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The role of wall configuration and reinforcement type in selecting the pseudo-static coefficients for reinforced soil walls

  • Majid Yazdandoust;Amirhossein Rasouli Jamnani;Mohsen Sabermahani
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.555-570
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    • 2023
  • In the current study, a series of experimental and analytical evaluations were performed to introduce the horizontal pseudo static coefficient (kh) as a function of the wall configuration and the reinforcement type for analyzing reinforced soil walls. For this purpose, eight shaking table tests were performed on reduced-scale models of integrated and two-tiered walls reinforced by metal strip and geogrid to determine the distribution of dynamic lateral pressure in the walls. Then, the physical models were analyzed using Mononobe-Okabe method to estimate the value of kh required to establish the dynamic lateral pressures similar to those observed in shaking table tests. Based on the results, the horizontal pseudo static coefficient and the position of resultant lateral force (R) were introduced as a function of the horizontal peak ground acceleration (HPGA), the wall configuration, the reinforcement type as well as maximum wall displacement.

ANALYSIS OF TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER OF NATURAL CONVECTION CAUSED BY FIRE ALONG VERTICAL WALL (수직벽 화재 자연대류에 의한 난류 경계층 열유동 특성 해석)

  • Jang, Yong-Jun;Kim, Jin-Ho;Ryu, Ji-Min
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2016
  • The analysis of characteristics of turbulent flow and thermal boundary layer for natural convection caused by fire along vertical wall is performed. The 4m-high vertical copper plate is heated and kept at a uniform surface temperature of $60^{\circ}C$ and the surrounding fluid (air) is kept at $16.5^{\circ}C$. The flow and temperature is solved by large eddy simulation(LES) of FDS code(Ver.6), in which the viscous-sublayer flow is calculated by Werner-Wengle wall function. The whole analyzed domain is assumed as turbulent region to apply wall function even through the laminar flow is transient to the turbulent flow between $10^9$<$Gr_z$<$10^{10}$ in experiments. The various grids from $7{\times}7{\times}128$ to $18{\times}18{\times}128$ are applied to investigate the sensitivity of wall function to $x^+$ value in LES simulation. The mean velocity and temperature profiles in the turbulent boundary layer are compared with experimental data by Tsuji & Nagano and the results from other LES simulation in which the viscous-sublayer flow is directly solved with many grids. The relationship between heat transfer rate($Nu_z$) and $Gr_zPr$ is investigated and calculated heat transfer rates are compared with theoretical equation and experimental data.

ANALYSIS OF VORTEX SHEDDING PHENOMENA AROUND PANTOGRAPH PANHEAD FOR TRAIN USING LARGE EDDY SIMULATION (LES를 이용한 판토그라프 팬헤드의 와 흘림 현상 해석)

  • Jang, Yong-Jun
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 2011
  • The turbulent flow and vortex shedding phenomena around pantograph panhead of high speed train were investigated and compared with available experimental data and other simulations. The pantograph head was simplified to be a square-cross-section pillar and assumed to be no interference with other bodies. The Reynolds number (Re) was 22,000. The LES(large eddy simulation) of FDS code was applied to solve the momentum equations and the Wener-Wengle wall model was employed to solve the near wall turbulent flow. Smagorinsky model($C_s$=0.2) was used as SGS(subgrid scale) model. The total grid numbers were about 9 millions and the analyzed domain was divided into 12 multi blocks which were communicated with each other by MPI. The time-averaged mainstream flows were calculated and well compared with experimental data. The phased-averaged quantities had also a good agreement with experimental data. The near-wall turbulence should be carefully treated by wall function or direct resolution to get successful application of LES methods.

A Study on Spatial Image Transformation by the Wall (벽에 의한 공간 이미지 변화에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Sung-Hye
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.15 no.1 s.54
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2006
  • This study aims to understand the meaning of 'wall' and spatial image transformation by the wall. To find the meaning of wall, some classical works and modern works - Le Corbusier's Domino system and Schroder House-are analyzed into functional aspect of wall, in result we know that wall has of evolved throughout history to become an Increasingly active component of our built environment. Whereas the wall permits variations in the human and natural environment, the wall could be changed a lot of different shapes. The results of this study are as follows; (1) Applying new attempt to the wall makes interactivity in spatial elements. (2) Through rotation of the wall, we find the periodicity of wall length with sine curve. (3) Wall made by points and linear elements can change the spatial image, because of there geometrical characteristics.

Numerical Simulation of Directional Spreading Characteristics in a Snake Type Wave Generator considering Side Wall Reflection

  • Lee, Jin-Ho;Hirayama, Tsugukiyo
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.28-36
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    • 2000
  • Numerical simulation based on the superposition of ring waves generated by the linear periodic source distributions for the plunger type wave maker was accomplished. The characteristics of directional spreading function were investigated. Mirror images are also introduced to consider reflections of side-wall together with the reflection coefficient to account for the imperfect reflection from the real side wall in the long experimental towing tank. Unexpected spurious waves, resulting from the combined effect of finite breadth of segmented wave maker, wavelength and main wave maker, wavelength and main wave propagating direction, were observed in the line source method and also in the analysis of the directivity. The influence of spurious waves to the directional spreading function was also investigated.

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Noise Estimation in a Passenger Compartment and Trunk Coupled System by Using the Vibro-Acoustic Reciprocity (진동-음향 상반성을 이용한 차실-트렁크 연성계의 소음평가)

  • 이진우;이장무;김석현;박동철
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.178-185
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    • 2001
  • This paper describes the correlation between the interior noise and the trunk wall vibration. Using the vibro-acoustic reciprocity, effect of the trunk wall vibration on the compartment noise is investigated on a medium size car. In the low frequency range, vehicle interior noise is dominated by several acoustic modes of the passenger compartment and the vibration modes of the surrounding shell parts. Especially, vibration of the trunk wall radiates sound and it is transferred through holes on the package tray into the passenger compartment. This paper experimentally reveals that sound can be well produced at some particular vibration modes of the trunk lid and it strongly influences the compartment noise through package tray holes. Contributions of the trunk walls to the interior noise are estimated by measuring the acoustic-structural transfer function, based on the vibro-acoustical reciprocity theorem.

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On Constructing an Explicit Algebraic Stress Model Without Wall-Damping Function

  • Park, Noma;Yoo, Jung-Yul
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.16 no.11
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    • pp.1522-1539
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    • 2002
  • In the present study, an explicit algebraic stress model is shown to be the exact tensor representation of algebraic stress model by directly solving a set of algebraic equations without resort to tensor representation theory. This repeals the constraints on the Reynolds stress, which are based on the principle of material frame indifference and positive semi-definiteness. An a priori test of the explicit algebraic stress model is carried out by using the DNS database for a fully developed channel flow at Rer = 135. It is confirmed that two-point correlation function between the velocity fluctuation and the Laplacians of the pressure-gradient i s anisotropic and asymmetric in the wall-normal direction. Thus, a novel composite algebraic Reynolds stress model is proposed and applied to the channel flow calculation, which incorporates non-local effect in the algebraic framework to predict near-wall behavior correctly.

Heat Transfer Analysis of Ice Slurry Generator (아이스슬러리 제빙장치의 열전달 해석)

  • Shin, You-Hwan;Lee, Yoon-Pyo
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.984-989
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    • 2009
  • The present study has been conducted to predict the temperature distribution in the core of the scraper type ice generator. The analytic model was simplified as the flow in the annular type cylinder, which had an inside wall moving in axial direction due to the rotation of screw and a fixed outside wall. The governing equations were arranged by the method of separation of variables. The results corresponded to the exact solutions of the Bessel function. The qualitative results such as general characteristics of heat transfer in annulus flow from outer cylinder wall to the inside wall were obtained. However the amount of the heat transfer was underestimated as low as $1/5{\sim}1/6$ of the designed value.

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IMPROVEMENT OF CUPID CODE FOR SIMULATING FILMWISE STEAM CONDENSATION IN THE PRESENCE OF NONCONDENSABLE GASES

  • LEE, JEHEE;PARK, GOON-CHERL;CHO, HYOUNG KYU
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.47 no.5
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    • pp.567-578
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    • 2015
  • In a nuclear reactor containment, wall condensation forms with noncondensable gases and their accumulation near the condensate film leads to a significant reduction in heat transfer. In the framework of nuclear reactor safety, the film condensation in the presence of noncondensable gases is of high relevance with regards to safety concerns as it is closely associated with peak pressure predictions for containment integrity and the performance of components installed for containment cooling in accident conditions. In the present study, CUPID code, which has been developed by KAERI for the analysis of transient two-phase flows in nuclear reactor components, is improved for simulating film condensation in the presence of noncondensable gases. In order to evaluate the condensate heat transfer accurately in a large system using the two-fluid model, a mass diffusion model, a liquid film model, and a wall film condensation model were implemented into CUPID. For the condensation simulation, a wall function approach with a heat/mass transfer analogy was applied in order to save computational time without considerable refinement for the boundary layer. This paper presents the implemented wall film condensation model, and then introduces the simulation result using the improved CUPID for a conceptual condensation problem in a large system.

Performance Characteristics of a V-type Probe Developed for Wall Vorticity Measurement (벽와도 측정을 위하여 개발된 V형 열선 프로브의 성능특성)

  • Kim, Seong-Uk;Ryu, Sang-Jin;Yu, Jeong-Yeol
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.514-522
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    • 2001
  • In order to investigate the relation between wall vorticity and streamwise velocity fluctuations in a turbulent boundary layer, a wall vorticity probe has been developed, which consists of two hot-wires on the wall aligned in V configuration. Although the measured intensity of spanwise wall vorticity fluctuations is somewhat lower than previous results, the intensity of streamwise wall vorticity fluctuations is in good agreement with them. It has been shown that the measured intensity of spanwise wall vorticity fluctuations is affected by transverse length of the wall vorticity probe. Instantaneous streamwise and spanwise wall vorticity fluctuations are compared with the results of DNS. Probability density function of spanwise wall vorticity fluctuations shows good agreement with previous results and is different from that of streamwise wall vorticity fluctuations. Energy spectrum of streamwisw wall vorticity fluctuations is lower than that of spanwise wall vorticity fluctuations in low frequency region.