. At the end of the study, it is seen that with the increasing of the arch heights, the maximum displacements, minimum principal stresses and minimum elastic strains have a decreasing trend in all analyses, in addition maximum principal stresses and maximum elastic strains have unchanging trend up to optimum geometry.

• Steel and Composite Structures
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.435-451
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• 2021

Shear lag effect was a significant mechanical behavior of steel-concrete composite beams, and the effective flange width was needed to consider this effect. However, the effective flange width is mostly determined by static load test. The cyclic vehicle loading cases, which is more practical, was not well considered. This paper focuses on the study of shear lag effect of the concrete slab in the negative moment region under fatigue cyclic load. Two specimens of two-span steel-concrete composite beams were tested under fatigue load and static load respectively to compare the differences in the negative moment region. The reinforcement strain in the negative moment region was measured and the stress was also analyzed under different loads. Based on the OpenSees framework, finite element analysis model of steel-concrete composite beam is established, which is used to simulate transverse reinforcement stress distribution as well as the variation trends under fatigue cycles. With the established model, effects of fatigue stress amplitude, flange width to span ratio, concrete slab thickness and shear connector stiffness on the shear lag effect of concrete slab in negative moment area are analyzed, and the effective flange width ratio of concrete slab under different working conditions is calculated. The simulated results of effective flange width are compared with calculated results of the commonly used specifications, and it is found that the methods in the specifications can better estimate the shear lag effect in concrete slab under static load, but the effective flange width in the negative moment zone under fatigue load has a large deviation.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.404-410
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• 2021

This paper proposes a high step-up converter with zero-voltage transition (ZVT) cell for fuel cell electric vehicle. The proposed converter applies a ZVT cell to a dual floating output boost converter (DFOBC) so that not only the main switch but also the ZVT switch can achieve full-range soft switching. The current rating of the ZVT switch is 17% of the main switch. The proposed converter has high reliability in that no timing issue occurs. Therefore, online calculation is not required. The minimum turn-on time of the ZVT switch that guarantees soft switching at all loads and input/output voltage is obtained by analysis. In addition, the proposed DFOBC allows the use of a 650 V device even at 800 V output and has the advantage of being able to boost the voltage by 3.5 times with 0.56 duty. Planar coupled inductor with PCB winding was successfully implemented with the converter operated at 300 kHz. The 25 kW prototype achieves peak efficiency of 99% and power density of 63 kW/L.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.10-21
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• 2022

우주 발사체 구조인 추진제 탱크는 지상운송, 발사대기, 이륙 및 비행 과정 동안 다양한 정적 및 동적 하중이 작용하여 이에 대해 구조건전성을 보유해야 하며 더불어 추진제를 많이 싣기 위해서 크고 가벼워야 한다. 이런 특성으로 본 연구의 구조 대상인 추진제 탱크 실린더는 얇은 두께를 가지게 되어 실린더 설계에서 압축하중에 의한 좌굴이 중요하게 고려된다. 하지만 기존의 수립된 NASA 및 유럽 등의 좌굴 설계 기준은 상당히 보수적인 값으로 최신 설계 및 제작 기술을 반영하지 못하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 초기 결함이 반영된 다양한 해석 모델을 이용하여 비선형 좌굴 해석을 수행하고 실린더 구조의 새로운 좌굴 설계 기준 수립 방안을 제시한다. 결론적으로 공통격벽 추진제 탱크 실린더 구조의 효과적인 경량 설계가 구현될 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.141-154
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• 2022

Purpose: C57BL/6 mice, which are among the most common backgrounds for genetically engineered mice, are resistant to the induction of periodontitis by oral infection with periodontal pathogens. This study aimed to develop a periodontitis model in C57BL/6 mice using coaggregation between human pathogens and the mouse oral commensal Streptococcus danieliae (Sd). Methods: The abilities of Porphyromonas gingivalis ATCC 33277 (Pg33277), P. gingivalis ATCC 49417 (Pg49417), P. gingivalis KUMC-P4 (PgP4), Fusobacterium nucleatum subsp. nucleatum ATCC 25586 (Fnn), and F. nucleatum subsp. animalis KCOM 1280 (Fna) to coaggregate with Sd were tested by a sedimentation assay. The Sd-noncoaggregating Pg33277 and 2 Sd-coaggregating strains, PgP4 and Fna, were chosen for animal experiments. Eighty C57BL/6 mice received oral gavage with Sd once and subsequently received vehicle alone (sham), Fna, Pg33277, PgP4, or Fna+PgP4 6 times at 2-day intervals. Mice were evaluated at 5 or 8 weeks after the first gavage of human strains. Results: Fnn, Fna, and PgP4 efficiently coaggregated with Sd, but Pg33277 and Pg49417 did not. Alveolar bone loss was significantly higher in the PgP4 group at both time points (weeks 5 and 8) and in all experimental groups at week 8 compared with the sham group. The PgP4 group presented greater alveolar bone loss than the other experimental groups at both time points. A higher degree of alveolar bone loss accompanied higher bacterial loads in the oral cavity, the invasion of not only PgP4 but also Sd and Fna, and the serum antibody responses to these bacteria. Conclusions: Periodontitis was successfully induced in C57BL/6 mice by oral infection with a P. gingivalis strain that persists in the oral cavity through coaggregation with a mouse oral commensal bacterium. This new model will be useful for studying the role of human oral bacteria-host interactions in periodontitis using genetically engineered mice.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.75-82
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• 2022

내부 압력과 압축하중을 받는 발사체 추진제 탱크 구조의 좌굴 하중을 비파괴적으로 예측할 수 있는 기법이 필요하다. 기하학적 초기 결함이 존재하는 단순 원통 구조의 전역 좌굴 하중은 좌굴이 발생하지 않는 범위에서의 고유진동수-압축하중의 상관관계를 이용한 Vibration correlation technique (VCT)을 사용하여 비파괴적으로 예측 가능하다. 본 연구에서는 내부 압력과 압축하중을 동시에 받는 추진제 탱크 구조 형태인 얇은 금속재 단순 원통 구조의 진동 및 좌굴 시험을 수행하였고 VCT를 이용하여 전역 좌굴 하중을 예측하였다. 두께가 얇은 구조의 진동 시험을 위해 스피커를 이용한 비접촉식 가진 방법을 이용하였고 응답은 고분자 압전 센서(PVDF)로 측정하였다. VCT로 예측된 전역 좌굴 하중을 좌굴 시험에서 측정된 좌굴 하중과 비교하여 비파괴적 전역 좌굴 하중 예측 기법을 검증하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.17-28
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• 2022

The cable component of cable-stayed bridges is gradually impacted by weather conditions, vehicle loads, and material corrosion. The stayed cable is a critical load-carrying part that closely affects the operational stability of a cable-stayed bridge. Damaged cables might lead to the bridge collapse due to their tension capacity reduction. Thus, it is necessary to develop structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques that accurately identify damaged cables. In this work, a combinational identification method of three efficient techniques, including statistical analysis, clustering, and neural network models, is proposed to detect the damaged cable in a cable-stayed bridge. The measured dataset from the bridge was initially preprocessed to remove the outlier channels. Then, the theory and application of each technique for damage detection were introduced. In general, the statistical approach extracts the parameters representing the damage within time series, and the clustering approach identifies the outliers from the data signals as damaged members, while the deep learning approach uses the nonlinear data dependencies in SHM for the training model. The performance of these approaches in classifying the damaged cable was assessed, and the combinational identification method was obtained using the voting ensemble. Finally, the combination method was compared with an existing outlier detection algorithm, support vector machines (SVM). The results demonstrate that the proposed method is robust and provides higher accuracy for the damaged cable detection in the cable-stayed bridge.

• 도시과학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2022

Recently, regulations on automobile exhaust gas emission are being strengthened. Accordingly, automobile exhaust gas emissions are expected to decrease and continue to decrease. On the other hand, many countries do not yet consider the emission of non-exhaust air pollutants from automobiles as important. Automobile non-exhaust substances are classified into three categories: tire dust emissions, brake wear emissions, and road scattering dust. In particular, in the case of tire dust, research results exist that pollutant emissions increase as the weight of a vehicle increases. Since the weight of trucks varies according to the load and the load along the axles is also different, it can be expected that the emission of PM10 from the tire dust will be different depending on the loading method. Therefore, this study was conducted on the amount of PM10 generated in tire dust considering the axle load of the truck according to the loading method. However, it was confirmed that the total amount of PM10 was less than that all loads are loaded in the front or rear when the load was evenly distributed in the front and rear of the cargo compartment. In particular, if the load is distributed evenly in the front and back of the cargo compartment and the load in the front part is divided into 2 to 6 and loaded, as the number of divided loading increases the amount of PM10 generated decreases. And when the load is divided into 6 pieces, the total amount of PM10 generated is 0.3952g, the minimum value. If the load is divided into 6 or more and loaded evenly, the total PM10 generated continuously increases and converges to about 0.3964g.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권2A호
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• pp.171-178
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• 2008

본 연구는 일반적인 궤도 구조물과는 달리 지지부와 받침이 레일과 상하로 구속되어 있지 않은 가시설 레일을 해석함에 있어 상부 하중에 의해 발생하는 종 방향 하중과 횡 방향 하중 및 진동, 그리고 들림 현상 등을 고려하여 가시설 레일 구조물의 하중 증가율을 제안한 후 비선형 동적 거동 특성을 파악하는데 목적이 있다. 그리하여 상부 구조물의 하중과 진동에 의한 영향이 클 것으로 판단되는 철근 배근 장치에 대한 실구조물 계측을 통해 하중 증가율을 제안하였으며 비선형 동적 유한 요소 해석을 실시하여 진동에 의한 하중 증가율을 고려한 차륜하중에 의해 발생하는 동적응답을 통해 동적 거동특성을 파악하였다. 그 결과 철근 배근 장치의 진동에 의한 하중 증가율을 7%로 제안하였으며 비선형 동적 거동은 선형화된 레일에 비해 최대응력이 14.5% 증가하였고 상부 주행 장치의 속도에 민감하게 반응하는 것으로 나타났다.